20/01/2016 Newsround

Morning everyone, Leah here live with some top stories from Newsround

including amazing drone action and the new edition of Minecraft.

First to steel, a metal that's all around us.

It's in buildings under our feet and above our heads.

It might even be in our hands.

It's been making headlines over the past few months as many British

steel workers face losing their jobs.

But what is steel and why is it so important to the UK?

Here's Jenny.

Steel is the most widely used metal in the world.

It can be extremely strong and flexible.

It's used to make all kinds of things like buildings and bridges.

Planes, trains and cars all have parts made out of steel to help

you get around.

And you'll find it all over your home in things like washing

machines, fridges and radiators.

NEWSREEL: British Steel, especially from Sheffield,

has long been acknowledged as being some of the best

in the world.

The UK has a long history of making steel, dating all the way back

to the 1800s.

But over the last few decades this has been changing.

Nowadays, it's China that leads the way producing around half

of the world's steel.

However, it's making more steel than it actually needs,

selling the extra stuff cheaply all around the world.

This is a problem for steel plants in the UK.

They say they are losing business because they can't match the low

prices of cheaper Chinese steel, forcing many UK factories

to shut down.

A steelworks in Redcar in the North East of England closed

last year and now more than 1,000 people will be losing their jobs

around the UK, with most of them at the UK's biggest steel plant

in Port Talbot in Wales.

Now the government is coming under pressure to help the plants

and the communities who need them for jobs.

The government says it's working to help staff find new jobs

as quickly as possible.

And we'll be live in Port Talbot, one of the towns affected,

this afternoon at 4.20pm.

Big news about your favourite fairytales today as new research

suggests they might date back much earlier

than it was originally thought.

A study has found that stories like Beauty and the Beast

and Rumpelstiltskin can be traced back thousands of years

to prehistoric times with one tale originating from the Bronze Age.

That's almost 4,000 years earlier than was previously thought.

So that got us thinking.

We want to know about your favourite fairy stories.

Head over to the chat page on the Newsround website to tell us.

If you were up early enough this morning you might have caught

a glimpse of Major Tim Peake on the International Space Station.

The Space Station was visible in parts of the UK for two minutes

at 6.20 this morning.

But don't worry if you missed it.

There will be more chances to see the ISS where Major Peake is living

and working on Thursday and Friday, but you'll have to be quick it

will only be for around 60 seconds.

We know it's one of your favourite games and now the makers

of Minecraft want teachers to use the world-building video game

to teach different subjects like science, English and maths.

Microsoft, who are building the new game, say they are adding

new features for the school version of the game,

but schools may have to pay more money for them.

The company say more than 7,000 classrooms around the world already

use it in some form.

They are red.

They are iconic and they are scattered across the UK providing

mail to all corners of the British Isles.

The Letter Box Study Group are on a quest called Project Zero,

a mission to record historical data on the over 150,000 postboxes

in the UK.

These guys really love postboxes and the youngest member of the group

is 10-year-old Thomas and here's his top three postbox styles.

At number three, a box at World's End.

At number two is a box in Framlingham.

And at number one it's the Edward VIII Ludlow in Bournsea,

Suffolk.

Scientists in Germany have taught a drone how to land itself

on a moving car.

The researchers from the German Aerospace Centre have

demonstrated their aircraft safely landing on a car fitted with a net

travelling at nearly 50 miles per hour.

They say the technology could be used to let unmanned aircrafts be

built without wheels to let them stay in the air for longer.

Sport now and the FA Cup dream is over for non-league Eastleigh.

They put up a decent effort against Championship Bolton

going 1-0 up in their third round replay.

But they eventually the Championship side won 3-2 Bolton face Leeds next.

But the Eastleigh manager says he's proud of his team.

Top that off, you know, we were very unlucky

but they dug in deep.

The lads showed great commitment, character, desire.

The words go on because they really have done that tonight.

Tennis now and Serena Williams and Roger Federer are through to

the third round of the Australian Open.

World number one Serena lost just three games against Taiwan's Shay

Sueway.

Roger Federer won in straight-sets win over his practice partner.

And Maria Sharapova is also through to the third round,

after losing just three games in her win today.

Take a look at the pretty pretty pictures of Japan covered

in heavy snow.

Nearly a metre falling in some places.

It's made travel conditions tricky but these kids are making the most

of it by having a good old snowball fight.

When it's cold outside most of us crank up the heating

and get cosy indoors.

But not in Russia it seems.

Thousands of people braved the freezing temperatures to plunge

themselves into lakes, rivers and even the Black Sea

for big Christian religious event marking the birth

and baptism of Jesus.

That's all from me.

Newsround will be back at 4.20pm this afternoon on CBBC.