Hey, friends. How's it going?
My name's Ruby, and let's have a look at what's making news today.
Measles is a nasty infectious disease,
which - thanks to vaccines -
Australia managed to basically wipe out a few years ago.
But recently, we've been seeing measles outbreaks pop up again.
So, why is it happening?
It's the comeback story no-one wanted to see -
the return of measles.
Recently, there have been some outbreaks around Australia
and overseas too.
Experts reckon there are a couple of reasons
why this might be happening,
like people not being immunised properly,
overseas travellers bringing it over
from countries where it's still a bigger problem,
and people refusing to vaccinate their kids.
There's a small group of people called anti-vaxxers
who think vaccines are dangerous,
even though doctors and scientists
say that immunisations are safe and important
and have helped wipe out diseases like polio and rubella in Australia.
The World Health Organisation says that anti-vaccine ideas
are one of the top 10 biggest health threats in 2019,
and platforms like YouTube and Facebook
have announced they're taking steps
to try to crack down on misleading info.
Experts are hoping with the right education
and better access to vaccinations,
one day, illnesses like measles will be wiped out for good.
If you've had trouble refreshing
or logging into Facebook or Instagram today,
you're not alone.
Facebook and its family of apps have had its worst outage ever,
with a disruption that's affected users right around the world.
Some people have been freaking out.
Others have been embracing the opportunity for a meme on Twitter,
which is still up and running.
For the first time in 10 years,
Australia's cricket team has beaten India
in an ODI series in their own backyard.
The Aussies won the final match of the series by 35 runs,
thanks to another century by Usman Khawaja -
his second in just three matches.
The victory was also the Aussies' first ODI series win
in more than two years.
Super exciting stuff ahead of the World Cup.
YouTube is big business.
Some of its top creators earn tens of millions of dollars every year.
But for a while now, the two YouTube channels with the most subscribers
have been in a hotly contested battle.
The stakes are so high that things are starting to get out of hand.
A video game, a million-dollar billboard...
We did it! We did it! It's up there!
Subscribe to PewDiePie right now, guys!
..and vandalism.
They're all fairly extreme ways of trying to keep PewDiePie
the most-subscribed-to channel on YouTube.
He's been number one for a long time,
but recently T-Series briefly took top spot.
T-Series is a channel from India that posts a lot of Bollywood music.
Has T-Series beat us yet?
First of all, round of applause.
I thought it was the endgame last week,
but we're still in it and we're still kicking it.
Many PewDiePie fans say
their efforts to win the subscriber war
are because they want to support an individual creator
rather than a company.
Although PewDiePie isn't exactly doing it tough.
He's got an estimated worth of:
And it's not doing either channel any harm.
Brand-new mini game!
Both have seen big subscriber jumps recently
and they both bring in a lot of advertising money.
But the way this online fire has spread
has led to some very real consequences.
And now it's time to sit back and watch our next segment:
Aussie thrillseeker Jaeger Stone cruised his way to a big win
at this extreme windsurfing stormchase event off the Irish coast.
That is, without a doubt, the windiest
and most gnarly conditions I've ever windsurfed in.
It is heavy metal. (LAUGHS)
Just staying upright in freezing and windy surf conditions like this
is hard enough, let alone pulling off moves like this.
And this.
This car in Canada was cruising along the road when this happened.
Whoa! That was close.
Thankfully, this very close call didn't end in disaster.
No-one was seriously injured.
And finally, this baby bottlenose dolphin
got itself into a pretty uncomfortable situation -
fishing line wrapped around his body, tail and mouth.
Luckily a team of vets and scientists managed to untangle him
and before long, he was ready to cruise again.
That's the show for today. I'll see you tomorrow.
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