16/06/2016 Newsround

Good morning, Ayshah here with Thursday's Newsround.

It's a really important day for our home nations in the Euros

football tournament today, as England take on Wales at 2:00.

But, it's not just football hitting the headlines.

There's been fighting between fans.

It's been a difficult night in Lille city centre,

where English, Russian, Slovakian and Welsh fans

are all arriving for Group B's matches and there's been

a lot of fighting.

Last night, French riot police with helmets and big shields managed

a crowd who were shouting and causing trouble.

Uefa, the organisation in charge of European football,

have already warned Russia and England that any more violence

and they'll be kicked out of the tournament.

Of course, this all comes on a massive day for England

and Wales, who both play their second match of the group

stages against each other, later.

A win for either side would really boost their chances of making it

through to the knockout stages.

We'll be here with the result of that game at 4:20.

To Ireland now, one big island that contains two separate countries.

The Irish Republic is part of the European Union

and Northern Ireland, which is part of Britain.

Nazia has been there to find out what kids think about next

week's important vote, the EU referendum.

That's the vote which will decide whether we stay in or leave

the European Union, a club made up of 28 countries.

Children from either side of the border between the two

countries have been telling us how the vote might affect them.

I love living in Newry because it's just a massive shopping town.

There's football pitches everywhere and you're never really bored.

A lot of people come from down south and

stuff to shop here.

This is Newry.

It sits right on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic.

The border runs for more than 300 miles, and people can move freely

between the two countries, without needing a passport.

Newry is just one place that benefits from having an open border.

That's because people can come here and spend more money.

But some people living here in Northern Ireland are worried

that next week's important vote on whether to leave or stay

in the European Union could affect that and how they use the border.

I love to play football.

I play three times a week and we usually cross the border

at least once every week.

Whenever they come over, it's more competition,

rather than just playing from our side of the border.

My auntie lives in Dublin, which is across the border,

and she comes up to see us pretty much every weekend,

and it's really nice.

My family uses the border a lot because my dad's a driver

and he does lifts and work up there.

And my mum has a lot of friends down south.

I went on holidays last year and we went down south

and it was really easy to go down.

You don't even notice you're going past the border,

but if we leave, it might make it harder.

If they vote out and they put checkpoints in the south,

it might be a lot of hassle, like queues and people trying

to get through quick.

It might affect me and it might not, I'm not really sure.

I'm curious to see that if we left, what would happen?

People who wanted to stay in the European Union say a vote

to leave would mean that it would be less easy to cross the border

between the Republic of Ireland and the UK.

They say it could mean fewer people would come to places like Newry

to shop and spend money, and that could cause problems

for Northern Ireland as a whole.

But people who want to leave the EU think that won't happen.

They say that things on the border will stay the way

they are because the Republic of Ireland and the UK will come

to an agreement, as countries across Europe had their own

agreements with each other before the EU existed.

In surveys, people from Northern Ireland say they are more

likely to support the EU than people living in other parts of the UK.

That's also true of the pupils I have been speaking to today.

In other areas of the UK, it's much closer

between the two sides.

And it is the vote from the whole of the UK that will

decide the results.

That's all from me, I'll be back in half an hour with all the latest.

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