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Good morning.

From the Newsroom of the Financial Times, today is Friday, December 14th, and this is your FT news briefing.

Today we'll be looking at UK Prime Minister Theresa May's latest attempt to save her Brexit deal, another choppy day on Wall Street,

and a US Senate vote in defiance of senior Trump administration officials.

Then the FT's Leslie Hook takes us to Poland, where ministers from around the world are

scrambling to reach a climate agreement before annual talks end this weekend.

I'm Eric Krupky, and here's the news you need to start your day.

Prime Minister Theresa May met with EU leaders on Thursday night as part of a two-day summit

in Brussels.

She pleaded with them to save her Brexit deal.

Mrs. May urged the EU27 to offer a legal tweak to the deal.

The tweak would effectively put a one-year time limit on the Irish border backstop.

That could appease Eurosceptic MPs.

They're worried that without a time limit,

the UK would be locked in a customs union

with the EU indefinitely.

Mrs. May insisted she could change the dynamic at Westminster to get the deal through with

EU support.

EU diplomats said there was confusion in the Meanwhile, as Mrs. May tried to save her deal, Tori Eurosceptics called for her resignation.

The Prime Minister is expected to present a revised deal to Parliament before January 21st. Hi, I'm Mamtha Baker. first.

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