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It's Monday morning. | 0:00:04 | 0:00:05 | |
Ayshah here with the stories to start your week, including: | 0:00:05 | 0:00:09 | |
British athletics is riding high as Team GB get a record 12 gold medals | 0:00:09 | 0:00:12 | |
at the European Championships. | 0:00:12 | 0:00:18 | |
helping farmers with their harvests. | 0:00:18 | 0:00:21 | |
This is Newsround. | 0:00:21 | 0:00:25 | |
First, to Iraq, where the Government has said British forces could play a | 0:00:27 | 0:00:31 | |
role for "weeks and months" to come. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:33 | |
Tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee | 0:00:33 | 0:00:36 | |
their homes because of the threat they face from Islamic State. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:44 | |
The Royal Air Force has been delivering aid to people | 0:00:44 | 0:00:47 | |
in desperate need on the ground, but now British pilots are also | 0:00:47 | 0:00:50 | |
flying missions to gather information about where militants | 0:00:50 | 0:00:53 | |
are, and what they're doing. | 0:00:53 | 0:00:56 | |
And there's more information about what's going on in Iraq | 0:00:56 | 0:00:58 | |
on our special guide on the Newsround website. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:03 | |
Next, during the summer holidays, you may have spent some time | 0:01:03 | 0:01:06 | |
in the countryside, If you did, you probably saw tractors | 0:01:06 | 0:01:08 | |
and combine harvesters hard at work on the crops. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:12 | |
Now some very clever inventions have made this process even easier. | 0:01:12 | 0:01:17 | |
We sent Martin to a farm in Gloucestershire to find out more. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:21 | |
You just can't beat a slice of toast and a bowl of cereal in the morning, | 0:01:22 | 0:01:26 | |
but where does it all come from? | 0:01:26 | 0:01:27 | |
Well, it's actually made from wheat, and for farmers up and down the | 0:01:27 | 0:01:30 | |
country, it is time to harvest it. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:35 | |
The harvest season is when farmers take to | 0:01:35 | 0:01:37 | |
their fields to pick the crops that they have been growing all year. | 0:01:37 | 0:01:41 | |
It is also a nervous time, as they find out if the plants | 0:01:41 | 0:01:44 | |
they've sown have had enough heat, light, and water to be good enough | 0:01:44 | 0:01:48 | |
to end up on our plates. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:50 | |
They haven't got long to get everything done. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:54 | |
It is a bit of a race against time to try to get | 0:01:54 | 0:01:57 | |
the crops harvested and get them to the barn when they are | 0:01:57 | 0:01:59 | |
in the best state possible to make the best bread or the best biscuits | 0:01:59 | 0:02:03 | |
or the best breakfast cereal. | 0:02:03 | 0:02:04 | |
This year, there has been loads of sunshine, which has been really | 0:02:04 | 0:02:07 | |
good for the grain, and here at this farm in Gloucestershire, | 0:02:07 | 0:02:10 | |
that is great news. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:12 | |
The quality of the grain we are growing looks to | 0:02:12 | 0:02:14 | |
be fantastic, so we should get some really good bread from it. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:17 | |
We are about two weeks ahead of where we would normally be, because | 0:02:17 | 0:02:20 | |
it has been so warm for so long. | 0:02:20 | 0:02:22 | |
It has been a fantastic summer for farming so far. | 0:02:22 | 0:02:25 | |
Picking crops from land was not always an easy task. | 0:02:25 | 0:02:28 | |
It used to take a very long time. | 0:02:28 | 0:02:30 | |
Farmers would do most of the tasks by hand, and deploy | 0:02:30 | 0:02:33 | |
loads of people to help them. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:35 | |
But over the last 200 years, some very clever inventions have helped | 0:02:35 | 0:02:39 | |
make the harvest season easy. | 0:02:39 | 0:02:42 | |
Quadcopter technology to be able to have an aerial view of our field, | 0:02:42 | 0:02:45 | |
we can just go out and spray a particular patch. | 0:02:45 | 0:02:48 | |
That technology is good for the environment, because we're not using | 0:02:48 | 0:02:50 | |
as many chemicals around the farm. | 0:02:50 | 0:02:52 | |
Combine, for instance, can steer itself. | 0:02:52 | 0:02:54 | |
It has GPS on it. | 0:02:54 | 0:02:56 | |
It can tell us which parts of the field a yielding a good yield, | 0:02:56 | 0:02:59 | |
and which are yielding a bad yield. | 0:02:59 | 0:03:01 | |
Farming and farms have gotten bigger and | 0:03:01 | 0:03:03 | |
bigger, and we are using more and more technology to try to save money | 0:03:03 | 0:03:06 | |
and make everyone's lives easier. | 0:03:06 | 0:03:09 | |
And the more wheat that is harvested means more cereal and more toast | 0:03:09 | 0:03:12 | |
for me. | 0:03:12 | 0:03:16 | |
To sport now, and England's women rugby union team | 0:03:17 | 0:03:20 | |
are world champions. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:22 | |
They beat Canada 21-9 in the final. | 0:03:22 | 0:03:26 | |
Emily Scarratt's second try of the match sealed the win in Paris. | 0:03:26 | 0:03:30 | |
They have made it to the final in the last three cups, | 0:03:30 | 0:03:33 | |
but their previous success in the tournament was 20 years ago. | 0:03:33 | 0:03:41 | |
Sticking with sport, and Mo Farah added another medal to the British | 0:03:41 | 0:03:44 | |
gold rush at the European Championships this weekend. | 0:03:44 | 0:03:45 | |
After winning gold in the 10,000 metres on Wednesday, | 0:03:45 | 0:03:48 | |
Mo dominated the 5,000 metres on the final day yesterday. | 0:03:48 | 0:03:51 | |
And Mo said having his kids there made quite a difference. | 0:03:51 | 0:03:55 | |
Yeah, it was amazing. | 0:03:55 | 0:03:56 | |
One of them gave me a kiss. | 0:03:56 | 0:03:58 | |
It was like "Daddy, Daddy". | 0:03:58 | 0:03:59 | |
It is the first time they have come to watch me properly | 0:03:59 | 0:04:02 | |
and see Daddy race. | 0:04:02 | 0:04:03 | |
It's a great championship for all the people. | 0:04:03 | 0:04:05 | |
We have a young team, particularly the relay. | 0:04:05 | 0:04:08 | |
Adam Gemili is really impressive. | 0:04:08 | 0:04:09 | |
He is only young, and we have done well overall. | 0:04:09 | 0:04:14 | |
Another Olympic and Commonwealth Champion, Greg Rutherford, | 0:04:15 | 0:04:17 | |
won the long jump with a jump of 8 metres and 29 centimetres. | 0:04:17 | 0:04:22 | |
His win guaranteed Britain topped the medal table for only | 0:04:22 | 0:04:26 | |
the third time in the Championships history, with a record 12 golds. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:31 | |
And yet more British gold in both the men's and women's | 0:04:31 | 0:04:34 | |
4 x 100 relays. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:36 | |
But it was the women's result that was particularly sweet. | 0:04:36 | 0:04:39 | |
The ladies set a new British record, their time of 42.25 seconds beating | 0:04:39 | 0:04:44 | |
the one set way back in 1980. | 0:04:44 | 0:04:48 | |
England's cricketers are having a nice day off | 0:04:48 | 0:04:50 | |
after they smashed India in just three days for the second | 0:04:50 | 0:04:53 | |
time running to win the series 3-1. | 0:04:53 | 0:04:55 | |
India were bowled out in their second innings | 0:04:55 | 0:04:57 | |
for just 94 yesterday, England winning the test match | 0:04:57 | 0:05:01 | |
by a massive innings and 244 runs. | 0:05:01 | 0:05:05 | |
Captain Alistair Cook said he's delighted with | 0:05:05 | 0:05:06 | |
his side's incredible turnaround. | 0:05:06 | 0:05:09 | |
English cricket needed a series win, and to deliver it like we've | 0:05:09 | 0:05:14 | |
delivered it, you know, we'll have a big smile on our face to win | 0:05:14 | 0:05:17 | |
the last two games in three days. | 0:05:17 | 0:05:21 | |
I think they got no more than one 50 in four innings. | 0:05:21 | 0:05:26 | |
The bowlers can take a huge amount of credit. | 0:05:26 | 0:05:29 | |
All the batters scored runs, so it's almost like the perfect games. | 0:05:29 | 0:05:33 | |
And Man City began the defence of their Premier League title with | 0:05:33 | 0:05:36 | |
a 2-0 win at Newcastle. | 0:05:36 | 0:05:38 | |
David Silva gave City a first half lead, set up by a great | 0:05:38 | 0:05:41 | |
backheel from Edin Dzeko, before Sergio Aguero came off the bench to | 0:05:41 | 0:05:45 | |
score in the closing minutes. | 0:05:45 | 0:05:48 | |
The win puts City at the top of the table after the opening weekend. | 0:05:48 | 0:05:52 | |
That's all from me. | 0:05:52 | 0:05:54 | |
Newsround's back right here at 8.55, where you can find out why the | 0:05:54 | 0:05:57 | |
world's fastest man, the Lightning Bolt, is having a party in Brazil. | 0:05:57 | 0:05:58 |