:00:11. > :00:13.Good morning, Team Newsround - Jenny here with all you need to know
:00:14. > :00:16.The Women's Rugby World Cup kicks off today,
:00:17. > :00:19.with England, Wales and Ireland all playing their first games.
:00:20. > :00:21.But as the action gets underway, there's a row over
:00:22. > :00:24.whether the England team are getting fair treatment, from
:00:25. > :00:29.We asked Ayshah, and one rugby super fan,
:00:30. > :00:38.to speak to some top players about what's going on.
:00:39. > :00:51.And Miss Rebecca, I'm 14 and a massive rugby fan. I play local team
:00:52. > :00:55.and I love rugby. Rebecca, reducing rugby as you want to do in the
:00:56. > :01:00.future? It is definitely a dream. It's something I'd love to do. But
:01:01. > :01:03.there is a problem. At the moment the women's England team are all
:01:04. > :01:08.professional that means they get paid to play the game. But in the
:01:09. > :01:14.future the people who run rugby in England say they will only pay women
:01:15. > :01:19.who play the seven aside version of the game. Instead of the traditional
:01:20. > :01:25.15 aside. This is different from the men who get paid to play both.
:01:26. > :01:30.Someone who thinks this is a problem is World Cup winner Maggie. She
:01:31. > :01:35.captained the England team to victory in 2014. As a former player
:01:36. > :01:37.I am disappointed because understandably you want to ensure
:01:38. > :01:43.there is full investment in both formats of the game. A governing
:01:44. > :01:46.bodies can still invest my in their women's sports and teams because we
:01:47. > :01:50.have seen with further investment greater success can come. We put
:01:51. > :01:59.these points to the car and England vice captain. I think there are
:02:00. > :02:03.contracts next year, they've talked about how they want to bring 15 's
:02:04. > :02:09.contract back into play. I think when Rebecca reaches an age where
:02:10. > :02:12.she could be playing women's rugby professionally, hopefully they will
:02:13. > :02:18.be back in play and it's really important girls can aspire to be
:02:19. > :02:25.professional rugby players. So after hearing from these two players, what
:02:26. > :02:30.is Rebecca thing? Personally, I believe is not fair they've made
:02:31. > :02:34.these contract changes, the men's they've kept us at the same and if
:02:35. > :02:40.changed it for the women. I don't believe it is right. What is it mean
:02:41. > :02:45.fewer future in playing rugby? I think eventually it go back but at
:02:46. > :02:46.the moment it is a bit worrying to see whether I could make it onto
:02:47. > :02:48.sevens. He's on a mammoth mission
:02:49. > :02:51.to cycle around the world, And he's just about at the halfway
:02:52. > :03:13.point of his journey He wants to be on the record books.
:03:14. > :03:18.Back in 2008, he cycled around the world in 194 days and set a new
:03:19. > :03:21.world record. His next adventure took him from Alaska in North
:03:22. > :03:26.America to Argentina in south America. And in 2015 he cycled the
:03:27. > :03:32.length of Africa from Cairo to Cape Town in just 42 days. But nearly ten
:03:33. > :03:36.years on from his first round the world record it has been broken by
:03:37. > :03:42.other writers and now stands at 123 days. This time he isn't just trying
:03:43. > :03:47.to beat the existing record by a couple of days. That would be too
:03:48. > :03:56.easy! He is aiming to do it in just 80. It has not been easy. Putting
:03:57. > :04:02.miles in the bank feels great. My front wheel went in, it was a huge
:04:03. > :04:07.hole. I felt a broken tooth in my mouth, I've chipped a good amount of
:04:08. > :04:12.it. End of day 26. That is the Chinese border. And it is closed.
:04:13. > :04:20.This is the end of leg one. I am in Australia. That's it, it hasn't sunk
:04:21. > :04:26.in. It feels a bit weird. I am here with my hot water bottle, food and I
:04:27. > :04:29.will be asleep in about 20 minutes. It is an 18,000 mile journey in
:04:30. > :04:35.total which means he will have to bike more than 2000 miles each day
:04:36. > :04:36.to set the record. Watch this space. If you've been watching
:04:37. > :04:38.the World Athletics Championships you may have noticed the event's
:04:39. > :04:40.official mascot - Hero the Hedgehog -
:04:41. > :04:43.and he's been trying to get Here he is trying to balance
:04:44. > :04:49.himself, but can he make it? That's all from me,
:04:50. > :05:02.but Newsround's back at 8:15am. # I also love Got-Got-Got
:05:03. > :05:12.What It Takes now. # My favourite show is
:05:13. > :05:15.The Dumping Ground.