this is al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian for the game this is that is a lie from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes this is an amazing moment for this country we have our freedom in our hands a new era for the united kingdom as it formally separates from the european union trade rules have changed but so far ships and trucks are getting through to europe smoothly. emergency hospitals are being prepared in the u.k. as a more infectious strain of corona virus continues to put more pressure on its national

health service. africa and box on a new economic policy as a landmark free trade agreement between the continents countries comes into effect . despite coronavirus restrictions people around the world still manage to find ways to celebrate the new year. i'm far in one of the hottest teams in the n.b.a. finishes the year strong the phoenix suns beat the utah jazz for their best start to the season in a decade. with the start of 22 as he won the u.k. has entered a new era outside the european union going forward their relationship will be defined by the recently garcia to trade deal the u.k. officially departed from the box rules of 11 pm local time on new year's eve

coronavirus restrictions though meant the briggs and supporters couldn't hold any celebrations in public trucks a pinhole. goods across the border with france under new customs rules sense midnight's delays were expected but so far things appear to be going smoothly in the last hour the 1st eurostar train as arrived in paris from london travelers from either side will now face new restrictions on how long they can remain without a visa and in a nod to this landmark moment for the u.k. prime minister boris johnson delivered a message of national unity 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 $26.00

climate change summit in glasgow our correspondents are covering this historic moment for britain and europe the whole is in brick some here have the reaction from the u.k. fisherman that sasha butler has the view from europe of the french port of kalai but 1st let's go to nadine barber for the latest from westminster in london so a new era for britain has begun. there were as we said no celebrations to mark the moment indeed the nation is still very much divided over the whole issue of briggs's. sure adrian it public opinion of course isn't uniform it never has been on the issue there was a small gathering just down the road in the parliament square to mark the official moments when most of the u.k. left the customs union and the single market but yet nothing big we've heard

from what you've just played from boris johnson that he's selling it as a new sovereign future similarly his main negotiator with brussels david frost has said that britain is now an independent fully independent country in charge of its own decisions that it's interesting he used the word britain there and not the u.k. because we've heard it in the last few hours from the foreign minister of ireland simon kovi warning the following we going to see the 80000000000 euros worth of trade across the irish sea between britain and ireland disrupted by an awful lot more checks he's predicting cost and delays to businesses now it's true that there will now be an effective border in the irish sea between mainland britain and northern ireland which is part of the u.k. that's because northern ireland shares a land border with island a member of the european union that could be problematic in the future for the u.k.

there are some people saying that in future we could see public opinion shift towards reunifying the island of ireland we've heard from nicolas sturgeon the scottish 1st minister tweeting scotland will be back soon europe keep the lights on she of course wants to hold another referendum on independence from the u.k. she lost the last one she's hoping that elections coming up in the next year will give her another mandate to push for that could take some time if she is indeed successful in those elect. but these are all run the fixations that no one can predict. what it will mean for ordinary people here they're being warned to prepare for travel to make sure they have insurance they're being warned that they can't reside in the e.u. without restrictions as they could before things like that the people will have to start to get used to and then there's the impact on business but for now the government is saying that they've got the job done there's no immediate disruption

that we can see but of course these are just the 1st few days of what you were calling a new era. i was there recently barbara reporting live from westminster the many thanks indeed let's go across the channel al jazeera natasha butler is at the border crossing in cali so the tasha the 1st trucks ferries and trains from the u.k. have arrived in france with this new layer of bureaucracy that's now a place how things go on yes the 1st trucks arrived after midnight local time here in the border of callen our gateway to the european union for the u.k. and since then we've seen other trucks arriving on ferries and as you say passenger service is also into paris on the eurostar train of course the u.k. has now left to the single market and customs union and what that means is that french customs officials here have been able to put into action what they have been

practicing for so many years and that is the reimposition of border formalities and what we have french customs officials say is a so-called smart border most of the extra paperwork that will be needed by companies or importing and exporting can be done or lie that way port authorities and customs officials hope that that will minimize any display dysart delays or disruption here at the border so far they say things have gone smoothly let's take a listen to the head of the callee port. since 3 years we are thinking working aspecting. 2 weeks ago we did not know it will be. some days we thought it would be nobody veto a new deal force does not send in a thing a gun is becoming a bait and yuki's becoming a 3rd country and when it's a 3rd country you need to have. no more of the same or.

well it's very quiet here at the port of kalitan if you can see behind me there is a large car park that's on some days is filled with lorries but customs officials have said that they expected these days to be quiet it is the new year holiday of course here also the covert pandemic means more restrictions on travel between the u.k. and france and some companies of simply decided not to import and export goods at this time crossing the border because they knew that they could be some disruption all this of course gives port authorities and customs officials here a bit more time to make sure that they can iron out any tweaks that will be needed to do so over the next a few days because this will now will be the new reality here the border in cali. live in northern france. jonah hole is in brixton which is

a fishing port on the southwest coast of england the region you're in very much in favor of leaving the european union but with one of the main issues at the heart of brigs it's still unresolved not everyone there is happy today. no not among fishing communities in this place and up and down the coastlines of the united kingdom a long long running story the relationship in terms of fishing between the u.k. and its european allies with a long way still to run 5 and a half years of a transition period under the existing deal will be followed by yet more to go she ations over quotas who knows what will happen after that in fact you've got to go back 350 years to 1666 when the seeds of discontent were 1st sown by king charles the 2nd who gave belgian fishing boats unlimited access to british waters in

perpetuity much more recently than that when the u.k. joined the e.u. in the late seventy's that access was cemented in a quota system. under the common fisheries policy a small sacrifice in terms of fishing won them much greater benefits in terms of the single market but british fishing has been in decline ever since that access was not equally shared in fact british boats have only been allowed under the part the policy to capture 38 percent of the fish in their own waters most of that then export it to the e.u. which has made fishing absolutely central to any trade deal that was to be struck indeed vitally dependent on it the problem is that the deal that they've now got is not the deal that british british fishing communities had hoped for nor indeed the one that they'd been promised. and all british catch landed at bricks in devon these waters have been fished by british and european boats for centuries making fish issue in the brink battle for sovereignty but

while british fishes were at the forefront of the march to break the promise of winning back control of their waters has been broken a small increase in quota after a 5 year transition period some e.u. access retained many here feel 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'd get. phishing accounts for a tiny fraction of the u.k. economy yet its importance in the trade talks has been far greater than that one of the last major issues to be resolved remember the breaks in vision was about taking back control of britain's laws of its borders and of its waters it's turned out

that at least part of that vision was an illusion of probably one of the only remaining voting issue and you'll find there is another couple but now i. will happily walking around the case saying i told you so but i am walking on a piece saying i told you we were so post always a proxy. and it was all about plate we clean our waters and get our territory back it's just nonsense i'll think not but they're awesome and great and if you are saying you were. a 10th no actually eventually this but others spend probably. 30 or 40 percent of my year in french wars. i'll spend we 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 al-jazeera bricks of. same is the former chief press officer for 10 downing street he joins us now live via skype from london good to be with his mo and many economists reason that at least in the short term the u.k. economy will slow due to bring sudan of course the pandemic is braggs it's a tragic national era as the guardian newspaper put it today. no i don't agree with that and i think you know i was very much campaigning for remain however i think we have to respect democracy and the fact that the leave vote one and we've been talking about this in the u.k. before and a half years now i think there's a lot of breaks it 50 and i think a lot of people probably put it happened quite a while ago and are quite glad that some kind of deal has been struck i think the

worst outcome would have been to no deal and that's something that i wanted to avoid as many other people did so while this deal is not perfect in any deal it's unusual it takes away from the relationship we had and it does put up some barriers that up was how the country voted that is do you want to know us in our if you say there is there is a deal but it's not over yet is it to that the deal agreed on christmas eve failed to include the status of service industries other drivers of the u.k. economy fishing as we were just hearing the negotiations and that the shaping of the future relationship will continue workday. yes they certainly well made it more of a framework i think the test will be how does the u.k. and the e.u. now work together to actually put the meat on the bones of the steel hard to deliver in person there will be issues that come up you know it does look things as

diverse as energy transport data tray it was and very quickly clearly there are gaps machine as you point out the fishing community is not happy and they have the number 5 in our heroes or transition period financial services i think are right to be concerned it doesn't say much about service but about good crossing the border so will there be another kind of side deal on equivalent financial that was the thing that remains to be seen even security you know there are some good element of security cooperation here and i worked on this a lot when i was best acquired in the u.k. home office but we do seem to be losing access to real time security data which is a concern i think the government's challenge on all of this now is to paint a picture of becoming where you can have me going to fill these gaps and governments talking a lot here in the u.k. about remaining european remaining a friend an ally of the e.u.

pointing out that it's the 2nd largest contributor to nato so i think it's even the impression but it's to wonder to work with you want to see challenges how how long before the british public begins to notice the impact of briggs's and i think this is a great quest. it was a great question and we lost your boat just as you were about to answer it but what a shame i wanted to hear what you had to say and it's still frozen so weak we can t. you will move on for the moment what a shame. that was most hussein and this is that he was out for most of syria still to come on the program. play through say you feel safe anymore. we'll tell you why record numbers of people in hong kong seeking u.k. residency. india takes a step closer to approving a vaccine for emergency use will get the latest from new delhi. and its schools manchester united states have the chance to move level on points with

a table topping liverpool far right here with us for the rest of the sport a little later. the u.k.'s health system is facing one of its most difficult periods since the beginning of the pandemic national health service bosses so the next few weeks will be critical a more infectious strain of coronaviruses pushing transmission of death rates to record levels emergency hospitals are on standby more people are now in hospital the during the peak of the outbreak in april and some parts of england talked to us on is a frontline urgent care doctor for the case national health service the n.h.s. he joins us now live from london dr good to have you with us once again there are reports that some some critical care units are running at 200 percent of capacity right now is that borne out by what you'll see. i think that sounds about accurate

we are all very strong in the n.h.s. whether it's from maine a need to partner up to their wards and i to you we are not sitting capacity we're all working max out yet again very big you never seen these be times like this before not even early on in march february it's going to look worse now so how hospitals managing this are they having to convert general another specialist wards into covert wards right now that's correct initially we started off with having a segregated coded ward but that's now getting packed up on a daily basis so other wards are now being. transformed into code whole areas so that's where the patients are looked after not necessarily the ones that are going to lie to you but the ones that need to be in hospital couple days and oxygen that looking after so those bases are now blocking up beds and wards and obviously stuff so often now being spread very thin across lots of different apartments with in the hospital special emergency department and what impact is having is this having on

other aspects of health care within the n.h.s. cancer care and such like. i mean obviously it's having a knock on effect on everything because if there was a being used for the treatments that what has to be closed and obviously whatever that what is whether it's a surgical ward 'd or a separate counsel those things are going to be delayed i mean the consequence of still going ahead and we are still trying to be positive but at the end of the day if there are no intensive care beds then there's only certain number of operations and things that can take place is this a situation that could have been avoided through better planning or has this new variant of the virus just caught everyone on the hope. i think looking back respectively everything seems a lot easier the new variant you know viruses do you say so this is always something that was you know we were wrong we were worrying about but it's be changing very quickly very rapidly and it's affecting people a lot more than before so it has hit us faster than we expected our main concern now in the n.h.s. and all the doctors nurses and my colleagues is did it actually i think at the

moment are you know the ones from generally before christmas so we're really worried about the next week or 2 where the current new years and christmas parties are taking place and people interacted those new infections are going to you know probably come in a week or 2 and if we already have incapacity we really wrote what we're going to do next would it be fair to say that the n.h.s. is in crisis then i think. we have crisis management plans taking place saw it in the writing at hospitals one of those hopefully if that takes you know press if that works out correctly for us we should be able to manage it but like i said we don't know because this is unprecedented times we haven't seen this much you know the heavy impact on the and it's just like this before so it's all new to all of us we wish you the best many thanks indeed it's always good to talk thank you a son frontline urgent care doc tankersley n.h.s. health experts in india are meeting to review the safety of the oxford astra zeneca

vaccine the country has yet to greenlight any vaccine for rollout despite recording more than 10000000 covert 19 cases that's the world's 2nd highest caseload live now to new delhi al-jazeera as elizabeth product is there what are you hearing about the approval of the this vaccine there in india and is. so india's health ministry is saying that the expert committee of india's drug's regulatory body continuing to meet to consider emergency use all 3 vaccines and that the final decision will be taken by the director of the body they have been meeting for the 2nd day this week considering emergency use approval for the oxford astra zeneca but also for pfizer biotech and the in company called by the biotech but we have local media and voices use agency reporting that the expert committee has recommended emergency use approval for the oxford astra zeneca and once that

happens that will go to the director for his approval but that is just thought to be a formality now this would be very welcome news in india for a number of reasons it's news that eagerly awaited not the least because it's the country that's been the 2nd worst affected or rather has the 2nd highest number of cases. indian company by the name of serious institute of india has been testing and manufacturing the oxford astra zeneca vaccine they have 50000000 doses ready to produce at about 50 to 60000000 a month in the going to scale that up to $100000000.00 a month by the end of march and the always said that they're going to set aside for everything they produce for india and other developing countries and in the meantime preparations have been in full swing for the vaccination drive here there's going to be a trial run with mock drills and vaccination centers around the country on saturday to test everything from the transport arrangements for the vaccines to the cold

storage systems the deployment of work because the app that's used to register and monitor everyone that's going to receive the vaccine the indian government is planning to inoculate 300000000 people just in the 1st half of this year and the already has the biggest vaccination program in the world where it inoculates around $56.00. 1000000 babies and pregnant women every year bought health experts say that the cold chain system in many places is in a bad state that vaccines are always stored or monitored properly power cuts could last for hours leaving vaccines on food for use and that is why the government has been doing trial runs to identify and fix problems before the coded vaccine drive begins here. as elizabeth for a reporting live from new delhi it is many thanks. a landmark free trade agreement between african nations is coming to effect today january the 1st it was delayed by several months due to the pandemic $54.00 nations have signed up for now though

it's being implemented in the $33.00 countries that 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 2035 the agency also says that africa's exports mostly in manufacturing will get a $568000000000.00 boost and the agreement will raise wages especially for women who account for more than 70 percent of cross border traders the free trade agreement is forecast to lift 30000000 africans out of extreme poverty al-jazeera as i've addressed reports now from now may. workers at this garment factory rushed to deliver thousands selfies 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 he 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 cheap cost of labor in these countries will attract more industries. into african trade. development the level and pace of industrialization among african countries very some will have an advantage over others but african countries need to buy and sell roll and finished products among themselves. currently imports most of its needs from bottled water to food and machinery. from big retail to local markets flooded with imported products because. 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 century. products from europe asia and africa as large 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. agrees al-jazeera. take it away or is the founder and principal consultant of africa development the think tank he joins us now live from nairobi david good to have you with us what does this free trade

agreement do for african nations exactly can it be in any way can be compared to the e.u. single market and customs union. thank you for having me again well the african continental featured argument is very morning mentor for africa because he too need phys all the markets in africa and you can imagine not only from a. population standpoint the market that result but also that what you need is for africans to trade with themselves much as this is the beginning of the exploration is actually to be where the european union is essentially a wide customs union which will allow for free movement of goods and also an african common market which would allow for free movement of people and so at those levels of integration the expectation is that you know and only you know if you do the numbers you've mentioned in your story but also imagine being

a 100000000 people out of poverty by the president that is 5 so what monumental and also quite a significant impact for the continent or it's a 1st step towards further economic integration will it put an end to africa's notorious corruption at its at its infrastructure problems. all the corruption beat that dress the corruption that perhaps exists. due to you know the dave argent and de vos. cedars and the corruption that happens at oporto simply because you know one of the big programs of the course in the future is going to harmonize these customs procedures but also to make importers and exporters in peace the awareness so that they know you know what to expect when they come across borders and so the avenues and what unities that have are currently being exploited in terms of corruption that will

cause when goods are moving in and out of african countries might be reduced. but when you look at the broader picture of course corruption goes beyond beyond people it's really about the situations it's all what matters it here is to what extent will be limited institutions be implemented so that they can effectively address the challenges of the continent really good to talk to david many thanks indeed for being with us david aware of there in nairobi. let's get a weather update his rob out of the coldest around most temperatures subzero did you expect this is taiwan that do you expect to see frost in taiwan and middle east imagine this island and here you're seeing a very pretty picture now taipei is rather warmer 70 degrees we were just in london higher up and although temperatures are slowly on the rise is still got plenty of showers generated in eastern time and the sunshine doing its work albeit slowly

giving hong kong 60 degrees still 4 below normal more or less in seoul and still plenty of snow to be found in honshu and hokkaido for the next 2 days despite the fact the wind is generally weak and temperatures are trying trying but not succeeding to come up. that we have had a change in the fortunes in northern india punjab's it was it was pretty pretty cold still in the north which for many places means persistently disappointing as well those are the fog just tend to lift very last a few hours each day this destruction in the pattern taking place now and in the forecast could be good news so they got proper rain further south this is just occasional shouting around and you know what that does tends to stir up air improves the air quality tests get rid of fog the focus for delhi though where it is a little different to know. openly thanks still to come here on the new sod with corona virus infections climbing in brazil we'll take a look at the major divide of a how to handle the past the pandemic. families and libya sequences as hundreds of

that of civilians remain unaccounted for. and getting ready for an olympics wanted lucked out we'll hear from this gold medal hopeful about the challenge of training during a pandemic. in the far reaches of the new siberian islands gold rush fever is in the hands. hunters searching for priceless woolly mammoth tusks of ana the holy grail. an incredible journey into the realms of science fiction cloning and synthetic biology have scientists playing god. witness genesis 2.0 the hunt for the woolly mammoth on al jazeera. held for over 3 years in an egyptian prison cell

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britain's prime minister boris johnson hailed it as an amazing moment. emergency hospitals are being prepared in the u.k. as a more infectious strain of the coronavirus puts pressure on existing health facilities thursday the u.k. reported its highest rise in daily cases for the 3rd day in a row with a further 55000 people testing positive. and health experts in india a meeting to decide on the safety of the oxford astra zeneca coronavirus vaccine reports suggest that it's close to being approved for emergency use. the us state of california has recorded more than 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 but even gift shops fewer than 3000000 people across the u.s. a been vaccinated against code at 19 that's far short of the government's target of

an ocular 20000000 by now brazil is approaching 200000 coronavirus deaths and that 2nd only to the united states but while americans are getting vaccinated people in brazil are still waiting on just tourist mark again a key of reports from rio. mastrantonio 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 good died on april 18th while he was fighting for his life in a crowd in rio de janeiro hospital president. was firing the 1st of 2 health ministers the 2nd lasted a month both doctors were sacked after they asked brazilians to respect the world

health organization's guidelines they were replaced by a general who supports. since the beginning of the pandemic the president has been downplaying the virus calling it a little flu discarding the mask and promoting gatherings the supporters and no social distancing 10 days after death the president was asked why brazil's 5000 killed 19 related deaths had outnumbered china's. i heard him answer so what i'm not a grave digger and life is what it is will all die that really hurt me a person in his position should at least lie about his feelings and say his heart is with the victims and their families not turn it into a joke or a political power play by june the number of deaths had which 30000 a brazilian and dug a symbolic mass grave a real psychotic beach of copper combine to college attention to the spike of

infections. a bull so 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 by one of them some of. the boston area supporters started calling me a communist i didn't even know what it meant but i know i never want to turn into somebody who was unable to respect pain and loss or to listen to somebody who thinks differently. by august brazil had reached the landmark of 100000 deaths 2nd only to the united states in cold with 1900 tallaght east massoud by then a local hero was called to release 100 red balloons in a new homage for brazil's victims he carried a photo of all go to show both so now to skeptics the real face of death brazil

still holds its place as the world's 2nd largest covert 19 pop spot after the united states but contrary to the west's and other latin american countries like chile and mexico they have still not started vaccinating its 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. that since it has been successful and the you know the cash transfer program to 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 masque if he's forced to pick sides in a polarized country he knows where he'll stand 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. but with the pandemic impacting different aspects of life all over the world it stamp and new year celebrations but some countries were able to ring in 2021 in traditional style lower burden mally 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 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 coffee 1000 cases emerged. 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 the sun after everyone thinks that the 1st hall of 2020 was terrible if you look at the measures people took the things people did to control the virus people's kindness was felt by everyone and. most who also celebrated with this annual tradition of pi works but its president vladimir putin had a sobering message but it stirred unfortunately the epidemic has not yet brain

completely stopped the fight against it does not stop for a minute but doctors nurses and ambulance times continue to work right asleep many of them are on duty this festive 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. and across the atlantic in. celebration but on a much smaller scale as the iconic in times square dropped at midnight it was to a much smaller crowd. as the globe wraps up new year's celebrations many will ask will things be better in 2021. the al-jazeera. and 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 people from the former british colony can move to the u.k. for up to 5 years and then apply for residency adrian brown reports from long. many people in today's hong kong tend to choose their words carefully but fred z. is not afraid to speak his mind about the reasons for leaving a territory he says he no longer recognizes no place he would say you feel safe anymore everywhere when you see police actually get tense that's why especially as a parent with kids it worries me a lot fred hopes to soon join his family in the nearby democratic island of taiwan he owns a market research company another skilled worker who doesn't want to go but says he has to that decision motivated by concerns over the new national security law especially its impact on academic freedom when the true don't come to home you need

to know. what lessons that they had in school would make you very tired. being brainwashed. was he took part in protests demanding political reform demonstrations that often turn violent amid the subsequent campaign against ascent other families are also opting to leave this one else not to be identified because the father's worried about the repercussions of speaking out they've taken up the british government's resettlement offer and will soon leave their home for the last time. there is nothing to make me stay and it is torture to stay and if you're on the opposition side what the government is doing is not for the benefit of the people they have sacrificed hong kong's future for their own interests. kim watchung 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 us in the ball me they they they they say maybe you have to be less if we choose to stay because it is tilted our 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. mason law is a pro-democracy activist who fled hong kong to london he says that hundreds of thousands will leave hong kong in order to avoid persecution by beijing. a lot of

hong kong 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 a few 100000 people coming because for now the u.k. is in political instability and for little from calm people they have kind of like a wait and see mentality for now but at the end of the day they're facing political persecution a lot of what tara in hong kong so i guess and there will be. amount of numbers of people flowing into the country that different degree of political persecution that people are facing some are being charged 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 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 when libyan laws khalifa haftar forces controlled the city of tarhouni hundreds of civilians were forcibly detained tortured and killed their families who is 2 still don't know what's happened to their loved ones and zeros my trainer has been to talk to know and met those tools searching for the truth. many families in libya will be spending the next few days together celebrating the new year but the family and through no 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

i mean i 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 when to whom no was half their 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 chimbley 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 or 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.

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 although it 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 election result on january the 6th a white house correspondent kimberly hell could in washington explains why republicans are queuing 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 josh holly is that senator so this is what is going to trigger this mechanism but again this is not going to overturn the results still many of these republicans are allies of donald trump who firmly believe that there was voter fraud that there were election irregularity 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 just ahead on the sports the college football game that really got going off to the action was meant to finish 0. 8 calm and make sure you're not hyping the situation be part of the debate my main characters are women when no topic is off the table the moms in the last allow no child marriage to happen legally. these are basically archaic walls ballard's often legitimize them guido one is pedophile on air online jumping to the quick section and the chain to the part of the discussion the stream on out is there when the news breaks the impact of the storms in honduras has been particularly devastating when people need to be hurt no group has claimed responsibility for the shooting on

the outskirts of srinagar in india and minister kashmir people here say they're living in fear al-jazeera has teams on the ground we never ate this type of food that we simply don't know if we can teach you to bring you more award winning documentary and life seems on air and online. how to get to talk to sport is far adrian thank you so much we start with basketball's top league the n.b.a. and the phoenix suns and a 2020 with a win against the utah jazz for their best start to a season and a decade 7 booker led the suns with $25.00 points and 7 assists while mikhail

bridges and jake crowder added 16 each phoenix went on to seal 106895 victory they've now won 4 of their 1st 5 games this season. like i said that's a really big move for us we play well we play balanced all game. well campaign play well. you know so that's a big win for. 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 debut game for the team james harden added $33.00 points in this when over the sacramento kings a match at united have a chance to move level on points with liverpool at the top of the premier league united are in action against aston villa later on in out it 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 best 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 and then maybe you can start about start talking about a title race when when you get to march april the manager who's positives has for covert 1000 resulted in the league shutting down last march doesn't think it's time for a 2nd suspension arsenal's mccall test says it's all right for games to carry on to matches have been called off in the last week due to a rising coronavirus cases and sheffield united scame 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 test 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're going to carry on doing it and olympic athletes will be hoping there are no more false starts in the year ahead the tokyo games were pushed back by 12 months to cope at 19 and are now due to get underway in july tayloe mohammad won a silver medal in taekwondo with the real olympics we spoke to him about his year and a lot to. 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 taken 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 of police across the country mentally it. was definitely hard to focus there when you're not in your normal training the environment. feels like the whole world has taken a break but everybody was at home it was really it was such a bizarre and unusual situation there's definitely times where it was a lot easier just to kind of their off focus but it was have to keep the faith and hopefully we can get through this just gets to the beginnings. if they host that thing on the top of mount fuji i'm there i'm not overly concerned about safety. only because i trust but the organizing committee is going to do everything and anything so you have made sure that there's no help incident at this olympic games there's only one chance to win

a gold medal at this post pandemic games i think this games can be. a really special one because it can act as. almost like a beacon of hope for the world so i've been very determined. to make sure that i will. really really excites me. cover 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 positive tests and that's resulted in the team's training center being closed down cleveland place the pittsburgh steelers in a must win game on sunday these days to be pretty exhausting the schedule changes and not exactly known when you're going to come in and get you know the practice and the workouts and so you just going to have to stay very phone as they tell us to do and be alert for i mean it's we can't do anything about it so there's no

reason to complain it's just you know what punches and i have to deal with that on a college football game descended into chaos after the action was meant to be over this is the mississippi 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 to adopt in mets. ok and that is all you back here for many thanks indeed take a look at this it's been a tradition in rome dating back decades on new year's day. bridge in the capital into the icy. lifeguard who was showing off his diving skills in the hopes of getting work as a stunt but since then italians have been braving the freezing temperatures to keep the tradition. just

a few. decades ago. that. was once a testament to the city's grandeur but decades later the theater has become a symbol. now the philippine government is changing their government. structure. but rebuilding a life and a city from scratch has proven difficult and some experts say has never truly recover it. in the conclusion of the 2 part series people in power and best to gates allegations that irish catholic nuns facilitated the traffic babies car to

realize that babies that are the could be sold to america a scouting quite they use and reveals shocking new evidence of how and when haven't you just what is disposed of those who died thank you torn in the system like this one church and state are committed to keep the church from coming helps islands mother and baby scandal on al-jazeera. wait till his youngest. is close to. one woman is travelling to the villages where the parents still live under a storm the thing. on al-jazeera. al-jazeera

. where every month. this is an amazing moment for this country we have all freedom in our hands a new era for the united kingdom as it formally separates from the european union. trade rules have changed but so far ships and trucks are getting through smoothly in europe. but i get i'm adrian for good this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up emergency hospitals are being prepared in the u.k. as a more infectious strain of coronavirus puts more pressure.