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Tonight at Ten: The return to Helmand Province. | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
British soldiers are sent back as the Taliban close in. | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
Fierce fighting around the key town Sangin, | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
as Afghan forces try to hold back the Taliban but the British aren't | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
They will support and help Afghan security as advisors | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
and they will not take part in the military operations. | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
It comes a year after British troops withdrew from Afghanistan. | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
More than 100 died fighting for Sangin. | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
We've been hearing from some of the families who lost loved ones | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
Also tonight: A sharp rise in the number of young women, | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
particularly teenagers, being taken to hospital | :00:46. | :00:46. | |
Dozens of homes in Cumbria are flooded for the third time this | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
One of the most senior figures in world athletics steps down | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
from his job, amid an investigation into a plan to delay the naming | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
And, Leicester City fans get a taste for glory as the team top | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
the Premier League but will they be keeping the trophy? | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
On BBC London: Surviving cancer against the odds. | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
The baby girl enjoying her first Christmas at home. | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
And the London craft beer producer that's just been bought | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
A group of British soldiers have been sent back to Helmand Province | :01:17. | :01:44. | |
in southern Afghanistan, after reports that the Taliban | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
is close to taking the key town of Sangin. | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
There's been heavy fighting as the Afghan army battle to hold | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
The Ministry of Defence said the British personnel have not been | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
UK combat operations in Afghanistan officially ended last year. | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
More than 450 British personnel died during the 13-year conflict, | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
with the heaviest losses suffered in and around Sangin. | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
Our diplomatic correspondent James Robbins reports. | :02:10. | :02:25. | |
Across Helmand Province, Afghan troops are fighting to hold | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
For years, British and American troops tried to pacify this area. | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
Now, Afghan troops, largely on their own, | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
are struggling, particularly in the key town of Sangin. | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
This man did manage to escape from the town. | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
TRANSLATION: We called for help and said there are dead and wounded | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
people inside the police chief's building. | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
Nobody helped us and no-one did anything to get them out. | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
Nine years ago, it was British troops who'd been deployed to Sangin | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
It quickly became some of the most intense fighting | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
Now, a small contingent of British soldiers has returned to Helmand | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
TRANSLATION: A group of British Armed Forces has been | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
They will support and help Afghan Security Forces as advisers | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
and they will not participate in the military operations. | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
The fate of Sangin, the town and the entire district has huge | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
significance for Afghanistan of course, but also for Britain. | :03:26. | :03:27. | |
Sangin lies in the north of Helmand province on a key supply route | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
to the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah. | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
It's also a centre for the opium trade and it's close to a major | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
highway linking one side of the country with the other. | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
Sangin was the deadliest part of Helmand Province for British | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
forces who fought the Taliban between 2006 and 2014. | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
456 British service personnel have been killed in Afganistan and almost | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
a quarter of all those deaths were as a result | :03:54. | :03:55. | |
Now, some experts fear that everything which was fought | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
If there were a military collapse then I think you can also give up | :04:03. | :04:11. | |
But if the Afghan forces do indeed manage to hold on to positions | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
like Sangin, then those voices within the Taliban movement, | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
telling their own leaders that it is time to talk, | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
it is time to agree amongst Afghans how to run our country, | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
The Taliban has many faces, some are hard-lined jihadists. | :04:28. | :04:39. | |
Threatening President Obama in this video, a fortnight ago, | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
ahead of suicide attacks which killed many Afghans | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
and yesterday six American soldiers, too. | :04:51. | :04:51. | |
The Afghan National Army has suffered huge losses trying to stand | :04:52. | :04:59. | |
on its own, lacking the close air support, helicopters and equipment | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
When Britain, as part of Nato, withdrew almost all its forces | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
a year ago, it was a political gamble which is now being put | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
Peace talks with the Taliban could open a way forward | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
for Afghanistan, but an Afghan military collapse would be felt far | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
Most of the British men and women who lost their lives | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
during the Afghan conflict died in Helmand Province. | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
Our special correspondent Lucy Manning has been talking to two | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
families whose loved ones were killed there. | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
James died seven-and-a-half years ago now. | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
Lance Corporal James Bateman was killed in Afghanistan. | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
For his widow, Victoria, the pain never goes, | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
but what has returned are the questions about | :05:42. | :05:43. | |
Unfortunately, I do think he would have died in vain. | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
I think his life wasn't in vain, his efforts weren't in vain | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
and I fully support him and what the Armed Forces do. | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
Unfortunately, through some choices, some poor choices made by people, | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
that unfortunately his death would have been in vain. | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
The funerals have passed but, for the families, the Taliban's | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
This almost takes me back to the time when it happened, | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
You've had this life sentence imposed on you, | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
losing the person you were meant to spend the rest of your life with. | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
And now, for not only you, as a personal opinion, | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
to know the death didn't mean anything or wasn't for any | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
particular purpose, that now the whole world sees it, | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
as we've come back full circle, to start again. | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
I do believe that we are owed an explanation. | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
I think that the families of the fallen, if they so wish it, | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
are entitled to have the reasons explained as to what has happened | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
Every year, those who fought in Afghanistan and those who lost | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
sons and daughters and husbands come here to the Cenotaph | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
The families are united in their never-ending loss, | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
but also their pride, but they differ somewhat | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
Tom Gadon was just 24 when he was killed in Helmand, | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
It may have shown that we did want to change things for the better | :07:11. | :07:21. | |
and that we weren't going to stand by and let the Taliban take over. | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
But with the Taliban threatening to take over again, | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
do those who lost the most feel the British presence achieved | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
I don't think of it as a waste of time, in that way. | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
Look at the amount of people, you know, the forces that | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
were deployed from all around the world to actually try | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
and "help", you know, to suppress the Taliban | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
Just two of more than 450 British soldiers who died | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
The news of the Taliban's return another hard moment | :07:51. | :07:58. | |
In Iraq, Government forces say they're advancing into the centre | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
of the city of Ramadi which has been under the control of so-called | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
They say a major offensive, launched last night, | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
will clear militants from the city by the end of the week, | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
despite coming up against snipers and suicide bombers. | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
The fall of the city in May was an embarrassing defeat | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
More and more young women under the age of 25 are drinking so much | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
that they're ending up in hospital with alcohol poisoning. | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
New figures show the total number of people visiting emergency | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
departments in England has doubled in six years. | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
The biggest group affected are teenage girls, aged between 15 | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
and 19, binge-drinking on a night out. | :08:44. | :08:45. | |
The figures from the Nuffield Trust also show that emergency admissions | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
due to long-term damage caused by alcohol have risen to more | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
Overall, drinking levels in the UK have fallen, but those who do drink | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
seem to be consuming more alcohol than before. | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
Our health editor, Hugh Pym, reports. | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
You can't get a glass and throw it and hurt people. | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
You still can't do that, my dear, any how. | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
Filmed through a police body camera, alcohol is clearly causing | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
trouble on the streets in the run-up to Christmas. | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
It's not just a challenge for the police, today's figures show | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
how much of a problem drunkenness has become for already busy Accident | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
At one city centre hospital, a leading consultant said | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
We have busy emergency departments, but the addition of a whole group | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
of patients who the main problem is acute alcohol intoxication can | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
change a very strained emergency department into a chaotic and very | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
Hospital staff are not just dealing with binge drinkers who come and go | :09:46. | :09:55. | |
through A, today's report also shows that the number with longer | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
term alcohol problems admitted to hospital has risen rapidly. | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
It cost me my marriage, home, the loss of my | :10:02. | :10:03. | |
Matthew - that's not his real name - is a recovering alcoholic. | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
He remembers frequently ending up in hospital. | :10:11. | :10:12. | |
I wouldn't like to give you a number of how many times, | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
Sometimes I went myself because I'd injured myself | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
Other times I woke up in hospital, I didn't know how I got there. | :10:20. | :10:31. | |
With major hospitals feeling the strain of dealing with patients | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
with alcohol-related problems, the question being asked - | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
what's happening over there at Westminster? | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
The Government says it has cracked down on sales of very low priced | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
drink and worked with the industry to lower alcohol volumes, | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
but some campaigners say more needs to be done. | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
It's an issue that gets a lot of attention during the festive | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
season, but we know that this is a massive issue throughout | :10:56. | :10:57. | |
We know that alcohol is costing the NHS an emergency services | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
billions of pounds each year and we really need the Government | :11:03. | :11:04. | |
to take meaningful action to reduce these harms. | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
There have been demands for minimum unit pricing for alcoholic drinks. | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
The Scottish Government wants to do that, but was challenged in court | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
It's gone all the way to the European Court and a key | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
It'll be watched closely around the UK. | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
The Government insists its economic plan is working despite almost | :11:28. | :11:35. | |
reaching its annual borrowing target with four months of the financial | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
There was a sharp rise in Government borrowing last month compared | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
to this time last year, it was up 10% at ?14.2 billion. | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
But the Treasury says the rise is down to one-off factors. | :11:48. | :11:49. | |
Here's our business editor, Kamal Ahmed. | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
It's that time of year, when we maybe spend a bit too much | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
It's feeling a little bit the same for the Treasury after today's | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
public finance figures, which were widely described | :12:05. | :12:06. | |
Borrowing was up, spending was up and some big bills, | :12:07. | :12:15. | |
to the European Union and the World Bank, fell due. | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
It's all a long way from this moment, George Osborne insisting | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
in last month's Autumn Statement the public finances | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
Fixing the roof when the sun is shining. | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
If the Chancellor - here at Number 11 Downing Street - | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
was hoping for a little bit of Christmas cheer from today's | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
borrowing figures those hopes sadly have not quite been fulfilled. | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
Last month the Government set a borrowing target of ?68.9 billion | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
which it said it would hit by April of next year. | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
Last month, it announced it had already borrowed ?54.3 billion | :12:55. | :12:56. | |
and that number has now increased substantially to ?66.9 billion. | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
That means that, for the next four months, the Government can only | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
borrow ?2 billion more if it is to hit that target. | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
November's figures were extremely disappointing. | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
Borrowing was higher than economists had expected and higher than last | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
Although things should start to improve over the next few months, | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
they would have to improve by a lot in order for him to meet his target | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
This time last year the banks were helping, paying out ?1 | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
The man who passes judgment on the Government's finances | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
and spending on schools, hospitals and our pensions said | :13:38. | :13:39. | |
that the next few months could be better. | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
We were predicting, back in the Autumn Statement in November, | :13:46. | :13:47. | |
that you'd see borrowing about ?20 billion lower this year | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
If you just just look at the numbers that have come in through the year | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
to date and assume that the pattern continues for the rest of the year, | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
that decline would be only about ?10 billion. | :13:59. | :14:00. | |
But we think there are a number of reasons to expect the fall | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
in the deficit to be larger over the remainder of this financial year | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
Things could become more bullish with the Treasury likely to see | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
When it comes to the ups and downs of the economy, Mr Osborne knows | :14:13. | :14:23. | |
he will need a run of very good figures if he is to | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
Dozens of homes in Cumbria have been flooded for the third time this | :14:27. | :14:34. | |
The River Eden burst its banks again in the village of Appleby. | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
Carlisle, Kendal and Keswick are also all on alert tonight | :14:39. | :14:40. | |
Our correspondent, Ed Thomas, reports from Appleby. | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
Tonight, in Cumbria, and the floods have returned. | :14:44. | :14:52. | |
This is Appleby, the town's High Street has now been claimed | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
But, once again, people here have been left determined, | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
You know, you've got to make it work. | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
No-one's going to make it work for you. | :15:02. | :15:03. | |
We've got customers here who depend on us. | :15:04. | :15:05. | |
Private customers, business customers. | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
For a second time, in two weeks, Roy and Charlotte Ashley have seen | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
not only their home, but also the place they work taken | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
None of us have ever seen this, it's unbelievable. | :15:15. | :15:22. | |
You know, to think that the water, two weeks ago was, you know, | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
You can't deal with that kind of thing. | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
It's taken their possessions from their homes. | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
Some people have lost their businesses. | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
Only yesterday, Prince Charles walked down this street. | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
It was a Royal visit to boost morale in Appleby, now this. | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
Reverend Sarah Lunn helped so many recover here after the last floods. | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
Now, she'll have to do it all over again. | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
You know, the irony of having Prince Charles here, | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
thanking all the folk who gave of their time so generously | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
yesterday afternoon, walking here, then to be back in this | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
The Government's promised to look again at flood defences, | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
And, as we get closer to Christmas, more rain is on the way. | :16:10. | :16:17. | |
Here is that rain. It's raining quite heavily now. It's the last | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
thing people here want to see. The flood warnings remain right across | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
Cumbria. At least, thankfully, the waters are residing in Appleby and | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
the town has its high street back. This is an anxious time for people | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
across Cumbria, Sophie, because the ground is saturated after this | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
record rainfall. It seems that every time it rains here now people watch | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
and wait and they're just hoping that it won't flood again. Ed | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
Thomas, thank you. A remembrance service has been held | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
to mark the first anniversary of the Glasgow bin lorry crash | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
which left six people dead. Bereaved families, survivors | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
and members of the emergency services were among those | :17:03. | :17:04. | |
who attended the service at Glasgow The lorry veered out of control | :17:05. | :17:06. | |
in the city centre after the driver, Harry Clarke, blacked | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
out at the wheel. One of the most senior figures | :17:11. | :17:22. | |
in world athletics has stepped down from his job ahead | :17:23. | :17:24. | |
of an investigation into a plan to delay the naming | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
of Russian drug cheats. It comes after the BBC obtained | :17:28. | :17:29. | |
an email from Nick Davies, the Deputy General Secretary of | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
the Iaaf, the world governing body. In it, he suggests waiting | :17:33. | :17:34. | |
until after the 2013 World Championships in Moscow | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
before naming them. Our sports editor, Dan Roan's report | :17:38. | :17:38. | |
contains flash photography. A year after a successful | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
London Olympics, the eyes of the athletics world turned | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
to Moscow, hosts of the 2013 World But with the build-up overshadowed | :17:45. | :17:46. | |
by a series of Russian doping scandals, it now appears that | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
within the governing body there was a secret plan | :17:52. | :17:53. | |
to minimise the damage. It was laid out in an email sent | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
just before the event by Iaaf Deputy General Secretary, | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
Nick Davies, until tonight the right-hand man | :18:01. | :18:02. | |
of President Lord Coe. Although there's no suggestion | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
that he was aware of the proposal. Writing to former marketing | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
consultant, Papa Massata Diack, son of the former president, | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
Davies said he needed to "understand exactly what Russian | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
skeletons we have still If the guilty ones are not | :18:18. | :18:19. | |
competing, then we might as well wait until the event | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
is over to announce them. Or we announce one or two, | :18:27. | :18:28. | |
but at the same time as athletes Davies also suggested | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
using the political influence of Coe, then vice-president, | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
and his marketing company, CSM, for an unofficial PR campaign | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
to stop what he called "planned attacks on Russia by | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
the British media." It is a damning blow to | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
the credibility of the organisation and that's really shocking | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
because what the Iaaf should have been doing is saying - | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
if we know people are cheating, we're going to get them and we're | :18:57. | :18:58. | |
going to expose them, come what may, and make | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
sure they don't compete. That's our prime job, | :19:02. | :19:03. | |
not worrying about the PR strategy for trying to make sure those | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
stories don't come out Davies denies any wrong-doing, | :19:07. | :19:08. | |
but tonight he stood aside in a statement saying: "What has | :19:09. | :19:23. | |
become apparent today is that I have This is not helpful | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
at the current time. I have decided to step aside | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
from my role with the Iaaf until such time as the Ethics Board | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
is able to review the matter properly and decide if I'm | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
responsible for any breach Coe became the most powerful figure | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
in athletics earlier this year, replacing Lamine Diack, | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
the former Iaaf president now facing allegations he took bribes | :19:42. | :19:43. | |
to cover-up doping. In October, Russia was banned | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
from international competition for state sponsored | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
cheating, and now this. The contents of this email | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
are highly embarrassing for the Iaaf and with the governing body | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
desperate to move forward and regain trust after a year of damaging | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
allegations, of both doping and corruption, it couldn't have | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
come at a worse time. Athletics should have much to look | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
forward to with the Rio Olympics on the horizon, instead it's | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
the shadow cast by Russia that hangs More than a million migrants have | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
entered Europe this year, most of them by sea, | :20:18. | :20:26. | |
according to new figures released Half of them are said to be Syrians, | :20:27. | :20:28. | |
trying to escape the war. But some are economic migrants, | :20:29. | :20:38. | |
fleeing poverty in search All this week we have been looking | :20:39. | :20:40. | |
at the huge movement of people Tonight, George Alagiah considers | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
whether this is part of a longer term trend and looks | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
at the challenges for the UK. What could be more quintessentially | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
English than a roast, But look who's serving up this | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
feast, from the waiters to the kitchen staff, | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
most of them are immigrants. To cap it all, the owner is the son | :21:03. | :21:04. | |
of Bangladeshi migrants. Iqbal Wahhab was eight months | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
when his family moved to Britain. His father was a PhD student | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
who stayed on to give his family the opportunities | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
Britain had to offer. He's gained a lot and | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
says he's given a lot. This business generates ?6 | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
million a year, that's net, so there's probably another ?1 | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
million of tax on that. You multiply that over | :21:28. | :21:29. | |
an average of 15 years, we've put many millions of pounds | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
into the public purse. We've employed over 1,000 people | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
in the time that I've been There's very many quantifiable | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
benefits of having allowed me Who knows what Europe's most recent | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
arrivals might have to offer. Only some of the thousands trapped | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
on the Macedonia border last month The rest, like millions before them, | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
came in search of a better life. Should they have an | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
equal right to move? We have to get used to the fact that | :22:03. | :22:04. | |
people will always seek to move. They will seek to move to escape | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
devastation or war or persecution or climatic disaster, | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
and they will seek also simply to improve their lot by moving | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
from a place of poor economic growth to one of significant | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
economic growth. Simply saying - we're | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
putting up barriers, we're putting up razor wire fences | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
and we're going to block people But you do accept, do you, | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
that we, the British, have a right to control the numbers | :22:37. | :22:44. | |
of people who come into our country? I accept that there are limits | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
to migration and those limits are ultimately determined | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
by a democratic process. ARCHIVE: Four out of every five | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
Britons live and work in cities, Of course it hasn't always | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
been one way traffic. For much of the 20th | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
Century, Britain was a net ARCHIVE: Increasing numbers look | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
to the Empire for their future and the immigrant's reason | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
is always the same. Because we're hoping there's better | :23:15. | :23:16. | |
opportunities for work out there. Right now, around five-and-a-half | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
million Brits live overseas, If we have discovered the world, | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
the world has discovered us. At Borough Market in London, | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
you're as likely to find a plate of Ethiopian stew as | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
a steak and kidney pie. Perhaps the question is no longer | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
whether people should come to Britain, but how | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
we prepare for them? The problem to me seems to be that | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
it's been an ideological discussion about whether we shouldn't | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
or should have particular In fact, we need to look | :23:48. | :23:49. | |
at the practicalities. We need investment, particularly | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
when it comes to school places, when it comes to hospital s, | :23:55. | :23:56. | |
midwifery, for example. If the challenge is to make | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
migration work on a practical level, it's not a new one, it's an issue | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
Britain has grappled Whether they came here | :24:10. | :24:11. | |
as monarchs or migrants, Romans or Romanians, | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
Britain has been influenced by all those who've | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
landed on its shores. The extent to which people continue | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
to have the freedom to move may become the defining feature | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
of the 21st Century. Last Christmas, they were | :24:29. | :24:30. | |
languishing at the very bottom This Christmas, Leicester City | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
are at the top The side's performance | :24:38. | :24:47. | |
is being hailed as a Christmas They currently stand two-points | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
clear ahead of their next game In the Leicester City grotto | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
is the one thing everybody wants, Today, the trophy was just a photo | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
opportunity for charity. At the end of the season, well, | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
they believe in Mahrez and Vardy. No-one's scored more | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
than them this season. COMMENTATOR: Vardy's in. | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
Jamie Vardy scores again. In Europe's largest outdoor covered | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
market, suddenly they're talking We've had a lot of stick from other | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
fans and now we're giving it back. COMMENTATOR: He runs up, | :25:20. | :25:31. | |
Mahrez, once again. Do you know, this has | :25:32. | :25:32. | |
been a long time coming. Well, here comes the genial Italian | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
who's keeping everyone calm. I think you're a bit | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
like Father Christmas, You make people believe that magic | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
can happen in Leicester. No, but I'm very happy | :25:49. | :25:58. | |
they are happy this Christmas days. We don't have the high | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
quality like City, Arsenal, Well, this is where the Leicester | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
players emerge from their dressing room and immediately you can see | :26:08. | :26:15. | |
the kind of impression they're Leicester have had success in recent | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
memory, won the League Cup in 2000, but to lead the Premier League | :26:19. | :26:30. | |
is a different level. I think quite a lot of Leicester | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
supporters are scratching their heads and wondering how it's | :26:36. | :26:37. | |
happening, but it is and people are starting to believe | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
and, most importantly, Bottom of the Premier League last | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
Christmas, top this. Leicester are dismantling | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
the old order, but now there's When you're top at this time | :26:49. | :26:50. | |
of year, you're expected Newsnight is about to get under | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
way over on BBC Two. Here, on BBC One, it's time | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
for the news where you are. | :27:04. | :27:06. |