:00:10. > :00:15.A little girl from Greater Manchester abducted three years ago
:00:15. > :00:19.is on her way home from Pakistan. The six-year-old was taken by her
:00:19. > :00:24.father. Now her mother and local campaigners are looking forward to
:00:24. > :00:27.her return. I am delighted and her mother is delighted. For the first
:00:27. > :00:32.time on Christmas Day she saw pictures of her daughter after
:00:32. > :00:35.three and a half years. Lady Thatcher's private thoughts
:00:35. > :00:39.after the Falklands conflict, revealed in government papers just
:00:39. > :00:44.released. Cases of the winter bug, norovirus,
:00:44. > :00:47.have risen to over one million in England and Wales.
:00:47. > :00:57.And tributes to Norman Schwarzkopf, the American general who led
:00:57. > :01:07.
:01:07. > :01:10.coalition forces in the first Gulf Good evening. A six-year-old girl
:01:10. > :01:15.who was abducted by her father and taken to Pakistan three years ago
:01:15. > :01:18.is travelling back to the UK. Atiya Anjum-Wilkinson was taken from her
:01:19. > :01:22.home in Greater Manchester on her third birthday. She was found with
:01:22. > :01:27.the help of Pakistani authorities and is understood to be fit and
:01:27. > :01:31.well. Our correspondent Ed Thomas is at Manchester airport waiting
:01:31. > :01:35.for the return, and he has the latest for us.
:01:35. > :01:40.Yes, Huw, Gemma Wilkinson was told on Christmas Day that her daughter
:01:40. > :01:47.was saved and well. She was shown a photograph of Atiya, and after such
:01:47. > :01:50.a long campaign, in just a couple of hours, her weight will be over.
:01:50. > :01:55.Atiya was three years old when she was abducted and left in Pakistan.
:01:55. > :02:02.Until now, her mother had no proof that her daughter was alive, just a
:02:02. > :02:08.text message from Razwan Ali Anjum, the child's father. He sent me a
:02:08. > :02:12.message to say that I was never going to see Atiya again, basically
:02:12. > :02:18.laughing, you know, in a text message. A child just does not
:02:18. > :02:24.disappear. A person cannot hold this control over a child, an
:02:24. > :02:28.innocent child's life. Atiya was taken in 2009, one day before her
:02:28. > :02:33.third birthday. Her father said he was taking her to Southport.
:02:33. > :02:38.Instead, they boarded a plane to Pakistan. Gemma Wilkinson appealed
:02:38. > :02:43.for information. Today she was told her six-year-old was safe and on
:02:43. > :02:48.her way home. It was the end of a five-week investigation. Atiya was
:02:48. > :02:52.found in the Punjab region in a village 60 miles outside Lahore
:02:52. > :02:57.after a North East MEPs both to the foreign minister in Pakistan. She
:02:57. > :03:00.was staying with relatives of her father. The family have only given
:03:00. > :03:05.this small bit of co-operation when they have realised that actually
:03:05. > :03:09.the game is now up, there was nowhere left for them to turn. The
:03:09. > :03:12.first to the line made, I made it quite clear to them that they
:03:12. > :03:19.should not underestimate the determination with which this
:03:19. > :03:23.matter will be pursued. Police used his picture of how Atiya might look
:03:23. > :03:27.now. A lot has changed in the three years shins she went missing.
:03:27. > :03:31.is coming back to a mother that she has not got a deeper relationship
:03:31. > :03:34.with, but hopefully with the love of the mother and the immediate
:03:34. > :03:38.family and with help from professionals, she will be able to
:03:38. > :03:43.form that relationship began. her mother has remembered her
:03:43. > :03:48.constantly. There has been several campaigns in finder, and now her
:03:48. > :03:54.painful wait will soon be over. -- find her.
:03:54. > :03:58.Yes, Atiya's flight is due to land here at 7:15pm, but do not expected
:03:58. > :04:03.to be walking down the arrivals corridor. She will be taken aside
:04:03. > :04:07.and spoken to by specially trained police officers. It is still a
:04:07. > :04:10.delicate situation, and we do not know if the six-year-old can even
:04:10. > :04:14.speak English or what memories she has of her times here and
:04:14. > :04:18.Manchester, but maybe those are concerns for another day. Tonight
:04:18. > :04:21.is about a mother being reunited with her daughter.
:04:21. > :04:24.Ed, thank you very much, Ed Thomas from Manchester airport.
:04:24. > :04:28.The invasion of the Falkland Islands was the worst moment of
:04:28. > :04:32.Lady Thatcher's life according to evidence she gave to an official
:04:32. > :04:35.inquiry after the conflict. The details are revealed in government
:04:35. > :04:38.papers released under the 30 year rule show that the then Prime
:04:38. > :04:44.Minister was acutely worried about the chances of retaking the islands
:04:44. > :04:47.from Argentine forces. Lady Thatcher, now 87, stressed that the
:04:47. > :04:53.invasion had taken Britain completely by surprise, as Peter
:04:53. > :04:57.Biles reports. April 2nd, 1982, Argentine forces
:04:57. > :05:03.came ashore on the Falklands and, within hours, the capital was under
:05:03. > :05:06.their control. Later, giving evidence in private to an official
:05:06. > :05:12.inquiry, Margaret Thatcher said she had not thought an invasion was
:05:12. > :05:16.likely until two days beforehand. I never, never expected the
:05:16. > :05:20.Argentines to invade the Falklands head on, she said. It was such a
:05:20. > :05:25.stupid thing to do, as events happened, such a stupid thing even
:05:25. > :05:29.to contemplate doing. On March 31st, 1982, Margaret
:05:29. > :05:33.Thatcher saw the raw intelligence that suggested an Argentine
:05:33. > :05:38.invasion of the Falklands was imminent. Later she told the Franks
:05:38. > :05:42.inquiry that it was the worst, I think, moment of my life. It was
:05:42. > :05:47.then that she realised just how serious this was. She went on to
:05:47. > :05:52.write, that night, no-one could tell me whether we could retake the
:05:52. > :05:56.Falklands, no-one, we did not know, we did not know. On the day of the
:05:56. > :05:58.invasion, the official records reveal it was an amateur radio and
:05:59. > :06:02.working at the BBC who provided the Government with the first
:06:02. > :06:05.confirmation of the Argentine landings. The Argentines had
:06:06. > :06:10.announced the invasion at 9:30am in the morning, and there was nothing
:06:10. > :06:13.coming from the islands. I spent the day on the amateur radio
:06:13. > :06:16.transmitter and managed to contact someone I knew on the islands he
:06:17. > :06:21.said, it is all over, there is an Argentine aircraft carrier in the
:06:21. > :06:24.bay, troops all over town, the Governor and the marines under
:06:24. > :06:29.arrest, it is all finished. The USA was keen to provide Britain with
:06:29. > :06:32.maximum support. America offered an aircraft carrier, although it was
:06:32. > :06:36.not needed. The files also show that Mrs Thatcher rejected
:06:36. > :06:41.President Reagan's calls for dialogue. Mrs Thatcher really is
:06:41. > :06:45.not in the mood for compromise. There will be negotiations while
:06:45. > :06:50.the task force is moving south, but there is no mistake that she is
:06:50. > :06:54.prepared to use force in the negotiations fail. After a late
:06:54. > :06:58.night phone call between the two leaders, Mrs Thatcher's private
:06:58. > :07:02.secretary wrote, the Prime Minister at the President to put himself in
:07:02. > :07:05.her position, she had lost valuable British ships and invaluable
:07:05. > :07:10.British lives. She was sure that the President would act in the same
:07:10. > :07:16.way if Alaska had been similarly threatened.
:07:16. > :07:21.I have heard that the white flag is flying over Stan Lee! On June 14th,
:07:21. > :07:24.Argentine troops surrendered. The archives tell us that Argentina was
:07:24. > :07:29.also wrong-footed by events in the Falklands. The junta in Buenos
:07:29. > :07:39.Aires never thought that British forces would sail 8,000 miles and
:07:39. > :07:39.
:07:39. > :07:43.Well, other papers released under the 30 year rule include some
:07:43. > :07:46.letters sent by Jimmy Savile to Lady Thatcher when she was Prime
:07:46. > :07:51.Minister. The correspondence deals mainly with his charity work. David
:07:51. > :07:55.Sillito has been looking at some of the contents. What have we learnt?
:07:55. > :07:59.Given what we now know about Jimmy Savile, it is a fascinating glimpse
:07:59. > :08:03.at the level of access, the meetings at Chequers and Downing
:08:03. > :08:07.Street with Thatcher, the informality of it. One handwritten
:08:07. > :08:11.letter from Jimmy Savile, a thank- you note after a lunch at Chequers.
:08:11. > :08:16.Certainly, some words jump out, Guinness and then up at the time,
:08:16. > :08:22.but talking about his girl patients, who were madly jealous because of
:08:22. > :08:26.his friendship with Margaret Thatcher. -- innocent. The context
:08:26. > :08:30.of the time was that he was talking about tax relief on charitable
:08:30. > :08:35.donations, a possible gift to Stoke Mandeville. He was a trusted
:08:35. > :08:39.charity fundraiser, and she seems to trust him a great deal. In fact,
:08:40. > :08:46.the civil servants asking, what has she promised over lunch? Issue be
:08:46. > :08:51.going to be going on Jim'll Fix It? A one-word answer in His, no, from
:08:51. > :08:56.Margaret Thatcher. But you have got to look at the way Jimmy Savile was
:08:57. > :09:01.with air, saying that everyone at Stoke Mandeville loves you, and his
:09:01. > :09:05.final words are meat. In Australia, police say that radio
:09:05. > :09:07.presenters involved in a hoax call to the London Hospital where the
:09:07. > :09:11.Duchess of Cambridge was being treated are unlikely to face
:09:11. > :09:16.prosecution. Michael Christian and Mel Greig made a public apology
:09:16. > :09:19.after the nurse who transferred the call was found dead. Senior
:09:19. > :09:23.officers in New South Wales say Scotland Yard has not asked them to
:09:23. > :09:27.cook -- interview the presenters. They have been more than one
:09:27. > :09:31.million cases of norovirus, the winter vomiting bug, in England and
:09:31. > :09:35.Wales since the summer, more than 80% higher than the same time last
:09:36. > :09:41.year. Health Protection Scotland has also reported a rise in cases.
:09:41. > :09:45.Branwen Jeffreys has more details. This is the virus that has ruined
:09:45. > :09:50.Christmas for thousands of families, invisible to the eye, but highly
:09:50. > :09:54.infectious, and this winter it began by spreading earlier. It is
:09:54. > :09:59.not like the football season, when you know when it is going to start.
:09:59. > :10:05.It is unpredictable, and therefore it can begin to rise... We know it
:10:05. > :10:09.rises in winter, but exactly when it starts to rise, we do not know.
:10:09. > :10:16.In the last week, just over 3,500 cases have been confirmed in
:10:16. > :10:21.England and Wales. For each one of those confirmed cases, an extra 288
:10:21. > :10:26.people are estimated to also be ill. That means more than one million
:10:26. > :10:33.people so far this winter have had this nasty illness. And across the
:10:33. > :10:36.UK, it has hit harder than usual for this time of year. Today, East
:10:36. > :10:40.Surrey Hospital has had to close to visitors. It is a last resort in
:10:40. > :10:45.trying to reduce the spread of the virus. Many hospitals have had
:10:45. > :10:49.similar restrictions in place in recent weeks. The NHS is trying to
:10:49. > :10:53.protect the sick and frail, but families have been telling the BBC
:10:53. > :10:59.of their Christmas misery. It has gone through our family of six and
:10:59. > :11:03.left a trail of devastation. It is a hideous virus, it as totally
:11:03. > :11:07.ruined Christmas for us. Being stuck in bed for two days, a truly
:11:07. > :11:14.horrible bug. That was from Mark, whose whole family in Glasgow was
:11:14. > :11:17.ill. Scientists have been trying to find out more about this virus. It
:11:17. > :11:23.is changeable and unpredictable, but one thing is known for certain.
:11:23. > :11:27.It has an amazing capacity to spread. Norovirus is like the
:11:27. > :11:31.Ferrari of the virus world. It infects people very quickly and
:11:31. > :11:35.spreads very quickly, so by the time you know you have been
:11:35. > :11:38.infected, you have probably spread the disease. So has norovirus done
:11:38. > :11:47.its worst this winter? Experts say they will not know that for several
:11:47. > :11:50.Police in Sheffield had started a murder inquiry after a man who was
:11:50. > :11:55.attacked on his way to church on Christmas Eve died in hospital.
:11:55. > :11:58.Alan Greaves, 68, died from his injuries yesterday. Detectives say
:11:58. > :12:03.it was a brutal attack with no known motive, as Ben Geoghegan
:12:03. > :12:06.reports. A husband, a father of four
:12:06. > :12:09.children, and a man very much at the centre of his community, Alan
:12:09. > :12:13.Greaves was getting ready for Christmas when he was viciously
:12:13. > :12:17.attacked. He was due to play the organ at the midnight service at
:12:17. > :12:21.his local church on Christmas Eve, but he never turned up. His friends
:12:21. > :12:26.describe him as a gentle soul, and they are shocked at what they say
:12:26. > :12:30.is a senseless killing. If I were describing him, I could only call
:12:31. > :12:35.him a good man, and he would come in here to lead a service, which is
:12:35. > :12:40.about light coming into darkness, and in this context the only thing
:12:40. > :12:43.I could really say is that this is an evil act. The church is just
:12:43. > :12:48.around the corner from where he was found on Monday night, lying on the
:12:48. > :12:51.pavement. He had been assaulted and suffered a serious head injury. He
:12:51. > :12:58.was taken to hospital, but last night he died with his family at
:12:58. > :13:01.his bedside. Today, police officers have been going door to door,
:13:01. > :13:06.looking for witnesses and trying to reassure the local community.
:13:06. > :13:10.cannot think of a motive why anybody would choose to attack Alan
:13:10. > :13:15.Greaves, and again, any assistance from the local community would be
:13:15. > :13:19.greatly appreciated. Alan Greaves was looking forward to celebrating
:13:19. > :13:28.Christmas with his family and friends. Instead, a whole community
:13:28. > :13:32.In Russia, President Putin has signed a controversial law
:13:32. > :13:36.preventing Americans from adopting Russian orphans. The ban is part of
:13:36. > :13:40.the Kremlin's response to US sanctions against Russian officials
:13:40. > :13:43.are suspected of human rights abuses. From Moscow, our
:13:43. > :13:48.correspondent Steve Rosenberg has the story.
:13:48. > :13:52.More than 700,000 Russian children have no parents to care for them.
:13:52. > :13:57.Now they are caught up in a political battle, reminiscent of
:13:57. > :14:02.the Cold War. The placards outside the Russian parliament recently
:14:02. > :14:08.read, do not deprive kids of a decent life, and the Duma has gone
:14:08. > :14:13.mad. It did not stop MPs voting to ban Americans from adopting Russian
:14:13. > :14:18.children. It was Moscow's retaliation for a US law that bans
:14:18. > :14:22.Russians suspected of human rights violations from entering America.
:14:22. > :14:27.Vladimir Putin has now signed the adoption ban. He has complained
:14:27. > :14:30.that Russian children in America have suffered abuse. This is
:14:30. > :14:33.perhaps the most controversial law that Vladimir Putin has signed
:14:33. > :14:37.since his return to the presidency, a law which even some members of
:14:37. > :14:40.the government here have publicly criticised, and it has opened him
:14:40. > :14:46.up to accusations that he is playing politics with Russian
:14:46. > :14:50.children. Supporters of the ban say they are unfazed by international
:14:51. > :14:56.criticism. I do not think there is much which can really damage the
:14:56. > :15:00.image of Russia, which is bad anyway for at least the last 500
:15:00. > :15:05.years. The law is a blow to the dozens of American families who
:15:05. > :15:10.have been close to adopting Russian children, many of them with special
:15:10. > :15:15.needs who have not found homes in Russia. Kendra was expecting to
:15:15. > :15:24.adopt a five-and-a-half year-old orphan with spina bifida. I cannot
:15:24. > :15:28.help up. I cannot tell her I love her. So it is really hard.
:15:28. > :15:38.Kremlin is unrepentant. Russia, it says, is now more than capable of
:15:38. > :15:43.
:15:44. > :15:47.The former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has agreed to pay
:15:47. > :15:49.his former wife around �30 million a year as part of a divorce
:15:49. > :15:53.settlement. Veronica Lario, seen here on the
:15:53. > :15:56.left, was married to Mr Berlusconi for more than 20 years. She began
:15:56. > :15:58.divorce proceedings after accusing him of pursuing affairs with young
:15:58. > :16:00.women. The head of the British armed
:16:00. > :16:05.forces has praised the American general Norman Schwarzkopf who's
:16:05. > :16:07.died aged 78. General Sir David Richards said his command in the
:16:07. > :16:10.first Gulf War "displayed the finest qualities of American
:16:10. > :16:20.leadership'". President Obama described him as an "American
:16:20. > :16:21.
:16:21. > :16:28.original", as Richard Galpin reports.
:16:28. > :16:33.Returning home to a hero's welcome. A triumphant general back in the
:16:33. > :16:38.United States after the victory in the first Gulf war. It is a great
:16:38. > :16:44.day to be his daughter, and it is a great day to be an American, thank
:16:45. > :16:48.you very much. The general had been overall commander of the large
:16:48. > :16:55.military coalition which pushed Saddam Hussein and his forces out
:16:56. > :17:02.of Kuwait in 1991. Operation Desert Storm routing the Iraqi army in
:17:02. > :17:06.less than two months, forcing it into a humiliating retreat.
:17:06. > :17:11.United States honours this soldier who takes his place in history as
:17:11. > :17:15.far as a great commander. Following his death, George Bush Senior,
:17:15. > :17:25.President at the time, issued a statement paying tribute,
:17:25. > :17:30.
:17:30. > :17:34.Are you going around, over? On top, underneath, any way. He was also a
:17:34. > :17:41.big character, known as Stormin' Norman and Plan A because of his
:17:41. > :17:45.bluff, fiery temperament. He became a household name that has had to be
:17:45. > :17:50.televised news conferences during the Gulf war. Later turning down
:17:50. > :17:55.offers to become a politician. Instead, after retiring from the
:17:55. > :17:59.military 20 years ago, he started working for charities and other
:17:59. > :18:05.national courses, including promoting awareness of prostate
:18:05. > :18:09.cancer for which he was treated. But, having survived cancer, his
:18:09. > :18:11.family say he died yesterday from complications arising from