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Hello. Today increased tension producers strange bedfellows.

We have some thoughts from the Syrian border on the relationship between Israel and Saudi Arabia. More refugees this time fleeing

South Sudan to a new home in Uganda. We meet a B yellow Russian model who's trying to become an online star in China, and we shuffle

along a very scary walkway in Spain.

Don't whatever you do, look down. Later this afternoon we might learn more about what Britain's

departure from the EU would look like. A press conference in Brussels will mark the

end of the second round of negotiations between British and EU officials.

Last week, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson warned that the EU could go whistle if it expected

Britain to pay an extortionate divorce bill.

I'm not hearing any whistling, just a clock ticking, the EU's chief negotiator responded.

So how have this week's talks gone? Adam Fleming has been doing his best to find out.

It started with the bungle over bundles.

The British Brexit Secretary David Davis made a flying visit to Brussels to kick-start this round

of talks.

He was pictured sitting opposite his opposite number, the EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier.

In front of the European side, thick, luxurious piles of paperwork, rich with detail.

On the British side, nothing.

A newspaper pointed out that Mr Davis's team had just one notebook between them, and it was closed.

Civil servants who spent a year preparing for these negotiations were hurt by the accusation

that they hadn't done their homework.

Of course it was ridiculous obsessing over a photograph, but those of us covering the talks don't have much more to go on.

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