:00:00. > :00:08.Hi, Newsrounders. Jenny here, with all of Saturday's big stories coming
:00:09. > :00:12.up, including: The latest sports craze bouncing its way to a school
:00:13. > :00:16.near you. And why these daring dogs are making
:00:17. > :00:23.some very special waves. Stay tuned.
:00:24. > :00:28.First to America, where the driest winter in years is being blamed for
:00:29. > :00:31.the spread of devastating wildfires in California. A major blaze has
:00:32. > :00:35.destroyed several houses near LA and forced thousands of people to leave
:00:36. > :00:39.their homes. The spread of the fires is being blamed on a chronic water
:00:40. > :00:43.shortage causing forest areas to be unusually dry for this time of year.
:00:44. > :00:46.California's governor, Jerry Brown, has declared a state-wide drought,
:00:47. > :00:56.urging people to save water before things get any worse.
:00:57. > :01:02.We are facing perhaps the worst drought California has ever seen
:01:03. > :01:05.since records began about a hundred years ago.
:01:06. > :01:08.Well, back in the UK, it's too much water that continues to be the
:01:09. > :01:11.problem, with more flood warnings being issued today. Heavy rain is
:01:12. > :01:15.expected to add to problems in some areas, and major roads in Surrey,
:01:16. > :01:18.West Sussex and Kent are already closed. The Met Office, who predict
:01:19. > :01:21.the weather, have issued a yellow flood warning for parts of
:01:22. > :01:24.south-west England and South Wales. To environmental worries of a
:01:25. > :01:27.different kind next, with calls for more to be done to protect peat bogs
:01:28. > :01:31.like this. They might look pretty uninteresting, but they can be full
:01:32. > :01:34.of all kinds of fascinating wildlife if they're left alone. Over the
:01:35. > :01:38.years, they have been stripped to help people grow their plants at
:01:39. > :01:44.home, though. Now there are moves to stop that happening. Here's Martin
:01:45. > :01:53.with more. At peat bog in Cumbria, a haven for
:01:54. > :01:59.wildlife but recently this was under threat. For many years, these have
:02:00. > :02:07.been dug up for peoples back gardens. It is still going on now.
:02:08. > :02:13.Gardeners put it on their plants to help them grow so peat bogs full of
:02:14. > :02:19.wildlife are destroyed and it takes a long time that to come back. This
:02:20. > :02:24.site has been milled, the huge machine scrapes off the surface of
:02:25. > :02:30.the peat and leaves are surface on which plants can't grow so what you
:02:31. > :02:37.are seeing is a service that in ten years hardly anything has been able
:02:38. > :02:46.to grow. It is thought it takes up to a year to form one millimetre of
:02:47. > :02:50.peat. There has been a big push to use peat free fertiliser gardens and
:02:51. > :02:56.the government want no peat to be used by 2030. But areas like this
:02:57. > :03:03.peat bog had been restored to their original state. It is hoped it less
:03:04. > :03:05.peat is used in our gardens we can all enjoy more wild bogs like this
:03:06. > :03:09.one. Sport and Andy Murray has powered
:03:10. > :03:12.into the fourth round of the Australian Open. He easily beat
:03:13. > :03:15.Spain's Feliciano Lopez in straight sets to set up a fourth-round match
:03:16. > :03:18.with France's Stephane Robert and stay on course for a quarterfinal
:03:19. > :03:21.showdown with Roger Federer. And a teenager from Bristol is on
:03:22. > :03:26.the brink of becoming the youngest person ever to reach the South Pole.
:03:27. > :03:29.Lewis Clarke is on the final leg of his charity trek through the
:03:30. > :03:32.Antarctic. The 16-year-old, who is walking and skiing his way through
:03:33. > :03:37.the 7,000-mile journey, is expected to arrive at the South pole by about
:03:38. > :03:41.three this afternoon. And if you think think that sounds a
:03:42. > :03:43.little bit too extreme, maybe you should check out aeroball. It
:03:44. > :03:47.combines basketball and trampolining and is the latest sports craze
:03:48. > :03:56.sweeping through schools. Take a look at this.
:03:57. > :04:00.If you find it hard to reach the net in PE, then maybe you just need a
:04:01. > :04:04.bit of bounce! It's trampolining, and you get to play basketball at
:04:05. > :04:08.the same time. It's fun and it gets you really tired. And it gets you
:04:09. > :04:17.really competitive. Aeroball has become one of the most popular
:04:18. > :04:23.sports for school activity weeks. You don't have to be a big fan of
:04:24. > :04:28.heights or necessarily be great at football. Anybody can have a go,
:04:29. > :04:32.young or old. It is very, very easy. The sport was created by a former
:04:33. > :04:35.gymnast in America who wanted to make trampolining safer and more
:04:36. > :04:38.fun. You score points by either getting a ball into your opponent's
:04:39. > :04:42.basket or onto the bottom of their trampoline before they can stop it.
:04:43. > :04:54.There are several balls on the go, and you can play in doubles, so it
:04:55. > :05:00.involves plenty of tactics. We think our jumps are too low summer going
:05:01. > :05:04.to try and get higher to score. As well as making you think, aeroball
:05:05. > :05:15.can also help kids improve in other sports such as basketball. It helps
:05:16. > :05:22.you aim for the net in basketball. You can teach the skills but for
:05:23. > :05:26.them it is quite demoralising if they can't score baskets all the
:05:27. > :05:31.time. But here they can see the results. The results seem to be that
:05:32. > :05:34.aeroball is helping some of you guys reach new heights when it comes to
:05:35. > :05:38.school sport! It looks brilliant!
:05:39. > :05:41.Finally to the dogs making a big splash in Brazil: these daring
:05:42. > :05:44.doggies are in practice for a special competition in Rio de
:05:45. > :05:48.Janeiro where they have to paddle round a range of obstacles, with the
:05:49. > :05:50.help of their owners. Let's just hope the sea isn't too "woof" for
:05:51. > :05:54.them. You can see more of those dogs over
:05:55. > :05:57.on our website, which is also where you can see the crazy pictures of
:05:58. > :05:59.the lightning strike that has damaged one of the world's most
:06:00. > :06:02.famous statues. That's all for now, but I'm back
:06:03. > :06:03.just before two with