:00:23. > :00:30.Hi, there. You're live with Newsround just after 5.00pm. You've
:00:30. > :00:33.got Joe and Hayley keeping you up to date today. Coming up:
:00:33. > :00:36.It brings the past to life but should Horrible Histories be used
:00:36. > :00:42.in schools? And a computer that's taking kids
:00:42. > :00:46.behind the flashy screens. But first, the largest animal
:00:46. > :00:48.walking the earth, the African elephant, is under threat. They're
:00:48. > :00:53.being hunted and killed in huge numbers across Africa because their
:00:53. > :00:57.ivory tusks are worth a lot of money. There's been a ban on the
:00:57. > :00:59.buying and selling of ivory for the last 23 years, but a BBC
:00:59. > :01:01.investigation has found this hasn't stopped poachers from trading it
:01:01. > :01:08.illegally. It's putting the endangered species even more at
:01:08. > :01:14.risk as Ore has been finding out. Kenya is a country that elephants
:01:14. > :01:17.have long called home - with its miles upon miles of bush landscape,
:01:17. > :01:21.it's the ideal habitat for these huge creatures, but things are
:01:21. > :01:25.changing. The number of people hunting elephants for their tusks
:01:25. > :01:29.has doubled in the past year. Poaching is happening more often
:01:29. > :01:34.because demand for ivory has gone up. At the moment we're having a
:01:34. > :01:38.poaching spike. It's worse than it has ever been before. If it got out
:01:38. > :01:44.of hand, it would threaten not only elephants, but also the communities
:01:44. > :01:49.around. In Kenya's biggest airports, sniffer dogs are being used to try
:01:49. > :01:53.to stop poachers have smuggling tusks out of the country. The Kenya
:01:53. > :01:56.Wildlife Service are used to arresting people from dealing in
:01:56. > :02:03.illegal ivory. Nine out of ten of them are in China. That's because
:02:03. > :02:07.it's very valuable in China. It's used to make luxury items like
:02:07. > :02:12.ornaments sold for a lot of money. Some is illegal because it was
:02:12. > :02:18.bought before the international ban, but a lot of it isn't. At this
:02:18. > :02:21.special orphanage outside Nairobi, some of the victims of poaching are
:02:21. > :02:26.being looked after. Their parents were killed by poachers. The
:02:26. > :02:31.workers around here say they have nightmares about the attacks and
:02:31. > :02:35.night round-the-clock care, but time is running out. If nothing is
:02:35. > :02:37.done about the illegal poaching of elephants, their future could be in
:02:37. > :02:39.doubt. Next, to Syria where a plan has
:02:39. > :02:42.been in force since this morning to try stop fighting between
:02:42. > :02:47.government troops and opposition forces. It's hoped the peace plan
:02:47. > :02:49.could put an end to thirteen months of violence. But it's hard to know
:02:49. > :02:52.exactly what's going on in the country as reporters are not
:02:52. > :02:57.allowed in or out, and there have been unofficial reports of groups
:02:57. > :03:00.on both sides continuing to fight. This week a whole new crowd of
:03:00. > :03:04.grizzly characters appeared on our screens with the start of a new
:03:04. > :03:11.series of Horrible Histories. The show has been praised for bringing
:03:11. > :03:14.history alive. But this week Terry Deary who wrote the famous books
:03:14. > :03:18.which the TV programme is based on said he didn't want his books being
:03:18. > :03:21.used to teach history in schools. Earlier I went to a history museum
:03:21. > :03:25.in Manchester to find out what you guys think about it.
:03:25. > :03:30.I think Horrible Histories should be taught in school because some
:03:30. > :03:33.teachers don't really tell us all of the facts. No, I don't think it
:03:33. > :03:38.would ruin the fun of our history if it was in school. I think that
:03:38. > :03:43.it shouldn't be mixed up because it's not - school is about learning,
:03:43. > :03:47.really, and you do get to do the odd fun thing, but if it's just all
:03:47. > :03:50.fun, you're not really learning anything. Do you not think it would
:03:50. > :03:55.ruin the fun of Horrible Histories by having it in your school? They
:03:55. > :04:00.should create some new stuff not on TV or in the books that's just for
:04:00. > :04:10.the classroom. I like his hat. is cool. Jealous. All day we have
:04:10. > :04:38.
:04:38. > :04:42.been having loads of comments off Thanks.
:04:42. > :04:50.Here on Newsround we think it's our mission to keep you up to date with
:04:50. > :04:57.the latest technology. We keep you up to date with all the latest
:04:57. > :05:01.bells and whistles. This computer is missing itsmometer
:05:01. > :05:06.and a lot more. I went to investigate what it's all about.
:05:06. > :05:09.This is the sort of computer use probably used to. It's about the
:05:09. > :05:13.size of four cereal boxes. Everything that makes this work can
:05:13. > :05:16.now be found in one of these. It's kind of the brains behind the
:05:16. > :05:22.computer. It's basically a board with loads of connections on it, so
:05:22. > :05:25.if I connect in a mouse, a keyboard, a monitor and then put power into
:05:26. > :05:29.it - and then you can start computer programing. One chap who
:05:29. > :05:34.has given it a go is this nine- year-old.
:05:34. > :05:41.What is it you're doing? I am making a project on something
:05:41. > :05:48.called Scrap. I've made a dancing man all from this tiny little chip.
:05:48. > :05:52.Wow. What do you think of that? it's amazing. It was the clever
:05:52. > :05:57.scientists here in this lab who decided to scrip all the fancy
:05:57. > :06:02.covers off and take the computer back to its basics so kids like
:06:02. > :06:08.this could get inventing. Slowly, computers have got better - they've
:06:08. > :06:11.got harder for children to learn to use. You buy a nice, expensive,
:06:12. > :06:16.flashy laptop, and you can no longer find the screws to take the
:06:16. > :06:20.back off. We like our students to be able to know how things work
:06:20. > :06:24.inside so they can become adults who invent things and who can make
:06:24. > :06:28.the country richer and do great Made in Britain things. The idea is
:06:28. > :06:34.by learning how a computer actually works, we'll have more inventors
:06:34. > :06:39.and mortgagettes in the future. You never -- more gadgets in the future.
:06:39. > :06:45.You never know - we may even have a Hayley PC.
:06:45. > :06:48.That is way too scary! Terrifying! It's been the latest super showbiz
:06:48. > :06:51.showdown for Saturday night viewers - Simon Cowell's Britain's Got
:06:52. > :06:55.Talent up against Jessie J and Will I Am on The Voice. Say it again!
:06:55. > :06:58.Super showbiz showdown! But bosses at ITV have decided to back down in
:06:58. > :07:01.their battle and start Britain's Got Talent half an hour later so it
:07:01. > :07:05.doesn't clash with The Voice. The BBC show was pulling in more
:07:05. > :07:08.viewers than ITV but from the 21st of April they'll no longer be on at
:07:08. > :07:18.the same time. It seems like the music industry
:07:18. > :07:18.
:07:18. > :07:21.just might be a woman's world. Eight out of the ten richest pop
:07:21. > :07:24.stars are girls according to figures released this month. Adele
:07:24. > :07:28.came top of the list, following the success of her album from last year,
:07:28. > :07:32.21. She's reported to be worth an estimated �20 million.
:07:32. > :07:35.It's not often you get to see baby tiger cubs, but these ones born in
:07:35. > :07:38.a zoo in Mexico are extra special. Their mum's a Bengal tiger but
:07:38. > :07:42.their dad is a white Siberian tiger. It's rare for tiger species from
:07:42. > :07:44.different countries to be able to mate, but the zoo owners say it
:07:44. > :07:47.means Siberian tigers could be saved from extinction - there are
:07:47. > :07:52.only about 2,000 of them left in the world