Was destroyed by the flooding. Translation the flood came and completely washed away the valley, destroying everything around it. My life before was stable, everything was 100 good i had my house and my family, but now there is nothing, there is no life any more. Live now to beirut to speak to the bbc s middle east correspondent lina sinjab. Lina, what more are we hearing about how this happened, and also about what the recovery is looking like right now . It what the recovery is looking like riaht now . , what the recovery is looking like right now . Right now . It is really a devastating right now . It is really a devastating situation, i right now . It is really a i devastating situation, day right now . It is really a devastating situation, day in, day out, people are still shocked with the traumatic experience they have lived, with the loss that they have had, you know, everywhere around people are looking for bodies of their beloved ones, some families are counting, like, tends o
And coming up in the sport on bbc news Johanna Konta continues to impress. She becomes the first british woman to make the final of the miami 0pen. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. The European Union has given its first formal response to the uks decision to trigger article 50, and begin the process of leaving the eu. The president of the european council, donald tusk, warned the talks would be complex and sometimes confrontational. And he said negotiations on Future Trade Relations would only start after there had been what he called sufficient progress on the Separation Settlement between the eu and the uk. He was speaking at a meeting of eu leaders in malta, from where our europe correspondent, chris morris, sent this report. Trying to get serious. Two days ago donald tusk expressed emotion at the prospect of the uk leaving the eu. This morning it was down to business. He has sent Draft Negotiating Deadlines to the other 27 countries setting up tough tone for two y
Straight scottish title by the end of the evening . If aberdeen fail to win tonight, celtic will be champions again. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. The eu has asserted its control over the brexit negotiations, by publishing its Draft Guidelines for the talks ahead. It has rejected the governments plan to negotiate a trade deal at the same time as the price to be paid for leaving the eu. The guidelines state that only when there has been what it calls sufficient progress on the separation settlement, can trade talks begin. They also say establishing the future status of eu citizens living in the uk is a priority, along with keeping open Northern Irelands borders with ireland. Our europe correspondent, damian grammaticus, has more. After a ll after all the shadow boxing, now coming into focus the eus terms for brexit. They are guidelines for now, but donald tusk made clear the eu will insist the uk sorts out its Exit Arrangements first. So an Outline Agreement on citize
of money to be let out. and then the paper goes on to allege that that money was paid, but then it was reimbursed, the paper claims, using otherfunds that had been raised for political purposes. so that is what the times newspaper alleged on wednesday night. there have been some repercussions from those reports. what is difficult for the bbc is that we have approached mark menzies for comment. he has not said anything to us, but he did speak to the times newspaper on wednesday, when they were putting these allegations and claims to him and, chris, he, mark menzies strenuously denied them. yeah, that s right. and you summarise neatly there, adam, where we are. i think there s another expression we can sort of throw into the mix. i was working last night, wednesday night, when the investigative journalistic powerhouse that is billy kimber of the times s piece appeared online, and a polite version of the words that tumbled from my lips would be,