:00:04. > :00:08.A little girl from Greater Manchester, abducted three years
:00:09. > :00:12.ago, has tonight been brought home from Pakistan. The six-year-old,
:00:12. > :00:15.who'd been taken by her father, was found with the help of the
:00:15. > :00:24.Pakistani authorities. Atiya Anjum-Wilkinson landed in
:00:24. > :00:29.Manchester this evening and was promptly reunited with her mother.
:00:29. > :00:33.In she walked into the room and looked at me. And I stood up to
:00:33. > :00:36.walk over to give her a cuddle. She looked at me and put her arms up
:00:36. > :00:38.and I walked over and gave her a massive cuddle.
:00:38. > :00:40.Also tonight: Lady Thatcher's private thoughts
:00:40. > :00:43.after the Falklands conflict, revealed in Government papers just
:00:43. > :00:47.released. Cases of the winter bug norovirus
:00:47. > :00:50.rise to over a million in England and Wales.
:00:50. > :01:00.And tributes to Norman Schwarzkopf, the American general who led
:01:00. > :01:11.
:01:11. > :01:15.coalition forces in the first Gulf Good evening.
:01:15. > :01:18.A six-year-old girl who was abducted by her father and taken to
:01:18. > :01:21.Pakistan three years ago has been brought back to Britain. Atiya
:01:21. > :01:25.Anjum-Wilkinson was reunited with her mother in Manchester a few
:01:25. > :01:35.hours ago. She'd been found with the help of the Pakistani
:01:35. > :01:37.
:01:37. > :01:43.authorities. Ed Thomas reports on the evening's events.
:01:43. > :01:47.Flight 701 touched down from Pakistan just after 7pm. On board,
:01:47. > :01:51.Atiya Anjum-Wilkinson, who was three when she was abducted by her
:01:51. > :01:56.father. Now six, she has finally been reunited with her mother,
:01:56. > :02:00.Gemma Wilkinson, who never gave up hope of seeing her daughter again.
:02:00. > :02:05.She is absolutely fine. She is trying to communicate and she is
:02:05. > :02:10.playing with the things we have brought for her. She has settled.
:02:10. > :02:17.When she saw you, she recognised you? She had a big smile on her
:02:17. > :02:22.face. Atiya was taken a day before her third birthday. A father took
:02:22. > :02:27.her to Pakistan. He is now in jail in the UK for refusing to help
:02:27. > :02:31.police. Atiya was found in a village 60 miles outside Lahore,
:02:32. > :02:37.after a north-west MEP spoke to the Foreign Minister in Pakistan. She
:02:37. > :02:40.was staying with relatives of her father. The family have only given
:02:40. > :02:46.this small bit of corporation when they realised that actually the
:02:47. > :02:50.game is up, there is nowhere left for them to turn. -- Co operation.
:02:50. > :02:55.I made clear to them that they should not underestimate the
:02:55. > :02:59.determination with which this matter will be pursued. Once Atiya
:02:59. > :03:05.landed at Manchester Airport, she did not come through the arrivals
:03:05. > :03:08.gate. She was taken aside by specially-trained officers by --
:03:08. > :03:14.from Greater Manchester Police. After three years, much has changed.
:03:14. > :03:18.It is clear she will need time to readjust to life with her mother.
:03:18. > :03:22.She is a bit disorientated, quiet and withdrawn. She does not speak
:03:22. > :03:26.any English at the moment. It will be a long period for her and her
:03:26. > :03:31.mother and her extended family, just to get to know each other
:03:31. > :03:35.again. But I am sure with the love of the family, it is a great
:03:35. > :03:39.occasion for everyone, really. the first time in three years,
:03:39. > :03:46.there is an opportunity for mother and daughter to rebuild their life
:03:46. > :03:50.together. I just want to cuddle her. I just want to hold Atiya. I don't
:03:50. > :03:57.think I have any other emotion than wanting to do that. What was it
:03:57. > :04:04.like when you gave her that first hug after three years? Beautiful.
:04:04. > :04:07.The big hoax. - a big hug. The invasion of the Falkland
:04:07. > :04:10.Islands was the worst moment of Lady Thatcher's life, according
:04:10. > :04:13.evidence she gave to an official inquiry after the conflict. The
:04:13. > :04:16.detail is revealed in Government papers released under the 30-year
:04:16. > :04:19.rule. They show that the then Prime Minister was acutely worried about
:04:19. > :04:22.the chances of retaking the islands from the Argentine forces. Lady
:04:22. > :04:30.Thatcher, now 87, stressed that the invasion had taken Britain
:04:30. > :04:35.completely by surprise, as Peter Biles reports.
:04:35. > :04:39.April 2nd, 1982, Argentine forces came ashore in the Falklands and
:04:39. > :04:44.within hours the capital, Stanley, was under their control. Later,
:04:44. > :04:48.giving evidence in private to an official inquiry, Margaret Thatcher
:04:48. > :04:58.said she had not thought an invasion was likely until two days
:04:58. > :05:07.
:05:07. > :05:10.On 31st March, 1982, Margaret Thatcher saw the raw intelligence
:05:10. > :05:14.that suggested that an Argentine invasion of the Falklands was
:05:14. > :05:19.imminent. Later, she told the Franks Inquiry, it was the worst, I
:05:19. > :05:23.think, moment of my life. Because it was then she realised just how
:05:23. > :05:29.serious this was. She went on to write, that night, no one could
:05:29. > :05:33.tell me whether we could retake the Falklands. No one. We did not know.
:05:33. > :05:37.We did not know. On the day of the invasion, official records reveal
:05:37. > :05:40.it was an amateur radio ham working at the BBC who provided the
:05:40. > :05:46.Government with the first confirmation of the Argentine
:05:46. > :05:49.landings. The Argentines had announced the invasion at 9:30am
:05:49. > :05:54.our time. I spent the day on the amateur radio transmitter at the
:05:54. > :05:57.BBC and managed to contact someone in the Highlands who said, it is
:05:57. > :06:02.all over, there is an Argentine aircraft carrier in the bay and
:06:02. > :06:06.troops all over town. It is all finished. The United States was
:06:06. > :06:10.keen to provide Britain with maximum support. America offered an
:06:10. > :06:14.aircraft carrier, although it was not needed. But the files also
:06:14. > :06:19.showed that Mrs Thatcher rejected President Reagan's calls for
:06:19. > :06:22.dialogue. Mrs Thatcher really is not in the mood for compromise.
:06:23. > :06:27.There will be negotiations while the task force is moving south, but
:06:27. > :06:31.there is no mistake that she is prepared to use force if the
:06:31. > :06:36.negotiations fail. After a late night phone call between the two
:06:36. > :06:40.leaders, Mrs Thatcher's private secretary wrote, the Prime Minister
:06:40. > :06:44.asked the President to put himself in her position. She had lost
:06:44. > :06:47.valuable British ships and invaluable British lives. She was
:06:47. > :06:52.sure that the President would act in the same way if Alaska had been
:06:52. > :06:58.similarly threatened. I have just heard the white flag is flying over
:06:58. > :07:02.Stanley. On 14th June, Argentine troops surrendered. The war
:07:02. > :07:07.archives tell us that Argentina was also wrong-footed by events in the
:07:07. > :07:15.Falklands. The junta in Buenos Aires never thought British forces
:07:15. > :07:18.would sail a 1000 miles and defend Police in Sheffield have started a
:07:18. > :07:22.murder investigation after a church organist was attacked on Christmas
:07:22. > :07:25.Eve on his way to a midnight service. Alan Greaves, who was 68,
:07:25. > :07:28.died from his injuries yesterday. Detectives say it was a brutal
:07:28. > :07:38.attack with no known motive, and they want anyone with information
:07:38. > :07:41.to come forward. There have been more than a million
:07:41. > :07:45.cases of norovirus, or winter vomiting bug, in England and Wales
:07:45. > :07:48.since the summer. That is more than 80% higher than at the same stage
:07:48. > :07:54.last year. Health Protection Scotland has also reported a rise
:07:54. > :07:58.in cases. Branwen Jeffreys has more details.
:07:58. > :08:02.This is the virus that has ruined Christmas for thousands of families,
:08:02. > :08:06.invisible to the eye but highly infectious. This winter, he began
:08:06. > :08:11.spreading earlier. It is not like the football season, when you know
:08:11. > :08:15.when it will start. It is unpredictable, and therefore it can
:08:15. > :08:21.begin to arise... We know it arises in the winter, but when it arises,
:08:21. > :08:27.we do not know. In the last week, just over 3500 cases have been
:08:27. > :08:32.confirmed in England and Wales. For each of those confirmed cases, an
:08:33. > :08:38.extra 288 people are estimated to also be ill. That means more than 1
:08:38. > :08:43.million people so far this winter have had this nasty illness. And
:08:43. > :08:48.across the UK, it has hit harder than usual for this time of year.
:08:48. > :08:52.Today, East Surrey Hospital has had to close to visitors. It is a last
:08:52. > :08:57.resort in trying to reduce the spread of the virus. Many hospitals
:08:57. > :09:01.have had similar restrictions in place in recent weeks. Scientists
:09:01. > :09:06.have been trying to find out more about this virus. It is changeable
:09:06. > :09:13.and unpredictable. But one thing is known for certain. It has an
:09:13. > :09:16.amazing capacity to spread. It is like the Ferrari of the virus field.
:09:16. > :09:20.May infect people very quickly and spread very quickly, so by the time
:09:20. > :09:26.you know you have been infected, you have probably already spread
:09:26. > :09:31.the disease. So, has norovirus done its worst this winter? Experts say
:09:31. > :09:35.they will not know for several weeks.
:09:35. > :09:38.A woman who was gang raped on a bus in India has died, after suffering
:09:38. > :09:41."severe organ failure". She had been taken to a hospital in
:09:41. > :09:43.Singapore after undergoing surgery in Delhi. The attack, which
:09:43. > :09:46.happened nearly two weeks ago, triggered violent protests that
:09:46. > :09:50.left one police officer dead. Six men have been arrested in
:09:50. > :09:53.connection with the rape. President Obama has been meeting
:09:53. > :09:57.Congressional leaders in the latest effort to avert a full-scale budget
:09:57. > :10:00.crisis. The Democrat leader in Congress, Nancy Pelosi, said the
:10:00. > :10:03.meeting, which broke up in the last hour, had been "candid and
:10:03. > :10:07.constructive" as she left, but there's no sign of an agreement.
:10:07. > :10:12.Unless a deal can be struck by New Year's Day, sharp tax rises and
:10:12. > :10:14.spending cuts will automatically come into force.
:10:15. > :10:19.In Russia, President Putin has approved a controversial new law
:10:19. > :10:22.preventing Americans from adopting Russian orphans. The ban is part of
:10:22. > :10:27.the Kremlin's response to US sanctions against Russian officials
:10:27. > :10:37.suspected of human rights abuses. From Moscow, Steve Rosenberg
:10:37. > :10:38.
:10:38. > :10:43.More than 700,000 Russian children have no parents to care for them.
:10:43. > :10:50.Now, they are caught up in a political battle reminiscent of the
:10:50. > :10:55.Cold War. The placards outside the Russian parliament recently read,
:10:55. > :10:59.don't deprived kids of a decent life, and the Duma has gone mad. It
:10:59. > :11:04.did not stop MPs voting to ban Americans from adopting Russian
:11:04. > :11:09.children. It was Moscow's retaliation for a US law that bans
:11:09. > :11:13.Russians suspected of human rights violations from entering America.
:11:14. > :11:18.Vladimir Putin has now signed the adoption ban. He has claimed that
:11:18. > :11:22.Russian children in America have been badly treated. In one
:11:22. > :11:28.prominent case, a Russian boy was rejected by his new American mother.
:11:28. > :11:32.She simply put him on a plane and sent him back to Moscow. This is
:11:32. > :11:35.perhaps the most controversial law that Vladimir Putin has signed
:11:35. > :11:40.since his return to the Kremlin, a law which even some members of the
:11:40. > :11:43.government here have publicly criticised. And it has opened up
:11:43. > :11:48.President Putin to accusations that he is playing politics with Russian
:11:48. > :11:52.children. Supporters of the ban say they are not fazed by international
:11:52. > :11:57.criticism. I do not think there is much that can really damage the
:11:57. > :12:02.image of Russia, which is bad anyway, for at least the last 500
:12:02. > :12:05.years. The law is a blow to the dozens of American families who had
:12:05. > :12:11.been close to adopting Russian children, many with special needs,
:12:11. > :12:16.who had not found homes in Russia. Kendra Skaggs was weeks away from
:12:16. > :12:21.adopting 5 1/2 year-old Paulina, who has spina bifida. She visited
:12:21. > :12:29.her only last week at an orphanage outside Moscow. I cannot help her.
:12:29. > :12:33.I cannot tell her I love her. So it is really hard. With this law, the
:12:33. > :12:39.Kremlin has hit American families and Russian children who had been
:12:39. > :12:42.hoping for a better life. The head of the British armed
:12:42. > :12:45.forces has praised the American general Norman Schwarzkopf, who's
:12:45. > :12:48.died aged 78. General Sir David Richards said his command in the
:12:48. > :12:51.first Gulf War "displayed the finest qualities of American
:12:51. > :13:01.leadership". And President Obama described him as an "American
:13:01. > :13:02.
:13:02. > :13:07.original", as Richard Galpin reports.
:13:07. > :13:13.Returning home to a hero's welcome. A triumphant General Schwarzkopf,
:13:13. > :13:17.back in the United States after the victory in the first Gulf war.
:13:17. > :13:24.a great day to be a soldier, and it's a great day to be an American.
:13:24. > :13:30.Thank you very much. The general had been no overall commander of
:13:30. > :13:36.the large military coalition which pushed Saddam Hussein's forces out
:13:36. > :13:43.of Kuwait in 1991. Operation Desert Storm routed the Iraqi army in less
:13:43. > :13:46.than two months, forcing it into a humiliating retreat. The United
:13:46. > :13:51.States honours this soldier, who takes his place in history's role
:13:51. > :13:56.of great commanders. Following the general's death, George Bush Senior,
:13:56. > :13:59.who was President at the time, has issued a statement paying tribute,
:14:00. > :14:06.describing him as a true American patriot and one of the great
:14:06. > :14:11.military leaders of his generation. We are going to go around, over,
:14:11. > :14:14.through, on top, underneath and any other way... He was also a big
:14:15. > :14:20.character, known as "Stormin' Norman", apparently because of his
:14:20. > :14:24.bluff, fiery temperament, and he became a household name thanks to
:14:24. > :14:30.these televised news conferences during the Gulf war. He later
:14:30. > :14:35.turned down offers to become a politician. Instead, after retiring
:14:35. > :14:38.from the military 20 years ago, he started working for charities and
:14:38. > :14:45.other national causes, including promoting awareness of prostate
:14:46. > :14:49.cancer, for which he himself was treated. But having survived cancer,
:14:49. > :14:53.his family say he died yesterday from complications arising from