safeguards
for Britain, and I decided it was not right to sign that treaty. You're obviously in a room with 26 other people who are saying '
put aside
your national interest, go along with the crowd, do what will make life easy and comfortable for you there in that room', but you say no. It's important that we get the things that Britain needs, and so I decided not to sign that treaty. It's what I said I'd do, and it's what I did."
The top US military officer General Martin Dempsey has said he's extraordinarily concerned about the
viability
of the euro because he thinks its collapse could lead to civil unrest. General Dempsey, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said it was not clear whether the latest measures taken by the EU would be sufficient glue to hold the eurozone together.
Officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo say the incumbent, Joseph Kabila, has won the fiercely contested presidential election.
Provisional results show he picked up just under half the votes cast. Supporters of his main challenger Etienne Tshisekedi have complained of fraud. From Kinshasa, this report from Thomas Hubert.
The announcement finally came three days late on Friday afternoon after successive postponements. According to the electoral commission,
President Joseph Kabila topped the polls on 28 November with 48.95% of the votes, with his main opponent Etienne Tshisekedi
trailing