08/12/2017 BBC News at Ten

Part one of the Brexit deal is done,

at last clearing the way

for the crucial next stage,

including intial talks about trade.

for the crucial next stage,

including initial talks about trade.

A handshake seals the agreement

on the divorce bill,

the Northern Ireland border

and EU citizens' rights.

Getting to this point has required

give and take on both sides,

and I believe that the joint report

being published is in the best

interests of the whole of the UK.

Smiles for a real continental

breakfast after talks

through the night.

But a warning too of what's to come.

We all know that breaking up

is hard, but breaking up

and building a new relation

is much harder.

We'll be looking in detail

at what's been agreed

and what's been left out.

Also tonight...

Clashes in the West Bank pit

Palestinians against Israeli

soldiers during protests

against Donald Trump's

recognition of Jerusalem

as the capital of Israel.

# When the rain is

blowing in your face,

The anorexic teenager whose death

could have been prevented,

failed by every NHS organisation

that should have cared for her.

The changing face of television -

are the newcomers stealing the crown

jewels of traditional broadcasters?

And snow across parts of the UK

causes chaos on the roads,

and there's colder weather

on the way.

Coming up on sports day on BBC News,

British and Ireland Lions captain

Sam Warburton will miss the six

Nations. The Wales international had

knee surgery ruling him out of the

tournament.

Good evening.

Stage one is done.

Next stop - the beginning

of talks about our future

relationship with the EU

- including trade.

After through-the-night

negotiations, a deal was struck

first thing this morning

between the UK and the EU on key

areas including the Irish border

and the divorce bill,

which Downing Street says will

amount to between £35-£39 billion.

Now, the UK can at last move

on to the next stage of talks.

But the head of the European Council

sounded a warning -

so much time has been devoted

to the easier part of

the negotiations, he said,

now comes the hard part.

Our political editor

Laura Kuenssberg has more.

While most of us slept, when hardly

a soul was stirring, the residents

of Downing Street were up.

Late-night calls.

Then, at 4:07am, onto the plane.

Theresa May, travelling...

while Jean-Claude Juncker

was pacing, waiting,

in so many ways, for the UK.

And then, touchdown.

Ready?

Ready if you are.

Taking their places for the moment,

after three days of cajoling,

compromise and criticism.

Good morning!

It was a good morning

for Theresa May.

A deal to pave the way

to Brexit round two,

the jargon she had longed to hear.

Sufficient progress has now

been made on the strict

terms of the divorce.

This was a difficult negotiation

for the European Union,

as well as for the United Kingdom.

After breakdown on Monday,

blocked by her allies

at home, a huge weight off

the government's stressed shoulders.

I very much welcome the prospect

of moving ahead to the next phase,

to talk about trade and security,

and to discuss the positive

and ambitious future relationship.

Are you going to be

celebrating, Mr Barnier?

No.

Cracking open the champagne?

We're still working, no.

Still more work to do, OK.

No celebrations for either side.

No champagne.

For the negotiation,

we have to bring water.

Water.

There have been many

compromises, and more to come.

The agreement implies it will cost

between £35-£39 billion

to settle our accounts as we leave.

There is no final figure,

and it could be more,

but paid over many years.

Both sides say Brits who live

elsewhere in the EU,

and European citizens who live here,

will have their rights protected.

And, crucially for Tory

backbenchers, the role

of the European Court

will be limited.

There is a promise there will be no

hard border in Ireland

between North and South,

a vow their rules and regulations

will be aligned if there

is no big trade deal.

And a time-limited transition

period as we leave.

We're not making any

comment, thank you.

But what about the DUP,

who had so embarrassed

the Prime Minister on Monday?

She needs their votes

in Parliament, and this week

they squeezed some concessions.

But in the early hours, Theresa May

made the decision to crack on,

even though they weren't quite sure.

There are still matters we would

have liked to have seen clarified.

We ran out of time, essentially.

We think that we needed to go back

again and talk about those matters,

but the Prime Minister has decided

to go to Brussels in relation

to this text, and she says she has

done that in the national interest.

The Leader of the Opposition,

speaking at the UN today,

was even less impressed.

This could have been

done some time ago.

The referendum took place in 2016.

We're now right at the end of 2017.

This is the first time there has

been any sign of any movement to go

on to phase two.

But Tory relief washed over social

media, the Cabinet falling over

themselves to praise their boss,

and notable by their absence,

most Tory Brexiteers.

The ultimate arbiter,

put that in your pipe and smoke it.

The real criticism, from this man.

Remember him?

Amazing, isn't it?

The British Prime Minister flies

through the middle of the night

to meet unelected bureaucrats

who pat her on the head,

they say you have met our demands,

made sufficient progress and can

move to the next stage.

The whole thing is a humiliation.

As one of the Brussels brokers

was keen to point out,

reaching the next deal to shake

on will be harder still.

Let us remember, the most difficult

challenge is still ahead.

We all know that

breaking up is hard.

But breaking up and building

a new relation is much harder.

But round here, there

is no jubilation, more

like thank goodness,

because these negotiations

are intertwined with

the Prime Minister's fate.

The talks stumble, so does she.

The talks muddle through,

and so does she.

Had there not been this deal

at dawn, there would have

been serious rumblings

about Theresa May's future.

With progress comes

breathing space, but there

is compromise, plenty of it.

And with that comes winners

and losers, and no real guarantees.

Getting this far and keeping

the peace has strained

this street already.

The Tory divisions

have not disappeared.

But agreeing anything has

been an achievement.

For tonight at least,

a little goodwill.

Laura Kuenssberg, BBC

News, Westminster.

So what exactly was agreed

in the small hours this morning

between the UK and the EU,

and what does it mean?

Chris Morris from the BBC's Reality

Check team takes a closer look.

A breakthrough in the Brexit

negotiations for sure,

but it's worth emphasising that this

is only an agreement that sufficient

progress has been made on issues

relating to the UK's withdrawal.

It locks in the progress made

so far, but at the same time

emphasises that nothing is agreed

until everything is agreed.

And the toughest talks

are still to come.

This is not the end,

but it is the end of the beginning.

And we will remain fully engaged

and vigilant throughout phase two,

the drafting and ratification

of the new treaties that will be

required between the EU and the UK,

and their implementation.

So how has the benchmark

of sufficient progress been reached?

Well, on the Irish border,

the hope is that a future free

trade agreement will mean

many of the concerns about a hard

border simply melt away.

But as a backstop, if all else

fails, the UK has promised

to maintain full alignment with EU

single market and customs rules that

govern trade across the border.

Exactly how that will be done

isn't entirely clear,

but you certainly can't have partial

membership of the single market

and the customs union.

On citizens' rights,

it's been agreed that the cut-off

date for an agreement on the rights

of EU citizens in the UK,

and UK citizens elsewhere

in the EU, will be the day

Brexit actually happens.

In other words, some people yet

to arrive could still qualify.

There will also be a potential role

for the European Court of Justice,

directly for eight years

and indirectly thereafter.

The number of legal cases it's

likely to cover is very small,

but some Brexiteers won't

be entirely happy.

Nor are some campaigners

for citizens' rights,

because many details have yet

to be resolved.

And then there's the financial

settlement, the divorce bill.

A method for calculating

it has been agreed.

It will be paid in euro.

But technical negotiations

will continue on various aspects,

including when and how

the money gets paid.

How much is the final

amount likely to be?

We'll probably never know for sure,

but UK sources say the equivalent

of up to £40 billion.

While some EU sources

still think it will be higher.

So, what's next?

The priority will be to agree

upon the terms of a transition

period for about two

years after Brexit.

The EU says that means the UK

staying in the single market

and the customs union.

But government says that's not how

it understands it at all.

It is very clear that more

challenging negotiations lie ahead.

Chris Morris, BBC News.

Our correspondent Adam Fleming

is in Brussels tonight.

What's the response been there

in Brussels and among EU leaders?

We will find that out when they

gather in a week's time for a summit

when they will rubber-stamp the

documents handed by the EU's

negotiating team at the European

Commission. Today, a personal

political Triumph is how the

president of the commission

Jean-Claude Juncker describes

Theresa May's predawn visit here.

Now the initial talks are settled,

the next stage will be done in a

slightly more friendly, constructive

and slightly less adversarial way,

they hope. The next up in the New

Year will be talks around the

transition deal. Around here they

call it the full Monty minus. Full

Monty because it will see the UK

follow most EU rules and

regulations, without having a seat

at the table. While those rules and

regulations are decided and applied.

In the spring they will start

talking about the shape of a future

partnership on trade, defence,

security, terrorism, climate change,

you name it. What European officials

are desperate for is for the British

government and Cabinet to sit around

the Cabinet table and have a big

discussion on what they want the

future relationship to look like.

But here they are a little bit

worried that the discussion with

Northern Ireland, diverging scum

convergence or realignment, it could

be tricky have that debate will go.

Just back divergences, convergence.

And our Political Editor,

Laura Kuenssberg, is here.

This is a good day for Theresa May.

She has had a very rocky time. Just

the fact she has agreed achievement

is a big positive. And if it hadn't

gone this way then there would have

been real serious rumblings about

her future. But there has been

plenty of compromise, and compromise

in this kind of deal always means an

element of fudge. A lot of the

really tricky things have been

delayed, deferred, put into the

future and the next phase of talks

that will consider the issues in

more detail. It's important to

remember that using the jargon in

Brussels, nothing is agreed until

everything is agreed. The things

that have been concluded in this

text, this document, they will not

amount to anything if the whole deal

isn't done. So this agreement on its

own doesn't have the legal status,

really.

Another bit of EU jargon,

the full Monty minus, what happens

next?

In the short term for Theresa

May, she still has to get the EU

legislation through the House of

Commons before Christmas. That will

be a big fight on its own. When we

get into the talks about trade and

transition, the fundamental clashes

between the EU, and the UK, and

fundamental differences inside the

Tory party and even around the

Cabinet table, at some point they

will have to be settled. In

political terms that's going to be

the real challenge. The document

published today had 15 pages in it,

and plenty more compromises than

that inside the pages. The ambiguity

inside the document has allowed them

to get to this point, but it's going

to be extremely difficult to move

on. But for the government this is a

real sign of relief because if it

hadn't happened, things could have

looked distinctly bad.

Israel has carried out air strikes

against targets in Gaza,

injuring ten people,

after Palestinian militants fired

a rocket into Israeli territory.

Two Palestinians have been killed

in clashes with Israeli security

forces during a second day

of protests in the West Bank

and Gaza against Donald Trump's

decision to recognise Jerusalem

as Israel's capital.

Our Middle East Editor, Jeremy

Bowen, reports from Jerusalem.

Palestinian protesters confronted

Israeli security forces on the roads

leading into all the big towns

on the West Bank.

Plenty of people had warned that US

recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's

capital would lead to bloodshed.

It has.

One dead, and many wounded,

across Gaza and the West Bank.

That's the land Palestinians

want for a state, with

a capital in East Jerusalem.

This is our land.

Palestinian, all

Palestinian is our land.

Mr Trump, you are wrong.

Most Israelis are delighted

President Trump has

accepted their reality.

He said, "We are steadfast here,

eternally here since ancient times.

"This city was given

to Jews 3000 years ago.

"We are the continuation and the US

has recognised that".

But the golden dome behind him

is part of the third holiest place

in the world for Muslims.

And a few hundred yards

away, several thousand

Palestinians were going home

after the noon prayer.

The reality of this city is that

many Palestinians live here.

Life can be hard for them.

Saleh's home has been

demolished twice this year

by the Israeli authorities.

They give Palestinians very

few building permits,

while constructing thousands

of homes for the Jews.

I born in this land,

and my father and my grandfather.

And I will die in this place.

I will not leave it,

not for Israel, not for Jews,

and not for the United States.

Palestinian areas of Jerusalem

were quieter after Friday

prayers than many expected.

Whenever a crowd formed, mostly

of onlookers rather than protesters,

the police broke it up.

Mr Trump's declaration

is a big challenge for

the Palestinian national movement.

It will turn into a big defeat

for it as well if the Palestinians

aren't able to organise a coherent

challenge to what's

happened, and to build

on all the international

criticism there has been.

Israel feels on the up.

It's been given American

presidential recognition in this

city, without mention of occupation

and without, so far,

a single concession in return.

Jeremy Bowen, BBC News, Jerusalem.

At least 14 United Nations

peacekeepers have been killed

and more than 50 injured

in an attack on their base

in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The UN said the peacekeepers

were from Tanzania.

Five Congolese soldiers

were also killed.

The attack took place in North Kivu

province in the east of the country,

where several rival militia groups

are fighting for control.

Our Africa Editor,

Fergal Keane, is here with me.

You've just come back from Congo.

What's the background to this?

Well, the UN has for some time been

a target in eastern Congo because it

acts in support of the Congolese

government. The real context behind

this, even though the ADF, who are

behind the attack our Islamist, it

is not like Al-Shabab in Somalia.

The real contest is a deeply

unpopular government clinging to

power, whose President, Joseph

Kabila, has gone beyond his two term

limit. You have a sense among

warlords, militia groups and wider

civil society, that the endgame is

beginning. You have jockeying for

power. Congo is a mess. More than 4

million people displaced. At the

same time, you have a UN

peacekeeping force of 20,000 which

they are now cutting down by 3000,

under pressure from the Trump

Administration, which wants to

reduce peacekeeping costs. This,

when violence is on the rise. I have

seen in many parts of the country

how UN peacekeepers, the very people

who were attacked last night, are

the only people who stand between

the ordinary citizens who are being

relentlessly attacked, and the

actions of militia groups, warlords

and security forces of their own

government. So this could not come

at a worse time.

A state of emergency has been

declared in California

where wildfires have been raging

for five days, destroying

hundreds of homes.

Over 5,000 firefighters have been

battling the blazes,

which stretch from Los Angeles up

to Santa Barbara County.

Averil Hart was 19 when she died,

just weeks after leaving

home for university.

She had a history of anorexia

and today the health service

ombudsman concluded that she had

been failed by every

NHS organisation that

should have cared for her.

Her death, he said, could and should

have been prevented.

Our Health Editor,

Hugh Pym, reports.

Her family remember her as fun

and outgoing, and Averil Hart,

who was 19, had recovered enough

from her eating disorder

to go to university.

But when her condition got worse,

she was failed by the NHS.

Her death was avoidable according

to an official report.

This picture was

released by her family.

Next week, it will be five years

since Averil's death,

her family's been campaigning

since then for answers

about her care and treatment.

I still can't believe that I've

lost my daughter through just

a catalogue of disasters,

really, in the NHS.

Averil collapsed after her

anorexia deteriorated.

But at hospital in Norwich,

her condition wasn't

recognised as urgent.

She wasn't seen by

experienced doctors.

She was transferred to Addenbrooke's

in Cambridge, but even

with extremely low blood sugar

levels, she wasn't treated properly.

She suffered brain damage

and had a heart attack.

The ombudsman's report said,

"Every NHS organisation involved

in her care mist significant

opportunities to prevent

the tragedy unfolding.

The subsequent responses to Averil's

family were inadequate and served

only to compound their distress."

The Department of Health

said it was investing

in eating disorder services,

but some argue more

needs to be done.

Eating disorder services have been

really Cinderella specialty,

and that may be in part

because I think that

eating disorders have been

trivialised for a long time,

despite being really

very serious illnesses.

Four different NHS trusts involved

in Averil's care have now

apologised to her family.

When this is all finished, I want

to go away and grieve for Averil,

and connect with her again,

and maybe have some therapy.

But there's been such

a task to get the truth

and to try to prevent other deaths,

that at the moment,

everything is on hold.

# To make you feel my love. #

Hugh Pym, BBC News.

The Crown is thought

to be one of the most

expensive dramas ever made,

at a cost of about

£50 million a series.

The latest series of the Netflix

drama about the Queen's life

has gone online today.

It comes at a time when Netflix

and other streaming services

like Amazon and Apple are ploughing

billions of pounds into programme

making, dramatically reshaping

the way we watch television.

Our Media Editor,

Amol Rajan, reports.

70 years ago, the wedding

of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip

was broadcast on a single

channel in black-and-white.

The world has changed.

Today, their marriage

and times has been dramatised

in a multi-million pound,

high-tech production,

consumed on a range of devices.

Yet this very British story was made

by Netflix, not the BBC.

The company now boasts over

100 million subscribers

and was irresistible to the British

executive behind The Crown.

Well, you know, you can get to see

tech companies very easily

and they make decisions very

speedily and they seem

to have lots of money.

All of these are very attractive

qualities when you're

trying to sell a TV show.

Netflix have said they will

spend up to £6 billion

on programmes next year.

That's around double

the BBC's entire budget.

Meanwhile, according

to analysts at JP Morgan,

Amazon will spend £3.5 billion

on video content next year,

with mega-productions

such as their version

of Top Gear top of the list.

And now Apple, the world's richest

company is now also moving

into original programming.

It will probably spend at least

£750 million next year on content.

Small fry for a company whose value

is approaching $1 trillion.

Companies like Netflix and Amazon

are part of a worldwide transition

from scheduled TV to online

and on-demand broadcasting.

These tech firms have

discovered that consumers

will pay for content

online, provided it's

of sufficiently high quality.

And that's why they are now

shamelessly pursuing not just young

and digitally savvy audiences,

but also older viewers,

whose loyalty traditionally

lies elsewhere.

And yet that loyalty to traditional

broadcasters endures.

For the likes of Channel 4

and the BBC, superstar shows

like Great British Bake Off

and Blue Planet are still watched

by up to 10 million people

and generate national conversation.

The streaming services of Netflix

and Amazon are certainly making

a very powerful mark and that's

great for consumers.

My worry is that we can see over

the next decade the amount of money

going into content made in Britain,

for British audiences,

dramas that reflect British lives,

comedies that reflect the UK,

documentaries and so on,

is going to go down.

And I think we would be

the poorer for that.

As the next chair of Bafta argues,

older broadcasters will have to form

alliances with new ones

if they are to thrive.

The danger will come

if the streaming services no longer

need that money from the BBC or ITV

or Channel 4, because they want

to fully fund something

and take world rights.

The internet has simultaneously

undermined the business model

of broadcasters reliant

on advertising, while giving paying

customers unprecedented

quality and choice.

Luckily for viewers,

this is a revolution

that will be televised.

Amol Rajan, BBC News.

Beautiful, isn't it?

But snow and wintry weather

have caused disruption

across many parts of the UK,

with power cuts, school closures

and icy conditions on the roads.

The Met Office says snow showers

have been affecting parts

of Scotland, Northern Ireland

and northern England,

and it's warning of more snow

and ice to come this weekend.

Judith Moritz reports.

Shropshire saw snow from early on,

the roads treacherous

before morning rush-hour.

Sledges were an option

for some but few commuters

went anywhere quickly.

It was the same story on the Isle

of Man, the whole island

succumbed to the snow.

Flights were delayed,

medical appointments cancelled

and all of its schools were closed.

In Wales there have been

problems on the roads.

This view of the A5 was filmed

by the passenger in one car.

This bus in Denbighshire

struggled to get up the hill,

and eventually gave up,

even if its name had seemed apt

for the freezing weather conditions.

With lessons cancelled,

many children in Wales

are having a long weekend.

This school in Flintshire

took an early decision

to close this morning.

Others sent pupils home

during the course of the day.

In total, nearly 200

schools across Wales shut

because of the snow.

In Scotland, schools were closed

in Orkney, Shetland,

Aberdeenshire and the Highlands.

Hundreds of homes

were without power.

In Northern Ireland,

this school stayed open but there

was travel disruption elsewhere.

And there is more to come

across the UK, with heavy skies

promising further snow this weekend.

Judith Moritz, BBC News, Flintshire.