16/02/2018 Newsround

Morning, Ricky here

with your Newsround udpate.

We're waking up to some great

news from PyeongChang.

Our first medal!

Dom Parsons scooped bronze

in the skeleton bob in the early

hours of this morning.

Here's how.

This is the moment Dom Parsons won

a dramatic bronze medal

in the men's skeleton

at the Olympic Sliding

Centre in Pyeongchang.

Yep, this is Great Britain's

first in the games.

Starting his final run in third

place, Dom thought he had blown it,

and lost out on a chance to pick up

a medal, when he slipped behind

Russia's Nikita Tregubov

with two races still to go.

But Latvian Martins Dukurs lost time

on the lower part of the course

to hand Parsons a bronze with just

0.11 seconds on it.

That's close!

COMMENTATOR:

He has his medal!

Come on, Great Britain!

I thought I'd lost it,

after that second round.

Well, fourth round.

Your heart sank?

I looked up at the time,

I made a couple too many

mistakes in that run.

But Martins made some more mistakes,

and he's the last person I thought

would make those mistakes.

This is Great Britain's first medal

in the men's skeleton since 1948.

Sad news from America next,

where tributes have been

being paid after a serious gun

attack on Wednesday.

It happened in a school in Florida.

Attacks like these don't tend

to happen in other countries,

like the UK, so it's got some people

asking why America's attitude

to guns is different.

In America, it's not unusual

for people to own a gun.

Many Americans see owning

one as an important

part of who they are.

That's because when the USA

was founded, the right to buy

and carry a gun was written

into the constitution.

That's a list of basic rules that

a country is based on.

But Americans disagree about

what this rule should mean today.

Some people think that it means

there should be no controls,

and that people should be able

to buy and carry whatever gun

they want whenever they want.

But others think there should be

controls on what type of gun you can

own, and want the most powerful guns

to be banned.

And now there's been another

gun attack, and sadly

17 people have died.

The attack took place in the city

of Parkland in the state

of Florida here in the US.

And shortly after the attack,

police were able to capture

and arrest the man they believe

was behind the shooting.

It's the sixth school shooting

in the US this year alone,

and it has people once again asking

what can be done to deal with gun

violence here in the US?

For every 100 people

in the United States,

there are 90 guns, and to put that

into perspective, in England

and Wales, for every 100 people,

there are just six guns.

Attacks like this one don't tend

to happen here in the UK,

where the rules are tougher.

In the US, there's no sign that

they'll be able to agree

on what to do about it.

Head to Newsround online,

where you can find advice

about what to do if anything

in the news upsets you.

Next, he's usually found

hanging around the world's

deadliest animals -

but now Steve Backshall

has a new challenge.

He's going to attempt

to climb the north face

of Mount Eiger in Switzerland -

also known as the wall of death.

Hayley caught up with him to find

out how he's been preparing...

I've been training for five months

and doing a lot of stuff to build up

my strength to body weight, I've

been losing weight, I've been on a

diet for five months.

Over

Christmas?

Tell me about it but I

kind of feel ready.

I know you've

dealt with scary situations and

animals. On a scale of one up to

ten, how scary is this?

Probably a

ten!

Coming from you, that is scary.

Next, happy new year!

No, I'm not late.

It's Chinese New year and Ayshah's

got all you need to know.

Xin nian kuai le!

Or, Happy Chinese New Year.

Now, you may be thinking,

hang on a minute.

We've already had New Year.

But Chinese New Year is a bit

different to the one

we celebrate on January the 1st.

In China, they use a traditional

calendar, which follows

the movements of the moon.

And Chinese New Year celebrates

the start of a new moon.

Each year is represented

by one of 12 animals

from the Chinese zodiac.

And every 12 years, this loops back

around and starts again.

This year is the year of the dog.

But what are the qualities

of a person who was born

in the year of the dog?

Well, dog people are considered

to be kind, loyal and honest.

However, they are also

thought to be stubborn,

easy to anger and fussy.

Famous people who were born

in the year of the dog include

Madonna, Justin Bieber and Donald

Trump.

So if you're celebrating this

year, gong xi fa cai.

Colourful light shows in China have

lit up with Lambert and displays and

firework shows.

That's all for now.

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