:00:11. > :00:12.Tonight at Ten: The return to Helmand Province.
:00:13. > :00:15.British soldiers are sent back as the Taliban close in.
:00:16. > :00:17.Fierce fighting around the key town Sangin,
:00:18. > :00:20.as Afghan forces try to hold back the Taliban but the British aren't
:00:21. > :00:27.They will support and help Afghan security as advisors
:00:28. > :00:30.and they will not take part in the military operations.
:00:31. > :00:32.It comes a year after British troops withdrew from Afghanistan.
:00:33. > :00:34.More than 100 died fighting for Sangin.
:00:35. > :00:38.We've been hearing from some of the families who lost loved ones
:00:39. > :00:45.Also tonight: A sharp rise in the number of young women,
:00:46. > :00:46.particularly teenagers, being taken to hospital
:00:47. > :00:51.Dozens of homes in Cumbria are flooded for the third time this
:00:52. > :00:56.One of the most senior figures in world athletics steps down
:00:57. > :00:59.from his job, amid an investigation into a plan to delay the naming
:01:00. > :01:05.And, Leicester City fans get a taste for glory as the team top
:01:06. > :01:09.the Premier League but will they be keeping the trophy?
:01:10. > :01:11.On BBC London: Surviving cancer against the odds.
:01:12. > :01:13.The baby girl enjoying her first Christmas at home.
:01:14. > :01:16.And the London craft beer producer that's just been bought
:01:17. > :01:44.A group of British soldiers have been sent back to Helmand Province
:01:45. > :01:46.in southern Afghanistan, after reports that the Taliban
:01:47. > :01:48.is close to taking the key town of Sangin.
:01:49. > :01:53.There's been heavy fighting as the Afghan army battle to hold
:01:54. > :01:58.The Ministry of Defence said the British personnel have not been
:01:59. > :02:04.UK combat operations in Afghanistan officially ended last year.
:02:05. > :02:07.More than 450 British personnel died during the 13-year conflict,
:02:08. > :02:09.with the heaviest losses suffered in and around Sangin.
:02:10. > :02:25.Our diplomatic correspondent James Robbins reports.
:02:26. > :02:27.Across Helmand Province, Afghan troops are fighting to hold
:02:28. > :02:31.For years, British and American troops tried to pacify this area.
:02:32. > :02:33.Now, Afghan troops, largely on their own,
:02:34. > :02:37.are struggling, particularly in the key town of Sangin.
:02:38. > :02:41.This man did manage to escape from the town.
:02:42. > :02:44.TRANSLATION: We called for help and said there are dead and wounded
:02:45. > :02:48.people inside the police chief's building.
:02:49. > :02:52.Nobody helped us and no-one did anything to get them out.
:02:53. > :02:55.Nine years ago, it was British troops who'd been deployed to Sangin
:02:56. > :03:01.It quickly became some of the most intense fighting
:03:02. > :03:04.Now, a small contingent of British soldiers has returned to Helmand
:03:05. > :03:11.TRANSLATION: A group of British Armed Forces has been
:03:12. > :03:17.They will support and help Afghan Security Forces as advisers
:03:18. > :03:21.and they will not participate in the military operations.
:03:22. > :03:25.The fate of Sangin, the town and the entire district has huge
:03:26. > :03:27.significance for Afghanistan of course, but also for Britain.
:03:28. > :03:32.Sangin lies in the north of Helmand province on a key supply route
:03:33. > :03:35.to the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah.
:03:36. > :03:38.It's also a centre for the opium trade and it's close to a major
:03:39. > :03:45.highway linking one side of the country with the other.
:03:46. > :03:47.Sangin was the deadliest part of Helmand Province for British
:03:48. > :03:50.forces who fought the Taliban between 2006 and 2014.
:03:51. > :03:53.456 British service personnel have been killed in Afganistan and almost
:03:54. > :03:55.a quarter of all those deaths were as a result
:03:56. > :04:02.Now, some experts fear that everything which was fought
:04:03. > :04:11.If there were a military collapse then I think you can also give up
:04:12. > :04:16.But if the Afghan forces do indeed manage to hold on to positions
:04:17. > :04:20.like Sangin, then those voices within the Taliban movement,
:04:21. > :04:24.telling their own leaders that it is time to talk,
:04:25. > :04:27.it is time to agree amongst Afghans how to run our country,
:04:28. > :04:39.The Taliban has many faces, some are hard-lined jihadists.
:04:40. > :04:45.Threatening President Obama in this video, a fortnight ago,
:04:46. > :04:50.ahead of suicide attacks which killed many Afghans
:04:51. > :04:51.and yesterday six American soldiers, too.
:04:52. > :04:59.The Afghan National Army has suffered huge losses trying to stand
:05:00. > :05:02.on its own, lacking the close air support, helicopters and equipment
:05:03. > :05:06.When Britain, as part of Nato, withdrew almost all its forces
:05:07. > :05:09.a year ago, it was a political gamble which is now being put
:05:10. > :05:12.Peace talks with the Taliban could open a way forward
:05:13. > :05:15.for Afghanistan, but an Afghan military collapse would be felt far
:05:16. > :05:20.Most of the British men and women who lost their lives
:05:21. > :05:22.during the Afghan conflict died in Helmand Province.
:05:23. > :05:25.Our special correspondent Lucy Manning has been talking to two
:05:26. > :05:31.families whose loved ones were killed there.
:05:32. > :05:33.James died seven-and-a-half years ago now.
:05:34. > :05:37.Lance Corporal James Bateman was killed in Afghanistan.
:05:38. > :05:41.For his widow, Victoria, the pain never goes,
:05:42. > :05:43.but what has returned are the questions about
:05:44. > :05:50.Unfortunately, I do think he would have died in vain.
:05:51. > :05:53.I think his life wasn't in vain, his efforts weren't in vain
:05:54. > :05:56.and I fully support him and what the Armed Forces do.
:05:57. > :06:00.Unfortunately, through some choices, some poor choices made by people,
:06:01. > :06:04.that unfortunately his death would have been in vain.
:06:05. > :06:06.The funerals have passed but, for the families, the Taliban's
:06:07. > :06:10.This almost takes me back to the time when it happened,
:06:11. > :06:15.You've had this life sentence imposed on you,
:06:16. > :06:19.losing the person you were meant to spend the rest of your life with.
:06:20. > :06:22.And now, for not only you, as a personal opinion,
:06:23. > :06:27.to know the death didn't mean anything or wasn't for any
:06:28. > :06:30.particular purpose, that now the whole world sees it,
:06:31. > :06:34.as we've come back full circle, to start again.
:06:35. > :06:37.I do believe that we are owed an explanation.
:06:38. > :06:40.I think that the families of the fallen, if they so wish it,
:06:41. > :06:44.are entitled to have the reasons explained as to what has happened
:06:45. > :06:51.Every year, those who fought in Afghanistan and those who lost
:06:52. > :06:54.sons and daughters and husbands come here to the Cenotaph
:06:55. > :07:00.The families are united in their never-ending loss,
:07:01. > :07:03.but also their pride, but they differ somewhat
:07:04. > :07:10.Tom Gadon was just 24 when he was killed in Helmand,
:07:11. > :07:21.It may have shown that we did want to change things for the better
:07:22. > :07:24.and that we weren't going to stand by and let the Taliban take over.
:07:25. > :07:27.But with the Taliban threatening to take over again,
:07:28. > :07:29.do those who lost the most feel the British presence achieved
:07:30. > :07:35.I don't think of it as a waste of time, in that way.
:07:36. > :07:38.Look at the amount of people, you know, the forces that
:07:39. > :07:41.were deployed from all around the world to actually try
:07:42. > :07:43.and "help", you know, to suppress the Taliban
:07:44. > :07:50.Just two of more than 450 British soldiers who died
:07:51. > :07:58.The news of the Taliban's return another hard moment
:07:59. > :08:05.In Iraq, Government forces say they're advancing into the centre
:08:06. > :08:09.of the city of Ramadi which has been under the control of so-called
:08:10. > :08:16.They say a major offensive, launched last night,
:08:17. > :08:19.will clear militants from the city by the end of the week,
:08:20. > :08:21.despite coming up against snipers and suicide bombers.
:08:22. > :08:24.The fall of the city in May was an embarrassing defeat
:08:25. > :08:31.More and more young women under the age of 25 are drinking so much
:08:32. > :08:33.that they're ending up in hospital with alcohol poisoning.
:08:34. > :08:36.New figures show the total number of people visiting emergency
:08:37. > :08:39.departments in England has doubled in six years.
:08:40. > :08:43.The biggest group affected are teenage girls, aged between 15
:08:44. > :08:45.and 19, binge-drinking on a night out.
:08:46. > :08:49.The figures from the Nuffield Trust also show that emergency admissions
:08:50. > :08:52.due to long-term damage caused by alcohol have risen to more
:08:53. > :08:58.Overall, drinking levels in the UK have fallen, but those who do drink
:08:59. > :09:01.seem to be consuming more alcohol than before.
:09:02. > :09:04.Our health editor, Hugh Pym, reports.
:09:05. > :09:06.You can't get a glass and throw it and hurt people.
:09:07. > :09:12.You still can't do that, my dear, any how.
:09:13. > :09:16.Filmed through a police body camera, alcohol is clearly causing
:09:17. > :09:19.trouble on the streets in the run-up to Christmas.
:09:20. > :09:24.It's not just a challenge for the police, today's figures show
:09:25. > :09:27.how much of a problem drunkenness has become for already busy Accident
:09:28. > :09:33.At one city centre hospital, a leading consultant said
:09:34. > :09:38.We have busy emergency departments, but the addition of a whole group
:09:39. > :09:42.of patients who the main problem is acute alcohol intoxication can
:09:43. > :09:45.change a very strained emergency department into a chaotic and very
:09:46. > :09:55.Hospital staff are not just dealing with binge drinkers who come and go
:09:56. > :09:58.through A, today's report also shows that the number with longer
:09:59. > :10:01.term alcohol problems admitted to hospital has risen rapidly.
:10:02. > :10:03.It cost me my marriage, home, the loss of my
:10:04. > :10:10.Matthew - that's not his real name - is a recovering alcoholic.
:10:11. > :10:12.He remembers frequently ending up in hospital.
:10:13. > :10:15.I wouldn't like to give you a number of how many times,
:10:16. > :10:19.Sometimes I went myself because I'd injured myself
:10:20. > :10:31.Other times I woke up in hospital, I didn't know how I got there.
:10:32. > :10:34.With major hospitals feeling the strain of dealing with patients
:10:35. > :10:36.with alcohol-related problems, the question being asked -
:10:37. > :10:40.what's happening over there at Westminster?
:10:41. > :10:43.The Government says it has cracked down on sales of very low priced
:10:44. > :10:46.drink and worked with the industry to lower alcohol volumes,
:10:47. > :10:52.but some campaigners say more needs to be done.
:10:53. > :10:55.It's an issue that gets a lot of attention during the festive
:10:56. > :10:57.season, but we know that this is a massive issue throughout
:10:58. > :11:02.We know that alcohol is costing the NHS an emergency services
:11:03. > :11:04.billions of pounds each year and we really need the Government
:11:05. > :11:10.to take meaningful action to reduce these harms.
:11:11. > :11:14.There have been demands for minimum unit pricing for alcoholic drinks.
:11:15. > :11:17.The Scottish Government wants to do that, but was challenged in court
:11:18. > :11:24.It's gone all the way to the European Court and a key
:11:25. > :11:27.It'll be watched closely around the UK.
:11:28. > :11:35.The Government insists its economic plan is working despite almost
:11:36. > :11:38.reaching its annual borrowing target with four months of the financial
:11:39. > :11:43.There was a sharp rise in Government borrowing last month compared
:11:44. > :11:47.to this time last year, it was up 10% at ?14.2 billion.
:11:48. > :11:49.But the Treasury says the rise is down to one-off factors.
:11:50. > :11:56.Here's our business editor, Kamal Ahmed.
:11:57. > :11:59.It's that time of year, when we maybe spend a bit too much
:12:00. > :12:04.It's feeling a little bit the same for the Treasury after today's
:12:05. > :12:06.public finance figures, which were widely described
:12:07. > :12:15.Borrowing was up, spending was up and some big bills,
:12:16. > :12:19.to the European Union and the World Bank, fell due.
:12:20. > :12:22.It's all a long way from this moment, George Osborne insisting
:12:23. > :12:24.in last month's Autumn Statement the public finances
:12:25. > :12:30.Fixing the roof when the sun is shining.
:12:31. > :12:34.If the Chancellor - here at Number 11 Downing Street -
:12:35. > :12:38.was hoping for a little bit of Christmas cheer from today's
:12:39. > :12:43.borrowing figures those hopes sadly have not quite been fulfilled.
:12:44. > :12:48.Last month the Government set a borrowing target of ?68.9 billion
:12:49. > :12:54.which it said it would hit by April of next year.
:12:55. > :12:56.Last month, it announced it had already borrowed ?54.3 billion
:12:57. > :13:03.and that number has now increased substantially to ?66.9 billion.
:13:04. > :13:08.That means that, for the next four months, the Government can only
:13:09. > :13:12.borrow ?2 billion more if it is to hit that target.
:13:13. > :13:18.November's figures were extremely disappointing.
:13:19. > :13:22.Borrowing was higher than economists had expected and higher than last
:13:23. > :13:26.Although things should start to improve over the next few months,
:13:27. > :13:29.they would have to improve by a lot in order for him to meet his target
:13:30. > :13:33.This time last year the banks were helping, paying out ?1
:13:34. > :13:37.The man who passes judgment on the Government's finances
:13:38. > :13:39.and spending on schools, hospitals and our pensions said
:13:40. > :13:45.that the next few months could be better.
:13:46. > :13:47.We were predicting, back in the Autumn Statement in November,
:13:48. > :13:50.that you'd see borrowing about ?20 billion lower this year
:13:51. > :13:54.If you just just look at the numbers that have come in through the year
:13:55. > :13:58.to date and assume that the pattern continues for the rest of the year,
:13:59. > :14:00.that decline would be only about ?10 billion.
:14:01. > :14:03.But we think there are a number of reasons to expect the fall
:14:04. > :14:06.in the deficit to be larger over the remainder of this financial year
:14:07. > :14:12.Things could become more bullish with the Treasury likely to see
:14:13. > :14:23.When it comes to the ups and downs of the economy, Mr Osborne knows
:14:24. > :14:26.he will need a run of very good figures if he is to
:14:27. > :14:34.Dozens of homes in Cumbria have been flooded for the third time this
:14:35. > :14:38.The River Eden burst its banks again in the village of Appleby.
:14:39. > :14:40.Carlisle, Kendal and Keswick are also all on alert tonight
:14:41. > :14:43.Our correspondent, Ed Thomas, reports from Appleby.
:14:44. > :14:52.Tonight, in Cumbria, and the floods have returned.
:14:53. > :14:55.This is Appleby, the town's High Street has now been claimed
:14:56. > :14:58.But, once again, people here have been left determined,
:14:59. > :15:01.You know, you've got to make it work.
:15:02. > :15:03.No-one's going to make it work for you.
:15:04. > :15:05.We've got customers here who depend on us.
:15:06. > :15:08.Private customers, business customers.
:15:09. > :15:11.For a second time, in two weeks, Roy and Charlotte Ashley have seen
:15:12. > :15:14.not only their home, but also the place they work taken
:15:15. > :15:22.None of us have ever seen this, it's unbelievable.
:15:23. > :15:25.You know, to think that the water, two weeks ago was, you know,
:15:26. > :15:28.You can't deal with that kind of thing.
:15:29. > :15:31.It's taken their possessions from their homes.
:15:32. > :15:35.Some people have lost their businesses.
:15:36. > :15:39.Only yesterday, Prince Charles walked down this street.
:15:40. > :15:42.It was a Royal visit to boost morale in Appleby, now this.
:15:43. > :15:48.Reverend Sarah Lunn helped so many recover here after the last floods.
:15:49. > :15:52.Now, she'll have to do it all over again.
:15:53. > :15:57.You know, the irony of having Prince Charles here,
:15:58. > :16:00.thanking all the folk who gave of their time so generously
:16:01. > :16:03.yesterday afternoon, walking here, then to be back in this
:16:04. > :16:09.The Government's promised to look again at flood defences,
:16:10. > :16:17.And, as we get closer to Christmas, more rain is on the way.
:16:18. > :16:24.Here is that rain. It's raining quite heavily now. It's the last
:16:25. > :16:31.thing people here want to see. The flood warnings remain right across
:16:32. > :16:34.Cumbria. At least, thankfully, the waters are residing in Appleby and
:16:35. > :16:39.the town has its high street back. This is an anxious time for people
:16:40. > :16:42.across Cumbria, Sophie, because the ground is saturated after this
:16:43. > :16:47.record rainfall. It seems that every time it rains here now people watch
:16:48. > :16:50.and wait and they're just hoping that it won't flood again. Ed
:16:51. > :16:56.Thomas, thank you. A remembrance service has been held
:16:57. > :16:59.to mark the first anniversary of the Glasgow bin lorry crash
:17:00. > :17:02.which left six people dead. Bereaved families, survivors
:17:03. > :17:04.and members of the emergency services were among those
:17:05. > :17:06.who attended the service at Glasgow The lorry veered out of control
:17:07. > :17:10.in the city centre after the driver, Harry Clarke, blacked
:17:11. > :17:22.out at the wheel. One of the most senior figures
:17:23. > :17:24.in world athletics has stepped down from his job ahead
:17:25. > :17:27.of an investigation into a plan to delay the naming
:17:28. > :17:29.of Russian drug cheats. It comes after the BBC obtained
:17:30. > :17:32.an email from Nick Davies, the Deputy General Secretary of
:17:33. > :17:34.the Iaaf, the world governing body. In it, he suggests waiting
:17:35. > :17:37.until after the 2013 World Championships in Moscow
:17:38. > :17:38.before naming them. Our sports editor, Dan Roan's report
:17:39. > :17:41.contains flash photography. A year after a successful
:17:42. > :17:44.London Olympics, the eyes of the athletics world turned
:17:45. > :17:46.to Moscow, hosts of the 2013 World But with the build-up overshadowed
:17:47. > :17:51.by a series of Russian doping scandals, it now appears that
:17:52. > :17:53.within the governing body there was a secret plan
:17:54. > :17:57.to minimise the damage. It was laid out in an email sent
:17:58. > :18:00.just before the event by Iaaf Deputy General Secretary,
:18:01. > :18:02.Nick Davies, until tonight the right-hand man
:18:03. > :18:06.of President Lord Coe. Although there's no suggestion
:18:07. > :18:10.that he was aware of the proposal. Writing to former marketing
:18:11. > :18:14.consultant, Papa Massata Diack, son of the former president,
:18:15. > :18:17.Davies said he needed to "understand exactly what Russian
:18:18. > :18:19.skeletons we have still If the guilty ones are not
:18:20. > :18:26.competing, then we might as well wait until the event
:18:27. > :18:28.is over to announce them. Or we announce one or two,
:18:29. > :18:31.but at the same time as athletes Davies also suggested
:18:32. > :18:37.using the political influence of Coe, then vice-president,
:18:38. > :18:41.and his marketing company, CSM, for an unofficial PR campaign
:18:42. > :18:44.to stop what he called "planned attacks on Russia by
:18:45. > :18:49.the British media." It is a damning blow to
:18:50. > :18:52.the credibility of the organisation and that's really shocking
:18:53. > :18:56.because what the Iaaf should have been doing is saying -
:18:57. > :18:58.if we know people are cheating, we're going to get them and we're
:18:59. > :19:01.going to expose them, come what may, and make
:19:02. > :19:03.sure they don't compete. That's our prime job,
:19:04. > :19:06.not worrying about the PR strategy for trying to make sure those
:19:07. > :19:08.stories don't come out Davies denies any wrong-doing,
:19:09. > :19:23.but tonight he stood aside in a statement saying: "What has
:19:24. > :19:26.become apparent today is that I have This is not helpful
:19:27. > :19:29.at the current time. I have decided to step aside
:19:30. > :19:32.from my role with the Iaaf until such time as the Ethics Board
:19:33. > :19:35.is able to review the matter properly and decide if I'm
:19:36. > :19:37.responsible for any breach Coe became the most powerful figure
:19:38. > :19:41.in athletics earlier this year, replacing Lamine Diack,
:19:42. > :19:43.the former Iaaf president now facing allegations he took bribes
:19:44. > :19:47.to cover-up doping. In October, Russia was banned
:19:48. > :19:51.from international competition for state sponsored
:19:52. > :19:54.cheating, and now this. The contents of this email
:19:55. > :19:59.are highly embarrassing for the Iaaf and with the governing body
:20:00. > :20:05.desperate to move forward and regain trust after a year of damaging
:20:06. > :20:08.allegations, of both doping and corruption, it couldn't have
:20:09. > :20:11.come at a worse time. Athletics should have much to look
:20:12. > :20:14.forward to with the Rio Olympics on the horizon, instead it's
:20:15. > :20:17.the shadow cast by Russia that hangs More than a million migrants have
:20:18. > :20:26.entered Europe this year, most of them by sea,
:20:27. > :20:28.according to new figures released Half of them are said to be Syrians,
:20:29. > :20:38.trying to escape the war. But some are economic migrants,
:20:39. > :20:40.fleeing poverty in search All this week we have been looking
:20:41. > :20:45.at the huge movement of people Tonight, George Alagiah considers
:20:46. > :20:49.whether this is part of a longer term trend and looks
:20:50. > :20:52.at the challenges for the UK. What could be more quintessentially
:20:53. > :20:55.English than a roast, But look who's serving up this
:20:56. > :21:02.feast, from the waiters to the kitchen staff,
:21:03. > :21:04.most of them are immigrants. To cap it all, the owner is the son
:21:05. > :21:09.of Bangladeshi migrants. Iqbal Wahhab was eight months
:21:10. > :21:14.when his family moved to Britain. His father was a PhD student
:21:15. > :21:17.who stayed on to give his family the opportunities
:21:18. > :21:20.Britain had to offer. He's gained a lot and
:21:21. > :21:23.says he's given a lot. This business generates ?6
:21:24. > :21:27.million a year, that's net, so there's probably another ?1
:21:28. > :21:29.million of tax on that. You multiply that over
:21:30. > :21:33.an average of 15 years, we've put many millions of pounds
:21:34. > :21:37.into the public purse. We've employed over 1,000 people
:21:38. > :21:41.in the time that I've been There's very many quantifiable
:21:42. > :21:45.benefits of having allowed me Who knows what Europe's most recent
:21:46. > :21:52.arrivals might have to offer. Only some of the thousands trapped
:21:53. > :21:55.on the Macedonia border last month The rest, like millions before them,
:21:56. > :22:02.came in search of a better life. Should they have an
:22:03. > :22:04.equal right to move? We have to get used to the fact that
:22:05. > :22:10.people will always seek to move. They will seek to move to escape
:22:11. > :22:15.devastation or war or persecution or climatic disaster,
:22:16. > :22:21.and they will seek also simply to improve their lot by moving
:22:22. > :22:26.from a place of poor economic growth to one of significant
:22:27. > :22:29.economic growth. Simply saying - we're
:22:30. > :22:33.putting up barriers, we're putting up razor wire fences
:22:34. > :22:36.and we're going to block people But you do accept, do you,
:22:37. > :22:44.that we, the British, have a right to control the numbers
:22:45. > :22:47.of people who come into our country? I accept that there are limits
:22:48. > :22:53.to migration and those limits are ultimately determined
:22:54. > :22:57.by a democratic process. ARCHIVE: Four out of every five
:22:58. > :23:00.Britons live and work in cities, Of course it hasn't always
:23:01. > :23:06.been one way traffic. For much of the 20th
:23:07. > :23:09.Century, Britain was a net ARCHIVE: Increasing numbers look
:23:10. > :23:14.to the Empire for their future and the immigrant's reason
:23:15. > :23:16.is always the same. Because we're hoping there's better
:23:17. > :23:20.opportunities for work out there. Right now, around five-and-a-half
:23:21. > :23:23.million Brits live overseas, If we have discovered the world,
:23:24. > :23:30.the world has discovered us. At Borough Market in London,
:23:31. > :23:34.you're as likely to find a plate of Ethiopian stew as
:23:35. > :23:37.a steak and kidney pie. Perhaps the question is no longer
:23:38. > :23:40.whether people should come to Britain, but how
:23:41. > :23:43.we prepare for them? The problem to me seems to be that
:23:44. > :23:47.it's been an ideological discussion about whether we shouldn't
:23:48. > :23:49.or should have particular In fact, we need to look
:23:50. > :23:54.at the practicalities. We need investment, particularly
:23:55. > :23:56.when it comes to school places, when it comes to hospital s,
:23:57. > :24:02.midwifery, for example. If the challenge is to make
:24:03. > :24:09.migration work on a practical level, it's not a new one, it's an issue
:24:10. > :24:11.Britain has grappled Whether they came here
:24:12. > :24:15.as monarchs or migrants, Romans or Romanians,
:24:16. > :24:19.Britain has been influenced by all those who've
:24:20. > :24:25.landed on its shores. The extent to which people continue
:24:26. > :24:28.to have the freedom to move may become the defining feature
:24:29. > :24:30.of the 21st Century. Last Christmas, they were
:24:31. > :24:37.languishing at the very bottom This Christmas, Leicester City
:24:38. > :24:47.are at the top The side's performance
:24:48. > :24:50.is being hailed as a Christmas They currently stand two-points
:24:51. > :24:56.clear ahead of their next game In the Leicester City grotto
:24:57. > :25:01.is the one thing everybody wants, Today, the trophy was just a photo
:25:02. > :25:05.opportunity for charity. At the end of the season, well,
:25:06. > :25:08.they believe in Mahrez and Vardy. No-one's scored more
:25:09. > :25:11.than them this season. COMMENTATOR: Vardy's in.
:25:12. > :25:15.Jamie Vardy scores again. In Europe's largest outdoor covered
:25:16. > :25:19.market, suddenly they're talking We've had a lot of stick from other
:25:20. > :25:31.fans and now we're giving it back. COMMENTATOR: He runs up,
:25:32. > :25:32.Mahrez, once again. Do you know, this has
:25:33. > :25:38.been a long time coming. Well, here comes the genial Italian
:25:39. > :25:43.who's keeping everyone calm. I think you're a bit
:25:44. > :25:48.like Father Christmas, You make people believe that magic
:25:49. > :25:58.can happen in Leicester. No, but I'm very happy
:25:59. > :26:04.they are happy this Christmas days. We don't have the high
:26:05. > :26:07.quality like City, Arsenal, Well, this is where the Leicester
:26:08. > :26:15.players emerge from their dressing room and immediately you can see
:26:16. > :26:18.the kind of impression they're Leicester have had success in recent
:26:19. > :26:30.memory, won the League Cup in 2000, but to lead the Premier League
:26:31. > :26:35.is a different level. I think quite a lot of Leicester
:26:36. > :26:37.supporters are scratching their heads and wondering how it's
:26:38. > :26:40.happening, but it is and people are starting to believe
:26:41. > :26:44.and, most importantly, Bottom of the Premier League last
:26:45. > :26:48.Christmas, top this. Leicester are dismantling
:26:49. > :26:50.the old order, but now there's When you're top at this time
:26:51. > :26:56.of year, you're expected Newsnight is about to get under
:26:57. > :27:03.way over on BBC Two. Here, on BBC One, it's time
:27:04. > :27:06.for the news where you are.