0:00:11 > 0:00:14Good morning, Ayshah here with Thursday's Newsround.
0:00:14 > 0:00:17It's a really important day for our home nations in the Euros
0:00:17 > 0:00:21football tournament today, as England take on Wales at 2:00.
0:00:21 > 0:00:23But, it's not just football hitting the headlines.
0:00:23 > 0:00:25There's been fighting between fans.
0:00:25 > 0:00:26It's been a difficult night in Lille city centre,
0:00:28 > 0:00:31where English, Russian, Slovakian and Welsh fans
0:00:31 > 0:00:34are all arriving for Group B's matches and there's been
0:00:34 > 0:00:36a lot of fighting.
0:00:36 > 0:00:40Last night, French riot police with helmets and big shields managed
0:00:40 > 0:00:43a crowd who were shouting and causing trouble.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46Uefa, the organisation in charge of European football,
0:00:46 > 0:00:49have already warned Russia and England that any more violence
0:00:49 > 0:00:52and they'll be kicked out of the tournament.
0:00:52 > 0:00:54Of course, this all comes on a massive day for England
0:00:54 > 0:00:57and Wales, who both play their second match of the group
0:00:57 > 0:01:00stages against each other, later.
0:01:00 > 0:01:03A win for either side would really boost their chances of making it
0:01:03 > 0:01:05through to the knockout stages.
0:01:05 > 0:01:10We'll be here with the result of that game at 4:20.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13To Ireland now, one big island that contains two separate countries.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16The Irish Republic is part of the European Union
0:01:16 > 0:01:20and Northern Ireland, which is part of Britain.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23Nazia has been there to find out what kids think about next
0:01:23 > 0:01:25week's important vote, the EU referendum.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28That's the vote which will decide whether we stay in or leave
0:01:28 > 0:01:32the European Union, a club made up of 28 countries.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35Children from either side of the border between the two
0:01:35 > 0:01:40countries have been telling us how the vote might affect them.
0:01:47 > 0:01:55I love living in Newry because it's just a massive shopping town.
0:01:55 > 0:02:02There's football pitches everywhere and you're never really bored.
0:02:02 > 0:02:04A lot of people come from down south and
0:02:04 > 0:02:09stuff to shop here.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11This is Newry.
0:02:11 > 0:02:15It sits right on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18The border runs for more than 300 miles, and people can move freely
0:02:18 > 0:02:24between the two countries, without needing a passport.
0:02:24 > 0:02:28Newry is just one place that benefits from having an open border.
0:02:28 > 0:02:34That's because people can come here and spend more money.
0:02:34 > 0:02:36But some people living here in Northern Ireland are worried
0:02:36 > 0:02:39that next week's important vote on whether to leave or stay
0:02:39 > 0:02:45in the European Union could affect that and how they use the border.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47I love to play football.
0:02:47 > 0:02:50I play three times a week and we usually cross the border
0:02:50 > 0:02:52at least once every week.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55Whenever they come over, it's more competition,
0:02:55 > 0:02:58rather than just playing from our side of the border.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01My auntie lives in Dublin, which is across the border,
0:03:01 > 0:03:04and she comes up to see us pretty much every weekend,
0:03:04 > 0:03:06and it's really nice.
0:03:06 > 0:03:09My family uses the border a lot because my dad's a driver
0:03:09 > 0:03:11and he does lifts and work up there.
0:03:11 > 0:03:16And my mum has a lot of friends down south.
0:03:16 > 0:03:20I went on holidays last year and we went down south
0:03:20 > 0:03:22and it was really easy to go down.
0:03:22 > 0:03:25You don't even notice you're going past the border,
0:03:25 > 0:03:30but if we leave, it might make it harder.
0:03:30 > 0:03:34If they vote out and they put checkpoints in the south,
0:03:34 > 0:03:38it might be a lot of hassle, like queues and people trying
0:03:38 > 0:03:41to get through quick.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44It might affect me and it might not, I'm not really sure.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47I'm curious to see that if we left, what would happen?
0:03:47 > 0:03:50People who wanted to stay in the European Union say a vote
0:03:50 > 0:03:56to leave would mean that it would be less easy to cross the border
0:03:56 > 0:03:57between the Republic of Ireland and the UK.
0:03:57 > 0:04:01They say it could mean fewer people would come to places like Newry
0:04:01 > 0:04:04to shop and spend money, and that could cause problems
0:04:04 > 0:04:08for Northern Ireland as a whole.
0:04:08 > 0:04:12But people who want to leave the EU think that won't happen.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14They say that things on the border will stay the way
0:04:14 > 0:04:17they are because the Republic of Ireland and the UK will come
0:04:17 > 0:04:20to an agreement, as countries across Europe had their own
0:04:20 > 0:04:24agreements with each other before the EU existed.
0:04:24 > 0:04:28In surveys, people from Northern Ireland say they are more
0:04:28 > 0:04:32likely to support the EU than people living in other parts of the UK.
0:04:32 > 0:04:35That's also true of the pupils I have been speaking to today.
0:04:35 > 0:04:37In other areas of the UK, it's much closer
0:04:37 > 0:04:39between the two sides.
0:04:39 > 0:04:42And it is the vote from the whole of the UK that will
0:04:42 > 0:04:45decide the results.
0:04:45 > 0:04:49That's all from me, I'll be back in half an hour with all the latest.
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