02/02/2016 BBC News at Six

David Cameron's draft deal on EU reform is published

David Cameron's draft deal on EU reform is published

It sets out Britain's future in Europe.

David Cameron is ready to sell it to the British people.

If I could get these terms for British membership,

I sure would opt-in to be a member of the European Union because these

But on the key issue of migration, critics say the Prime Minister has

Following this renegotiation it's now clear the only way to do that is

to leave the EU. The deal could mean a once

in a generation referendum The trump card that

didn't quite work - a bad night for the Republican

frontrunner in the race for the Could you be visiting Argos

when you go to Sainsbury's? The deal that could create a rival

to John Lewis and Amazon. Meet the newest visitor

to the Yorkshire countryside. A new exhibition of cartoon

sculptures form the artist, Labour calls for an immediate 1p

rise in Scottish income tax to avoid The SNP says it will hit

the least well off hardest. And, the Scots holidaymaker

who was trampled to death by this Good evening and welcome

to the BBC News at Six. Almost as soon as he won

the election, David Cameron began renegotiating Britain's

relations with the EU. Today, the results

have been unveiled. The Prime Minister argued

the reforms were enough to recommend But many in the Conservative Party -

and elsewhere - disagree. It all boils down to whether there's

been progress in four key areas. First, the question of sovereignty -

whether Parliament will have Second, accepting that the pound

sits alongside the Euro. Third, a commitment to boost

Europe's competitiveness by cutting Finally, the draft proposal gives

Britain the right to impose an emergency brake

on European migration. We'll have all the

analysis and reaction. First, here's our political editor,

Laura Kuenssberg. Time to see. Have the months of

private negotiations achieved very much? Even Cabinet ministers weren't

let in on the secret. We haven't seen the document yet. Everyone

knows my views on this, but I'm going to read the document

carefully. The rest of the EU waiting. In Paris the clock ticked

down to the document. Is this a good enough deal to make you campaign to

stay in? In Brussels it was finally time for the deal with London to be

revealed. At a suitably EU-friendly engineering business the Prime

Minister gave his unsurprising verdict, the terms he's brokered to

change our relationship with the EU are big and for the better.

Sometimes people say to me - if you weren't in the European Union would

you opt to join the European Union? And today I can give a very clear

answer - if I could get theses 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 deal? The Prime Minister wanted

more power for our Parliament. There will be some extra power to prevent

new EU laws, and there will be protection for the pound, guarantees

British firms won't lose out just because we are not in the euro.

Britain will be formally excluded from ever closer union, the EU

tradition of countries getting closer and closer. But on David

Cameron's big promise to squeeze immigration, it's less clear. Look,

key details on how long new limits will apply in the document are just

X, Y and Z. We do know the so-called "emergency brake" will mean EU

workers gradually start getting benefits, but they won't been banned

for four years as promised. EU migrants will still be able to send

child benefit home, not what David Cameron wanted, but rates will

reflect the cost of living in their native country. I was told I would

never get a four-year proposal. Yet that is what is in the document.

That we don't have to pay welfare in full for four years. Listen

carefully, not paying in full, not the same as banning altogether. Do

you admit, surely, that you have had to water down some of your demands?

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 I've

made in my manifesto. I think the whole country knows that if you, for

instance, pay people ?5,000, ?10,000 additional to their wages that is a

draw to Britain. That's one of the reasons why we have seen such high

levels of migration and movement. Will voters believe him and back

staying in the #e67 U? On this factory floor it's a big "if". He

needs to give me more to convince me more that it's going to go our way.

Saying it is one thing, achieving it is another. I think it - certainly

if this country stays in the European Union we've got to have

clear defined rules about what we want. I think if he delivers on what

he said there it could be beneficial to all, I suppose you have to look

at what happens at the end of February and see whether what he

said happens. It's not an empty deal. There are changes if enacted

that would limit the payments of benefits to some EU workers in this

country. There are some protections for British businesses trading

around the continent. But 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.

Emergency brake stuff... Every weakness in the deal pounced on and

many minds are already made up The demands from the Government were

limited to beginning we. They have been watered down by the EU on

almost every front. We have spent months and months with the Prime

Minister going around Europe asking other European leaders if we in

Britain can change our own benefit laws. It's clear now that the

British people need to have control of their own laws, economy and If

you look borders. At the package to us today by President Tusk it was

hardly worth the way wait. It was pathetic really. All the talk of

fundal treaty change, Britain getting back powers and a whole new

relationship. Nothing fundamental has changed at all. The Prime

Minister presented his deal to the public and the press first rather

than to Parliament. He's gone to a selected audience in chipping ham

this morning to give a commentary on the negotiations but cannot come

here to report to this House. Will, in the end, inevitably back him. If

the Prime Minister of the country, elected in May says this is a good

deal, I recommend it to you, I think we should stay in the European

Union, I think that's sways a loft people. He's the Prime Minister.

Sways Labour people as well as Conservatives incidentally. I think

that's important. But beware. The stakes are really high. We have to

act. The EU President, who put the deal together, warned it's not

signed and sealed. Even getting this far was hard enough. Laura

Kuenssberg, BBC News, Westminster. As we heard, a key proposal involves

limiting migrants' access Critics say the restrictions

are a 'watered down' version of what the Prime Minister promised

in his election manifesto. Our home editor, Mark Easton,

looks at what effect today's proposals might have

on the number of people wanting 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, for higher wages and better living

standards, not benefits. 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 receiving

in-work benefits, so it's unlikely we will see a dramatic reduction

in the numbers of people coming, even if there are a few people

at the margins whose decisions Let's imagine a Romanian migrant

coming to Britain to work, 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 challenge for Mr Cameron now

is to persuade the other 27 EU leaders to back the new reform

proposals ahead of a crunch meeting Our Europe Editor Katya Adler

reports, its not the first time Britain has been at loggerheads

with the rest of the EU. Britain's relationship

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

more assumed convenience. Sometimes fruitful, often

fraught and, as of today, EU-UK relations will be

fundamentally changed. 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, water tight deal for his audience

at home, that all his EU partners But already today, as expected,

there were rumbles of dissent from central and Eastern Europe

on the plan to cut EU migrant 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, well, they're

wrinkling their nose at the idea that the UK and other

non-Eurozone nations can stall The current stage of the Eurozone

is not sustainable. You cannot allow someone

that is outside the family to forbid 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. We can talk to our political

editor, Laura Kuenssberg, You touched on this in your report

but how much has David Cameron delivered compared to what he

promised? Technically he hasn't been able to keep all his promises. Why

do I say that? Because this document, the Conservative manifesto

from this summer, is much tougher on the benefit payments that EU

migrants working in this country than this document, the draft deal

published today. Why did one of the Prime Minister's senior colleagues

say to me this afternoon that the PM is cock-a-hoop? Because Number 10

and the Government believe they've made some significant progress here.

They believe they've got real concessions from the rest of the EU

that will add up to the kind of package they believe that they will

be able to sell to voters who are yet to make up their mind. In the

last few minutes I can tell you one of the senior politicians who is yet

to make up their mind, the Home Secretary, Theresa May, has said

that there is still work to do but this does look like the basis of a

deal. Now that is a blow for those who want to exit the EU because she

was someone who has flirted with the idea of backing the out campaign,

even potentially being the main figure in leading that campaign.

Tonight it seems as if she is on the verge of backing the Prime Minister.

That is something that Number 10 will be very relieved about if it

does come to pass. We are still a long way to go here, EU leaders all

have to be convinced of this deal and then ultimately, it will be down

to us voters of that question will be put very likely now at the end of

June. Thank you very much. The EU reform deal negotiated

by David Cameron is unveiled - it could pave the way

for a referendum in June. I am at the Yorkshire sculpture

park, not so much looking at the Moores and Hepworth but by work by

an American artist called Kaws. Sglp

Is it time to get smart with electricity metres. Verne cotter

will demand players are clinical at this year's Six Nations

championship. He's dominated the race

for the White House, but has Donald Trump's bid to move

from reality television The Republican candidate suffered

a surprise setback in the Iowa vote. For the Democrats, Hillary Clinton

secured victory over rival Bernie Sanders,

but by a tiny margin. Our North America editor, Jon Sopel,

has been following the results. Donald Trump has repeatedly

said he hates losers. Discovering the swagger and genius

for self-publicity only take But at his campaign party

you wouldn't know it. We will go on to get the Republican

nomination and we will go on to easily beat Hillary or Bernie,

or whoever the hell Well, Donald Trump has given,

not a victory speech, However, he says he's going to go

on and hopes he will win This is a party that has gone very

flat for Donald Trump. 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 In the most eye-wateringly

tight contest ever held. Delegate for this

precinct Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton squeaked it

and her victory speech could be 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 This whole contest has

a long way to run. A brief look at some of the day's

other other news stories The bodies of three people -

reported to be a woman and two children - have been found in a home

on the outskirts of Leeds. West Yorkshire Police were called

to the premises in Allerton Bywater when concerns were raised

for the occupants. Officers say the three were found

dead inside the property. The Scottish Labour Party wants

to put a penny on income tax Labour's leader in Scotland,

Kezia Dugdale, says the extra cash would allow SNP ministers

to cancel planned cuts The SNP said Labour's

plan was a tax grab. A policewoman in Northern Ireland

has been charged with three offences, including perverting

the course of justice, in connection with a murder

in County Antrim. James McDonagh died last month

after being attacked outside A man's already been

charged with his murder. Britain's second biggest

supermarket, Sainsbury's, has agreed a deal to buy

the owner of Argos. It says the ?1.3 billion deal

will create the biggest non-food Here's our business correspondent

Emma Simpson. When news emerged that Sainsbury's

was purr suring Argos it took the whole industry by surprise, with the

clock ticking and the outlines of a deal now agreed, although it needs

approval and there is certainly a lot of debate about whether this is

an absolute masterstroke by Sainsbury's because there is next to

no growth in the world of groceries, or a strategic mistake. It's

certainly a big, bold move. Sglp

Sainsbury's has been trialling these concessions.

Now it's on the verge of buying the whole business.

Expect to see much more of this - a one-stop shop for customers whose

If you think about it, the smartphone is only eight years

old and yet it's had a profound impact on our lives in the way

that we run our lives and that's very particularly the case

We need to future-proof our business to make sure, not just over the next

three to five years, but over the next five to ten years.

The deal would create a formidable force in retail.

It has non-food sales of just under ?4 billion.

John Lewis does more business at ?4.4 billion.

But, in one fell swoop, this new combined group will have

general merchandise sales of ?6 billion, rivalling the mighty

Sainsbury's wants to tap into Argos' delivery expertise.

These days it can get products to customers within four hours.

Argos has 840 stores and many are close to a Sainsbury's.

This business is grappling with too much space it no longer needs.

So it's likely several hundred Argos stores will close to be

For Sainsbury's, it solves a problem and saves a lot of money.

Although Sainsbury's says it hopes to eventually create more positions

in stores but not everyone's convinced.

I think of this deal as a bit like a temporary sticking plaster

because it gives Sainsbury's an opportunity to radically cut

costs at Argos and that will boost their profits

But it doesn't fundamentally address the problem of Sainsbury's,

that it's got just too many supermarkets and hypermarkets.

For more than 100 years, Sainsbury's has been synonymous

with selling us food but now under fierce competition it wants

to reshape its business to meet the demands of modern day shoppers,

Gigantic cartoon sculptures have popped up in the Yorkshire

countryside in the first solo exhibition in the UK

The figures will be on display for four months and our arts editor

Will Gompertz has been taking a look.

How is 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 ten metres it's

a different feeling from when you are growing up

and you are little and you have wooden toys and you can put them

on a shelf and make them do what you want and you walk

into a space like this and see wooden toys that can suddenly carry

you in the hand or you want to do something that complements it.

I love the way that this sculpture falls almost at the same height

The artist of these works - real name Brian Donnelly -

Nowadays he is much more interested in the Smurfs.

When I was a little a lot of times like I grew up on Smurfs,

This one you are not sure if it's running from something or running

Being chased by a giant black Smurf across a Yorkshire landscape?

Possibly so, warning you of a fire or something.

Sir Henry moor and Barbara Hepworth were giants of a different kind.

Both were brought up a few miles from the park. Their sculptures

inspired by the local landscape and often aiming to be at one with it.

A far cry from Kaws. He is confronting the landscape in a way

nobody else is and for us that's interesting. He really is

confronting it. What do you think Dame Barbara Hepworth would have

thought had he seen the sculptures in the same context as hers? I think

that she would recognise that sculpture has to change, that people

collect new idioms from the world around them and expand those. And

there is absolutely no doubt that any artist looking at the way that

Kaws works wouldn't be intrigued and amazed by the way he works with

material because his production values are quite extraordinary.

Sglp It's possible that Kaws sculptures a may not be to

everyone's taste but I think they pose interesting questions around

scale and materials and context, not least the all-pervasive nature of

popular culture from which there seems to be no escape, not even in

Yorkshire's sublime countryside. Bright multi-coloured clouds have

been visible over the UK Known as naycreous clouds -

they are named after mother of pearl and you can see the similarity

in these images sent to the Met They tend to form over polar regions

when the sun is just Forecasters believe the effects

of storms Gertrude and Henry may have heightened the chances

of seeing these clouds. The rainbow effect is caused by ice

crystals refracting the sun's rays. That brings us to the weather with

Louise. Hello. I am glad to see there was

some positives to come out of Henry. It's come and gone, you will be

pleased to hear that. But it's had a sting in its tail through the night.

These were some gusts of winds that we saw, 90mph in excess in the far

north of Scotland through the night. It also was responsible for leaving

some choppy seas, this sent in by our weather watchers this morning.

It was glorious further south and west. A beautiful start. The cloud

came and we are chasing some showers across England and Wales now. The

showers in the north, as they push down through the North Channel to

the Irish sea winds increasing and we could see for a time some snow

across the higher ground of the Pennines and North Wales. North of

that with clearer skies and temperatures falling away ice could

be an issue first thing in the morning.

We also need to keep a close eye on showers moving out of North Wales

through the Midlands first thing in the morning. A wintry mix of rain,

sleet and snow. We are not too concerned about that. But it is

going to be a miserable start to the day with temperatures a couple of

degrees above freezing. Further north some sunshine T will be a cold

start and we could have to watch out for that ice, particularly across

the far north-west in rural parts. Maybe the ice risk not as great in

Northern Ireland, still a cluster of showers here, potentially. As we go

through the day, hopefully those showers further south will start to

ease, the cloud break up and more sunshine coming through. Wednesday

looks likely to be the best day of the week. A scattering of showers to

the west, a colder feel but more sunshine coming through and top

temperatures of around 2-9. More wet and windy weather returns for the

end of the week but milder. Thank you.

So it's goodbye from me and on BBC One we now join the BBC's