31/03/2017 Newsround

This is Newsround and here's what's coming up on the show.

We look at Rocket Recycling with Spacex.

And how music gave this girl her voice.

First up to China where a new law could help to save

The animals are illegally hunted in Africa for the ivory

in their tusks and China's where much of it is sold.

But today almost half the shops allowed to sell ivory

in China will be closed, with the rest to be shut

Conservationists say it's a good idea but the big problem now

is tackling the ivory that's being sold illegally as well.

Next, this rocket launch behind me is no ordinary lift-off.

It's the first time a rocket's headed back into space after having

Normally rocket parts are used only once and then scrapped

or destroyed when it lands back on Earth.

But American company SpaceX has faound a way of landing rocket parts

safely back on Earth and then re-using them to head

It's hoped this will help make rocket launches a lot

A war there has been going on for seven years.

Many thousands of people have been killed and millions more have fled

But what is life like for the families who are

A team of BBC journalists went to the city of Homs to find out.

In the last few years, so much has changed in Syria.

Buildings have been completely destroyed.

Some parts of the country are unrecognisable.

Different groups who can't agree on the way the country should be

run have been fighting against each other.

Life has changed drastically for children living here.

Three years ago, Barah-hah was scared.

She lost members of her own family in some of the fiercest fighting

and had to stop going to school because it wasn't safe.

Back then she told the BBC what life was like.

Three years on, and a lot has changed.

Her classroom is crowded and she gave the BBC's

You know, in some ways, of course this is terrific to see,

children just being children here in Syria.

A place that has seen some of the worst fighting of the war.

And now an ordinary day with children going to

When I go to bed, I remember when I had a part in a

play, I remember school, what I did

It's all good stuff, no bad memories.

These children are lucky to be back

in school but not every child in Syria is so fortunate.

Many are still not able to go to school and there is still no end

Manchester City Women became the first English team to reach

the Champions League semi-finals since 2014.

Lucy Bronze scored the only goal in the game.

City will face Lyon in the last four.

Captain Steph Houghton is excited for the next stage.

We don't stop here. We are excited. We are in the semifinal and we know

they are an experienced team and have a team full of world-class

individuals, but so have we. It's going to be an exciting game,

definitely. Tennis now and Johanna Konta has

become the first British woman Johanna Konta was just six years

old when Venus William first won her Miami Open

title 19 years ago. Next, it's time to meet a music

lover called Ruweyda. Even though she is seven years old,

Ruweyda only recently Martin's been finding

out more about her. She is seven years old and has

something called selective mutism, a very strong

type of anxiety meaning she cannot speak

Until recently, Ruweyda did not say a word at

school, until she started taking some special music classes.

I guess Ruweyda was very quiet with selective mutism, not speaking

And then she came to music therapy and she was

very shy in the first session and it took

a little while to warm up, but

then she responded really well and quickly.

It was after her second session when she spoke her first

Some of the kids came in and said Ruwedya is speaking!

I thought, she can speak, she is just shy.

About 1% of children are thought to have

selective mutism like Ruweyda but there's

not a lot of research into

helping people with it, so people like Ruwedya's music

teacher are working hard to find different ways to help.

That's all from me, Newsround's back this afternoon with Leah.