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The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has promised again to work till the last hour to try to ensure that Britain leaves the EU in an orderly fashion.

She told parliament in Berlin that she was in the interests of all sides, and urged everybody to focus on the task ahead.

It's clear that this is no easy task, but if we want an orderly solution, then we have to concentrate all our efforts in the remaining days on making it possible.

And I believe that with the withdrawal documents, sufficient progress has been made.

Mrs. Merkel said EU leaders were told intensive discussions later today above the British Prime Minister Theresa May's request to extend the deadline for Brexit, Britain's exit till the thirtieth of June.

She said leaders were minded to grant it if the British parliament approved the exit deal next week, and if such a move didn't jeopardize European Parliamentary elections in May.

Search and rescue teams in Southern Africa are continuing to look for people stranded by the floods following Cyclone Idai which brought havoc to Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe last week.

Emergency aid operations have been stepped up to bring food, water and shelter to hundreds of thousands of people displaced across the region by the storm. Here is Virgo King.

There's been no rain overnight in Beira and none this morning. Rescue flights are again underway from the city's airport.