18/08/2014 Newsround

It's Monday morning.

Ayshah here with the stories to start your week, including:

British athletics is riding high as Team GB get a record 12 gold medals

at the European Championships.

helping farmers with their harvests.

This is Newsround.

First, to Iraq, where the Government has said British forces could play a

role for "weeks and months" to come.

Tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee

their homes because of the threat they face from Islamic State.

The Royal Air Force has been delivering aid to people

in desperate need on the ground, but now British pilots are also

flying missions to gather information about where militants

are, and what they're doing.

And there's more information about what's going on in Iraq

on our special guide on the Newsround website.

Next, during the summer holidays, you may have spent some time

in the countryside, If you did, you probably saw tractors

and combine harvesters hard at work on the crops.

Now some very clever inventions have made this process even easier.

We sent Martin to a farm in Gloucestershire to find out more.

You just can't beat a slice of toast and a bowl of cereal in the morning,

but where does it all come from?

Well, it's actually made from wheat, and for farmers up and down the

country, it is time to harvest it.

The harvest season is when farmers take to

their fields to pick the crops that they have been growing all year.

It is also a nervous time, as they find out if the plants

they've sown have had enough heat, light, and water to be good enough

to end up on our plates.

They haven't got long to get everything done.

It is a bit of a race against time to try to get

the crops harvested and get them to the barn when they are

in the best state possible to make the best bread or the best biscuits

or the best breakfast cereal.

This year, there has been loads of sunshine, which has been really

good for the grain, and here at this farm in Gloucestershire,

that is great news.

The quality of the grain we are growing looks to

be fantastic, so we should get some really good bread from it.

We are about two weeks ahead of where we would normally be, because

it has been so warm for so long.

It has been a fantastic summer for farming so far.

Picking crops from land was not always an easy task.

It used to take a very long time.

Farmers would do most of the tasks by hand, and deploy

loads of people to help them.

But over the last 200 years, some very clever inventions have helped

make the harvest season easy.

Quadcopter technology to be able to have an aerial view of our field,

we can just go out and spray a particular patch.

That technology is good for the environment, because we're not using

as many chemicals around the farm.

Combine, for instance, can steer itself.

It has GPS on it.

It can tell us which parts of the field a yielding a good yield,

and which are yielding a bad yield.

Farming and farms have gotten bigger and

bigger, and we are using more and more technology to try to save money

and make everyone's lives easier.

And the more wheat that is harvested means more cereal and more toast

for me.

To sport now, and England's women rugby union team

are world champions.

They beat Canada 21-9 in the final.

Emily Scarratt's second try of the match sealed the win in Paris.

They have made it to the final in the last three cups,

but their previous success in the tournament was 20 years ago.

Sticking with sport, and Mo Farah added another medal to the British

gold rush at the European Championships this weekend.

After winning gold in the 10,000 metres on Wednesday,

Mo dominated the 5,000 metres on the final day yesterday.

And Mo said having his kids there made quite a difference.

Yeah, it was amazing.

One of them gave me a kiss.

It was like "Daddy, Daddy".

It is the first time they have come to watch me properly

and see Daddy race.

It's a great championship for all the people.

We have a young team, particularly the relay.

Adam Gemili is really impressive.

He is only young, and we have done well overall.

Another Olympic and Commonwealth Champion, Greg Rutherford,

won the long jump with a jump of 8 metres and 29 centimetres.

His win guaranteed Britain topped the medal table for only

the third time in the Championships history, with a record 12 golds.

And yet more British gold in both the men's and women's

4 x 100 relays.

But it was the women's result that was particularly sweet.

The ladies set a new British record, their time of 42.25 seconds beating

the one set way back in 1980.

England's cricketers are having a nice day off

after they smashed India in just three days for the second

time running to win the series 3-1.

India were bowled out in their second innings

for just 94 yesterday, England winning the test match

by a massive innings and 244 runs.

Captain Alistair Cook said he's delighted with

his side's incredible turnaround.

English cricket needed a series win, and to deliver it like we've

delivered it, you know, we'll have a big smile on our face to win

the last two games in three days.

I think they got no more than one 50 in four innings.

The bowlers can take a huge amount of credit.

All the batters scored runs, so it's almost like the perfect games.

And Man City began the defence of their Premier League title with

a 2-0 win at Newcastle.

David Silva gave City a first half lead, set up by a great

backheel from Edin Dzeko, before Sergio Aguero came off the bench to

score in the closing minutes.

The win puts City at the top of the table after the opening weekend.

That's all from me.

Newsround's back right here at 8.55, where you can find out why the

world's fastest man, the Lightning Bolt, is having a party in Brazil.