15/11/2017 Newsround

Morning guys, Whitney

here with your Wednesday Newsround.

Coming up in the next few minutes.

A legendary astronaut

takes on your questions.

And...

It's golf, but with

a pretty big difference!

First up, spies, computer

hackers and Russia.

What's that all about, you ask?

Well, the British Prime Minister

Theresa May made a big speech

telling off Russia for getting

involved in other

countries' business.

Ayshah has more.

Do you know who this guy is?

This is Vladimir Putin and he's

the president of Russia.

He also likes to show

the Russian people how

strong he is by riding a horse

or catching big fish.

In some mountains.

With his top off!

Well, we all need a hobby.

But now spies around the world are

getting fed up with what

they say he's up to.

Those spies are saying that Russia

is using social media to

try and interfere with other

countries, including in elections.

Experts believe teams of Russian

spies are writing and spreading

stories all over the web that

are made to divide people and

cause arguments.

They have thousands of social media

accounts that all share

each other's stories

so the messages go far and wide.

It's like having thousands

of digital spies.

So, what about Mr Putin?

Well, he says he doesn't know

anything about it but

if it is happening, then it's

nothing to do with him or Russia.

But not everyone

believes that and lots

of leaders want to know

if Russia is a friend

or if it could be an enemy.

Thanks, Ayshah.

Next, have you ever wanted to travel

to the dark side of the moon?

It's definitely on my

bucketlist somewhere.

Very few people have done

it, but one of them

who has is former Nasa

astronaut Al Worden.

Leah went to meet him

and ask him your questions.

Hi, Newsround, I'm Al Worden,

I have been to the moon.

I hold two Guinness records,

one for being the most isolated

person in history and one for doing

the very first deep space spacewalk.

Back in 1971, Nasa

launched Apollo 15.

The latest in its

rockets to the moon.

Al Worden was the

command module pilot.

When Apollo 15 reached the moon,

two astronauts went down

to the surface and Al stayed

on board alone as it orbited

the moon for three days.

So, Al, can you tell me

what it was like being

so far away in space?

Yeah, it's, it's isolated.

We were in a little,

small spacecraft, it was only

about the size of a Volkswagen.

It had two guys that, when they go

down to the moon for three days,

I had that Volkswagen all to myself

for three days which

was kind of nice.

Imagine you're swimming underwater

but there's no water.

And that's what it's like in space.

That's incredible.

So Newsround viewers love

space and they've sent

you some of their questions.

Sure.

We trained for three

years just for my flight.

That was after I got selected

and ended up in the space programme.

I trained for a year and a half

as back-up crew for Apollo 12,

a further year and a half

for Apollo 15.

Three years training

just for one flight.

We tried some 300

different types of food.

It was all freeze-dried.

It was quite easy, all we had to do

was pour water back in and heat it

up and it was lasagne,

spaghetti, Mac and cheese,

all kinds of beef pies

and stuff, it was OK.

My favourite button to press

on the spacecraft is the one that

turned the engine on.

Then we go somewhere!

OK, time for a quick round-up

of some of the other

top stories today.

The Republic of Ireland

won't be joining England

at the World Cup next summer.

After drawing the first leg

with Denmark 0-0, they ended up

losing 5-1 last night.

Tottenham midfielder

Christian Eriksen scored

a hat-trick, which meant the Danes

were celebrating at

the end of the night.

Several of England's

new young players played

against Neymar's Brazil last night.

The match wasn't very

exciting and ended 0-0

but England manager Gareth Southgate

said he was really pleased about how

the young side played

against some superstar names.

And Wales also tried

out their youngsters against Panama.

Tom Lawrence's goal

was the highlight,

although they conceded a late goal,

to draw in what could be manager

Chris Coleman's last game in charge.

Next to a pretty unusual type

of sport, golf meets football.

This is footgolf.

Players skillfully kick a ball

around a golf course, but it's

bigger than your usual golf ball!

Britain came out on top

in this latest tournament

so well done to them.

If I have to be honest,

it still just looks like football

to me but you might enjoy it!

Now, does your school ever do

crazy shows for charity?

Well, this school in

San Francisco in America

celebrated World Kindness Day

by doing a sponsored dance.

Hundreds of kids at schools

around the state did

the dance which was designed

by a chroeographer to encourage kids

to be kind to one other.

Nice one, guys!

That's it from me, Newsround's back

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See you!