Hey. How's it going?
Nat here with another BTN Newsbreak.
Some good news from the UK -
after a big campaign, Manchester United star Marcus Rashford
has convinced the government
to keep giving out free meals to kids who need it.
Here is Charlotte.
He's a soccer superstar known for epic goals like this one.
Whoo-hoo!
But lately Marcus Rashford has been doing a little less scoring
and a little more campaigning.
You see, he was pretty upset when the UK government
announced that kids who have been getting vouchers
for free school meals during term time
wouldn't receive them during summer holidays.
You know, what families are going through now,
I once had to go through that same system
and it's very difficult to find a way out.
But now that I'm in this position that I am in,
it's very important for me to help the people that are struggling.
So Marcus wrote a letter to the government
talking about his own experiences as a kid
and asked them to reconsider the decision.
And people listened.
His letter was retweeted 157,000 times
and the PM has now announced $220 million to fund the program.
I thank him for what he's done.
I think he's right to draw attention to this issue.
Marcus says he's super happy with the result and all the support.
K-Pop group BTS are out there just breaking more and more records.
This time it's for virtual attendance to their Bang Bang Con,
the live show.
A whopping 756,000 people across 107 countries
watched Sunday's paid event at the same time.
The show is thought to have earned BTS around $20 million.
Cows go moo, dogs go wolf and bees go buzz, right?
Not quite.
Turns out bees also make some other sounds that might surprise you.
Here's Leela.
So you thought you had bee sounds all figured out.
They go...
Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz.
Well, actually, thanks to some bee spying,
turns out they also toot and quack.
Oh.
Toot, quack, buzz, buzz. Toot, quack, buzz, buzz.
Using highly sensitive vibration detectors,
researchers have decoded the sounds made by honeybee queens.
We are tapping into this world of vibrational messages that's
taking place in the honeycomb by placing sensors
inside the honeycomb that is listening to the vibration messages
that they are sending to each other.
What do you hear?
Um...
Like a duck?
That's what they want us to think.
Well, actually, it's not about us.
You see, you've got worker bees and queen bees.
Researchers found quacks and toots
are made by queen bees to communicate with worker bees.
When potential queens hatch,
they quack to tell worker bees they want to rule the hive.
And the ruling queen toots to tell worker bees
to protect her from the quacking rivals.
There can only be one queen at a time.
If there's two free queens, they will fight to the death!
This quacking and tooting thing happens all the time
because it's not long before the ruling queen
leaves to create a new colony.
Alright, Charlotte, let's leave them 'bee'.
Now prepare yourselves for something big.
Because these next stories are big things.
Meet Laura Macaulay, the first woman to surf a wave so big,
most people thought it was unsurfable.
It's a funny feeling.
Like, really exciting, but also hard to recall sometimes.
The wave is called The Right
and it's found on the south coast of WA.
You might remember this jolly fellow from Brisbane a few weeks back.
Well, he's supposed to be heading north towards Townsville
for a festival, but he's hit a roadblock.
The kookaburra is just too long.
Road regulations mean he'll have to lose 30 centimetres
off the end of his tail before he can legally hit the road.
And then he'll be laughing.
And 15 giant tortoises from the Galapagos Islands
have finally returned home.
They made the journey by car, then by boat, then by back.
A human back, that is.
They've spent decades in a breeding program to help save their species
from the brink of extinction.
Some of them are more than 100 years old.
This one, Diego, has fathered 800 baby tortoises.
A well-earned retirement awaits.
But not for me, because I'll be back tomorrow.
See you then.