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Hello and welcome to Newsround! I'm Hayley, he is Ore and listen up.

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have got a real Christmas cracker for you tonight with all this

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coming up. Celebrations for England's cricketers after winning

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in India. Bradley Wiggins. And how Wiggins' amazing year just got even

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Before all that though, first to America where President Obama's

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asking the country to think again about who should have access to

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guns. He was speaking following the shootings at a school in

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Connecticut on Friday. 27 people were killed, 20 of them children.

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Unlike here, lots of people many the US own a gun and many feel what

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the right to have a gun is an important part of being an American.

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But after another terrible tragedy, people are asking what can be done

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to stop any more from happening in the future.

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I come to offer the love and prayers of the nation. I am very

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mindful that mere words cannot match the depths of your sorrow or

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can they heal your wounded hearts. After the shocking events at a

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school in Connecticut on Friday, President Obama gave an emotional

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speech to the people affected. He promised to do more to prevent

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anything like this happening again. In the coming weeks, I'll use

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whatever power this office holds to engage my fellow citizens from law

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enforcement, to mental health professionalss, parented and

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educators, in an effort aimed at preventing more tragedies like this.

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Gun crime is a big problem in America, leading to thousands of

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deaths there each year, for every 100 people in the US, there are

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around 90 guns, compared to only six for every 100 people in England

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and Wales. In America, it's relatively easy to get a gun if you

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are over 18. The rules are much tougher in the UK.

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The right to keep and bear arms was written into the American

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constitution within years of the country being founded in 1776.

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Because America was such a young country, it didn't have a well

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established Army or police and people felt it was important that

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everyone had the right to carry arms to keep all - order. The

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United States is a very different place today. Many people still see

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the right to own a gun as a really important part of being American.

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My grandfather was a police chief in Kentucky. My father was a

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preacher but he owned guns in Alabama. The culture, not just for

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decades, but for a couple of centuries, has been that the

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individual has the right to protect himself or herself. After this,

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lots of people think the law needs to be changed and if fewer people

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had access to guns, fewer people would be killed. A small number of

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people use guns in the wrong way. This debate has been going on for

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many years and people feel really strongly on both sides. It will be

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tough, even for the President, to make significant changes to the way

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the law works. Joining us now is Dr Angie Wilson,

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an expert in American politics at the University of Manchester. Hi,

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there. You are an American yourself so why do you think so many

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Americans feel so strongly about carrying a gun with them?

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relationship between guns and independence in America is quite

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strong and historically there. People even now look to images like

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the Wild West cowboy and think, that's what I want to be able to do,

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to protect my own and my family. The guns on the market now are not

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for hunters and that sort of thing. That's not the gun control that

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needs to be put in place. Talk is about change. After what happened

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on Friday, President Obama spoke about things needing to change. Can

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that tragedy actually change things for the better for the future?

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hope that's the case and Obama is certainly making a moral agoment.

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Unfortunately, the National Rifle Association and those that produce

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and sell guns are powerful in Washington and in each state

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Leggettor. It's much different than it's here

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in the UK where you have to pass tests in order to know how to

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operate a gun. So it's very doifrpbt what is over here? Yes --

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different to what is happening over here? Yes. Bradley Wiggins was

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crowned Sports Personality of the Year of the year. The latest award

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for the cyclist who won Olympic gold and the sport's biggest race,

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the Tour de France. Wiggo, as he's known to fans and friends, and the

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17,000 at the ExCel Centre, beat Andy Murray and Jess Ennis. An

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award also went to Josef Craig, named young Sports Personality of

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the Year. Let us remind ourselves why he's so particular. Knell has

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been taking a closer look at him. -- Nell.

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-- so popular. 2012 was when this man's amazing feats filled our TV

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screens and Britain went Wiggo mad. It all started with the Tour de

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France, a grueling,000-mile long cycle case, arguably one of the

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world's most famous and toughst. Here we go. Wiggo started as

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favourite and boy, did he deliver, becoming the first Briton ever to

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win. Every childhood dream is to lift the FA Cup at Wembley or

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whatever and this is like my Wembley, you know. Wiggins never

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let the attention faze him. He reckons his family helped keep

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things in perspective. First thing Ben says to me is, dad, I need a

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poo. Took him to the toilet and that was right back down-to-earth

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with a bang. After the Tour de France came 2012 with Wiggo chose

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to officially open the Games with bell-ringing. Expectations were

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high with Britain banking on Bradley to deliver a gold. It's

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golden gold for Bradley Wiggins, his fourth gold and the seventh

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medal won in the Olympic Games. As well as a place in the record books,

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Bradley Wiggins won a place in the nation's hearts. Nearly one in

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three of the people who voted for Sports Personality of the Year

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voted for Wiggo. For Mo Farah not to even get a look-in and to be

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ahead of Andy and Jess is probably my greatest sporting achievement.

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Can things get any better for Bradley? He's promised to keep

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cycling for the next Olympics in 2016, so we'll just have to wait

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and see. Keeping with the great sporting

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achievements to cricket now and Alastair Cook's team have won a

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test series in India for the first time in almost 28 years. Trott and

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Bell both made centuries and achieved a draw they needed in the

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fourth and final match in Nagpur to clinch the series 2-1. Afterwards,

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the skipper, not surprisingly, was pretty happy. It's been an

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incredible tour and to end it like we did today and how convincingly

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we managed to bat out today, you know, it was obviously a nervous

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dressing room in the last 140 overs knowing how close we were to doing

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something special. To go out and do it as convincingly as we did was an

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incredible achievement. Watching that win over breakfast was a real

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joy. That's how I like to start my Mondays. A big survey of the number

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of people living in Scotland has revealed that more people are

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living there than ever before. census revealed 5.3 million people

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live in Scotland, up almost a quarter of a million in ten years.

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The results came out last week and all showed a rise in population.

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The Queen will go to Ten Downing Street tomorrow where she'll sit on

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David Cameron's Cabinet meeting that's the weekly gathering he has

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with senior ministers. She won't take part in discussions though,

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will just be there as an observer. They've bought her a Jubilee

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present. What can you buy for the Queen? Chocolate. Dog food. It's

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thought to be the first time the Monarch's done this since Queen

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Victoria's reign in the 19th century. Can anybody stop Balotelli

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getting in the news? No! Fact, you really can't.. You might be rieblt.

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