:00:00. > :00:00.Good morning, guys - Leah here live with some special
:00:00. > :00:10.reports on the 70th anniversary of D-Day coming up plus new evidence
:00:11. > :00:25.First, 70 years ago today, the biggest seaborne assault in military
:00:26. > :00:29.The D-Day landings saw troops from Britain,
:00:30. > :00:33.America and Canada join together in a mission to overthrow Nazi Germany
:00:34. > :00:38.Thousands of troops lost their lives and today the last
:00:39. > :00:41.surviving veterans are commemorating along with many others.
:00:42. > :00:47.The anniversary of D-Day is an extremely important event.
:00:48. > :01:02.This weekend The Queen, Prince Charles and William and Kate
:01:03. > :01:05.will be here paying their respects for those who fought here 70 years
:01:06. > :01:20.President Obama and President Putin of Russia will be here, along with
:01:21. > :01:30.We were 18 or 19 years old. In the first instance, it was exciting. You
:01:31. > :01:38.have all this training and we thought, let's get on with it. And
:01:39. > :01:44.then as you approach the beach, reality. You hear the guns and you
:01:45. > :01:50.think, what am I doing here? Can we turn round and go back to England
:01:51. > :01:57.please! Something came down, it landed on our boat and the boat went
:01:58. > :02:04.up in the air. I thought it would overturn. At night we were bombed.
:02:05. > :02:11.There were flares over the top. There was nowhere to hide. It was
:02:12. > :02:15.awful. You huddled down. Everyone knew we had to fight the Nazis. We
:02:16. > :02:21.were defending Britain. And you can also head over to
:02:22. > :02:25.the Newsround website to find out more about what happened
:02:26. > :02:27.during the D-Day landings. and to an exciting discovery
:02:28. > :02:31.about the moon. German researchers believe they've
:02:32. > :02:34.discovered the planet that crashed into earth called Theia and helped
:02:35. > :02:38.form the moon billions of years ago. After studying bits
:02:39. > :02:40.of lunar rock they say it shows traces of the planet
:02:41. > :02:43.and confirms that the Moon was The discovery has impressed
:02:44. > :03:03.researchers at the What we have been looking for as
:03:04. > :03:08.scientists are the chemical fingerprints in the moon rocks.
:03:09. > :03:10.People have been looking at this for a long time. Scientists in Germany
:03:11. > :03:13.think they have found it. And in sport England boss
:03:14. > :03:16.Roy Hodgson says he's optimistic that Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain will be
:03:17. > :03:19.fit to play in the World Cup. The Arsenal star injured his knee
:03:20. > :03:22.in Wednesday's warm up with Ecuador and left the team hotel yesterday
:03:23. > :03:25.with heavy strapping on it. But Hodgson says he'll leave it
:03:26. > :03:28.until the day before England's first World Cup game against Italy
:03:29. > :03:46.to decide whether to replace him. We have got the right to replace
:03:47. > :03:52.them up to 24 hours before the first game but we will do everything we
:03:53. > :03:59.can to keep him with us. We would like to think we might go beyond the
:04:00. > :04:02.group stage. We are planning for it. And he played so well yesterday. I
:04:03. > :04:05.think he might be our best player. Well,
:04:06. > :04:07.it's less than seven days until the World Cup kicks off in Brazil,
:04:08. > :04:10.and all this week on the Newsround website we're asking you which team
:04:11. > :04:13.you're supporting and why. Benjamin says he wants England to
:04:14. > :04:16.win but is backing Brazil and Argentina because
:04:17. > :04:28.of the temperature advantages. There's still time to have
:04:29. > :04:31.your say so head over to But if you like you're World Cup
:04:32. > :04:38.news a bit lighter then how about the animals preparing
:04:39. > :04:40.for the biggest football tournament Now this seal is unlikely to make
:04:41. > :04:44.Japan's national side but, after months of training 6-year-old
:04:45. > :04:47.Chanto has managed to advance her Sea lions have also been practicing
:04:48. > :04:52.too learning how to balance