:00:00. > :00:07.Good afternoon, I'm Hayley and I've got loads of live news
:00:08. > :00:16.Kids meet across continents to talk telescopes.
:00:17. > :00:29.And, the junior gymnastics girls storming the European Championships.
:00:30. > :00:31.First, days of heavy rain have led to severe flooding across large
:00:32. > :00:39.Rivers burst their banks in France, Germany and Austria.
:00:40. > :00:42.Rescue services have been working around the clock
:00:43. > :00:53.Thousands of people who left their homes because of huge
:00:54. > :00:55.wildfires in Canada are beginning to return home.
:00:56. > :00:57.The city of Fort McMurray is reopening, and firefighters
:00:58. > :01:01.greeted cars on bridges with Canadian flags.
:01:02. > :01:04.Officials now say it's safe for people to come back,
:01:05. > :01:07.Extra police and firefighters are on hand to help
:01:08. > :01:14.Now to the telescopes mapping out the furthest reaches of space
:01:15. > :01:23.Jodrell Bank in the UK and Carnarvon in South Africa have
:01:24. > :01:25.something that unites them - a giant radio telescopes
:01:26. > :01:31.So we decided to introduce these kids to each other to find out
:01:32. > :01:37.This is where these kids go to school.
:01:38. > :01:42.And this is where these guys go to school.
:01:43. > :01:56.Different countries, thousands of miles apart, with one
:01:57. > :01:59.big thing in common - they both have massive
:02:00. > :02:06.Today, we are bringing them together so that they can find
:02:07. > :02:08.out what their lives have in common.
:02:09. > :02:18.How excited are you guys to speak to the UK?
:02:19. > :02:33.My trip was very lovely to the SKA.
:02:34. > :02:40.They took loads of fun pictures and stuff, as well.
:02:41. > :02:45.What would you like the telescopes to find?
:02:46. > :02:51.We would like to find movement in space.
:02:52. > :02:58.So, that's what these guys want the telescope to find.
:02:59. > :03:02.I would really like the telescopes to find out if there is really life
:03:03. > :03:04.on Mars because they have already found out that there
:03:05. > :03:07.is water and the gravity is also similar to Earth's.
:03:08. > :03:10.We have had a great time chatting to you lot from South Africa.
:03:11. > :03:13.It has been brilliant, but we have no more time left,
:03:14. > :03:21.And we've loved listening to all those questions here in England
:03:22. > :03:48.Next to an impressive silver-mdeal win for the GB junior
:03:49. > :03:53.Maisie Methuen, Lucy Stanhope, Taeja James,
:03:54. > :03:56.Alice Kinsella and Megan Parker won the silver at the Junior
:03:57. > :03:58.European Gymnastics being held in Bern in Switzerland yesterday.
:03:59. > :03:59.British champion Maisie Methuen did especially well,
:04:00. > :04:03.qualifying for the individual finals, which happen later today.
:04:04. > :04:12.It feels amazing, like all of the hard work paid off. We were working
:04:13. > :04:15.in training for two weeks, it was really hard at the initial and now
:04:16. > :04:18.we have done it. It's all change for
:04:19. > :04:20.the fiver in England. The five pound note has been made
:04:21. > :04:24.out of cotton paper for the last 100 years, and will now be
:04:25. > :04:26.made out of plastic. The Bank of England,
:04:27. > :04:28.who make the notes, have revealed But it won't be in use
:04:29. > :04:33.until the 13th of September. Imagine suffering this
:04:34. > :04:35.lego-brick disaster. This giant figure
:04:36. > :04:37.of a fox called Nick from the film Zootopia
:04:38. > :04:44.was smashed to pieces by a four-year-old boy in China only
:04:45. > :04:47.hours after going on display. It took three days
:04:48. > :04:49.and nights to build. Apparently the boy was really upset
:04:50. > :04:51.and offered to pay, but the creator said no
:04:52. > :04:54.as he hadn't done it on purpose. That's all from me for now but I'll
:04:55. > :04:58.be back with more news