02/02/2016 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at Ten: After months of talks, a draft agreement

on changing Britain's relationship with the EU.

A letter outlining the deal is sent to all member states,

as David Cameron insists that real progress has been made.

If I could get these terms for British membership,

I sure would opt in to be a member of the European

But on the key areas of immigration and parliamentary sovereignty,

the Prime minister's Mritics say he's not delivered.

All the big talk two years ago, of fundamental treat

change, of Britain getting back powers, of a whole new relationship,

We'll be taking a closer look at the proposals,

which pave the way for a possible referendum in the summer.

I absolutely love the people of Iowa.

Iowa didn't love Trump - he was beaten in the first electoral

step in the race for the Republican nomination.

1.5 million Syrian refugees in camps in Jordan.

The king says a summit this week must deliver help.

Sooner or later, I think the dam is going to burst.

This week is going to be very important for Jordanians

to see is there going to be hope, not only for Syrian refugees

And invading the Yorkshire countryside, the first major British

exhibition by the New York pop artist Brian Donnelly.

Later on BBC London - Cracking down on gangs -

a new plan to encourage young people to turn their back crime.

And Labour's Mayoral candidate says he'll solve London's

After months of talks, a draft agreement has been reached

on changing the terms of the UK's membership of the European Union.

David Cameron insisted there'd been real progress,

but he acknowledged that more work was needed before the deal

could be put to voters in a referendum.

The two main areas under the spotlight today were:

Sovereignty - whether national parliaments could use a so-called

"red card" to block unwanted European laws.

And immigration - with a focus on Britain's ability to use

an emergency brake on benefits for EU migrants.

Our political editor looks at the draft agreement and the reaction.

Time to see, have the months of private negotiations achieved

very much, even Cabinet ministers weren't

REPORTER: Is this a good enough deal to make you campaign to stay in?

In Paris the clock ticked down to the document.

Then in Brussels, it was finally time for

Choosing a suitably EU friendly engineering business in Wiltshire,

the Prime Minister gave his verdict, the draft terms he's brokered

to change our relationship are big and for the better.

Sometimes people say to me, if you weren't

in the European Union, would you opt to

And today I can give a very clear answer: If I could get these terms

for British membership, I sure would opt in to

be a member of the European Union, because these are good terms.

So what's actually in the draft deal?

The Prime Minister wanted more muscle for our Parliament.

And there will be some extra powers to prevent

There'll be protection for the pound, a guarantee British

firms won't lose out just because we're not in the eurozone.

And Britain would be formally excluded

from ever closer union, the EU tradition of countries

On David Cameron's big promises of squeezing

immigration, he hasn't got everything he wanted.

The so-called emergency brake, the Prime Minister

wanted to stop EU workers getting benefits like tax credits for four

Similarly, he wanted a complete ban on EU migrants sending

They'll still receive the payments, but

they'll be lower, according to the cost of living

But how long will these new limits last?

Look, in the draft, no numbers, but X, Y and Z.

I was told I would never get a four-year

proposal and yet that is what is in the document.

We don't have to pay welfare in full for four years.

Not paying in full, not the same as banning all together.

REPORTER: Do you admit surely that you have had to water down some

of your demands and can you say to the public,

hand on heart, that these proposals will actually cut the number of EU

migrants coming to live in this country?

I can say hand on heart, I've delivered the commitments that

I think the whole country knows that if you, for instance,

pay people ?5,000, ?10,000 addition to

their wages, that is a draw to Britain.

That's one of the reasons why we've seen such high levels

It's not quite what he promised, though.

He needs to give me more to convince me that it's going to go

Saying it's one thing and achieving it is another.

Certainly if this country stays in the

European Union, we've got to have clearly defined rules

If he delivers on what he said there, it could be beneficial

You've got to look at what happens at the end of February and see

It's not an empty deal. There are changes, if enacted, that would

limit the payment of benefits to some EU workers in this countriment

and there are some protections for British businesses trading around

the continent. Crucially, it does not allow David Cameron to keep all

the promises he made at the election. It tweaks our relationship

with the rest of the EU, rather than tearing it up and starting again.

For those who want to leave the EU, today was time to set the terms of

the campaign. In the coming weeks, every line will be poured over. Even

on the emergency brake stuff... Every weakness in the deal pounced

on. And many minds are already made up. The demands from the Government

were very limited to begin with. Now they've been watered down by the EU

on almost every front. We've spent months and months now with the Prime

Minister going round Europe asking other European leaders if we, in

Britain, can change our own benefit laws. I think it's clear now that

the British public need to have control of their own laws, control

of their economy, control of their own borders. If you look at the

remoshiation package -- renegotiation package today, it was

hardly worth the wait. It's pathetic really. All the big talk two years

ago, fundamental treaty change, Britain getting back powers, a whole

new relationship, nothing fundamental has changed at all.

Labour was furious. The Prime Minister presented his deal to the

public and the press first. Rather than to Parliament. He's gone to a

selected audience this morning to give commentary on the negotiations

but cannot come here to report to this House. But will in the end

inevitably back him. If the Prime Minister in the country elected in

May says this is a good deal, I recommend it to you, and I think we

should stay in the European Union, that sways a lot of people, Labour

as well as Conservative. It seems one of David Cameron's potential

opponents in this debate is on the verge of coming on board. The Home

Secretary said tonight there is the basis of a deal. From Boris Johnson,

though, who has flirted with exit, tonight an unusual silence. But

beware... The stakes are really high. The EU president who put the

deal together warned it's not signed and sealed. Even getting this far

was hard enough. One of today's main proposals

is the so-called emergency brake - restricting access to in-work

benefits for migrant workers Mr Cameron said this

would take the pressure off But would this brake have the effect

of reducing the number of EU Our home editor, Mark Easton,

has been investigating. This is where the British Government

wants the emergency brake put on. Record numbers of EU citizens

are coming to the UK to work, 160,000 in the last year, a quarter

of them from Romania and Bulgaria. Having promised to reduce net

migration by more than two-thirds, Ministers hope an emergency brake

on in-work benefits will mean many European workers

don't board the bus. Are in-work benefits like tax

credits and housing benefits a key factor in deciding

whether to come to the UK? These Eastern Europeans,

working on a farm in Kent, say they came for higher

wages and better living Here is more better than in Romania

with money, with everything. It cannot replace this feeling,

but I don't have any future. The Prime Minister insists Britain's

in-work benefits are a big financial incentive to lower-paid,

lower-skilled EU workers. Certainly benefits can add several

thousand pounds to an immigrant's income, but the Government's

own economic advisers and other experts doubt an emergency brake

will change immigration levels much. We have very little data on exactly

how many people would be affected But all of the statistics suggest

that a minority of EU citizens who come to the UK are actually

receiving in-work benefits, so it's unlikely that we'd see

a dramatic reduction in the numbers of people coming, even if there

are a few people at the margins Let's imagine a Romanian migrant

coming to Britain to work, Now, he would earn ?14,000

a year doing that. So he wouldn't actually be

eligible for tax credits, although he might get housing

benefit to help with his rent. But look where the UK minimum

wage sits within Europe, only Ireland and Luxembourg are more

generous and you have to go a long way down the list before

you find Romania. Back home, the minimum wage

for our potential migrant will be a little over ?2,000, less

than a sixth of what he would be Some reckon it's Government help

for Britain's low paid that's the real pull factor for EU migrants

and it's likely replacing the minimum wage, with a more

generous living wage from April, will only make Britain even more

attractive to European workers. Mr Cameron will now need to persuade

the leaders of the other 27 EU member states to sign up

to the package of measures at a summit in Brussels

later this month. Our Europe editor, Katya Adler,

has been considering the reaction Britain's relationship

with the EU has been turbulent, Never a marriage of conviction,

more assumed convenience. Sometimes fruitful,

often fraught and now, viewed from Brussels,

EU-UK relations have changed fundamentally again with what's seen

as Britain's audacious demand for reform that Europe

has taken seriously. This is the first time in EU history

that one country stood up in front of the rest, threatened to leave

if the EU didn't dance to its reformist tune

and then got what it asked The problem right now with the UK's

new EU deal is that the stage is set, but the piece

of music isn't yet finished. And, to complicate things further,

with the European Union's 28-piece orchestra every single musician

is allowed to have their say. The danger is you end up

with a disordered cacophony rather than a harmonious composition that

will stand the test of time. And that is what David Cameron

needs, a credibly composed, legally watertight deal

for his audience at home, that all his EU

partners will agree to. But already today there

were rumbles of dissent. Not here in consett with Belgian's

national orchestra, but from central and Eastern Europe on the plan

to cut EU migrant benefits. According to all statistics

the Poles are very successful So I do not see why they shouldn't

be paid the same benefits The French have wrinkled their nose

at the idea that the UK and other non-Eurozone nations can

stall Eurozone decisions. The current stage of the Eurozone

is not sustainable. So it needs to be fixed

and you cannot allow someone that is outside the family to forbid

you from making it work better. All-important Germany meanwhile

is soothing ruffled feathers around the EU, determined that everything

must be done to keep the UK in. In general, I would say,

we're on the right way. We want the United Kingdom to remain

an active and strong partner in an active and strong

European Union. David Cameron is banking on a grand

finale at the EU leaders' summit in a couple of weeks,

where his reform deal is applauded by peers in Europe and presented

to the British people. But the players on this stage

are an unpredictable lot. The Prime Minister should be

prepared to improvise. Live to Westminster and a few

questions to put to our political editor. First one, Laura, do you

think David Cameron has the makings of a deal here which can crucially,

for him, minimise Conservative Party divisions? That's a question that's

been hanging over all of this for months. There'll be relief in Number

Ten that Theresa May has signalled strongly that she's likely to fall

in behind the Prime Minister. One senior Government minister told me

tonight that the deal is, in fact, a mess. And there is distinct

grumpiness in Cabinet, amongst those who favour EU exit, that while the

Prime Minister is out there extoling the virtues of this deal, they're

expected to deal their mouths shut. That wasn't what they had expected.

They thought that he would be quieter about what had been achieved

and not, I think in the coming days, the truce might look a bit flakey.

It might not hold in the coming days. On the shape of this proposed

deal, how convinced is the Prime Minister that this is the kind of

package that he can sell in a referendum possibly in the summer? I

think they're conscious that there's a risk that they could be accused of

breaking promises. There's no two ways about it, what is in the draft

deal, limits on benefits, is not as strong, not as tight as what was

promised in the Conservative manifesto a few short months ago.

That said, Number Ten are adamant they've got significant concessions

here. They've got real acknowledgement from the bureaucrats

in Brussels, from the EU Council's president, Donald Tusk, that Britain

does have a right to treat EU migrants differently to its own

citizens. That, they believe, is significant progress and the basis,

the shape of a deal that could convince those voters in the middle,

who either haven't yet thought about this big question or haven't yet

made up their minds whether they favour staying in the EU or favour

leaving it all together. I have to say, if those on the other side

really want to stop the Prime Minister setting the pace and the

terms of this debate, with the June vote now likely, they need to grab

this race and they need to do it fast. Thanks very much.

The billionaire businessman, Donald Trump, says he will not be

deterred by his defeat in the first public vote

in the race to be the Republican presidential candidate.

Mr Trump, widely considered the front-runner in the Iowa polls,

was beaten by Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.

On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton won

Let's join our North America editor, Jon Sopel, in Des Moines.

Huw, thank you. The map behind me shows that Hillary Clinton won. By

the very tightest of margins over her left-wing rival. On the

Republican side Ted Cruz won. Guess where the noise is coming from

today? Donald Trump, moaning on social media that voters hadn't

acknowledged his efforts in paying for his own campaign and also

tearing into Ted Cruz's victory speech describing it as "rambling

and over flamboyant." Donald Trump doing what he does,

projecting himself as life's This is the fanfare literally

he organised for himself when he arrived in Des

Moines this weekend. The theme tune from

the movie Airforce One. intervened and the man

who hates losers lost. We will go on to get the Republican

nomination and we go on to easily beat Hillary or Bernie or whoever

the hell they throw up there. Well, Donald Trump has given

not a victory speech, but a concession to Ted Cruz,

however he says he's going to go on and hopes he will

win in New Hampshire. This is a party that has gone very

flat for Donald Trump. When I caught up with his son,

he told me the fight goes on. We're still going to be working just

as hard in New Hampshire and then South Carolina and then Nevada

and we're not going to stop, The winner was a conservative

insurgent, Senator Ted Cruz, another figure loathed

by the Republican establishment and not that popular

with his daughter either, But he had a brilliant ground game,

clinically targeting his Tonight is a victory for courageous

conservatives across Iowa The other perhaps more significant

victory came for this man, with the red tie

and the perma-smile. Yes, Marco Rubio only came third,

but he way exceeded expectations and has emerged as the clear

frontrunner for mainstream And on the Democratic Party side,

half a dozen times last night, this

is what it came down to. In the most eye-wateringly

tight contest ever held. Delegate, for this precinct,

it's Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton squeaked it

and her victory speech could be So as I stand here tonight,

breathing a big sigh of relief. The left-wing senator from Vermont,

Bernie Sanders, did spectacularly in running her so close

and in the middle of the night flew straight to New Hampshire where next

week he hopes to go one better His first campaign stop -

on the back of a pick-up at 4.30am Clearly, there's to be no

slacking off the pace. West Yorkshire Police have launched

a murder investigation after the bodies of a woman

and two children were found Officers say they were called

to the home in Allerton Bywater Our correspondent,

Danny Savage, is there tonight. Huw, police described what happened

here as a domestic-related incident. The bodies were found here late this

morning am we under-Stam them to be of a mother and her two children. In

the last couple of hours West Yorkshire Police revealed the body

of a man has been found on cliffs in Anglesey in North Wales and they

believe that man is linked to the murders here.

It was late this morning when police discovered three bodies in a modern

They were responding to concerns raised about the family living here.

A few hours later, they confirmed they were treating

A woman's body was found downstairs and two children upstairs.

You know, you see people in that house all the time,

but I'd never spoken to them or anything.

Police knocked on my door, I don't know, about 12.30pm to see

Well, it hasn't sunk in, really, to be fair like.

The two children are understood to be a girl aged around 11

They were regulars in the play park just a few steps

She was really bubbly and happy and she liked to just spend time

with all her friends and have fun and help her little brother,

like, climbing the rocket and just trying to please everyone.

Tonight, the house remains under police guard as detectives try

and establish exactly how long the bodies have laid

here undiscovered and who killed them.

Danny Savage, BBC News, Allerton Bywater in West Yorkshire.

Health officials in Texas are tonight reporting what they say

is the first case of the Zika virus contracted in the United States.

They say the person who has been infected hadn't travelled to any

of the affected countries in Central and Latin America and believe

Our North America correspondent, James Cook, is in Los Angeles

James, what else are they saying about this? It's worth bearing in

mind there is a lot we don't know about the Zika virus which has been

linked to a serious disease in unborn children. It spread rapidly

through countries in Latin America and Caribbean. The concern was it

could spread through the United States, but that concern focused on

the possibility of mosquitos spreading it, thought to be unlikely

at this time of year in the winter. These health officials in Dallas are

suggesting it has been a sfraed bisexual contact by a person who had

returned from Venezuela to that person's sexual partner. I spoke to

the scientists who carried out the testing at the Centres for Disease

Control and Prevention, the US national organisation, he says he

does not think that sexual transmission at this case has been

proven to a sufficient standard of integrity ril, as he put it. He said

it could be passed on saliva and blood and more testing was needed.

As with so much else the advice is to keep away from affected areas

when possible covering up when encounter mosquitos but scientists

really want more research. James thank you very much. James Cook

there for us in Los Angeles. Jordan says it is finding it

increasingly difficult to care for a huge number of

refugees from Syria. King Abdullah has told the BBC

that his country's infrastructure and services are under immense

pressure and he'd called for help Jordan has taken some

1.4 million Syrian refugees, in a country with a total population

of around 9.5 million people, He says around a quarter of Jordan's

budget is spent on King Abdullah will be in London this

week to deliver a tough message He's spoken exclusively to our chief

international corespondent, Taking over the desert,

not a city, a camp - Zaatari camp, more than 80,000

Syrian refugees live here. As big as it is, ten times more

live in Jordan's city, But they're still

coming, or trying to. Carrying their worldly goods

or being carried themselves. A no-man's land between Syria

and Jordan, it's no place to live. Some had been stuck here

for months, and it shows. Only the most vulnerable

are allowed in. Jordan suspects that the so-called

Islamic State is hiding here. Everyone is checked

for traces of explosives. Jordan is resisting pressure

from the West to let more people in. This is a major national security

problem for all of us. If you're going to take the higher

moral ground on this issue, we'll get them all to an air base

and we're more than happy Europe is saying to you -

we don't want more refugees. You're saying you don't

want any more refugees, We will continue to bring them

across in limited numbers. We will continue to look after them

on the other side and we will On the streets of Jordan

you hear of other battles, a fight for scarce jobs when Syrians

are willing to work for less. "Long live the King",

they cry, and then the criticism. TRANSLATION: We feel for the Syrian

refugees who left their country, What everyone needs

is an end to the war. The King says world powers must

unite against extremist forces. We are actually dealing

with something worse than the Cold Moscow and Washington are no longer

each other's enemies, we're dealing with the outlaws

of this land, that is the global threat and I'm hoping that's

where the common ground is. And, if that can happen, then Syria

could have a political solution. If not, it'll be a disaster

for the Syrian people and the bad Syria's war lies just

beyond this no-man's land. Soldiers keep close watch as aid

agencies care for refugees here. Even for those who finally enter

Jordan, there's no end Lyse Doucet, BBC News,

Jordan. The New York artist Brian Donnelly -

known to his fans around the world by the alias Kaws -

is embarking on his first major Yorkshire Sculpture Park is to host

the exhibition which consists of a series of huge,

cartoon sculptures which will be to the public for more

than four months. Our arts editor, Will Gompertz,

reports from West Bretton. How's this for an incongruous

addition to the Yorkshire landscape, a 10-metre high cartoon-like figure

inspired by American pop culture It's the work of a one-time graffiti

artist from Brooklyn New York, who tried his hand at making toys

which led to a big idea When working with wood and doing

something at 10-metres, it's a different feeling

from when you're, like, growing up and you're little

and you have wooden toys and you can of put them on a shelf and make them

do what you want and you walk into a space like this and you see

these wooden toys that could suddenly carry

you in their hand or you want to do something that kind

of complements it. Like, I love the way that this

sculpture falls almost at the same The artist of these works,

real name Brian Donnelly, calls himself Kaws, a nom de plume

from the time he'd illegally paint Nowadays, he's much more

interested in the Smurfs. When I was a little a lot

of times like, you know, I grew up on Smurfs,

it's sort of a nostalgic This one, you're not quite sure

if it's running from something or like running to warn

you or running after you. Being chased by a giant black Smurf

across a Yorkshire landscape? Sir Henry Moore and Dame Barbara

Hepworth were two towering giants They were king and queen

of British post-war modernism. Both were brought up a few

miles from the park, their sculptures inspired

by the local landscape and often A far cry from Kaws'

pop-up inspired Americana. What do you think Dame Barbara

Hepworth would have thought had she seen Kaws' sculptures

in and around the same I think that she would recognise

that sculpture has to change, that people collect new idioms

from the world around them And, there's absolutely no

doubt that any artist, looking at the way that Kaws works,

wouldn't be intrigued. Kaws' sculptures may not be

to everyone's taste, but they do pose some

interesting questions, not least about the all-pervasive

nature of popular culture from which there seems

to be no escape, not even Will Gompertz, BBC

News, West Bretton. Newsnight's about to begin over

on BBC Two in a few moments. Tonight, we are trying to get our

heads around that new deal with Europe, the Prime Minister has

negotiated. Whether it's a big deal. We've been grilling the Minister on

Ure that subject. Join me for that now on BBC Two, 11.00pm in Scotland.

That's Evan with news nights.