:00:11. > :00:14.You're watching Newsround with me Ricky this Thursday morning.
:00:15. > :00:17.Last night the third and final debate took place between
:00:18. > :00:23.Both candidates want to be President of the United States.
:00:24. > :00:31.Mr Trump called Mrs Clinton a "nasty woman".
:00:32. > :00:33.He also refused to answer a question about whether he would accept
:00:34. > :00:36.the result of the election if he doesn't win.
:00:37. > :00:38.Clinton said that Trump was a "Puppet" for
:00:39. > :00:44.The vote takes place on the 8th of November.
:00:45. > :00:47.Next up, we're still waiting to hear what happened to a probe that
:00:48. > :00:52.The European Space Agency say the signal from the Schiaparelli
:00:53. > :00:55.lander disappeared just before it was due to touch down
:00:56. > :01:02.The BBC's David Shukman sent us this from mission control.
:01:03. > :01:04.There's been a real roller-coaster of emotions
:01:05. > :01:08.here at the European Space Agency with good news and bad.
:01:09. > :01:11.What scientists are pleased about is they now have an orbiter
:01:12. > :01:14.circling Mars, looking at its atmosphere for clues
:01:15. > :01:19.But the bad news is, a lander they sent to the surface
:01:20. > :01:23.of Mars seems to have run into trouble.
:01:24. > :01:25.They kept track of it as it descended.
:01:26. > :01:28.They know that its heat shield worked, that's very important.
:01:29. > :01:32.They also know it released a parachute to slow itself down.
:01:33. > :01:35.But in the last minute, before it was meant to reach
:01:36. > :01:42.the ground it lost contact and no one really knows what happened.
:01:43. > :01:44.Thousands of people are trying to escape from one of Iraq's biggest
:01:45. > :01:47.cities ahead of huge battle expected to take place there.
:01:48. > :01:50.The Iraqi army is trying to take back control of the city of Mosul
:01:51. > :01:56.from the group that calls itself Islamic State.
:01:57. > :01:58.Charities say families and children are likely
:01:59. > :02:11.Iraq, a country in the Middle East next to Syria.
:02:12. > :02:15.The second largest city in Iraq, Mosul, is controlled
:02:16. > :02:20.by the extremist Islamist group that calls itself Islamic State.
:02:21. > :02:26.Islamic State has killed a lot of people in Iraq and Syria.
:02:27. > :02:29.It has also been behind deadly attacks around the world, including
:02:30. > :02:34.When they first started fighting, Islamic State took over
:02:35. > :02:37.lots of land and cities in Iraq, and the Iraqi government
:02:38. > :02:42.A couple of years ago, some countries including the UK
:02:43. > :02:45.and the US began dropping bombs to help the Iraqi army
:02:46. > :02:56.The Iraqi army began to win back big cities and they had been planning
:02:57. > :03:02.Now the battle has started with 30,000 army troops
:03:03. > :03:07.and small groups of fighters from the area.
:03:08. > :03:09.Mosul is important because it is the last big city
:03:10. > :03:17.So if IS loses control of Mosul, it could mean an important step
:03:18. > :03:23.to ending their rule over large parts of Iraq and Syria.
:03:24. > :03:27.But charities are worried about how the fighting will affect
:03:28. > :03:31.more than half a million children and their families in the area.
:03:32. > :03:35.Right now there are half a million children trapped inside Mosul
:03:36. > :03:38.and parents have an impossible decision to make.
:03:39. > :03:41.Either they stay and they risk being killed by bombs and bullets,
:03:42. > :03:46.So what we need now are safe escape routes for children
:03:47. > :03:49.and their families to escape from the fighting.
:03:50. > :03:52.Right now, at reception centres in the towns near to Mosul,
:03:53. > :03:55.we are seeing children arrive exhausted after two days of walking
:03:56. > :04:00.Many of these children haven't been to school for two years
:04:01. > :04:06.Many children have been caught up in the fighting and forced to leave.
:04:07. > :04:10.No one is sure how long the fighting will last for but many people hope
:04:11. > :04:17.they can one day return to the place that they used to call home.
:04:18. > :04:21.And if you want to know more about what's happening in Iraq,
:04:22. > :04:26.And don't forget if you're upset by this story or by anything
:04:27. > :04:30.in the news, there's lots of advice at over Newsround online.
:04:31. > :04:33.Now have you ever seen a squirrel that is completely white?
:04:34. > :04:36.Grey squirrels are one of the most common woodland animals.
:04:37. > :04:40.But the rarest of the lot are these white squirrels,
:04:41. > :04:43.and a family of them has moved into a garden in Edinburgh.
:04:44. > :04:45.According to wildlife experts there could be only around 25
:04:46. > :04:54.That's all from me, Newsround's back right here in about half an hour.
:04:55. > :05:00.We will tell you who has made it to the Great British Bake Off final.