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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 uk s 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 u ....