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Good afternoon, Newsrounders. Ore here with everything you need to | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
know this Wednesday afternoon. Here's what's on the way. With a | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
new BlackBerry on the market, we ask what would make the perfect | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
smartphone? In-fighting, squabbles and resignations. The Bolshoi | :00:19. | :00:29. | |
Before all that though, we're talking about radioactive waste and | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
what we do with it. Cumbria, in the north west of England, is home to | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
the Lake District, one of the country's best loved beauty spots. | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
But the council has today voted against a government idea to try to | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
bury nuclear waste there in a giant underground bunker. We get more | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
than a sixth of all our electricity from nuclear power. But the catch | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
is you get radioactive waste which can be dangerous for thousands of | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
years. The government had hoped to work out a plan to bury the waste | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
below ground in Cumbria. But today the local council has said it | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
doesn't want to go ahead. So it's back to the drawing board. But are | :01:01. | :01:09. | |
there any other options? Most countries have looked at all the | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
different options. They have come to the same answer that, actually, | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
disposing of it Underground is the simplest and safest thing to do. | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
There is something about being responsible for the waste we have | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
created, rather than just passing it on to our children and our | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
children's children. And Ricky will have a full report on this story at | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
6.50pm tonight. In the meantime, if you want to find out more about | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
nuclear power, and other energy sources, head to the Newsround | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
website to watch Joe's reports from his Powering Britain series. Next, | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
it's a big day for BlackBerry. The company's just launched their brand | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
new smartphone, the BB10. And they're hoping that it will help | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
them compete with the likes of Apple and Google. Two of the | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
biggest smartphone sellers in the UK. The BB10 is installed with | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
brand new software and features including this. You can cut and | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
paste people's heads between two pics, for example, if someone's | :01:58. | :02:08. | |
blinking or not smiling in one of them. Much better from her. Which | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
is all well and good. But we've been asking you on the website what | :02:11. | :02:21. | |
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your dream phone would do and we've Thanks very much for all your | :02:42. | :02:50. | |
comments. Next, to a scandal that's hit the world of ballet. One of | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
ballet's best dancers has quit her top dancing job in Russia's capital, | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
Moscow, and has fled to Canada. Svetlana Lunkina is becoming known | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
as the latest victim of the curse of the Bolshoi Ballet. Ricky's been | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
finding out more about the dark goings on at one of the top dance | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
companies on the planet. Ballet. It's all about grace, poise and | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
above all dedication. And if you want to see the best in the | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
business the Bolshoi Ballet company in Russia is the place to visit. | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
200 years old and home to some of the best dancers in the world. But | :03:21. | :03:31. | |
recently the Bolshoi has been under attack possibly from its own staff. | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
Two weeks ago Sergei Filin, the artistic director, was attacked in | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
the street with acid. Sergei was in charge of making important | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
decisions like which dancer played which role. He'd been receiving | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
threats about his work and thinks the attack was all because of | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
dancing rivalry. The Bolshoi has always been known for its fierce | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
rivalry and tough competition. But things seem to have taken a much | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
darker turn. There have been reports of dead cats being thrown | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
on the stage. And even glass being put in dancers' ballet slippers. | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
Now top dancer Svetlana Lunkina says she's quit after she started | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
receiving threats against her husband, over a movie project he | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
was working on. Last year the Bolshoi Ballet got a facelift when | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
their grand theatre reopened after a massive �400 million revamp. But | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
despite the brand new look and world class dancing, with one of | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
their top dancers pulling out just weeks before a starring role, it's | :04:17. | :04:26. | |
left the world's best dance troop in a bit of a crisis. | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
And this is one you'll have to check out. See that tiny speck | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
right here? That's a man surfing what's thought might be the biggest | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
wave ever surfed. Head over to the Newsround website to read more on | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
that one. And while you're there, check out the amazing video of a | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
high-wire walk 200 feet over a busy road in Florida. There he is. Nik | :04:45. | :04:49. |