12/01/2017 Newsround

Hi, guys, Martin here with your Thursday afternoon Newsround.

First up, parts of the UK have been getting their first taste

of snow this winter.

There's been lots of wintry weather - snow, winds and rain have been

causing problems for roads, some airports and trains.

In Scotland, some schools were closed.

In many places trucks are putting grit on the roads and more snow

is expected overnight.

And don't forget we want your weather updates.

If the snow is falling where you are, send us your pics

or your own weather report by going online.

Next up - a week before he becomes President,

Donald Trump is involved in an argument with the media

and with his own spy agency.

It's all to do with secret files, spies and who is telling the truth.

Sounds like a film - Ricky has more.

Go ahead.

President-elect...

She is asking the question. Don't be rude.

President-elect... Can you give us a question...

Don't be rude.

Donald Trump is making headlines before he starts as President.

You are fake news.

NEWSREADER: As the President-elect faces off against the media.

At his first meeting with the world's media since he won

the election last November, he refused to take a question

from an American news station that he said was broadcasting fake

stories about him. It was a pretty fiery moment.

The media conference was supposed to be about what he'll do

with his businesses when he becomes President.

But how did we end up here?

Well there's been lots of talk in the last few weeks

about Mr Trump's relationship with Russia - and that is

what caused the argument.

The US spy agencies were given some information about Mr Trump

and his team's dealings with Russia before and during the election.

The evidence was shown to Mr Trump and to President Obama.

Some of it was very embarrassing.

But no-one knows if it is true - and Mr Trump says it's fake.

But the information ended up in some of the media.

Mr Trump is very angry about that.

He thinks it was given to journalists by the US spies

trying to make things difficult for him.

I think it is a disgrace that information would be let out.

It is all fake news, it is phony stuff.

The US security chiefs say they didn't give it to the media.

An argument like this is bad timing for Mr Trump.

On January 20th he has his inauguration and officially

becomes President - he wants everyone to be

talking about THAT instead.

Now from one kind of spy to another - if you're

missing Planet Earth Two, there's a brand-new

nature show called Spy In The Wild on TV tonight.

Think furry robots and eye cameras and you've got a pretty

unique nature show.

Do you ever get the feeling you're being watched?

By a meerkat!

Meet Huw Williams.

He's a cameraman on the brand-new show Spy In The Wild,

which uses animal robots to help spy on animals in the wild.

So, we wanted to find out a little bit more about these

rather hairy robots.

Tell us who have we got here?

Here we have spy meerkat and spy peccary.

There's 34 different robots, how did you make them?

It's kind of a group effort.

We have different engineers from around the world and some

people do the internal robotics, whilst others do the aesthetics

and design the skins and make them look the part.

So these are the remote controls? Yes, they are.

That looks familiar.

This is almost like your average PlayStation remote control.

But this controls the spy peccary here.

Look at that! You are moving its head.

That's quite realistic, the way it's moving its head.

Yeah.

That's the key, really, is to make these robotics look

and act like the real thing, just to try and convince

the animals out there and make them feel comfortable.

Where would the camera be? The cameras are in fact in the eyes.

All of our spy creatures are hiding a hidden camera there in the eye.

What was the most surprising thing you learned in this series?

There's one in particular, a spy meerkat here, the wild

meerkats actually handed over baby-sitting responsibilities

to our spy meerkat, and so they left these babies with him,

whilst they went off hunting for food, which was fantastic.

If you could create any robotic animal, which animal would it be?

I think it would be the cheetah.

Purely because I would just love to see a robot moving at that pace.

But I think that's going to be the next step for us.

Newsround's back at 7.40am tomorrow.

Stay warm out there, guys!