09/12/2011 BBC News at Six

Standing alone - Britain vetoes a new EU deal though all of the other

26 countries agree to start work on a separate treaty.

After a night of tense negotiations, signs of less than warm relations

with the French President, but David Cameron insists it's right

for Britain. We were offered a treaty that didn't have proper

safeguards. We decided, a. The other EU countries agree to

tighter economic rules though the detail is yet to be thrashed out.

We can make compromises for the sake of the euro, we had to make

hard rules, but this will not stop Europe moving forward.

Also on tonight's programme: A police inspector, sacked a week

ago, is believed to have killed his wife and daughter.

Clearing up after last night's gales in Scotland, 50,000 homes are

still without power. And the latest internet sensation -

the sailors of HMS Ocean finally return home after seven months at

Good evening, welcome to the BBC News at six. Britain appears to be

more isolated within Europe than at any other time since it joined the

Common Market nearly 40 years ago. David Cameron was the only leader

to veto in new European Union deal designed to stabilise the Europe in

the long term. Three others will consult their parliaments on

whether to participate. The prime minister insisted it was in

Britain's best interests. We will get more on the implications for

Britain in a moment. First, how we Europe Editor on the summit that

left Britain standing alone. This was a summit when the European

Union changed, summit full of tension. The French President was

chipper, a British Prime Minister managing a tense smile as Britain's

relationship with Europe changed. France and Germany had wanted to

amend the treaty is to impose tougher disciplines over budget.

That needed British agreement, but the Prime Minister wanted

safeguards in return. The argument continued until 4am. A good morning,

everyone, it sorry for keeping you up quite so long. I said before

coming to Brussels if I couldn't get adequate safeguards for Britain

in a new European Union treaty I would not agree to it. What is on

offer is not in Britain's interests, so I didn't agree to it. David

Cameron had wanted to protect the UK's financial services sector, but

the French and Germans were in no mood to make concessions to the

British. TRANSLATION: David Cameron asks for something we thought was

unacceptable, to exempt the UK from some regulations on financial

services. We think a large part of the problem comes from the

deregulation of financial services. The idea of a treaty change was

effectively sunk by a British veto. Before the leaders headed off for

two hours' sleep they made it clear if they couldn't get a treaty

change to the eurozone countries would go it alone with a deal of

their own. Gradually it became clear just how isolated Britain had

become. For most of the other countries not in the eurozone

indicated they might sign up for this new pact, increasingly it

appeared as if it might end up with Britain on one side, and 26 other

countries on the other. So what have all these eurozone countries

signed up to? Much greater European control over their tax and spending.

National budgets will be viewed at European level first. Sanctions for

those who overspend like Greece and Italy. These countries will meet

every month. Britain will be excluded. Daybreak after a marathon

night. The leaders returned to the summit and Angela Merkel said this

about David Cameron. TRANSLATION: David Cameron was at the

negotiating table with us and we made this decision to stop a war we

couldn't do was make a lousy compromise for the euro, we had to

set up hard rules. Other leaders noted Britain had been alone in

demanding concessions. Brits that divided and they are outside of

decision-making. The mood of Britain as the outsider seemed to

extend to a ceremony welcoming Croatia as the latest European

Union member. Last but not least, the United Kingdom, Mr David

Cameron. The Prime Minister said he wasn't

frightened of being left out of future talks. Europe's leaders

headed home with a new pact to instil discipline over their

spending. What hasn't been addressed his debt and low growth,

the fundamental problems of the eurozone.

David Cameron has insisted Britain will still have a significant

influence in Europe despite being the only country to vetoed a new

agreement. His stance has delighted the Euro-sceptics within his party

and has prompted new calls for referendum. We now look at his

decision to go it alone. This picture might not make it onto

David Cameron's mantelpiece, it captures the moment to the European

family split, 26 against one, the moment a British Prime Minister

made a stand, at the moment others say he was hopelessly outmanoeuvred

by the French President. Obviously in a room with 26 other

people who are saying put aside your national interest, go along

with the crowd, do what will make life easy and comfortable for you

in that room, be used a no, it is important we get the things Britain

needs, so I decided not to sign that a treaty. On them when after a

long night before David Cameron found himself alone at the table.

He might have to get used to it. The leaders of France and Germany

and the European Commission will now plant Europe's economic future

without Britain. -- plan. Even countries now not in the euro will

join in. When Europe's leaders made it is quite possible 26 will be in

the room, one, Britain, will not be there. How is that in the country's

interest? Her we are not in a Europe, we don't want to join, so I

did want to go to metres of eurozone leaders. There are 17

leaders, this is one country, one leader, not there. It is right for

Britain to say which bits of Europe most benefit us as a nation and to

focus on those things. I am not frightened of the fact sometimes

you might not be included in something. Are we better off

outside the euro? You bet we are. day ago he was facing calls from

his own party for a fundamental renegotiation of Britain's

relationship with Europe, for a referendum as well. Now even Boris

Johnson is praising him. He has played a blinder, done the only

thing that was open for him to do. I understand the argument in favour

of these measures because everybody is deaf -- desperate to save Europe

but they would just mean a quite unacceptable loss of national

sovereignty. Not so, the Labour leader, he says

the Prime Minister is keeping his party together before the country's

interest. It is a terrible outcome for Britain because we will be

excluded from key economic decisions that will affect our

country in the future. Frankly, David Cameron has mishandled the

negotiations spectacularly. All but the French came to Brussels

saying they wanted a deal involving all the members, David Cameron is

trying to make the best of his isolation. You are still a member

of the European Union, his Irish counterpart reassure some. How much

comfort will that be to the Tories' very pro European coalition

partners? Any Euro-sceptic he might be

rubbing their hands in glee about the outcome of the summit last

night should be careful for what they wish for. Clearly there is

potential -- potentially an increased risk for a two-speed

Europe where Britain's position becomes more marginalised.

President Sarkozy left smiling, he has always argued Britain should

and influence decisions that are none of our business.

You compare this with a chess game, it is check made it to President

Sarkozy, he has got exactly what he wants -- checkmate. For Britain we

are in those parts of Europe we need to be in, but we will not be

involved in this quite complex treaty with tough punishments for

countries in other parts of Europe that live beyond their means, a

whole lot of additional complexity, bureaucracy and rules, we are not

in the euro, so we don't need to be in that. David Cameron headed home

knowing he has done something even Margaret Thatcher never did,

Britain is still in the European Union, but much of it is now

heading off in a completely different direction.

Today's agreement aimed at creating new rules for running the eurozone

in the future. It didn't directly tackle the current debt problems

undermining the euro. Will the deal help contain the eurozone crisis?

What are the implications for the UK? Our Economics Editor it takes a

closer look at the deal. To be questioned, his is the right

plan for the eurozone and the right deal for the UK -- two big

questions. David Cameron wanted a good plan for the city, not an

open-ended veto, but a level playing field so banks don't get

penalised for being outside the euro and the national power to

regulate banks more aggressively than everyone else if you want to.

He also wanted a chance to veto any transfer of powers to Brussels, he

didn't get these so he said no. Was it worth it for an industry that

accounts for a tiny fraction of our economy? Protecting it was

essential, whatever you may think. Allowing it to be regulated in a

way that transferred to other business to Europe, or in ways that

prevented us doing business was something he had to stepper and on.

Is still remains to be seen where the line will be drawn between this

new grouping and the single market. I hope that the rules will remain

in place and the UK will continue to engage, make short the very

British part of Europe, the single market, is protected, maintained

and enhanced. You might say the best plan for the

UK or the City of London last night was any plan that saved the Europe.

Why? Because more crisis for the single currency could sink our

recovery and caused havoc for Britain's banks. After all, 40% of

our exports go to countries in the eurozone, and our banks are sitting

on more than �640 billion worth of eurozone assets, about a third of

those are from countries now in crisis. Are the decisions taken at

the summit enough to lift that a threat? It was a good deal for

Germany, it got the new budget rules which will kick in

automatically in future to stop countries getting into trouble.

That is the plan. And a good night for the head of the International

Monetary Fund. 200 billion euros. The new money the fund is getting

from the eurozone. UK will not be contributing until at the G20

countries do the same. There wasn't much sign of that big bazooka to

protect the Europe Mr Cameron called for, and little sign the

players with the deepest pockets, Germany and the European Central

Bank, were preparing to do more. Without that, many in the markets

say the eurozone is still on borrowed time. They have done

enough to tide themselves ever for the time being. There are more

questions further down the line into next year about getting those

resources up and running, but for now they have held the line. So at

the Euro lives to fight another day with this deal, but in or out, the

risk of a catastrophe on our We can go back to Brussels now. We

can speak to our Europe editor, Gavin Hewitt. There is still a long

way to go before the details of this deal can be finalised - is

there any certainty which countries will be part of it if and when it

is agreed? There is so much that we do not know yet. For instance, the

details behind this new package will not actually be negotiated

until March, and then there is the reality on the ground. Take Greece,

its debt mountain, at more than 350 billion euros, is still increasing,

its output is going down. Italy, a much more important country,

economically, its debt mountain is going up, its output is going down

by about 4%. If Italy were to get into trouble, it is still to be an

economy to be bailed out. Here in this building, there is absolute

determination to keep every country inside the euro. This week was

billed as the week to save the euro. Tonight, can we be certain that the

euro has been saved? No, not at all. There is still a huge amount of

uncertainty in the days and weeks ahead. Nick Robinson, given that

there is such a long way to go on this deal, why did David Cameron

veto it at such an early stage? believed it simply was not in

Britain's interest, he believed there was a real danger that if

Britain went along with this, the institutions of Europe, the civil

servants and judges in the European Commission and the European Court

of Justice could be used to deliberately damage the City of

London, which is the global financial capital, and which

produces so much taxation for the British Government to spend. Now,

there are people who say, even so, he's not really protected the City

one little bit. They say all of this is still in doubt. And there

may be Euro-sceptics, certainly most Conservatives, who hail this

as a great moment for Britain, but they are likely to demand more. The

coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats, are much less impressed.

Yes, they went along with his negotiating strategy, but I have

just been speaking to a senior Cabinet minister who said this - I

fear we may have sacrificed a place at the European table in order to

satisfy Conservative Euro-sceptics. No-one knows where this goes now,

if the eurozone collapses, all this talk of British vetoes may seem

frankly rather irrelevant. But we may be at the beginning of a

profound change in our relationship with the whole of the rest of

You can find a special question and Our top story tonight... David

Cameron has defended his decision to veto a deal to end the eurozone

crisis, but critics say he has left Britain out in the cold. Coming

up... Feeling the heat - how the economic climate is having a big

impact on efforts to get a new deal In Scotland, around 40,000

households are still without power tonight after the most powerful

storm for more than a decade. More than 1,000 engineers are working to

restore power, but many families will have to wait until the weekend

to be reconnected. Our Scotland correspondent, James Cook, has the

latest. Engineer skirting Cables free, battling to restore power.

This scene is being repeated in hundreds of locations. Yesterday

was absolutely horrendous. Over a period of eight or nine hours, we

had sustained high winds, of more than 100 miles an hour. We used to

wind speeds of that nature, but not for that length of time. For this

man, in his 70s, it has been a struggle to keep warm. Thousands of

families are in the same position tonight. This is the reality of

life without power. The Electric is off, and you have no heat, except

for a log fire. You have got to prepare everything during daylight,

otherwise you're just working by candles during the night. There

were crushed the problems of a different kind in Ayrshire. This

wind turbine performed a pirouette in the storm. It should have shut

down, but something went wrong, and the flames were visible for miles

around. It was a huge file born initially. The whole top section

was alight. The flames shot out from it. This graphically

illustrates the power of the storm. A freak gust brought rubble

tumbling down into the garden. It is incredible that nobody was

injured. You can see by the look of the front garden, there's three or

four tons of rubble there. It could have been a lot worse. Tonight,

across Scotland, stories of lucky escapes are being told. Here,

several families were evacuated. Seven lorries were blown over.

There were more than 100 major incidents on the roads, but there

are no reports of deaths or serious injuries. These walkers were

especially lucky. Trapped by the storm, they had to pitch camp and

seek shelter until it passed. As they walked to safety this morning,

they did not know they had been reported missing. The helicopter

went past at first light. We were thinking, is that for us? And it

was. In the Northern Isles, the storm raged on today. Schools were

closed, communities were cut off, and across Scotland, thousands are

A police inspector from Leicestershire who was dismissed

from the force a week ago is believed to have killed his wife

and six-year-old daughter, and seriously injured their two

teenagers. Toby Day, who was 37, then killed himself. Anthony

Bartram reports. This is Toby Day and his wife Samantha. Detectives

are trying to work out why the former police inspector turned on

his own family. People locally are asking the same question. She was a

lovely lady, a really good teacher, really great with other children.

She was a really nice lady, she will be really missed. My son goes

to nursery, and I spoke to her a couple of days ago on Wednesday. I

knew both of them quite well. Just devastated, cannot believe what has

happened. Mr Day was sacked by Leicestershire police for

misconduct last week, and yesterday he was told that reporters had

found out. Neighbours in Melton Mowbray heard screams yesterday

afternoon. Later, they were told the couple and their six-year-old

daughter Jenaveve had died. The eldest two children survived the

attack, with serious injuries. 15- year-old Kimberley ran from the

house to raise the alarm. Tonight, she's in hospital with her brother

Adam in a stable condition, with the thoughts and prayers of their

friends and family. I knew them personally myself, I prepared to

two older children for confirmation just six weeks ago. My heart and

the whole heart of this Christian community goes out to them.

investigation continues tonight, and detectives are still appealing

A judge has agreed to a request made by the Moors murderer, Ian

Brady, to have his mental health tribunal held in public. The

hearing will decide whether Brady, who is now 73, can be released from

a secure hospital to serve out the rest of his sentence in prison.

Brady and his partner Myra Hindley were responsible for the murders of

Thousands of miles away from Brussels, another major summit is

taking place. Delegates in Durban in South Africa are trying to agree

a new global treaty to tackle climate change. Today is the final

day of two weeks of talks, and as our environment correspondent,

David Shukman, reports, despite negotiations through the night,

it's still far from certain that a Year after year, the gases which

are blamed for global warming are being pumped out in ever greater

quantities. Government's talk about dealing with climate change,

scientists say it is urgent, but the economic crisis is more

immediate, so international action keeps getting put off. Outside the

latest negotiations, a solar- powered join. This is South Africa,

Durban, with negotiators from all over the world once again

struggling to reach agreement. The top climate official at the UN

agrees it is not enough. We will be leaving here with an important step

forward, but it will not match up to the science, that is very clear.

This is a very critically important step forward, but it is

insufficient. What is emerging is that climate negotiations are

really slowing down. The Kyoto Protocol, the first and only treaty

on greenhouse gases, runs out at the end of 2012. Only the EU and a

few others were put paid to stick with it, but they only account for

15% of global emissions. A new global treaty may not come until

2020, or even later. This afternoon, protesters tried to disrupt the

conference, accusing negotiators of stalling. But jostling with the

police will do nothing to barged the biggest economies - China,

India and America, all worried that a climate treaty could restrain

growth. The European Union can make the case for a robust and ambitious

agreement, we can be supported by many developing countries, but

unless China, India and the US are on board, three of the biggest

polluters on the planet, we will not get a global solution. In a

field near the conference centre, a new kind of solar power system.

Many companies and countries are moving to greener forms of energy,

but not having an international treaty makes investors more nervous.

Another load of coal is delivered to a power station in China.

Greenhouse gases looks set to keep rising. Governments have been told

of the risks, but have other priorities. The result - Global

It The crew of a Royal Navy ship who became Internet sensations

after they recorded a Christmas video while at sea have arrived

back in port. HMS Ocean was supposed to be on duty for seven

weeks but was redeployed to provide helicopter cover for the campaign

in Libya and was away for over seven months. Our defence

correspondent, Jonathan Beale, reports from onboard HMS Ocean. Is

was meant to be a seven-week exercise for the crew of HMS Ocean.

But it ended up being more than seven months at sea. This man flew

back briefly to witness the birth of his twins, but he has missed

most of their young lives. Today, they will be reunited. How excited

are you about seeing them? Nervous and excited, yes, it is going to be

good. His partner was waiting onshore, one amongst hundreds of

family and friends counting down until their arrival. Emotional,

butterflies, first wedding anniversary in two weeks' time. So

glad to have him home. The band of the Royal Marines was there for the

homecoming, and a fly-past by some of the helicopters aboard, which

had seen action over Libya. One thought kept them going. It is

wonderful to live up to the promise that I would be home before

Christmas. Just in case their captain did not keep that promise,

the crew had sent their families this Christmas video. It has now

become an Internet sensation, with more than a million hits. This is

the moment they have been waiting for, after months cooped up on this

ship. The stampede to be reunited with their families has begun. The

emotional release was obvious after months of isolation, and the chance

to see the family again. Just speechless. Perfect, just as we

wanted, isn't it? To date, for the crew of HMS Ocean and their

families, after more than seven months apart, Christmas really has

Let's take a look at the weekend Let's take a look at the weekend

weather now, with Nick Miller. We have the coldest night of the

season so far are coming, with a widespread frost, and also ice. The

showers will continue in parts of north-west England, Northern

Ireland and western and central Scotland. As the night goes on, the

snow will be increasingly confined to higher ground. As those

temperatures drop away with the widespread frost, it is ice which

is the main concern overnight and into tomorrow morning across

Scotland and Northern Ireland and northern England. What follows will

be plenty of sunshine across the south-east of England, always a bit

more cloud to the west. - and the picture at 3 o'clock. Most of us

will be dry, a mixture of cloud and some sunny spells. In Northern

Ireland and western Scotland, as you can see, the rain not too far

away. The breeze will be freshening. There will be another spell of snow

across northern Scotland. Some brighter spells occasionally down

the eastern side of Scotland. More sunshine for north-east England,

and across the Midlands, East Anglia and the south-east of

England. Another day of Chris sunshine. It will be less cold on

Saturday night. On Sunday, it will be more breezy. More wintry showers

in Scotland. Next week, it could be in Scotland. Next week, it could be

turning very windy again. More on that over the weekend.