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