08/07/2014 Newsround

Ricky here with your breakfast headlines.

Stick around, cos you don't want to miss this.

The biggest bird that ever took flight - we find out about

And who'll win between Brazil and Germany in the World Cup semifinal?

We ask our own big bird, Ronaldo, the Newsround parrot.

First up - you can keep your eagles, condors and albatrosses,

because scientists in America say they've discovered the biggest bird

The giant creature had an estimated wingspan of over 7 metres,

making it twice the size of the biggest flying bird alive today.

It would've been almost as big as a small plane!

Scientists think it lived about 25 million years ago, after

Joining me now is Dr Victoria Egerton, a fossil expert

Victoria, how exciting is this discovery - this is genuinely

This is a huge discovery. This bird had the largest wingspan known to

all birds. We can see on the wall, this picture would have been the

very width of the bird. That is massive! It is massive. A modern

albatross is about two times smaller than that. To show you in more

detail at home, here I am, stacked up 12 times, and that again is the

width of the bird. It was enormous. This is the actual size behind us

here on the wall. Can you tell us more about what can to eight, when

it flew, rhythmic? It lived on the eastern sea bird of the US. --

seaboard. It ate things like eels and slimy fish. The way it could

grab those are these long, spiky teeth like structures. But they were

actually bones, so it would have been able to grab onto these slimy

things. Finding out more about it, is it exciting? Definitely, it

pushes the limits of how big these birds really could fly, they flew

around over the ocean without having to flap, which is pretty nice. Thank

you very much for joining us. What an absolutely amazing

discovery. And if you've not had your fill

of gigantic animals, get on our website, where you can

check out our gallery of the biggest beasts in history, as well as the

most massive mammals alive today. Next, a schoolboy who saved his

sister's life has backed calls for St John ambulance is launching a new

campaign to teach children the basic skills to help anyone in trouble

and Jenny's been to find out more. Learning how to react to accidents

is an important skill, but it is not always easy to find the time. Check

out this first aid session with a difference. It is being streamed to

children live across the UK. Around 1000 schools are watching the web

show at the same time, it is being run by St John Ambulance. It is an

interactive chat where schools can ask questions, quiz and even the

opportunity to get a step to get. We want as many young kids to learn

first aid because it is the difference between a life saved and

a life lost. At the moment, schools and the UK do not have to teach, but

James knows how important it can be. My sister fell to the floor on her

birthday in the middle-of-the-road and had an epileptic fit. I saved

her life with the first aid skills I lined. This is one of the schools

taking part. I have come to watch it with some children and find out what

they think of this new way of learning. I think this new way of

learning about it is very good, the cost lots of people can do it at the

same time. I think it is an important part of your life, because

they committed offence to somebody's life and helping people.

The quiz was a good idea because if you got the answer wrong, they could

explain it and tell you why. The team behind the webcast say more

lessons like this are planned for the future and hopefully, it could

help save lives. OK, to the World Cup, and today's

top fact on the website tells you that tonight's semifinalists,

Germany and Brazil, are the most consistent finalists - they have

each reached the final seven times. Brazil will be without

their star player, Neymar, after his tournament finished

when he was stretchered off with Coach Felipe Scolari says the injury

has given his team extra focus. This is the match we will be playing

not only for ourselves, but for our country. Everything that we dream of

and so, not least, for Neymar, where everything he has done for us. That

is something we have been able to overcome.

So, what does Ronaldo, the Newsround parrot,

It's fair to say his initially brilliant World Cup predictions went

So, there you have it - it's Germany.

We'll find out tonight, and Newsround's back this afternoon.

Don't forget, the website is there with all the top stories.