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This is BBC World News Today. The latest headlines:

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The summit that could change Britain's relationship with the EU -

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I think it's much more important to get this right than to do

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anything in a rush, but with good will and hard work,

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we can get a better deal for Britain.

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And you know, my mother gave me this bible, this very bible.

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Donald Trump's built a presidential campaign on Christian values,

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but the Pope says building walls is no such thing.

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Captain Kirk and Mr Spock in Star Trek.

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Now William Shatner writes of his 50-year friendship

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When the venture is over, you say goodbye. Best friends forever. And

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there are instances where you say, man, I will call you tomorrow and we

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will have lunch. And it never happens, and it is all gone.

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A very warm welcome to you. David Cameron says he is battling Britain

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as he tries to negotiate a new deal for Britain's relationship with EU.

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The Prime Minister has spent the day meeting other EU leaders at a summit

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in Brussels, where he said with hard work, he could win a better deal for

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Britain. The president of the European Commission said that he was

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confident that a deal could be reached, but with big disagreement

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is looming over access to welfare and other issues, let's cross live

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now to our correspondent in Brussels. Good evening and welcome

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to Brussels. Somewhere in this building, there are 28 leaders now

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poring over a draft document that has been put before them by the

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European Council leader. It is the three baskets of reform David

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Cameron is looking for. The press room is alive with speculation. In

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the last hour or so, we have had some idea of what is happening in

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the room. It was David Cameron who made the opening marks. He has been

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telling European colleagues that we have already come a long way with

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this renegotiation. They have solved many differences, but is about time,

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she said that Britain's place in Europe was to find once and for. He

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said Britain's position has been allowed to fester. He said this was

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the chance to settle it for the next generation. He also made the point

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that although he is trying to get some clearer language on the union,

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he is not opposed to other countries seeking that political integration,

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further economic integration. It is just that Britain, he says, once a

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different model and those who want that should be allowed to. Really,

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it is a message of live and let live. There are great differences at

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the moment in the text, still some square brackets on the important

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issues, such as child benefit in particular. Some real concerns among

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Eastern European countries. Also concerns from the French about what

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sort of mechanism Britain would have to protect itself from the decisions

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at the 19 countries of the Eurozone are taking. Remember that Britain

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stands outside the euro zone. An awful lot to discuss. David Cameron

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told reporters earlier he brought plenty of shirts. He expects the

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negotiations to go along into the night and possibly into tomorrow.

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But when he finally emerges, he hopes to have a document that will

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allow him to fire the gun on the referendum campaign.

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The Prime Minister wants 27 other politicians to agree to his terms.

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We've got some important work to do today and tomorrow and it's

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If we can get a good deal, I'll take that deal,

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but I will not take a deal that doesn't meet what we need.

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I think it's much more important to get this right than to do

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But with good will, with hard work, we can get a better

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Mrs Merkel wants to help make it happen now.

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TRANSLATION: I'll do everything to keep the UK.

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Agreement is possible, but no country has the right

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Those dramas could derail the process, or it least drag

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The Prime Minister wants to change the EU rules,

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new regulations to protect the city, before giving you the choice to vote

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But can the Prime Minister bring everyone together?

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Inside the gathered ranks, there is still disagreement on how

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long the UK should be able to limit benefits,

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and whether it is fair for any new rule to apply only to us.

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But across town, his opponents accuse him of making all this fuss

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Well, he's brought an internal Conservative Party dispute

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to international proportions, so he is running around Europe

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trying to get people's support here and they are not very keen

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They may well end up with some kind of agreement,

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which he will represent as a victory.

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And anger over the proposed deal goes way beyond these brave souls

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There are plenty of Eurosceptics, MPs and ministers among

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Conservatives, and politicians ready to attack.

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and free trade, but we can't have that as members

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But tonight, Number 10 is adamant this whole project can

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and will deliver a new and improved EU.

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Their negotiators believe this is the moment.

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There are so many countries, so many complications involved,

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This is the best chance David Cameron has of getting

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a new deal for the UK with the rest of the Union.

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but there is no guarantee the terms would get any better,

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so his political future could be determined tonight.

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Brave or foolhardy, this journey has seen the Prime Minister striking out

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Who he can take with him in the next few hours will shape

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Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Brussels.

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On nights like this, it is worth reminding people of the structure of

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the EU and how decisions are taken. The European leaders who are sitting

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upstairs for the European Council. The council is the highest level of

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political cooperation within Europe. They set the direction of travel and

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once they reach agreement, and it must have agreement of all 28

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countries, then it is up to the executive of the European Commission

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to come out with some legislation, to propose legislation, and then the

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European Parliament will debate and put that legislation into action. Mr

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Cameron needs not only the support of the 28, he needs the support of

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the commission and he also needs the support of the European Parliament.

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On Tuesday he was here lobbying the president of the parliament. Let's

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listen to what he had to say. I do not belong to those who urged

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the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to call for the referendum,

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that is for sure. But the question is served, the referendum is fixed.

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If this is a good idea or a bad idea, it is not what we have to

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discuss about. I will do the utmost to convince citizens in the UK to

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vote to stay in, because I believe that we need each other. The United

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Kingdom and the European Union. We are stronger with the United

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Kingdom. Well, in Laura's package, you heard the thoughts of Nigel

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Farage. I spoke to him today and he is quite scathing about what is in

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this document. It is not what the paper it is written on, he says,

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because the underlying it will be the parliament that un-pics at all.

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And that is shared by Ukip's sole MP. He has been talking to BBC about

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his disdain the document. Some sort of deal has been done, but it is not

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really a great deal, because we haven't asked for much. Take a step

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back. At the time of the Bloomberg speech, David Cameron said he would

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seek out fundamental, fire reaching reform. He clearly has not. Not even

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supporters pretend this amounts to much. He promised us he was going to

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seek treaty change. He has not. He promised he would return powers back

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from Brussels. Not a single power is being transferred. Clearly, a deal

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has been done, but it is pretty thin gruel, you might say. I don't think

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this is really going to impress many voters in the run-up to the

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referendum. We are starting to see some very encouraging movement in

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the polls, the momentum is with the Leave campaign. Yes, we can do this.

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There is a growing realisation that we do not need to be in a political

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union in order to trade with Europe. Europe faces enormous economic,

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technological challenges. The safer thing to do is if we take back

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control and I think people are beginning to realise that actually,

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David Cameron's EU deal does not add up and we will be better off if we

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took back control and didn't have to send ?350 million to Brussels every

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week. Look at what David Cameron is negotiating and compare it with what

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he said at the outset. He claimed he would get treaty change. There is no

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treaty change. He claimed there would be a transfer power back from

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Brussels but not a single power has been transferred back. Again and

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again, David Cameron has watered down his demands and even the

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mediocre and Mikey is asking for it doesn't really add up much. There is

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no fundamental, fire reaching reform. People are waking up to that

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and I think people realise that we can leave the EU and trade freely

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with the European Union. If we do that, we will get the best of all

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worlds. Douglas Carswell, the Ukip MP setting out some of the thoughts

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of the Leave campaign. Also setting out some of the challenges that

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David Cameron will face when he returns to Britain with this

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document. You get the impression talking to people in the UK that he

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cannot afford to water down any more at the document as it stands. He is

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going to fight for everything that they have in the draft text. We have

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had some briefings from different camps in the last few minutes. It

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tends to happen that certain members of negotiating teams come out to

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brief journalists. One German diplomat was talking about the

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agenda and how long they might go into the night. He said I hope the

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Getty Gilberts that satisfies Mr Cameron, but I cannot bet we get it

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today. We're not 100% happy with everything in the text, but overall

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we can find agreement. He went on to say that it is other countries that

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have bigger problems, the likes of Poland and Romania. We're talking

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about work benefits and the challenges of child benefit that Mr

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Cameron wants to index to the countries that the families and

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children live in. Let's try to understand a bit of

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that vertical context in Europe's major capitals as David Cameron

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tries to persuade his European counterparts. Any moment we will

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hear from our corresponded in Berlin and one in Budapest, but first, here

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is our correspondent in Paris. Here in Paris, the real concern is

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in the -- isn't benefits for migrants, but rather, protecting the

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euro. David Cameron wants to ensure the euro zone countries cannot gang

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up on the UK, but the French president is concerned this would

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mean giving the City of London and on the advantage. France is still

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struggling with high unemployment and the president will be seeking a

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real election next year. He certainly does not want to come home

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looking like a loser. He has got to be seen to be sticking up for French

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interests. The French are particularly opposed to the idea of

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an a la carte Europe. We do not like cherry picking. One minister

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famously said you cannot come to a football game and expect to play

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rugby. Ultimately, France wants Britain to remain in, just not at

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all costs. Germany's position has not changed.

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It wants Britain in the EU and right now Angela Merkel is arguably David

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Cameron's greatest ally. She has voiced support for some of his

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ideas. She has said in the run-up to the summit that national

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parliaments, not Brussels, should be responsible for protecting those

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systems against abuses. She has also spoken about ever closer union,

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saying that whilst nothing should stand in its way, individual member

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states should also not be obliged to follow that level of integration

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every step of the way. So broad support from Germany. Worth

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remembering Mrs Merkel's red lines. She will not budge on them. That

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includes non-discrimination against EU citizens. As far as Mrs Merkel is

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concerned, they are non-negotiable, so interesting to see how much

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Germany is prepared to concede. Also remember there is a degree of every

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patient at public and political level here in Germany that David

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Cameron is choosing to raise this at a time when the refugee crisis is

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threatening to tear Europe apart. In the words

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threatening to tear Europe apart. In broadcaster, David Cameron is

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playing a dangerous poker game. Here in Hungary and the other

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central European countries, known together as the Visscher grabbed

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four, the main concern is to ensure its citizens have equal rights in

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Britain and elsewhere in the union. What that seems to mean in practice

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is that they might be willing to accept curbs on benefits for

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Hungarian, polls, Czechs and Slovaks working in Britain provided these

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are only applied to new arrivals, not the hundreds of thousands

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already there. And that these restrictions are phased out

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gradually as workers contribute to the national economy, they should

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also be able to claim benefits, they argue. The Government is also what

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guarantees that citizens of non-EU countries do not suddenly have more

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rights than they do on the British job market. Other British demands,

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especially for stronger powers, for a national parliament and safeguards

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against what some see as the groin powers of Brussels dovetail neatly

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with their own policies. -- growing powers of Brussels. At last,

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everyone has to take them seriously. Nick Thorpe in Budapest. You do get

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the impression it is those for, namely Poland, the Czech Republic,

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Slovakia and Hungary that might pose David Cameron the biggest problem.

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Let's bring in our political corresponded. We started to get a

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feel for how it is going. What are you hearing's so far the tone from

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the EU leaders has been fairly positive. They were saying look, I

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think we will get agreement here. It might require compromise, but we

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want the UK to stay within the EU. We are hearing via Twitter people

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are saying it was a constructive We are hearing via Twitter people

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session. David Cameron was setting out where he sucks renegotiation was

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session. David Cameron was setting at. He was effectively trying

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session. David Cameron was setting persuade them he needs a credible

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deal to take back persuade them he needs a credible

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voters. We are not hearing if those political differences

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voters. We are not hearing if those countries which have a particular

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beef about a particular issue, for example, Poland and Hungary on

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payments to migrant workers. We have got this tract

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payments to migrant workers. We have which is where the officials are

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trying to hammer out some legal details while the leaders

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resolve some of the political detail. That'll go round the table

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again tomorrow Mike with the hope of getting some deal, but what we are

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hearing so far is that we are not at that stage yet. Armies of lawyers in

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this building. I was making Albany remarks about David Cameron's speech

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to the summit where he said Britain has to have a codified place within

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Europe. It has to be put down in text what Britain is to Europe. I

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think those in the remaining camp in Britain might have some sympathy

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with that. What you have got at the moment is a situation where Britain

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does already have a specific relationship with the European Union

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which differs to some other member states, with its own particular

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exemptions. There is a recognition that Britain's approach has been

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different over a long period of time. This is not new. The problem

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the David Cameron is that while people have sympathy with that

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notion and want Britain to remain in the EU, but under its own terms, the

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problem is there are plenty around the EU table who think why should

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Britain have its own special deal? The president of the European

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Parliament said earlier on that what is it about Britain that makes it

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special? The point Mr Cameron makes is that shouldn't just be one size

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fits all in Europe. There is a recognition across the EU that it is

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moving into different directions. There are countries which want to

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progress towards a deeper political and economic union. What's David

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Cameron is trying to secure is some sort of guarantee that the UK will

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not be sucked further into that. The problem is how do you do that

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without leading to some sort of contagion, other countries wanting

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their own parameters. That is the fear of some readers. Not just

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specific demands from other member states, but that this could perhaps

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lead to another referendum across the EU. This is a union facing big

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difficult complex issues on the economy, the migration crisis and

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the message from the readers is that this is a tapered unity, not

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division. David Cameron is trying to get this deal to satisfy the

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sceptics back home, the British public and his own cabinet. We might

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be in for a long night. I think that is guaranteed. Thank you very much.

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The first session has broken up. Now they go into some of those issues

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over dinner, particularly the migrant crisis. It does Aberdeen to

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Britain because there is concern here about the flow of migrants to

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Europe. It does pertain to Britain. The Greek Prime Minister in

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particular feels the same way. We will bring you news on thoughts on

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that thread the evening. And of course the important bits on the EU

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reform package as well. For the moment, I will hand you back to

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London. Sounds like a long night in store. Christian Fraser Forest live

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in Brussels. Pope Francis has strongly criticised

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Donald Trump's comments Presidential hopeful Mr Trump has

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said that he would like to build a wall along the US border

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with Mexico to keep migrants out. But the Pope said comments

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like that are un-Christian. In response, Donald Trump has called

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the remarks "disgraceful". Our North America Editor

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Jon Sopel reports. The Pope went deliberately

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to the US - Mexican border, where Donald Trump

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wants to build his wall, not to make a political

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point but moral one. On his flight back to Rome,

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when asked about the billionaire property developer, he couldn't

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resist and waded straight TRANSLATION: A person who thinks

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about building walls wherever they may be and not

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of building bridges, As far as what you said

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about whether I would advise the boat or not vote,

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I am not going to get I say only that this man is not

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Christian if he had said We're going to build

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a wall, believe me. In this race for the White House,

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the one thing we have learned about Donald Trump is he doesn't do

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turning the other cheek, ever. He has bullied opponents,

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lashed out at critics, But taking on the leader

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of the Roman Catholic Church? Well, that might be

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something different. At a rally in a short

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time ago, Mr Trump professed to feeling surprised

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about the Pope's comments, If and when the Vatican

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is attacked by Isis, which as everyone knows

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is Isis's ultimate trophy, I can promise you

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that the Pope would have only wished and prayed that

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Donald Trump would have been It's true.

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It's true. Donald Trump has sought to play

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up his Christian faith in a bid to win over

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the key constituency Having the Pope call that

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into question is hardly helpful. My mother gave me

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this Bible, this very But Donald Trump throughout has

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defied political gravity. What makes others crash

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to the ground has often just led Their interstellar careers

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were linked decades ago, but for William Shatner

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and Leonard Nimoy, that was only The actors who played Captain Kirk

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and Mr Spock on Star Trek went on to become lifelong friends,

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even if there were a few bumps In his new book, Leonard: My 50-Year

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Friendship With A Remarkable Man, Mr Shatner recounts the off-camera

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details of their relationship.. The BBC met him in

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New York to learn more. In exploring this book,

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I learned more about Leonard... Perhaps not more, but a great

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deal about him that His vast and historical

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interest in photography, the things he wrote,

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some of the movies he was in, plays that he did and

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musicals he was in. I didn't know that he

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sang in a musical. We were both made fun of in a way

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by having our voices on some records - you know, actors

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who thought they could sing. So we both laughed about that,

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but he was doing it professionally Rivalry - I guess would be

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a term that could be used. It's dramatic, but it was just

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the push and shove of actors Had we known each other earlier,

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I don't think that would have happened, but on that occasion,

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as a young actor and very hungry, I'd like all those fans to take away

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the knowledge of how wonderful a friendship I had with

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Leonard Nimoy and how dear Friendship is very

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difficult to have, to give, because what happens between actors

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on a movie or television series or a play, the passions

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of the venture bond them. When the venture is

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over, you say goodbye. And there are instances

:25:16.:25:19.

where you say, man, I'll call you tomorrow.

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I'll call you for lunch. And it never happens.

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It's all gone. And in the business we are in,

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where you were roaming a lot, solid connections are difficult

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to make, and I cherish the one But for now from me and the rest

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of the team, goodbye. If you would like to get in touch,

:25:38.:25:58.

we would love to hear from you. Bye-bye.

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Good evening. We will have some big contrasts in the weather by the time

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