30/01/2013 Newsround


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Good afternoon, Newsrounders. Ore here with everything you need to

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know this Wednesday afternoon. Here's what's on the way. With a

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new BlackBerry on the market, we ask what would make the perfect

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smartphone? In-fighting, squabbles and resignations. The Bolshoi

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Before all that though, we're talking about radioactive waste and

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what we do with it. Cumbria, in the north west of England, is home to

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the Lake District, one of the country's best loved beauty spots.

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But the council has today voted against a government idea to try to

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bury nuclear waste there in a giant underground bunker. We get more

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than a sixth of all our electricity from nuclear power. But the catch

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is you get radioactive waste which can be dangerous for thousands of

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years. The government had hoped to work out a plan to bury the waste

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below ground in Cumbria. But today the local council has said it

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doesn't want to go ahead. So it's back to the drawing board. But are

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there any other options? Most countries have looked at all the

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different options. They have come to the same answer that, actually,

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disposing of it Underground is the simplest and safest thing to do.

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There is something about being responsible for the waste we have

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created, rather than just passing it on to our children and our

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children's children. And Ricky will have a full report on this story at

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6.50pm tonight. In the meantime, if you want to find out more about

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nuclear power, and other energy sources, head to the Newsround

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website to watch Joe's reports from his Powering Britain series. Next,

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it's a big day for BlackBerry. The company's just launched their brand

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new smartphone, the BB10. And they're hoping that it will help

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them compete with the likes of Apple and Google. Two of the

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biggest smartphone sellers in the UK. The BB10 is installed with

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brand new software and features including this. You can cut and

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paste people's heads between two pics, for example, if someone's

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blinking or not smiling in one of them. Much better from her. Which

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is all well and good. But we've been asking you on the website what

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your dream phone would do and we've Thanks very much for all your

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comments. Next, to a scandal that's hit the world of ballet. One of

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ballet's best dancers has quit her top dancing job in Russia's capital,

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Moscow, and has fled to Canada. Svetlana Lunkina is becoming known

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as the latest victim of the curse of the Bolshoi Ballet. Ricky's been

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finding out more about the dark goings on at one of the top dance

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companies on the planet. Ballet. It's all about grace, poise and

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above all dedication. And if you want to see the best in the

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business the Bolshoi Ballet company in Russia is the place to visit.

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200 years old and home to some of the best dancers in the world. But

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recently the Bolshoi has been under attack possibly from its own staff.

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Two weeks ago Sergei Filin, the artistic director, was attacked in

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the street with acid. Sergei was in charge of making important

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decisions like which dancer played which role. He'd been receiving

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threats about his work and thinks the attack was all because of

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dancing rivalry. The Bolshoi has always been known for its fierce

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rivalry and tough competition. But things seem to have taken a much

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darker turn. There have been reports of dead cats being thrown

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on the stage. And even glass being put in dancers' ballet slippers.

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Now top dancer Svetlana Lunkina says she's quit after she started

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receiving threats against her husband, over a movie project he

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was working on. Last year the Bolshoi Ballet got a facelift when

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their grand theatre reopened after a massive �400 million revamp. But

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despite the brand new look and world class dancing, with one of

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their top dancers pulling out just weeks before a starring role, it's

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left the world's best dance troop in a bit of a crisis.

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And this is one you'll have to check out. See that tiny speck

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right here? That's a man surfing what's thought might be the biggest

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wave ever surfed. Head over to the Newsround website to read more on

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that one. And while you're there, check out the amazing video of a

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high-wire walk 200 feet over a busy road in Florida. There he is. Nik

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