07/06/2014 Newsround

Hi, I'm Hayley with your Newsround update.

Coming up... The video game that's celebrating its 30th birthday.

And we hear from one of the Britain's Got Talent finalists.

It's 70 years since D-Day, a really important moment in World

War II, when British Forces stormed the beaches to fight Hitler's army.

Yesterday, hundreds of ex-soldiers went to France to remember the day.

With celebrations and events on the beaches of Normandy,

But there was one guy who although he tried to go on an organised

This is Bernard Jordan, who at 90 years old decided to pack

up his medals and leave his nursing home without telling anyone and make

It was the biggest seaborne invasion in history.

A massive military force set out from the UK towards France.

Thousands of British soldiers landed on the beaches of Normandy

and started to break through the German army's defences.

One of those soldiers was Bernard Jordan.

He was a young officer in the Navy who crossed the English Chanel to

fight on the beaches of Normandy and kick the Germans out of France.

At 90 years old, he lives in a care home in the south of England.

He was desperate to join his collegues but when he was told

it couldn't be arranged in time, he decided to hide his medals under

his grey coat and set off to France without telling anyone.

At 90, it is not an easy trip to make, and Bernard did forget

But after making frineds with some young soldiers on the ferry

and joining in with some singning on board the boat,

he was befirended by a collegue and made it to the celebrations.

I am not surprised, if he made up his mind to go somewhere, he would

do it. I hope he makes it back safely, but this is entirely in

keeping with him. Bernard said it was a first-class show, and he hopes

to be back there next year. And to find out more about the D-Day

celebrations, go to the website, where you can hear

from 10-year-old Molly about why it was important to her to

go to Normandy with her grandad. Ukraine's new president,

Petro Poroshenko, has been sworn in He won a landslide victory

at the elections two weeks ago. It's hoped a new leader can help

stabilise the country, which has had lots of changes in

the last couple of months, including the region of Crimea splitting off

and coming under Russian control. There is still fighting in east

Ukraine because some people there Mr Poroshenko and

Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed that the fighting

in eastern Ukraine should be brought Next, it's the addictive yet simple

game that keeps hundreds of millions We're talking about Tetris, and

this week it turned 30 years old. Ricky has been taking a look

at the key to its success. It is a game of moving around

different shapes and blocks to make a full line, which in turn

disappears. It is this implied here, but 30 years after it was first

developed, it is still as popular as ever. I have been playing this game

for 25 years, I love it still. I feel really relaxed when I play it.

I am completely passionate about the game, it is a fantastic experience

for me. Tetris was created in 1984 in Moscow by a Russian scientist. He

decided on its name by combining the Greek word for four, and tennis. Its

popularity spread, and in 1989, Nintendo launched it as a free

game, and the hand-held console sold around 35 million copies. You can

still play it on a mobile phone or on a tablet. The formula has not

changed much, but some things have, like the music. Soak how come, after

all these years, Tetris is still such a popular game? It is the

simplicity. Modern games are very absorbing and time-consuming, but

something like Tetris can you can pick it up and play it for ten

minutes, and if you wanted to, you could play for hours, because it is

addictive. Catchy tune might have helped as well. To celebrate its

30th year, it reached new heights by being played on a skyscraper in

America. It's the final of

Britain's Got Talent tonight and all 11 acts will be hoping they

will be voted the winner. One of the finalists is

violinist Lettice Rowbotham. She spoke to Ricky,

who asked her how she would feel I would be so overwhelmed and so

happy if I did win. I would be so grateful, and I think it is

important, if you are about to perform, not to be nervous and just

really enjoy it and go, this is fun, I am going to try and make people

smile. There's a full list

of the finalists over on the Newsround website, and you've been

telling us who you want to win. That's all from me,

Newsround's back just before two.