01/03/2014 Newsround

Hi, guys, I'm Ayshah, with news of real-life quidditch on Newsround and

a bit of this on the way. But first, we've told you loads

about Ukraine lately, and today there's been warnings about other

countries getting involved in the crisis. US President Barack Obama

has told Russia not to interfere. 150,000 Russian troops are currently

on high alert on the Ukrainian border, and yesterday one of

Ukraine's leading politicians accused them of being behind armed

takeovers of two major airports, something Russia denies. Obama says

it should be up to Ukrainians themselves to sort things out.

Exciting space news next, with the launch of special elite training

schemes for young people who want to one day work in the industry.

Budding engineers are being given the chance to sign up for the first

ever university-level apprenticeship in space training. The Government

think the UK space business could be worth ?30 billion in 20 years' time.

Now, it's a sport played by witches and wizards in Harry Potter, but now

an adapted version of the game has become one of the fastest growing

team sports in the UK: I'm talking about quidditch, and I've been

checking out how one of Britain's best teams do it. It's fiction into

reality, from the pages of Potter to the playing fields of Oxford, one of

the top teams in Europe playing the weird and wonderful game of

quidditch. The broomsticks raise a lot of eyebrows, but we kind of like

them as sort of a handicap, because playing one-handed is what a lot of

new peole find difficult. They might not be able to fly, but everything

else has been adapted into a real- life game. It's a real sport.

There's contact, and it's tactics, and obviously it's a real game! It's

kind of rugby and handball combined together, with a broom between your

legs. You've got the chasers trying to score with a quaffle, then you've

got the bludgers trying to get the chasers out. Then there's the

sneakers trying to catch the snitch. So there's three games going on at

once. Despite all the confusion, more and more people are playing it.

I thought it would be a bunch of strange people, and it's not. That's

completely wrong,. I thought I would hate it but I love it. But whatever

happens, the game's not over until someone catches the snitch. You end

the game by grabbing the ball in a sock carried by them. Sounds simple,

but it's not, as the snitch can leave the field and run almost

wherever they want. As long as you stay within our boundary, anywhere

goes. So in theory, this game can last for a very, very long time.

Well, that got us thinking about which sport, real or fictional,

you'd like to try out and why. Head over to the Newsround website to let

us know. Next to an incredible life-saving

operation that saw part of a man's leg re-attached to his arm. It was

feared there was nothing doctors could do after Ian McGregor was told

he had a large tumour at the top of his leg. But in an 18-hour

operation, doctors removed the lower leg, attached it to his arm to keep

it growing, removed the tumour and then grafted the muscles back onto

the skin. It's believed to be a world first. They said, "We're

taking the calf off, implanting it into your right arm so we can keep

it alive." I thought,"It's just amazing, what they can do". It's

Star Trekky! It's getting into the realms of... Phew!

It's one of the most popular programmes on CBBC and yesterday

Leanne and Kasey, who play Faith and Bailey in The Dumping Ground,

stopped by to have a chat with Leah and answer your questions. This one

is from Gavin, who's saying, "Hello, Leanne and Kasey. My question for

both of you is: 'If you could be on any other CBBC show apart from The

Dumping Ground, which one would it be and why?'" That's such a good

question! Ooh, I know. Go on, then, you start. Four O'Clock Club. Yeah,

that's a good one, actually. Why, do you think? Because I think that's

more... I just really enjoy it a lot. I enjoy it a lot. This is from

Catherine. She says, "How long have you been acting for, and how old

were you when you started acting?" I've been doing it from a very, very

young age, but professionally I'd say the last five, six years. I

started when I was 13. I went to an agency not far from where I live. I

go in, and I got signed with the agency. I was 14. It just kicked off

from there, really. This is from Max in Southampton. He says, "Is it hard

making the episodes at all?" With acting, people think it's easy. It's

not really easy when you have to wake up about five o'clock, four

thirty, and you go till lunchtime and you finish about seven o'clock

sometimes. It is quite demanding. You have to really love it and you

have to be really, really passionate about it.

Finally, we reckon these were the funniest pictures of the week: a BBC

news reporter disappearing from view during an interview live on telly.

It's had over three million hits online, and now the reporter has

been explaining how it happened. This is the camera that had the

technical fault that caused it to tilt upwards towards the ceiling,

which gave the impression that I'd sunk down in my chair. This is the

chair I was sitting on, and as you can see, there are no levers to make

it drop and there is definitely no sinkhole. So, why did the picture

behind me stay still? Well, it's because we use a special screen, and

this camera superimposes that image behind me. It's as simple as that.

There you go! We're back just before two. I'll see you then.