24/08/2016 Newsround

Hi, everyone.

Martin here with the top stories this Wednesday afternoon.

First, there's been a strong earthquake in central Italy,

around 65 miles north-east of the capital, Rome.

It's left at least 73 people dead and many more missing.

Naz has the story.

The earthquake struck in the early hours of this morning.

It was strong enough to destroy buildings in towns and villages

across this mountainous area of Italy.

The walls of homes have collapsed.

And roads have been left cracked.

BBC reporter James Reynolds is in the town of Amatrice,

one of the worst affected areas.

This is one of the town's main streets and as I look down it I can

see damaged buildings on either side of the road.

I just want to show you over here.

This is one of the biggest buildings that has been hit.

It hasn't collapsed, but it is now entirely uninhabitable.

Rescue crews are doing all they can to help people who've been affected.

But it's going to be a while before we know just how bad the damage is.

If you're upset by anything you see in the news,

remember there's loads of advice about what to do

at Newsround online.

In other news, a nine-year-old American boy who had a double-hand

transplant has talking about life with his new hands,

one year on from surgery.

Going back and forth.

Zion lost his hands and feet to a serious

infection as a baby.

He can already walk on his prosthetic legs,

but it's taken him some time to get to grips with his new hands.

Now, he says all he wants to do is play sport!

I feel happy about many hands.

-- my new hands.

I like now that I can throw a football further than when I

didn't have hands.

As we celebrate the victorious return of Team GB from Rio,

we here at Newsround HQ are delighted to say that diving duo

and Olympic gold medalists Jack Law and Chris Mears have been to visit.

So we thought we'd put them to the test, and find out a few

things you may not already know.

Jenny's got the questions

COMMENTATOR: Upper-80s needed, boys.

Come on!

Mixture.

I thought it was me.

Yeah, I thought it was me.

I was six and a half.

You were six?

I actually thought I was seven but

mum informed me I was six and a half.

OK, blimey.

Without a doubt.

If I could push it into the camera any further.

I cried.

Chris was shouting a lot.

He jumped onto me and cried.

Yeah.

I thought, OK, cool this is fun.

Like, 100%.

Put my head there.

Without a doubt.

I don't eat a lot of food.

Pretty much anything really.

No mushrooms.

No mushrooms for me.

No tomatoes and mushrooms.

Anything else though.

I don't know that is quite a tough one.

I am going to go there, halfway.

I'd go for me.

I hide it from you.

I'd try to play it off like I am cool.

Good.

Oh, what are you doing?

Jack.

I mean, he got two Olympic medals.

I can't, I mean, yeah.

He couldn't have done it without me.

You picked yourself?

I put myself.

I was number one last year.

Hats off, well done.

Now, I've got the big one.

As a team.

As a team we are Olympic champions together.

Don't scratch it.

We are a world number one together, which is good.

The world's largest aircraft has had a bumpy landing

during its second test flight.

The makers of the Airlander ten are trying to work out what caused

it to nose-dive earlier today in Bedfordshire.

But they say the 92-metre long airship managed to complete

all the tasks it was supposed to.

Thankfully no-one was hurt - but the Airlander did suffer a bit

of damage to the cockpit.

That's all from the team today.

Newsround's back on CBBC tomorrow morning at 7:40.

Have a great evening.