03/12/2015 Newsround

Good morning, guys, Ayshah here with some top stuff

coming right up for you.

On the way.

The spaceship hoping to find out what happens when stars explode.

And Liverpool score six to smash the Saints.

But first let's talk about whether Britain should send planes

to bomb parts of a country called Syria as part of a plan to try

and stop the group calling itself Islamic State, or IS.

Well, last night UK politicians got to

vote on whether they thought it was a good idea to join countries like

France and America who are already doing it, after a big debate.

So what happened?

Well, the MPs have spoken and a big number of them,

a sizeable majority of 174, said yes to David Cameron's plan to let

the RAF join in those air strikes on so-called IS targets in Syria.

The RAF, the military men have been preparing

for this for weeks, if not months, so it's likely to begin soon.

And remember, this is just the beginning of this

action, nowhere near the end.

Those airstrikes have now already started.

Four British planes from the Royal Air Force, or RAF,

have dropped bombs on Islamic State areas overnight.

And there's much more about the background to all this

on the Newsround website including what Islamic State is and the events

in Paris that led to this vote.

OK, moving on, a space probe has been launched this morning to find

out more about what gravity is.

The Lisa Pathfinder mission will carry out some big experiments

including looking inside a star when it explodes in space.

Martin's got more.

After months of preparations and intense training, a 30 metre tall

rocket took off from South America.

It will travel 1.5 million kilometres from Earth.

Once it reaches its orbit, it will release a satellite called

the Lisa Pathfinder.

There is no one on board so it will be controlled

around the clock by experienced teams at the European Space Agency.

Once it's in position, it will do loads of experiments.

It will use lots of new high-tech equipment to try

and measure something called gravitational waves.

These are ripples in space-time, the very fabric of the universe.

They are caused by massive events in space like when two black holes

collide and merge.

A black hole is thought to be a dying star that collapsed inwards

from its own weight.

Its pull of gravity becomes so strong that even light can escape,

which is why it looks black.

British scientist Harry Ward has helped develop some of

the equipment that has been used.

We have got two things that are floating freely in space

and we're trying to measure the distance between them.

And the way we make those measurements is to shine laser beams

backwards and forwards, and the laser beams act as a kind of ruler.

All the things that direct the laser beams have to be incredibly well

lined up and incredibly stable and that's what this device here does.

It's a very special material that hardly changes at all

when the temperature changes.

Strong enough that it can survive the rather extreme

journey it's about to undertake.

The experiments will help scientists learn more

about how the universe works.

Liverpool are through to the semi-finals of the

Capital One Cup after they battered Southampton 6-1 at home.

Southampton had scored the fastest League Cup goal this

season when they went one up after 39 seconds, but two goals from

Daniel Sturridge, a hat-trick from Divock Origi and a goal from Jordan

Ibe saw Liverpool win in style.

They'll play Stoke in the semi.

And manager Jurgen Klopp was more than happy with his team.

I had some problems with the first minute,

no less problems with the next ten.

But then we started playing the game and it was a good one to win.

England coach and former Man United player Gary Neville has been

announced as the new head coach of Spanish club Valencia.

He'll be in charge until the end of the season and will be working

with his brother, Phil, who is already the assistant manger there.

Last up, it wouldn't be Newsround unless we found a panda story

and this one is super cute.

These twin pandas are celebrating their first birthday at a zoo

in Japan.

They had a pink cake which was made entirely out of ice.

Happy birthday, guys!

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That's all from me, Newsround's back right here in about half an hour.