Browse content similar to 17/12/2012. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
Hello and welcome to Newsround! I'm Hayley, he is Ore and listen up. | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
have got a real Christmas cracker for you tonight with all this | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
coming up. Celebrations for England's cricketers after winning | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
in India. Bradley Wiggins. And how Wiggins' amazing year just got even | :00:25. | :00:35. | |
:00:35. | :00:43. | ||
Before all that though, first to America where President Obama's | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
asking the country to think again about who should have access to | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
guns. He was speaking following the shootings at a school in | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
Connecticut on Friday. 27 people were killed, 20 of them children. | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
Unlike here, lots of people many the US own a gun and many feel what | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
the right to have a gun is an important part of being an American. | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
But after another terrible tragedy, people are asking what can be done | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
to stop any more from happening in the future. | :01:09. | :01:18. | |
I come to offer the love and prayers of the nation. I am very | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
mindful that mere words cannot match the depths of your sorrow or | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
can they heal your wounded hearts. After the shocking events at a | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
school in Connecticut on Friday, President Obama gave an emotional | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
speech to the people affected. He promised to do more to prevent | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
anything like this happening again. In the coming weeks, I'll use | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
whatever power this office holds to engage my fellow citizens from law | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
enforcement, to mental health professionalss, parented and | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
educators, in an effort aimed at preventing more tragedies like this. | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
Gun crime is a big problem in America, leading to thousands of | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
deaths there each year, for every 100 people in the US, there are | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
around 90 guns, compared to only six for every 100 people in England | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
and Wales. In America, it's relatively easy to get a gun if you | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
are over 18. The rules are much tougher in the UK. | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
The right to keep and bear arms was written into the American | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
constitution within years of the country being founded in 1776. | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
Because America was such a young country, it didn't have a well | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
established Army or police and people felt it was important that | :02:27. | :02:35. | |
everyone had the right to carry arms to keep all - order. The | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
United States is a very different place today. Many people still see | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
the right to own a gun as a really important part of being American. | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
My grandfather was a police chief in Kentucky. My father was a | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
preacher but he owned guns in Alabama. The culture, not just for | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
decades, but for a couple of centuries, has been that the | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
individual has the right to protect himself or herself. After this, | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
lots of people think the law needs to be changed and if fewer people | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
had access to guns, fewer people would be killed. A small number of | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
people use guns in the wrong way. This debate has been going on for | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
many years and people feel really strongly on both sides. It will be | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
tough, even for the President, to make significant changes to the way | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
the law works. Joining us now is Dr Angie Wilson, | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
an expert in American politics at the University of Manchester. Hi, | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
there. You are an American yourself so why do you think so many | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
Americans feel so strongly about carrying a gun with them? | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
relationship between guns and independence in America is quite | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
strong and historically there. People even now look to images like | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
the Wild West cowboy and think, that's what I want to be able to do, | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
to protect my own and my family. The guns on the market now are not | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
for hunters and that sort of thing. That's not the gun control that | :04:00. | :04:07. | |
needs to be put in place. Talk is about change. After what happened | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
on Friday, President Obama spoke about things needing to change. Can | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
that tragedy actually change things for the better for the future? | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
hope that's the case and Obama is certainly making a moral agoment. | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
Unfortunately, the National Rifle Association and those that produce | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
and sell guns are powerful in Washington and in each state | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
Leggettor. It's much different than it's here | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
in the UK where you have to pass tests in order to know how to | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
operate a gun. So it's very doifrpbt what is over here? Yes -- | :04:44. | :04:51. | |
different to what is happening over here? Yes. Bradley Wiggins was | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
crowned Sports Personality of the Year of the year. The latest award | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
for the cyclist who won Olympic gold and the sport's biggest race, | :04:58. | :05:05. | |
the Tour de France. Wiggo, as he's known to fans and friends, and the | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
17,000 at the ExCel Centre, beat Andy Murray and Jess Ennis. An | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
award also went to Josef Craig, named young Sports Personality of | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
the Year. Let us remind ourselves why he's so particular. Knell has | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
been taking a closer look at him. -- Nell. | :05:27. | :05:37. | |
-- so popular. 2012 was when this man's amazing feats filled our TV | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
screens and Britain went Wiggo mad. It all started with the Tour de | :05:40. | :05:47. | |
France, a grueling,000-mile long cycle case, arguably one of the | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
world's most famous and toughst. Here we go. Wiggo started as | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
favourite and boy, did he deliver, becoming the first Briton ever to | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
win. Every childhood dream is to lift the FA Cup at Wembley or | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
whatever and this is like my Wembley, you know. Wiggins never | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
let the attention faze him. He reckons his family helped keep | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
things in perspective. First thing Ben says to me is, dad, I need a | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
poo. Took him to the toilet and that was right back down-to-earth | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
with a bang. After the Tour de France came 2012 with Wiggo chose | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
to officially open the Games with bell-ringing. Expectations were | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
high with Britain banking on Bradley to deliver a gold. It's | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
golden gold for Bradley Wiggins, his fourth gold and the seventh | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
medal won in the Olympic Games. As well as a place in the record books, | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
Bradley Wiggins won a place in the nation's hearts. Nearly one in | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
three of the people who voted for Sports Personality of the Year | :06:45. | :06:52. | |
voted for Wiggo. For Mo Farah not to even get a look-in and to be | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
ahead of Andy and Jess is probably my greatest sporting achievement. | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
Can things get any better for Bradley? He's promised to keep | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
cycling for the next Olympics in 2016, so we'll just have to wait | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
and see. Keeping with the great sporting | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
achievements to cricket now and Alastair Cook's team have won a | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
test series in India for the first time in almost 28 years. Trott and | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
Bell both made centuries and achieved a draw they needed in the | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
fourth and final match in Nagpur to clinch the series 2-1. Afterwards, | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
the skipper, not surprisingly, was pretty happy. It's been an | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
incredible tour and to end it like we did today and how convincingly | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
we managed to bat out today, you know, it was obviously a nervous | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
dressing room in the last 140 overs knowing how close we were to doing | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
something special. To go out and do it as convincingly as we did was an | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
incredible achievement. Watching that win over breakfast was a real | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
joy. That's how I like to start my Mondays. A big survey of the number | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
of people living in Scotland has revealed that more people are | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
living there than ever before. census revealed 5.3 million people | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
live in Scotland, up almost a quarter of a million in ten years. | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
The results came out last week and all showed a rise in population. | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
The Queen will go to Ten Downing Street tomorrow where she'll sit on | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
David Cameron's Cabinet meeting that's the weekly gathering he has | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
with senior ministers. She won't take part in discussions though, | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
will just be there as an observer. They've bought her a Jubilee | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
present. What can you buy for the Queen? Chocolate. Dog food. It's | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
thought to be the first time the Monarch's done this since Queen | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
Victoria's reign in the 19th century. Can anybody stop Balotelli | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
getting in the news? No! Fact, you really can't.. You might be rieblt. | :08:48. | :08:54. |