30/11/2017 Newsround

Afternoon all, it's Ayshah here.

New ways to deal

with space junk AND

daredevil fliers test their wings.

Ever fallen out with a good

friend over something

that's been posted online?

Well, if you're the President

of the USA and the Prime Minister

of the UK, it can be even more

awkward than usual.

The US and UK are good mates.

People call it the

special relationship.

The leaders are pretty close, too.

British Prime Minister Theresa May

was the first foreign leader

on terrorism in the UK instead

of criticising him.

So why is this important?

Well, world leaders,

especially friends, are not supposed

to argue in public like this.

Some people are asking the question,

is this the right sort of thing

the President of America should be

sharing on social media?

And if you want to find out more

about this story go online.

Forget texting, snapchatting

or instagramming your mates.

These kids in Kidderminster

are going old school.

Dear Jasmine, thank you so much

for your very lovely

and well-written letter.

Putting pen to paper,

these guys are pen pals

with the local home for the elderly.

You get to listen to what places

they've been to and what they have

been doing and the cheeky stuff

that they have done.

You get to ask them all

the questions you really want

and most of the time,

they answer them.

So, without Snapchat or Instagram,

they are still having fun.

But what do their older

pen pals think about it?

So, Enid, I've got your letter

from the school, from one

of your pen pals called Tilly.

Shall I read it to you?

Very lovely, those kids.

Rees asks, what was

your favourite trip?

Weston-Super-Mare.

Weston-Super-Mare?

Up till now, it's just been letters,

but just before Christmas,

they will meet in real life

and be able to share

their stories face-to-face.

There's loads of junk floating

around in space and it can be a big

problem for spacecrafts

and satellites up there.

Here's Hayley.

There are around half a million

pieces of junk in space.

Bits of old rocket,

satellites that don't work

and even things

astronauts have dropped.

Whoops!

All that rubbish weighs

around 7500 tonnes.

That's more than the weight

of 1000 elephants.

And this space junk

can do serious damage.

Just a tiny fleck

of paint caused this

crack on the International

Space Station.

A European satellite that stopped

working years ago is still

orbiting around Earth.

It is the size of a

double-decker bus and

could be a big problem for

satellites in its path trying to do

their own job.

But the remove debris spacecraft

could be the answer.

Next year, a team of UK scientists

will test out a harpoon

and a net to grab

floating space junk.

The rubbish will then burn out as it

gets dragged back towards Earth.

Good luck with the cleaning!

Next, to a pretty unusal

way to board a plane.

Vincent Reffet and Fred Fugen

decided to enter a flying plane,

by throwing themselves off

Jungfrau Mountain in the Swiss Alps

in a flying suit and jumping

through the tiny doorway.

Wow!

Happy St Andrews day

for all of you celebrating.

That's all we have time for this

afternoon, I'll be back

bright and early tomorrow

morning at 7.40am.