22/07/2016

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:00:00. > :00:00.Hi, I'm Martin with Friday's top stories.

:00:00. > :00:09.Coming up: Why some say Drake's reign at number one shows

:00:10. > :00:14.And the monster machines getting ready to face off

:00:15. > :00:27.Football first, and in the last hour it's been confirmed that

:00:28. > :00:31.Sam Allardyce will be the new England manager.

:00:32. > :00:33.Allardyce has had success as boss at Sunderland over

:00:34. > :00:38.He'll be replacing Roy Hodgson, who quit in June after England's

:00:39. > :00:42.humiliating defeat to Iceland in the Euros.

:00:43. > :00:45.Donald Trump has promised to put a stop to crime and violence

:00:46. > :00:49.in the United States if he becomes the country's next president.

:00:50. > :00:52.The American billionaire was officially picked to be

:00:53. > :00:55.the Republican Party's candidate last night,

:00:56. > :00:58.and he will now take on rival Hillary Clinton in the race to win

:00:59. > :01:04.The person the American people choose will make important decisions

:01:05. > :01:13.about how the US is run and how it works with other countries.

:01:14. > :01:21.Together we will lead our party back to the White House, and we will lead

:01:22. > :01:28.our country back to safety, prosperity and peace. And we will

:01:29. > :01:31.make America a great again! God bless you, and good night, I love

:01:32. > :01:33.you. And you can find out more

:01:34. > :01:35.about Trump and the American Next, Russian track and field

:01:36. > :01:38.athletes will remain banned from the Rio Olympics,

:01:39. > :01:40.following claims many of them They've been accused of doping -

:01:41. > :01:47.that's when people use banned drugs to cheat and give themselves

:01:48. > :01:51.an unfair advantage in competitions. 68 Russian athletes argued

:01:52. > :01:54.against the suspension by the organisation that run world

:01:55. > :01:58.athletics, the IAAF, but a special court has said

:01:59. > :02:02.the ruling will stand. Many sport stars have been

:02:03. > :02:04.reacting to the news, including British Olympic heptathlon

:02:05. > :02:06.champion Jessica Ennis-Hill. She says it's time clean athletes

:02:07. > :02:19.were protected from drug cheats. It is difficult for those Russian

:02:20. > :02:24.athletes that have been doing it the right way, and he will miss out on

:02:25. > :02:28.the Olympics, so it is a difficult situation, but something has to be

:02:29. > :02:30.done, and a strong approach has to be taken.

:02:31. > :02:32.The Canadian superstar Drake is heading towards his 15th week

:02:33. > :02:36.While Drake might be celebrating, others in the music industry say

:02:37. > :02:42.it's a sign that the charts are broken.

:02:43. > :02:45.He only came for One Dance, but Drake has been hogging

:02:46. > :02:51.He's already spent 14 weeks at number one

:02:52. > :02:55.and is set to draw level with a 1994 song by Wet, Wet, Wet

:02:56. > :03:05.Although Drake's song has been on top for so long

:03:06. > :03:08.he hasn't actually sold that many records, it's streaming that

:03:09. > :03:24.I've come to Radio One to meet Chris Price,

:03:25. > :03:27.who's the man in charge of what music goes on the station.

:03:28. > :03:29.What has changed recently to make Drake stay longer

:03:30. > :03:33.Until a couple of years ago, the chart only measured

:03:34. > :03:35.the number of people buying a single, for example

:03:36. > :03:39.Now the chart include streams, so the number of times people

:03:40. > :03:43.So it is like someone from the official chart

:03:44. > :03:45.company following you home and

:03:46. > :03:48.counting how many times you listen to a song in your bedroom.

:03:49. > :03:54.There might come a time where we are ahead of

:03:55. > :04:00.the charts and we might have to take Drake off the playlist.

:04:01. > :04:02.That is a serious question we have to ask

:04:03. > :04:06.Have you ever seen anything like this?

:04:07. > :04:12.If we took Drake off the playlist while he was still number

:04:13. > :04:16.So will Drake be around for one more dance?

:04:17. > :04:21.Even if he is number one, the song might not be played

:04:22. > :04:26.I guess sometimes you can have too much of a good thing.

:04:27. > :04:29.Finally, to a show that's all about robot's fighting each other.

:04:30. > :04:31.Robot Wars sees viewer's homemade robots up against the show's

:04:32. > :04:37.They're all fitted with special tools and weapons to try and beat

:04:38. > :04:44.There's just time to say happy birthday to Prince George,

:04:45. > :04:49.This is one of the photos released to celebrate the big day.

:04:50. > :04:55.That's all from me, Newsround's back over the weekend.