:00:17. > :00:20.Happy Hallowe'en! Hayley and Sonali here with your top stories tonight.
:00:21. > :00:27.Lots going on around the world today, including... The American
:00:27. > :00:29.weather that is freaking everyone out. And if you're getting ready
:00:29. > :00:33.for Hallowe'en, we've got some faces that will spook you! But
:00:33. > :00:36.first, the planet now has a record 7 billion people living on it.
:00:36. > :00:40.Population experts reckon the 7 billionth person was born today,
:00:40. > :00:43.which means there are more humans living on earth than ever before.
:00:43. > :00:52.The world's population has been growing very quickly in the past
:00:52. > :00:56.few years - and it's likely to get even bigger. The world's population
:00:56. > :01:00.even bigger. The world's population has been growing steadily for years.
:01:00. > :01:04.In 1804 - so 200 years ago - there were 1 billion people living on
:01:04. > :01:07.Planet Earth. It took about another 100 years to hit 2 billion. 30
:01:07. > :01:12.years later it leapt up again. Since then it's more than doubled,
:01:12. > :01:17.rising by a billion about every 10 years. Experts reckon that a baby
:01:17. > :01:23.born today will be the 7 billionth person in the world. And it's still
:01:23. > :01:29.going up. It's not just that there are more babies - people are living
:01:29. > :01:35.longer, too. So what does that mean for kids growing up around the
:01:35. > :01:37.world now? There are 62 million of us living here in the UK. And
:01:37. > :01:40.people are living longer, which means that there are more old
:01:40. > :01:44.people around, and kids being born here today are likely to live
:01:44. > :01:46.longer than their parents. It's a different story in Zambia, in
:01:46. > :01:51.Africa - which has one of the world's fastest-growing populations
:01:51. > :01:54.and half of the people living in the country are under 16. The high
:01:54. > :01:59.number of children makes it hard to provide them all with a place at
:01:59. > :02:05.school and a good education. While Zambia's population is growing fast,
:02:05. > :02:09.it has a long way to go before it could catch up with India. The
:02:09. > :02:12.population there is huge, at over 1 billion, and it goes up by about a
:02:12. > :02:17.million a month. That means more people competing for places to live,
:02:17. > :02:20.jobs and the basic money to survive. For kids like Shamma, who has lots
:02:20. > :02:25.of brothers and sisters, life can be pretty hard - at seven, she's
:02:25. > :02:30.already working to help her family. And India's population is expected
:02:30. > :02:33.to be the biggest on record. Somewhere in the world today the 7
:02:33. > :02:40.billionth baby has been born - the population is still rising, and is
:02:40. > :02:48.only going to get bigger. With us in the studio is Kathryn Raw from
:02:48. > :02:48.the charity Save the Children. Why the charity Save the Children. Why
:02:49. > :02:52.the charity Save the Children. Why has the global population been
:02:52. > :02:56.has the global population been growing so fast? It is partly
:02:57. > :03:02.because people are living longer, children are more healthy, and also,
:03:02. > :03:08.of those 7 billion people, around half of them part of an age where
:03:08. > :03:15.they are having babies themselves. Some people think it is going to
:03:15. > :03:19.peak at the end of the century - why is that? As children become
:03:19. > :03:23.healthier, as governments invest in health, it means that parents can
:03:23. > :03:30.be more confident that those children will grow up to live for a
:03:30. > :03:35.long time and be able to look after them in their old age. So it means
:03:35. > :03:40.that as children are more healthy, families will be smaller. We hope
:03:40. > :03:44.that means the population will eventually stabilise. The number of
:03:44. > :03:49.children being born will fall, and eventually, puppet Haitian will
:03:49. > :03:53.stabilise and eventually come down again. -- population. Thanks,
:03:53. > :03:56.Kathryn. Let's get the day's other news for you now - charity workers
:03:56. > :03:58.in Thailand are warning the country needs to be better prepared in the
:03:59. > :04:01.future. They're still battling floods which have killed nearly 400
:04:02. > :04:04.people. The centre of the capital, Bangkok, has so far escaped the
:04:04. > :04:08.worst of the flooding, but the outskirts have been swamped by
:04:08. > :04:14.water. Food and drink is running low in many areas and there are
:04:14. > :04:16.fears that it could be months before the flooding stops. Next, to
:04:16. > :04:20.what Americans are calling "Shocktober" - and it has nothing
:04:20. > :04:23.to do with Hallowe'en. No, this is serious. Freak snow storms across
:04:23. > :04:30.north-east parts of the United States have caused lots of damage -
:04:30. > :04:35.at least 12 people have died. Some areas have seen almost 70cm of snow.
:04:35. > :04:38.Not exactly what you'd expect to wake up to on a weekend in October.
:04:38. > :04:44.But for thousands of Americans, battling through snow to get across
:04:44. > :04:47.their front drive has become a reality. More than three million
:04:47. > :04:57.homes on the east coast of the country have lost their electricity
:04:57. > :04:57.
:04:57. > :05:02.supply and many won't get it back for days. I hate it, I cannot even
:05:02. > :05:06.express how much I hate it. This weather is blowing us away, we are
:05:06. > :05:09.shocked. Flights have been grounded and trains have been brought to a
:05:09. > :05:19.standstill. Trees have been crashing down in the blizzard - one
:05:19. > :05:22.
:05:22. > :05:27.woman in New Jersey had a very lucky escape. Someone was watching
:05:27. > :05:30.over me because I was not hurt at all. And in nearby New York, a
:05:30. > :05:34.record was set as snow fell in Central Park, something which has
:05:34. > :05:39.only happened in October four times in 135 years. Emergency crews have
:05:39. > :05:49.started clearing the streets. But for many Americans, tonight will be
:05:49. > :05:51.
:05:51. > :05:54.one of the strangest Hallowe'en Now all of you will have seen
:05:54. > :05:59.plenty of these over the weekend. I love carving pumpkins for
:05:59. > :06:03.Hallowe'en - in fact this is one I carved just yesterday! But today we
:06:03. > :06:05.got sent in some pictures that I think are way cooler than the usual
:06:05. > :06:08.spooky faces. These have been spooky faces. These have been
:06:08. > :06:10.carved by Simon in Walsall - aren't they great? In the past people
:06:11. > :06:13.thought pumpkins would scare away evil spirits - these ones would
:06:14. > :06:16.certainly do the trick! You've been telling us what you'll be getting
:06:17. > :06:19.up to this Hallowe'en. Lily in Somerset says she's going trick-or-
:06:19. > :06:23.treating with her sisters and is looking forward to having loads of
:06:23. > :06:26.fun. Bobby in Belfast says he's going bobbing for apples and then
:06:26. > :06:29.he's going to munch his way through some sweets before having a party -
:06:29. > :06:32.sounds like a good night! Have fun bobbing, Bobby. And Katie has got
:06:32. > :06:38.her outfit sorted - she's going as a corpse bride with cobwebs and
:06:38. > :06:48.spiders all over her. Katie - this is me as a corpse bride, just in
:06:48. > :06:51.
:06:51. > :06:55.case you need a bit of last-minute inspiration. And finally - check
:06:55. > :06:59.out this baby orangutan born in Indonesia earlier this month. It's
:06:59. > :07:03.been called Damai, which means Peace. She was rejected by her
:07:03. > :07:06.mother but she's being well looked after at a zoo nursery. She's just
:07:06. > :07:11.three weeks old and is a real boost to the population of orangutans
:07:11. > :07:15.because the animals are under threat of extinction. That's all
:07:15. > :07:19.we've got time for today. We've got lots of Hallowe'en stuff on our