more than ever the world needs. making a healthier world for you. to everyone. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian for again this is that you live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. the 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 freedom in. africa and box upon a new economic path as a landmark free trade agreement between countries of the continent comes into

effect. no place you say you feel safe anymore a record number of people in hong kong seek u.k. residency to escape tough security laws imposed by beijing. despite scoring a virus restrictions people around the world still manage to find ways to celebrate the new year. and i'm far is smiling when the hottest teams in the n.b.a. finishes the year strong the phoenix suns beat the jazz for their best start to the season and add depth. shot. with the new year the u.k. has entered a new era outside of the european union britain's 11 month transition period is over the 2 sides relationship is now defined by the recent to negotiate

a trade deal the u.k. officially departed from the blocks rules at 11 pm local time on new year's eve coronavirus restrictions spent the brags that supporters couldn't celebration public. trucks have been hauling goods across the border with france under the new customs rules since midnight that means facing more bureaucracy and potential delays prime minister porus johnson delivered a message of national unity at the end of a lengthy divorce that's exposed rifts between the u.k.'s 4 nations this is an amazing moment for this country we have our freedom in our hands and he is 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 have

correspondents covering every angle of this historic moment for britain and europe show how is in brics and he'll have the reaction from the u.k.'s fisherman the tasha butler has the view from europe at the french port of cali paul brennan is across the channel at the english port of dover but 1st let's go to nadine barber for the latest from westminster so nadine as we said a new era has begun for britain there were no public celebrations to mark the moment indeed the nation still very much divided over the whole issue of breaks it . that's true a.j. and although the divisions have been rather hidden because what's on lots of people's minds of course has been covered 19 and in his new year's eve message for us johnson didn't really go to great lengths to talk about pressure but as you just heard he was celebrating it he says it allows the country to do things do things differently and better he's chief negotiator david frost similarly saying the u.k.

was now a fully independent country deciding its own affairs well that's not how they see it in the e.u. of course we've heard in the last 12 hours from president mccrone of france saying that the u.k. remains our neighbor but also our friend and ally in the address he also said that this brics it was the child of the european malays and of many lies and false promises so an admission that there had been weaknesses in the e.u. but stressing that he thought it was a great shame a mistake even what had happened similarly the irish foreign minister simon kovan he has said that it's not something to celebrate and regretting that the relationship between ireland and the u.k. is about to change will of course islands and northern ireland parts of the u.k. share of the island of islands there will be a transition period before customs checks have to happen on goods coming from great britain into northern ireland but that's one example of red tape that surround the

corner for businesses in the u.k. lots of people asking exactly how much disruption there will be also to citizens here the government has warned them to make sure they have travel insurance if they're heading to european union countries they will be restrictions on how long they can reside in the e.u. and there will be lots and lots of different kinds of. barriers that people are going to be asked to clear in terms of travel in terms of business which have yet to be fully understood i think even by the people. who are experts in this field right now though yes i think a lot of people are hoping that breaks it won't dominate political life and the media discourse of course but that may be wishful thinking because it is such a complicated business it's unlikely that the negotiations on the future relationship going to have been resolved right now all right that a many thanks indeed i was it was 19 bob there live in westminster in london let's

go to the port of dover then on the south coast i was there as paul brennan is there paula looks very quiet. reports right now what is the situation and what are the challenges in the weeks ahead. well it's a steady flow of lorries entering the port of dover behind me that was predicted certainly obviously today is a public holiday we are entering a weekend and i had been some stockpiling in the run up to christmas as well knowing that the changeover in rules was going to happen certain holy is uncertain companies wanting to get their goods across the english channel ahead of that handover to prevent them being held up in customs or in any other way port of dover handle some 2 and a half 1000000 freight transit journeys every single year and today there were in the low hundreds of the amounts of can't access permits that have been issued for lorries to be able to access this particular area and so the pressure here at the

ports has been relatively low and what you see behind me is police at the gates of the ports not checking any paperwork related to bricks it but checking coded paperwork you remember the 10 days ago the french after the discovery of a new variant of corona virus here in the u.k. said the drivers who want to cross the channel have to have a negative test within 72 hours and so some of these drivers have been falling foul of that or that paperwork has expired or they haven't got it at all and that been sent off so the airfield some 20 miles to the north of here to get that paperwork to. that said i've also spoken in the last half an hour to a senior highways manager from kent county council and he says that really the pressure will start to build into the beginning of next week and the real volumes returning to normal will be around the 10th and 11th of january and that is when the processes that have been put in place here plans made over months and he said even over the years will really be put to the test out

a serious paul brennan life there in the port of dover. is what barely 30 miles away on the other side of the english channel she's in cali natasha the 1st trucks from the u.k. have arrived with a new bureaucracy that's now in place since midnight how things go on. yes the 1st trucks arriving from the u.k. into the e.u. via the port of cali which is now of course one of the gateways into the for britain and they arrived via the channel tunnel which links the u.k. to france and also the 1st ferry arrives you can probably see behind me and she's got an orange strip at the top there that arrived a short while ago all this really giving customs officers here in france not junot to put into practice what they have been preparing for for so many years and that is the reimposition of border formalities now around $40000000.00 has

been spent on upgrading the poor some $700.00 customs officers have been employed more than $200.00 vets to look over livestock or cost customs officers have told us here is that they have been carrying out checks they've been making sure that everyone's paperwork and documents in order and that's what they can have to do now for the next days weeks years decades to come as these new formalities come into place they say everything is going smoothly there isn't much traffic here i have to say no tailbacks no chaos or any of the things that were feared but that is mainly because there has not been a no deal so of course tariffs and customs duties have not been reimposed that would have made it a lot more complicated and also officials are saying it is a new period of pandemic has meant a restriction in the traffic between the u.k. and the e.u. but they are expecting there to not be too much traffic over the next few weeks of course that could change and over the next days and weeks there will be tweaks made

to some of those formalities as everyone has to adapt to what is now this new reality. the whole is with us from brooks and which is on the coast on the southwest of england generater long history of bitterness and competition between the u.k. and its european neighbors over fishing that's one issue that's still unresolved at the heart of briggs it isn't it. yes a long running story that has still some way to run in fact you've got to go back 350 years to 1666 when charles the 2nd sowed the seeds of that contention by giving belgian fishing boats access in perpetuity to british waters much more recently than that $172.00 and britain joined the e.c. the forerunner of the e.u. that shed excess was cemented in what would become the common fisheries policy

a small sacrifice economically overfished for much larger gains in terms of the future single market well in the meantime british fishing was in decline that shared access was not equally shared british boats could only catch 38 percent of the fish in their own waters most of it exported to the e.u. while most of the fish eaten here is imported from the e.u. making fishing absolutely central to indeed vitally dependent on a trade deal one skipper i spoke to here yesterday said had there been no deal which was a distinct possibility until just a week or so ago he would have been out of business by this morning in the end though the deal they got was not the deal they'd hoped for indeed it was not the deal they'd been promised. and all british catch landed at brick some in devon these waters have been fished by british and european boats for centuries making fish 8 to 10 making issue in the bronx it battle for

sovereignty but while british fishes were at the forefront of the march to brics it 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 they were the 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 get. shafted. uses a lever. but then we all thought it would be this bad. 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 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 case saying i told you so but i am walking on a piece saying i told you we were so postboys abraxas. and it was all about plate we train our watches and get our territory back it's just nonsense all things not just the lawsuits against you and you are saying you were. a temp now actually eventually this but i will spend probably. 30 or 40 percent of my year in french war. i will spend kind of land in holland we sent our boat to holland for refit never got the infrastructure to refit this boat here. so we are very closely geographically and politically tied with us this whole thing was just a 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 0 bricks of. thank you price is chief economic advisor at the center for economics and business research she joins us now by via skype from london i've been a t.v. keep many economists reason that at least in the short term the u.k. economy will slow due to briggs it and of course the pandemic do you see briggs it is a tragic national area as the guardian newspaper put it today. well what we have seen already in fact is that of the economy lost about 3 percent of what it could have had since the referendum vote so there is a ready evidence of rex in its nose things down by causing all sorts of uncertainties over that period since the vote in 2016 and also bridging investments so we've seen the u.k.

underperform actually through that period but then of course we had kind of it too which has complicated issues and you can't quite distinguish one from the other very much at present so in this atmosphere we're probably not good do you feel and know for a lot of the brics it impact in those short term and things still need to be worked out in a number of areas where we carry on as before for example on the issue of services and data transfers for a while anyway they can still flow across the 2 sides without any changes until things are agreed so there's quite a lot still to be done it's not just a question of tariffs and quotas a lot of it needs to center now on making sure that whatever agreement is reached on the services side is better than what it looks like at present having regained its independence or sovereignty as many perks and supporters see it the u.k. is still tied under the divorce deal to european standards and regulations at the

moment the country diverges it risks punitive e.u. turfs so will the u.k. be as private as johnson says the e.u. is best friend an ally or do you see trouble ahead. there may be trouble ahead and i think what has happened in this deal is that you know we've been discussing fish until now obviously one of the strong cause of the u.k. had was to get you know the an agreement on the fishing rights and that doesn't seem to have happened the way that people want to suggest to me that's to get some of the concessions on the other side proved to be quite difficult to have it one of them is to allow a little bit possibly of divergence in the way in which we use state aid and so on and look at the impact perhaps at some of the changes that the u.k. might make in the future have on competition rather than stopping it up from the way that the that it works right now in the you have to look at it now an appraisal say no you can't do that the u.k. as a result you can change things a little bit and then see where there it really is in any way affecting competition

well if it doesn't fortunately yes indeed then tariffs can be imposed that would be a period of deciding whether indeed you know the u.k. has done something which is undermining those rules have been set up so it's at least there is a period of being able to look at that in a bit more detail put it at the end of the day yes there will be punishments at the other end but even to get to the point where we are now where we can perhaps change a few things in the area maybe of technology maybe in in a financial sector a little bit on fin tech and digital possibly but in reality it's going to be very very very hard for the u.k. to diverged to any significant extent because he still needs europe needs it's very significant a pretty good sort of a game many thanks indeed vicky pryce live from london. it with the news on al-jazeera still to come on the program donald trump cuts his vacation shorts to

ghana more republican support to oppose the approval of joe biden selection. but it's for manchester united have the chance to move level on points with table top in liverpool far right here with that and all the rest of the schools in the relays . because the u.k. faces the reality of brags that it's also dealing with an escalating coronavirus pandemic surging infection rates of forcing authorities to reactivate emergency hospitals so-called nightingale hospitals that have been largely unused of being prepared for covert patients a new variant of the disease is putting even more pressure on the n.h.s. life out of london to sue us rory chalons can tell us more hospital admission rates for an eye exceeding april's peak in some parts of the country. they are and we've had several days running perhaps not wednesday thursday in the days earlier in the

week we have had record numbers of new cases of coronavirus pretty much every day i think one was in excess of 55000 we are having in excess of 980 deaths at the moment so clearly the situation is worsening hospitals are saying that they're operating their i.c.u. use intensive care units more than 100 percent capacity in in london and the in the southeast and there is. an emerging argument i think that's going on about vaccinations now after the good news about the approval of the oxford astra zeneca vaccine on wednesday it was i think clear that there were going to be cracks that started to appear in the vaccination program and the british medical association which is a doctors union is criticizing the decision to essentially delay the rollout of the

2nd dose of the approved vaccines in the u.k. for up to 3 months. what the government is doing is now prioritizing the 1st dose of these vaccines getting them into as many people as they possibly can and that means that some people who had already had their 1st dose of the pfizer vaccine and wish edgel to have their 2nd dose of had that 2nd dose postponed they've received letters saying don't come along don't come down to the vaccinations and said so the medical association british medical association is very concerned about this doesn't think this is a good idea but the chief medical offices of the u.k. are defending this is basically as a practicality to deal with this worsening situation to get as many people vaccinated get some coverage some immunity into as much of the population as possible as quickly as possible rory many thanks indeed not as there was for a challenge reporting live from london. the state of california has passed 25000

coronavirus related deaths in los angeles one person is dying every 10 minutes medical workers are struggling to cope at a housing patients in hallways conference rooms and gift shops even fewer than 3000000 people across the u.s. a been vaccinated against cook at 90 that's far short of the government's target of an ocular 20000000000 by today the u.s. is top but infectious diseases expert dr anthony found she has told al jazeera the 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 pharmacy

and then we identified the anywhere e of this in less than an 11 month 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 artists in the gaza strip and using graffiti and murals to encourage people to take precautions against the coronavirus it's hope that they'll raise awareness about the need to wear mosques and keep socially distant the gaza strip is experiencing a rise of a number of infections however with no news on when vaccinations will stop there people are trying to stay positive for the new year. last year destroyed us and

destroyed the whole world we hope god willing in 2021 safety for everyone and lord that the coronavirus is gone. the pen demick the surface economically and we are in for the worst we ask god to lift this pandemic from us for the palestinian people to be in the best condition the economic situation to improve and for us to be happy and to have national unity. mexico has recorded more than 1400000 cases of the virus and at least 123000 deaths the 4th highest total in the world john holeman reports now from mexico city and speaks to people whose lives have been turned on. side down. the last time we saw a paramedic majority come mona 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 huts books to document the viruses rampaging

through the capital. now we've returned to visit the people we met then and see how they and mexico city is doing in majority's case not great she's been seriously a with coded with the way the letter 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 too with the man we film it dawtie 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 poor family reunion it was tough for him to walk he's got a swiss fix to one person. see that's my dad and he's not here with me now but soon

we'll be together. he told me his father had been hooked up to a ventilator of 4 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. that 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 lot of time in the capital. for their. thirty's question how they could have a low down when 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 will save the country from what could be a difficult january john home and how does it or mexico city. with the pandemic impacting different aspects of life its of course dampened celebrations around the world but some countries were able to ring in 2021 in traditional style as laura but molly reports. 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 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 this little fireworks will present the not the usual crowd to watch their plans to allow spectators were cancelled after a new close to a call to 900 cases a match. a few hours later this was the scene in china's mohan the city

where covered 19 firsts 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 serve. 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 what's but its president vladimir putin had a sobering message don't you mark but it stayed unfortunately the epidemic has not yet been completely stopped the fight against it does not stop for a minute doctors nurses and ambulance times continue to work right to sleep many of them are on duty this festive night. elsewhere empty streets in assemble many stayed at home. and to paris's sean's elisei police checks vehicles to ensure

people stuck to a nighttime curfew. and across 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 crowds. as the globe wraps up new year's celebrations many will ask will things be better in 2021. the al-jazeera. will get a weather update back than families in libya seek hundreds of civilians remain unaccounted for. getting ready for an olympics while and locked up we'll hear from this gold medal hopeful about the challenge of training during a pandemic. the

new year's coming with a snowstorm from texas to the great lakes now in west texas that was a significant about a snow notably it is called alpine this is not lowland texas this is high ground texas it's the back water around this low that's cold air tucking in and there's warm ahead of it so of course we got rain and the forecast track is through friday and saturday will see the rain in the southern states moving up the middle antic and then the snow follows the same course of the last 2 storm for us across missouri for example iowa and up towards eventually new england coming down the pacific coast no on forwarding storm system as well so dallas sees the weather improve it back up to normal in the sunshine by sunday but won't be the case in the west coast as that rain comes down the stoke or across the cascades and into the rockies but the sun replaces most of the poor weather in the northeast core not

entirely so well san francisco sees showers come in and out of the next 3 days or so are you think we'll see that that cold return to the northeast corner and we'll see snow fall in doing that money reached new york where as dallas as i say is enjoying the sunshine it 15 degrees and casper's seeing snow. across europe immigration is high on the agenda and in hungary it's presented as a pressing issue we didn't have immigrants' at all the 0 in the race. 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 some pride in hungry on al-jazeera.

one of the last remaining ancient forests in southeast asia is a lifeline tom. hundreds of lumberjacks and drive as. we follow their treacherous journey as they walk through extreme conditions. to gather and transport this dangerous but precious cargo risking it all. on al-jazeera. hello again adrian for the game here in doha with the news from al-jazeera the headlines the u.k. has completed its split from the e.u.

leaving the single market and customs union at 11 pm london time on new year's eve prime minister boris johnson hailed it as an amazing moment. and though since the 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 hospital and during the peak of the outbreak in april. and cities around the world of ushered in the new year with scaled back events as global infections continue to rise strict social distancing rules are enforced in many countries over the holiday period. reports from the us say that 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 alone could trigger a lengthy debate president donald trump supporters have no chance of overturning the results congress meets to count the votes and confirm the 2020 alexion result

on january 6th a white house correspondent kimberly hellcats is in washington that explains why republicans accusing up to oppose 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 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 as 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 started when the libyan warlord khalifa haftar his forces controlled the city of tohu not hundreds of civilians were forcibly detained killed and tortured many families still don't know what happened to their loved ones are serious about a train up went to talk to know and that's families who are still searching for the

truth. many families in libya will be spending the next few days together celebrating the new year but the family into room will not be hannah says all the men in her family who were either killed or kidnapped by members of the armed group can yet backed by the warlord belief or have to or who made the town his command center before a failed military campaign on the capital tripoli i don't know whether sure enough for me 21 men from my family are gone 14 were killed for no reason and 7 of them were kidnapped and until now we have no idea of their whereabouts they didn't bring us their bodies and the government hasn't been able to identify the bodies through tests if there are amongst the dead we want to know. when the un recognized government of prime minister faisal so raj retook western libya in june work began to find out what atrocities had been committed to who know was hafter stronghold so

far 125 bodies have been recovered from mass graves in the city yet can yet militia is accused of carrying out the killings but the tripoli government has been slow to identify the bodies or begin to work on other reported sites the united states blacklisted the kenya militia and its leader in november over the human rights abuses into. ramadan says he notified authorities of where he believes his brother and 35 other men are buried but nothing's been done so far to establish the truth. according to some witnesses they killed them and took them to the waste dump they buried them under the trash 36 men with that that's a lot of men i don't know why the government refuses to take the lack of a proper investigation by the government has caused a great deal of anger here and. our team is currently working in town

they are combing a large area and the digging is all done by hand unfortunately we don't have the materials yet to identify the bodies the high tech equipment to speed up the excavation process for the family and many like the mentor who know it could take years to discover what really happened to their loved ones so the closure they desperately seek will have to wait malik trainer. to whom. a landmark free trade agreement between african nations is coming into effect from january 1st it was delayed by several months because of the pandemic 54 nations have signed up to it being implemented in the 33 countries that officially have ratified it under the deal tariffs on 90 percent of goods will be eliminated the world bank says that it will increase the continent's income by $450000000000.00 by the year 2035 the agency also says that africa's exports mostly in manufacturing

will get a $560000000000.00 boost the agreement will raise wages especially for women account for more than 70 percent of cross border traders and the free trade agreement promises to lift 30000000 africans hours of extreme poverty al-jazeera somebody address reports now from now may. workers of this factory rushed to deliver thousands of fees mosques the owner says more than 2 and a half 1000000 were made here to control the spread of corporate 90. but as the africa free trade agreement comes into effect the foresees trouble ahead for the continent's poor countries. small and poor economies will always be at a disadvantage hopefully as time goes on we can get special considerations otherwise it will be difficult to compete. businesses in poor countries may have their concerns but overall experts say the agreement will eventually benefit them

they believe the cost of labor in these countries will attract more industries. into african trade. development the level of industrialisation. very some will have an advantage over others but african countries need to roll unfinished products among themselves. currently imports most of its needs from. water food and machinery from big retail to local markets in the here is flooded with imported products because of its weak infrastructure and indifferent the country will continue to depend on him making it difficult for local industries to grow. experts say it's hard to see european and asian multinational companies giving up the trade advantage they've held in africa for centuries products from asia and africa's largest economies lined the shelves at the emmys biggest retail

monopoly. prefer these brands traders say they won't be many local goods on store shelves unless government steps in. we should be given support the government should facilitate easy acquisition of land and loans from banks. but it's hard to see how governments on the continent can do that without breaching the protectionism rules of africa trade agreement and the world trade organization to greece. let's bring in a serious man who's in kenya capital my ropey how to tell us more about this trade deal and the impact that it's going to have on ordinary people's lives. yes this is going to be huge in terms of trade african slave but trade between african country currently stands at about 14. and this is what

these published meant of the free market area is going to improve with 2600000000 combined output between african countries these could be huge for african countries it's long been in the works of the can countries have been dreaming about having. free market zone where they traded more and more among themselves. countries within africa who've been suspicious about the. treaty that establishes the free market zone and that's why just 33 countries have so far about to fight it i'm not ready to implementing it at a trail of course stayed away from even signing the agreement. to tunisia and nigeria was the last to ratify it there are still many more countries with very small economies who are seeing

a situation where they would bhutan into consumerism and countries. dumped with substandard goods and that's why you see all of again countries signing into it but many feel it is going to be a continent wide thing at the end. reporting live from kenya's capital nairobi many thanks. an exodus of hong kong residents is expected later this month as 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. reports from hong kong 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 to 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 always worried about your kids being brainwashed. he took part in protests 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 is 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 in hong kong it is torture to stay and all 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 weiss me they call me they they they they say maybe you have to be less if you choose to stay because it still didn't know 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. making laws a pro-democracy activist who fled hong kong and is now in london he joins us live via skype nathan happy new year see thanks for being with us what do you make of the british government's resettlement offer how many people do you think will take it up. well i would definitely a lot of people welcome that policy because it offers a safe exit for the people in need or facing political persecution so i think there will be a few without the feel 100000 people coming because for now the u.k. is in political instability and for a lot of phone company they have kind of like wait and see mentality for now but at

the end of the day they're facing political persecution a lot of what terra in hong kong so i guess and there will be quite a large amount of numbers of people flowing into the country you say a few 100000 people and that they are suffering political persecution what do you mean by that what are they experiencing on a day to day basis. what there are different degree of political persecution that people are facing some are being touched some are being some are being arrested and some are just like living in their daily life and they are afraid of speaking out or they are afraid of the police brutality so i think that the different degrees of people that are in the current political climate so a lot of people if they feel like their freedom are being restrained that they're not able to speak freely these kind of people they will probably be thinking about leaving hong kong by immigration before some others like me we are facing real

political persecution where then we have to flee and seek other ways of leaving the city china's not happy about it do you expect beijing will try to stand in the way of it. well of course there are different discussion on how beijing and hong kong government are coping with the situation but seemingly for now they don't have many tools to cut that outflow of people so i think in the future this question will continue but it is unlikely that they have any physical or policy wise to to really do something on this game and what is life like for people like you who have arrived in the u.k. well is that is a new country for me is new culture there are lots of other patients in terms of life in terms of what you're doing for me i mean involving in africa is the work

raising awareness in the u.k. luckily i think the reception has been really good and i hope that you continue to raise the awareness of hong kong movement and democracy around the world in in this new place that i'm settling do you foresee a time when you'll be able to return to hong kong. i have always carrying a hope that i could return to hong kong someday maybe in that case time is a long time project for ringback the democrats i say she in hong kong but i generally be believe that democracy can occur and i'll be able to go back home one day really good story to nathan many thanks indeed for being with us thank you so much strongly and beachcombers were treated to a site that they really see at least on the waterfront a koala bear grabbed the attention of some seekers at apollo bay in the state of victoria crowe discovered to watch the marsupial amble along the beach stepping

across surf boards and at one point taking a moment to cool off in the water why would shouldn't be at the core of course is the straightest national symbol are usually pretty hard to spot at least in the wild. 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. is the old line the words about been changed to for what's for we are all one and free no longer are we on the free it's an attempt to better recognise the country's indigenous history in december national rugby player and indigenous version of the anthem for the 1st time. still to come here on al-jazeera in sports

the college football game the going off of the action. mass protests the government. we follow journalists on the front line. committed to reporting the facts. pointing. hong kong fact and fiction the truth anyway on al-jazeera. latest news as it breaks the measures introduced during this way 5 resulted in a 20 percent drop in the amount that people are traveling with detailed coverage

from both one hot topic and all of those in one i found of our poverty rate increase and of off clear from around the world the u.n. has identified $56.00 countries most need assistance what's worrying them is that many of those have a deteriorating situation. or war. tax bill is far adrian thank you so much start with pascals top league the n.b.a. and the phoenix suns and it 2020 with a win against utah jazz for their best start with season in a decade devon booker led the suns with 25 points and 7 assists on the cow bridges and jay crowder added 16 phoenix went on to steal 106295 victory they've now won

4 of their 1st 5 games this season. like i said that's a really big move for us and we play well we play balanced all game carter off the bench well campaign playing well. you know so that's a big win for. mari you know it's our you know the big. and after a 2 year injury layoff john wall made an immediate impact for the houston rockets the 5 time n.b.a. all star scored $22.00 points in his day for the team james harden added $33.00 points in this win over the sacramento kings it's. a manchester united have the chance to move level on points with liverpool at the top of the premier league united are in action against aston villa later on united are unbeaten in 9 league matches the team hasn't won the title since alex ferguson retired as manager back in 2013 the current boss is doing his bats to downplay expectations. there's no

title race after 15 games. you can lose the chance of having to. be in a race in the 1st 10 games of course you can. play another 15 get to 30 then maybe you can start about start talking about a title race when when you get to march april all the managers whose positive task for covert 19 resulted in the league shutting down last march doesn't think it's time for a 2nd suspension arsenal's mckellar ted has says it's right for games to carry on 2 matches have been called off in the last week due to a rise in coronavirus cases and sheffield united scheme at crystal palace on saturday is also in doubt. ok in the last week or so something has happened. i think we're going to have more restriction even and we're going to more

. to try to be again as efficient as we were before and we will see but i think we can work and i think we can carry on doing it. now limpid athletes will be hoping there are no more false starts in the year ahead the tokyo games were pushed back by 12 months due to cope with 19 and are now due to get underway in july the tale of muhammad won a silver medal in taekwondo at the rio olympics we spoke to him about his year in lockdown. it was unbelievable nothing like that has ever happened in our lifetime it didn't really feel real but you have to focus only on what you can control as wild and as unexpected as the postponement was is completely outside of my control thankfully take one though is the family business my dad has a martial arts school which i was able to go and train and still.

stay sharp absolutely that wasn't the case for many athletes across the country mentally it. was definitely hard to focus there when you're not in your normal training the environment and i feel that the whole world has taken a break but everybody was at home it was really it was such a bizarre and unusual situation there was definitely time where it was a lot easier just to kind of their off focus what has been a little more difficult is the lack of competition around the world this is nothing new and that's one of the issues right now is the qualification. across many many sports we have a situation where half the athletes have officially qualified but you have often because of the covert situation at bent's had to get counseling so it's going to be a very interesting few months to see how we handle the situation i think we've seen in sports like the u.f.c. and box in that we are able to hold some of it's in

a bubble but obviously we're now in a situation where we have a lot of potential travel restrictions so it's a complicated mess but it does have to keep the faith and hopefully we can get from this this gets to another beginnings listen if they hope that thing on the top of mount fuji and there are not overly concerned about safety. only because i trust but the organizing committee is going to do everything anything so you have made sure that there's no help in this little games there's only one chance to win a gold medal at the polls pandemic games i think this games can be. a really special one because it can actors almost like a beacon of hope to the world so i've been very determined. to make sure that i

work out that because that really really excites me. covered 19 is threatening to upset cleveland's hopes of reaching the n.f.l. playoffs for the 1st time in almost 2 decades 2 more browns players have returned also have tasks and that's resulted in the team's training center being closed down cleveland place pittsburgh steelers in a must win game on sunday. at a college football game descended into chaos after the action was meant to be over the city state had just secured a tight victory over tulsa when a huge fight broke out still unclear what started the brawl and a statement conference organizers said they were disappointed the highest standards of sportsmanship and often met. what a way the end the year that is all your sport for now back to you adrian blimey foreign many thanks indeed to come back here to update you just a few moments here. except for the news or i'll see you again bye for the.

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