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:00:09. > :00:14.This is BBC News, I'm Christian Fraser live at the European Union

:00:15. > :00:18.summit in Brussels. I will be looking at what David Cameron has

:00:19. > :00:24.set out to achieve in this negotiation and what he might get.

:00:25. > :00:29.European leader years have been arriving for what has been billed as

:00:30. > :00:32.another late-night session with written's future in the European

:00:33. > :00:41.Union at stake. US warplanes target so-called

:00:42. > :00:45.Islamic State militants in Libya. We are on the road in South

:00:46. > :00:53.Carolina, evangelical Christian country, on bees of another -- on

:00:54. > :01:06.the EU have of another Republican presidential primary. -- on the eve.

:01:07. > :01:10.After all of the bilateral meetings and negotiations that have gone on

:01:11. > :01:17.over 36 hours at this summit the 26 leaders have met for a working

:01:18. > :01:22.dinner, they will be there for two or three hours, and we hear from our

:01:23. > :01:27.European correspondent that there is another text in front of him. They

:01:28. > :01:33.will look at that, I believe there are some hurdles to overcome, but a

:01:34. > :01:38.lot of optimism that a deal can be done. Words from some European

:01:39. > :01:41.leaders that they are not going to let David Cameron leave Brussels

:01:42. > :01:45.without a deal in his hands so clearly still concerned that Britain

:01:46. > :01:51.might vote to leave the European Union. They are trying to give David

:01:52. > :01:56.Cameron as credible deal as they can offer him so they can go back -- he

:01:57. > :02:01.can go back to Downing Street and he can meet with his government and

:02:02. > :02:05.fired the starting gun for the referendum campaign. It has been a

:02:06. > :02:10.hard day for David Cameron, meeting a lot of European leaders, so let's

:02:11. > :02:14.get a full round-up from Katya Adler.

:02:15. > :02:18.Out of the car and into the hornet's nest that he stirred up yesterday.

:02:19. > :02:22.I was here until five o'clock this morning working through this

:02:23. > :02:26.and we've made some progress but still no deal and as I said

:02:27. > :02:30.I will only do a deal if we get what Britain needs so we will do

:02:31. > :02:36.some more work in there and I will do everything I can.

:02:37. > :02:39.Instead of hailing an EU deal this morning, the Prime Minister found

:02:40. > :02:47.himself in a grinding new whirl of talks.

:02:48. > :02:57.He said he had told the wife and kids there could be some delay,

:02:58. > :03:01.a case of laughing on the outside, not so happy on the in.

:03:02. > :03:03.He had promised to battle for Britain but the truth

:03:04. > :03:08.is, after so many weeks and months of shuttle diplomacy,

:03:09. > :03:11.travelling, meeting, selling his reform deal to European

:03:12. > :03:14.leaders, he didn't expect such strong pushback on so many issues

:03:15. > :03:20.from so many countries around the table here.

:03:21. > :03:22.TRANSLATION: The proposal currently on the table does not

:03:23. > :03:39.Digging his heels in, the Hungarian Prime Minister along

:03:40. > :03:42.with other central and eastern Europeans is toughing it out over

:03:43. > :03:45.The French President has remained tight-lipped about protections for

:03:46. > :03:50.Belgium and others opposed treaty change to exclude Britain from ever

:03:51. > :03:56.closer union and then there is the Greek Prime Minister,

:03:57. > :03:58.who hijacked this oh so public opportunity to do

:03:59. > :04:02.He said, "Help me with migrant arrivals and I won't stand

:04:03. > :04:14.There is a will here to get this done so 28 world leaders can get

:04:15. > :04:19.We keep hearing about big gaps between the countries on big issues,

:04:20. > :04:22.they have been going on for months, so how can they suddenly be

:04:23. > :04:30.I do believe that every country pursues their national interest

:04:31. > :04:34.and this is logical but we all have to understand that if Great Britain

:04:35. > :04:41.There is an element of smoke and mirrors here.

:04:42. > :04:44.All parties feel the need to be seen to stand their ground,

:04:45. > :04:46.that is why proceedings are taking so long.

:04:47. > :04:49.It is becoming clear that it is not only the British Prime Minister

:04:50. > :05:03.One of the greatest stumbling blocks in these negotiations over the past

:05:04. > :05:07.day has been trying to find agreement with East European

:05:08. > :05:12.countries about the benefit payments that David Cameron wants to reform

:05:13. > :05:18.for migrants already living in the UK. He wants to freeze for four

:05:19. > :05:25.years, or this is where he set out from, in work payments paid to

:05:26. > :05:30.migrants, top ups paid by the state onto their salary. He wanted to

:05:31. > :05:35.reform child benefit by linking benefits sent overseas to Poland or

:05:36. > :05:38.Slovakia, linking that to the standard of living in those

:05:39. > :05:43.countries, and that has proved quite a tough one to get past the Eastern

:05:44. > :05:47.European countries. He is under pressure not to water down the

:05:48. > :05:52.position from where he started and tonight we got quite an interesting

:05:53. > :05:53.tweet from the foreign affairs representative for the cheque

:05:54. > :06:18.government. -- Czech government. Earlier I asked

:06:19. > :06:22.him what he made of the talks. It has been two tough days and nights,

:06:23. > :06:28.we finished this morning about five and we were back at ten. If there is

:06:29. > :06:34.no deal we are crazy but I also believe that we managed to find good

:06:35. > :06:40.compromises. Will the talks be a rubber stamping exercise or are

:06:41. > :06:44.there still talks to be had? We had about 20 or 25 meetings during the

:06:45. > :06:48.day so we managed to have all of the details. In about 20 minutes it will

:06:49. > :06:56.be the first time we have the whole text again so we will read through

:06:57. > :06:59.it, making sure nothing slipped, but if things are done properly in the

:07:00. > :07:07.text in the discussion could be over in an hour or two. In one of your

:07:08. > :07:13.tweets today you said, as time passes I am more and more Plextor by

:07:14. > :07:23.the British approach of non-negotiation, quite to say the

:07:24. > :07:27.route least. -- -- per Plextor. Everybody has set out his ground,

:07:28. > :07:32.that is what we would expect yesterday afternoon. What was

:07:33. > :07:40.strange was that during the day we heard the same position from the UK

:07:41. > :07:45.again and again. Refusing to bend? Refusing to bend when everybody else

:07:46. > :07:49.was trying to find compromises. He was tougher than expected. Everybody

:07:50. > :07:54.believed he would try to find compromises but in the end he let

:07:55. > :08:02.the others do the compromise, which was probably clever negotiation, but

:08:03. > :08:10.it also led to some of these distractions, let's say. We

:08:11. > :08:18.understand Mr Cameron is demanding 30 years for the emergency brake,

:08:19. > :08:24.what figure have you come to? For us there are two possible point of

:08:25. > :08:34.arrival, one of them is five years, because if you live somewhere the

:08:35. > :08:39.six years you acquire residence. The maximum was seven years, because

:08:40. > :08:47.that is how long you can limit new workers from new countries joining

:08:48. > :08:53.the European Union. It is something already in European legislation and

:08:54. > :08:57.it is reasonable enough. The Czech foreign affairs Minister.

:08:58. > :09:07.We should put some context on Bobby emergency brake is. Chris Morris, is

:09:08. > :09:12.minor -- our Europe Minister, we know David Cameron wanted to limit

:09:13. > :09:20.benefit payments to each migrant in Britain for a period of four years.

:09:21. > :09:25.How did we come to seven and 13? The four year period is still there,

:09:26. > :09:30.payments would be phased in over a four year period. The other one is

:09:31. > :09:36.how long will it have the ability to pull the emergency brake? David

:09:37. > :09:41.Cameron said 13 years, the Eastern European leaders said five years.

:09:42. > :09:48.Most people knew it would end up as seven. If Britain votes yes to stay

:09:49. > :09:52.in the European Union, over a period over the next seven years the UK

:09:53. > :10:09.have the ability to restrict in work welfare payment to migrant workers

:10:10. > :10:15.for up to four years. The Czech European Minister seemed happy with

:10:16. > :10:19.seven years. Is this just a rubber stamping exercise? Probably, but I

:10:20. > :10:25.have been in these meetings before when somebody says, wait a minute, I

:10:26. > :10:32.haven't seen this particular detail before. We know that in the final

:10:33. > :10:37.draft pieces of contentious text have been removed, so solutions have

:10:38. > :10:41.been suggested after this day of bilateral agreements. If everybody

:10:42. > :10:47.has agreed then we need to see the text to see what has been approved.

:10:48. > :10:53.Take a step back and whatever is in this text it will not be what a

:10:54. > :10:57.number of Britain will vote on in a referendum on European Union

:10:58. > :11:02.membership, they will vote on rig themes, what it means for them and

:11:03. > :11:17.their family in the future. -- rig themes. -- gear. The Czech European

:11:18. > :11:23.Minister said there could be the issue of migration. Mr Tsipras said,

:11:24. > :11:27.if we are having solidarity for northern Europe, we should have

:11:28. > :11:34.solidarity for southern Europe, I might not agree to this unless I get

:11:35. > :11:37.what I want on migration. There is a period when legislation would have

:11:38. > :11:41.to be implemented to bring part of this proposed agreement into affect.

:11:42. > :11:46.There is always the danger that somebody could pull the plug, the

:11:47. > :11:53.European Parliament could refuse to vote for this. I suspect eventually

:11:54. > :12:01.it will get put in place again, if Britain says yes, because if Britain

:12:02. > :12:12.leaves the EU all votes are -- rural bets are off. Many people are saying

:12:13. > :12:19.don't expect to say no and then come back and say can we negotiate a bit

:12:20. > :12:24.more, it is one shot. No doubt there was exasperation on the part of Mr

:12:25. > :12:28.Tsipras, talking about benefits in the UK, which he would probably

:12:29. > :12:32.consider a peripheral issue when he is dealing with the debt crisis and

:12:33. > :12:38.the migrant crisis, and he is not the only European leader who feels

:12:39. > :12:44.that way. James Langdale has been looking at what each European leader

:12:45. > :12:46.wants from the negotiation and why it is so difficult to come to

:12:47. > :12:48.agreement. From the moment it joined

:12:49. > :12:54.the European Community more than 40 years ago, Britain has had

:12:55. > :12:56.a troubled relationship with Prime Minister

:12:57. > :12:58.after Prime Minister ending up in conflict

:12:59. > :13:00.with their European counterparts. David Cameron hopes his reforms

:13:01. > :13:04.will reset that relationship for good, with what he

:13:05. > :13:07.calls a new settlement. Above all the Prime Minister hopes

:13:08. > :13:10.to deter migrants coming here from the EU by limiting

:13:11. > :13:12.the benefits they can And those they send

:13:13. > :13:18.home to their children. The deal will see migrants

:13:19. > :13:20.having their tax credits phased in over four years,

:13:21. > :13:23.and their child benefit reflecting the cost of living

:13:24. > :13:29.in their own countries. Critics say this just

:13:30. > :13:30.won't make a difference. What is being offered are some

:13:31. > :13:41.modest changes on benefit reform which will be subject

:13:42. > :13:43.to change, could possibly What it is is a missed

:13:44. > :13:48.opportunity to go for a really The Prime Minister is

:13:49. > :13:55.also looking to protect the City of London from financial

:13:56. > :13:58.decisions made by eurozone countries as they begin to integrate

:13:59. > :14:00.their economies more closely. The deal does include

:14:01. > :14:02.new safeguards to ensure financial markets

:14:03. > :14:03.outside the eurozone But there's uncertainty over

:14:04. > :14:07.who decides when these Mr Cameron wants the House

:14:08. > :14:14.of Commons to have greater powers to club together with other

:14:15. > :14:16.European parliaments EU governments will have to think

:14:17. > :14:22.again if more than half of EU I hope the Prime Minister will bring

:14:23. > :14:28.back substantial reforms, the fact that these

:14:29. > :14:30.negotiations are taking time I believe if he can

:14:31. > :14:34.that Britain will But we will have

:14:35. > :14:40.to await the outcome. Above all the Prime Minister wants

:14:41. > :14:43.some of these reforms to be written into the EU's treaties and made

:14:44. > :14:47.more legally binding. In particular he wants his plan

:14:48. > :14:50.to opt Britain out of more political integration to be written into EU

:14:51. > :14:52.law, something many countries Even though there is still no deal

:14:53. > :14:59.tonight, campaigning has already begun for the referendum

:15:00. > :15:01.that is to follow. Three years ago David Cameron

:15:02. > :15:03.promised fundamental The question now is whether he

:15:04. > :15:08.has met that promise. James Landale, BBC

:15:09. > :15:20.News, Westminster. To sum up, the 28 leaders finally

:15:21. > :15:26.back in the room negotiating a second draft text. We think they are

:15:27. > :15:31.edging towards a deal, that is the feel from some of the messages

:15:32. > :15:36.coming from political advisers. It has been a long day, from what was

:15:37. > :15:40.supposed to be working British breakfast to a British lunch to a

:15:41. > :15:45.belated British dinner and some leaders just couldn't wait. Angela

:15:46. > :15:52.Merkel, the German Chancellor, so often the power broker these

:15:53. > :15:56.summits, broke cover and was spotted by a photographer in a local chip

:15:57. > :16:04.shop buying some chips, and who can blame her, she will definitely need

:16:05. > :16:09.the stamina this evening. Stay with us here on BBC News. We

:16:10. > :16:13.will have all of the latest developments of the day coming up,

:16:14. > :16:18.including the tributes being paid to the celebrated American author of To

:16:19. > :16:27.Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, who has died.

:16:28. > :16:33.Nine years and 15 days after going into Afghanistan, the last troops

:16:34. > :16:42.coming home, but the army defeated in the task it was sent to perform.

:16:43. > :16:56.This will have repercussions in the streets. One wonders who is next.

:16:57. > :17:04.As the airlift got under way there was no letup in the eruption. Lava

:17:05. > :17:09.streams flowed down to the sea on the east of the island, away from

:17:10. > :17:13.the town for the time being but it could start flowing at any time. The

:17:14. > :17:21.Russians heralded their new generation space station with a

:17:22. > :17:27.night launch. They called it Mir, the Russian for peace.

:17:28. > :17:31.You are watching BBC World News Today, let's bring you up-to-date

:17:32. > :17:36.with the latest headlines. David Cameron and other leaders head back

:17:37. > :17:41.into talks after a day of delays. Lots of questions being asked about

:17:42. > :17:47.what hope there is on an agreement for Britain's future membership.

:17:48. > :17:53.US warplanes target so-called IES militants in Libya, hoping to target

:17:54. > :17:57.the men responsible for the terrorist attacks in Tunisia were

:17:58. > :18:02.more than 40 people were killed. A senior figure of Islamic State

:18:03. > :18:06.thought to be responsible for those attacks is believed to have been

:18:07. > :18:11.killed by American air strikes in Libya. US officials said it was

:18:12. > :18:15.likely the strikes had killed the extremist. 30 Britons were killed in

:18:16. > :18:17.that beach attack. More now from Frank Gardner.

:18:18. > :18:25.Flattened by a US air strike early this morning.

:18:26. > :18:27.This is all that remained of what Washington says

:18:28. > :18:29.was an Islamic State training camp in Libya.

:18:30. > :18:31.US Air Force warplanes carried out the raid,

:18:32. > :18:37.flying from RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk.

:18:38. > :18:49.Armand Traor 's were also used. -- unmanned drones.

:18:50. > :18:50.Britain's Defence Secretary personally

:18:51. > :19:00.Their main target was a Tunisian jihadist,

:19:01. > :19:04.He has been linked to two terror attacks

:19:05. > :19:06.including one in Sousse which killed 38 tourists.

:19:07. > :19:10.We took this action against Sabir after hearing that he and others

:19:11. > :19:13.This morning's Libya attack was the most significant

:19:14. > :19:19.It took place here at Sabratha in a camp to the far west

:19:20. > :19:25.We are told most of those killed were North African recruits to

:19:26. > :19:28.Islamic State. One of those is said to have played

:19:29. > :19:32.a major role in the terror attacks Yet IS's main strength

:19:33. > :19:35.is concentrated around Sirte Recruits continue to flow

:19:36. > :19:49.in from Africa and the Middle East. It will take a lot more than bombing

:19:50. > :20:00.a training camp. It will take rebuilding the state,

:20:01. > :20:05.strengthening the authorities and making sure that training camps

:20:06. > :20:07.like this cannot exist. But this is the reality

:20:08. > :20:10.in much of Libya now. A country awash with arms,

:20:11. > :20:11.competing militias, no rule of law and no functioning

:20:12. > :20:13.central government. Libya is fast emerging

:20:14. > :20:24.as Islamic State's second The race for the White House

:20:25. > :20:29.continues with the third test of the 2016 nomination tomorrow. Bernie

:20:30. > :20:38.Sanders and Hillary Clinton, the Democratic contenders, will batten

:20:39. > :20:45.-- battle it out in Nevada. In South Carolina the Republican battle is

:20:46. > :20:52.taking place. What have people been telling you there? If Hewlett at the

:20:53. > :20:59.polls it seems that Donald Trump is set for another big victory. -- if

:21:00. > :21:03.you look at. He is way ahead in all of the polls and it would be

:21:04. > :21:08.surprising if he didn't pick up a big vote in South Carolina. He is

:21:09. > :21:13.sounding very confident and a lot of people here seem to -- clearly

:21:14. > :21:17.really love him. But I spoke to a lot of Republican voters who have

:21:18. > :21:22.been lifelong Republicans who don't like Mr Trump and it is one of the

:21:23. > :21:27.interesting phenomena of this election, amidst all of the

:21:28. > :21:32.extraordinary things going on, how divisive he is. People either really

:21:33. > :21:38.love him or really hate him. They call it the United States of America

:21:39. > :21:43.but it could almost be the United countries of America. All of the

:21:44. > :21:50.states have very different cultures. Mr Trump says he has done the maths,

:21:51. > :21:56.he can go to the White House, is that overoptimistic? Increasingly I

:21:57. > :22:01.think, no, it isn't. If you compare him to everybody else in this race

:22:02. > :22:05.you have to give him the odds-on favourite of being the Republican

:22:06. > :22:11.nominee for resident of the US and if he wins this boat in South

:22:12. > :22:18.Carolina, a very different state, as he suggested, from Iowa and other

:22:19. > :22:22.largely white states, if he wins the Republican primary on Saturday it

:22:23. > :22:27.suggests he can win states in the south and he can go on and become

:22:28. > :22:39.the Republican nominee and potentially the next US president.

:22:40. > :22:45.Thank you very much for that. More from -- more on that later.

:22:46. > :22:48.Harper Lee has died at the age of 89. She was the author of To Kill A

:22:49. > :22:50.Mockingbird. To Kill A Mockingbird

:22:51. > :22:52.wasn't just a bestseller, On any list of best-loved authors

:22:53. > :22:56.you almost always see the name She did something that

:22:57. > :23:00.in our society is unspeakable. The character Atticus Finch

:23:01. > :23:14.was the moral heart of the story of racism, injustice and childhood

:23:15. > :23:16.and bore many similarities She studied law for a while and then

:23:17. > :23:29.like her character Scout. She studied law for a while and then

:23:30. > :23:31.decided to write. was a life in Monroeville, Alabama,

:23:32. > :23:35.in the turbulent days of the fight It was a town that witnessed

:23:36. > :23:39.the case of Emmett Till, a black man murdered

:23:40. > :23:42.after being accused of being rude We find the defendant guilty as

:23:43. > :23:55.charged. The idea of it all radiates

:23:56. > :23:58.through To Kill A Mockingbird, a book described by Oprah Winfrey

:23:59. > :24:00.as the nation's novel. 50 years on she was still being

:24:01. > :24:03.garlanded with awards. I have my work cut out for me

:24:04. > :24:06.for the next 15 years. She had planned a whole series

:24:07. > :24:11.of novels but her friend Joy Brown said it was hard to deal

:24:12. > :24:21.with the reaction to Mockingbird. I think when it really began

:24:22. > :24:25.to snowball and it really snowballed to the top of the mountain,

:24:26. > :24:28.I wonder if it sneaked up So the arrival of a second book

:24:29. > :24:45.more than 50 years later The manuscript to Go Set A Watchman

:24:46. > :24:50.had been locked away for years. It was an instant bestseller but it

:24:51. > :24:55.wasn't To Kill A Mockingbird. A million copies a year

:24:56. > :25:00.are still sold, generation after generation has been moved

:25:01. > :25:02.by Harper Lee's story of justice, decency and standing

:25:03. > :25:04.up for what is right. She really didn't need

:25:05. > :25:16.to write another word. Hardly, who has died. Let's bring

:25:17. > :25:25.you some new pictures from Brussels and a reminder of our main news. A

:25:26. > :25:32.senior European source has told the BBC they now have what is hoped will

:25:33. > :25:44.be a final text of the deal. All of the coder sills have been removed

:25:45. > :25:51.and the dry up -- the draft is now being examined. We have just heard

:25:52. > :25:58.from a spokesman that the deal has still not been agreed and -- has not

:25:59. > :26:09.been agreed and is still being looked at. That is from a spokesman

:26:10. > :26:15.for Donald tsk. -- Donald Tusk. I want to start off with some

:26:16. > :26:17.extraordinary and potentially fatal weather