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Hi, I'm Ricky with your morning Newsround. The man helping you hear | :00:11. | :00:20. | |
the sounds of nature and good news for the Voice fans ahead of | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
tonight's semi final. This is Newsround. | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
But first to a big change to the law in England and Wales that came in | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
overnight. Same-sex couples are now allowed to get married. Martin has | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
been looking in to the change, which has sparked some strong views from | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
people on both sides of the argument. | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
I am now happy to announce that you are now legally married. These | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
people have celebrated getting married. Until now, two men or two | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
women have not been allowed to married each other. Now, the law has | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
changed. While there were celebrations for those getting | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
married, not everyone is happy with the change. Those against it, | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
including many religious groups, say that marriage has been between a man | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
and woman for hundreds of years and shouldn't be altered. Up until | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
today, same-sex couples could only have a civil partnership, which | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
gives similar rights but isn't exactly the same rights as marriage. | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
Despite the change in the law, it will be up to the individual | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
religious organisations to choose whether or not they want to hold | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
ceremonies for gay people. Some, like the Church of England, and the | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
Roman Catholic Church, say they will not marry gay couples. Attitudes to | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
gay people vary across the world. 16 countries currently allow same-sex | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
marriage but in others such as Iran and Nigeria, it is illegal for a man | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
to have a relationship with a man or a woman with a woman. Scotland has | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
also voted to make gay marriage legal but there are no plans to do | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
the same in Northern Ireland. Russia says it no intention of | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
sending troops further into Ukraine after an hour long phone call | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
between their leader Vladimir Putin and US president Barack Obama. | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
There's been a lot of unrest in Ukraine between people in the | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
country who support closer ties to Russia and those who don't. Russian | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
forces recently took control of Crimea, in southern Ukraine, | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
something Obama said was illegal. The two men discussed a US-backed | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
plan for Russia to stop to its military build-up on the Ukraine | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
border. It's seen as a sign that the crisis could be solved through | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
talks. Next up, smashing a world record | :02:31. | :02:40. | |
doesn't get better than this. This is Lisa Dennis one of Great | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
Britain's taekwondo world champions and she's attempting to break 1,000 | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
of these tiles in 90 seconds with her bare hands or knuckles. After a | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
shaky start and rather a lot of noise, Lisa managed smash the | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
records. She broke through 1,000 tiles in 84 seconds. | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
Now it's spring and lots of you will have started to hear the birds | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
singing in the trees each morning. But if you don't live in the | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
countryside you might not get to hear it all that much. A survey from | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
the National Trust says nearly half of people who live in cities feel | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
they don't get to enjoy nature enough. So they've come up with an | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
album featuring animal and insect sounds. But there's a big | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
difference, the sounds haven't been made by animals but by beatboxer | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
Jason Singh. Watch this. Well, the birds that you are likely | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
to hear our blackbirds, woodpeckers and buzzards. A woodpecker sounds | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
like this... A black bird sounds like this... And a buzzard sounds | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
like this... I love that so much, Jason. Tell us more. It's a National | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
trust campaign for spring, getting everybody excited and becoming aware | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
offspring and getting people outdoors, experiencing National | :03:50. | :03:58. | |
trust sites. It's about getting out and getting some fresh air. We saw | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
you in action. How did you first find out you could do this? It's | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
something I practice all the time. I'm fascinated by sound. I love all | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
kind of sound, mechanical, natural, rhythms and beads, melodies, and | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
it's about practising those. I've been doing it since I was ten years | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
old. I have annoyed everyone! We are going to put you to the test now. | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
These are some quick sounds I would like you to recreate. A wood pigeon. | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
OK, here we go... What about cooking? Oh, gosh. Here we go. What | :04:35. | :04:50. | |
about a blackbird? A blackbird... I was going to give it a go but I just | :04:51. | :04:59. | |
don't think I should... . It's a fantastic talent but what | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
else can you do? I love creating all sorts of natural phenomena, like the | :05:06. | :05:19. | |
breeze. The C... -- the sea... I love beats as well. Drum patterns. | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
That is awesome. Thanks so much for coming in. | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
Good news, Voice fans, BBC bosses have said the hit show will return | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
for another two series. They've just announced the plans ahead of the | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
live semi-finals tonight for this year's contestants. Each artist will | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
perform one song before a group number with their team and superstar | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
coach. The audience decide who'll make it through to the final. | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
That's all from the Saturday team for now. Stay with us because we've | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
got a Newsround Special coming up next. With some powerful scenes, Nel | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
reports from Kabul in Afghanistan, the city where she was born, to meet | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
children who are growing up with war around them. Here is | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
I'm travelling thousands of miles back to where I was born. | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
Since then, it's become one of the most dangerous places in the world. | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
For over a decade, British soldiers have been fighting here, | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
but this year, 2014, the British Army will leave. | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
I'm going back to the capital city Kabul | :06:23. | :06:25. |