19/02/2016 BBC News at Six

Heading into a second night - no deal yet for David Cameron

at the Brussels summit as EU leaders dig in their heels.

The Prime Minister had hoped to be back in Downing Street by now

with a reform deal and a date for the referendum.

Instead he'll be heading back into talks tonight -

after a day of delays, no deals, and some early optimism.

We have made some progress but there is still no deal.

As I have said, I would only do a deal if we get what Britain needs,

so we will get back in there and do some more work and I will do

We'll have the very latest from Brussels and Westminster.

Also tonight: One of the world's most famous authors -

Harper Lee - who wrote To Kill A Mockingbird -

American airstrikes are thought to have killed a senior figure

in so-called Islamic state linked to the Tunisia terror attacks.

Reduced to rubble in seconds after a suspected gas leak -

a man's killed after an explosion at his home in Yorkshire.

And 3,000 years old - the huge Bronze Age wooden wheel

After almost three months of travel disruption, the Forth Road Bridge

And judges reject calls for a second trial for the man acquitted

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

David Cameron had planned to be standing in Downing Street right now

announcing the UK's first referendum on Europe in 40 years.

Instead - after more than 24 hours of almost constant negotiations -

he's heading into another round of talks with EU leaders in Brussels.

The talks have been beset by delays with several EU nations unhappy

over plans to curb migrant benefits and change EU regulations.

Our Europe editor, Katya Adler has the latest from Brussels.

Well, Sophie, after last night when the 20 EU leaders were first

together to discuss the reforms, their meeting was feisty, the Prime

Minister joked it was OK, he had enough shirts with him. But if all

this had gone according to his plan, he would be holding a cabinet

meeting around about now. His critics back home say these

negotiations over what are quite narrow issues, the fact they are

proving so tough shows David Cameron could not really fundamentally

change Britain's relationship with the EU as he had initially promised.

But Downing Street say progress has been made here. They want a deal so

they can get on with the business of calling the referendum, but ours are

ticking by. We were told after gruelling one-to-one meetings

overnight, the leaders would reconvene today to an English

breakfast. That has slipped to brunch, lunch and now we are told to

expect an English dinner, the exact time to be concerned the macro

confirmed. Out of the car and into the hornet's

nest, that he stirred up yesterday. I was here until five o'clock this

morning working through this and we've made some progress,

but there's still no deal, and as I've said, I will only do

a deal if we get what Britain needs, so we will get back

in there, do some more work Instead of hailing a UK deal this

morning, the Prime Minister found himself in a grinding

new world of talks. He had told the wife and kids,

he said, there could be some delay. A case of laughing on the outside,

not so happy on the in. The Prime Minister had promised

a battle for Britain at this summit, but the truth is after semi weeks

and months of shuttle diplomacy, travelling, meeting,

selling his reform deal to leaders across Europe,

he did not expect such strong push back on such a number

of issues from so many countries TRANSLATION: The proposal

currently on the table does Digging his heels in,

the Hungarian Prime Minister, along with other central

and Eastern Europeans is toughing it out over cuts to EU

migrant benefits. The French president has remained

tight-lipped about protections for the UK from

eurozone legislation. The Belgians and others opposed

treaty change to write Britain out of the EU ideal of ever

closer union, and then He hijacked this oh-so-public

opportunity to do some Help me with migrant arrivals,

he said, and I will not stand There is a will here to get

the deal done so 28 other world leaders can get back

to other pressing concerns. We keep hearing about big

gaps between the country still on very big issues,

they have been going on for months now, how can they

suddenly be resolved? I do believe that each

and every country pursues their national interest,

this is very logical. But in the end, we'll

have to understand that if Great Britain leaves the EU,

we all get nothing. There is an element

of smoke and mirrors here. All parties feel the need to be seen

to stand their ground. That is why proceedings

are taking so long. It is becoming clear that it is not

only the British Prime Minister That said, there is a feeling here

there is a deal in the making, and some good progress had been made.

The hosts of this summit still call it make or break for the UK reforms

here in this building. Of course, we do not know yet whether it will be a

make or a break. Well, let's have a closer look at

what's holding up a deal on reform. Our deputy political editor

James Landale has been examining the major sticking

points for EU leaders. From the moment it joined the

European Community more than 40 years ago, Britain has had a

troubled relationship with Brussels, with Prime Minister after Prime

Minister ending up in conflict with their European counterparts. No, No.

David Cameron hopes his reforms will reset the relationship for good,

with what he calls a new settlement. The Prime Minister hopes to deter

migrants coming here from the EU by limiting the benefits they can claim

while working and those they sent home to their children. The deal

will seem migrants having their tax credits phased over four years, and

the child benefit reflecting the cost of living in their own country.

Critics say it will not make a difference. Sadly, I think it is a

pantomime. What is being offered is modest changes on benefit reform. It

could be overruled by the European Court. What it is is a missed

opportunity to go for a really different relationship. The Prime

Minister is also looking to protect the City of London from financial

decisions made by eurozone countries, as they begin to

integrate their economies more closely. The deal does include new

safeguards to assure that financial markets outside the euro zone are

not treated unfairly, but there is uncertainty over who decides when

the safeguards are triggered. Mr Cameron wants the House of Commons

here to have greater powers to club together with other European

parliaments and block EU laws. EU governments will have to think again

if more than half of EU parliaments propose a new proposal. I hope the

Prime Minister will bring back substantial reforms. The fact that

these negotiations are taking time shows the issues are serious. I

believe that Britain will be better off in a reformed EU but we will

have to await the outcome. Above all, the Prime Minister wants these

reforms to be written into the EU Treaty and made more legally

binding. In particular, he wants his plan to opt Britain out of more

political integration, to be written into EU law, something many

countries say is unnecessary. Even though there is no deal tonight,

campaigning has already begun for the referendum which will follow.

Three years ago, David Cameron promised fundamental and

far-reaching change. The question is now whether he has met that promise.

Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg is in Downing

You're there, Laura, but the Prime Minister is not -

which demonstrates just how difficult these negotiations

It almost feels like they should be tumbleweed barrelling along here.

The Prime Minister should be standing exactly where I am to

announce to the nation the date of the referendum expected at the end

of June. Instead, he is stuck in Brussels. There is a sense that a

deal is grinding towards a final conclusion. It is often the way of

these things as one person described it in Brussels today, it starts

slow, slow, slow but then there is a rush at the end to get everything

done. There is so much riding on this, it is a tense night for Number

Ten. We are hearing of something which could be a bigger problem for

him closer to home? I have heard that the Justice Secretary Michael

Gove, a close friend and ally of the Prime Minister has made his

decision, and he intends to campaign to leave the European

Union, taking the opposite position from the Prime Minister himself. I

should say that is not being officially confirmed or officially

denied by Number Ten or by Mr Gove himself. A spokesman says he still

backs the Prime Minister's renegotiation and then he rules

nothing out. It does appear tonight there is a coup for those who want

to leave the EU. Michael Gove may not be a very well-known household

name, but he is widely respected in conservative circles. A

disappointment for David Cameron, a high-profile conservative who seems

intent on taking the opposite view from him in the months ahead. Thank

you. A senior figure of so-called Islamic

State - thought to be linked to last year's attacks on tourists in

Tunisia - is believed to have been killed by American airstrikes

in neighbouring Libya. An IS training camp in Sabratha,

around 70km west of Tripoli was hit. US officials said it was "likely"

that the strikes had killed the senior Tunisian extremist linked

to the beach attack Here's our security correspondent

Frank Gardner reports. Flattened by a US air strike early

this morning. This is all that remains of what Washington said was

an Islamic State training camp in Libya. US Air Force warplanes

carried out the raid, flying from RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk. Britain's

Defence Secretary personally authorised America to use the base.

Their main target was-year-old Tunisian jihadist. He has been

linked to two terror attacks including one in Sousse which killed

30 tourists. We took this action against Sabir after hearing that he

and others were planning external attacks. This morning's Libby attack

was the most significant action there. It took place here at

Sabratha in a camp to the west of the country. A lot of most of those

killed were North Africa and recruits to IS. One of those is said

to have played a major role in the terror attacks in Tunis and Sousse.

Yet IS's stronghold is concentrated around Sirte and that is unlikely to

be affected. Recruits continue to come in from North Africa and the

Middle East. It will take rebuilding the state, strengthening the

authorities and making sure that training camps like this cannot

exist. But this is the reality in much of Libya now. A country awash

with arms, competing militias, no rule of law and no functioning

central government. Libya is fast emerging as Islamic State's second

base after Syria. Harper Lee - the author

of To Kill A Mockingbird - The book was published in 1960

and became one of the enduring Then last summer, the literary world

was taken by surprise when Harper Lee's second

novel was published - Our arts correspondent, David

Sillito looks back at her life. To Kill A Mockingbird was not just a

bestseller, it is a book which changes people. On any list of best

loved authors, you almost always see the name Harper Lee.

She did something that in our society is unspeakable, she kissed a

black man. The character of Atticus Finch was

the moral heart of the story of racist, injustice and childhood, and

bore many similarities with her own father. Remember, it is a sin To

Kill A Mockingbird. And like the characters scout the young Harper

Lee was also a tomboy. She studied law but wanted to write. Her

inspiration was the turbulence fight for civil rights. A black man was

murdered after being accused of being rude to a white woman. His

killers went free. The echoes of it all radiate through To Kill A

Mockingbird, a book described by Oprah Winfrey as the nation's novel.

50 years on, she was still being garlanded with awards. I have my

work cut out for me for the next 15 years. But the writing, she had as

you can see from this letter, planned a whole series of novels but

her friend said it was hard to deal with the reaction to Mockingbird. I

think when it really began to snowball, and it snowballed to the

top of the mountain, I wonder if it sneaked up on her after a while,

whether, whether it overwhelmed her? So the arrival of a second book more

than 50 years later was more than unexpected. The manuscript for Go

Set A Watchman had been locked away for 50 years. It had been written

before To Kill A Mockingbird. It was an instant bestseller but it was not

To Kill A Mockingbird. A million copies a year are sold, generation

after generation moved by Harper Lee story of justice, decency and

standing up for what is right. She really did not need to write another

word. Certain EU leaders dig in their heels over the Prime

Minister's demands for reform. And still to come: found in the Fens

- the bronze age wheel that could have been part

of a chariot 3,000 years ago. How welfare changes could mean some

disabled people losing their motor ability cars. And Mo Farah is in

Glasgow for the first big athletics meeting of the year and he talks

about the sport's drugs cheats. All this week, the BBC has been

looking at mental health in the UK - hearing from patients,

their families, professionals Tonight - for our In The Mind series

- we're giving the last word to Tom McAlpine - a man who suffered

a major breakdown himself - and then went on to set up a charity

which has since helped Our correspondent Jeremy Cooke

has been to meet him. Mental health professional,

mental health survivor. He is a man determined

to make a difference. In his 20s Tom was already

treating patients when I experienced the pain, the agony

of severe emotional distress. It's a quite indescribable

degree of misery Out of that crisis came

this, Tom was a founder It now reaches over

1000 people every year. One example of how volunteers

in groups up and down the country, helping those in

mental health crisis. Martin, I was not able to get any

eye contact with him or have a conversation -

he just seemed like a lost soul. It was not as though

I was hallucinating, I was completely

immersed in a different I've tried to evade the doctors

and it meant I got worse and worse. When I was 15 I did

not know what was I was in hospital but I didn't know

and I had been in several times And very, perhaps,

I don't know, hopeless. When I first met Claire

she struck me as someone who had She had stopped

dreaming, stopped being I don't think you necessarily

need to experience mental health difficulties

yourself to be effective, but it can give people

the confidence in me that they might not

have in some other Because they think, well,

Tom has been there. The curtains are drawn,

you have not seen anybody, As well as the workshops,

counselling and group therapy, the emergency support

line here is crucial. We just have to make

sure that you keep going Another part of Tom's vision

to reach those in desperate need. For many here it adds up

to an immense sense of gratitude. Tom saved my life, I probably

would have killed myself. I could not have

stood it much longer. Thank you for everything you have

ever helped me with, All of the experiences

you have given me to I am happier all the time,

life gets better and I don't know how much

longer I'm going to live, but it's better than it

would have been, by a long I'm the luckiest man

alive, being able to spend my time doing something that

I enjoy and that gives me such fulfilment

and happiness. I am very blessed and

that's enough for me. Tom McAlpine - a man who's

used his own experience to help And there's plenty

more on our website - including information

about where to find help And you can follow us on social

media at #IntheMind. The Chancellor is in danger of not

meeting his borrowing targets. It is the highest surplus since 2008 but

it is also lower than forecast. The Chancellor will only be able to

borrow ?7 billion in February and March to meet his target, less than

half the amount borrowed in the same month last year.

A 63-year-old man has died after his home was reduced to rubble

in Yorkshire after a suspected gas leak.

More than a dozen homes in Haxby were also damaged in the explosion.

It's hard to believe there was a house here at all.

The pile of bricks and splintered wood is all that's left

after an explosion early this morning that rocked

It was an extremely loud bang and the house shook as though it had

I went down to the bottom and saw debris in the road.

And he shouted, it sounds like it's gas.

Literally, it's hard to say, but four or five feat of rubble

Up close you get a sense of the power of the blast,

there is little of this house left that is recognisable.

And you get a sense of the extent of the damage caused

In amongst all the rubble, the signs of a home and life swept

The 63-year-old man who lived here was found dead and has been

We think it was a gas explosion and everything points to that,

however, it is going to take some time and some investigation

to actually confirm that that's the case.

Gas and electric supplies are being reconnected but some

of the houses may be damaged beyond repair.

This was a sudden and devastating explosion which tore right

through the normal morning routine of this quiet close,

and many here are still reeling from its impact.

A brief look at some of the day's other news stories...

The family of a man shot dead in Dublin have pleaded for an end

There was a heavy police presence for the funeral of Eddie Hutch Sr

who was killed ealier this month in what was thought to be a reprisal

for a fatal shooting at a boxing match weigh-in.

Dozens of cars from the 1970s have been found 65 foot underground

Around 100 cars were found in the mine which was apparently

Engineers carrying out repair work on the Forth Road Bridge have said

it will reopen fully to all traffic at 11 o'clock on Saturday night.

It was closed in early December after the discovery of a crack

Archaeologists have found what they think is the

UK's largest and oldest wooden wheel from the Bronze Age.

It's around 3,000 years old and was unearthed

Our correspondent Jo Black has been to see it.

To the untrained eye it looks like a battered old wheel

but its discovery offers an insight into the lives

Although the Bronze Age inhabitants lived in stilted wooden roundhouses

over an ancient waterway, this wheel, thought to be

from a cart, shows they were also exploiting dry land,

The wetland community was built on stilts, they were living

they were living above a river in a marshland.

And yet there is a wheel that takes you on dry land,

so there is a real sense that although they are living out

on the water they have a strong link to the land.

The team have been on the site for several months but only now

as they dig deeper, more bronze age fenland secrets are coming to light.

What these artefacts reveal is just how complex and sophisticated life

Bowls, glass beads, textiles and animal

But the mystery of the fire that destroyed the settlement remains

This is the fire investigator who will try to piece together

Actually having this material preserved is absolutely incredible.

Hopefully it will tell us something about the structure,

It might say something about how the fire was started.

The dig team says that this site holds many more secrets.

It is perhaps the best glimpse yet into a long lost world.

Thank you. Friday night is looking pretty damp and the weekend is not

that exhilarating either. We have rain on the way but not for

everybody. A few parts will see some rain and it will be windy as well.

Let's look at the big picture. A trailing weather front from the

Atlantic slides across the UK through the course of the weekend.

In one or two places we could see rain all through the course of the

weekend. This is what it looks like tonight. Spots of rain here and

there, breezy around the South. Across Scotland we have wintry

showers into the early hours of Saturday morning and the risk of ice

here and there. Temperatures dropping close to freezing. Let's

look at the big picture across the Atlantic again. This is the weather

front I mention trailing out there, sliding across the UK and marking

cold air to the north and milder air to the south. It is right across the

central parts of the country. To the south of the weather front is where

we have drizzly mild conditions but to the north it is colder air with

wintry showers on the weather map. A big temperature contrast on

Saturday, as much as 10 degrees, four or five in the north and 13 in

the South. Much of the rain will fall across Wales and perhaps the

North of England is this ribbon of weather front comes across from the

Atlantic. By Sunday in the south we could see temperatures around 14

degrees in the north and it will still be shivering at 5 degrees.

Let's go back to the EU summit where David Cameron is trying to get a

deal. It is proving difficult, will it be another long night of talks?

There is a sense of occasion and tension and anticipation. David

Cameron says he has time, although of course in an ideal world what he

wanted by this time on Friday evening was a deal in his hand and

his cabinet around the table in London. Those EU leaders opposing

his reforms are sticking to their position and they show no indication

they will just give way any time soon. Don't forget the all-important

meeting where 28 of them get together is now nine hours overdue.

The French president says he will not give in to blackmail and the

Czech president says they are moving towards a solution and that is all

David Cameron