25/09/2012 Newsround

Hello there guys, Ricky and Leah here with your Tuesday afternoon

Newsround. Great to have you with us. On the

way tonight: why this school's gone Mobot crazy.

And, how on the ball are this lot? First though, rain. Buckets and

buckets of it. You probably had a very wet journey home from school

today. Yet again many parts of the country are flooded. Hundreds of

people have been forced out of their homes in the north-east of

England. According to the Met Office the people who monitor

weather in the UK, unto 10cms of rain could fall in some areas, and

rivers burst their banks, leaving roads underwater. In Morpeth in

Northumberland firefighters had to rescue people in their homes.

had about 100 properties in the flood risk area most affected by

the floods. We've had to carry out 37 rescues using our water rescue

teams. We've had to close the bridge because of the impact of the

debris on the bridge. It has been quite a to which rows time for the

residents. Earlier -- a tortuous time for the residents. I checked

out one of the worst-hit parts of country. This is the hebdon river

in Yorkshire. They've already had two floods this summer. The water

levels on the river are incredibly hif. This used to be a foot path

and the real worry is if there's heavy rain overnight the river

could burst its banks. Homes and businesses here are still

recovering from the floods in June and July, so people are nervous

about the same thing happening again, but the forecast isn't good.

In areas like this there's expected to be up to 10cms of rain in just

24 hours. So that's a whole month's worth of

rain in just one day. People are well used to defending

themselves from the floods in this area and one way people are

defending their businesses or their homes is by using these.

Sandbags. Your camera broke because it was so

wet didn't it? Yes. Next to a story about a schoolgirl who's been front

page news since they ran away last Thursday. Many thousands of kids

run away from home every year in the TUC, but Megan Stammers is

thought to have gone all the way to France with a teacher. Police are

looking for both of them and the 15-year-old's parents are begging

them to come home and she won't be in trouble. Watch out for the

flashes. Last Thursday Megan Stammers told

her mum she was off to stay at a friend's house. Her family haven't

seen her since. Yesterday her parents begged ler to get in touch

and come home. Sweetheart, I don't care what you've done, I'm in

pieces. I want you home. Megan, we had a date on Saturday and we

didn't make it. Babes, the offer is still there, sweetheart. I just

want you to come home safe. This is the man Megan is with, 30-year-old

Jeremy Forrest, a maths teacher at her school in Sussex. They boarded

a ferry to France on Thursday night. They had booked a return by the

same route on Sunday but never did. The school said there had been

concerns about the relationship before this happened. On a previous

school trir they were reportedly seen by another pupil holding hands.

UK lis are working with the French authorities to try to -- police are

working with the French authorities to try to bring her home safely.

need to know that you are OK. Your family and friends are extremely

worried but you are not, and I stress you are not in any trouble.

Because Megan is 15 she is legally still a child. Her teacher has been

criticised because part of a teacher's job is to look after

children on behalf of their parents. Although it is important that have

a good relationship with your teachers at school, we've been

looking into this story today. We've got in touch with a former

teachers' union leader. She told us the trust children have for their

teachers is clearly important and this is an abuse of that trust.

Police are asking friends of the missing teenager if they have any

information about where she might be. Her family can only hope she

returns home safely. To Syria now. The charity Save the

Children has a big report out about how the children have been affect

by the war there. They spoke so children who fled the problems and

are living with their families in refugee camps. Many have seen other

peopled. The charity is calling on the UN to send more officials into

the UK to monitor what's happening. Ali is 12 and is living with his

family in a refugee camp in neighbouring jofrpbltd TRANSLATION:

Our family left -- in neighbouring Jordan. TRANSLATION: Our family

left because of the bombardments. We could barely sleep. That's why

we ran away. The charity is working with kids like Ali to rebuild their

lives. It says it is important people know what's happening in

Syria. They are telling us of their school being bombed, of tanks

knocking down their houses, of relatives that have been killed by

the Army, of breaking into their house in the middle of the night.

This is appalling and it has to stop now. Next, it it was Mobot all

the way at a classroom in west London. Double Olympic gold

medallist Mo Farah went to visit his old school. He met pupils in

felt Tam Community College in Hounslow and gave them a lesson in

his trademark. This is where I grew up. I went to school here and now

I'm grown up a man. It is awesome to be back and talking to the kids.

It's a completely different feeling. It looks like it is not only bad

news for us trying to get out and about but for our beaches too.

There's a warning that beachs in England and Wales could get dirtier.

And what's to blame? The rain. The UK has some of the most

beautiful coastline in the world, but water pollution at some of our

most famous beauty spots could change the way we think of our

seaside. Last year ten beachs in England and Wales failed to meet

the standard needed for swimming. Bathing there could give you an

upset stomach and make you feel pretty unwell. This year the news

is worse. It looks like 26 beachs will fail this standard when new

results from published next month, including Blackpool, Exmouth and

Weston-super-Mare. The news could be a blow for seaside towns that

rely on mon spent by visiting tourists. What has caused the

change? It is this stuff - rain, and lots of it. You might think

more water in the sea would be a good thing. But the record rainfall

in the first three months of the summer has swept more fertilisers

and pesticides from farms into rivers and the sea. Sewage is a

major problem. When it rains heavily sewage pipes fill up to.

Stop the filthy water with things like poo in it flooding back into

people's homes, it flows through overflow pipes into the sea. Water

companies have spent billions of pounds trying to upgrade pipes to

tackle the problem, but with stricter standards for water

quality in three years, some of England and Wales' most popular

seaside resorts might soon have to the display signs saying no

swimming. Now, if you like a game of keepy

uppy, keep this lot out in Italy. Japan's Kotaro Tokuda impressed

with his energetic display of skills, which won him the men's

time. Next up was Kitty Saz from Hungary, who won the women's top

prize. Very nice. And we've been looking through some of the alien

drawings on the website. This Friday on Newsround we are giving

you an exclusive first look at a breed of aliens from a new CBBC