06/01/2016 Newsround

We're live on the CBBC channel this Wednesday morning,

Ayshah here with your top stories.

Countries like Syria have made long and dangerous journeys

to get to Europe.

They're often escaping war and poverty in their own country.

Many of these are children and many are travelling alone.

A group of politicians and charities

say that more of them should be helped to come and live in the UK.

Over the past year, we've seen thousands of people

leaving their homes in countries like Syria, in the Middle East,

where war has destroyed towns and cities.

They've travelled huge distances

in search of a more a peaceful life in Europe.

Many of them are children,

who have even ended up doing some of the journey by themselves.

Like 11-year-old Safid, who spoke to Newsround last year.

He got separated from his dad

as they travelled from Aghanistan to Europe.

It took him a whole year to get to northern France,

hoping to get to the UK.

There are thousands of other children in the same situation.

The UK Government has already said

it will take in 20,000 Syrian refugees

from camps in neighbouring countries like Jordan,

Lebanon and Turkey.

But a group of politicians thinks the Government should be helping

children who have already made it to Europe.

Often they have done that on their own and what we are saying today

is that our country, the United Kingdom,

should allow 3,000 of those children to come and live here in safety.

I've come to this school to find out what some of you think about this.

The UK right now is more or less full.

Other countries like Germany have taken in over a million people

and we should be able to match that and help out.

Well, the benefits would be they would have a better future,

but the problems would be that there wouldn't be enough room

in the schools.

I think politicians should make Syria safer for children.

I will tell the politicians to care about the world,

not just the UK, because even though they are Prime Minister

of the UK, they should do it for the whole of the country

to show that they care.

The Government has told Newsround that they're already helping

to re-home vulnerable refugee children from Syria.

And they also told us that they are giving money

to create a safer world.

Next to record-breaking weather.

December was the wettest month since records began.

BBC weatherman Simon King can explain it all.

The Met Office have released some data today to tell us

what the weather was like during December

and it may be no surprise that it has been exceptionally mild.

Temperatures have been on average about eight Celsius,

that is four degrees above where they should be

for this time of year,

so we have had scenes like this, with bees, daffodils,

temperatures more like April or May.

It is all because the air that we have had has been coming

from the south-west, and the tropics, in fact,

pumping their way up towards the United Kingdom

and science tells us that milder air also can hold more water,

and that is why it has been so wet as well.

Rainfall figures in England have been above average

but it is in Scotland and Wales where rainfall

has been nearly two times more than the average

and in some places, in Snowdonia,

north-west England, parts of Scotland,

three or four times as much rainfall has fallen in December.

And if you average it all out across the United Kingdom,

we have had nearly double the amount of rain.

That has made it the wettest month in the records since 1910.

Next up, chameleons have one of the fastest tongues

in the animal world.

Faster than a Formula 1 car!

A new study by scientists looked at the speed by watching them

in super-slow motion.

They've found the smallest ones have the fastest tongues.

Next up, we're talking gadgets.

Lots of your parents say they find it harder to persuade

you to switch off TVs, computers and phones

than it is to get you to do homework or eat healthy food.

That's according to a children's charity Action for Children.

They say too much screen time can slow down your learning

and can impact on family relationships.

So what do you think?

How long do you spend online, watching TV or on your phone?

Do you think you need to cut down or does it help you?

Let us know now on the website.

Astronomers say they've found a black hole

burping out massive clouds of gas in a neighbouring galaxy.

At 26 million light years away,

it's the closest black hole ever found.

Scientists in the US spotted it by using a telescope orbiting earth,

which can detect x-rays across huge distances.

That's all for now.

I'll be back in half an hour.