the state's health experts and bob maginnis has been warning for months that the easing of the lockdown would lead to an increase in who should and the impact that would have on those because of the 19. 0. 00 i maryam namazie of watching the news hour live from london coming up in the next 60 minutes traffic between britain and europe appears to be flowing smoothly as the u.k. completes its historic exit from. a devastating toll corona virus infections in the u.s. past 20000000 making up almost a quarter of the world's code that 19 cases. the u.s. senate delivers a final scene on to donald trump overriding his defense bill veto. africa embarks

on a new economic policy there's a landmark free trade agreement comes into effect. i'm john ash with sports the pond that is causing more problems at premier league club manchester city as 5 of the players tested positive for corona virus. welcome to the news hour after nearly half a century the united kingdom has formally left the european union are sharing in a new era in the new year so far britain's departure from the e.u. single market and customs union has been fairly smooth movement of the trucks and ferries between the u.k. and the e.u. has continued without any major delays but that's largely because of the coronavirus pandemic and a long weekend holiday meaning that traffic was like to than usual a new trade barrier is now operate. between northern ireland and the rest of the

u.k. this means commercial goods require a customs declaration and many british food products will need health certificates and some physical checks as well passengers on the 1st eurostar train from london have now arrived in paris many of those travelling will face new restrictions including travel documents insurance to cover health care and limits on how long they can stay in e.u. countries well paul brennan brings us more now from the port of dover the main sea trade link between the u.k. and the european continent. the countdown to the new post relationship was projected across the departure gates at the french side of the euro tunnel rail link moments later the 1st lorry was having its documents checked. the trade deal agreed on christmas eve means no tariffs and no quotas but there is significantly more paperwork and most of it needing to be done in advance the euro tunnel operator is get

a link the change is already about. for many teams ok now it's time there is a truck coming here they have to show us that they have done. on a line before coming here it's a significant change for logistics and haulage firms on both sides of the new trading front here the u.k. is expecting $220000000.00 additional customs declarations every year at a cost to business of some $9500000000.00 the ferry crossing between the english port of dover and cali and france handle some $2500000.00 freight vehicles every year but less than a 1000 lorries were said you'll to make the crossing on new year's day it's a gentle start for the new regime many haulage companies said they were holding off until the new systems have bedded in my hope is that given the opening couple of weeks in january are generally pretty late for us and with the pre-breakfast star bill that we saw going on the dash should enable those people that are trading

during the time to to train themselves and get used to working in this new way in fact at the gates of the port the biggest sticking point on this 1st day isn't related at all. we had a plan all works out already to hold freights to manage the freight but now we've had to initiate the testing as well as a number of locations so that's the biggest problem that we've got because that was never expected never planned for the key to keeping the ports open and running smoothly will be. the speed with which the logistics companies get to grips with the new electronic and paperwork requirements the early log jams are likely to be not here at the ports but back at the factory gate or work house with cargo delayed because the correct paperwork hasn't been filled in these 1st quiet days of january an opportunity for companies to familiarize themselves with the new practicalities the real test will come when trade volume ramps up again around the 10th or 11th of

the months paul brennan al-jazeera dover well everyone is happy with the trade deal fishermen and promise they take control of the seas or around the u.k. but as john hall now reports from the fishing town of bricks and many feel betrayed . and all british catch landed at bricks in devon these waters have been fished by british and european boats for centuries making fish a to tell big issue in the briggs's 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 very 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'd get. shafted. uses a lever. but the way we all thought it would be as bad. 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 fisherman you'll find there is another couple but now i'm. not happily walking around the case saying i told you so but i am walking on a piece saying i told you we were soldiers post boys correct. and it was all about plate we clean our waters and get our territory back and just launch and sell things not just because i'm so great and you are safe if you were. a temp no

no no actually because eventually this boat i will spend probably. 30 or 40 percent of my year in french for. i will spend kind of land in holland we sent our boat to holland for grief it 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 so i'm now joined by skype from brussels by david doesn't haunt chief brussels correspondent of political magazine a sense of unease today then that traffic is flowing on both sides of the channel

but what sort of teething problems do you anticipate in the coming weeks and months . well that's right marian happy new year to you and there is quite a lot of relief in brussels that a deal was done that we are in a sort of chaotic no deal scenario but there's no question that the relationship is now fundamentally different and it will not be the same especially when it comes to services for the u.k. economy obviously the lion's share of the u.k. trying to be focused on services i think you'll find that many in brussels and across the e.u. 27 agree with that fishermen there you know the whole thing was rather pointless from their perspective 4 and a half years later they are not at all surprised to see that in fact some people are still debating leaving remain in the u.k. quite a lot of a sense that things were over promised by boris johnson and the tories so the hiccups that are expected they could be paperwork that could be travel snuff who's there's all sorts of things that might come up but again with the holiday period will be some ease into that the transition though is over post bracks

a trade deal is done the u.k. is out on its own business is a face a more give up her seat and checks what does this mean for the cost of doing business with the e.u. . well there's no question the business will cost more i mean i had a funny situation where i got an e-mail about the warranty on the washing machine in my house which i didn't know that service warranty was held by a company in the u.k. that then had to switch it over to a subsidiary in germany all to be sure that if in the event that the laundry machine breaks down i can actually get the repair now from my perspective as a customer i could care less whether that warranty is filed away in london or in berlin but in fact that makes a difference and that company was spending millions when i looked closely at the details millions to adjust their operations for breakfast you multiply that across so many companies in the united kingdom and you realize that there has been a substantial cost to business already and those costs will continue going forward lou speaking about food and drink and how there's going to be extra checks on that

what does that mean for the food chain into the u.k. is it going to be complex more expensive well the hope is that with this deal that's been done on goods that the agricultural goods will be moving with a few new phytosanitary checks that are required and in place you mentioned earlier in your program the border with northern ireland where there was a lot of careful attention paid right there but you know i think one factor that is a bit overlooked if you remember in the days right before this deal was completed the shelves of supermarkets in the u.k. had emptied out and that was simply because of the scare around the new coronavirus train that shut the borders that backed up all the lorries when you saw from just a couple of days disruption how quickly those shelves to empty out how dependent the u.k. is on food imports from the rest of the continent germany and sent a flight with 80 tons i believe of food at that point there's no question there's some worry about how this will operate going forward but again far more confidence

that things will be smooth given that there is a deal compared to no deal. well thank you very much for joining us on this story appreciate it dave it has been harder from really to come magazine with the news hour live from london much more still ahead on the program india gears up for the world's largest covert 19 vaccination campaign i have that story and grieving families demand all it says as they wait for news on libya's missing men and then a bit later yogen caught calls on the premier league to avoid a covert shutdown we'll hear from the difficult boss in sports. the u.s. has exceeded $20000000.00 corona virus infections that's almost 25 percent of global cases according to johns hopkins university which has been tracking the

numbers since the start of the pandemic country fell short of its goal to vaccinate 20000000 americans by the end of 2020 only 2800000 have been inoculated so far let's go to annie gallagher who's in miami there must be more and more questions about how how it's been allowed to get so bad in the u.s. . you know i think 2021 was the year that was going to bring hope to this nation vaccines were made in record time to have been approved more are going to be approved in the months ahead and yet the trumpet ministrations operation was speed's pledged to have 20000000 people and those people over 60 five's and front line health care workers vaccinated by the end of 2020 has fallen far short of its target of 20000000 that number as you said is closer to 3000000 and the president just a couple of days ago was tweeting out that the governors of each of the states here need to get

a move on but the fact is there's been no national plan from the start no strategy despite the fact that medical experts have asked for one and what essentially president trump is saying is to health care workers and hospitals and vaccination centers who've been dealing with this pandemic for 10 months to get organized and to get on with it but people are exhausted many people have lost their lives and it's just extremely disjointed in fact here in florida over the past couple of days there were squabbles and fights outside 1st come 1st serve vaccination centers with over 60 five's waiting overnight and the line running for blocks and blocks so it isn't happening at the pace it needs to in fact some medical experts say at the current pace it would take 10 years to meet the target set out by the trumpet ministration. and what fears are there of this new strain of the virus. well this is the same mutated strain that was 1st reported in the united kingdom

now what's interesting about the cases we've seen here one here in florida 2 in colorado and at least one in california is all of those people that seem to have contract to this mutated virus haven't had any international travel now dr anthony fauci of the center for disease control and prevention says this is not unusual people shouldn't worry too much because the vaccines when they get them will treat this new variant that is supposed to spread faster but it adds to that sense of confusion remember there are a lot of people in this country that don't trust these vaccines that's another hurdle that hasn't hasn't even been approached at this point in time because the vaccine simply aren't getting into the arms of the people that need them meanwhile the number of cases and deaths continues to spiral out of control thank you from miami andy gallagher meanwhile brazil is now approaching 200000 deaths from coven 1002nd only to the united states but while u.s. citizens are being vaccinated people in brazil are still waiting for their as and

the president's outspoken views on the virus continue to divide public opinion on a chaotic you reports now from rio de janeiro. masson don't you do nascimento still visits the house his son used to live in who would have just turned 26 had he survived the couvade 19 pandemic but if he'd approach a vision the last time i saw hugo he was in a hospital bed i waved at him showing i was there for him he waved back but an hour later he sent a message on whatsapp telling me that he was losing his strength and he would not make it who died on april 18th while he was fighting for his life in a crowd in rio de janeiro hospital president jalal so not only 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 both. since the beginning of the pandemic the president has

been downplaying the virus calling it a little flu here discarding the mask and promoting gatherings the supporters and no social distancing 10 days after death the president was asked why brazil's 5000 called the 1000 related deaths had outnumbered china's. by june the number of deaths had reach 30000 a brazilian and dug a symbolic mass grave on reels iconic beach of copper combine to college attention to the spike of infections. a bolsa not a supporter started taking down the crosses calling them fake news and propaganda mass you he was recovering from a covert 1000 infection and was strolling by rush to replace them one by one by august brazil had reached the landmark of 100000 deaths 2nd only to the united

states in cold with 1900 tallaght ease brazil still holds its place as the world's 2nd largest coal but 19 a hot spot after the united states but contrary to the west and other latin american countries like chile and mexico they have still not started 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 is the one to blame so that since it has been successful and the you know the cash transfer programs the emergency payments to the poorest

brazilians have had an impact still brazilians know that aid is about to end massive was apolitical at the beginning of the pandemic but has now made himself a communist mask with 2 more years to go bill so maddow will need to do something to heal this infected and politically divided country monica inaki of al-jazeera rio de janeiro. health experts in india have met to review the safety of the oxford astra zeneca vaccine reports suggest it's close to clearing the final hurdle country has yet to green eye any vaccine rollout despite recording more than 10000000 cases of covert $1000.00 which is the world's 2nd highest caseload there are signs that a final approval could be imminent though as elizabeth purana reports now from the capital 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 ox of astra zeneca but also a full 5 is a biotech and an indian 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

india already has the biggest vaccination program in the world where it and it's 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 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 for the code that vaccine drive begins here. israel says it's vaccinated a 1000000 people against the coronavirus so far it's the fastest vaccination campaign them operating in the world beginning less than 2 weeks ago but it excludes 2 and a half 1000000 palestinians living in the occupied west bank and gaza prime minister benjamin netanyahu wants israel to be the 1st country to overcome the pandemic and he says he aims to do so by february just a month before the general election artists in the gaza strip are using graffiti

and murals to encourage people to take precautions against the virus is hope they'll raise awareness about the need to wear mosques and social distance the gaza strip is experiencing a rise and infections now a landmark free trade agreement between african nations came into effect from january 1st so it was delayed by several months because of the pandemic $54.00 nations have signed up for now it's being implemented in the 33 countries that have officially ratified it under the deal tariffs on 90 percent of goods will be eliminated the world bank says it will increase the continent's income by $450000000000.00 by 2035 the agency also says africa's exports mostly manufacturing will get a $560000000000.00 boost the agreement will raise wages especially for women who account for more than 70 percent of cross border traders and the free trade

agreement promises to lift 30000000 africans hours of extreme poverty. address reports now from now me in asia. workers at this garment factory rushed to deliver 1000 selfies masks the owner says more than 2 and a half 1000000. 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. 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

and peace of industrialization. very some will have an advantage over others but african countries need to. unfinished among themselves. currently imports most of its needs from bottled water to food and machinery from big retail to local markets and here is 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 centuries. africa's largest economies lined the shelves at the emmys biggest retail monopoly. was preferred these plans traders say they would be many local goods on store shelves and less 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. greece. yemi. mrs berry is an economic analyst and the c.e.o. of a consultancy firm specializing in connecting africa to africa to global markets she joins us via skype from chicago now we have seen these sort of trade deals being signed on the continent before and then it isn't really followed up with tangible action is it going to be different this time around yes thank you so much for having me i actually believe this time around things to be different and one of the reasons is because of the political will also wane think about the private sector engagement there's been a lot of transparency when he comes to the c.f.c. enact meant and i think this is the time that africa is actually going to make

a huge deal out of the. who is going to benefit most from this deal. well from a strategy standpoint out say which ever nation has a solid export development strategy and a market entry strategy that's the exec you show part of this. so the political side the policy side is in the walks it's done it's air i think what has to happen these contacts in the political aspect and actualizing needs chu. so private sector engagement we man youth grassroots activities disses the time that's what's going to make a difference so i'll just say whatever country gets that right in terms of export developments a market entry strategy those are the countries the reap the most benefit from e.s.c.'s. it's come

a very difficult time with the coveted $1000.00 pandemic is that going to delay the benefits from the dail we're looking at sort of $510.00 perhaps even 20 years from now. i would say 4 industries around the ward did not. play 2 roles one as a disruptor and 2nd as a catalyst a catalyst to advance digital you know this digital celebration digital adoption when think about the issues like zoom before this you know night scene how many people thought they needed zoom so from a digital standpoint from teen sex down foreign from manufacturing it can happily be used as a literate growth on the continent and i also know that saturn industries have been disrupted so i think it just depends on the vision of the leadership in terms of do they want to take this the advantage this is moment presents when it comes to leap frogging rights away think about financial inclusion for women when you think about

the informal sector or i'll do you formalized informal sector so i'll just say depends a depends on the leadership the will and the strategy behind it. i mean we were just hearing in. his report there from that it's going to be very difficult for a lot of businesses in these countries because of the sort of trade deals that already exist with countries in europe so it's going to actually be very even if you try and get that trade between african countries going. they're just not going to be the demand for those sort of local goods because they will prefer to have products from abroad. well what i would try to say is we need to distinguish between small medium sized businesses larger and to private enterprises because the needs and the a b a viewer in the market looks different the lodger enterprises kind of have the resources

they need to must show investments whether it's manufacturing but way think about the base of africa it's predominantly small medium sized enterprises and that's where the struggle is right a moment pop cannot compete with an international business so there needs to be building standardised in the private sector and the government asked you come up with a strategy to help small and medium sized organization access the resources the training and the capacity development that they need otherwise you're right they cannot compete thank you for explaining the story to us really appreciate it toya and in this area joining us there from chicago thank you. at the london news hour still ahead on the program dreaming of a safer life the hong kong family is looking to leave the territory of a political freedom. and why cuba believes eliminating one of its currencies it

will revive its flailing economy and analysts support as well the college football game that really got going after the action was supposed to a bandage. it's probably wintry of a mostly european plane that's not clatter and admitted li and the far east of europe to key west and russia it's tomorrow would not expect that cold front is trying to push the code it doesn't drop temperatures much as 11 in bucharest which compared with vienna is a huge difference but the difference between cold and warm water is what produced the stormy weather in the western bowls made now by the time we get to saturday that strong southerly component that will be all that's left the stormy weather nobody showers around through southern your course current snow up in the higher

ground of the sea and the still that normally present in northern spain but the emphasis on the card has dropped somewhat midlands quiet by saturday thunderstorm maybe and then missed a bit of rain returns during monday now the snow because of this cold is pushing up to the adriatic well then reappear as it joins that cold wind coming across the baltic in germany in luxembourg well in france for across the luxembourg confirms it does move 3 days you've got sunday monday and tuesday i think london with jordan with equal dismal weather and your nurse the rain then pushes through greece in towards the g 8 in western turkey significant rain some of which we falling in croatia as well. in the conclusion of the 2 part series people in power in vesta gates' allegations that irish catholic nuns facilitated the traffic of babies the cart realized that

babies that are the could be sold to america as a coward and why they use and reveals shocking new evidence of how and when religious orders disposed of those who died for a good horn in a system like this one church and state are committed to keep the truth from coming else islands mother and baby scandal on al-jazeera. 'd held for over 3 years in an egyptian prison cell denied the right to a fair trial no charges have been brought against al jazeera correspondent mahmoud hussein his crime journalism. to demand more neutral thinks and boy solidarity with all detained journalists sign the petition. mahmoud hussein. the all the. cool cool.

back a look at the headlines this hour now britain is formally left the european union single market and customs union with no major delays in the movement of trucks and ferries between the u.k. and the e.u. . 20000000 people in the united states have now tested positive for the coronavirus almost a quarter of the world's cases concentrated in just one country and the african free trade agreement has come into effect after months of delays with $33.00 nations now trading as one of the world's largest single markets. and we're on the practicalities of the new travel and trade arrangements many british people are now reflecting on what life outside the year paid union means for their sense of identity for almost 50 years people have felt similar. and

european but not anymore if barker reports on this now from london a clouded sunrise over westminster nothing extraordinary here many of brics it's changes will be slow but no even but in the minds of british people the u.k. now adrift from the e.u. is alone again for some that's a cause for optimism for others profound regret. the country still working out what breaks it means in practice with new rules on travel trade and immigration to name a few but beyond the dry details it's also about something much deeper for many brits especially those in their twenty's and thirty's being british and a member of the european union a part of one indivisible seamless identity that now is a result of bragg's it has been split in 2 of the 48 percent of people that voted to remain in the european union many now feel like they're being told to abandon

half of who they are. really sad to be. not european anymore but i think it was a really awful decision that we made as a country the idea that we this nation the world this could do better outside of something the size of the european union are things a bit stupid problematic and the people who have grown up in the eighty's ninety's noughties a european identity was responding mental to how he saw the world we call yeasty be able to travel freely in the european union being able to work there live there and of course people who are older were able to retire that fathers a european union membership has felt in some way forced and disingenuous voting to leave the e.u. is a shock treatment for some parts of the country that felt left behind a way of restoring the country's factory settings i think it's

a great opportunity for the u.k. now to stand alone and to really. build some business across the world but it's not as simple as hitting reset in the past 50 years the u.k.'s become intertwined with europe london's often called france's 6 biggest city because of its sizable french population i'm picking the relationships required a form of diplomatic surgery in the shape of years of torturous brags that negotiations and be no human could have been the message for many of europe's leaders is the braggs it is not something to celebrate the last thing the e.u. wants is for the 1st member state to ever leave the e.u. to be followed by others how future generations will judge this moment we don't yet know is it the beginning of new opportunities or the end of many a sunrise or sunset nave back out 0 london. the

united states senate meanwhile voted to override president donald trump's veto of the annual defense bill a major defeat for the president just 20 days before he's due to leave office senate sheaves a 2 thirds majority required to stop the bill with many republican members voting against trump for the 1st time trump had refused to sign a $740000000000.00 defense act into law because it retains legal protection for tech companies and removes the names of some confederate generals from army bases trump described the override as pathetic alan fisher has more on this now from the white house. it's essentially going to be the law and one of the last things that this congress does and what they're doing is handing donald trump a defeat both houses of congress supported by 2 thirds majority to overturn the presidential veto they needed the senate vote after the house vote on monday that has no gone through don't trump has already attacked those republicans in the house

who voted to overturn the veto he will do the same in the senate he attacked the leadership in the house as weak he will not do the same in the senate of course the republicans can defend themselves by saying look this bill actually contains a very important things for the military including peeresses and money for various schemes therefore we had to make sure it went through as clean as possible it looks as if one of the last things that this congress will do is hand donald trump a defeat on a bill that has passed without objection over the last 59 years this time because he vetoed it both houses of congress including the senate which of course remember is republican controlled saying no mr president this time we're going to see this goes through and you're veto is useless. and libyan warlords really fast as forces control the city of tire hona hundreds of civilians but forcibly detained killed and tortured and families don't know what happened to their loved ones and zeros

manik china has been speaking to 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 hanna 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 who made the town his command center before a failed military campaign on the capital tripoli i don't know why there 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 when to whom was half their stronghold so far 125 bodies have been recovered from mass graves in the city. can yet militia is accused of carrying out the killings but the tripoli 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. 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 hone. hundreds of people have walked out of a burnt camp in bosnia demanding better living conditions according to local officials they refused to take food and kept protesting outside the premises of camp account was burnt last week by some of the 1000 migrants living in it leaving them stranded in freezing and squalid conditions the e.u. and aid agencies of want of a humanitarian crisis because the migrants lack basic necessities.

many hong kong residents are packing up to avoid tough new security laws britain is offering refuge to those who no longer feel safe from the end of the month they can move to the u.k. for up to 5 years and apply for residency adrian brown's been finding out why some people plan to take up the offer. 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 children come to home you need to know. what lessons that they had in school would make you very tired to always worry about your kids being brainwashed. was he took part in protests last year 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 their sacrifice 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 me they they they they say maybe you have to be less if we choose to stay because it is too good our know what the government would 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 on call. a friend or as a pro-democracy activist from hong kong has made london his new hire and says while

the u.k. has its own problems the new law is a lifeline for many. 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 local phone company for they have kind of like wait and see mentality so now the idea of the day they're facing political persecution and lots of what terror in hong kong so i guess that will be quite a large amount of numbers of people flowing into the country some are being charged some are being some of being arrested and some would just like living in their daily lives and they are afraid of speaking out or they're afraid of the police brutality so i think that the different degrees of people that in the current political climate so volatile people if they feel like their freedom of being

restrained that they're not able to speak freely these kind of people they will probably thinking about leaving home by immigration but for some others like me we are facing real political persecution where then we have to flee and seek other ways of leaving the city. cuba is rolling out major changes that will see one of its 2 domestic currencies scrapped after decades of use the peso will be kept but devalued while the so-called convertible peso which is back to the dollar will be eliminated it was all in short term pain for the cubans but the government hopes it will address the country's larger economic problems and latin america is elysium and reports. he stole my tickets owns one of her banners most successful private restaurants a must even for the most high profile visitors until now his customers paid in cook's or c. you see a state invented substitute for the u.s.

dollar with $25.00 times more than the cuban bissau but now the who is being scrapped with an unsustainable dual currency an exchange rate system. without it just means the elimination of a currency that was circulating for a long time and reactivating our national currency to pay so. if only it were that simple one of the most common phrases in cuba is nice fasc or it's not easy. and that's the perfect way to describe the risk elimination of cuba's 2nd currency while it's considered to be hard currency it's in fact worthless outside of cuba hindering exports and desperately needed investments one the 1st to go to so is there with them when the creek was put into circulation it was pigs of the dollar but in time it was value its elimination in general terms is positive but there will be collateral damage. first and foremost

a devaluation of the pisot against the us dollar and a steep increase in prices which means purchasing power will drop despite the much higher promised salaries of i don't see the point they raise your salary but they triple or quadruple the price of the dollar which we need to buy all the basics. and that the other big problem. if you want to buy anything from food to clothes or even hygiene products you need to go to one of the more than $120.00 stores and that's why all these people are lining up in front of the bank to exchange hard currency for an electronic debit card in m l c the cuban name for the u.s. greenback cash transactions aren't allowed. not that iran has family who can send money if you don't work with tourists who don't have access to hard currency this change has been very bad. it will be a difficult process for a country that is already suffering from

a deep recession scarcity and harsh new u.s. economic sanctions but then as they say getting cuba's finances in order won't be easy. to see in human al-jazeera. the lad for you. today. to. australia advances its national anthem in a change many say isn't enough to reflect indigenous history. and there's a new ski jumping record in germany. now the details of. the 1st episode of a new series expose the imperial origins of the drug trade commerce what's going on fire on our screen our service thank you very much want to go and took its passage

from the far east to europe and the united states. you need money no money in these mountains. drug trafficking politics some power the era of empires on al-jazeera. setting the discussion millions of americans feel disaffected by both political parties examining the headlines this group of activists and relatives are marching band clinton right now where they're calling for morning edition and also explore an abundance of world class programming designed to inform why you show the only solution for a child as young as 10 motivate and inspire you see the world from a different perspective on al-jazeera. remove. the a. now

australia has updated its national anthem to reflect what the prime minister says is a spirit of unity. that was the old line we are young and free those words have been changed too for we are one and free it is an attempt to better recognize the country's ancient indigenous history. and holds the foundation chair in indigenous studies at university of melbourne and says simply changing the words to the anthem won't make australia a fairer country for its indigenous population. there at. night your demands. and if you're not a rower there are many novels like that martin song but one is that we are

national day afraid of they shine from its present night of january 26th which is one greatest deliberation of the landing of the most weight down there in the british naval commander philip and why that in so broken. were every word you. really are a celebration of genocide and so are the other rotation. in as you write it to them they constitutional reform because we were have been excluded from the constitution since 901 and 2 minor amendments in 969 exist as an absence from the constitution so we've never been quoted and so one word changed in the national anthem is not my get when it's.

a celebration of genocide on. our absence from the constitution i'm an awful a sport jammer thanks mary i am manchester city will be without 5 players for sunday's premier league game with chelsea because they've tested positive for corona virus defender kyle walker and strike. a 2 of those players self isolating after contracting the virus to staff members also return positive tests city was supposed to play everson on monday but that much was postponed due to the outbreak everton and then ask the premier league for full disclosure as to why it was called off and this is a may 1st didn't go down to out the city boss. 7 people in this club were run over to know that every single day they had collapsed making a statement complaining about how d's when he just did care about the healthy when the u.k. is down a. lot of people every day him being contaminated area like

a lot of people would kill music so the world is. like man sissy tottenham also had one of their games called off this week their match against full of on wednesday was postponed less than 3 hours before kick off i was after their opponents reported a number of cases and spurs boss james i'm renay wasn't happy i don't want to speak too much about it. just to say that i felt and professional but there so it is there so it was we were preparing ourselves for that. for that much and. of course we. didn't play and there is this wraps of of what is. week of work well for them is next match against burnley on sunday could also be in

doubt according to the head coach after a number of positive tests force that display and again spurs on wednesday we mentioned the whole squad was then retested but for them won't get the results until saturday just down the road from fellowman frank lampard has confirmed that 2 members of staff at chelsea also have private 90 with the rise in cases at clubs and some of course for a temporary pause to the season also known as a circuit breaker that is lampard in favor of this there are lots of people working at chelsea within our bubble who have babies parents. friends sisters brothers whoever grandparents and they come here and go to work and then they go home and they obviously are in the environment where were they were in another surge of car which seems to be more contagious deseret word than than we previously thought or is so i think the safety and security is absolutely paramount as opposed to trying to keep nice and spirits up and has not be a nice thing to cyber there tough times for everybody we are watching football but

safety and health has to come 1st the premier league has already said it's not considering a covert shutdown as despite a record 18 cases last week of a boss young pup supports the idea of keeping the season going the way it have any complaints of this changes down the line so i'm not a specialist you know and all that i we all try to do our best to to keep the competition going i think if it works well enough to get important as well because people want to watch it and we are in this case not part of it as a site if you want to usually lift isolated go to training ground and stuff like this so i think really we can carry on but i'm a specialist and i respect all the decisions. the decisions made in x. you weeks. klopp will no doubt be keeping a close eye on what's happening at old trafford right now when manchester united have the chance to move level on points with his side liveable at the top of the premier league united a leading aston villa to one thanks to goals from anthony masiello braniff and and

us as it stands that extend their own beat and run in the league to 10 games coming up to full time that just 2 minutes of stoppage time left united heading joint top everson missed the chance to close the gap on the top 2 they were beaten one nil by west ham thomas so check scoring the winner in the 86 minutes move west ham up to 10th ever since day 4 still 4 boys behind leaders liverpool but without their game in hand england's cricket same will take a psychologist on the road coming toward the how many plays you may feel anxious about touring during the pandemic the team overturned negative 900 tests and will fly out on saturday for the 2 test series before heading to india for just under 2 months england came under criticism from cricket south africa last month when they ended their tour of the country early over concerns about the bios to kill bubble. davidge cue backi has broken the hail record on the latest stop of the for his tournament the poll finished with a spectacular jump it's

a win in the presentation in germany he bats the sailing out to a new hill record of 144 meters to win the 2nd event of the series world cup leader however agnew granary was 2nd denying poland a clean sweep of the podium at the tradition of the day competition a college football game descended into chaos off to the action it was supposed to be over mississippi state a just secured a tight victory eva told when a huge fight broke out is still unclear what started the rule in a statement conference organizers said they were disappointed the highest standard of sportsmanship has not seen that's interesting pictures there yes going to do too much testosterone in one place idea. that wraps up the news hour but i'll be back at 2200 g.m.t. just a couple of minutes from now a full round up the day's top stories i will see you very shortly i found.

latest news as it breaks the measures introduced during this 3rd way 5 resulted in the 20 percent drop in the amount the people are traveling with details coverage protocols of both one on top and all of those in one us out of our poverty rate increased enough 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. and the territory that's been under constant sea trip 12 years. and in a state of perpetual conflict with its neighbor. women are swimming against the tides and challenging stereotypes in that isolated society. al-jazeera world follows 5 palestinians making a difference. the new women of gaza on al-jazeera. egypt's strongman is ruling within a fire and faced and the silence from his allies is deafening the u.s. was perfectly happy to trade off the march for sea for security while western leaders turning a blind eye when even their own citizens have fallen victim to his repression executions torture censorship is not acceptable and you won't hear such strong words from let's say berlin or paris or london our man in cairo on al-jazeera

if you want to help save the world. sneeze into euro. a devastating toll corona virus infections in the u.s. past 20000000 making up a was a quarter of the world's kovac 900 cases. you know i maryam namazie and london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program the u.s. senate delivers a finals nod to donald trump overriding his defense bill veto. traffic between britain and europe appears to be flowing smoothly as the u.k. completes its historic exit.