:00:00. > :00:00.Britain says that Gibraltar cannot be used as a bargaining chip
:00:07. > :00:10.in Brexit negotiations with the European Union.
:00:11. > :00:13.Spain - which lays claim to Gibraltar -
:00:14. > :00:17.insists it will have a direct say on the territory, once Britain
:00:18. > :00:24.On Gibraltar, no agreement between the European Union
:00:25. > :00:27.and the UK will apply without the consent of Spain.
:00:28. > :00:32.A devastating mudslide in Colombia has killed more than 150 people.
:00:33. > :00:36.How thousands of high earners have benefited from a housing scheme
:00:37. > :00:41.meant to give the less well off a leg up on the housing ladder.
:00:42. > :00:44.And Yohanna Konta wins the biggest tennis title
:00:45. > :01:07.by a British woman in 40 years, as she conquers at the Miami Open.
:01:08. > :01:11.The Government has said it will defend the interests
:01:12. > :01:13.of Gibraltar in the Brexit negotiations, following warnings
:01:14. > :01:18.that Spain is attempting to use the process to pursue its claim
:01:19. > :01:22.The EU has suggested that a Brexit deal won't cover Gibraltar
:01:23. > :01:24.without a separate agreement between London and Madrid.
:01:25. > :01:26.Labour say it's vital the people of Gibraltar aren't
:01:27. > :01:30.used as a "bargaining chip" in negotiations.
:01:31. > :01:42.This room, looming from the Med is casting a shadow over Britain's
:01:43. > :01:45.Brexit talks and the people of Gibraltar are wondering what the
:01:46. > :01:49.future holds. They voted almost unanimously to remain in the EU,
:01:50. > :01:52.giving Spain hopes of taking the territory back, just this week,
:01:53. > :01:58.Theresa May said that wouldn't happen. We are absolutely steadfast
:01:59. > :02:03.in our support of Gibraltar and its people and its economy. Our position
:02:04. > :02:07.has not changed. But the European Council position has changed. In its
:02:08. > :02:12.draft negotiating guidelines, it says, after the UK leaves the union,
:02:13. > :02:15.no agreement between the EU and the United Kingdom may apply to the
:02:16. > :02:22.territory of Gibraltar without the agreement between the kingdom of
:02:23. > :02:24.Spain and the United Kingdom. TRANSLATION: On Gibraltar no
:02:25. > :02:31.agreement between the European Union and the UK will apply without the
:02:32. > :02:37.consent of Spain. We won't accept any agreement that undermines
:02:38. > :02:44.Spain's position on Gibraltar's sovereignty or that harms Spain's
:02:45. > :02:47.interests. And there are other grievances too, like Gibraltar's low
:02:48. > :02:53.tax economy. Brexit may just have given the Spanish a bit more
:02:54. > :02:56.negotiating leverage to the annoyance of politicians on the
:02:57. > :02:59.rock. These are draft guidelines. Already we see Spain making the
:03:00. > :03:03.moves that people expect she might have made with five minutes to
:03:04. > :03:07.midnight with an agreement ready, she's doing now. Frankly, I think
:03:08. > :03:11.it's singling out Gibraltar unfairly. Theresa May's letter
:03:12. > :03:16.triggering Article 50 did mention Northern Ireland's border with the
:03:17. > :03:21.Irish Republic, but not that of Gibraltar with Spain. Critics have
:03:22. > :03:25.said that was a mistake which emboldened the Spanish. A Spanish
:03:26. > :03:28.veto could mean choppy waters ahead. Spain hasn't been shy of confronting
:03:29. > :03:33.Britain in the past. Here over fishing rights off the Gibraltar
:03:34. > :03:38.coast. So will Britain be more likely to compromise on Gibraltar in
:03:39. > :03:43.the interests of a bigger EU deal? It's absolutely wrong that any
:03:44. > :03:46.future Free Trade Agreement, any future security, bilateral
:03:47. > :03:50.arrangements or anything else should depend on Britain giving some
:03:51. > :03:54.concession to Madrid over Gibraltar. Let me tell you, that will not
:03:55. > :03:58.happen. Spain is putting Gibraltar firmly in the middle of Britain's
:03:59. > :04:02.road to Brexit, raising the question of what other EU member states may
:04:03. > :04:05.demand from the UK as the price of a deal.
:04:06. > :04:08.In a moment, we'll speak to our political correspondent,
:04:09. > :04:10.Iain Watson, in Downing Street, but first our Europe correspondent,
:04:11. > :04:23.Damien, why is the EU side then insisting on this role for Spain in
:04:24. > :04:27.discussing Gibraltar's future? The EU side don't view this as an
:04:28. > :04:31.unfriendly act. They view this as the logic of Brexit. This is what
:04:32. > :04:34.Brexit means, they say. Now Spain has always disputed the sovereignty
:04:35. > :04:40.of Gibraltar. What a senior EU official told us was that while the
:04:41. > :04:45.UK has been inside the union, it's been able to prevent that being
:04:46. > :04:48.reflected in official union policy. On matters that arise after the UK
:04:49. > :04:52.has left, the EU, the official said, would speak for the 27 members and
:04:53. > :04:57.they said that Spain had lobbied hard to have this in and it will
:04:58. > :05:01.apply to a future trade deal being applied to Gibraltar, not to the
:05:02. > :05:06.exit deal. So Spain, yes, getting some leverage. Richard asked the
:05:07. > :05:11.question in his report, how determined is Downing Street going
:05:12. > :05:14.to be to resist this? Downing Street are saying tonight that their
:05:15. > :05:18.commitment to Gibraltar remains, yes, rock solid. Boris Johnson, the
:05:19. > :05:21.Foreign Secretary, has said Gibraltar is not for sale. What can
:05:22. > :05:25.Britain do about it in these negotiations? Well, first of all,
:05:26. > :05:28.British Members of the European Parliament are going to raise the
:05:29. > :05:32.issue on Wednesday, but their influence in this is limited.
:05:33. > :05:37.Further down-the-line, Britain can talk tough during those trade
:05:38. > :05:42.negotiations with Spain. But you get the impression that Britain's very
:05:43. > :05:46.much on one side of the negotiating table. The other 27 member states
:05:47. > :05:51.are very much on the other side. This was a week when a diplomatic
:05:52. > :05:54.plates started to spin. Unless the Government remains focussed, it's
:05:55. > :05:57.clear some precious, fragile things could be put in danger. Thank you
:05:58. > :06:00.both very much indeed. It was meant to help those,
:06:01. > :06:03.who couldn't afford to get on the housing ladder,
:06:04. > :06:05.buy their first home. But it's emerged nearly 4,000
:06:06. > :06:07.families, earning more than ?100,000 a year,
:06:08. > :06:09.have benefited from the Help to Buy But for the government's Help To Buy
:06:10. > :06:20.scheme, Lina Hannon and her husband would have needed an additional five
:06:21. > :06:24.to ten years before they could She does worry, though,
:06:25. > :06:29.that some high earners were also It does bother me a bit that some
:06:30. > :06:34.people that didn't really need But to be fair, I think
:06:35. > :06:40.that the fact that the scheme was able to help people like me,
:06:41. > :06:44.and I know that a lot of people benefited from this scheme,
:06:45. > :06:47.it makes me feel happy. Introduced four years ago
:06:48. > :06:51.to encourage house-building and help mostly first-time buyers get
:06:52. > :06:55.on the ladder, 250,000 people have bought property
:06:56. > :06:59.using the Help To Buy schemes. But research suggests that existing
:07:00. > :07:03.homeowners from wealthy households Using official data,
:07:04. > :07:08.research found that around 4000 households in England earning more
:07:09. > :07:13.than ?100,000 used to the Help To Buy equity loan
:07:14. > :07:16.scheme, and 20,000 households used it even though they weren't
:07:17. > :07:20.even first-time buyers. This scheme, in place,
:07:21. > :07:24.playing a valuable part in helping people get into the housing market
:07:25. > :07:28.for the first time, should only be there for first-time buyers,
:07:29. > :07:30.and really shouldn't be there for people who are earning
:07:31. > :07:34.over ?100,000 per year. The Help To Buy equity loan scheme
:07:35. > :07:40.offers buyers up to a fifth of the cost of a new-build home
:07:41. > :07:44.so they only need to The government says almost 400,000
:07:45. > :07:49.people have been helped and ?8.6 billion has been promised
:07:50. > :07:56.for it in England until 2021. The fact that the Help To Buy
:07:57. > :07:59.scheme has helped existing and sometimes wealthy households
:08:00. > :08:03.will worry some economists. They have long seen concerns
:08:04. > :08:06.about consumer indebtedness, rising house prices and savings
:08:07. > :08:12.at an all-time record low. If the cost of living
:08:13. > :08:16.continues to rise as it has in recent weeks and months,
:08:17. > :08:18.that will make the A young asylum-seeker
:08:19. > :08:23.is in a critical condition in hospital, after he was beaten
:08:24. > :08:26.by a gang in what detectives Police say the 17-year-old,
:08:27. > :08:30.who's an Iranian Kurd, was attacked at a bus stop
:08:31. > :08:32.in Croydon, in south The Prison Officers' Association has
:08:33. > :08:37.criticised Government measures to tackle a recruitment
:08:38. > :08:39.crisis in jails. BBC News has learned that only 5%
:08:40. > :08:43.of prison staff in England and Wales will be entitled to new pay
:08:44. > :08:49.allowances of up to ?5,000. Nottinghamshire police are appealing
:08:50. > :08:52.for help finding a woman, who's suspected of abducting her
:08:53. > :08:54.two young sons. It comes after a family court warned
:08:55. > :08:57.that Samantha Baldwin, who's 42, A mudslide in southern Colombia has
:08:58. > :09:07.left more than 100 people dead. Police and rescue teams
:09:08. > :09:10.are at the scene, but their efforts are being hampered by
:09:11. > :09:13.poor weather conditions. Urged on by soldiers,
:09:14. > :09:19.people living in the city of Macoa There is no time to collect
:09:20. > :09:28.possessions because this Deadly mudslides have
:09:29. > :09:37.engulfed parts of southern Colombia, submerging homes,
:09:38. > :09:40.businesses and people. Over 150 are dead and
:09:41. > :09:45.hundreds more are injured. As rescuers continue
:09:46. > :09:48.the search for survivors, the president today declared a state
:09:49. > :09:54.of emergency across the region. Unusually heavy rains
:09:55. > :09:57.flooded the Macoa River, bursting its banks and those
:09:58. > :10:00.of three tributaries. It created what eyewitnesses called
:10:01. > :10:05.an avalanche of mud, that's pulled buildings apart,
:10:06. > :10:08.devastating towns, leaving residents amazed
:10:09. > :10:14.and appalled in equal measure. As families continue to flee,
:10:15. > :10:18.the emergency services pick their way through the debris
:10:19. > :10:23.in treacherous conditions. The Red Cross have tonight
:10:24. > :10:26.warned that the death With all the sport, here's
:10:27. > :10:38.Olly Foster at the BBC Sport Centre. Great Britain's Johanna Konta
:10:39. > :10:43.is celebrating the best She won the Miami Open this evening,
:10:44. > :10:48.beating the former World Number One, Caroline Wozniacki,
:10:49. > :10:56.in straight sets. It's the most significant win by a
:10:57. > :11:02.British woman since Virginia Wade won Wimbledon, 40 years ago.
:11:03. > :11:05.Miami is a place for the relaxed and cool, not so easy in the baking heat
:11:06. > :11:09.and playing one of the biggest matches of your life so far. Johanna
:11:10. > :11:13.Konta British number one, with break one in game one. In the sun, it
:11:14. > :11:16.takes some energy to sit and watch, let alone to contend with the
:11:17. > :11:21.athleticism of Caroline Wozniacki. The first was a set of frequent
:11:22. > :11:24.breaks, in serve, but not intensity. Like the sport's best, Konta peaked
:11:25. > :11:28.at the most important points. This one earned her the first set 6-4.
:11:29. > :11:33.Wozniacki is a former world number one, and yet, Konta started this as
:11:34. > :11:39.favourite. A mark of her startling progress, the rankings are no
:11:40. > :11:42.accident. The Danish woman was repaired, but never relented. Konta
:11:43. > :11:46.offered more energy-saving thunder bolts. No British woman had won this
:11:47. > :11:51.tournament before. She got there in straight sets. Now up to seventh in
:11:52. > :11:55.the world, Jo Konta says she's benefitted from playing in Andy
:11:56. > :11:59.Murray's shadow. You won't find much shadow in Miami.
:12:00. > :12:01.There were eight matches in the Premier League today.
:12:02. > :12:05.There are some great goals coming up on Match of the Day after the news,
:12:06. > :12:06.but if you want to know the results, then here they come.
:12:07. > :12:09.Chelsea's lead at the top is down to seven points.
:12:10. > :12:12.That's after they lost 2-1 at home to Crystal Palace and second placed
:12:13. > :12:16.All the goals at Stamford Bridge came in the first 15 minutes.
:12:17. > :12:18.Christian Benteke with the Palace winner.
:12:19. > :12:20.Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool are up to third after victory
:12:21. > :12:26.There were also wins for Hull, Leicester and Watford.
:12:27. > :12:29.Manchester United drew at home to West Brom,
:12:30. > :12:33.Southampton against Bournemouth was also goalless.
:12:34. > :12:35.Celtic will win the Scottish Premiership title tomorrow,
:12:36. > :12:40.Today's matches saw some movement at the other end of the table.
:12:41. > :12:43.Hamilton are on the up after beating nine-man St Johnstone with two
:12:44. > :12:48.of their players sent off for fighting each other.
:12:49. > :12:50.Inverness are now bottom after a 1-1 draw with Kilmarnock.
:12:51. > :12:55.Partick Thistle beat Ross County 2-1 and Rangers drew with Motherwell.
:12:56. > :12:58.Wasps have been knocked out of Rugby Union's European Champion's Cup.
:12:59. > :13:00.The two-time winners were outclasssed by the three-time
:13:01. > :13:06.The home side scoring four tries in their quarter-final.
:13:07. > :13:12.32-17 the final score at the Aviva Stadium.
:13:13. > :13:14.And on a good day for the Irish sides, Munster also
:13:15. > :13:19.41-16, the final score at Thomond Park, as the province
:13:20. > :13:28.reached their 12th semi-final in the competition.
:13:29. > :13:30.The third round is under way at the first women's
:13:31. > :13:33.golf major of the year, the ANA Inspirational in California.
:13:34. > :13:35.Charley Hull is the best placed British player.
:13:36. > :13:44.You might remember the story of a brightly coloured car that caused
:13:45. > :13:53.consternation in certain quarters for spoiling the view in a Cotswold
:13:54. > :13:54.village. The owner was criticised for parking
:13:55. > :13:59.outside his home. After the story was broadcast,
:14:00. > :14:02.100-strong convoy of fellow yellow car owners from around Britain
:14:03. > :14:05.converged on the village in a very You can see more on all of today's
:14:06. > :14:24.stories on the BBC News Channel. Good evening. We've had some intense
:14:25. > :14:27.April down pours today.