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David Cameron's draft deal on EU reform is published | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
David Cameron's draft deal on EU reform is published | :00:10. | :00:20. | |
It sets out Britain's future in Europe. | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
David Cameron is ready to sell it to the British people. | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
If I could get these terms for British membership, | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
I sure would opt-in to be a member of the European Union because these | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
But on the key issue of migration, critics say the Prime Minister has | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
Following this renegotiation it's now clear the only way to do that is | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
to leave the EU. The deal could mean a once | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
in a generation referendum The trump card that | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
didn't quite work - a bad night for the Republican | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
frontrunner in the race for the Could you be visiting Argos | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
when you go to Sainsbury's? The deal that could create a rival | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
to John Lewis and Amazon. Meet the newest visitor | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
to the Yorkshire countryside. A new exhibition of cartoon | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
sculptures form the artist, Labour calls for an immediate 1p | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
rise in Scottish income tax to avoid The SNP says it will hit | :01:11. | :01:18. | |
the least well off hardest. And, the Scots holidaymaker | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
who was trampled to death by this Good evening and welcome | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
to the BBC News at Six. Almost as soon as he won | :01:26. | :01:47. | |
the election, David Cameron began renegotiating Britain's | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
relations with the EU. Today, the results | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
have been unveiled. The Prime Minister argued | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
the reforms were enough to recommend But many in the Conservative Party - | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
and elsewhere - disagree. It all boils down to whether there's | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
been progress in four key areas. First, the question of sovereignty - | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
whether Parliament will have Second, accepting that the pound | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
sits alongside the Euro. Third, a commitment to boost | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
Europe's competitiveness by cutting Finally, the draft proposal gives | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
Britain the right to impose an emergency brake | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
on European migration. We'll have all the | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
analysis and reaction. First, here's our political editor, | :02:33. | :02:33. | |
Laura Kuenssberg. Time to see. Have the months of | :02:34. | :02:45. | |
private negotiations achieved very much? Even Cabinet ministers weren't | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
let in on the secret. We haven't seen the document yet. Everyone | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
knows my views on this, but I'm going to read the document | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
carefully. The rest of the EU waiting. In Paris the clock ticked | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
down to the document. Is this a good enough deal to make you campaign to | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
stay in? In Brussels it was finally time for the deal with London to be | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
revealed. At a suitably EU-friendly engineering business the Prime | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
Minister gave his unsurprising verdict, the terms he's brokered to | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
change our relationship with the EU are big and for the better. | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
Sometimes people say to me - if you weren't in the European Union would | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
you opt to join the European Union? And today I can give a very clear | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
answer - if I could get theses terms for British membership, I sure would | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
opt-in to be a member of the European Union because these are | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
good terms. So what's actually in the deal? The Prime Minister wanted | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
more power for our Parliament. There will be some extra power to prevent | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
new EU laws, and there will be protection for the pound, guarantees | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
British firms won't lose out just because we are not in the euro. | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
Britain will be formally excluded from ever closer union, the EU | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
tradition of countries getting closer and closer. But on David | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
Cameron's big promise to squeeze immigration, it's less clear. Look, | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
key details on how long new limits will apply in the document are just | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
X, Y and Z. We do know the so-called "emergency brake" will mean EU | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
workers gradually start getting benefits, but they won't been banned | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
for four years as promised. EU migrants will still be able to send | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
child benefit home, not what David Cameron wanted, but rates will | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
reflect the cost of living in their native country. I was told I would | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
never get a four-year proposal. Yet that is what is in the document. | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
That we don't have to pay welfare in full for four years. Listen | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
carefully, not paying in full, not the same as banning altogether. Do | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
you admit, surely, that you have had to water down some of your demands? | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
Can you say to the public, hand on heart, that these proposals will | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
actually cut the number of EU migrants coming to live in this | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
country? I can say, hand on heart, I've delivered the commitments I've | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
made in my manifesto. I think the whole country knows that if you, for | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
instance, pay people ?5,000, ?10,000 additional to their wages that is a | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
draw to Britain. That's one of the reasons why we have seen such high | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
levels of migration and movement. Will voters believe him and back | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
staying in the #e67 U? On this factory floor it's a big "if". He | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
needs to give me more to convince me more that it's going to go our way. | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
Saying it is one thing, achieving it is another. I think it - certainly | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
if this country stays in the European Union we've got to have | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
clear defined rules about what we want. I think if he delivers on what | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
he said there it could be beneficial to all, I suppose you have to look | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
at what happens at the end of February and see whether what he | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
said happens. It's not an empty deal. There are changes if enacted | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
that would limit the payments of benefits to some EU workers in this | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
country. There are some protections for British businesses trading | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
around the continent. But crucially it does not allow David Cameron to | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
keep all the promises he made at the election. It tweaks our relationship | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
with the rest of the EU rather than tearing it up and starting again. | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
For those who want to leave the EU, today was time to set the terms of | :06:22. | :06:29. | |
the campaign. In the coming weeks every line will be poured over. | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
Emergency brake stuff... Every weakness in the deal pounced on and | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
many minds are already made up The demands from the Government were | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
limited to beginning we. They have been watered down by the EU on | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
almost every front. We have spent months and months with the Prime | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
Minister going around Europe asking other European leaders if we in | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
Britain can change our own benefit laws. It's clear now that the | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
British people need to have control of their own laws, economy and If | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
you look borders. At the package to us today by President Tusk it was | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
hardly worth the way wait. It was pathetic really. All the talk of | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
fundal treaty change, Britain getting back powers and a whole new | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
relationship. Nothing fundamental has changed at all. The Prime | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
Minister presented his deal to the public and the press first rather | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
than to Parliament. He's gone to a selected audience in chipping ham | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
this morning to give a commentary on the negotiations but cannot come | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
here to report to this House. Will, in the end, inevitably back him. If | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
the Prime Minister of the country, elected in May says this is a good | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
deal, I recommend it to you, I think we should stay in the European | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
Union, I think that's sways a loft people. He's the Prime Minister. | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
Sways Labour people as well as Conservatives incidentally. I think | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
that's important. But beware. The stakes are really high. We have to | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
act. The EU President, who put the deal together, warned it's not | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
signed and sealed. Even getting this far was hard enough. Laura | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
Kuenssberg, BBC News, Westminster. As we heard, a key proposal involves | :08:06. | :08:13. | |
limiting migrants' access Critics say the restrictions | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
are a 'watered down' version of what the Prime Minister promised | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
in his election manifesto. Our home editor, Mark Easton, | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
looks at what effect today's proposals might have | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
on the number of people wanting This is where the British Government | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
wants the emergency brake put on. Record numbers of EU citizens | :08:27. | :08:36. | |
are coming to the UK to work, 160,000 in the last year, a quarter | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
of them from Romania and Bulgaria. Having promised to reduce net | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
migration by more than two-thirds, Ministers hope an emergency brake | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
on in-work benefits will mean many European workers | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
don't board the bus. Are in-work benefits like tax | :08:53. | :08:54. | |
credits and housing benefits a key factor in deciding | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
whether to come to the UK? These Eastern Europeans, | :09:02. | :09:12. | |
working on a farm in Kent, for higher wages and better living | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
standards, not benefits. Here is more better than in Romania | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
with money, with everything. It cannot replace this feeling, | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
but I don't have any future. The Prime Minister insists Britain's | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
in-work benefits are a big financial incentive to lower paid, | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
lower skilled EU workers. Certainly benefits can add several | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
thousand pounds to an immigrant's income, but the Government's | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
own economic advisers and other experts doubt an emergency brake | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
will change immigration levels much. We have very little data on exactly | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
how many people would be affected But all of the statistics suggest | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
that a minority of EU citizens who come to the UK are receiving | :09:56. | :10:06. | |
in-work benefits, so it's unlikely we will see a dramatic reduction | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
in the numbers of people coming, even if there are a few people | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
at the margins whose decisions Let's imagine a Romanian migrant | :10:13. | :10:14. | |
coming to Britain to work, He would earn ?14,000 | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
a year doing that. So he wouldn't actually be | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
eligible for tax credits, although he might get housing | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
benefit to help with his rent. But look where the UK minimum | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
wage sits within Europe, only Ireland and Luxembourg are more | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
generous and you have to go a long way down the list before | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
you find Romania. Back home, the minimum wage | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
for our potential migrant will be a little over ?2,000, less | :10:41. | :10:48. | |
than a sixth of what he would be Some reckon it's Government help | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
for Britain's low paid that's The challenge for Mr Cameron now | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
is to persuade the other 27 EU leaders to back the new reform | :10:57. | :11:15. | |
proposals ahead of a crunch meeting Our Europe Editor Katya Adler | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
reports, its not the first time Britain has been at loggerheads | :11:19. | :11:37. | |
with the rest of the EU. Britain's relationship | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
with the EU has been turbulent, Never a marriage of conviction, | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
more assumed convenience. Sometimes fruitful, often | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
fraught and, as of today, EU-UK relations will be | :11:48. | :11:49. | |
fundamentally changed. This is the first time in EU history | :11:50. | :11:50. | |
that one country stood up in front of the rest, threatened to leave | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
if the EU didn't dance to its reformist tune | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
and then got what it asked The problem right now with the UK's | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
new EU deal is that the stage is set, but the piece | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
of music isn't yet finished. And to complicate things further, | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
with the European Union's 28-piece orchestra every single musician | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
is allowed to have their say. The danger is you end up | :12:17. | :12:18. | |
with a disordered cacophony rather than a harmonious composition that | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
will stand the test of time. And that is what David Cameron | :12:22. | :12:31. | |
needs, a credibly composed, water tight deal for his audience | :12:32. | :12:33. | |
at home, that all his EU partners But already today, as expected, | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
there were rumbles of dissent from central and Eastern Europe | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
on the plan to cut EU migrant According to all statistics | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
the Poles are very successful So I do not see why they shouldn't | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
be paid the same benefits The French, well, they're | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
wrinkling their nose at the idea that the UK and other | :12:58. | :13:06. | |
non-Eurozone nations can stall The current stage of the Eurozone | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
is not sustainable. You cannot allow someone | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
that is outside the family to forbid All-important Germany meanwhile | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
is soothing ruffled feathers around the EU, determined that everything | :13:24. | :13:37. | |
must be done to keep the UK in. In general, I would say, | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
we're on the right way. We want the United Kingdom to remain | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
an active and strong partner in an active and strong | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
European Union. David Cameron is banking on a grand | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
finale at the EU leaders' summit in a couple of weeks, | :13:58. | :14:05. | |
where his reform deal is applauded by peers in Europe and presented | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
to the British people. But the players on this stage | :14:09. | :14:10. | |
are an unpredictable lot. The Prime Minister should be | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
prepared to improvise. We can talk to our political | :14:14. | :14:15. | |
editor, Laura Kuenssberg, You touched on this in your report | :14:16. | :14:32. | |
but how much has David Cameron delivered compared to what he | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
promised? Technically he hasn't been able to keep all his promises. Why | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
do I say that? Because this document, the Conservative manifesto | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
from this summer, is much tougher on the benefit payments that EU | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
migrants working in this country than this document, the draft deal | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
published today. Why did one of the Prime Minister's senior colleagues | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
say to me this afternoon that the PM is cock-a-hoop? Because Number 10 | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
and the Government believe they've made some significant progress here. | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
They believe they've got real concessions from the rest of the EU | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
that will add up to the kind of package they believe that they will | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
be able to sell to voters who are yet to make up their mind. In the | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
last few minutes I can tell you one of the senior politicians who is yet | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
to make up their mind, the Home Secretary, Theresa May, has said | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
that there is still work to do but this does look like the basis of a | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
deal. Now that is a blow for those who want to exit the EU because she | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
was someone who has flirted with the idea of backing the out campaign, | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
even potentially being the main figure in leading that campaign. | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
Tonight it seems as if she is on the verge of backing the Prime Minister. | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
That is something that Number 10 will be very relieved about if it | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
does come to pass. We are still a long way to go here, EU leaders all | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
have to be convinced of this deal and then ultimately, it will be down | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
to us voters of that question will be put very likely now at the end of | :16:01. | :16:02. | |
June. Thank you very much. The EU reform deal negotiated | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
by David Cameron is unveiled - it could pave the way | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
for a referendum in June. I am at the Yorkshire sculpture | :16:14. | :16:27. | |
park, not so much looking at the Moores and Hepworth but by work by | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
an American artist called Kaws. Sglp | :16:35. | :16:34. | |
Is it time to get smart with electricity metres. Verne cotter | :16:35. | :16:43. | |
will demand players are clinical at this year's Six Nations | :16:44. | :16:44. | |
championship. He's dominated the race | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
for the White House, but has Donald Trump's bid to move | :16:52. | :16:53. | |
from reality television The Republican candidate suffered | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
a surprise setback in the Iowa vote. For the Democrats, Hillary Clinton | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
secured victory over rival Bernie Sanders, | :17:02. | :17:03. | |
but by a tiny margin. Our North America editor, Jon Sopel, | :17:04. | :17:05. | |
has been following the results. Donald Trump has repeatedly | :17:06. | :17:13. | |
said he hates losers. Discovering the swagger and genius | :17:14. | :17:15. | |
for self-publicity only take But at his campaign party | :17:16. | :17:27. | |
you wouldn't know it. We will go on to get the Republican | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
nomination and we will go on to easily beat Hillary or Bernie, | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
or whoever the hell Well, Donald Trump has given, | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
not a victory speech, However, he says he's going to go | :17:41. | :17:52. | |
on and hopes he will win This is a party that has gone very | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
flat for Donald Trump. The winner was a conservative | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
insurgent Senator Ted Cruz, another figure loathed | :18:02. | :18:03. | |
by the Republican establishment and not that popular | :18:04. | :18:04. | |
with his daughter either But he had a brilliant ground game, | :18:05. | :18:06. | |
clinically targeting his Tonight is a victory for courageous | :18:07. | :18:14. | |
conservatives across Iowa The other perhaps more significant | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
victory came for this man with the red tie | :18:18. | :18:29. | |
and the perma-smile. Yes, Marco Rubio only came third | :18:30. | :18:31. | |
but he way exceeded expectations and has emerged as the clear | :18:32. | :18:33. | |
frontrunner for mainstream And on the Democratic Party side | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
half a dozen times last night this In the most eye-wateringly | :18:41. | :18:52. | |
tight contest ever held. Delegate for this | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
precinct Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton squeaked it | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
and her victory speech could be As I stand here tonight, | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
breathing a big sigh of relief, The left-wing Senator from Vermont, | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
Bernie Sanders, did spectacularly in running her so close | :19:12. | :19:20. | |
and in the middle of the night flew straight to New Hampshire where next | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
week he hopes to go one better This whole contest has | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
a long way to run. A brief look at some of the day's | :19:28. | :19:36. | |
other other news stories The bodies of three people - | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
reported to be a woman and two children - have been found in a home | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
on the outskirts of Leeds. West Yorkshire Police were called | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
to the premises in Allerton Bywater when concerns were raised | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
for the occupants. Officers say the three were found | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
dead inside the property. The Scottish Labour Party wants | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
to put a penny on income tax Labour's leader in Scotland, | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
Kezia Dugdale, says the extra cash would allow SNP ministers | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
to cancel planned cuts The SNP said Labour's | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
plan was a tax grab. A policewoman in Northern Ireland | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
has been charged with three offences, including perverting | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
the course of justice, in connection with a murder | :20:17. | :20:18. | |
in County Antrim. James McDonagh died last month | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
after being attacked outside A man's already been | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
charged with his murder. Britain's second biggest | :20:25. | :20:35. | |
supermarket, Sainsbury's, has agreed a deal to buy | :20:36. | :20:36. | |
the owner of Argos. It says the ?1.3 billion deal | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
will create the biggest non-food Here's our business correspondent | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
Emma Simpson. When news emerged that Sainsbury's | :20:44. | :20:57. | |
was purr suring Argos it took the whole industry by surprise, with the | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
clock ticking and the outlines of a deal now agreed, although it needs | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
approval and there is certainly a lot of debate about whether this is | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
an absolute masterstroke by Sainsbury's because there is next to | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
no growth in the world of groceries, or a strategic mistake. It's | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
certainly a big, bold move. Sglp | :21:20. | :21:21. | |
Sainsbury's has been trialling these concessions. | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
Now it's on the verge of buying the whole business. | :21:28. | :21:29. | |
Expect to see much more of this - a one-stop shop for customers whose | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
If you think about it, the smartphone is only eight years | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
old and yet it's had a profound impact on our lives in the way | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
that we run our lives and that's very particularly the case | :21:41. | :21:42. | |
We need to future-proof our business to make sure, not just over the next | :21:43. | :21:51. | |
three to five years, but over the next five to ten years. | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
The deal would create a formidable force in retail. | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
It has non-food sales of just under ?4 billion. | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
John Lewis does more business at ?4.4 billion. | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
But, in one fell swoop, this new combined group will have | :22:10. | :22:11. | |
general merchandise sales of ?6 billion, rivalling the mighty | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
Sainsbury's wants to tap into Argos' delivery expertise. | :22:14. | :22:21. | |
These days it can get products to customers within four hours. | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
Argos has 840 stores and many are close to a Sainsbury's. | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
This business is grappling with too much space it no longer needs. | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
So it's likely several hundred Argos stores will close to be | :22:35. | :22:36. | |
For Sainsbury's, it solves a problem and saves a lot of money. | :22:37. | :22:46. | |
Although Sainsbury's says it hopes to eventually create more positions | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
in stores but not everyone's convinced. | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
I think of this deal as a bit like a temporary sticking plaster | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
because it gives Sainsbury's an opportunity to radically cut | :23:01. | :23:02. | |
costs at Argos and that will boost their profits | :23:03. | :23:04. | |
But it doesn't fundamentally address the problem of Sainsbury's, | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
that it's got just too many supermarkets and hypermarkets. | :23:12. | :23:19. | |
For more than 100 years, Sainsbury's has been synonymous | :23:20. | :23:21. | |
with selling us food but now under fierce competition it wants | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
to reshape its business to meet the demands of modern day shoppers, | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
Gigantic cartoon sculptures have popped up in the Yorkshire | :23:28. | :23:40. | |
countryside in the first solo exhibition in the UK | :23:41. | :23:42. | |
The figures will be on display for four months and our arts editor | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
Will Gompertz has been taking a look. | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
How is this for an incongruous addition to the Yorkshire landscape | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
a 10-metre high cartoon-like figure inspired by American pop culture | :24:01. | :24:02. | |
It's the work of a one-time graffiti artist from Brooklyn New York | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
who tried his hand at making toys which led to a big idea | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
When working with wood and doing something at ten metres it's | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
a different feeling from when you are growing up | :24:15. | :24:16. | |
and you are little and you have wooden toys and you can put them | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
on a shelf and make them do what you want and you walk | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
into a space like this and see wooden toys that can suddenly carry | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
you in the hand or you want to do something that complements it. | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
I love the way that this sculpture falls almost at the same height | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
The artist of these works - real name Brian Donnelly - | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
Nowadays he is much more interested in the Smurfs. | :24:37. | :24:48. | |
When I was a little a lot of times like I grew up on Smurfs, | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
This one you are not sure if it's running from something or running | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
Being chased by a giant black Smurf across a Yorkshire landscape? | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
Possibly so, warning you of a fire or something. | :25:01. | :25:08. | |
Sir Henry moor and Barbara Hepworth were giants of a different kind. | :25:09. | :25:16. | |
Both were brought up a few miles from the park. Their sculptures | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
inspired by the local landscape and often aiming to be at one with it. | :25:20. | :25:28. | |
A far cry from Kaws. He is confronting the landscape in a way | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
nobody else is and for us that's interesting. He really is | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
confronting it. What do you think Dame Barbara Hepworth would have | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
thought had he seen the sculptures in the same context as hers? I think | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
that she would recognise that sculpture has to change, that people | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
collect new idioms from the world around them and expand those. And | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
there is absolutely no doubt that any artist looking at the way that | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
Kaws works wouldn't be intrigued and amazed by the way he works with | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
material because his production values are quite extraordinary. | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
Sglp It's possible that Kaws sculptures a may not be to | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
everyone's taste but I think they pose interesting questions around | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
scale and materials and context, not least the all-pervasive nature of | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
popular culture from which there seems to be no escape, not even in | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
Yorkshire's sublime countryside. Bright multi-coloured clouds have | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
been visible over the UK Known as naycreous clouds - | :26:28. | :26:29. | |
they are named after mother of pearl and you can see the similarity | :26:30. | :26:37. | |
in these images sent to the Met They tend to form over polar regions | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
when the sun is just Forecasters believe the effects | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
of storms Gertrude and Henry may have heightened the chances | :26:45. | :26:47. | |
of seeing these clouds. The rainbow effect is caused by ice | :26:48. | :26:49. | |
crystals refracting the sun's rays. That brings us to the weather with | :26:50. | :26:58. | |
Louise. Hello. I am glad to see there was | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
some positives to come out of Henry. It's come and gone, you will be | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
pleased to hear that. But it's had a sting in its tail through the night. | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
These were some gusts of winds that we saw, 90mph in excess in the far | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
north of Scotland through the night. It also was responsible for leaving | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
some choppy seas, this sent in by our weather watchers this morning. | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
It was glorious further south and west. A beautiful start. The cloud | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
came and we are chasing some showers across England and Wales now. The | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
showers in the north, as they push down through the North Channel to | :27:33. | :27:34. | |
the Irish sea winds increasing and we could see for a time some snow | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
across the higher ground of the Pennines and North Wales. North of | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
that with clearer skies and temperatures falling away ice could | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
be an issue first thing in the morning. | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
We also need to keep a close eye on showers moving out of North Wales | :27:51. | :27:52. | |
through the Midlands first thing in the morning. A wintry mix of rain, | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
sleet and snow. We are not too concerned about that. But it is | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
going to be a miserable start to the day with temperatures a couple of | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
degrees above freezing. Further north some sunshine T will be a cold | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
start and we could have to watch out for that ice, particularly across | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
the far north-west in rural parts. Maybe the ice risk not as great in | :28:12. | :28:14. | |
Northern Ireland, still a cluster of showers here, potentially. As we go | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
through the day, hopefully those showers further south will start to | :28:19. | :28:21. | |
ease, the cloud break up and more sunshine coming through. Wednesday | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
looks likely to be the best day of the week. A scattering of showers to | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
the west, a colder feel but more sunshine coming through and top | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
temperatures of around 2-9. More wet and windy weather returns for the | :28:35. | :28:37. | |
end of the week but milder. Thank you. | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
So it's goodbye from me and on BBC One we now join the BBC's | :28:43. | :28:44. |