:00:00. > :00:16.Hi, everyone, I'm Naz, it's Friday and this is Newsround.
:00:17. > :00:20.The Duke of Cambridge says more must be done
:00:21. > :00:22.to save elephants from being killed for their tusks.
:00:23. > :00:26.The animals are being hunted for the ivory in their tusks,
:00:27. > :00:28.which is then illegally sold around the world to be used
:00:29. > :00:30.in things like jewellery, ornaments and medicine.
:00:31. > :00:33.Prince William's been speaking ahead of a big meeting in South Africa
:00:34. > :00:39.When I was born, there were 1 million elephants roaming Africa.
:00:40. > :00:43.By the time my daughter Charlotte was born last year,
:00:44. > :00:49.the numbers of savanna elephants had crashed to just 350,000.
:00:50. > :00:54.At the current pace of illegal poaching, when Charlotte turns 25,
:00:55. > :00:58.the African elephants will be gone from the wild.
:00:59. > :01:02.A six-year-old boy in America has written a letter to President Obama
:01:03. > :01:05.asking him to let a Syrian refugee come and stay with his family.
:01:06. > :01:08.Millions of people have been forced to leave their homes in Syria
:01:09. > :01:11.because of the war that's been going on for more than five years.
:01:12. > :01:16.Alex's letter was shared by Mr Obama at a big meeting
:01:17. > :01:46.Now, have you ever wished you could invent a machine
:01:47. > :01:48.to make life a bit easier - maybe make your toast
:01:49. > :01:52.in the morning, or pour your glass of orange juice?
:01:53. > :01:55.Well, that's exactly what this man from New York in America does,
:01:56. > :02:03.He has invented a machine for just about everything.
:02:04. > :02:08.Joseph has been making crazy inventions since he was a child.
:02:09. > :02:11.I made my first machine when I was five years old.
:02:12. > :02:13.And it was a machine to store my candy.
:02:14. > :02:18.Obviously, very useful for a five-year-old.
:02:19. > :02:20.But, also, I noticed it made my parents laugh, and that sort
:02:21. > :02:23.of encouraged me to keep making more and more machines.
:02:24. > :02:27.Videos of his wacky inventions have been huge hits online and now
:02:28. > :02:32.His contraptions are usually to help him out
:02:33. > :02:38.Often, I notice when things annoy me in day-to-day life,
:02:39. > :02:42.what can I do to stop that from annoying me?
:02:43. > :02:45.But Joseph doesn't just solve problems with his machines,
:02:46. > :02:49.The machines that I make, they are as playful as possible.
:02:50. > :02:52.And that doesn't make any sense, right?
:02:53. > :02:55.But, at the same time, humans are actually playful creatures.
:02:56. > :03:04.So we are drawn to the idea of a playful machine.
:03:05. > :03:05.From playful machines to playing machines,
:03:06. > :03:08.the UK's biggest gaming event - EGX - has kicked off in Birmingham.
:03:09. > :03:11.Thousands of fans will get the chance to check out
:03:12. > :03:12.all the latest consoles, gadgets and games.
:03:13. > :03:15.BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat reporter Steffan Powell is there and sent
:03:16. > :03:23.I am here at EGX, the UK's biggest gaming show.
:03:24. > :03:27.It's at the NEC in Birmingham and, as you can see, it is pretty busy.
:03:28. > :03:30.They are expecting around 80,000 people to come here over
:03:31. > :03:36.Now, this is a big deal because it is the first time many
:03:37. > :03:39.people will get to play some of the big upcoming titles
:03:40. > :03:44.So, I thought I would help you out by telling you three things
:03:45. > :03:48.So, one of them is just behind me here, actually.
:03:49. > :03:52.You can see it's Skylanders: Imaginators, which is the new take
:03:53. > :03:57.If you like that, then check out that game.
:03:58. > :03:59.Back here, just over there, they are testing out
:04:00. > :04:04.the new PlayStation virtual reality machine.
:04:05. > :04:08.It is that headset that you put on that can take you off to allsorts
:04:09. > :04:11.You can play loads of different games on that.
:04:12. > :04:14.Also, there is a small independent game called Ukelele.
:04:15. > :04:18.Now, you might not have heard much about it but it is really colourful
:04:19. > :04:21.and really fun and worth taking a look at as well.
:04:22. > :04:25.And finally to a different kind of Games - the Paralympics.
:04:26. > :04:27.Great Britain's stars returned from Rio this week and later today
:04:28. > :04:30.we're speaking to Kadeena Cox, who won gold in not one
:04:31. > :04:34.We want to know what you'd like to ask her, so head over
:04:35. > :04:40.to Newsround online and send us your questions.
:04:41. > :04:43.We will try and ask as many as we can.
:04:44. > :04:48.Newsround's back in about half an hour, when we'll be going behind
:04:49. > :04:51.the scenes with a Strictly star as they get ready for
:04:52. > :04:55.All will be revealed in half an hour.