yes. but this is the one political topic anybody and everybody is discussing the far right is preparing for battle and their opponents or anyone who is different. prejudice and tried in hungry on al-jazeera. a new era begins in a new year for the united kingdom as it formally separates from the european union . this is an amazing moment for this country we have our freedom in our. live from doha everyone i'm come out santa maria with the world news from out to 0 in 2021 corona virus infections crime in brazil we're looking at the major divide

there over how to handle the pandemic. even with private 19 putting a damper on things people around the world still found ways to celebrate the new. so as the world welcomes in the new year britain has marks the end of an era officially breaking its almost 50 year relationship with the european union the u.k. is now no longer a member of the single market or the customs union after the break the transition period expired at 11 pm in london on new year's eve prime minister barak johnson hailing it although it was 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 we'll discuss this more that gets to know i mean 1st andrew symonds reports from london had 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 they've included financial services and data sharing. it

won't be any new taxes to pay on exports at the border but there'll be plenty of bureaucracy and 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. union this fear isolation i think the day was made northern ireland apart we want to come out of the european union the same terms of the rest of dedekind of sadly not that. perform a half years brics it split the country even dividing families those tensions may

well have subsided but now the clock is ticking on year and what boris johnson describes as a new beginning with a global britain more power 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 andrew symonds london with us now from born in the u.k. is tim bale deputy director of the academic think tank u.k. in a changing europe happy new year to you and thank you for making the time at 7 in the morning on new year's day for us. i think that perhaps naively thought or hoped about a week ago that maybe we wouldn't have to talk about brags that quite so much anymore but after listening to report it just feels like sort of end of the beginning territory. yes i think and you saw. the.

changes that are coming in very well actually most people will almost a difference obviously over the next few days indeed even export has made much difference because many of them are actually delaying doing manual business until they feel that the new systems in place are settled down so we won't really see a test of the potential disruption boarded you see new customs arrangements for a couple of weeks in terms of who people will notice that i think again will take a little bit of time because of course we have code restrictions anyways and not many people are traveling and i think travel is going to be the one very obvious tangible difference for most british citizens this is the one i wanted to ask you about because again that struck me and andrew support he talked about travel immigration even things like mobile phone roaming bank accounts all the thoughts of things when the time comes for people to be able to travel easily are they going to

have to you know get an individual visa for each country is there any real evidence of how this is going to go. yes we know how it's going to work now it all death all parties is trouble to the e.u. they are going to have to have a passport when she's bought it for 6 months we're not used to checking our costs when we go to europe now it's a valid lease you know we can go for as long as we well you know to go for $90.00 days without a visa so that is a big change as well and all a very substantial that all british citizens are very used to when it comes for you country just joining me a u e a possible q now we will have to join australia. indians and anyone else in the queue for other countries and if we want to say compact with us and it's been very very easy if you want to take your dog with you when you go on holiday for example to an e.u. country you have something called a pet possible that will no longer apply either you have to go to the veterinarian

for loans before you travel so there's going to be a lot of planning involved to get an annual health's if you go in order to be able to say if you'll your pet dog or whatever else you go to the continent sprit for tim on the more political side of things you know listen to parse johnson and of course he puts the positive spin we can take control these sorts of lines which we've heard for for years but then he was also when the deal was signed he was saying we'll still you know our european partners and we'll work hand in glove on the things that matter to us i mean it makes it sound all nice and simple but i wonder if it will really turn out that way. well they will certainly have to talk to each other because if you look at this trade agreement that has just been passed by the british public are why they. actually say that there are a whole bunch of schoolkids shocks that committees included soon she will absolutely the rough edges if you like will be over time so there will be

a lot of talking to i think just is absolutely right to stress that we you know we need to make sure this relationship is friendly and in fact it will probably have to get a little bit closer ironically in italy deeper than it is right now it always are for the economies of. the e.u. and the u.k. . thrive as much as they have to all over the last few decades or makes perfect sense doesn't it thank you. from the u.k. inattention you're a pleasure talking to you. so as we say that the u.k. facing a new reality of bragg's it finally happening but it is also dealing with the escalation in the coronavirus pandemic surging infections are forcing the authorities to reactivate the emergency hospitals these are the ones they call them the nightingale hospitals that we've been largely unused but are now being prepared to

receive more patients a new variant of the disease is putting more pressure on state health care services challenge with more now from outside the royal london hospital managers say it's close to being overwhelmed. 20000000 more people in england started the day here for they join 24000000 people already living under the toughest level of coronavirus restrictions now that is 3 quarters of the english population hospitals in london and the southeast the saying that there i see use intensive care units operating at more than 100 percent capacity this one is the royal london hospital in recent days it's been in the eye of the storm with ambulances of patients queuing up outside the emergency wards it begs the question why aren't the nightingale hospitals being used properly now these were the emergency field hospital set up all around the country at the peak of the 1st wave by and large

they have stood empty now the government says they're being ready ready for use as backups but i've just been down to the london one and had a look inside and was told that it's been temporarily closed and that most or some of the equipment at least. moved out the government's position is that it would prefer code patients to be treated in proper hospitals like this one and not in the emergency field hospitals as well equipped as they may be but the sounds of the calls that are coming out from frontline and h.s. staff is that things are getting dire and something soon has got to give at the current virus news indonesia now banning international visitors for the next 2 weeks an effort to stop the for the spread of the mutated more infectious strain of corona virus 1st found in the u.k. is the 2nd time indonesia is closed its borders since the pandemic began. so that's

all casting a shot of course of a new year celebrations around the world but some countries were still able to bring in 2021 in the more traditional style overburden manley has our report. 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 the clock struck midnight 2 hours later in sydney the familiar bang in this little fireworks were present the not the usual crowd to watch the plans to allow spectators were cancelled after a new close to a call to $900.00 cases emerged. a few hours later this was the scene in china's mohan the city where covered 19 1st 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 after everyone thinks that the 1st hole 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 but doctors nurses and ambulance times continue to work right to sleep many of them are on duty they're stressed of not. elsewhere empty streets in assemble many stayed at home. and to paris is sean's elisei police checks vehicles to ensure people stuck to a nighttime curfew. i. under cross the atlantic in europe celebrations but on

a much smaller scale. as the iconic ball in times square dropped at midnight it was to a much smaller crowd. as the globe wraps up new year's celebrations many would ask would things be better in 2021. the al-jazeera. in the news the heads donald trump cuts his vacation short trying to get more republican supporters to oppose the approval of joe biden selection with. john allen brooks of devil all fishing industry thought it had so much to gain from leaving with you the post graduate feeling love is one of the trail. it has been surprisingly roman western turkey but this edging line of thunderstorms

which is a cold front will not temperatures back down to where they should be in the next day or so that's or greece turkey belgariad and remain here because most of the european plane is back down well below average but a typical wintry weather highs in the low single figures bricks of rain sleet or snow in many places in the cold winter the british isles and the north of spain and this cold wind when it gets over the western med she's fairly warm water even this time of year will generate stormy weather for. corsica up in milan it may well be quiet but i mean it is sunday but you start the new year great and dismal possibly sleety rather than rainy now as that system carries on across italy it brings it for quite a strong southerly wind cross the domination coast with rain so it's croatia you're talking about that will keep moving east was bringing rain sleet and some snow over land but the bulk of i think we're into significant snow over germany as it goes north so if

a continued search and rescue in croatia zagreb represents the weather for you and you've got temperatures below average it tends to get fairly cloudy good outbreaks of ours a rain or sleet unfortunately. for . you with al-jazeera these are the top stories u.k. has completed its split from the european union leaving the single market and the customs union at 11 pm on new year's eve i missed the parts johnson has hailed it as an amazing it's. an emergency hospitals are being prepared in the u.k. as a more infectious strain of corona virus puts pressure on existing health facilities there are now more patients in her. spittal than during the peak of the outbreak in

april. and cities around the world are brought in the new year with scaled back events as global infections continue to rise strict social distancing rules are in force in many countries during this holiday periods. so more of our top story now the finalization of bragg's it in coastal towns were at the forefront of the political demands during trade negotiations with the fisherman the been promised to take control of the seas are on the way but the deal wasn't the deal struck wasn't what they were expecting and some say they feel betrayed and how reports now from the fishing town of britain. and all british catch landed at bricks in devon these waters have been fished by british and european boats for centuries making fish 8 to 10 make issue in the bronx in battle for sovereignty but while british fishes 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 it's not what we wanted it's not what we asked for. i think we all knew deep down that we'd get. shafted. uses a lever. that would be as bad. 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 issue and you'll find there is another couple but now i. will

happily walking around the king saying i told you so but i am walking manically saying i told you we were so postboys abraxas. and it was all about plate we train our watches and get our territory back just launch and sell things not just because i'm so great and if you are sent to work. i'll tell you no no no actually because eventually this boat i will spend probably. 30 or 40 percent of my year in french war. i will 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. medics across brazil have held a minute's silence to mark the new year stuff at the intensive care units and some paulo are among those paying tribute to colleagues and patients affected by covert 19 cases a surging and the country's recorded more than a 1000 deaths for a 3rd day in a row. present our parting 200000 coronavirus deaths in fact 2nd only to the united states but what americans are vaccinating people in brazil is to waiting monica you don't have reports from rio de janeiro or mass and don't you do nascimento still visits the house his son used to live in who would have just turned 26 had he survived the covert 19 pandemic but if he'd approach a vision the last time i saw hugo he was in a hospital bed i waved at him showing i was there for him he waved back but an hour

later he sent a message on whatsapp telling me that he was losing his strength and he would not make it who died on april 18th while he was fighting for his life in a crowd in rio de janeiro hospital president. was firing the 1st of 2 health ministers the 2nd lasted a month both doctors were sacked after they asked brazilians to respect the world health organization's guidelines they were replaced by a general who supports. since the beginning of the pandemic the president has been downplaying the virus calling it a little flu discarding the mask and promoting gatherings with supporters and no social distancing 10 days after his death the president was asked why brazil's 5000 covert 19 related deaths had outnumbered china's. by june the number of deaths had reached 30000 a brazilian and dug a symbolic mass grave on reels

a conic veach of copper combine to college attention to the spike of infections. a bolsa not a supporter started taking down the crosses calling them fake news and propaganda mass you he was recovering from a covert 1000 infection and was strolling by rush to replace them one by one but by august brazil had reached the landmark of 100000 deaths 2nd only to the united states in cold with 1900 tallaght east brazil still holds its place as the world's 2nd largest coal but 19 hot spot after the united states but contrary to the west and other latin american countries like chile and mexico they have still not started back an aging population despite bosso natters handling of the pandemic and his failure to deliver campaign promises like reducing public spending privatizing

the economy and promoting a tax reform the president's popularity remains at more than 30 percent experts say he took a gamble by standing up to science to governors who opted for a lock down and by saying it was better to save the economy than lives not many brazilians think he's the one to blame so that since it has been successful and the you know the cash transfer programs the emergency payments to the poorest brazilians have had an impact still brazilians know that aid is about to end massu was apolitical at the beginning of the pandemic but has now made himself a communist mask with 2 more years to go bill so maddow will need to do something to heal this infected and politically divided country monica inaki of al-jazeera rio de janeiro. to the us with our there are reports of at least $140.00

republicans opposing counting the electoral college votes next week when president elect joe biden's victory is expected to be certified low could trigger a lengthy debate president from supporters have no chance of overturning the results congress meets to count the votes and to confirm the 2020 election result on january the 6th our white house correspondent kimberly harkins in washington explaining why republicans are queuing up to oppose joe biden. well we can expect that there's going to be a lot of ground standing and ultimately joe biden will be the next president of the united states but between then and this of certification this taking place that typically was kind of a rubber stamping process there's going to be a lot of play for the cameras now the question becomes why are they doing this because it ultimately is not going to change the vote well the reason they say they're doing this is because they want to object to the certification process

something that they say has precedent they say that the democrats in fact did this in 2016 objecting to donald trump's electoral win and they're simply exercising their right as members of congress to do this now what this is going to do is trigger a 2 hour debate it needs members of both the house and there are $140.00 members or more and also at least one senator in the senate and we know that the republican from missouri josh holly is that senator so this is what is going to trigger this mechanism but again this is not going to overturn the results still many of these republicans are allies of donald trump who firmly believe that there was voter fraud that there were election regularity but as we've been reporting for weeks in fact that's not the case according to not only election officials but also the supreme court so this is going to certainly be a challenge in fact it's going to be unsuccessful even before it gets started. to hong kong where an exodus of residents is expected later this month as they seek

refuge from tough new security rules imposed by beijing 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 and jim brown has a report from a legal. many people in today's hong kong tend to choose their words carefully but fred z. is not afraid to speak his mind about the reasons for leaving a territory he says he no longer recognizes no place he would say you feel safe anymore everywhere when you see police actually 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 lessons that they had in school would make you very tired. being brainwashed. was he took part in protests demanding political reform demonstrations that often turned 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 watching 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 the closer in the poll me they they they they say maybe you have to be less if you choose to stay because it is tilted a little what the government do for you is 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. a little more new year's celebrations for you now and for decades the new year celebrations in new york drew thousands of people to times square this year

a lot quieter with scaled back celebrations as with other cities around the world more from gabrielle is on there in new york. what happens in past years is people would start arriving more than 24 hours before the ball drops just to get a coveted spot to see that happen on new year's eve in times square normally there'd be made it nearly up to a 1000000 people in and around times square this is a tradition that's been going on since 100007 but this year so very much different with only about 40. invited guest 1st responders and their family members that were brought in to times square to watch the ball drop and they were kept in separate pods to maintain social distancing this was the 1st time in 114 years that the general public was not invited to this annual celebration in new york city police blocked off all of the streets and even if you wanted to get in

you simply couldn't do it it was just really surreal out of the performances were virtual a lot of the stars of performers weren't even to live there they were videos that were pumped in from other areas and to kind of give an idea of how this is and this is what you saw all over new york city on new year's eve with bars and restaurants and cultural venues that normally would have been opened late into the night and celebrations all of it closed because of coronavirus and at the celebration in times square gloria gaynor played her favorite song i will survive perhaps symbolic for many new yorkers that have gotten through a very very difficult 2020. plus the olive these are the headlines the u.k. has completed its split from the e.u. by leaving the single markets and the customs union they will be.