an investigation south africa toxic city on al-jazeera. a new year brings a new era 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. sons and maria here in doha this is 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 coping 19 putting a damper on things people around the world still found ways to celebrate the new. hello everyone the world's welcomed in the new year but britain is marking 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 either the single market or the customs union after the break that transition period expired at 11 pm on new year's eve in london a minister parsed johnson though is hailing 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. now he's in london reporting on how these 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 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 it's 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 that won't be any new to. axes 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. union this fear isolation i think the dealers made in northern ireland yes apart we want 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 the new 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 for diminishing level of power and a diminishing influence by the end of 2021 we may have an idea andrew symonds london let's get an idea of how things are going today the king crossing for the u.k. into europe that between dover and kalai and here in the team that are in cali france and britain on the other side in dover in the u.k. so paul let's start with you. still pretty quiet behind you i guess perhaps not so much expected today. no perhaps surprisingly quiet but there were predictions that 1st of all because new year's day is a public holiday 2nd of all because we're going into the weekend saturday sunday following today the other thing is that companies have been saying that they're

going to put off sending freight across the channel perhaps for a week perhaps for 2 weeks in order to see how the process is bad in they didn't want the loads to be stuck here at dover potentially stuck at the other side of alec and so they've been holding off a little bit here behind me you can see that the police at the port of dover gates are actually nothing to do it rex if i can tell you that that they're checking the coded testing status of the drivers down the restrictions that were put in place by the french 10 days ago some of the drivers have been falling foul of that this morning because the code paperwork has expired it's they had to have a test negative test within 72 hours of making a crossing that said is under simmons's report pointed out there is still a significant amount of additional paperwork that the drivers and companies are going to have to fill in $220000000.00 extra customs declarations we are told

the government's tax in customs or stores he hates him aussie reckons the cost of that to business in the region is 9 and a half $1000000000.00 worth so you can see that the quietness here at the moment does not necessarily mean it's going to be smooth running for the days and weeks ahead so makes me wonder paul what's sort of normal might look like. certainly in comparison to the amount of traffic that used to go through that crossing but i mean does normal even exist at the moment. will tune off 1000000 freight journeys made annually through tova. that has been declining slightly it was down 14 percent last year they hope that the. that quarter of a hope that they can manage flows they hope that the additional coverage restrictions paperwork restrictions don't. create a pinch point virus because doug bannister chief executive of port of terror yesterday he wants the flow the throughput to be managed very carefully so as not

to impinge too much on volumes but i said invisible take all sort of visible blockages might end up happening further down the supply chain for example at the factory gates or the u.s. house goods not being able to be shipped out at that point because the paperwork just simply isn't there or isn't ready so that's where you may see or not see invisible walker just as opposed to necessarily down here at the gates of the port ok paul brennan in dover thank you we cross the water to carry france and things on your side. well pretty quiet at the moment pretty much for the reasons that you just heard there from poor there isn't much traffic between the u.k. and france because it is new year's because the coded pandemic has meant restrictions between the 2 between the e.u. and the u.k.

nevertheless the 1st truck did pass from the u.k. to the just after midnight local time through the channel tunnel and we are told by customs officials here in the port of cali that things went smoothly it was certainly an opportunity for them to put into action what they have been preparing for for so long and that is the re imposition of border formalities so customs officials checking documents there's been extra paperwork some 700 new customs officers have been employed to start all the borders more than 200 vets because of course livestock now has to be checked more thoroughly as well so things going smoothly so far the 1st ferry from the u.k. has just arrived here you can actually see behind me is hidden by that building but that's just a ride from the u.k. as well so again an opportunity for those custom officers to put in place some of the things that they have been preparing for broadly natasha is there a feeling maybe not across the whole of europe but certainly france where you are

very they can leave briggs it behind now everyone can move forward perhaps. to a certain extent french businesses a certainly very relieved that there is a free trade deal customs officers too because it means no terrorists no customs duties and that means that trade between the u.k. and france will hopefully run a lot more smoothly than had there been no deal and that would have meant the imposition of tariffs and customs duties but you know the french president gore made a new year's eve address here on thursday in france and which he said that britain remains an ally and a friend or from some fats you'd have to say is a very good thing because there is still going to be a lot of discussions a lot of negotiations ahead between france and u.k. between the european union more widely and the u.k. because there are so many areas that still have to be sorted out particularly this important services sector what sort of access will britain's financial services

have for example to the e.u. markets a lot still to talk about in fact we also heard from the france's europe minister a little bit earlier this week a more bone and he said that the negotiations have been very complex and it probably will continue to be very complex and he said this isn't about the e.u. for example trying to punish britain he said that britain in his words has punished itself by leaving the european union by making things more complicated because in france's opinion the u.k. would be much better off in. cali france thank you natasha. well as the u.k. faces that briggs it reality it is also dealing with the escalating coronavirus pandemic infections are rising and forcing authorities to reactivate their emergency hospitals you might remember these the so-called nightingale hospitals

they have been largely on use but are being prepared to receive more patients the new variant of the disease is putting more pressure on state health care services that's a challenge he's outside the royal london hospital which manages 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

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 n.h.s. staff is that things are getting dire and something soon has got to give. yes pandemic is cast a shadow of a new year's celebrations around the world but some countries were able to welcome in 2021 in traditional style that's wrap up now from laura but many.

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 for the family of bag and there's a lot of fireworks to present the not the usual crowd to watch the plans to allow spectators were cancelled after a new cluster of consequence in cases emerged. a few hours later this was the scene in china's who had the city were 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 buy works 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 but doctors nurses and ambulance times continue to work right to sleep many of them are on duty this festive not. elsewhere empty streets in assemble many stayed at home. and in paris is shows elisei police checked vehicles to ensure people stuck to a nighttime curfew. and across the atlantic in. celebration but on a much smaller scale. as the iconic ball in times square dropped at midnight it was to a much smaller crowd in usual as the globe wraps up new year's celebrations many will

ask will things be better in 2021. a man the al-jazeera. and in the news as a head the year that wasn't in world sport at least looking back on how the pandemic postponed so many major events. i'm joined now in brixton devon fishing industry thought it had so much to gain from leaving the e.u. the post brings a chilling local is one of the throw. of . well i continue to say that cold push in the northeast monsoon has boosted these showers in the south china sea the question is really where they going they seem to be heading directly for malaysia kuala lumpur most likely the focus has

a different temperature down below the average as the sun's to overcome deeper heavier maybe longer lasting so that law goes 3 heads and towards northern sumatra that looks fairly wet as well they would have the normal regime of pretty widespread shastra malaysia and indonesia and they stretch across the equator into the north of australia that has a development taking place in the gulf of carpentaria that might well end up as being a tropical cyclone can want to wash probably by sunday generally speaking tropical queen's days with but look for the size we are talking about some of the so temperatures are in the middle to high twenty's as widespread shower reactivity with sun storm struck new south wales bits of south australia victoria tasmania and even perth with a temperature of 33 you've got clouds not far away generating one or 2 showers there's a potential to watch out for tropical cycle maybe in the making that's a strain in new zealand of tropical cyclamen certainly cyclonic circulation with

rain for south island and showers for the new. one of the touring highways india girls as young as quick as close to. one woman is traveling to the villages where parents still live under a jewish effect. on al-jazeera. played an important role in protecting human. trace.

so the top stories this news day on al-jazeera the u.k. completing its split from the e.u. leaving the single market and customs union at 11 pm on new year's eve i missed our stance and hailed it as an amazing. how about militancy hospitals being compared to the u.k. is the more infectious strain of corona virus puts pressure on the country's existing health facilities there are now more patients in hospital than during the peak of the outbreak in 8. cities around the world abroad in the new year with some scaled back events as global infections continue to rise strict social distancing rules are enforced in many countries during the holiday period. i want to look again at this finalization of bragg's that coastal towns in particular which were at the forefront of the political demands during trade negotiations with the e.u. fishermen had been promised they'd take control of the seas around the u.k. but the deal while some what they were expecting some actually feel betrayed and

a whole has our report from the fishing town. and all british catch landed at in devon these waters have been fished by british and european boats for centuries making fish. in the brink 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. a 5 year transition period some e.u. access retained many here field day with a price to be paid for a u.k. e.u. trade deal. we get.

fishing 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 briggs's 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. not happily walking around the quay saying i told you so but i am walking manically saying i told you we were so post always a proxy. and it was all about plate we train our watches and get our territory back just nonsense i'll think is not democracy so great if you are citizen to work. i don't know the law actually eventually this but i will spend probably. 30 or 40 percent of my year in french war. i will spend 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 reports out of the usa at least 140 republicans will oppose counting the electoral college votes next week this is when president elect joe biden's victory is expected to be certified it could trigger a lengthy debate but president on top supporters have no chance of actually overturning the results congress meets to count the votes and confirm the 2020 election results on january 6th. staying in the u.s.

more than 25000 corona virus deaths now been recorded in the us state of california in los angeles one person is dying every 10 minutes medical workers are struggling to cope in a house in patients in hallways conference rooms gift shops fewer than 3000000 people across the u.s. have now been vaccinated against covert 19 far short of the government's target of 20000000 by this points medics across brazil have held a 2 minute silence to mark the new year staff of the intensive care unit in sao paulo were among those paying tribute to colleagues and patients affected by covert 19 cases still surging in fact the country's recorded more than a 1000 deaths for the 3rd day in a row. in total brazil is approaching 200000 coronavirus steps 2nd only to the united states but while as we heard americans are being vaccinated even at a slow pace people in brazil are still waiting monica you don't have reports from rio de janeiro. masand you do nascimento still visits the house his son used to

live in who would have just turned 26 had he survived the coup of the 19 pandemic but if he'd approach a vision the last time i saw you go 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 or 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 cold with 1900 tallaght ease brazil still holds its place as the world's 2nd largest coal but 19 a 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 that 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 is 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. indonesia is banning international visitors for the next 2 weeks as it tries to stop the spread of this mutated more infectious strain of corona virus the one found in the u.k. it is the 2nd time indonesia's closed its borders since the pandemic began the sporting years been defined disrupted by coronavirus as well big events like the olympics faced costly delays while top level athletes had to get used to performing in empty stadiums and in riches and with this report now on how sport is coping with code. in march basketball star really go bare attempted to make light of concerns about catching coronavirus by police hands over the assembled media equipment.

builders have gone back to the seeded teams heading back to the water 2 days later a game involving his utah jazz team was called off for the last minute it later emerged go bear had become the 1st n.b.a. player to test positive for cope with 19 the teams departed the scene it will be more than 4 months before they returned. the olympic flame continue to flicker on even after most other sports have been snuffed out but at the end of march the decision was taken to perspire only 2020 tokyo games by a year. they really have a cost on the terminations to deliver a great games and yes they may be slightly altered there may be in a different format. and who knows i mean we're still you know we're still dealing with the pandemic even with a vaccine on the horizon but i am pretty sure we will have

a games. africa's biggest sporting event the cup of nations was pushed back a year and the european football championship will also start 12 months later than intended but the ambitious plan to host it across 12 different countries is still in place for 2021 it's a big challenge and in pandemic and with this strange situation even a comic situation next year will be a bit tough maybe for some parts of the world or the world it will be a special challenge but you know u.f.a. is a serious organization we like challenges world cup host cats are became home to an entire continent the asian champions league took place in the sort of by secure environments all athletes are getting used to. in england liverpool lifted the league championship for the 1st time in 30 years the supporters left to celebrate a triumph they weren't allowed to witness inside the stadium.

innovation and commercial imperatives have ensured short term survival for the financial and physical fallout from the pandemic is still tumbling through every level of every sports and the richardson al-jazeera. half past the hour on al-jazeera and these are the top stories britain has completed its split from the european union leaving the single market and the customs union at 11 pm u.k. time on new year's eve there will be tariff free trade but the government says they could be disruption as well as the new rules are introduced prime minister bars johnson however welcomed what he called a new chapter for the u.k. 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.