10/03/2016 Newsround

Jenny here with your Thursday afternoon Newsround update.

We've got lots to tell you about so let's get cracking.

Tim Peake's halfway through his stay in space and.

Today is BBC News School Report day - when school children have been

making the news about subjects important to them.

So, if you couldn't see, would you ever think of having

After a ground breaking operation was successfully carried out

earlier this year, BBC school reporter Kelsey,

who is blind, looks into the impact the technology could have

I'm Kelsey and I'm totally blind, and I'm on my way to school

Back in January, this lady, Rhian Lewis, was implanted

with a bionic eye and it made me think if there was technology that

My school is a mainstream school, which means I get taught

Do you think it as any different teaching me,

overall, in comparison to a sighted student in the class?

It is different, in the sense that you've got different needs.

I've had to plan a couple of weeks in advance,

But it's no different to every pupil having their own individual needs.

My friends, like Michael and Charlie, are important,

because they treat me like everybody else.

All this makes me feel no different to any other student.

Me and my dad have come to the BBC to do a radio interview

He was the surgeon who carried out the operation on Rhian,

What is the point of having a little bit of sight restored

Somebody who has never seen before, there will be little point,

really, in trying to bring some vision back.

We are talking about people who have lived their lives

using their eyesight and that has, unfortunately been lost.

The ability for these patients to be able to see the shape of an object,

the position of a window, for instance, can be very helpful.

Having spoken to teachers, friends and the professor,

I have concluded that, although the technology has obvious

advantages for some, it is just not for me.

Major Tim Peake has reached the half way mark for his stay aboard

He rocketed off into space on December the 15th,

and is due to return to earth in June.

Former Nasa astronaut Don Thomas has been telling us what life's

He's got some great food to eat up there. Most of the food is

freeze-dried. We do it this way so it stays preserved without

refrigeration. To prepare a meal in space, we inject water through a

little port, the water softens it up and it is ready to eat after a few

minutes. Then you meet it with a normal fork was -- eat it with a

normal fork or spoon. At least 1300 rhinos were killed

normal fork or spoon. At least 1300 last year. There are around 30,000

Southern, white and black rhinos left on the continent. If we

continue with the current rate of losses, I would estimate that,

within the next five or ten years, all we will have is rhinos in very

strictly controlled captivity scenarios and we will have basically

lost the species, the species across the range, in the wild.

It's a big night for footie fans, with the Europa League's last

Tottenham play away against Germany's Borussia Dortmund,

while Liverpool go head to head with Manchester United at Anfield.

It'll be the first time the two teams have met each other

in European competition, and Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp

says it's going to be a big match, but his team are playing to win

I have absolutely no problem with Louis van Gaal, but the last thing I

want is that he wins in a game like this. That is pretty easy, it is

what we all love in football. You can play against your best friends,

but if they were the wrong shirt, 495 minutes you have to forget

everything. Some of the most popular stars

of the canine world are heading to the world's largest

dog show today. Crufts has just got underway

and the pooches with the biggest following on Instagram have been

invited along this year That's all from the team this

afternoon, but Newsround is back