enough clear from around the world the un has identified $56.00 countries most need assistance what's worrying them is that many of those have a deteriorating situation. this is an amazing moment for this country we have our freedom in our regs it becomes a reality as britain formally leaves the european union single market. hello i'm down in jordan this is our 0 live from go also coming up donald trump cuts his vacation short to garner more republican support to oppose the official approval of joe biden's election with. my next worst nightmare is not getting out of this nightmare without having

a lot more suffering in the get caught between politics and a raging pandemic we speak to the man in charge of the u.s. his coronavirus of scots. as the clock turns midnight around the globe cope with 19 minutes many celebrations as. well as millions around the world welcome in the new year britain has marked the end of an era officially breaking its decades long relationship with the european union the u.k. is no longer a member of the single market or customs union and the brags that transition period has formally expired the prime minister barak's johnson has hailed it as a new beginning this is an amazing moment for this country we have our freedom in our hands and he's up to us to make the most of it. and i think it will be the overwhelming instinct of the people of this country to come together as one united

kingdom england scotland wales and northern ireland working together to express our values around the world leading both the g 7 and the cop 26 climate change summit in glasgow andrew symonds reports now from london and how the changes will affect people and businesses. finally the bells of big ben bring bricks it in with the trade deal taking the u.k. out of the european union the end of a relationship that dates back nearly half a century brussels had set the time midnight in belgium 11 o'clock here in the u.k. e.u. had already made its other adjustments with only a day to spare the trade treaty had been signed and sealed within the shores of this island nation british politicians say sovereignty has been fully restored the political slogan we must take back control had gone down well with the majority of

voters now it's going to be put to the test it's good to be better we need to govern ourselves and be our own bosses but it's going to be a lot of stress between everyone anyway because it's a very unknown and people don't deal with change. in legal terms it was 11 months ago that the u.k. left the e.u. nearly a year of transition followed with the trade deal now in place brics it is set to show its true colors. the u.k. may have its bricks it done but there's still a lot of haggling ahead the fisheries agreement seen by many in the industry as a sell out come to proper fruition for 5 years and that will be subject to negotiations. decisions still have to be made in the services sector which makes up 80 percent of the economy living clude financial services and data sharing that won't be any new taxes to pay on exports at the border but there'll be plenty of bureaucracy in delays are likely everyday freedoms will also end new rules on

travel immigration mobile phone use bank accounts to name a few and there are big implications for the future of the united kingdom the scottish national party promise to restore e.u. membership to largely pro e.u. scotland if it becomes independent northern ireland is the only part of the u.k. that will continue to follow many of the e.u.'s rules that's to avoid the return of a contentious hard border with e.u. member the republic of ireland but that means new checks on goods entering northern ireland from the rest of the u.k. unionists fear isolation i think the dealers made in northern ireland to support we want to come out of the european union the same terrors arrestee dedekind of sadly that that up for 4 and a half years bracks it split the country even dividing families those tensions may well have subsided but now the clock is ticking on mon music year and what boris

johnson describes as a new beginning with a global britain more power a more influence but could the opposite turn out to be the case a diminishing level of power and a diminishing influence by the end of 2021 we may have an idea and 2 simmons others are london. well britain's coastal towns were at the forefront of political demands during trade talks with the fisherman had been promised they'd take control of the season around the u.k. but the deal struck wasn't what they were expecting and some say they feel betrayed joe now reports from the fishing town of. and all british catch landed at bricks in devon these waters have been fished by british and european boats for centuries making fish issue in the brink battle for sovereignty but while british fishers were at the forefront of the march to break the promise of

winning back control of their waters has been broken a small increase in quota after a 5 year transition period some e.u. access retained many here feel day with a price to be paid for a u.k. e.u. trade deal. i think we're down that we get. phishing accounts for a tiny fraction of the u.k. economy yet its importance in the trade talks has been far greater than that one of the last major issues to be resolved remember the breaks in vision was about taking back control of britain's laws of its borders and of its waters it's turned out that at least part of that vision was an illusion of probably one of the only remaining voting fisherman you'll find there is another couple but now i'm. happily

walking around the quay saying i told you so but i am walking manically saying i told you so here we are so postboys correct. and it was all about plate we train our watches and get our territory back it's just nonsense all things not democracy so great and if you are saying you were. a 10th no no no actually eventually this but other spend probably. 40 percent of my year in french wars. spend kind of we land in holland we sent our boat to holland for refit never got the infrastructure to refit the boat here. so we are very closely geographically and politically tied with you this whole thing was just point that's spread to the fishermen we met earlier as a sideline in you tube videos demonstrating how to cook britain's abundance of fish

species may be more fish on the menu now but the smell in the air is of betrayal jonah al-jazeera bricks of so let's bring in jonathan lists he's a political commentator and joins us live now from london via skype jonathan great to have you back on the program it's been a while listen so. what he called the u.k.'s new freedoms brigs that of course was a big political gamble for him as it paid off. wow it starts it's 2 hours ago so hot to haue a little time to find out certainly he boris johnson has only ever been motivated by self interests we know the he wrote to you articles before the referendum on of them was. was allocating our continued membership of the european union the other moms out of gating leaving and he didn't just highlight which one he wants it's to gary who and so and so after it's in so he's always been most piece by by what he

thinks will advance he's career and so you found that it meant having a heart breaks it as opposed to a kind of compromise so it breaks it and now we know how to have a very hard breaks it reflects the single market we've got the customs union and he'll know how to code what that means and so as we go forward in the in the next few months we will find out about that accountable it may well be that he gets away with it as he has done so much in his career but it may be that people on his own saw eat as well as people who are much less committed to products it will begin to ask very serious question about what exactly it is that we have gained in return this must've loss of power and prosperity and jonathan i mean both sides of claim victory over this trade deal but i mean let me ask you is the e.u. in a stronger position here do you think. absolutely but the e.u. got exactly what it wanted army got as 0 tariff trade deal and he has

a huge trade surplus in goods and it gave away very little in services which accounts for the u.k. straits that was an 80 percent each in its economy it got exactly what it wanted on a level playing field provisions and to guarantee fair competition so you could respond tariffs if you casey says over it got northern ireland in the e.u. used all bits and so it's now easier for northern irish trade with all garia than it is for britain and. also this kind of has as its credit the do you carry kind of a lot of the fishing is the other thing so even though the u.k. intended to keep so much more of the fish and the e.u. is up she succeeds in getting more than what the stocks that most people thought possible and so the king hasn't really screwed anyone as a tool and jonathan i mean many a bunch johnson's critics say look the u.k. will actually be worse off than it was under the e.u.

and this and this still uncertainty isn't there about banking and financial services that's a big problem because it's a large part of the u.k. economy isn't it. absolutely i mean financial services are huge huge a producer the case economy and the city of london is our seat depends on financial services and now we're really at the mercy of the european union and 6 states and how much possible and soon will be possible how much equivalence there will be and is there is johnson even admits it last week and there's not as much on services as he would have liked so it's really extraordinary the conservatives are the party of business and they've really sold business down the river but this fig leaf of sovereignty and all which you concept from the 18th century which doesn't actually have any reality any connection to the way in which we live our lives and so really that will be the test of the next few years about how much not so when he was

actually were and of people on the breakfast side and also on the remains i think that it was worth sacrificing so march just for that illusion of having taken back control of things we already control while we are in the e.u. journalists always good to get your thoughts thank you jonathan thanks now reports out of the us say at least $140.00 republicans will oppose counting electoral college votes next week when president elect joe biden's victory is expected to be certified although it could trigger a lengthy debate president trump supporters have no chance of overturning the results congress meets to count the votes and confirm the 2020 election result on january the 6th well our white house correspondent kelly how get joins us live now from washington d.c. kimberly so more republicans queuing up to oppose joe biden's win so what can we expect to happen. well we can expect that there will be a lot of protests surrounding that what typically is kind of a rubber stamp process in congress on january 6th to be less than rubber stamp as

you point out there are at least $140.00 republicans and perhaps more as time goes on who say that they are going to object to certifying the win for president elect joe biden now in order for this to happen this would also require at least one republican senator in the u.s. senate to do this is well and we now know that there is a republican senator from the u.s. state of missouri josh holley who says that he will also object so what they're trying to do is trigger a debate that we expect will be lengthy at least 2 hours and what this will ultimately do is really raise a couple of issues that they say are important that not only do they allege that there has been voter fraud something we should point out that the courts have rejected all the way up to the supreme court but they believe that there has been

irregularities that need to be noted and so as a result they're putting this out for congress in order to try and push it to act if not overturn the results of the 2020 vote a commune i suppose the big question really that is so why bother with all of this of it's doomed to failure anyway. that's what so many in the united states are saying even members of the republican party including mitch mcconnell the top republican in the u.s. senate who in fact is discouraging republicans from doing this but they're ignoring that advice and now the reason they say that they are is because they're trying to get this on record and what they say is that this is something that democrats did in 2016 when they have jacked into donald trump's win what they know is that this won't be successful but they want to highlight issues of voter irregularities that they allege that they say are persistent the u.s. election system that they want congress to rectify something that they say hasn't

occurred so far so that's why they're pressing on this they also want to press for more accountability when it comes to some of these big tech companies like google and facebook that conservatism ledge had i do influence in favor of joe biden and they allege really affected the outcome of the 2020 vote so for different reasons the democrats in 2016 republican say they're exercising their right even if it won't ultimately change the outcome of the 2020 vote or the certification of president elect joe biden the next president of the united states or it's a committee alkali 1st in washington d.c. committee thank you. time for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back. everywhere i go when you see police actually you will get tense why a growing number of people are turning their backs on hong kong stay with us.

it's time for the perfect gentleman who went i sponsored point qatar airways still we have the cold and the cold wind coming across the sea the sea of japan generating snow showers and they hit the western side of honshu in hock rider gives some depth to snow once more and keep the temperatures well below where they should be and that's true for the northern half of china as well it's warming up again in hong kong up to about 16 degrees in the sunshine so is about 4 degrees below average maybe 5 degrees and slowly we're going to. go freezing nice but at least you've got sunshine by day for the sas the same in hotspots the showers in the central philippines and this orange top mass here is the same sort of thing which i think will end up going down towards singapore in the next day or so takes away some of the impetus of the biggest showers over borneo and i still sick to see if pretty good spreads throughout the whole of indonesia during this next couple of

days there is rain just going cross the southern tip of india but in the north fog has been more typical this is new delhi again fog in the cold wave temper has been down below where they should be by both day and night the way to disrupt that is to just churn the air over a bit and generate showers and guess what that's in the forecast for saturday and sunday. qatar airways to scarcity has become a major global issue the demand is going straight up and the supply is going straight down turning an essential natural resource into a commodity traded for profit just because it's lawyer doesn't mean it's cannot be priced what about the guy that can afford it guys tell me it's water. now to syria examines the social financial and environmental impact of want to privatization loads of water on al-jazeera.

welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here at this hour the u.k. has formally completed its split from the e.u. after leaving the bloc single market and customs union prime minister barak's johnson hailed it as an amazing moment saying the country would make the most of what he called its new freedom. reports out of the u.s. at least 140 congressional republicans will oppose counting electoral college votes next week when president elect joe biden's big trade is expected to be certified but president trump supporters have no chance of overturning the results of. an exodus of hong kong residents is expected to ramp up later this month as more

people seek refuge from tough new security laws imposed by beijing from the end of january residents from the former british colony can move to the u.k. for up to 5 years and then apply for residency agent brown reports from hong kong. many people in today's hong kong tend to choose their words carefully but fritzie is not afraid to speak his mind about the reasons for leaving a territory he says he no longer recognizes no place to say you feel safe anymore everywhere when you see police actually you will get tense that's why especially as a parent with kids it worries me a lot fred hopes to soon join his family in the nearby democratic island of taiwan he owns a market research company another skilled worker who doesn't want to go but says he has to that decision motivated by concerns over the new national security law especially its impact on academic freedom when the children come to home you need

to know what what lessons that they had in school it make you very tired to always worry about your kids being brainwashed. he took part in protests last year demanding political reform demonstrations that often turn violent. amid the subsequent campaign against ascent other families are also opting to leave this one else not to be identified because the father's worried about the repercussions of speaking out they've taken up the british government's resettlement offer and will soon leave their home for the last time. there is nothing to make me stay and. it is torture to stay and if you're on the opposition side what the government is doing is not for the benefit of the people they have sacrificed hong kong's future for their own interests. kim is an

outspoken political commentator also mulling a move to britain in the last film on a lot of people just as wise to me they call me they they they they say maybe you have to be less if you choose to stay because it's too good a little what the government do for you this kind of outspoken people it's not the 1st exodus from hong kong in the decade before the territory was returned from british to chinese rule in 1997 around half a 1000000 left but after securing a 2nd nationality many returned the mood among some of those leaving this time though is one of resignation a belief that they won't be coming back adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. more than 25000 coronavirus related deaths have been recorded in the us state of

california in los angeles one person's dying every 10 minutes medical workers are struggling to cope and are housing patients in hallways conference rooms and even gift shops fewer than 3000000 people across the u.s. have been vaccinated against cope with 19 that's far short of the government's target of inoculating 20000000 by now while the united states' top infectious diseases expert dr anthony found she has told our jazeera coronavirus prevention measures are not a political issue nor a matter of individual rights he says it's simply about public health. the issue is that science has been very successful in doing something that was unheard of or unimaginable years ago is to go from the identification of a new pathogen in this case this mysterious virus that just broke the harness and then we identified it in the anywhere e of this here in reston where in 11 months it actually now is going into

someone's on into a lot of people's arms and it has been proven to be highly efficacious and say that is a very successful coup de force of science my concern is that there is a lingering anti science feeling in this country that is sort of mixed in with an anti vaccine feeling that we've got to overcome by being transparent about what we've done and what we want to do with science. and you can see the full interview with dr anthony fauci on the bottom line on friday over 530 g.m.t. right here on al-jazeera a canadian politician criticized for ignoring the government's own travel advice by taking a holiday abroad as resigned ontario's finance minister rod phillips posted videos on social media appearing to show him at home while he was actually spending christmas in the caribbean his trip coincided with

a wreck or daily high in kobe 1000 cases across canada which prompted a strict lockdown. well the coronavirus pandemic has cast a shadow of a new year celebrations around the world more about mapping the. new zealand was one of the 1st countries in the world to ring in the new year. it has a new community cases of copied 19 and people celebrated in the streets. but a different story is a clock struck midnight 2 hours later in sydney the familiar bang in this a little fireworks were present but not the usual crowds to watch the plans to allow spectators were cancelled after a new cluster a call to 900 cases emerged. a few hours later this was the scene in china's hu han the city where covered 901st emerged more than a year ago and although new cases a scarce in the world's 4th largest country many still exercise caution by wearing

masks. to the sun. everyone things that the 1st hall of 2020 was terrible if you look at the measures people took the things people did to control the virus people's kindness was felt by everyone and. most who also celebrated with this annual tradition of pi works but its president vladimir putin had a sobering message but it stirred unfortunately the epidemic has not yet brain completely stopped the fight against it does not stop for a minute the doctors nurses and ambulance times continue to work right to sleep many of them are on duty he stressed of not. elsewhere empty streets in assemble many stayed at home. and to paris is shown to lease a police checked vehicles to ensure people stuck to a nighttime curfew across the atlantic ocean new york prepared for its own form of celebrations. familiar characters in the streets but not the usual crowd that

filled the streets to cheer in the new year it's actually sad to see it's such a big distress. but i wanted to be here because it was much edition i was quite many years i was going someplace in a big crowd. i was different new york is undefeatable you know and as the world is as the country is and we're celebrating everything good and we have so much to be grateful for and spite of this horrific situation that we're in during this signing new york times square a reflection of the times as many osc would things be better in 2021 there are about among the al-jazeera. well the coronavirus pandemic brought historic loss but also global solidarity away from covered 19 protests war in the fight for justice affected the lives of millions al-jazeera takes a look back at the year that was 2020. the lip.

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for a quick check of the headlines here on the al-jazeera the u.k. has completed its split from the e.u. after a 4 minute meeting the bloc single market and customs union prime minister bars johnson hailed it as a new beginning after 4 years of political drama. this is an amazing moment for this country we have our freedom in our hands and he's up to us to make the most of it. and i think it will be the overwhelming instinct of the people of this country to come together as one united kingdom england scotland wales and northern ireland working together to express our values around the world leading both the g 7 and the cop to.