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 smoothly to europe. hello again 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 corona virus puts more pressure on its national health

service africa and box on a new economic path as a landmark free trade agreement between the continent's countries comes into effect . despite coronavirus restrictions people around the world still found ways to celebrate the new year. with the start of 2021 the u.k. has entered a new era outside the european union going forwards their relationship will be defined by the recently negotiated trade deal the u.k. officially departed from the blocks rules at 11 pm local time on new year's eve coronavirus destructions that meant that the brig's supporters couldn't hold any celebrations in public for trucks have been hauling goods across the border with france on the new customs rules since midnight delays were expected but so far things appear to be going. smoothly in the last hour or so the 1st europe eurostar

train has 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 climate change summit laws get ahead of the port of cali says that they've been prepared for any scenario deal or no deal since 3 years we are thinking working that's affecting. 2 weeks ago we did not know it would be.

some days we thought it would be you know it is no did for us then look sentencing being down is becoming a debate then you key is becoming the 3rd country and when it's a 3rd country you need to have a. customs think. that is no more the same or the life out of london let's fix the obvious here is that the barber who's there for us we heard very briefly the demon from prime minister boris johnson there a few moments ago what has one of the country's other political leaders been saying . well lots of different reaction as you might expect interesting those sound bites you've just played the prime minister talking in broad terms about it being an important moment he says it allows the u.k. to do things differently and better his chief negotiator with brussels during the talks process david frost tweeted a while ago that britain has just become

a fully independent country and deciding our own affairs for ourselves and then you heard from the courts about practical matters and that is something which it will be concerning to a lot of people here in the u.k. but just on the politics nicolas sturgeon 1st minister of scotland who wants to hold another referendum on breaking away from the u.k. she has tweeted scotland will be back soon europe keep the light on she her message has always been that the scottish voters when they rejected breaking away from the u.k. were assured that staying in the u.k. was a way of staying in the european union scottish voters very pro e.u. so that's her take on it and this could well play into her narrative but you know we've been hearing from the irish foreign minister simon cove me saying that this is not a moment to celebrate and the warning from him we're 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 predicts more costs and more delays now that's because there is an effective border now between mainland britain and northern ireland which is part of the u.k. because northern ireland has that land border with ireland a member of the european union this is something that some unionists in northern ireland were unhappy about the separate status effectively keeping northern ireland within the customs union separate status from the rest of the u.k. it could perhaps. give or impetus for those calling for a new border poll to reunite the island of ireland in the long run in the short term everyone's asking what it will mean for businesses now govern a government survey recently suggested that more than half of small businesses in the u.k. were not fully prepared for the end of the freedom of movement of goods and services

video covers only goods 20 percent of u.k. and economy not services which is the vast majority so i think the months to come will really be revealing for many business owners across the u.k. but they live for us in london that a day many thanks indeed for coastal towns were at the forefront of political demands during trade negotiations with the e.u. fishermen have been promised that they take control of the seas around the u.k. but the deal struck wasn't what they were expecting and some say they feel betrayed al-jazeera showed a whole reports for the fishing town of bricks. and all british catch landed at bricks in devon these waters have been fished by british and european boats for centuries making fish 8 to 10 making issue in the bronx in battle for sovereignty but while british fishes were at the forefront of the march 2 bricks in the promise of winning back control of their waters has been broken

a small increase in quota after a 5 year transition period some e.u. access retained many here feel day with a price to be paid for a u.k. e.u. trade deal it's not what we wanted it's not what we asked for. i think we all knew deep down that. we get. shafted. but the way 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 so we were so postboys correct. and it was all about plate we train our watches and get our territory back it's just nonsense i'll think not but there are some great and if you are saying you were. actually eventually this boat i will spend probably. 30 or 40 percent of my year in french was. spent kind of 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 0 of bricks of. the u.k.'s health system is facing one of its most difficult periods since the pandemic began national health service bosses say the next few weeks will be critical a more infectious strain of the coronavirus is pushing transmission and death rates to record levels emergency hospitals are on standby and more people are now in hospital than during the peak of the outbreak in april and some parts of england booked us on child rape as a front line urgent care doctor for the u.k.'s national health service the n.h.s. he says the new strain of coronaviruses hit hospitals harder than expected. obviously it's having a knock on effect on everything because if the wards are being used for other treatments that ward 'd has to be closed and obviously whatever that what is whether it's a surgical ward 'd will separate kinds of all those things are going to be delayed i mean a consequence of still going ahead and we often find people too but at the end of

the day if they're on an intensive care beds then there's only certain number of operations and things that can take place you know viruses do you say so this is always something that was you know we were wrong we were arguing about but it's been changed 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 takes missing at the moment you know the ones from generally before christmas so we're really worried about the next week or 2 where the current new year is in christmas parties are taking place and people have interacted those new infections are going to have you know will probably come in a week or 2 and if we're already in capacity we really wrote what we're going to do next we have crisis management plans taking place thought in the one thing else that was 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 health experts in india a 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 of the world's 2nd highest caseload theirs with broader reports now from new delhi. 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 by on tekken and the and company called bought a 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 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 $56000000.00 babies and pregnant women every year bought health experts say that the cold chain system in many places isn't a bad state that vaccines aren't always stored or monitored properly power 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 for the code that vaccine drive

begins here. next year i was 0 charlie's in libya secret service hundreds of civilians from maine on account of. no place to say you feel safe anymore. you are record numbers of people in hong kong seeking u.k. residency. the coda still flowing out of siberia going trust the open waters in producing a lot of snowfall i'm sure in our current but it's not quite as cold as it was and it's probably not as windies it was either i don't think we'll see any more snow on the korean peninsula and of course you've got to go across the water to produce it so it's still just colin sunny for example harben but sapporo represents what's happening in northern japan it is warming up slightly the average is minus one we

get to minus 3 by sunday but the snow is frequent and sunshine probably fairly rare that's a general picture in japan as you bring the flow for the southeast warming things a bit taipei's up to 20 not 70 needed a few showers here the big issue as a result of that colder air pushing down in the northeast monsoon of these here which in the flow will head down towards while malaysia should we say kuala lumpur maybe singapore and then after that and they cross to sumatra those of be big downpours and drop the temperature as well. the cold wave is still in the north of india and northern pakistan but this is an interesting development this will help to clear the fog it'll help to clean the air i missed a lot for this time of year but it's good if you happen to be in new delhi because the focus there where it will produce you would produce better conditions.

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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. emergency hospitals a big bed in the u.k. as a more infectious strain of the coronavirus puts pressure on existing health facilities on the 1st day the u.k. reported its highest wise in daily cases since the pandemic began with a further 55000 people testing clusters. 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. with the pandemic impacting different aspects of life it has of course dampened new year's celebrations around the world but some countries were able to ring in 2021 in traditional style was laura but mallee 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 it different stories the clock struck midnight 2 hours later in sydney the familiar bang in this a lot of fireworks to present but not the usual crowd to watch the plans to allow spectators were cancelled after a new cluster of coffee 1000 cases a match. a few hours later this was the scene in china's. the city where covered 901st 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 mouth. to the surface. everyone thinks that the 1st haul 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 thought i was but its president vladimir putin had a sobering message but it stayed unfortunately the epidemic has not yet brain completely stopped the fight against it does not stop for a minute the doctors nurses and ambulance teams continue to work right asleep many of them are on duty the stress of not elsewhere empty streets in assemble many stated to home. and in paris is shamefully say 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 too much smaller crowds. as the globe wraps up new year's celebrations many were asked will things be better in 2021. the

al-jazeera. one of the world's biggest single markets is open for business after months of delay due to the pandemic africa's free trade agreement comes into effect today january 1st the world bank says the deal will lift millions of people out of poverty but some economists say the continent's poor countries will remain at a disadvantage are addressed reports now from the. workers at this garment factory rushed to deliver thousands of fees masks the owner says more than 2 and a half 1000000 were made here to control the spread of copied 90. but as the africa free trade agreement comes into effect he foresees trouble ahead for the continent's poor countries. when the 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 and that it had to defeat into african trade industrial 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 raw and finished products among themselves. currently imports most of its needs from bottled water to food and machinery from big retail to local markets in the here is flooded with imported products because of its weekly infrastructure and indifferent beat 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 europe asia and africa's largest economies line the shelves at the emmys biggest

retail monopoly consumers 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 al-jazeera yemi. for more let's bring in our. who's in kenya's capital nairobi tell us more about how this deal will work mo and when ordinary people will begin to feel the benefit of it. well i v and it will be a long time before if you for enough feel the benefits of the market because 1st of all the only thought the 3 african countries will have right to fight the

instruments of these agreement almost a year after the process of countries signing it began $54.00 countries signed the agreement out of the 5 and a trade chose not to be part of the whole agreement whatsoever but still with 33 there's still about 22 or 21 more say countries who have ratified the dream of having a common market in africa has been there in the continent from the sixty's when the organization of african unity was published. in african countries have not been trading for right now in african trade stands at 14 past sun this is being caused by the punitive taxes countries have been charging exports from other countries and now these markets will make all these false people once it is fully in place but there are suspicions small countries that are not

industrialized saying that they are fearing they might be dumping grounds for cheap goods some of them coming from china because china has been a big proponent and supporter of this agreement which had been walked on by the african union and the been offering countries loans for establishing. industries and also chinese companies have been moving into africa trying to establish exports loans and many people feel that this could be after all hijacked by china. live in ruby. when the libyan warlord khalifa haftar us forces controlled the city of tal hundreds of civilians were forcibly detained tortured and killed there are families who still don't know what happened to their loved ones trainer went to how to who know and met some of those still 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 are either killed or kidnapped by members of the armed group can yet back by the warlord who leave her have to or who made the town his command center before a failed military campaign on the capital tripoli i don't know what other sure enough for 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 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 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 were there that's a lot of men i don't know why the government refuses to take them 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 traina. to hold. 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 of the former british colony can move to the u.k. for up to 5 years and then apply for residency adrian brown reports from hong kong many people in today's hong kong tend to choose their words carefully but fred c. 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'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 wise to me they call a syllable mean 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. strelley and basic o's were treated to a sight they rarely see at least along the waterfront this koa rapt attention of sun seekers and apollo bay in the state of victoria crowds gather to watch the marsupial amble along the beach stepping across surfboards not one point taking a moment to cool off in the water why don't the collar as a stray as national symbol are usually pretty hard to spot 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. well

that was the old line the words about been changed to one and. the longer we are young and free it's an attempt to better recognise the country's indigenous history in december national rugby players sang an indigenous version of the anthem for the 1st time. it is good to have you with us hello adrian figure here in doha the headlines and i was 0 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 britain's prime minister boris johnson said the country would make the most of what he called its new freedom this is an amazing.