10/12/2015 Newsround

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Get ready, as we launch our Tim Peake countdown into space.

And the cat stuck up a tree for two weeks!

First this morning - heavy rain has caused more flooding

in parts of Cumbria in the north-west of England.

A river in the village of Glenridding has burst its banks

The army as well as police and fire fighters helped to move

Can you imagine having to stay indoors because the air outside

Well, cities across China are on high alert just

Smog happens when the air we breathe becomes poisoned with pollution.

These pupils from the British School in Beijing have sent us a special

report about the smog which has brought their city to a standstill.

We're from the British School in Beijing.

Today we're going to be talking to you about the pollution in Beijing.

Often in Beijing in winter, the pollution is quite bad,

which means we can't go outside or do sports

Just yesterday, we missed a day because of high

This is Beijing's pollution on a bad day.

As you can see, it looks like it is extremely

Sometimes we do have really nice days where it is blue outside.

In Beijing, it's surrounded by mountains, so pollution often

Mostly, this pollution is due to people heating and using coal,

Obviously, as you know, China has such a large country.

There are tonnes of factories and a lot of cars.

It can range from really clear to you can only see a few hundred

Our school has a really nice air purifier to keep the air clean

The air purifier sucks in bad air, purifies

Thank you for watching! Thanks.

To football now, and it was a pretty good night for English clubs

Chelsea won 2-0 against Portugese side Porto.

And Arsenal will also be heading through to the next stage

of the competition after beating Greek side Olympiakos 3-0.

That's the 16th season in a row that the Gunners have

It is a special night for us because as we said before the game,

we are in an escape mode, you know, before the game

When you can deliver something special, you can create a positive

Swansea are looking for a new manager this morning

after Garry Monk was sacked yesterday.

He'd been in charge for just 22 months.

The club are currently just one point above the relegation zone.

British astronaut Tim Peake blasts off for outer space in just five

days, so here at Newsround we're counting down the days with our list

of top five facts about the UK's number one spaceman.

Tim Peake had to do a special five-week course learning how

Plenty more from them in the next few days.

This cat in Chile in South America has had a lucky escape.

She had been stuck on top of a palm tree for a couple of weeks.

People in the town tried to rescue her with ropes,

She was eventually encouraged to come down with some food

She's been named Valentina and is doing fine.

And to another story of a cat, but a very grumpy one...

The famous Grumpy Cat kitty has been to Madame Tussauds in San Francisco

for the unveiling of her very own lookalike.

But instead of being made out of wax, she's been made

as a mechanical figure that can lift her head and even purr.

Of course, the real Grumpy Cat didn't look too impressed by it all.

And head over to the Newsround website to take a look at the fat

pets that have been on a strict diet to help them lose weight

Newsround's back in half an hour at 8.15, when we'll have loads