Be up to £45 billion when it leaves the eu. When it leaves the eu. Also this hour wildfires continue to rage in california as firefighters battle ferocious flames. Nearly nearly 200,000 residents have been evacuated from their homes a state of emergency has been declared. Israeli forces are on high alert for protests against the us declaration ofjerusalem as israels capital. Good morning. Its 8 december. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. A deal has been agreed in the brexit talks allowing the negotiations to move on to the next crucial stage the subject of trade and transition. The divorce bill could be up to £16 billion. After a long night of phone diplomacy, theresa may secured agreement with the irish Prime Minister and the democratic unionists whose objections on monday on the issue of the irish border had prevented a deal being struck on monday. An agreement has been made on the key Sticking Points of phase one including the divorce bill, eu Citizens Rights and the irish border. It still needs approval from the 27 members states first although this is likely to go ahead. Early this morning, the Prime Minister flew to brussels where at a joint News Conference with the European Commission president , Jean Claude Juncker. Announced that sufficient progress had been made to allow talks to progress. But he reiterated that todays result is a compromise. Mrs may said give and take on both sides had delivered a hard won agreement in all our interests. Getting to this point has required give and take on both sides. I believe that the joint report being published as in the best interests of the whole of the uk. I very much welcome the prospect of moving ahead to next phase, to talk about trade and security and to discuss the positive and ambitious future relationship that is in all of our interest. I have consistently said we want to build a deep and special partnership with the eu as we implement the decision of the british people to leave at the end of march 2019. Doing so will provide clarity and certainty for businesses in the uk and the eu and crucially for all our citizens. The deal will guarantee the rights of more than 3 million eu citizens living in the uk and 1 million uk citizens living in the eu. Eu citizens living in the uk will have their rights enshrined in uk law and enforced by british courts. They will be able to go on living their lives as before. I was clear in florence, we are a country that honours their obligations. After some tough conversations, we have now reached an agreement which is fair to the british taxpayer. We will be able to invest more in our future priorities at at home such as housing, schools and the nhs. In Northern Ireland we will guarantee there will be no hard border and we will uphold the belfast agreement. In doing so we will continue to preserve the constitutional and economic integrity of the United Kingdom. The president of the European Commission praised the commissioner for her determination and said the negotiations had been difficult for both sides. Difficult for both sides. I believe we have now made the breakthrough we needed. Todays result is, of course, a compromise. It is the result of a long and intense discussion between the commission negotiators and those of the uk. As in any negotiation, both sides had to listen to each other. Let us go to brussels no. 0ur correspondent is there. An intense morning and night for all those involved, if people thought getting to this stage is hard, the president of the European Council was suggesting what is to come is even more difficult. Assess first of all how the eu feels about the last 12 hours of what has been achieved . think the sense of relief is very similarto think the sense of relief is very similar to the sense of relief felt in london. There is a real anxiety this week that the collapse of the talks on monday, that sudden falling apart meant there was a profound problem which might throw the whole brexit timetable into chaos. We often report this in this adversarial process, britain against the European Union, but that is a shared interest in making sure that the process doesnt work and stays under competent management and keeps moving forward, delivering a deal for both sides. That has been the back of everyones mines here, there was real worry back of everyones mines here, there was real woiiy on back of everyones mines here, there was real worry on monday and that has dissipated, giving way to a sense of relief. 0ther minds are no turning to problems still to come. This is not the end, just the beginning. Were talking about moving onto trade talks. These are notoriously complex and can take many years. They involve extraordinary detail. So we have the note of celebration from Jean Claude Juncker, the president of the European Council donald tusk was more focused on the problems to come. We listen to him as well. While being satisfied with todays agreement which is obviously the personal success of Prime Minister theresa may, let us remember that the most difficult challenges still ahead. We all know that breaking up is hard. But breaking up and building a new relation is much harder. Since the brexit referendum, one year and a half has passed. So much time has been devoted to the easier part of the task and now to negotiate a transition arrangements and the framework for our future relationship, we have de facto less than one year. What do we know from the eu 27 perspective about what might happen next . The way the European Union manage the last phase of talks, gives you a clue as to how they will manage the next phase. Michel barnier, the lead negotiator was given strict guidelines. He could only talk about three issues, Citizens Rights, the irish border and the divorce bill. He could not talk about anything else until sufficient progress had been made. You can expect the same preach that approach. They will you can expect the same preach that approach. They will have guidelines determining a transition period for the eu and then they will do the same for the tree tops. They will try to set down definitions, tramlines within which Michel Barnier has to work. He has been a big figure in british headlines for the last year and you can expect him to remain in the headlines next year. Worth listening to Michel Barnier and what he sees as the next phase. Let me be clear, there is still work to be done. And negotiation on a number of issues such as the governance of our agreement or for instance. There are more paths to take. We will need to have the final version of the Withdrawal Agreement ready by october 2018, less than one year. Michel barnier, as we have reported, the bbc understands that the divorce bill could be somewhere between 35 and £40 million. Has there been much give on the eu side and that total . I think it is billions rather than millions in the ends. I beg your pardon, i said millions in the ends. I beg your pardon, isaid million. Millions in the ends. I beg your pardon, i said million. Yes, a little bit more than that. Not as toxic as some feared in british politics. All along we thought it would be the money which is the difficult part. But we have been stuck in future arrangements on the irish border and what role the European Court of justice irish border and what role the European Court ofjustice will have in terms of the rights of eu citizens in britain after brexit. The money has not been as difficult as people thought. Thats some, i think theresa may will feel british voters can live with it because it is not one colossal check but stretched out into the future so thatjoint stretched out into the future so that joint liabilities stretched out into the future so thatjoint liabilities are met when they arise, things like pensions and loa n they arise, things like pensions and loan guarantees may be years down the road. The sum is not as high as some guesswork suggested earlier in the progress that mike process. Process. It is quite a spread out programme. Some people in britain will feel nothing should be paid to the eu but theresa may will gamble that british voters will be able to live with this, if it is part of the probe set of getting a good trade deal. Process. Probe set of getting a good trade deal. Process. Thank you very much for that, Kevin Connelly in brussels. Let us get the news from westminster. 0ur chief Political Correspondent vicki young is in westminster for us. Where in the negotiations does the uk think it has done well and what aspects does it considers still to be tricky . Overall for theresa may, after an appalling start to the week when people were questioning how much longer her premiership could go on or the government could carry on, this will be seen as a victory for hire. The response from her cabinet collea g u es hire. The response from her cabinet colleagues and others, interesting that many of them are personally praising her and the work she has done because they know that she desperately needed this move onto the next phase. If we had been in a position where it had all fallen apart again, it would have been extremely tricky politically for her. Not to say they are not still problems, look at the role of the European Court of justice. Problems, look at the role of the European Court ofjustice. There will be summoned the brexit side of the argument not happy that. They continue for eight years to have some role in theirjudgment of britishjudges over the some role in theirjudgment of british judges over the rights of eu citizens. Interestingly, michael gove said he could live with it. 0thers gove said he could live with it. Others i have spoken to off camera have said as long as that is the time limit, we can live with it. It is not what they were as being a couple of years ago during the referendum campaign. 0n the issue of the irish border, you feel it has been deferred rather than sorted out. The British Government view was a lwa ys out. The British Government view was always you can decide this without knowing what our future relationship will be with the eu. It has to be decided in the next phase. They seem to have got to that. It is interesting that the dup came out and said they were not entirely happy but that is open to interpretation. Already we have seen dublin, brussels and the dup interpreting things in different ways. That argument goes on until another day. The dup have come out and said they were not actually happy but theresa may will proceed any week which shows theresa may standing up to the dup at this point in saying we need to move on. As i say, we have got through the qualifiers, the main tournament is still to come and trouble could very much lie ahead. We are starting to get a sense of what that might be like, take us through that. Interestingly, the bbc has obtained a leaked document which shows what the eu leaders say to the eu council, guidelines for the future relationship. It is about what they see as the future relationship, including a transition period or implementation period as the British Government calls. Barnier says the uk will remain a member of the Customs Union and Single Market during a transition period and under the philjones section of the European Court of justice the philjones section of the European Court ofjustice during that transition. Under the jurisdiction. That means we continue to have freedom of movement as it stands, we demean in the Customs Union and Single Market. Theresa may has said we will not be in those things. The understanding is that things. The understanding is that things will look similar and that will be a discussion point for the british cabinet. They have not had their discussion about the future, we are told it will happen before christmas. This was supposed to be the easier bet, where we end up, the cabinet have not decided on that school political row is still to come on that. Thank you very much. So the political row is still to come. 0ne one of the Sticking Points has been the irish border. Let us talk to our correspondence. 0ur ireland correspondent chris page is following developments from belfast. What has changed between monday and last night which allowed the dup to give theresa may the go ahead to make the deal . The fact the weather is like theres, the snow is any headache has led to a few metaphors being knocked around. I have heard that has been a blizzard of spin and interpretation. That is what it feels like. The dup has always said their major concern was they would not tolerate anything which would result in a separation of Northern Ireland is from the uk in political and economic terms, in effect the placing of border in the irish sea. The dup have made clear they did not get everything they wanted. Arlene foster said she cautioned theresa may on the telephone and overnight that she should not go ahead with this agreement because of unresolved issues but they respected it was up to the Prime Minister to make the ultimate decision. Regarding new trade barriers between Northern Ireland and the uk, they felt there was significant progress. We believe there have been six substantive changes and were pleased to see those changes because for me, it means there is no red line down the irish sea and we have the very clear confirmation that the entirety of the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union, leaving the Single Market, leaving the Customs Union. I think that is a very important statement to have and it is vitally important of course the integrity of the United Kingdom is kept in place. There are Still Matters we would like to see clarified. We ran out of time essentially. We think we needed to go back again and talk about those matters but the Prime Minister has decided to go to brussels in relation to this text and she said she has done that in the national interest. That is the view of the dup. The idea is government said their red line was they wanted to guarantee that there would not be a return to any checkpoints on the land frontier between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland. They acknowledge the details could not be worked out until the next phase of brexit talks. They wanted to guarantee that no matter what happens in the next stage, there would not be a hardening of the border so in dublin this morning leo varadkar gave the agreement the thumbs up this morning. We have achieved all that we set out to achieve in phase one of these negotiations. We have the assurances and guarantees we need from the United Kingdom, and support for them from the European Union. Im satisfied that sufficient progress has now been made on the irish issues. The parameters have been set, and they are good. Now we can move on to work out the detail of what has been agreed, to talk about the transition phase, free trade, and the new relationship between the eu and the uk. This is not the end, but it is the end of the beginning. The politicians had the sense to stay inside to make their statements andi stay inside to make their statements and i will do the same. Plenty more issues at stake for ireland and there will be a distinct irish strand in the brexit talks. You need to get off that riffs and we will talk to you from inside later, thank you very much. Joe has now is the dup mp, sammy wilson, white house changed since monday which allowed Arlene Foster to see to theresa may that the deal could go ahead . Last monday we were confronted with an extremely brief statement which showed Northern Ireland would be treated differently from the rest of the uk, no assurance we would not be left in aspects of the European Union, Customs Union and Single Market, when the uk left and that had constitutional and economic repercussions for Northern Ireland. The document is leading changed sufficiently to ensure that when the uk lives, we will be leaving with them. When the uk reads the Single Market and Customs Union, we will also be leaving along with the uk. There will be no barriers put up between Northern Ireland and our biggest market in the uk through different regulations and that our position within the United Kingdom well have been safeguarded. With no hardening of the border between Northern Ireland and the republic of ireland either, what is your understanding of the dynamics in terms of the agreement worked out overnight . Well, a number of things. F