of the new year many of those have been closed by a government increasingly concerned by what that new year will bring from a pandemic it thought it had under control robert bright al-jazeera soul. this is al jazeera these are the headlines and dissipate it is growing in the u.k. as prime minister boris johnson is expected to soon announce an agreements on a trade deal with the e.u. johnson is expected to speak later today from dining streets he's in finalizing details in a series of phone calls with the e.u. leader ursula from the lion. biggest in london he explains what's holding up the final agreement on the deal the snag seems to be now is around fisheries not the fishing economy the u.k. accounts for less than one percent of the u.k. economy but nevertheless it's an important issue and the issues to debate is around

the fact that e.u. member states have access to british waters and those states have quotas of the amount of fish that they can catch but even the discussions going on right now about what kinds of fish they can catch how much of them they can catch and where they can catch them from a so those are the kind of discussions going on. francis sends 810000 covert tests to the u.k. in a bid to help clear thousands of truck drivers who've been stranded by new coronavirus border restrictions for drivers have been piled up for days in the english port of dover they were cut off after france closed the border in response to the discovery of a new more infectious strain of the virus they're waiting on grow a virus test so that the truckers can cross back into france if yo piers prime minister has deployed military forces to an area where gunmen killed 100 people there are reports the army killed 42 armed men in the western region of benish on

google moods prime minister had visited the area the day before the attacks where he had called for peace and unity u.s. president donald trump has granted clemency to more of his allies and friends list of 26 pardons and commutations includes his former campaign chairman paul manifolds jarret krishna's father and roger stone an advisor and friends of donald trump. a pakistani courts has ordered the release of the man convict since for the killing of u.s. journalist daniel pearl in 2002 little maher site chef is being freeze on appeal is underway earlier this year the high court overturned the murder conviction all of the wall street journalists bureau chief stay with us an al-jazeera the street is next. one of africa's most troubled nations heads to the polls for presidential and parliamentary elections in a country plagued by violence and political instability could this bring the

resolution that is desperately needed central african republic elections on al-jazeera. after the ok you're watching the screen are today's episode long time coming the reckoning with race in america this is the latest book by michael eric dyson i like all the really great have it on the stream baptist minister right into iraq onto her what have i left off the least of things to introduce you to my little titles that you halt f o f friend of femi. extract as they start so get excited to have me here on the strength we have audience 25 minutes of michael eric dyson if you don't have a question for he now you will have in a few minutes jumping to jump into the live comments i need to be top of the show

with michael eric dyson and that wish i stop by the mike i took a picture of the song cover inside the front cover of your book and inside the back cover of your book and it just struck me i'm just going to let people have a look at this and replace and then you see these names on the till eric garner sons of law and. i love fists for you how the cheap pick how did you take this extraordinary line up. well 1st about what an honor and an extraordinary privilege and pleasure it is to be here with you i chose those particular people because i wanted to make certain points and the points i wanted to make had to adhere to at least more broadly speaking the circumstances an outline of their existence especially their their deaths so if i wanted to speak about the way in which there was a white sefton of black futures i wrote about briana taylor i wrote

a letter to brianna table and these are letters written to these people not about them to further objectify them or exploit them for a book sale. 1000 dollars i want to speak directly to them in a kind of you know roundtable with the ancestors recently arrived for the most part so briana taylor allowed me to talk about white step her life was stolen metaphorically that represents the condition the plight in predicament of black people ritual arge our futures were stolen from africa brought here to north america in this case the 13 colonies then what became the united states of america and then absorbed and reproduced for the purposes of dominant culture then i wrote to you know eric garner because i wanted to talk about george floyd in the way in which the blue plague police brutality was devastating our communities i wanted to write to sandra bland because i want to talk about white comfort the degree to

which many white brothers and sisters maintain and preserve their comfort at the expense of black life so these particular things drove the people i chose so that i could have a conversation with them out loud about issues that continue to vex us right now. michael so many of the names that you mentioned are people that we know because of videos and viral videos is a quote is a way you describe these videos in your book consider these videos visual autopsies of the slow death of justice when you were putting these stories together when you revisited the stories there's a lot of detail in them did you see it and have we transcripts watch the videos over and over again how do you even do that. yes that's a great question yes of the all the above i read transcripts i looked at videos as painful as they are and i'm glad you brought that up because i'm an older person right i'm 62 years old so i'm technically heading toward you know senior citizen or

e. but that's are a heap of shit up there with public keep your seat number. is that i'm a generation where we didn't have you know the possibility of talking about safe spaces or speaking about triggers or talking about the degree to which which itself share these are things we learn from younger generations mostly to our you know benefit and advantage but having said that i think sometimes we protect ourselves from the trauma yes we don't want to be really traumatized revit demised over and over again but i don't think we can afford not to know what these valiant souls endured what they grapple with in their last minutes to see the snuff films in the pranab graphy of black death the homemade cinema of black demise of black pathology that is projected on to the world the pathology of blackness and the pathology of

chilling black people i wanted to feel that white let it wash over me let me understand what amar was feeling as he was running away from a truck behind him and 2 people in front of him white vigilantes we think who were trying to hunt him down like an animal and so i wanted us to feel that so i read those transcripts i i looked at those tapes i felt the horror the terror of the trauma the grief that all of us as black people and hopefully american citizens and hopefully global citizens felt when we spied what was going on in those states and then those transfers. to mean a consensual work as a question the michael haven't seen have a the entire book still has they still has the actually with the another motion that comes with the top they all being a black man. you know if it takes right

writing and rewriting i think the best writer is a real writer so you've got to put it on paper you have to let it be cathartic you've got to let it come out of you the chaos the cataclysm the hurt the pain the trauma the agony and then you begin to shape it into a narrative that will serve your broader purposes i want to serve the purpose of illuminating their lacs broadly illuminating the context of their demise and so i wanted to get it out there emotionally but then i wanted to drain it back in just a bit in order to for the narrative to serve this broader purpose but i didn't want to be shorn of emotion i didn't want to be lacking in the existential angst that drove me to a certain degree as i looked at these video recordings and as a black man i couldn't be objective i don't have an archimedean point of object to it the outside the flow of human history i'm right there implicated in it and so i want the writer the reader to fill that power with me as a writer michael and a black woman who lives in america he makes

a really long time these books that to me i need you to those particular people who were impacted by police for eternity he died because of his potential violence in america. but the pets bits that lelie spent to meet this for instance is an idea mclean wants details about his death that i didn't know the thing you told me i didn't realize what he said as he was talking to the police i didn't mean i thought he was a vicodin and seen the videos of him on so charming what an amazing young man would be to learn as she dug deeper into the stories the stories that you turn from headlines people like you and i who live in america right now yes thank you so much for that question i discovered like you discover you know i heard about him i knew that he was a young black man 23 years old arguably on the spectrum but a highly sensitive deeply and profoundly intelligent and caring and empathetic

person and then like you i learned that he was a bigot i learned that he said you know he wouldn't hurt a fly i weren't that wow he was being arrested while he was being assaulted while he was being victimized and traumatized unnecessarily all of what 56140 some pounds a young man who was a threat to no one who begged for his life literally he tried to reason and you know rationalize his existence with these cops he tried to say i didn't if i was you i know that you have a tough job i see what you're going through i know what you're doing is i'm all of the yes and none of this what we usually call in black circles respect ability politics let us convince white people by the depths of our character and by the pedigree of our personality that we are not worthy of the mistreatment and misbehavior to which they will arbitrarily and often fatally subject us none of

that worked and this was the especial horror of looking at a story so i learned all of that and looking at sandra bland you know trying to fight for her own life to fight for her right. to be able to speak up and speak back to an offending cop enough sense of cops who mistreated her or rather nastily and then 2 days later here she is hanging on or jail cell so i wanted people to discover what i discovered in looking at amar and looking at that entire 4 minute or deal and how he left the home that he was merely looking at black your reality is criminalized in this country and i wanted to put that front and center and talk about how there was a kind of reversion to the sleeve plantation where you don't even own your own body i wanted to project these real archetypes of black existence and identity into the struggles that these contemporary black martyrs and do are to show how we have made

progress on the one hand but we're repeating the very thing from the history on the other we had so many conversations on the screen missionary friend for not going to as the end of the war about what happened what happened in 2020 you could in your reckoning with race in america and i found on page 66 of. such a beautiful way to sum up beautiful but ugly way to sum up what happened why all some people including the south and this is the reckoning we reached in the books an update $66.00 the end of the out are funny. to do that if we picture the impact of each of those at least losses on black america as a punch in a prize fight the nature of these deaths was a body blow to black justice each shooting was a stinging jab to our spirits each killing was a right across to our emotional stability each choking was

a left hook to our concerted efforts to push you here and then after all those years after all this in calculable loss the knockout punch was a bruise an uppercut so our minds delivered is george floyd's coldly brutal death. how long did it take you to come up with this is what happened this is my paps and i am i say perhaps because i'm not sure but you seem very sure that the judicially protest that went around the world that resonated that this is a reckoning. yeah i'm going to take him up it took me a wow because look i'm torn on the one hand in the immediate aftermath of the george floyd death there was an enormous outpouring of empathy of fellow white brothers and sisters citizens of all races stripes colors orientations class status and the way religion nationality and not only in america but across the globe 50

states in this country were in 7. countries across the world it was extraordinary and i think because all of us were at home during the pandemic for many of us who are those of us who are the privileged. and we saw on our screens what to no longer be not what black people had said was true. anything you don't have to make any sense to the cops and they will hurt you if you're a black person and it removes the excuses and b.s. for us from white people oh he was running from no it wasn't all he had a gun or he had in the 9th he was going to step in knowing all he was sassing cocoons no he wasn't no excuse what do they fight no one in some senses for some grudgingly but others you know blatantly they finally got the message oh my god and when they did there was an enormous swelling of surgeons that outpouring of

a normas identification with black folk and so into the streets they poor and now 6 months later many of us think well was that a real reckoning did white people come to grips with their original sin so to speak and i look at it this way to me i think of it as many white people on that day fell in love with black people right there for the 1st time now a lot of them already were but many said oh my god here's a new low right before our eyes i love black people black lives matter i'm going to post on social media i'm going to talk as a superstar in my particular arena and give money and resource. as and now pay attention and help eat green light projects that need to be greenlit right falling in love and you know when you fall in love it's roses it's candlelight it's you know run back it might be. right and then you see it sexy it's hot many there it is you keep talking yeah use used better than me and then it was way to the toilet

paper is on the wrong way our aim to play the zone you mean the baffin lease do and the toothpaste is being you know spit out from the wrong end and you left the toilet seat up do you want me to swim in the very toilet so but at that level it's the everyday unsexy stuff where real love has to take root because real of can't be on the mountaintop of the majestic magical encounter in romance it has to be in the valley so to speak of the every day normal existence where real of shows up it picks up the kids on time it cooks the dinner on time it washes the coals on time it shares the duty across gender on time in other words the performance of love is the real reckoning in a systemic structural way with the truths that have been revealed and i think at this level of the romance between the white folk fell in love with us and the black people who are the recipients of those ambitions are you know are is now in a in

a kind of state where it's unsexy we've got to talk every day and we can't be to discourage the pendulum has swung from one end to the other but we have to maintain our commitment to say i'm not going to be discouraged because we don't have rules roses and candlelight let's have date night let's figure out a ritual of accountability let's figure out the rhythm of our mutual in gauge went with truth accomplices and of the fact of racial reckoning so it can only happen if we pay attention and make it happen so i refuse to give up too so it's only been 6 months since then we have to be determined and see this through the long. i'm just looking to see what's happening on each of some really interesting conversations just fucking off michael danny more since the biggest issue is non-black people's ignorance about race relations your residence for a bit it's a big trouble it's a big issue to be sure which is why people like me writing books than we are have

conversations for me you have your wonderful show we try to help people out we try to engage them and i don't scorn people who don't know now either you know i'm skeptical of people who have reason to know and refuse to learn that's a different problem but the ignorance is deep and profound in many ways so we have to solve that we have to encourage white brothers and sisters and others outside of our communities please learn please talk please engage with other people please learn the circumstances and conditions of our emergence our flourishing our prohibition in certain circles that are accepting the white folk but not us look at the circles of privilege in which you participate in circulate so a thing is that yeah we got to encourage people to know something don't talk about sense of your really know about if you don't know about rugby don't speak about strikers if you don't know about you know football in america don't talk about quarterbacks and the like in other words get informed of the rules the history the tradition and the conditions under which that for occurs the same thing with race

how having said that i encourage people always to have an open mind and an open spirit to learn as much as you can talk to as many people don't just have one black friend record that one black friend could be great in that one but frank and that agree don't ever take anybody's one word because there is always a difference a convergence of complicated nuanced interpretations of the truth that we confront and when you have a broader palette of colors from which to draw the picture you yield the portrait you present is far more engaging. michael in this book you start riffing on tensile culture i know it's something that bugs you a lot you've been talking about this for a while so then when you make a turn into council culture it is michael's thinking and you get upset about it i want to share with you a comment by joel and then just to the back of it and if you are critical of counsel culture joel has this question for you is to. mark west in the

movie if you feel that there is an issue with the way to go about his cause then what can be improved what can be taken away and if we remove chance of course or table mirror what other tools we the general public have to hold way people accountable because we can't continue having this beer and worry that once we wholesome and strive to make the rest them scatter like roaches and all they've always been doing that partisans hearings but holding them accountable in the public with no more seems to be one way to be able to truly make a difference. yes eloquent is a well stated question look i'm not talking about not holding white brothers and

sisters accountable that is not my point and furthermore i think it is extremely necessary for us to leverage whatever authority we possess morally politically socially economically in the defense of ideas ideals and identities that have better under a so what i mean by cancer culture is the vicious ripping of another person's reputation or experience of their souls as if they have done to ultimately harm now if for those who have god bless them let it rip right so that the harvey weinstein's or the bill cause was if you think best the case or they are kelly's but for the most part cancer culture is not leveraged against those bodies it's more of a parallel movement even people with power deserve to have their day in court so to speak if you go on line to me it can become like a lynch mob here you are 5 you 10 and you 100 you have 1000 of you were rather quickly without evidence without countervailing proof without the ability for the

person being held to account to give account of him or herself to talk about the conditions under which they exists the plight in predicament of their particular career or if you think they've done something wrong you want to if this or for instance the governor of virginia ralph northam who was in black it's horrible races to be sure but the question is what do we do if we get rid of that person if we. electing al-jazeera we have bringing you breaking news now coming from brussels and london we believe there has been a post breaks it trade deal it chief let's take you live to london where we have as a big standing by for us i said what are you hearing. we're hearing from the downing street statement and i know what we're hearing that a deal has been done on that the key that said that the key lines about returning

sovereignty have been achieved and that the going to appear in court of justice has no role so these are some of the key issues that they have been debating the u.k. and the european union have been debating we have been hearing all morning that are no answer that was imminent when that deadline from the 31st of december of the u.k. sect should leave the customs union the union and the internal e.u. market over here and get a deal has been done that means the e.u. and the u.k. will not go to world trade organization. trade organization terms there won't be tariffs and border checks and goods that has been a deal we don't know the exact details of that deal you understand could be around 2000 pages long and what would happen next is that deal would be put forward to the u.k. parliament which is set to meet next week possibly wednesday to ratify that deal before the end of the year but the key takeaway here is that the prime minister 1st

johnson the u.k. government have managed to achieve a deal with different opinion because at that from 2016 to when that vote 1 happened you know they say the move campaign one to today a lot of time has passed a lot of things that happened just remind us of those final stumbling blocks the past few weeks things have been very tense. absolutely think there's been to and fro you have a new prime minister had said that people should prepare for a no deal that was definitely not the appetite inside politics and put the majority of members of parliament here in the u.k. wanted a deal 17000000 people over 70000000 people voted to leave the e.u. and that's been going on for years that u.k. left a bloc. earlier this year are generally the 1st but they've been abiding out by e.u. rules so on the 31st of december they will leave the customs union and the internal

market not the different internal debates between the e.u. and the u.k. there are some stumbling blocks and some of the stumbling they bought in blocks were going to fisheries now the fishing economy is less than one percent to the u.k. economy but those are not at stake in terms of political capital around that issue because in that the british votes like to leave the european union there is this idea of sovereignty in a dependence taking a back control and at the heart of that debate to the backbone of that debate was british waters and the rights of british fishermen i think to build or to so because as you member states i have rights and reporters of how much fish they could take from that and that was this real stumbling block a block and it came down to how much coaches they would have even the particular kinds of fish and what areas they would take those fish from but it seems that the prime minister barak johnson has managed this on an on christmas eve giving and this message will go outside as the last rays of the country are going to knock

down there won't be able to celebrate christmas because of the covert pandemic but he will see this as a victory and some really good news to give out to the british public. and show he most certainly well put it that way let's get the european perspective now it's going to burn and smith who is live for us in paris bernard what if anything are you hearing from officials. well we don't know what's in it yet we're expecting to see a press conference from brussels in the next 1015 minutes or so from the lane michel barnier he's the one who's been leading these negotiations with the british 9 and a half months of negotiations after 4 and a half years now since britain voted to leave the european union it all came down to fish and fishing and specifically what type of fish could be courts in u.k. waters by e.u. owned boats particularly the numbers of seoul sandals and herrings that's how much

detail people were getting into at these very last stages there's an indication that in fact it was emmanuel macron here in france who didn't want to do too hasty a deal and was is examining very closely the words of the text it's a 2000 page document and will only get to know exactly what's in it when it's released at the time of this press briefing but we know that the u.k. both sides really wanted a deal there were significant financial implications for both sides if they didn't didn't reach a deal perhaps more for the u.k. 47 percent of u.k. exports comes of the european union 8 percent of e.u. exports come go to the u.k. from here so there would have been paid on both sides more pain behind us reunited kingdom but both sides really wanted a deal before the end of the transition period on the summer 31st when it was the most important thing though or the in the in the objective i guess from officials

going into these trade negotiations. well the european union one of the one of its criteria was not to affect the integrity of the single market for goods people and services the united kingdom is leaving the single market it's leaving the union a free movement of people and goods and the e.u. did not want to be seen to be giving anything away when the european when the british decided to my allergies their bad and we have to go live now to brussels because we are expecting a statement from van the lion i'm not sure if they have started talking let's listen and that will take a few questions and we will offer you the possibility of a technical briefing with our experts who held their negotiations over and those

many months where you can ask many many questions but before that allow me to give the floor to the president for that yes thank you good afternoon so we have finally found an agreement it was a long and winding road but we have got a good deal to show for it it is fair it is a balanced deal and it is the right and responsible thing to do for both sides. negus yes you wanted to trade if you seen. the tears on for tone them oh and sit it on our coffee political if i listen but you know i'm not buying you're the best show measure out poorly tother earth is not a presumably way out of a kind of plain usual v heliport asia zapped of it the via is it that got it to see.