when he's traveling to the villages with. under-aged doing it. on al jazeera. the new year brings a new era for the united kingdom as it now formally separates from the european union. this is an amazing moment for this country we have our freedom in our. hello i'm come on santa maria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera with corona virus infections climbing in brazil we're looking at the major divide there over how to handle the pandemic.

and even with cover 19 putting a damper on things people around the world of still found ways to celebrate the new . hello everyone it's 2021 the world welcomed in a new year but britain is marking the end of an era and is officially broken its almost 50 year relationship with the european union the u.k. now no longer a member of either 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's johnson there hailing this 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 meeting both the g 7 and the cop 26 climate change summit in glasgow we'll be speaking to correspondents on the other side of the english channel shortly but we're starting with this report from london with andrew simmons on how the changes are going to affect by people and. 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 people don't do a 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 spine and services and data sharing that will 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 northern ireland yes apart we wanted to come out of the european union the same terms arrestee dedekind of sadly that that. before 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 mujhe 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 and 2 simmons london so the key crossing of course in the u.k. into europe is between dover and cali and that's where our team is this new year's day natasha in cali and france will be with you shortly natasha but i'm going to start with paul brennan on the other side and dover fire trucks behind you there but looking fairly quiet. yes we've seen a trickle of lorries going in with congo bound for france and the rest of the consonance we've seen a couple of cabs just go past and they'll be picking up trailers which have been delivered into the port of dover and they'll be taking those out another lorry

arriving here but i have to say the actual volume of trade going through dover this morning relatively low as was expected to be honest what the port authorities were saying to us was 1st of all today is a public holiday course around the world then we go into the weekend where traditionally volumes are low and it's next week really where we expect the real pinch points to come if they are going to come and where the real challenge is to the paperwork and the bureaucracy and the electronic data that is needed to cross now between the 2 it's estimated that the end of the transition period and the introduction of the new systems is going to create some $220000000.00 pieces of new customs declarations the u.k. government's own tax and customs authority estimate that that is going to cost somewhere in the region of 9 and a half $1000000000.00 well so you can see big challenges ahead so what would it be like if as you pointed out it is a public holiday today what would it be like on i quote unquote normal day.

well there are so many different variables in that 1st of all is the amount of paperwork and one of the things that the road haulage association has pointed out is that what we may have is invisible blocks that is. goods that aren't able to leave warehouses or depos or the factory gates because they haven't got the paperwork it may be that we don't see massive queues here at the port of dover because the hold ups are going to be further back along the supply chain the other possibility of course though is that the amount of paperwork. puts people off actually wanting to send their goods in the initial weeks certainly we've heard from some holy s. who are going to send any for going to send any freight to top till mid january because of the concerns that they get stuck they get held up delays costs etc and the other thing is that the police officers behind me are actually nothing to do with rex it they are enforcing the code it restrictions that france imposed on

lorries and drivers telling them to go to an ad field 20 miles to the north of here in order to have a covert test before they can make the crossing so that so many new barriers that have been created not just by bricks it but by coronavirus as well i mean i really challenging period in the weeks and months ahead a really good point ok so paul brennan indicted thank you for that 40 kilometers across the water is natasha in cali all going smoothly on your side then attention . well customs officials here in france in the port of calories say so far so good the 1st trucks from the u.k. passed through the channel tunnel after midnight local time and what port officials the customs officials said is that everything ran smoothly at that moment of course because the has left the customs union and the single market border formalities

kicked into action and what that means in reality on the ground is that customs officials have to carry out extra extra checks on any goods and products and livestock that across the border in fact the french government has spent millions of dollars on upgrading the port facilities here and the channel tunnel opening we're talking about $700.00 new customs offices more than $200.00 vets because they are in charge of looking after livestock i have to say it is extremely quiet here in the port of cali and perhaps reflecting some of the things that paul brennan just told you over on the other side of the english channel that is of course the new year's holiday that pandemic means that there are more restrictions between the u.k. and e.u. in terms of travel and also customs officers said that they don't expect there to be a large volume of traffic between the continent and the u.k. over the next few days and many companies just choosing perhaps to keep their

products on both sides of the channel whilst all the last minute tweaks fall into place and they understand better what needs to be done right so deceptively quiet from is there a sense overall in france that briggs it's done we can actually move on from this now. well the french president emanuel micro in his new year's address on thursday evening said that britain remains a friend and ally for all think that's a very good thing because britain and france and widely the e.u. still have a lot of work ahead briggs and it is by no means a done completely because there are still negotiations the need to be undertaken still talks to be done we're talking about there's still no agreement for example services a very important sector particularly financial sector so there is still a lot of work ahead it's also worth noting the m

e p s are still pouring over the brig's it trade deal text because they didn't have time to actually look at the details and sign off on it in time for the new year many m.e.p. he's on happy about this they feel that the deal is perhaps being rushed through and procedures have been skipped and they haven't been allowed to sign off on it before this trade deal kicked in action so still loans that are in fact france's european minister kemel bono earlier this week said that the negotiations going ahead will still be very difficult very complex as they have been over the last few years he has said though that is not about the e.u. trying to punish the u.k. or make things difficult he says that the u.k. in a way has punished itself by choosing to leave the european union because in france's opinion it would have been much better off staying in the european union and as for us today thank you.

the u.k. facing the brig's it reality there of course but also dealing with the escalation in the coronavirus pandemic surging infections are forcing all authorities to reactivate the emergency hospitals the so-called nightingale hospitals that have been largely unused and are being prepared to receive more patients this new variant of the disease is putting more pressure on state health care services as were challenges outside the royal london hospital one that managers say is 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 they're icy 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 hospitals 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 n.h.s. staff is that things are getting dire and something soon has got to give. well the

pandemic has cast a shadow of a new year celebrations around the world but some countries were still able to welcome 2021 in traditional style this round up now from manly. 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 for the family a bag and this little fireworks will present the not the usual crowd to watch the plans to allow spectators were cancelled after a new close to a call to 900 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. 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 woks but its president vladimir putin had a sobering message but it's 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 in paris is shown to lease a police checked vehicles to ensure people stuck to a nighttime curfew i. underscore see atlantica

in. celebration but on a much smaller scale. as the iconic ball in times square dropped at midnight it was too much smaller crowds. as the globe wraps up new year's celebrations many would ask would things be better in 2021. nor the al-jazeera. in the news a head start from cuts his vacation short trying to get a more republican support to oppose the pervert joe biden selection when. there was a year. and a stroller advances into the new year with a new and then we'll look at what's behind the change.

it's time for the perfect gentleman the weather sponsored by qatar airways the good part of your grief is the new year cold and snow it is still plenty of cloud iran's general circulation might think in that direction and we're left with this sort of picture in northern england snow on the ground temperatures just about subzero in latvia this was what great people just up the coast from riga foggy temps are 2 degrees 4 degrees above average and the whole year of 2020 was the warmest on record for latvia however generally speaking we're talking about cold at the moment with a couple of areas of interest this one here is area of low pressure that's cold circulation which means snow or a bit of rain the mix between the 2 very dodgy particularly 7 degrees in kiev but rather more sort of the snow as a counter to the high ground in spain and over the alps with this rather unpleasant northerly breeze the focus is probably going to be further south so bilbao gets

increasingly wind. the and cold feel you have his team he would talk about nighttime temperatures by day in bilbao and then the whole of the west and both of them as right in this stormy weather comes up again during today and tomorrow windy wet snow quite readily available up in the alps and that snow generally speaking is pushing north into germany as the wind eased that whole bit during sunday. the open sponsored power cuts are at ways. a secret mass grave in ireland discovered at an institution run by catholic nun ms. a nation shocked to its core. people in power investigates a scandal but destroyed families cost thousands of lives and still raises profound questions about the ties between the catholic church and the irish state's. arlin's mother and baby scandal. on

a. pool or. poor. these are the top stories this hour the u.k. has completed its split from the e.u. leaving the single market and the customs union at 11 pm on new year's eve and star struck and hailed it as an amazing. emergency hospitals are prepared in the u.k. is a more infectious strain of coronavirus puts pressure on existing health facilities there are now more patients in hospital than during the peak of the outbreak in april. and cities around the world of brought in the new year with scaled back events as global infections continue to rise strict social distancing rules aren't forcing many countries during the last leg that. mexico has recorded at least

123000 deaths now from corona virus which is the 4th highest in the world on home and has our report from mexico city where he spoke with people whose lives have been turned upside down. the last time we saw a paramedic who did he come on or she was hurtling around the working class suburb of ms well. that was back in may when the al jazeera mexico team was filming ambulances intensive care units and hotspots to document the viruses rampaging through the capital. now we've returned to visit the people we met them and see how they and mexico city is doing in the doughty's case not great she's been seriously ill with coded system where the leather that the truth is i felt the same as my patients that i was going to lose my life that i would never see my family again and almost everyone in her team has had the virus now it's not surprising in

a country where more medical workers have died than anywhere else in the world. we wanted to follow up to with them and we feel majority of rushing to hospital jose luis montagnier. a month later we met him again as he finally made it back home. but this december when i showed him our report on the family reunion it was tough for him to war his gaze was fixed on one person you. see that's my dad and he's not here with me now but soon will be together. he told me his father had been hooked up to a ventilator for days before seriously ill with coded now he's trying to focus on the one positive at least his dad was able to get a bed there are very few left in the capital's hospitals which are over well now in a way they weren't in the summer. many people have been reduced to queuing outside shops for oxygen tanks to treat their relatives at home. critics say things are

worse now because mexico never significantly reduced its number of cases and when they searched again this winter the government declared a long time in the capital. for their part the authorities question how they could have a lot but almost half the country lives in poverty and needs to get out and work and that's especially because government aid for them and for the rest of the economy has been minimal now a vaccine has arrived in mexico but not in time to dent the current death toll all save the country from what could be a difficult january john homan how does it or mexico city. you know medics across brazil of health a minute's silence to mark the new year stuff of the intensive care unit and sao paulo are among those paying tribute to colleagues and patients affected by covert 90 cases are surging the country's recorded more than a 1000 deaths for a 3rd day in a row brazil now approaching all our 200000 coronavirus deaths which is 2nd only to

the united states but while americans are vaccinating people in brazil are still waiting on a can you not have reports from rio de janeiro. you do nascimento still visits the house his son used to live in who would have just turned 26 had he survived the couvade 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 here discarding the mask and promoting gatherings with supporters and no social distancing 10 days after death the president was asked why brazil's 5000 cold 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 iconic beach 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 code with 1900 tallaght east brazil still holds its place as the world's 2nd largest covert 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. for 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. some political news from the us where there are reports of at least 140 republicans who will oppose the counting of electoral college votes next week this is when president elect joe biden's victory is expected to be certified although it could trigger a lengthy debate president trump's supporters have no chance of overturning the results congress meets to count the votes and confirm the 2020 election results on january 6th a white house correspondent kimberly how it's in washington and explains now why republicans are lining 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 just 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 a 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. on the 143 years after it was 1st composed and performed australia has updated its national anthem to reflect what the prime minister says is a spirit of unity. day. to. day. we are young men for that was the old by now been changed to we won and free. this

is an attempt to better recognise the country's indigenous history. as a model langton holds the foundation chair an indigenous studies at the university of melbourne and says simply changing the words to the anthem won't make a strong fair a country for its indigenous population there at. nike demands more on. us may well not a robber baron the numbers are like that martin song that one is threatening our national day. shines from its night of january 26th which is long greatest celebration of the landing of the most weight i'm going to be. on that philip and why that didn't sound broken. it will really are a sort of russian genocide and so. we either rotation. or

just you're right it took them a constitutional requirement because we have been excluded from the constitution since not a not written one and states 2 minor amendments in 969 wouldn't exist as an absence from the constitution some would never being quoted and one would shine in the national anthem is not right i get when it's so. a celebration of genocide. nor our absence from the current situation. so these are the headlines on al-jazeera britain has completed its split from the e.u. leaving the single market and customs union at 11 pm u.k. time on new year's eve prime minister bart's johnson has welcomed a new chapter for the u.k. this is an amazing.