:00:11. > :00:15.Hello and welcome to Newsround! I'm Hayley, he is Ore and listen up.
:00:15. > :00:19.have got a real Christmas cracker for you tonight with all this
:00:19. > :00:25.coming up. Celebrations for England's cricketers after winning
:00:25. > :00:35.in India. Bradley Wiggins. And how Wiggins' amazing year just got even
:00:35. > :00:43.
:00:43. > :00:47.Before all that though, first to America where President Obama's
:00:47. > :00:51.asking the country to think again about who should have access to
:00:51. > :00:55.guns. He was speaking following the shootings at a school in
:00:55. > :00:59.Connecticut on Friday. 27 people were killed, 20 of them children.
:00:59. > :01:03.Unlike here, lots of people many the US own a gun and many feel what
:01:03. > :01:05.the right to have a gun is an important part of being an American.
:01:05. > :01:09.But after another terrible tragedy, people are asking what can be done
:01:09. > :01:18.to stop any more from happening in the future.
:01:18. > :01:23.I come to offer the love and prayers of the nation. I am very
:01:23. > :01:27.mindful that mere words cannot match the depths of your sorrow or
:01:27. > :01:30.can they heal your wounded hearts. After the shocking events at a
:01:30. > :01:34.school in Connecticut on Friday, President Obama gave an emotional
:01:34. > :01:39.speech to the people affected. He promised to do more to prevent
:01:39. > :01:44.anything like this happening again. In the coming weeks, I'll use
:01:44. > :01:49.whatever power this office holds to engage my fellow citizens from law
:01:49. > :01:52.enforcement, to mental health professionalss, parented and
:01:52. > :01:55.educators, in an effort aimed at preventing more tragedies like this.
:01:55. > :02:00.Gun crime is a big problem in America, leading to thousands of
:02:00. > :02:04.deaths there each year, for every 100 people in the US, there are
:02:05. > :02:09.around 90 guns, compared to only six for every 100 people in England
:02:09. > :02:12.and Wales. In America, it's relatively easy to get a gun if you
:02:12. > :02:16.are over 18. The rules are much tougher in the UK.
:02:16. > :02:20.The right to keep and bear arms was written into the American
:02:20. > :02:24.constitution within years of the country being founded in 1776.
:02:24. > :02:27.Because America was such a young country, it didn't have a well
:02:27. > :02:35.established Army or police and people felt it was important that
:02:35. > :02:38.everyone had the right to carry arms to keep all - order. The
:02:38. > :02:44.United States is a very different place today. Many people still see
:02:44. > :02:48.the right to own a gun as a really important part of being American.
:02:48. > :02:53.My grandfather was a police chief in Kentucky. My father was a
:02:53. > :02:57.preacher but he owned guns in Alabama. The culture, not just for
:02:57. > :03:00.decades, but for a couple of centuries, has been that the
:03:00. > :03:05.individual has the right to protect himself or herself. After this,
:03:05. > :03:09.lots of people think the law needs to be changed and if fewer people
:03:09. > :03:14.had access to guns, fewer people would be killed. A small number of
:03:14. > :03:17.people use guns in the wrong way. This debate has been going on for
:03:17. > :03:20.many years and people feel really strongly on both sides. It will be
:03:20. > :03:26.tough, even for the President, to make significant changes to the way
:03:26. > :03:29.the law works. Joining us now is Dr Angie Wilson,
:03:29. > :03:32.an expert in American politics at the University of Manchester. Hi,
:03:32. > :03:37.there. You are an American yourself so why do you think so many
:03:37. > :03:42.Americans feel so strongly about carrying a gun with them?
:03:42. > :03:47.relationship between guns and independence in America is quite
:03:47. > :03:52.strong and historically there. People even now look to images like
:03:52. > :03:56.the Wild West cowboy and think, that's what I want to be able to do,
:03:56. > :04:00.to protect my own and my family. The guns on the market now are not
:04:00. > :04:07.for hunters and that sort of thing. That's not the gun control that
:04:08. > :04:11.needs to be put in place. Talk is about change. After what happened
:04:11. > :04:15.on Friday, President Obama spoke about things needing to change. Can
:04:15. > :04:19.that tragedy actually change things for the better for the future?
:04:19. > :04:23.hope that's the case and Obama is certainly making a moral agoment.
:04:23. > :04:28.Unfortunately, the National Rifle Association and those that produce
:04:29. > :04:33.and sell guns are powerful in Washington and in each state
:04:33. > :04:37.Leggettor. It's much different than it's here
:04:37. > :04:44.in the UK where you have to pass tests in order to know how to
:04:44. > :04:51.operate a gun. So it's very doifrpbt what is over here? Yes --
:04:51. > :04:54.different to what is happening over here? Yes. Bradley Wiggins was
:04:54. > :04:58.crowned Sports Personality of the Year of the year. The latest award
:04:58. > :05:05.for the cyclist who won Olympic gold and the sport's biggest race,
:05:05. > :05:10.the Tour de France. Wiggo, as he's known to fans and friends, and the
:05:10. > :05:17.17,000 at the ExCel Centre, beat Andy Murray and Jess Ennis. An
:05:17. > :05:21.award also went to Josef Craig, named young Sports Personality of
:05:21. > :05:27.the Year. Let us remind ourselves why he's so particular. Knell has
:05:27. > :05:37.been taking a closer look at him. -- Nell.
:05:37. > :05:40.-- so popular. 2012 was when this man's amazing feats filled our TV
:05:40. > :05:47.screens and Britain went Wiggo mad. It all started with the Tour de
:05:47. > :05:50.France, a grueling,000-mile long cycle case, arguably one of the
:05:50. > :05:55.world's most famous and toughst. Here we go. Wiggo started as
:05:55. > :05:58.favourite and boy, did he deliver, becoming the first Briton ever to
:05:58. > :06:02.win. Every childhood dream is to lift the FA Cup at Wembley or
:06:02. > :06:07.whatever and this is like my Wembley, you know. Wiggins never
:06:07. > :06:10.let the attention faze him. He reckons his family helped keep
:06:11. > :06:14.things in perspective. First thing Ben says to me is, dad, I need a
:06:14. > :06:20.poo. Took him to the toilet and that was right back down-to-earth
:06:20. > :06:24.with a bang. After the Tour de France came 2012 with Wiggo chose
:06:24. > :06:28.to officially open the Games with bell-ringing. Expectations were
:06:28. > :06:33.high with Britain banking on Bradley to deliver a gold. It's
:06:33. > :06:37.golden gold for Bradley Wiggins, his fourth gold and the seventh
:06:37. > :06:41.medal won in the Olympic Games. As well as a place in the record books,
:06:41. > :06:45.Bradley Wiggins won a place in the nation's hearts. Nearly one in
:06:45. > :06:52.three of the people who voted for Sports Personality of the Year
:06:52. > :06:56.voted for Wiggo. For Mo Farah not to even get a look-in and to be
:06:56. > :07:00.ahead of Andy and Jess is probably my greatest sporting achievement.
:07:00. > :07:04.Can things get any better for Bradley? He's promised to keep
:07:04. > :07:08.cycling for the next Olympics in 2016, so we'll just have to wait
:07:08. > :07:12.and see. Keeping with the great sporting
:07:12. > :07:17.achievements to cricket now and Alastair Cook's team have won a
:07:17. > :07:20.test series in India for the first time in almost 28 years. Trott and
:07:20. > :07:25.Bell both made centuries and achieved a draw they needed in the
:07:25. > :07:31.fourth and final match in Nagpur to clinch the series 2-1. Afterwards,
:07:31. > :07:35.the skipper, not surprisingly, was pretty happy. It's been an
:07:35. > :07:40.incredible tour and to end it like we did today and how convincingly
:07:40. > :07:43.we managed to bat out today, you know, it was obviously a nervous
:07:43. > :07:49.dressing room in the last 140 overs knowing how close we were to doing
:07:49. > :07:51.something special. To go out and do it as convincingly as we did was an
:07:51. > :07:56.incredible achievement. Watching that win over breakfast was a real
:07:56. > :07:59.joy. That's how I like to start my Mondays. A big survey of the number
:07:59. > :08:04.of people living in Scotland has revealed that more people are
:08:04. > :08:10.living there than ever before. census revealed 5.3 million people
:08:10. > :08:14.live in Scotland, up almost a quarter of a million in ten years.
:08:15. > :08:18.The results came out last week and all showed a rise in population.
:08:18. > :08:22.The Queen will go to Ten Downing Street tomorrow where she'll sit on
:08:22. > :08:25.David Cameron's Cabinet meeting that's the weekly gathering he has
:08:25. > :08:29.with senior ministers. She won't take part in discussions though,
:08:29. > :08:34.will just be there as an observer. They've bought her a Jubilee
:08:34. > :08:38.present. What can you buy for the Queen? Chocolate. Dog food. It's
:08:38. > :08:41.thought to be the first time the Monarch's done this since Queen
:08:41. > :08:48.Victoria's reign in the 19th century. Can anybody stop Balotelli
:08:48. > :08:54.getting in the news? No! Fact, you really can't.. You might be rieblt.