0:00:07 > 0:00:11Hello and welcome to the programme.
0:00:11 > 0:00:13We will bring you some of the exclusive interviews
0:00:13 > 0:00:16and original stories we have brought to you over the last year.
0:00:32 > 0:00:34First, the conversation that left Lily Allen in tears.
0:00:34 > 0:00:36She had never visited a refugee camp before.
0:00:36 > 0:00:45She met unaccompanied child migrants in Calais and it overwhelmed her.
0:00:45 > 0:00:55Her apology to refugees became front-page news.
0:00:55 > 0:00:57This is some of what she saw.
0:00:57 > 0:00:59Calais's makeshift refugee camp, the Jungle, home to around 10,000
0:00:59 > 0:01:04people including children.
0:01:04 > 0:01:13This place has been partially demolished and reappeared.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15The French government wants it gone again.
0:01:15 > 0:01:16Starting to knock it down within weeks.
0:01:16 > 0:01:20MUSIC PLAYS.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22A world away from the squalor, Lily Allen is working
0:01:22 > 0:01:25on her new album in a studio in North London.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28What do you think you can achieve going there?
0:01:28 > 0:01:33Save everyone?
0:01:33 > 0:01:36No...
0:01:36 > 0:01:38I hope that...
0:01:38 > 0:01:41On a personal level, to see things for myself so I know
0:01:41 > 0:01:45and can talk openly about it, having experienced it
0:01:45 > 0:01:51even if for a short amount of time.
0:01:51 > 0:01:54And humanise the people that are there because at the moment
0:01:54 > 0:01:56what I've read, all these articles which are very dehumanising
0:01:56 > 0:02:02about people and children.
0:02:02 > 0:02:03You know, I am a mother.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05I have two little girls.
0:02:05 > 0:02:11If something was to happen in this country, to me or their dad,
0:02:11 > 0:02:13I would really hope that other parts of the world would
0:02:13 > 0:02:17really be more helpful.
0:02:17 > 0:02:21It would seem to me that there are people who have been driven very
0:02:21 > 0:02:23far away from what they know and love, stability and comfort.
0:02:23 > 0:02:29No one would choose to live in the Jungle.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38Josie Norton is with her.
0:02:38 > 0:02:45They are old friends.
0:02:45 > 0:02:51Josie gave up the music industry to start up a charity.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01Right next to the camp, this massive warehouse shows
0:03:01 > 0:03:02the scale of the charity work
0:03:02 > 0:03:06that has emerged providing help to those in the Jungle.
0:03:10 > 0:03:13An army of volunteers.
0:03:14 > 0:03:24Today, Lily is one of them.
0:03:24 > 0:03:26This is just kids' stuff.
0:03:26 > 0:03:32My kids said that you could have.
0:03:32 > 0:03:36Shoes, jackets.
0:03:36 > 0:03:44Jumpers.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46A Snow White costume which might come in handy!
0:03:46 > 0:03:48It is actually really sweet.
0:03:51 > 0:03:57And then it's time to enter the Jungle.
0:03:57 > 0:04:00She has never been to a refugee camp of any kind, so this
0:04:00 > 0:04:07is her first experience, and it's on her doorstep.
0:04:07 > 0:04:14This is a bus for women and children in the camp.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17Volunteers tell of the things they are constantly doing
0:04:17 > 0:04:19is telling young people, like this young Afghan teenager,
0:04:19 > 0:04:22to apply for asylum in France rather than constantly risking their lives
0:04:22 > 0:04:24jumping on trucks for the UK.
0:04:24 > 0:04:26They are risking their lives every time they go way out,
0:04:26 > 0:04:35going to major highways.
0:04:38 > 0:04:42You hear about people killed, you are not hearing about the people
0:04:42 > 0:04:44who are severely injured.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47There are number of children that have been severely injured.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50One of the reasons she is here is to meet for herself children
0:04:50 > 0:04:55and teenagers who call this place of their home.
0:05:03 > 0:05:05There are 1022 unaccompanied children in this camp.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07With the imminent closure, massive risk of trafficking
0:05:07 > 0:05:14and getting lost in the system.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17A huge proportion have a right to be there because they have families
0:05:17 > 0:05:20or because of legislation passed in May and still there is not one
0:05:20 > 0:05:25child brought to the UK under the amendment.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28It was an agreement by the UK Government to take in unaccompanied
0:05:28 > 0:05:37refugee children from Europe.
0:05:38 > 0:05:42At this youth centre in the camp, there is a sense of urgency today.
0:05:42 > 0:05:44Volunteers are recoding details of teenagers so they can keep track
0:05:44 > 0:05:47of them when it becomes demolished and continued to help those
0:05:47 > 0:05:55who have the right to be in the UK.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58What I want is anybody who has family in England that has not
0:05:58 > 0:06:02started the process.
0:06:02 > 0:06:04Lily meets this 13-year-old from Afghanistan, who says his
0:06:05 > 0:06:07father is in Birmingham.
0:06:07 > 0:06:13He has been in the camp for two months.
0:06:13 > 0:06:16Why did you leave Afghanistan?
0:06:24 > 0:06:28The camp is closing in a couple of weeks, what are you going to do?
0:06:34 > 0:06:38So you have been trying to jump on lorries to get over to the UK,
0:06:38 > 0:06:41that must be terrifying?
0:07:04 > 0:07:06I know you are trying to get onto the lorries every night
0:07:06 > 0:07:11but from what I hearing from the refugee volunteers
0:07:11 > 0:07:19here in the is that you have a right to be in the UK.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21Have you started that process?
0:07:32 > 0:07:34What are your hopes for the future?
0:07:45 > 0:07:48It just seems that at three different intervals in his life,
0:07:48 > 0:07:54the English have put you in danger.
0:07:54 > 0:07:57We have bombed your country, put you in the hands of the Taliban
0:07:57 > 0:08:00and now putting you at risk, risking your life, to get
0:08:00 > 0:08:01you into our country.
0:08:01 > 0:08:02I apologise on behalf of our country.
0:08:02 > 0:08:05I am sorry for what we put you through.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07I am sorry for what we put you through.
0:08:07 > 0:08:12Sorry.
0:08:12 > 0:08:18I am just so sorry.
0:08:45 > 0:08:49And now I'm making you do this interview!
0:08:54 > 0:08:59It is just desperate, isn't it?
0:08:59 > 0:09:02I'm shocked really that this is happening in such close
0:09:02 > 0:09:12proximity to where we live.
0:09:12 > 0:09:14It feels like it's people are just managing to cope.
0:09:14 > 0:09:22Something has to be done because it is inhumane.
0:09:22 > 0:09:30Life is easier for me if I put this stuff out of my mind, you know?
0:09:30 > 0:09:32And that is not really a right and correct response
0:09:33 > 0:09:34to a humanitarian crisis.
0:09:34 > 0:09:40This is these people's lives.
0:09:40 > 0:09:43This is just a day out of my life, but
0:09:43 > 0:09:45this is their existence and not knowing the uncertainty
0:09:45 > 0:09:50of what comes next.
0:09:50 > 0:09:54No one has chosen to be here and it is not fair.
0:09:54 > 0:09:56You know, it is a lottery.
0:09:56 > 0:10:01It is a geographical lottery.
0:10:01 > 0:10:04Wherever you are born in the world...
0:10:10 > 0:10:16I know I wouldn't like to end up here, though.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18I certainly wouldn't want my children to end up here.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25Over the last two years we have been following two transgender children
0:10:25 > 0:10:26aged seven and nine.
0:10:26 > 0:10:27Girls who were born as boys.
0:10:27 > 0:10:28This is seven-year-old Lily's story.
0:10:28 > 0:10:30How are people at school?
0:10:30 > 0:10:33Well, at school,...
0:10:51 > 0:11:01Do you miss having a brother?
0:11:05 > 0:11:05In some ways, yes and in some ways no, when I say play
0:11:09 > 0:11:12How proud are you of your sister?
0:11:19 > 0:11:22How much do you love her?
0:11:27 > 0:11:30Hey, that's brothers and sisters for you, isn't it?
0:11:30 > 0:11:33I bet she says the same about you sometimes.
0:11:39 > 0:11:41Phew.
0:11:50 > 0:11:54One, two, three.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59Can I ask you about skirt day?
0:11:59 > 0:12:01Yeah.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03They had an assembly were they talked about how
0:12:04 > 0:12:04everybody is different.
0:12:04 > 0:12:05Yeah.
0:12:05 > 0:12:08But you were not in the assembly though, were you,
0:12:08 > 0:12:09you and your brother?
0:12:09 > 0:12:10No.
0:12:10 > 0:12:12How has it been at school since that day?
0:12:12 > 0:12:13Really good.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16Really good.
0:12:20 > 0:12:22And after skirt day, how many more girls wanted to play with
0:12:23 > 0:12:24you?
0:12:24 > 0:12:27All of them in the class.
0:12:27 > 0:12:28Did they?
0:12:28 > 0:12:32What was that like?
0:12:36 > 0:12:39Awh, that's lovely and that meant from that day onwards you
0:12:39 > 0:12:41could use the girls' toilets?
0:12:58 > 0:13:01I mean, if everybody treats you like a girl now, they
0:13:01 > 0:13:03call you your girl's name, people at school, friends, family.
0:13:03 > 0:13:07Can you even remember being a boy?
0:13:07 > 0:13:09Not really.
0:13:09 > 0:13:12Does it seem like a long time ago?
0:13:16 > 0:13:18Does it really?
0:13:18 > 0:13:19Yeah.
0:13:19 > 0:13:21And what do you think about when you grow up, what
0:13:21 > 0:13:27do you know what you want to be when you grow up?
0:13:45 > 0:13:49You can watch the full interview with Lily and all our other stories
0:13:49 > 0:13:52on our programme page at:
0:13:54 > 0:13:56Next, the remarkable story of a man
0:13:56 > 0:13:58who spent more than 20 years on death-row in America
0:13:58 > 0:14:02after being wrongly convicted.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05It was a DNA test that eventually freed Nicky Aris.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08He sat down with our programme exclusively to give us a rare
0:14:08 > 0:14:10insight into what it's like to be on death row and survive.
0:14:13 > 0:14:18When you're faced with the hopelessness that
0:14:18 > 0:14:20you can't change the outcome then what do you do?
0:14:20 > 0:14:23I knew I would be executed and no one would believe me.
0:14:23 > 0:14:32I didn't think DNA would save me.
0:14:32 > 0:14:34I tried for 15 years with it, so I decided that
0:14:34 > 0:14:37if I had to die then to do it elegantly with
0:14:37 > 0:14:40the beautiful vernacular replacing the broken person that I was,
0:14:40 > 0:14:44with love and caring so if I died I still cared enough about myself
0:14:44 > 0:14:46that if that was the outcome, I died with dignity,
0:14:46 > 0:14:49and that's something a lot of people are afraid of.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51We're so afraid to die in an ignanamous way, we don't
0:14:51 > 0:14:53want to go out badly, I had my chance.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56That's really interesting.
0:14:56 > 0:15:02Explain to our audience how the conviction happened,
0:15:02 > 0:15:06it came as a result they lie you told the police because you
0:15:06 > 0:15:14thought that would help them.
0:15:14 > 0:15:17Yeah, I initially in December of 1981, I was driving a stolen car,
0:15:17 > 0:15:19I'm a 20-year-old kid, I get pulled over by
0:15:19 > 0:15:22an officer and an altercation starts when he starts choking me.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24It blows out of proportion, his gun discharge into the ground,
0:15:24 > 0:15:29he made up a story of me murdering him, I was put
0:15:29 > 0:15:32into solitary confinement - I was out of my head on drugs -
0:15:32 > 0:15:36I went through withdrawals, I was facing life and I made up
0:15:36 > 0:15:41a stupid story from a newspaper article and that was mistake
0:15:41 > 0:15:44because the police seized on the fact that they knew it couldn't
0:15:44 > 0:15:46be me but they could close a very sensationalised case.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49I was then arrested for that murder based on another inmate
0:15:49 > 0:15:50saying I confessed to him.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53So in a really weird set of circumstances I ended up
0:15:53 > 0:15:59being charged with the rape and murder of a woman
0:15:59 > 0:16:02I couldn't possibly have met from my own desperation to get out
0:16:02 > 0:16:04of the initial charges.
0:16:04 > 0:16:08And that was just the beginning of what became a really crazy set
0:16:08 > 0:16:10of circumstances you can never contrive, being put on trial
0:16:10 > 0:16:16for the initial charges.
0:16:16 > 0:16:19I was acquitted by a jury and that made the prosecutor insane.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22They went after me with the death penalty and they gave me a three-day
0:16:22 > 0:16:30murder trial at the age of 20 and I had no chance.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32I went through the process angrily.
0:16:32 > 0:16:35I was so bitter that at the age of 20 when I first got put
0:16:35 > 0:16:38into prison in solitary confinement, I used to beat my head
0:16:38 > 0:16:40against the wall in frustration because I hated myself.
0:16:40 > 0:16:45I hated that I let a childhood incident of being attacked
0:16:45 > 0:16:48and sexually abused make me a drug addict, I ruined all my chances,
0:16:48 > 0:16:52Victoria, and I felt so ashamed when I went to prison and I felt,
0:16:52 > 0:16:56God, give me a reason to live.
0:16:56 > 0:17:01Then an officer took pity on me and let me have some books in a cell
0:17:01 > 0:17:06that a man committed suicide in, and I began educating myself.
0:17:06 > 0:17:09And 10,000 books later I felt like I had mastered myself.
0:17:09 > 0:17:13Is that how many you read in that time?
0:17:13 > 0:17:14More than that.
0:17:14 > 0:17:18I became very fluent in the study of serology and biology
0:17:18 > 0:17:20so I could understand DNA.
0:17:20 > 0:17:22I wrote to Sir Alex Jefferies for many years, the inventor
0:17:22 > 0:17:25of science, I did all this so I could have a purposeful mind
0:17:26 > 0:17:28for fighting for myself.
0:17:28 > 0:17:30Next, the man who claims to have fathered up to 800 children
0:17:31 > 0:17:34through unlicensed sperm donation.
0:17:34 > 0:17:4441-year-old Simon Watson is an online sperm donor.
0:17:44 > 0:17:47Private licensed clinics can cost up to ?1000 for each cycle
0:17:47 > 0:17:48of treatment, but Simon charges just ?50.
0:17:48 > 0:17:55His services are legal, but they're unlicensed.
0:17:55 > 0:17:58I would like to get the world record ever, make sure that no one
0:17:58 > 0:18:00is going to break it, get as many as possible.
0:18:01 > 0:18:02Usually about one a week pops out.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05So I reckon I've got about 800 or so so far.
0:18:05 > 0:18:10So in about four years I'd like to crack 1000 if I can.
0:18:19 > 0:18:21Yeah, I just picked up the results from the hospital.
0:18:21 > 0:18:24I get tested every three months to show I've got no nasty things.
0:18:24 > 0:18:28I always post a copy on the internet so people can see it for themselves.
0:18:29 > 0:18:35My name is Simon Watson and I'm a sperm donor.
0:18:44 > 0:18:54If you do it formally, there's loads of hurdles
0:18:54 > 0:18:57you have to go through, they make people sit through
0:18:57 > 0:19:01counselling sessions and they make you do huge amounts of tests
0:19:01 > 0:19:03and then they charge huge amounts for the service,
0:19:03 > 0:19:06but realistically, if you've got a private donor you can go and see
0:19:06 > 0:19:08them, meet them somewhere, get what you want,
0:19:08 > 0:19:10just go, that's it.
0:19:10 > 0:19:12It's all sorted.
0:19:18 > 0:19:23I charge them ?50, that's it, for the magic potion pot.
0:19:23 > 0:19:30Then I give them a syringe with the pot and then leave them to it.
0:19:38 > 0:19:45Most of the people I help out tend to be from Facebook.
0:19:45 > 0:19:48When people join the site, I see their name and I send them
0:19:48 > 0:19:53a message explaining the service I provide.
0:19:53 > 0:19:58It's like artificial insemination only, and they like the fact I do
0:19:58 > 0:20:03that, and they're not going to get anything funny out of it.
0:20:13 > 0:20:18Because I charge people for my service, there's a lot
0:20:18 > 0:20:20of people who would be happy to provide the service
0:20:20 > 0:20:21with no charge.
0:20:21 > 0:20:26But then they want a bit of fun out of the customers.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28So I'm not knocking them, it's up to them, some ladies
0:20:28 > 0:20:34are looking for that, too.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36Some lady couples, like the ones I had today,
0:20:36 > 0:20:38they are booked into this hotel.
0:20:38 > 0:20:42I won't know who they are unless they want to contact me later on.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44I don't plan to stop.
0:20:44 > 0:20:48I would like to get the world record ever, make sure no one
0:20:48 > 0:20:53is going to break it, get as many as possible.
0:20:53 > 0:20:56Usually about one a week pops out, I think I've got
0:20:56 > 0:20:57about 800 or so so far.
0:20:57 > 0:21:06Within about four years I'd like to crack 1000.
0:21:06 > 0:21:08Before we go, it was one of the remarkable
0:21:08 > 0:21:09achievements of the year.
0:21:09 > 0:21:11Team GB finished second in the medals table in Rio.
0:21:11 > 0:21:14We beat China and Russia, and in the process became the first
0:21:14 > 0:21:17country ever to improve on a home medal haul at the next
0:21:17 > 0:21:19Games, winning 67 gongs - two more than London 2012.
0:21:19 > 0:21:24Here's a quick reminder of those two magic weeks in August.
0:22:22 > 0:22:23MUSIC.
0:22:23 > 0:22:25COMMENTATOR: Mo Farah is going to get gold
0:22:25 > 0:22:34for Great Britain again!
0:22:34 > 0:22:40Will it be Britain, will it be Australia?
0:22:40 > 0:22:41It certainly will be Australia.
0:22:41 > 0:22:48It certainly will be Great Britain!
0:22:48 > 0:22:58As Max Whitlock has made history.
0:23:18 > 0:23:27Andy Murray is a double Olympic gold-medallist.
0:23:37 > 0:23:43MUSIC: Remind Me by Conrad Sewell.
0:23:43 > 0:23:49They've done it!
0:23:49 > 0:23:59MUSIC: Remind Me by Conrad Sewell.
0:24:24 > 0:24:32Thank you very much for watching.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34We're back on air on 3rd January.