:00:00. > :00:00.You're watching Newsround live on CBBC.
:00:00. > :00:12.I'm Ricky with all your news this morning, including:
:00:13. > :00:23.And after four years of waiting, wildlife experts finally get lucky.
:00:24. > :00:32.First to the World Athletics Championships in London
:00:33. > :00:35.where Laura Muir says she's 'gutted' after missing out in the women's
:00:36. > :00:39.1500m final by just seven hundredths of a second.
:00:40. > :00:41.It looked like the Brit would take the bronze medal
:00:42. > :00:44.but she was overtaken right at the end.
:00:45. > :01:05.I gave it everything I could. I just tied up. Before I knew it she went
:01:06. > :01:10.past me. Considering the disruptions I've had this year, I gave it all I
:01:11. > :01:11.could announce all I could do. Eye-macro
:01:12. > :01:14.And that's not the only bad news coming from the athletics.
:01:15. > :01:17.The organisers of the competition say a number of competitors,
:01:18. > :01:20.staying at the same hotel in London have caught a severe stomach bug.
:01:21. > :01:21.It's affected Irish hurdler Thomas Barr
:01:22. > :01:24.and the Botswanan Isaac Makwala - both were forced to pull out
:01:25. > :01:27.And when it comes to top sporting competitons,
:01:28. > :01:29.the Olympic and Paralympic Games is nothing without
:01:30. > :01:37.Now the hunt is on to find the next face of the Tokyo 2020 Games
:01:38. > :01:44.Yet there is just over 1000 days to go until the Tokyo Olympic
:01:45. > :01:52.That gives this lot just enough time to find a mascot
:01:53. > :01:57.In 2012, at the London Games, Wenlock and Mandeville kept
:01:58. > :02:08.During the Games in Rio, Brazil, last year, these
:02:09. > :02:21.So, how do you go about finding a mascot to represent Tokyo 2020?
:02:22. > :02:23.Well, a competition in Japan has kicked off, where ordinary
:02:24. > :02:31.people can design and send in their own creations.
:02:32. > :02:37.Becoming one takes a lot of training, as Newsround's Leah
:02:38. > :02:40.found out a few years back when we sent her to
:02:41. > :02:52.The winning designs will be selected by children
:02:53. > :03:02.The winner announced in March next year.
:03:03. > :03:05.It's taken four years of patient watching and waiting but wildlife
:03:06. > :03:07.experts have finally caught of England's rarest animals,
:03:08. > :03:13.Cameras were set up across the North Yorkshire Moors
:03:14. > :03:16.to try to film the pine martens and the sighting is the first
:03:17. > :03:26.The British Army are helping park rangers in parts of Africa
:03:27. > :03:29.to protect elephants there from poachers,
:03:30. > :03:31.who are hunting them for their ivory tusks.
:03:32. > :03:40.These forest elephants are under threat, all because of their tusks.
:03:41. > :03:42.They live in Gabon, a country on the coast of Africa.
:03:43. > :03:45.Most of Gabon is covered in rainforest - stretching
:03:46. > :03:47.for thousands of miles - and most of Africa's forest
:03:48. > :03:52.But poachers want their tusks, which are made of ivory,
:03:53. > :03:56.so they can sell them for lots of money.
:03:57. > :03:59.It's thought 30,000 elephants have been poached in the last ten years,
:04:00. > :04:05.that's more than half the elephants in Gabon.
:04:06. > :04:07.Even though there's a worldwide ban on the sale of ivory,
:04:08. > :04:10.there's still an illegal trade, and poachers can make a lot
:04:11. > :04:15.But the British Army hopes it can help to tackle the problem.
:04:16. > :04:19.Gabon has a real high density of forest elephants.
:04:20. > :04:22.That's why it's got a poaching problem.
:04:23. > :04:25.Out here, training the Gabonese National Parks Agency to combat that
:04:26. > :04:27.means the British Army can make a difference in the fight
:04:28. > :04:34.They are training park rangers on how to find poachers hiding
:04:35. > :04:36.in the forest and help get the evidence they need to get
:04:37. > :04:45.Poaching is a huge problem here but it is hoped
:04:46. > :04:47.that the training the British Army are giving can make
:04:48. > :04:58.Now lots of you are still on your summer holidays -
:04:59. > :05:01.and even though some of you go back to school pretty soon - we want
:05:02. > :05:05.The big question is, have you spent too much time
:05:06. > :05:10.Well, the children's commissioner says you guys should limit
:05:11. > :05:12.the ammount of time you spend on social media.
:05:13. > :05:19.So head to Newsround online, and let us know what you've been up to.
:05:20. > :05:22.We had some breaking Strictly news on the show
:05:23. > :05:24.yesterday morning, but who will be the next celeb reveal?
:05:25. > :05:30.The first star is Saturday's singer Mollie King.
:05:31. > :05:37.we can now reveal the second person will be this east Enders actor. We
:05:38. > :05:42.will see him on Strictly very soon. Now take a look at these
:05:43. > :05:45.beautiful shots of the moon. Last night a stunning
:05:46. > :05:47.lunar eclipse was visible Eclipses happen when the Earth
:05:48. > :05:50.passes between the sun This one could be viewed
:05:51. > :05:54.on several continents, although many countries could only
:05:55. > :06:07.see part of it. # I also love Got-Got-Got
:06:08. > :06:11.What It Takes now. #