08/07/2016

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:00:00. > :00:15.A hero's welcome for the Welsh football team

:00:16. > :00:28.And the tense battle to get to the Wimbledon final.

:00:29. > :00:35.But first, last year more than 3000 children arrived

:00:36. > :00:41.Many of them immigrants or refugees escaping war or devastation

:00:42. > :00:44.They often travel thousands of miles to get here across deserts,

:00:45. > :00:52.I've spoken to one girl called Ruth who left her home of Eritrea

:00:53. > :00:55.in Africa when she was 14 and spent 6 months walking and

:00:56. > :00:58.staying in camps on her journey to reach the UK.

:00:59. > :01:00.We've changed her name and in this animation her words

:01:01. > :01:16.My home in Eritrea is in a small village. There is no water or school

:01:17. > :01:20.there so I had to walk two hours to get to school. I would get the water

:01:21. > :01:26.and I would chop the wood. Life was hard in Eritrea, very hard,

:01:27. > :01:30.especially for a girl. I have to choices, marry or go into the

:01:31. > :01:35.military, so I had to leave. I took nothing with me, just the clothes I

:01:36. > :01:38.was wearing. I could not say goodbye to my family because I knew my mum

:01:39. > :01:41.would cry. To find out more about children

:01:42. > :01:47.like Ruth and to watch her story There is also advice if you are

:01:48. > :01:51.Next to the news that the next prime minister of the UK will be

:01:52. > :01:57.David Cameron said he is standing down from the job in the Autumn

:01:58. > :02:00.so now the Conservative Party need to choose a new leader.

:02:01. > :02:04.Here's BBC political reporter Chris Mason with more.

:02:05. > :02:10.The big news here is that what we now know is that the next leader of

:02:11. > :02:14.our government, who takes loads of decisions that affects our lives,

:02:15. > :02:18.will be a woman. You might think, what is the big deal about that,

:02:19. > :02:22.because there will be loads of women who are really important in your

:02:23. > :02:27.life already, teachers, carers, ma'am, grandma. But in hundreds and

:02:28. > :02:32.hundreds of years, we have only ever had one woman Prime Minister, a lady

:02:33. > :02:36.called Margaret Thatcher. And yet by the time you go back to school after

:02:37. > :02:40.the summer holidays, we will have another woman Prime Minister. So it

:02:41. > :02:44.is a big moment in our history. Who could it be? Theresa May is one of

:02:45. > :02:49.the candidates, and she has already done a really big job in the

:02:50. > :02:52.government, doing a job call Home Secretary. Her dad was a vicar and

:02:53. > :02:56.she is married without children, and is a really big fan of cooking. She

:02:57. > :03:01.has 100 cookbooks and she likes watching Masterchef on telly. The

:03:02. > :03:06.person who also wants the job is called Andrea Leadsom. She is also

:03:07. > :03:10.working for the government but in less important jobs. She is married

:03:11. > :03:13.and has three children, the youngest is 12. On a Sunday, she likes to go

:03:14. > :03:17.to church. The Wales team have arrived back

:03:18. > :03:20.in the UK to a hero's Fans gathered at the terminal

:03:21. > :03:23.to congratulate the players on their achievements

:03:24. > :03:25.and the players signed autographs And right now people are lining

:03:26. > :03:32.the streets in Cardiff where the team are just arriving

:03:33. > :03:34.for an open-bus tour of the city. Flags are flying high

:03:35. > :03:37.for Chris Coleman and his team, who says it's been a magnificent

:03:38. > :03:39.feeling to have achieved what they have at this

:03:40. > :03:48.summer's tournament. You cannot believe what has happened

:03:49. > :03:54.at home. The feeling, and the togetherness they are. They are all

:03:55. > :04:02.screaming for us. That makes you feel really proud.

:04:03. > :04:04.Staying with the footy, and France have beaten

:04:05. > :04:07.in the semi-final of the European Championships.

:04:08. > :04:10.Antoine Griezmann was the hero for France, converting a penalty

:04:11. > :04:12.just before half time, before settling it for the French

:04:13. > :04:15.France will now play Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal

:04:16. > :04:22.Tennis now and Roger Federer and Milos Raonic have

:04:23. > :04:25.gone into the fifth set of their semi-final

:04:26. > :04:28.Raonic came back strongly in the fourth to level

:04:29. > :04:31.and the two men are now heading for the final

:04:32. > :04:34.British number one Andy Murray will face Tomas Berdych straight

:04:35. > :04:41.And while Murray and the best stars in tennis ace their serves, spare

:04:42. > :04:44.a thought for the tennis balls they're smashing!

:04:45. > :04:47.Almost 55,000 of them are made for the championships each summer

:04:48. > :04:50.and this year is the thirtieth anniversary of the yellow balls

:04:51. > :05:00.No, once upon a time they were, in fact, white.

:05:01. > :05:02.Newsround's back with Martin in the morning.