03/03/2017 Newsround

Hi, I'm Martin, it's Friday and this is Newsround.

Here's what's coming up.

Nadiya Hussain's new cooking show.

And the secrets of how elephants sleep.

First up showbiz news and Great British Bake Off champ,

Nadiya Hussain, is set to host

a brand new BBC series, called The Big Family Cooking

Showdown, with Strictly's Zoe Ball.

Chefs Giorgio Locatelli and Rosemary Shrager will judge.

It's not clear exactly when the programme will be scheduled

but it's set to rival the next series of Great British

Bake Off on Channel 4.

Next up and there's a new character in CBBC's The Dumping Ground.

His name is Alex and in the show he's homeless

and has to sleep rough.

It's a problem that around 1.2 million young people

in England experienced.

Connor Lawson who plays Alex, came into NR HQ this morning to talk

to Jenny about his new role.

Alex is a pretty troubled kid, he's never had a good background.

He's constantly been in care, he doesn't

have a father figure.

That's meant that he's had to put up a wall

against the world, and he's showing off his bad behaviour and bad

persona.

But really he just wants to be wanted and have some love

from someone.

What's it like playing that character, someone who is homeless?

It's pretty hard.

It's a total opposite on the scale from me, so

going from someone who's been nurtured and loved to someone who

hasn't and who has lived on the street is a total different

perspective.

But it's a real eye-opener, and it's been good for

me to be able to see it from a different perspective too.

How did you prepare?

I've done a lot of method acting, I met up with a guy

who was homeless from Newcastle.

He told me his stories and where he came from,

and it was really nice to hear it and to see him

still smiling from it all.

Next, an unexploded bomb from World War Two has been

discovered on a building site in north west London.

A team from the army is working on the unexploded

bomb, to make it safe.

People living nearby have had to leave their homes and a nursery

school has been closed.

Work to make the area safe has been going on all day.

There are about to be some big changes to how the UK deals

with its neighbours in Europe.

It's all because of something you might have heard mentioned

a lot recently: Brexit.

Jenny went to Scotland to find out what kids there think.

Despite what people say, it's not always raining.

The people are nice and friendly.

There is loads to see and do and I love the museums.

Glasgow, Scotland's largest city, where a lot of people have strong

opinions on the vote that happened last year on whether the UK should

leave a club of countries called the European Union.

Across the whole UK, most people voted to

leave the EU, but here in

Scotland, most people wanted to stay in it.

So what do the children here think now the UK is leaving?

Well, I think it is kind of bad because it leaves the UK more

vulnerable than we are right now, we

don't have the support that we used to since we've left the EU.

The EU has different rules from what other

countries have, if we leave we will not be following them any

more, so it might be a bit confusing.

I don't like the fact that we are leaving but I guess it

will have to happen.

I think children should have had a say because it

will affect their future.

I hope they don't keep going on about it, if they are going

to do it, just do it.

And there's loads more about Brexit and what it all means

at Newsround online.

If you think you know everything there is to know about elephants,

well you'd be wrong.

Researchers in Botswana have made an exciting new discovery.

Watch this.

African elephants already hold the title

for largest land animal, but now they might be

about to break another record, for least sleep.

Researchers in Botswana found that elephants like these guys need only

two hours of sleep a night.

That's roughly 14 hours a week.

Compared to around 56 hours needed for humans.

And roughly 112 hours for cats.

The study even worked out how they are

sleeping, by placing a monitor in their trunks.

And fitting a collar that detects movement.

The researchers found that the elephants

usually snooze standing, and only lie down every few nights.

It's thought elephants sleep so little

because they have to be on the lookout for danger.

They also need a lot of food to power their big

bodies, and prefer to spend their time eating or searching

for their next snack.

That's all from me, Newsround's back right

here in the morning just before 9am.