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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. Tryin ....
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 donal ....
And clinton. Earlier this week, Gordon Sondland testified that military aid approved by congress would not be released until that message was delivered by zelensky. And now in an explosive report, the New York Times reveals president zelensky was so desperate he was prepared to deliver that message in an interview scheduled with cnn. Unwilling to lose the military aid he badly needed zelensky, he decided to bow to trumps demands yet he was spared when the funds were mysteriously released this september. Kent was so alarmed, that he memorialized the conversations in a state Department Memorandum expressing his concerns that it was injurious to the rule of law. Hell join ambassador taylor next week with the first witnesses as they bring the impeachment inquiry out into the open with public hearings. Shannon pettypi ....