18/01/2014 Newsround

Hi, Newsrounders. Jenny here, with all of Saturday's big stories coming

up, including: The latest sports craze bouncing its way to a school

near you. And why these daring dogs are making

some very special waves. Stay tuned.

First to America, where the driest winter in years is being blamed for

the spread of devastating wildfires in California. A major blaze has

destroyed several houses near LA and forced thousands of people to leave

their homes. The spread of the fires is being blamed on a chronic water

shortage causing forest areas to be unusually dry for this time of year.

California's governor, Jerry Brown, has declared a state-wide drought,

urging people to save water before things get any worse.

We are facing perhaps the worst drought California has ever seen

since records began about a hundred years ago.

Well, back in the UK, it's too much water that continues to be the

problem, with more flood warnings being issued today. Heavy rain is

expected to add to problems in some areas, and major roads in Surrey,

West Sussex and Kent are already closed. The Met Office, who predict

the weather, have issued a yellow flood warning for parts of

south-west England and South Wales. To environmental worries of a

different kind next, with calls for more to be done to protect peat bogs

like this. They might look pretty uninteresting, but they can be full

of all kinds of fascinating wildlife if they're left alone. Over the

years, they have been stripped to help people grow their plants at

home, though. Now there are moves to stop that happening. Here's Martin

with more. At peat bog in Cumbria, a haven for

wildlife but recently this was under threat. For many years, these have

been dug up for peoples back gardens. It is still going on now.

Gardeners put it on their plants to help them grow so peat bogs full of

wildlife are destroyed and it takes a long time that to come back. This

site has been milled, the huge machine scrapes off the surface of

the peat and leaves are surface on which plants can't grow so what you

are seeing is a service that in ten years hardly anything has been able

to grow. It is thought it takes up to a year to form one millimetre of

peat. There has been a big push to use peat free fertiliser gardens and

the government want no peat to be used by 2030. But areas like this

peat bog had been restored to their original state. It is hoped it less

peat is used in our gardens we can all enjoy more wild bogs like this

one. Sport and Andy Murray has powered

into the fourth round of the Australian Open. He easily beat

Spain's Feliciano Lopez in straight sets to set up a fourth-round match

with France's Stephane Robert and stay on course for a quarterfinal

showdown with Roger Federer. And a teenager from Bristol is on

the brink of becoming the youngest person ever to reach the South Pole.

Lewis Clarke is on the final leg of his charity trek through the

Antarctic. The 16-year-old, who is walking and skiing his way through

the 7,000-mile journey, is expected to arrive at the South pole by about

three this afternoon. And if you think think that sounds a

little bit too extreme, maybe you should check out aeroball. It

combines basketball and trampolining and is the latest sports craze

sweeping through schools. Take a look at this.

If you find it hard to reach the net in PE, then maybe you just need a

bit of bounce! It's trampolining, and you get to play basketball at

the same time. It's fun and it gets you really tired. And it gets you

really competitive. Aeroball has become one of the most popular

sports for school activity weeks. You don't have to be a big fan of

heights or necessarily be great at football. Anybody can have a go,

young or old. It is very, very easy. The sport was created by a former

gymnast in America who wanted to make trampolining safer and more

fun. You score points by either getting a ball into your opponent's

basket or onto the bottom of their trampoline before they can stop it.

There are several balls on the go, and you can play in doubles, so it

involves plenty of tactics. We think our jumps are too low summer going

to try and get higher to score. As well as making you think, aeroball

can also help kids improve in other sports such as basketball. It helps

you aim for the net in basketball. You can teach the skills but for

them it is quite demoralising if they can't score baskets all the

time. But here they can see the results. The results seem to be that

aeroball is helping some of you guys reach new heights when it comes to

school sport! It looks brilliant!

Finally to the dogs making a big splash in Brazil: these daring

doggies are in practice for a special competition in Rio de

Janeiro where they have to paddle round a range of obstacles, with the

help of their owners. Let's just hope the sea isn't too "woof" for

them. You can see more of those dogs over

on our website, which is also where you can see the crazy pictures of

the lightning strike that has damaged one of the world's most

famous statues. That's all for now, but I'm back

just before two with