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In the last half hour - agreement at last on EU | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
David Cameron says he's negotiated a deal to give the UK special status | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
Agreement was supposed to be reached over breakfast. | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
Instead it took until dinner for the 28 EU leaders to see eye | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
The details are still coming in, it's being reported | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
that the Prime Minister has secured a seven-year curb on | :00:32. | :00:39. | |
of his closest Cabinet allies, Michael Gove, will | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
As details of the deal emerge, we'll be live in Brussels | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
Also in the programme: US warplanes bomb a training camp | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
for Islamic State militants - targeting a man linked | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
She did something that in our society is unspeakable. | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
Harper Lee, the woman who wrote To Kill A Mockingbird - | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
one of the most famous books in the world - | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
Later on BBC London: With a new deal on Europe on the horizon, | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
how would the one million EU nationals living here feel | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
And 15 years on from the foot and mouth disaster, how | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
After almost 30 hours of intense negotiations, | :01:26. | :01:50. | |
wrangling and delays at the EU summit in Brussels, | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
David Cameron says he has agreed a special status that the European | :01:53. | :02:05. | |
Union. It will pave the way for an in-out | :02:06. | :02:06. | |
referendum - very possibly in June. The news of a deal came a short time | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
ago after lengthy talks between David Cameron's plans to restrict | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
migrant benefits proved to be one Tonight, the President | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
of the European Council, Donald Tusk, announced there had | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
been unanimous support for the deal. Let's go straight to our Europe | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
editor Katya Adler in Brussels. Yes, getting a decision on this deal | :02:23. | :02:34. | |
really did take hours and hours. It had been supposed to be announced | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
what was dubbed an English breakfast this morning. It slipped into a | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
lunch and now this dinner. We heard David Cameron did get unanimous | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
support that he needed from all 27 countries for this deal. He did get | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
what he wanted but not only that, evidence that what ever his critics | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
will say about the content of the deal, it was significant enough that | :03:01. | :03:01. | |
he will have to fight hard to get it. Breaking bread | :03:02. | :03:12. | |
together is a time-honoured way to forge good relations with your | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
neighbours. It has taken David Cameron hours of horse trading to | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
get together with the other it U leaders. Now they are dining over a | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
new deal. There are rumours there is resolution for desert. The day got | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
off to a far less harmonious start. David Cameron was not the only | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
bleary eyed leader on the block. Bad-tempered bilateral meetings had | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
dragged on until dawn. I was here until five o'clock this morning. We | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
have made some progress, but there is still no deal. I have said I will | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
only do a deal if we get what Britain needs. I will get back in | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
there, do some more work and I will do what I can. | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
Instead of hailing a UK deal this morning, the Prime Minister found | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
himself in a grinding new world of talks. We are happy to stay till | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
Sunday. He had told the wife and kids, you said, there could be some | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
delay. A case of laughing on the outside, not so happy on the inside. | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
The Prime Minister had promised a battle for Britain at the summit, | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
the truth is that after weeks and months of shuttle diplomacy, | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
travelling, meeting leaders across Europe, he did not expect such | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
strong push back on such a number of issues from so many countries around | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
the table here. TRANSLATION: The proposal currently on the table does | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
not satisfy all parties. We have not finished yet. Preventing the leaders | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
from finishing were very specific objections to David Cameron's | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
proposed reforms. The French opposed safeguards against rules for | :04:57. | :05:04. | |
preferential treatment for the City of London. The Belgians and others | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
objected to changing EU treaties, to write Britain out of the deal for | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
ever closer union. Central and Eastern European countries fought | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
back against the so-called emergency brake, a low the government to cut | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
EU migrant benefits. David Cameron wanted a break in 13 years. We hear | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
they have settled for seven. Poland and others also dug in their heels | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
over changing child benefits for EU migrant workers. And on top of that, | :05:36. | :05:44. | |
the Greek Prime Minister decided to hijack this oh so public opportunity | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
to do some hard bargaining. Help me with migrant arrivals, he said, and | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
I will not stand in the way of a British deal. As the hours ticked | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
by, news began to leak that slow EU progress was being made. The 12 | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
leaders here want to get this deal done so they can turn to other | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
pressing concerns. We keep hearing about big gaps between the countries | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
on different issues, they have been going on for months now. How can | :06:13. | :06:21. | |
they suddenly be resolved? If each and every country pursues its | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
national interest, that is logical, but in the end, we all have to | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
understand that if Great Britain leaves the EU, we all get nothing. | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
That has been an element of smoke and mirrors here, all parties felt | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
the need to be seen to stand their ground. That is why proceedings have | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
taken so long. It has become clear the British Prime Minister was not | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
the only one who came to do battle in Brussels. | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
We have the deal, what about the detail? News is really just coming | :06:52. | :06:59. | |
in. In that dinner, just a few minutes ago really, EU leaders were | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
seeing this new draft deal for the first time. Donald Tusk, the host of | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
this meeting, the president of the European Council, he represents all | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
of EU leaders, he said that this deal now tries to take in | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
everybody's sensitivities. What is important to the Prime Minister as | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
it takes in his main concerns. What we are hearing from a Downing Street | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
source is that he has got approval for the emergency brake on EU | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
migrant welfare, and that he can have cuts on EU migrant benefits for | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
seven years. Now he had tried to come to this meeting and asked for a | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
13 year period and he does have seven years. Downing Street said | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
they would have guessed we would even have got that? Very important | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
also for the Prime Minister is exempting Britain from EU wide of | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
ever closer union. We are hearing he will get that in what is called | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
treaty language, that is very important. That was fought against | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
by a number of countries here, the fact that eventually might involve | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
treaty change. Also we are hearing there has been an agreement on child | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
benefit for EU migrants, those that won't get it paid at all and those | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
that will have its index linked depending on where the actual | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
children of EU migrants are living and working in the UK are. The | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
welfare benefits will be matched to the cost of living of why those | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
children are. That as well. Finally, this was a very vexed detail, | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
protections from the UK from Eurozone legislation. They have | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
another emergency brake there. We don't know get the details, but it | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
will mean that the UK can raise the alarm when it feels that there are | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
Eurozone rules coming in that can adversely affect the UK and the City | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
of London as well. From those details we are hearing, David | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
Cameron will be very pleased indeed. This is what he set out to get. We | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
are expecting him to come and talk at a press conference at any moment | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
now, and we have been hearing also from a number of the other prime | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
ministers, who had to negotiate with him, that he was a very tough | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
negotiator indeed. Of course his critics back home, this will not be | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
good enough for them. They have said all along these are narrow issues | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
and they do not fundamentally change Britain's relationship with the EU | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
but Britain's Prime Minister and his team will be delighted. They will | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
hold a cabinet meeting, expected tomorrow morning, they can then | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
launch date for the referendum and the real campaigning can begin. | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
Let's go straight to Downing Street and our political editor Laura | :09:26. | :09:27. | |
Kuenssberg is there. From what you are hearing, what is your assessment | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
of the deal and what it will mean in the months ahead? This is a rare | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
political moment, to be honest it's a unique political moment. We know | :09:37. | :09:48. | |
for certain now that you, me, every voter in the country will be given | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
the chance to make their own decision about whether or not we | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
should stay or leave the European Union most likely at the end of | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
June. David Cameron has done something no Prime Minister has ever | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
done before, sort and achieved some of his aims to change our | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
relationship with the European Union while already being a member. The | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
battle will be over just how big those changes are. Are they really | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
substantial? The Prime Minister will claim, particularly of welfare, that | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
they will make a real difference to the lives of people in this country, | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
winning restrictions on EU migrants living in this country is a | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
significant political achievement for him. The big difficulty that he | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
has, not just because those claims will be tightly contested, is that | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
he knows within his own party their senior figures who will not back | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
him. When he gathers his cabinet here tomorrow morning, probably at | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
9am, around the table there will be senior figures will not agree that | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
he has got a deal that will really change our relationship with the EU | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
for the better. One of them we learned tonight as his close | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
confidant and political ally for many years, Michael Gove. When he | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
looks them all in the eye tomorrow morning around the Cabinet table, | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
that may feel rather different to the moment that Downing Street sees | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
as a victory in Brussels tonight. But persuading them and of course | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
the rest of us is a fight that is already under way. We are expecting | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
to hear from David Cameron, the first words since this deal has been | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
agreed, in just a few minutes. You can tell just how hard he has had to | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
fight to get the deal that he wanted, given the negotiations, the | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
wranglings that have gone on for so many hours? Yes, there is no | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
question about that, not because this particular event, this summit | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
dragged on and on and on, not just because of the fact that over the | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
last few months we have seen him time and time again making different | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
visits to different European capitals, taking every opportunity | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
to press the flesh of his fellow UUNET -- EU leaders around the | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
country, but if we think back to the reaction of many people around the | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
European Union when he embarked on this adventure, what some people | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
would call a gamble, he faced significant criticism, some of it | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
public, some of it private, and more of it private, that he was raising | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
the issue and many people believed he was doing it for his own | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
political... I will interrupt you. Straight to Brussels and the Prime | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
Minister. I will fly back to London tonight and update the Cabinet at | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
10am tomorrow morning. This deal has delivered on the commitments I made | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
at the beginning of this renegotiation process. Britain will | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
be permanently out of ever closer union, never part of a European | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
superstate. There will be tough new restrictions on access to our | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
welfare system for EU migrants, no more something for nothing. Britain | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
will never join the euro, and we have secured vital protections for | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
our economy. And a full slate over the rules of the free trade single | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
market, while remaining outside the euro -- a full slate. I believe | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
there is enough for me to recommend that the United Kingdom remain in | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
the United -- the European Union, having the best of both words. We | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
will begin the parts of Europe that work for us, influencing the | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
decisions that affect us, in the driving seat of the world's biggest | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
market and with the ability to take action to keep our people safe. And | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
we will be out of the parts of Europe that don't work for us. Out | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
of the open borders, out of the bailouts, out of the euro, and out | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
of those schemes in which Britain wants no part. Let me set out the | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
details of exactly what we have agreed and why. I began this | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
negotiation to address the concerns of the British people and today, all | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
28 member states have signed up to concrete reforms in each of the four | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
areas that I set out. British jobs and British business all depend on | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
being able to trade with Europe on a level playing field, so our first | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
aim in these negotiations was to get new protections for countries like | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
ours, which are in the single market but not in the euro. Let me take you | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
through what we have secured. We have permanently protected the pound | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
and our right to keep it. For the first time that you have explicitly | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
acknowledged that it has more than one currency. Responsibility for | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
supervising the financial stability of the UK remains in the hands of | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
the Bank of England, so we continue to keep our taxpayers and our savers | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
safe. We have ensured that British taxpayers will never be made to bail | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
out countries in the Eurozone. We have ensured that the UK's economic | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
interests are protected. We have made sure that the Eurozone cannot | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
act as a bloc to undermine the integrity of the free-trade single | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
market. And we have guaranteed that British business will never face any | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
discrimination for being outside the Eurozone for example our financial | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
services firms can never be forced to relocate inside the Eurozone if | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
want to trade in euros, just because they are based in the UK. And not | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
only are these rules set out in a legally binding agreement, we have | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
also agreed that should the UK or another non-euro member states feel | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
that the rules are being broken they can actively activate an emergency | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
safeguard unilaterally to ensure these rules are enforced. Let me be | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
clear because there has been debate about this. Britain will have the | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
power to pull this leave on our own. Our second aim in these negotiations | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
was to make Europe more competitive, so we create jobs and make British | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
families more financially secure. We have secured a declaration outlining | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
a number of commitments in this area. For the first time the | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
European Union will now say that competitiveness is, and I quote, and | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
essential objective of the union. This is important, because it goes | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
to the very heart of what Europe should be about. It means Europe | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
will complete the single marketing services, this will make it easier | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
for service -based companies like IT firms, to trade in Europe. Nowhere | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
will this be more of an opportunity than in the United Kingdom, where | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
thousands of service companies make up two thirds of our whole economy. | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
It could add up to 2% our economy each year. That is a real | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
improvement. The European Union will also complete the single market in | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
capital. This will mean UK start-ups will be able to access more sources | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
of finance for their business and it will also present new opportunities | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
for the UK financial services industry. Europe will now also | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
complete the single market in energy. This will allow more | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
suppliers into the UK energy market, lowering bills and increasing | :16:23. | :16:24. | |
investment across the continent. That is a real improvement as well. | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
In addition we have secured commitments from Europe to complete | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
trade and investment agreements with the fastest-growing and most dynamic | :16:33. | :16:40. | |
economies around the world. We will leave David Cameron there, as he | :16:41. | :16:42. | |
continues to give details of the deal that has been agreed | :16:43. | :16:44. | |
unanimously in Brussels tonight. Let's go back to Downing Street and | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
Laura Kuenssberg. A big political moment. From what you have heard, | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
what is your assessment? Has he got enough? There is no question in the | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
coming months there is going to be intensely fierce scrutiny on every | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
single part of what David Cameron has only just begun to lay out | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
tonight. In terms of his big picture, politically, no question | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
what Downing Street will be most pleased about is the ability as he | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
said that end a something for nothing culture for EU migrants come | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
here and then have access to our benefit system. That is politically | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
crucial and something many Conservative MPs have been looking | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
for. Also there, that exemption from the UK to the fundamental, what had | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
been a fundamental European Union principle, that countries would move | :17:30. | :17:37. | |
closer and closer together, become more and more like. He mentioned | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
protections for the City of London and British business and what is | :17:41. | :17:42. | |
going on in the Eurozone. Overall we heard the Central motif of what he | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
will say again and again in his campaign, the approach will be | :17:46. | :18:51. | |
More than 1000 people packed into a Westminster Hall tonight, persuading | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
people to leave the EU. There are Westminster Hall tonight, persuading | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
people locked out of the building because we cannot get any more in. | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
It tells you what the public view of this issue is. The BBC has been told | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
this man will be joining their ranks. He is the Justice Secretary, | :19:12. | :19:22. | |
a senior figure in government. Michael Gove is not confirming | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
whether he is campaigning on leaving the EU. There has been whispers for | :19:30. | :19:38. | |
weeks. He and David Cameron are confidants. Like their wives, family | :19:39. | :19:47. | |
friends said to be on opposing sides. I think there are some people | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
who have always been opposed to our membership of the European Union. | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
There are some who would stay in the EU at any price. I think most of us | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
want to see a reformed European Union. How are you doing? Could he | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
join Mr Gove? As soon as the Cabinet has met, probably at 9am, ministers | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
are allowed to go public if they want to leave the EU. Will Boris | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
Johnson, who has discussed it with Mr Gove this week, become an | :20:19. | :20:27. | |
official outer? Gove's suspected support is a coup for those who want | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
to leave. I feel very heartened by it, I must say. And may many more. I | :20:33. | :20:44. | |
tell you who I would like to see fronting the campaign, Nigel | :20:45. | :20:46. | |
tell you who I would like to see They are all now crawling out from | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
under their rucksacks at last. These people all want to leave the EU. It | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
matters to them, which Conservative ministers are prepared | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
matters to them, which Conservative David Cameron and which will go. | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
There are surprising figures, David Cameron and which will go. | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
certainly those from different political parties. Comrades and | :21:10. | :21:17. | |
friends... LAUGHTER Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg there. | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
We will have more on the breaking news, the deal which has finally | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
been reached in Brussels later in the programme. Now to the day's | :21:26. | :21:26. | |
other news. Nearly 40 people have died in US air | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
strikes on a suspected training camp for Islamic state | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
militants in Libya. The target was a senior Tunisian | :21:33. | :21:33. | |
militant linked to the attacks on a museum in Tunis and the beach | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
shootings in the resort of Sousse, Our security correspondent | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
Frank Gardner reports. This is all that remains | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
of what Washington says was a secret training camp in Libya belonging | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
to the so-called Islamic State. At least 38 people were killed, | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
most reportedly IS fighters. Local residents said | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
there were multiple explosions. TRANSLATION: We woke up at night | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
to the sound of explosions US Air Force warplanes | :22:04. | :22:05. | |
carried out the raid, flying from RAF | :22:06. | :22:14. | |
Lakenheath in Suffolk. Britain's Defence Secretary | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
personally authorised America to use The main target was named | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
as Noureddine Chouchane, a 35-year-old Tunisian former kick | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
boxer also known as Sabir. He has been linked to two terror | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
attacks in Tunisia last year including the one in Sousse | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
that killed 38 tourists, We took this action against Sabir | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
in the training camp after determining that both | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
he and the Isil fighters at these facilities were planning external | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
attacks on US and other Western This morning's Libya attack | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
was the most significant US action It took place here at Sabratha, | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
at a camp in the far west of the country very close | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
to the Tunisian border. We are told that most of those | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
killed were North African One of them is thought to have | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
played a major role in last year's Yet IS's main strength | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
is concentrated in the centre of the coast, around Sirte, | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
and that is unlikely to be affected. Recruits are continuing to flow | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
in each week from Africa It's going to take a lot more than | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
bombing a specific training camp. It's going to take essentially | :23:25. | :23:33. | |
rebuilding the state, strengthening the Libyan authorities | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
so they are able to control the entire country, | :23:37. | :23:38. | |
and making sure training camps But this is the reality | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
in much of Libya now. A country awash with arms, | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
competing militias, no rule of law, and no functioning | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
central government. Libya is fast emerging as IS's | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
second base, after Syria. It now boasts over | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
5000 fighters there. Harper Lee - the author | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
of To Kill A Mockingbird - The book was published in 1960 | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
and became one of the enduring Then last summer the literary world | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
was taken by surprise when Harper Lee's second | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
novel was published - Our arts correspondent David Sillito | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
looks back at her life. To Kill A Mockingbird | :24:24. | :24:32. | |
wasn't just a bestseller, On any list of best-loved authors | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
you almost always see the name She did something that | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
in our society is unspeakable. The character Atticus Finch | :24:42. | :24:48. | |
was the moral heart of the story of racism, injustice and childhood, | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
and bore many similarities Like his daughter Scout, | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
the young Harper Lee was also She studied law for a while and | :24:57. | :25:08. | |
then decided to write. Her inspiration for writing | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
was a life in Monroeville, Alabama, in the turbulent days | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
of the fight for civil rights. a black man murdered | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
after being accused of flirting We find the defendant | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
guilty as charged. The echoes of it all radiates | :25:23. | :25:31. | |
through To Kill A Mockingbird, a book described by Oprah Winfrey | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
as America's nation's novel. 50 years on she was still being | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
garlanded with awards. I have my work cut out for me | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
for the next 15 years. She had, as you can see from this | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
letter, planned a whole series said it was hard to deal | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
with the reaction to Mockingbird. I think when it really began | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
to snowball and it really snowballed to the top of the mountain, | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
I wonder if it sneaked up So the arrival of a second | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
book Go Set A Watchman, more than 50 years later was more | :26:10. | :26:27. | |
than unexpected. It was an instant bestseller but it | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
wasn't To Kill A Mockingbird. I first read To Kill A Mockingbird | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
when I was 12 or 13, and it made me want | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
to be a better person. And then I read it again last year, | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
at the age of 42 and it made me Generation after generation has been | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
moved by Harper Lee's story of justice, decency and standing up for | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
what is right. She really didn't need | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
to write another word. The author Harper Lee, | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
who has died at the age of 89. Back now to the news from Brussels, | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
where David Cameron says he has agreed a deal to give the UK | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
special status in the EU. It could now mean an EU referendum | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
as soon as June this year. Our home editor, Mark Easton has | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
been talking to a group of undecided voters | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
in Warwickshire - to find out if they're any closer | :27:19. | :27:20. | |
to making up their minds. It is a rare sight. Only at golf's | :27:21. | :27:36. | |
Ryder Cup, Europe versus the USA, do you see Brits waving bee you flag. | :27:37. | :27:43. | |
We have come to the scene of another cup, the Belfry in Warwickshire, to | :27:44. | :27:46. | |
see if the people here would back David Cameron in a referendum. As | :27:47. | :27:52. | |
the theatre played out in Brussels, the audience was watching back home. | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
So are you watching a Prime Minister battling for Britain being pushed | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
around in Europe? What do you think? He appears to be making a good fist | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
of it. I personally would have liked to have seen him going a little bit | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
stronger. I think the power we have as a nation within the EU, could | :28:13. | :28:19. | |
have got us less confusion and not dragged this on as long as it has | :28:20. | :28:25. | |
been. Do you think if he goes too strong and asks for too much that we | :28:26. | :28:31. | |
might get nothing? What happens then? I think he is battling but at | :28:32. | :28:35. | |
the same token, I think there is a degree of him being pushed around. | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
One thing we do know is that Michael Gove the Justice Secretary will be | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
campaigning to leave the EU. How does that make you feel? We will all | :28:46. | :28:49. | |
be listening to what is going on in the U, the decisions David Cameron | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
is trying to fight for and now a senior member of his parliament has | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
said he wants us out anyway. I think it is backstabbing. I think | :28:59. | :29:01. | |
said he wants us out anyway. I think put more pressure on David Cameron | :29:02. | :29:03. | |
and made his job harder put more pressure on David Cameron | :29:04. | :29:05. | |
has not got the backing of senior put more pressure on David Cameron | :29:06. | :29:10. | |
members of Parliament. He needs his team around him. He is dealing in | :29:11. | :29:15. | |
Brussels, meanwhile, backers -- back at home, what is happening? They are | :29:16. | :29:22. | |
not all sat on their hands of a? What chance do we stand of deciding | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
whether to be in or out of the EU if the government is not decided? Our | :29:28. | :29:33. | |
voters may look familiar, last week they were among a jury which debated | :29:34. | :29:41. | |
the issue in Lichfield. It was the same story tonight. I'm sitting here | :29:42. | :29:47. | |
now, I'm not sure if there is any point in having a referendum. White? | :29:48. | :29:51. | |
Think they should get on with it in Brussels, come up with the deal, job | :29:52. | :29:57. | |
done. I think that my children and grandchildren, what difference will | :29:58. | :30:06. | |
it make for them? The 19th hole is to addition a web oldsters try and | :30:07. | :30:09. | |
make sense of the previous 18. In the bar at the Belfry tonight, there | :30:10. | :30:15. | |
is confusion -- where golfers try and make sense. | :30:16. | :30:17. | |
Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg is in Westminster | :30:18. | :30:19. | |
This is a really big - significant political moment - | :30:20. | :30:22. | |
one that could have huge implications for the United Kingdom | :30:23. | :30:24. | |
- what's your assessment of the months ahead? | :30:25. | :30:31. | |
Well, Sophie, it will be noisy, it will be fierce around here, | :30:32. | :30:37. | |
certainly. But listening to those many voters, they are not sure what | :30:38. | :30:41. | |
this is all about. It is very hard to predict how much this will | :30:42. | :30:46. | |
capture the public imagination. I think we cannot be sure what the | :30:47. | :30:51. | |
campaigns will be like. Politics is in a febrile place in 2016. Although | :30:52. | :30:56. | |
the polls suggest a narrow majority of people would want us to stay in | :30:57. | :30:59. | |
the EU, when people start to think about that question, that might | :31:00. | :31:16. | |
change quite quickly. For very good reasons, most of us do not spend | :31:17. | :31:19. | |
many hours thinking about our place in the European Union. But when it | :31:20. | :31:22. | |
comes to an intense campaign, it is hard to tell how public opinion will | :31:23. | :31:24. | |
shift. What is clear is David Cameron does not want to be the | :31:25. | :31:27. | |
Prime Minister who led Britain out of the EU. He also does not want to | :31:28. | :31:30. | |
be the Prime Minister who split the Conservative Party. He cannot be | :31:31. | :31:36. | |
confident that he will not see us exit the EU. Thank you. David | :31:37. | :31:40. | |
Cameron is still on his feet giving details of the deal in Brussels. You | :31:41. | :31:44. | |
can follow it on the BBC News Channel. | :31:45. | :31:45. |