27/05/2014 Newsround

Jenny here live with all the big stories this morning, including:

The discovery of a giant bog that's the size of England.

And we meet the world's oldest living cat.

First to the troubled region of Donetsk in Ukraine where a

stand-off between Ukranin soldiers and pro-Russian forces is currently

Armed groups who want Russia to have more control across Ukraine,

But the Ukrainian government's sent helicopters and fighter jets

and is thought to have taken control of some parts of the airport back.

Ukraine's newly elected president, Petro Poroshenko, says he wants to

Farmers in areas severely affected by the UK's winter flooding say it

could be years before their land fully recovers.

Fields in Somerset were devastated by the extreme weather.

Crops and grass for cows to eat should be growing

But farmers say the wet conditions are making that difficult, as well

as helping harmful weeds like buttercups grow on their fields.

It is like a mat, and it makes the cows have diarrhoea. If we are

lucky, we will be getting back to normal by the end of next year.

A massive bog the size of England has been discovered

Scientists spent three weeks studying the area in the Republic

They had to contend with crocodiles, gorillas and elephants, but said the

The bog contains billions of tonnes of peat,

They say it will allow us to learn more about how

It was incredibly surprising to find an area the size of England that is

essentially uncharted. We went there knowing almost nothing about it

apart from what we could see by satellites.

Now, Poppy here might seem like your average pet,

She's just got herself into the Guinness World Records

The latest model of a mobile phone looked like this.

The Hubble telescope was launched into space.

And pop star Madonna was topping the charts.

It was also the year Poppy was born, and at 24, she's just been crowned

Poppy lives here with proud owners the West family.

She is very bony, very old. She is sleepy. To celebrate her birthday,

we made a cat food cake. It was this big. How does it feel to have the

world's oldest cat? I think it is really good. I've got the oldest cat

alive. The average life

of a cat is 15 years. At nine years older than that,

Poppy's achievement is very In fact, she's older than

the members of Little Mix, And since Poppy was born in February

1990, she's seen five different In human years,

Poppy is even older than 24. Experts generally agree the first

two years of a cat's life are equal After that, every three

months count for a year. This makes Poppy

a mighty 114 years old. The oldest cat

of all time was 38-year-old So Poppy has a bit of time to

go before breaking that record. But I still think 24 years is

something worth celebrating. Sport,

and with less than three weeks till the start of the World Cup, one

Premier League player who could have Liverpool's Luis Suarez is

struggling with a bad knee and it was thought surgery

on the injury had ruled him out. But Uruguay's team doctor

says he may still make it. Uruguay play England

in the group stages of Brazil 2014. And finally to the cheese-chasing

champ who doesn't like cheese. Yesterday saw thousands of people

take part in Gloucestershire's The official event was scrapped four

years ago because it was too dangerous, but these guys put

on an unofficial version. Winner Josh admitted afterwards he

doesn't actually like the stuff. Newsround's back right here in

about half an hour.