07/05/2017 Newsround

Afternoon, guys, I'm Leah with your Sunday Newsround live on CBBC.

Let's kick off with a look at some of the top sports stories today.

And today is all about the chase for European football.

In the lunchtime match, Liverpool are looking to leapfrog

Manchester City and get back into third place by beating

Southampton at Anfield.

The current score is nil-nil.

But the biggest match today is fifth versus sixth, as Arsenal host

Manchester United this afternoon.

United Manager Jose Mourinho will hope to have Chris Smalling

back in his team as so many of his defenders are injured.

You may have heard about the general election in the UK but today France

is picking its new President.

Jenny's in Paris.

Hi, Jenny...

Hello, Leah, welcome to Paris, the capital city of France.

I'm on the Champs-Elysees, a big shopping street,

right in the city centre.

You might be able to see the famous Arc de Triomphe, just behind me!

And yes, across the country, millions of adults are out

and about today, voting.

Just like in the UK, local places, like schools have been turned

into voting stations.

Walking around Paris you wouldn't know much is going on.

They've got to choose between two people to be their next president,

a woman called Marine Le Pen and a man, Emanuel Macron.

They're both very different, and have very different ideas

about how to run the country.

If you want to find out more about either of them,

head to Newsround Online for our guides on each candidate,

and how the vote works.

So that's it, people here have the rest of the day

to decide who will be in charge of their country

for the next five years.

Make sure you're watching Newsround online and on TV tomorrow morning

to find out who wins it.

I'll have everything you need to know.

Au revoir!

Back to you, Leah.

Now, recognise these things?

We've been taking a closer look at fidget spinners!

Have they been banned from your school?

Are they dazzling or distracting?

Ricky's got this one.

DANCE MUSIC.

Fidget spinners are taking over playgrounds.

The small toys have become the latest must-have gadget.

My spinner is a glow-in-the-dark one.

You get relaxed when it spins, and it's really satisfying.

You can have challenges with other people, you can trade and you can

customise them as well.

These fidget spinners have got a rather surprising past.

They were originally designed to help children with certain

conditions like autism deal with stress.

But these little things are causing big headaches for lots of teachers.

Sometimes children, they get distracted,

then they don't concentrate on their work.

They try and rush it so they can play with it,

and they don't produce much quality work.

They've since been banned in a number of schools,

but here in Manchester teachers are a bit more relaxed.

They're happy for kids to play with them, but only

outside of the classroom.

You can play with them at lunchtime and playtime,

but you're not allowed to play with them during class.

We have them banned in classes, and around the school environment.

You're only allowed them in break time, lunch.

We're really happy to have kids enjoying fidget

spinners on the playground.

We're seeing them get a lot of fun, they're

developing their fine motor skills.

But we have asked that they put them away as soon as they enter

the building, so that they are not a distraction in lessons.

We've found children were more interested in watching

each other do tricks than they were in

watching the teacher.

The spinners only cost a couple of pounds, but some websites have

started to charge a lot more, as their popularity increases.

VIDEO: Which one is better for fidgeting?

Online videos showing tricks have had millions of views.

Until the next big thing in the playground, it looks

like the fidget spinner will be around until at least the summer.

Next, to the gadget that's helping people with sight problems.

Watch this.

Meet Charlie - he's eight years old and loves

gaming with his brothers.

Charlie has Stargardt macular dystrophy, which means his eyes

don't work properly.

He started losing his sight when he was four.

One night when we were driving home, you asked me, "Can you read the sign

on the back of the van?"

And I couldn't.

Now these goggles are helping him to see

properly for the first time.

It works.

HE GASPS

Are you all right?

Yeah...

Are you just really pleased?

So, if you have Stargardt, things that are far away get fuzzy

and small.

The goggles help Charlie zoom in and magnify what is in front of

him.

His school have decided to pay for the goggles to help him in

class.

He is able to work at the same pace as the rest of the

children, and he's working at a very fast pace.

He's lapping up all of the learning that we are offering him.

The tech also helps Charlie play against his brothers, and even beat

them at football.

Yes!

On your barks...

Get set? Go!

It's not just Olympic athletes who set off on the starter's pistol.

Hundreds of four legged fundraisers have been running in a charity

dog race in Thailand.

It was a test for all shapes and sizes.

The special track was designed to test their stamina.

It's all to raise money for a hospital in the capital Bangkok.

Look, Chief! There are new levels in the Danger Mouse Game.

Really?! Will there be new locations to explore,

new enemies to extinguish