12/04/2012 Newsround

Hi, there. You're live with Newsround just after 5.00pm. You've

got Joe and Hayley keeping you up to date today. Coming up:

It brings the past to life but should Horrible Histories be used

in schools? And a computer that's taking kids

behind the flashy screens. But first, the largest animal

walking the earth, the African elephant, is under threat. They're

being hunted and killed in huge numbers across Africa because their

ivory tusks are worth a lot of money. There's been a ban on the

buying and selling of ivory for the last 23 years, but a BBC

investigation has found this hasn't stopped poachers from trading it

illegally. It's putting the endangered species even more at

risk as Ore has been finding out. Kenya is a country that elephants

have long called home - with its miles upon miles of bush landscape,

it's the ideal habitat for these huge creatures, but things are

changing. The number of people hunting elephants for their tusks

has doubled in the past year. Poaching is happening more often

because demand for ivory has gone up. At the moment we're having a

poaching spike. It's worse than it has ever been before. If it got out

of hand, it would threaten not only elephants, but also the communities

around. In Kenya's biggest airports, sniffer dogs are being used to try

to stop poachers have smuggling tusks out of the country. The Kenya

Wildlife Service are used to arresting people from dealing in

illegal ivory. Nine out of ten of them are in China. That's because

it's very valuable in China. It's used to make luxury items like

ornaments sold for a lot of money. Some is illegal because it was

bought before the international ban, but a lot of it isn't. At this

special orphanage outside Nairobi, some of the victims of poaching are

being looked after. Their parents were killed by poachers. The

workers around here say they have nightmares about the attacks and

night round-the-clock care, but time is running out. If nothing is

done about the illegal poaching of elephants, their future could be in

doubt. Next, to Syria where a plan has

been in force since this morning to try stop fighting between

government troops and opposition forces. It's hoped the peace plan

could put an end to thirteen months of violence. But it's hard to know

exactly what's going on in the country as reporters are not

allowed in or out, and there have been unofficial reports of groups

on both sides continuing to fight. This week a whole new crowd of

grizzly characters appeared on our screens with the start of a new

series of Horrible Histories. The show has been praised for bringing

history alive. But this week Terry Deary who wrote the famous books

which the TV programme is based on said he didn't want his books being

used to teach history in schools. Earlier I went to a history museum

in Manchester to find out what you guys think about it.

I think Horrible Histories should be taught in school because some

teachers don't really tell us all of the facts. No, I don't think it

would ruin the fun of our history if it was in school. I think that

it shouldn't be mixed up because it's not - school is about learning,

really, and you do get to do the odd fun thing, but if it's just all

fun, you're not really learning anything. Do you not think it would

ruin the fun of Horrible Histories by having it in your school? They

should create some new stuff not on TV or in the books that's just for

the classroom. I like his hat. is cool. Jealous. All day we have

been having loads of comments off Thanks.

Here on Newsround we think it's our mission to keep you up to date with

the latest technology. We keep you up to date with all the latest

bells and whistles. This computer is missing itsmometer

and a lot more. I went to investigate what it's all about.

This is the sort of computer use probably used to. It's about the

size of four cereal boxes. Everything that makes this work can

now be found in one of these. It's kind of the brains behind the

computer. It's basically a board with loads of connections on it, so

if I connect in a mouse, a keyboard, a monitor and then put power into

it - and then you can start computer programing. One chap who

has given it a go is this nine- year-old.

What is it you're doing? I am making a project on something

called Scrap. I've made a dancing man all from this tiny little chip.

Wow. What do you think of that? it's amazing. It was the clever

scientists here in this lab who decided to scrip all the fancy

covers off and take the computer back to its basics so kids like

this could get inventing. Slowly, computers have got better - they've

got harder for children to learn to use. You buy a nice, expensive,

flashy laptop, and you can no longer find the screws to take the

back off. We like our students to be able to know how things work

inside so they can become adults who invent things and who can make

the country richer and do great Made in Britain things. The idea is

by learning how a computer actually works, we'll have more inventors

and mortgagettes in the future. You never -- more gadgets in the future.

You never know - we may even have a Hayley PC.

That is way too scary! Terrifying! It's been the latest super showbiz

showdown for Saturday night viewers - Simon Cowell's Britain's Got

Talent up against Jessie J and Will I Am on The Voice. Say it again!

Super showbiz showdown! But bosses at ITV have decided to back down in

their battle and start Britain's Got Talent half an hour later so it

doesn't clash with The Voice. The BBC show was pulling in more

viewers than ITV but from the 21st of April they'll no longer be on at

the same time. It seems like the music industry

just might be a woman's world. Eight out of the ten richest pop

stars are girls according to figures released this month. Adele

came top of the list, following the success of her album from last year,

21. She's reported to be worth an estimated �20 million.

It's not often you get to see baby tiger cubs, but these ones born in

a zoo in Mexico are extra special. Their mum's a Bengal tiger but

their dad is a white Siberian tiger. It's rare for tiger species from

different countries to be able to mate, but the zoo owners say it

means Siberian tigers could be saved from extinction - there are

only about 2,000 of them left in the world