19/02/2016 World News Today

This is BBC News, I'm Christian Fraser live at the European Union

summit in Brussels. I will be looking at what David Cameron has

set out to achieve in this negotiation and what he might get.

European leader years have been arriving for what has been billed as

another late-night session with written's future in the European

Union at stake. US warplanes target so-called

Islamic State militants in Libya. We are on the road in South

Carolina, evangelical Christian country, on bees of another -- on

the EU have of another Republican presidential primary. -- on the eve.

After all of the bilateral meetings and negotiations that have gone on

over 36 hours at this summit the 26 leaders have met for a working

dinner, they will be there for two or three hours, and we hear from our

European correspondent that there is another text in front of him. They

will look at that, I believe there are some hurdles to overcome, but a

lot of optimism that a deal can be done. Words from some European

leaders that they are not going to let David Cameron leave Brussels

without a deal in his hands so clearly still concerned that Britain

might vote to leave the European Union. They are trying to give David

Cameron as credible deal as they can offer him so they can go back -- he

can go back to Downing Street and he can meet with his government and

fired the starting gun for the referendum campaign. It has been a

hard day for David Cameron, meeting a lot of European leaders, so let's

get a full round-up from Katya Adler.

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 still no deal and as I said

I will only do a deal if we get what Britain needs so we will do

some more work in there and I will do everything I can.

Instead of hailing an EU deal this morning, the Prime Minister found

himself in a grinding new whirl of talks.

He said he had told the wife and kids there could be some delay,

a case of laughing on the outside, not so happy on the in.

He had promised to battle for Britain but the truth

is, after so many weeks and months of shuttle diplomacy,

travelling, meeting, selling his reform deal to European

leaders, he didn't expect such strong pushback on so many issues

from so many countries around the table here.

TRANSLATION: The proposal currently on the table does not

Digging his heels in, the Hungarian Prime Minister along

with other central and eastern Europeans is toughing it out over

The French President has remained tight-lipped about protections for

Belgium and others opposed treaty change to exclude Britain from ever

closer union and then there is the Greek Prime Minister,

who hijacked this oh so public opportunity to do

He said, "Help me with migrant arrivals and I won't stand

There is a will here to get this done so 28 world leaders can get

We keep hearing about big gaps between the countries on big issues,

they have been going on for months, so how can they suddenly be

I do believe that every country pursues their national interest

and this is logical but we all have to understand that if Great Britain

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

One of the greatest stumbling blocks in these negotiations over the past

day has been trying to find agreement with East European

countries about the benefit payments that David Cameron wants to reform

for migrants already living in the UK. He wants to freeze for four

years, or this is where he set out from, in work payments paid to

migrants, top ups paid by the state onto their salary. He wanted to

reform child benefit by linking benefits sent overseas to Poland or

Slovakia, linking that to the standard of living in those

countries, and that has proved quite a tough one to get past the Eastern

European countries. He is under pressure not to water down the

position from where he started and tonight we got quite an interesting

tweet from the foreign affairs representative for the cheque

government. -- Czech government. Earlier I asked

him what he made of the talks. It has been two tough days and nights,

we finished this morning about five and we were back at ten. If there is

no deal we are crazy but I also believe that we managed to find good

compromises. Will the talks be a rubber stamping exercise or are

there still talks to be had? We had about 20 or 25 meetings during the

day so we managed to have all of the details. In about 20 minutes it will

be the first time we have the whole text again so we will read through

it, making sure nothing slipped, but if things are done properly in the

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

tweets today you said, as time passes I am more and more Plextor by

the British approach of non-negotiation, quite to say the

route least. -- -- per Plextor. Everybody has set out his ground,

that is what we would expect yesterday afternoon. What was

strange was that during the day we heard the same position from the UK

again and again. Refusing to bend? Refusing to bend when everybody else

was trying to find compromises. He was tougher than expected. Everybody

believed he would try to find compromises but in the end he let

the others do the compromise, which was probably clever negotiation, but

it also led to some of these distractions, let's say. We

understand Mr Cameron is demanding 30 years for the emergency brake,

what figure have you come to? For us there are two possible point of

arrival, one of them is five years, because if you live somewhere the

six years you acquire residence. The maximum was seven years, because

that is how long you can limit new workers from new countries joining

the European Union. It is something already in European legislation and

it is reasonable enough. The Czech foreign affairs Minister.

We should put some context on Bobby emergency brake is. Chris Morris, is

minor -- our Europe Minister, we know David Cameron wanted to limit

benefit payments to each migrant in Britain for a period of four years.

How did we come to seven and 13? The four year period is still there,

payments would be phased in over a four year period. The other one is

how long will it have the ability to pull the emergency brake? David

Cameron said 13 years, the Eastern European leaders said five years.

Most people knew it would end up as seven. If Britain votes yes to stay

in the European Union, over a period over the next seven years the UK

have the ability to restrict in work welfare payment to migrant workers

for up to four years. The Czech European Minister seemed happy with

seven years. Is this just a rubber stamping exercise? Probably, but I

have been in these meetings before when somebody says, wait a minute, I

haven't seen this particular detail before. We know that in the final

draft pieces of contentious text have been removed, so solutions have

been suggested after this day of bilateral agreements. If everybody

has agreed then we need to see the text to see what has been approved.

Take a step back and whatever is in this text it will not be what a

number of Britain will vote on in a referendum on European Union

membership, they will vote on rig themes, what it means for them and

their family in the future. -- rig themes. -- gear. The Czech European

Minister said there could be the issue of migration. Mr Tsipras said,

if we are having solidarity for northern Europe, we should have

solidarity for southern Europe, I might not agree to this unless I get

what I want on migration. There is a period when legislation would have

to be implemented to bring part of this proposed agreement into affect.

There is always the danger that somebody could pull the plug, the

European Parliament could refuse to vote for this. I suspect eventually

it will get put in place again, if Britain says yes, because if Britain

leaves the EU all votes are -- rural bets are off. Many people are saying

don't expect to say no and then come back and say can we negotiate a bit

more, it is one shot. No doubt there was exasperation on the part of Mr

Tsipras, talking about benefits in the UK, which he would probably

consider a peripheral issue when he is dealing with the debt crisis and

the migrant crisis, and he is not the only European leader who feels

that way. James Langdale has been looking at what each European leader

wants from the negotiation and why it is so difficult to come to

agreement. From the moment it joined

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

a troubled relationship with Prime Minister

after Prime Minister ending up in conflict

with their European counterparts. David Cameron hopes his reforms

will reset that relationship for good, with what he

calls a new settlement. Above all the Prime Minister hopes

to deter migrants coming here from the EU by limiting

the benefits they can And those they send

home to their children. The deal will see migrants

having their tax credits phased in over four years,

and their child benefit reflecting the cost of living

in their own countries. Critics say this just

won't make a difference. What is being offered are some

modest changes on benefit reform which will be subject

to change, could possibly What it is is a missed

opportunity to go for a really 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 ensure financial markets

outside the eurozone But there's uncertainty over

who decides when these Mr Cameron wants the House

of Commons to have greater powers to club together with other

European parliaments EU governments will have to think

again if more than half of EU I hope the Prime Minister will bring

back substantial reforms, the fact that these

negotiations are taking time I believe if he can

that Britain will But we will have

to await the outcome. Above all the Prime Minister wants

some of these reforms to be written into the EU's treaties 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 Even though there is still no deal

tonight, campaigning has already begun for the referendum

that is to follow. Three years ago David Cameron

promised fundamental The question now is whether he

has met that promise. James Landale, BBC

News, Westminster. To sum up, the 28 leaders finally

back in the room negotiating a second draft text. We think they are

edging towards a deal, that is the feel from some of the messages

coming from political advisers. It has been a long day, from what was

supposed to be working British breakfast to a British lunch to a

belated British dinner and some leaders just couldn't wait. Angela

Merkel, the German Chancellor, so often the power broker these

summits, broke cover and was spotted by a photographer in a local chip

shop buying some chips, and who can blame her, she will definitely need

the stamina this evening. Stay with us here on BBC News. We

will have all of the latest developments of the day coming up,

including the tributes being paid to the celebrated American author of To

Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, who has died.

Nine years and 15 days after going into Afghanistan, the last troops

coming home, but the army defeated in the task it was sent to perform.

This will have repercussions in the streets. One wonders who is next.

As the airlift got under way there was no letup in the eruption. Lava

streams flowed down to the sea on the east of the island, away from

the town for the time being but it could start flowing at any time. The

Russians heralded their new generation space station with a

night launch. They called it Mir, the Russian for peace.

You are watching BBC World News Today, let's bring you up-to-date

with the latest headlines. David Cameron and other leaders head back

into talks after a day of delays. Lots of questions being asked about

what hope there is on an agreement for Britain's future membership.

US warplanes target so-called IES militants in Libya, hoping to target

the men responsible for the terrorist attacks in Tunisia were

more than 40 people were killed. A senior figure of Islamic State

thought to be responsible for those attacks is believed to have been

killed by American air strikes in Libya. US officials said it was

likely the strikes had killed the extremist. 30 Britons were killed in

that beach attack. More now from Frank Gardner.

Flattened by a US air strike early this morning.

This is all that remained of what Washington says

was an Islamic State training camp in Libya.

US Air Force warplanes carried out the raid,

flying from RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk.

Armand Traor 's were also used. -- unmanned drones.

Britain's Defence Secretary personally

Their main target was a Tunisian jihadist,

He has been linked to two terror attacks

including one in Sousse which killed 38 tourists.

We took this action against Sabir after hearing that he and others

This morning's Libya attack was the most significant

It took place here at Sabratha in a camp to the far west

We are told most of those killed were North African recruits to

Islamic State. One of those is said to have played

a major role in the terror attacks Yet IS's main strength

is concentrated around Sirte Recruits continue to flow

in from Africa and the Middle East. It will take a lot more than bombing

a training camp. 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 The race for the White House

continues with the third test of the 2016 nomination tomorrow. Bernie

Sanders and Hillary Clinton, the Democratic contenders, will batten

-- battle it out in Nevada. In South Carolina the Republican battle is

taking place. What have people been telling you there? If Hewlett at the

polls it seems that Donald Trump is set for another big victory. -- if

you look at. He is way ahead in all of the polls and it would be

surprising if he didn't pick up a big vote in South Carolina. He is

sounding very confident and a lot of people here seem to -- clearly

really love him. But I spoke to a lot of Republican voters who have

been lifelong Republicans who don't like Mr Trump and it is one of the

interesting phenomena of this election, amidst all of the

extraordinary things going on, how divisive he is. People either really

love him or really hate him. They call it the United States of America

but it could almost be the United countries of America. All of the

states have very different cultures. Mr Trump says he has done the maths,

he can go to the White House, is that overoptimistic? Increasingly I

think, no, it isn't. If you compare him to everybody else in this race

you have to give him the odds-on favourite of being the Republican

nominee for resident of the US and if he wins this boat in South

Carolina, a very different state, as he suggested, from Iowa and other

largely white states, if he wins the Republican primary on Saturday it

suggests he can win states in the south and he can go on and become

the Republican nominee and potentially the next US president.

Thank you very much for that. More from -- more on that later.

Harper Lee has died at the age of 89. She was the author of To Kill A

Mockingbird. To Kill A Mockingbird

wasn't just a bestseller, On any list of best-loved authors

you almost always see the name She did something that

in our society is unspeakable. The character Atticus Finch

was the moral heart of the story of racism, injustice and childhood

and bore many similarities She studied law for a while and then

like her character Scout. She studied law for a while and then

decided to write. was a life in Monroeville, Alabama,

in the turbulent days of the fight It was a town that witnessed

the case of Emmett Till, a black man murdered

after being accused of being rude We find the defendant guilty as

charged. The idea of it all radiates

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. She had planned a whole series

of novels but her friend Joy Brown said it was hard to deal

with the reaction to Mockingbird. I think when it really began

to snowball and it really snowballed to the top of the mountain,

I wonder if it sneaked up So the arrival of a second book

more than 50 years later The manuscript to Go Set A Watchman

had been locked away for years. It was an instant bestseller but it

wasn't To Kill A Mockingbird. A million copies a year

are still sold, generation after generation has been moved

by Harper Lee's story of justice, decency and standing

up for what is right. She really didn't need

to write another word. Hardly, who has died. Let's bring

you some new pictures from Brussels and a reminder of our main news. A

senior European source has told the BBC they now have what is hoped will

be a final text of the deal. All of the coder sills have been removed

and the dry up -- the draft is now being examined. We have just heard

from a spokesman that the deal has still not been agreed and -- has not

been agreed and is still being looked at. That is from a spokesman

for Donald tsk. -- Donald Tusk. I want to start off with some

extraordinary and potentially fatal weather