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always been lucky had a great education a good job and enough money to live on. i know more about where i would sleep i could eat but now i'm facing christmas alone the streets. come to the. sun. but it is so hot out of my boss you know disappointed with those still give up food for the homeless to. her life. because you don't really. feel like

a human being you know. and then. that guy this came over smithsonian gave me this book of. christmas is about wolves love and family but there are so many people in the u.k. that have none of these things i want to see what it was like to be almost on the signs to go through christmas as a homeless person. myself . yes but i have said. well i know it's on your list.

i see it anything but a lump of coal although i doubt it. since two thousand and ten the number of rough sleepers in the u.k. has increased by over fifty percent that means literally thousands are out on the street every night. i wasn't going to have enough time to really understand homelessness but everyone has to face the fear that first night out i change them sometimes of clothes and packed a plastic bag. i have no idea where i'm going to spend christmas or even where i'm going to sleep. last night any. groups a few things but not too much when they. think it's just going to be. boy glucose

let's run. just above the water. sometimes. hopefully put people in a good mood. then it's how. to clean myself a bit less and also. that a bit suitcase. but i have no money. and i haven't eaten anything and the only way i'm going to eat something is on the boat finding it's full of always begging for enough money to get me some sweets. so that's the first part of the plan. this regularly fit by looking at charities but i have no idea when. i need some advice from someone on. the bus journey we need to

screen all food today you know. move places with money go and get some in three days i'm. not good enough enough to. argue that he. was what i was hoping to hear. great news honey i'm too late here to give out food around here first thing in the morning so i'll miss what chaunce. there was nothing else for it if i was going to eat i was going to have to make. the most of us. it took you much more minutes bring myself to. mr shays.

but. really just says he believes in him oh it's. ok if. she says christ just absolutely if. people buy in the believe. and this one coming down i just came every day people to quit. i didn't expect that or do. they feel so ashamed to ask people. to fill about and have to do that to get to vote to get boy. to. the bus on which. the so feel better with a. place that funds.

church. and been told what it was things are starting to move the. thing that makes you feel was it was. going to turn some people to see how they were feeling the time. that this is the anything out here they came from have been in a as each time a territory i'd stay even though nothing in i have nothing else in life. lisa has been homeless for two years now she's battled alcoholism. drug addiction

and her little girl now lives with their older sister. in a she asks me every day and some i say yeah. yeah when we need that money and she's starting to stop asking now inside know why i didn't. qualify for a lot of the hospitals because i wasn't mentally ill enough i didn't score enough points to not play. in order to get social housing for most persons meets a number of different criteria since lisa doesn't tick the right books since she faces an uncertain future. but yeah yeah i have been for a long time now i just a lucky break wolf i can't get past because i can't let my dog down consistent to face like six feet at least if i was to stop that. and yet.

these discussions reminded me just how close we moved to christmas. there was celebrations going on all around me they don't mean much if you've got nothing to spend. but they're all good people who give up the money and time to spread a little festive cheer. it's just going to hell for six so i'm heading down to wards charitable sinestro to see a fourth of the following is going to spurs just those three it. looks like christian churches set up some tables some are even building up a carrot. on most.

of us would be lovely. soup but love soup thank you very much think you. make it was just perfect. i think i speak for. iced tricep in dying al green. but i thank you gal it's my joe and how they are going to fix everything did your family oh yeah. we can't stay on time because my dog saw oh i married my old. atheist they want to stay on top of me kids yeah i was afraid oh do that. if you want to start to i can't be sick to hard to be.

honest i know once was sort of my lot of eight year old saw an eight year old boy of sixteen to. twenty five year old boy. i'm so non-pros i asked for it. to mean to say hi i'm sorry i just i just try to. stay for stuff go. play and not be christmas right write. stories like me to come in the first circle of dream control which leads to losing everything. and it's right here in sometimes the richest parts of the u.k. is filled with people fully complete every night on the child's list but mostly. in new york. when your clothes make because you run out of the you know that. one

bucket or. trace that i carry made in jail. as unpleasant as the shell on the shoes. because as i made this part of the obama. white house lewis who. had i don't have a fight yeah what about smart if you controlling people fit and i don't know i know us or any of this is very much easier said than done as you go i mean we. still i say i'm just in the meantime. i love. for you like you only. really took. recently this. look of the mock me was getting at least of its refusal how i could be finally released still uses

only a black box of a little. piece sympathy for critiques quickly for it's some people didn't deserve it. or just. scuse me goes you know because for those tickets placed on say. your publisher thank you very much that's all you want it was fun to very much a serious. mostly about the trouble cause it gets me on them gives me a bit warm up. so i see said mr bush. this is a place i found the great commission ministry. just

then. there were the one making their odd choice in the next voyage. as if i didn't realize already this is the spree of horrible. two mice when i must i think that there were more us either of us were to remember my feet so. there's no glamour in the slush. fund only been on the streets one day the does it been cold humiliating thing frightening to some of the family amidst a world of kind of attack me of any time. i could easily see would drugs or alcohol would act as

a way to block out which reality. you need help to consent to have someone can cheat when you fall. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world the politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. oh you will be in the lottery she'll last years does. she does it with the people most of. what i mean.

i make love that's not. really a lock to get me to move he can use he has enough to buy if. you're in the form of the media. i'm with you more in their favor when i was in the mud almost nothing even many people's opinions but my will in few most will start to feel.

those the longest day of my life. i made. believe me the humility least. drawing. empty. streets was my. enough for me the sundering discomfort enough but the humiliation was worse. it was soul destroying. many to find when i wanted to spend christmas eve with some people who got their lives back on track. very good. things went very well thank you very much

could. have seen. papa say last. from the aussies projects we were an intervention same with. people who talk addictions. the differences might have massive absolutely massive. this enabled me. to get my life back on track he when you leave stray harness you don't realize just what an impact that has on someone's life it's. you know you have to get used to sharon again you have to get used to cook here i muse again when you came in i guess you didn't know any now i had. the clothes on my back when i when i came here i had a pair of jeans all. pair of trainers with holes in that was it that's all i can get

with without the opportunity if these guys given that to me are you know where i'd be. going weeks. very. single. thank. you so much the doing a script to be removed. he was on the streets and chris. from the age of eighty he's going to show me some of his old haunts. a little of the. home of the. past so he's saying.

yeah he says he sees this is the school yeah welcome to the school this is here to see where i still reside so. as you can say you know there's makeshifts just be careful where you guys. live yeah yeah definitely want to go. you know where you're more welcome so if you wish but you know there's a makeshift beds you can see people's bedrooms this is people's belongings these people with the stuff in the coding he says oh people's belongings you can say that there's actually. you know a proper bed down there you know i most of mine is still very fitting caulfield.

i'm now on the understanding that there's about four of us now on the understanding that's for the four of them now. odious lot was a little opened up yes all good old swear words board saw a few much you know what i'm gone that was open spice said a used to refer you know i used to get. big sophistical well we had all pits positions the snow would actually come up so when i walk. right in front of. me and i. louis's addiction was at its strongest here it was suffering from chronic psychosis . these moxy are i would actually pick yeah. squeeze the skin thinking that there was stuff crawling on the naif my skin and if i couldn't get it out like that i'll get a knife and all cuts myself if'n yeah and then get the knife and start thinking

it's hard to get these bits out mahseer nothing near the hotel is well over my chest same same thing just the written self spreads it will. just rip myself to shreds might. not you know one point i thought i was saying this but my face was one big scab. yeah it was just just a culture like that just telling myself to shreds all day. eventually louis was picked up by an outreach team and goes into temporary accommodation he's now trying to give back by working with an organization which deals with the homeless that the local authorities can't going to help. but he's refused his mr don't use social he went into withdrawal right in front of my eyes.

you can be a long and painful journey away from homelessness and addiction and lunchtime moment twin brothers kevin and brian toohey their experienced his ex junkies and they lived rough and closed havoc on the streets of soap at the turn of the century and the. boat is moving slowly. you know don't stick. in a yard but he'll. jump. to be good for you to get killed just really dug up a little bit today these people here do nothing still you think you got the yeah yeah yeah i was too slow change the benches missing need just a boat to. look out. the pen it should be always f. ing up no spatial. really

dangerous and yet i can always population never. incest in a. long violent turn move people out of here over. pagans be just good people for a profit or almost kill we come up with twenty friends there was one fame along here but we feel how much we love of the earth then you know the hormone. kind of the early years in robes of a girl. i was caught and i am hard being run so i can fail the money had been stolen and i was left of it why would you still just because of the drugs that you stay here is money. you can handle off when we got us then the one to. leicester square piccadilly circus yeah it was right with tourists and

they're just waiting to get ripped off easy easy easy but fifteen years ago the this was a serious the problem is not just in the set up designed addiction recovery consultant says it's a terrible personal tragedy it's making to this month around our son kevin tries a way through actually the price that we have over those. less than really. sixty though i know. a lot of weight of us so no bail. us out. the guy who called who won over coverage i know i can so put on eventually recovered from a veteran of the passive horse you know homeless i think the proud heritage the. best off the bottle it seems just finding the will to carry on the next day we drive down to kevin's home by the seaside sleepy. during a bunch of the money that was finally christmas day. as it makes me

crazier stuff and i tell people if you're the star of that you're the star of the of the kitchen has made all this stuff we have to see we have to have you already do we go to movies you do t.v. you look at you you look great. but. i was a woman go. how many meals have you done with ten thousand sixty five today yes yes if you think it's just. we might not have responded because the rod was this big deal scenario right. yeah yeah. yeah yeah yeah i like. christmas is

a family holiday for many years the twins have celebrate stick with those you've got nowhere else to go it's days no different it's to keep a lid trimmings for everything. that. i go on with me oh my goodness you're got sick of it yeah oh yeah. yeah you could see a little bit of it. but missed out on christmas with my family but there was real christmas spirit in that as much as i hated being out in the streets i love being in consequence. i might just be a few days in this real year but it's clear that the holiday still gives people hope i've waited to open a cause i've been given by. a few words that reminds me just how lucky i really am

. welcome to the crystal ball edition of crosstalk what can we expect in the new year we have a great lineup of guests telling us what they think. my son doing drugs my nephews was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united

states is drug abuse he started going after the users in the prison population sewer we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill. then the war on drugs was a mistake there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for. certain sins for minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up in issue in waves and say by dad. you're walking out of a business it's just it doesn't get easy. seems wrong. but old rules just don't call. any new world yet to shape our disdain comes to the ticket and in games from an equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. just a small experimenter democratic party group explain away alleged interference in an alabama state election investigations been launched of the group that fakes more than a thousand russian social media votes to allegedly discredit it's ever public and from the day. period of frogs yellow vests protesters have been out on the streets for the seventh consecutive weekend did running fossils with. a seasonal alert from girl scouts in the united states to say the children the dodo oh and hugs to any guests these holidays and parents should encourage them to set boundaries and give can.