:00:21. > :00:28.Good afternoon friends! Ore and Hayley here with a Newsround that's
:00:28. > :00:34.as sharp as Jessica Ennis's javelin. Coming up in the next 9 minutes:
:00:34. > :00:40.Taking a trip - to an asteroid. And bring on X Factor! We speak to
:00:40. > :00:44.Aiden Grimshaw. We're starting, though, in
:00:44. > :00:46.Afghanistan. And they're supposed to be on the same side - Afghan
:00:47. > :00:52.soldiers, working with British and American troops, learning how to
:00:52. > :00:55.keep Afghanistan safe. But things aren't going to plan.
:00:55. > :00:58.There's been a big rise in trainee Afghan soldiers attacking the
:00:58. > :01:01.mostly UK and US forces who've been teaching them. Now, the British
:01:01. > :01:08.Government says it's doing all it can to protect UK troops there and
:01:08. > :01:13.keep them out of any danger. Here's Nel. They're called green on blue
:01:13. > :01:17.attacks, green the colour of Afghan forces uniforms, blue the colour of
:01:17. > :01:20.international peacekeepers, NATO. 34 international soldiers have been
:01:21. > :01:25.killed already this year by Afghan security forces who are supposed to
:01:25. > :01:28.be working alongside them. The last week alone has seen five of these
:01:28. > :01:31.attacks. Troops from Britain and other countries are in Afghanistan
:01:31. > :01:35.training local security forces to protect the country when they leave
:01:35. > :01:39.in 2014. They've been there for more than
:01:39. > :01:42.ten years, trying to defeat Taliban fighters who the UK and US thought
:01:42. > :01:46.were protecting terrorists who had attacked America.
:01:46. > :01:49.The latest green on blue attack was yesterday. A man dressed in Afghan
:01:49. > :01:53.police uniform opened fire on American troops. The Taliban says
:01:53. > :01:58.the attacker had been working with them. It's not yet known how
:01:58. > :02:01.involved the Taliban are in these attacks or if it's individual
:02:01. > :02:05.officers acting alone. Officials here and in the States say it won't
:02:05. > :02:10.stop plans to hand over security to Afghan forces and leave the country
:02:10. > :02:13.in two years' time. They say they're carrying out tighter checks
:02:13. > :02:17.on all Afghans before they begin working with them. But these
:02:17. > :02:20.growing attacks have led to a serious breakdown of trust. A trust
:02:20. > :02:25.that will shr to be rebuilt if there is to be any hope of a new
:02:25. > :02:28.start in Afghanistan. That's not the only story out of
:02:28. > :02:33.Afghanistan today. We are hearing that dozens of people have been
:02:33. > :02:38.killed in a series of attacks in the south-west of the country. A
:02:38. > :02:42.market, where people were preparing to celebrate the end of Ramadan. A
:02:42. > :02:45.number of people have been arrested. Next, many of the wildfires that
:02:45. > :02:48.have been burning on the Canary Islands have been brought under
:02:48. > :02:51.control. Thousands of people living in one of the most popular places
:02:51. > :02:59.for British holiday-makers had to leave their homes because of the
:02:59. > :03:01.blazes. The islands of Tenerife and La Gomera are the worst hit.
:03:01. > :03:05.Now, one six-year-old girl and her little brother are probably the
:03:05. > :03:08.most envied kids in the country right now - their parents have just
:03:08. > :03:11.won a whopping �148 million. It's the UK's second largest lottery win
:03:11. > :03:14.- that's a whole lot of pocket money! Adrian and Gillian Bayford
:03:14. > :03:24.from Suffolk say they're going to give some of the cash to children's
:03:24. > :03:29.charities. The lucky couple said they almost didn't buy a ticket!
:03:29. > :03:32.joked about it, we sort of - have you bought a ticket, I said I
:03:32. > :03:36.haven't. He just went neither have I, we went we are not going to win
:03:36. > :03:40.then, are we?. We sat for about ten minutes and then he went I have
:03:40. > :03:45.some really. I went all right. The question is what would you do
:03:45. > :03:50.with �148 million? Here are a few ideas. If you fancy travelling in
:03:50. > :03:54.luxury, how about buying your own private jet? Or if you fancy
:03:54. > :04:00.bagging yourself Wayne Rooney, actually with that money cow buy
:04:00. > :04:03.three. -- money you could buy three. Or a new games console, you could
:04:03. > :04:09.get around 600,000 with that sort of money.
:04:09. > :04:19.How about your own gold medal, you could grab yourself 330,000 of them.
:04:19. > :04:22.Good luck getting one off the Team GB, because they're priceless.
:04:22. > :04:25.Yesterday the Olympic flag made the journey from London to Rio de
:04:25. > :04:28.Janeiro in Brazil - the next home of the Games in four years' time.
:04:28. > :04:31.But London's job isn't over yet. Yesterday work began on getting the
:04:31. > :04:34.park ready for the start of the Paralympic Games in two weeks' time.
:04:34. > :04:38.Thousands of flags and banners need to be changed. This was the warm-up
:04:38. > :04:42.pitch for the hockey, this will be a football venue. We put 3,000-
:04:42. > :04:46.seater stand and football field all in this blue area. What you can see
:04:46. > :04:56.now we transform into a football stadium. We have about a week to do
:04:56. > :05:00.
:05:00. > :05:03.While we were all going Jess and Mo crazy, one of the few stories that
:05:03. > :05:06.grabbed people's attention away from the Olympics was the landing
:05:06. > :05:08.of the Curiosity Rover on Mars. But it's not just other planets that
:05:08. > :05:11.scientists at NASA are keen to explore. British astronaut Tim
:05:11. > :05:16.Peake has been working on a mission to get space explorers travelling
:05:16. > :05:19.to asteroids. Joe went to meet him. Lift-off... The four astronauts are
:05:19. > :05:23.launched into space. In this underwater lab conditions are
:05:23. > :05:26.similar to the weightless environment of space. British
:05:26. > :05:29.astronaut Tim Peake is getting ready for a trip to the
:05:29. > :05:33.International Space Station but this training is for something very
:05:33. > :05:38.different. Tim, you spent most of this year under water training,
:05:38. > :05:41.what were you doing? The objective of the NASA's Nemo mission was for
:05:41. > :05:46.us to be able to try different methods of manoeuvring and working
:05:46. > :05:53.on an asteroid. Were there some methods that didn't work out?
:05:53. > :05:56.Trying to manoeuvre holding on to a transhraeugs line is hard work F
:05:56. > :05:59.you want to hammer into the rock surface very hard to do. On the
:05:59. > :06:05.other end of the scale if you are in a foot plate on a space
:06:05. > :06:08.exploration vehicle that's a very stable work platform and easy to do.
:06:08. > :06:12.President Barack Obama has set a target of landing a crew on an
:06:12. > :06:17.asteroid by 2025 or very soon after. Commercial companies are also
:06:17. > :06:21.interested in the space rocks as well. And plans to mine them for
:06:21. > :06:26.precious metals were announced this year, which caused quite a stir.
:06:26. > :06:30.What are your thoughts on this plan to catch asteroids in mid-space?
:06:30. > :06:35.And mine them? I think it's a really interesting concept and I
:06:35. > :06:40.think it's achievable. Anything is achievable like that. It's a case
:06:40. > :06:45.of do the benefits outweigh costs? Whether it's for discovery, or dosh,
:06:46. > :06:55.it looks like one of these lonely space rocks should be expecting
:06:55. > :06:58.company. Thank you, Joe. Bit of showbiz for you now - and
:06:58. > :07:01.what do you need to fill the gaping hole left by the Olympics? Hayley?
:07:01. > :07:04.X Factor! Yes, it's back on Saturday. And this year's
:07:04. > :07:07.contestants will have a lot of work to do. Judge Gary Barlow has
:07:07. > :07:10.accused last year's lot of getting lazy and not realising how much
:07:10. > :07:18.hard work is involved. Aiden Grimshaw was on the show two years
:07:18. > :07:23.ago. He told Nel just how tough the show is. It was crazy. I was only
:07:23. > :07:30.18. One day I worked in Pizza Hut and would bring you pizza and the
:07:30. > :07:35.next day I was Mad World Aidan. you think that people misunderstand
:07:35. > :07:40.just how much hard work is involved in these talent shows and becoming
:07:41. > :07:43.an artist? Yeah, it's hard. I went for the X Factor when I was 14. I
:07:43. > :07:46.didn't get through. The most important thing to think about when
:07:46. > :07:50.you go on a programme like that is to remember it's an opportunity.
:07:50. > :07:59.You got to be confident and make your voice the loudest one.
:07:59. > :08:02.You can see a longer interview with Aiden on the Newsround website.
:08:02. > :08:05.Now the Olympics may be over, but the sporting spirit is still going
:08:05. > :08:08.strong in the south of France. The 49th annual Snail Racing
:08:08. > :08:10.Championships is followed by a feast, where all the losers get
:08:10. > :08:19.scoffed! This year it was lucky seven-year-old Sebastian who was
:08:19. > :08:27.the first to slime his way to the edge of the table. That's awful!
:08:27. > :08:30.They get eaten? It's what you got to do. They knew what was going on!
:08:30. > :08:33.Finally, if you think all those Team GB superstars gave it their
:08:33. > :08:36.all in the Olympics - how about this? Firefighters from around the
:08:36. > :08:39.world have been battling it out in a two-day competition in Poland to
:08:40. > :08:42.see who's got the best skills. The teams are being tested on hose
:08:42. > :08:48.carrying, fake-victim saving and rope pulling - a new Olympic event