12/10/2016 Newsround

Morning, Ricky here with your Wednesday Newsround.

Coming up in the next few minutes: How computer games are bringing Max

and his friends together.

And how to grow the world's biggest pumpkins.

Will Young dropped a Strictly bombshell last night.

He announced that he's leaving the show because

of personal reasons.

The singer said he left with joy in his heart.

He also said he loved taking part in the show.

Well, despite him leaving, show bosses say there will still be

an elimination this weekend.

From fancy footwork to a bit of footie now ? let's take a quick

look at some of last night's World Cup qualifying matches.

England were thankful to the brilliance of goalkeeper

Joe Hart as they escaped with a 0-0 draw away at Slovenia.

Wayne Rooney started on the bench, but England

did not impress without him in a pretty flat performance.

And there was shock for Scotland as they slumped to a 3-0 defeat

to Slovakia, leaving them fourth in Group F.

And rounding off a disappointing night for the home nations,

Northern Ireland lost 2-0 away to Germany, conceding two goals

in just five minutes.

Hurricane Matthew struck the Caribbean island of Haiti last

week and then swept on to affect the Bahamas and then

the United States.

But Haiti was the worst affected because the country is so poor.

Charities are working hard to get food and aid into the country.

Leah has been finding out how children there have been affected.

Much-needed food and aid is being brought into the south of Haiti,

the part of the island most affected by Hurricane Matthew

that struck last week.

Power is still out and people urgently need clean food and water.

Lots of homes were knocked down by the storm and waves,

and lots of crops growing in the fields were destroyed, too,

so food like rice is having to be brought in from elsewhere.

Charities in the Caribbean country say they're worried about diseases

spreading in the area.

Schools are being used to provide temporary shelter to help

the thousands of people left homeless, which

includes many children.

TRANSLATION: The wind, the wind.

All the coconut trees were destroyed.

All sorts of trees fell down.

The wind destroyed everyone's house.

All my school books got ruined.

The tin roof flew away.

Roofs and tree branches flew away.

Water started coming in, things were flying everywhere.

Water surrounded us.

That night, it almost reached us.

We were able to get out, but left all our things behind.

We had to get them from the ditch.

The United Nations says a massive response is needed to help around

1.4 million people in the country who need urgent help.

Hurricane Matthew may be gone from Haiti,

but the damage still remains.

Cerebral palsy is a disorder that affects many different kids

in many different ways.

12-year-old Max, who lives in Australia, is one of them,

but thanks to some special technology, he and his classmates

have found new ways of communicating and having fun together.

Meet Max - he loves school and hanging out with his mates.

Max has trouble speaking because he has cerebral palsy,

a condition that means his brain has trouble communicating

with his muscles.

Where is Mr Jessett?

But recently, a piece of technology called Compass has meant that Max

can now communicate by himself.

Compass is great and I can communicate independently.

What's more, it's helped him get closer to his classmates

because they've been able to make games that he can play on it.

That's it, where the red dot is, well done.

Our teacher said that we should make a game for Max and it

just went from there.

We all thought about ideas and I went with the maze.

One of my other friends went with a car racing game.

They use coding and programmes like this to create all

the different parts of the game.

This game, he smiles a lot when he plays them because he really

enjoys being able to play games with eye gaze rather than just

watching someone else play them.

OK, Max, the point of this game is to help you strengthen your eye

gaze for getting round the track.

Thanks to the games, Max has come away with new friends.

When I first met Max, I didn't really know how

to interact with him, but then when I started making this,

I started interacting a lot more with him.

Me and Max have a good friendship now.

They also entered the games they designed into a technology

competition and came a brilliant second place.

They say they're just glad Max has a new way to have fun

with his friends.

The countdown to Halloween starts right here on

Newsround with this story.

You're looking at some of the biggest pumpkins

ever grown in the world.

They're been shown off at a competition in the US

for the orange veg.

This teacher from Washington won with the biggest

pumpkin of them all.

And her tip on growing giant pumpkins?

Finding the right seed.

And last up to the moment an endangered bird of prey

was released into the wild in South America.

Zoo keepers in Argentina had been looking after this Andean condor

and after the right care it was strong enough to be released

back into the wild.

Look at it go.

Before I go, there's just enough time to give you some exciting news.

Astronaut Tim Peake is coming into Newsround HQ this Saturday

and we want your questions for him!

If you've ever wondered what it's like to be an astronaut or how

to get his amazing job then let us know.

That's all from me - Newsround's back this

afternoon at 4.20pm.

See you then.