03/05/2017 Newsround

Hello I'm Jenny, and welcome to Newsround.

First this morning, we're talking about this man -

Cristiano Ronaldo.

The Real Madrid star did not disappoint last night,

scoring a hat-trick in the first Champions League semi-final match

against Atletico Madrid.

Watch this.

Watch this.

COMMENTATOR: And there's the first goal, and who else

but the king of the Bernabeu, Cristiano Ronaldo?!

101st goal in the Champions League.

It's off Godin, Ronaldo...

A chance for Ronaldo, and of course he takes it!

Pulls it back, here's Ronaldo for the hat-trick!

And Cristiano Ronaldo does it again.

Back-to-back hat-tricks in back-to-back Champions League games.

Well, if footy's not your thing, how about cricket?

The new England captain, Joe Root, is on a mission to inspire more

of you guys to take it up, and he's starting with the kids

at his old school in Yorkshire.

I went to watch.

Captain Joe Root first played for England in 2012,

became England's vice captain in 2015, and has now scored more

Test runs than any other batsman in the world.

This is his old primary school, and he's about to surprise

the students at their assembly.

CHEERING.

He even got involved in a little team sport.

He walked into this room and I was amazed.

None of us were kind of expecting it.

It was just like a miracle that he just walked into the room.

Then it was time to get a cricket lesson.

What's it like to be back?

It's brilliant.

I had a look round the school.

I found I made some brilliant friends through sport,

whether it be at school or away from it.

Hopefully that still happens with these guys here.

That's it, there you go.

It is quite difficult to watch cricket nowadays, though,

without having to pay a bit of money.

Do you think that's affected the game and what should change?

I think it might have had a slight effect on the game.

I think that the coverage that we have had has been fantastic.

Of course, it would be ideally available for everyone.

Who knows what's going to happen in the future?

Why should kids in the UK take up cricket?

I think it's great fun.

I've loved it from being a kid here.

You're outside, you're part of something bigger

than just your own success, and for me that's really special.

Yeah, we've just been playing with Joe, so it's like,

it's a really inspiring to see that someone from the school has gone

somewhere really special.

I've learned how to hit the bat with more power,

and how to catch better when you're a fielder.

You have do show a lot of respect to others and also work the hardest.

It shows how far you can go when you train and train as hard

as you can, and just keep on doing your best.

Hands up who's been inspired today, who's going to be

a cricketer in the future?

Awesome!

The Prime Minister, Theresa May, is due to meet the Queen

at Buckingham Palace today.

It marks the official start of the campaign for the big vote

that's taking place on the 8th of June, called a general election.

All 650 Members of parliament in the House of Commons no longer

have their jobs as MPs, as new ones are voted in next month

- something that's known as "dissolving Parliament".

You can read more about what the dissolution

of Parliament means, in our guide at Newsround online.

Well, a time when you don't want anything to dissolve is when you're

fitting the last piece of a mega underwater tunnel -

using a mega crane.

Watch this.

This is no ordinary crane...

But then again, this is no ordinary tunnel.

It will form part of the giant Hong Kong Zhuhai-Macau Bridge

project, which will connect three major regions on the Chinese coast.

At 50 kilometers long, the sea bridge will be

the longest in the world.

To build the tunnel, the mega crane needs to drop

the last section of concrete into the sea from a giant barge.

The walls are made from steel sandwiched by extra strong concrete,

each weighing 6,000 tons - that's about the same

as 1000 elephants!

Then divers in the water will help make sure that the piece goes

in exactly the right place.

They'll also help with clearing seaweed and shells

from the joint surfaces.

The giant project is set to be finished by the end of the year -

we'll SEA then if all the pieces of the puzzle fit together.

That's all for now, Newsround's back here in half an hour with more

on the Cheese Rolling Championship.

It's BRIE-lliant - I promise you!

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Dreadful joke!

Dreadful joke! Bye-bye.

And so I said, there are three types of people in the world -

those who can count and those who can't.

Do you get it?!