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what's up Superstar it is Friday the
last day of February starting this show
off with a shout out to Mr Mueller and
my friends at North Dorchester Middle
School in Hurlock Maryland for this
awesome t-shirt rise up I'm quy W
welcome to CNN 10 your 10 minutes of
news where I simply tell you the what
letting you decide what to think we've
got lots of news to get to today not a
lot of time to do it so let's get to it
we start in North Korea where we
previously mentioned that the reclusive
state is letting in tourists for the
first time in 5 years North Korea says
the city of rason a remote economic zone
in the north of the country is the first
post-pandemic tourist destination open
to Western tourists the country's
capital pongyang though is still closed
to foreign visitors North Korea is a
highly centralized one part totalitarian
dictatorship where three generations of
one family the Kim family have ruled
with absolute power and some tourists
are now once again getting a firsthand
albeit highly controlled look at the
hermit
Nation at first glance this could be any
Elementary School
recital until you notice the backdrop
it's not until moments where you see a
group of seven-year-old children doing
synchronized dancing in front of a giant
you know LED screen showing
missiles you know blowing up boats you
know and it's like oh yeah I'm in um I'm
in North Korea British travel influencer
Mike O Kennedy one of the first Western
tourists to visit North Korea since
before the pandemic State controlled
Western tourism is making a limited
return to rason in isolated region near
China and Russia and yet despite 5 years
of near total isolation North Koreans
aren't entirely in the dark so they're
aware that Donald Trump is now the
president once again and they are aware
of the fact that talks broke down uh
last time uh during the first Trump
presidency so when I asked the question
would you like uh Kim Jong-un and Donald
Trump to meet again the response I got
was if Kim Jong-un wants to do it then
of course we support it he says
traveling to the secret state is not for
everyone sightseeing feels more like a
school field trip itineraries are
tightly controlled unauthorized photos
are forbidden but any glimpse of the
hermetically sealed nation is social
media gold I am in North Korea which may
explain why so many social media
influencers are snatching up
seats ever since the death of American
college student OT War beer in 2017 the
US state department has banned American
tourists from visiting North Korea but
that's not stopping some from trying I
do have a US passport and I also have a
German passport so that was my ticket in
American Wendy arbide calls herself an
extreme traveler North Korea is her
195th country so how does North Korea
stack up it was definitely one of the
more unusual places to go you know I
have to be honest I was surprised how
good the food was they were very lavish
in the food that they gave us there was
a flaming snail that was brought to me
and I was like I don't know what to do
with this but it's cool
pop qu is Hot Shot which of these
mammals can survive on a diet of
eucalyptus leaves kangaroos koalas
Tasmanian devils or
caparas if you answered koala correct
while eucalyptus leaves are poisonous
did you know to most animals koalas can
eat up to a kilogram a day thanks to a
special bacteria in their gut that helps
them digest the plant the cuddly koala a
arboreal herbivorous marupa are listed
as an endangered species after Millions
were lost in the Australian bush fires
of 2019 and 2020 for our call to Earth
we take a look at a conservationist
group who are finding innovative ways to
help their population Rebound with a
little assist from a tracking K9 named
Max the L Bushland along Australia's
Eastern coastline is some of the most
important koala habitat in in the
country but in New South Wales some
environmentalists fear that the
combination of deforestation and climate
change could see this iconic species
disappear in the state by
2050 they are an arboreal species they
can't survive a life on the ground so
trees are vital to a koala's existence
not only for food but for shelter and
for breeding as well listed as
endangered by the Australian government
and new breeding center North of Sydney
run by the koala conservation Australia
aims to help the population rebound the
purpose is to collect genetically
diverse and healthy koalas from the wild
to form a Founder population we will
then breed joies or juvenile koalas and
then those juvenile koalas will be
released back to the wild to bolster
existing populations that have low
numbers during Australia's so-called
black summer wildfires 2019 and 2020
it's believed that more than 60,000
koalas perished or were harmed in that
one bushire season alone the New South
Wales government has committed to
creating a national park this area in
particular is really valuable and it's
one of the last places on the East Coast
of Australia that still has habitat
connection for kilas from the beach
basically on the coast all the way up to
900 M Plus in the mountains
without trees we don't have koalas and
these forests need to be connected to
help protect it Jack nesit and his
canines for wildlife team are mapping
the trees used by different koalas it
tells us the corridor is not as humans
what we assume koalas are using to to
navigate and to travel but what they're
actually using wild koalas are nearly
impossible to spot in the canopy so Jack
relies on help from Max a 7-year-old
English Springer Spaniel who's an expert
in sniffing out a Telltale sign of a
koala's presence Max is incredible for a
lot of reasons he's capable of of
detecting a number of species but what
we're here doing today is uh detecting
koala
scats Max hurries through the Bushland
and when he finds what he's been looking
for it's a tennis ball for a treat we're
able to identify individual koalas from
their poos
so the as as the process moves through
and we have their genetic fingerprint we
can identify individual koalas and where
we've sampled them multiple times the
movements of individuals are then
plotted on a map proving the wide range
of habitat needed to sustain the koala
and the imperative to earn the necessary
protections to save it
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all right today's story getting a 10 out
of 10 goes to a Minnesota man with a
plan a steady hand and a whole lot of
toothpicks artist Jerry hackit uses
thousands of the mini Twigs of lumber to
create replicas of historic buildings
and landmarks sometimes taking months at
a time to complete check it out
obviously structural Integrity is
Paramount when designing buildings but
especially so if your entire structure
is made out of toothpicks that's the
medium this artist uses to create
elaborate replicas of historic buildings
including some in his home state of
Minnesota this impressive Recreation of
Dakota County's first Courthouse took
Jerry hacket 3 months and roughly 4,000
toothpicks to complete and his labor of
little Lumber love is now on display in
the County's administration building for
all to see it goes to show that
anything's possible with a little
patience and a lot of Toothpick stick
tutiven all right we have a few shout
outs today Juno Alaska menena River
Community School we see you and Mr bar
has Meek and friends at Hyde Middle
School in Cupertino California you rock
finally Miss Fishman and Miss Rubenstein
and my Bobcats at ps10 school of math
science and Design Tech in Brooklyn New
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