this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the british prime minister boris johnson and the president of the european commission will speak later saturday to try and break the brexit trade talks deadlock. we keep calm, as always, and if there is still a way, we will see, huh? the two sides remain divided on fishing rights, the rules governing state subsidies for business and how the deal is policed — uk businesses say they need clarity now. the government has sent out a letter to every business in the country saying check, change, though. well check what? change what? go where?

we need to know now. this has now got to be done and there has got to be compromise on both sides. the uk vaccine regulator says, the covid—19 vaccine will ‘definitely‘ be ready to go into care homes in the next two weeks. a large—scale vaccine roll—out begins today in russia, using the country's ‘sputnik‘ jab. the makers say it's up to 95% effective, but it's still undergoing trials. and coming up — in a week that's seen the collapse of uk household names including topshop and debenhams, what's next for the high street as we know it? we'll be speaking to a small business owner in the next half an hour. hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world —

i'm sean leigh — do stay with me for the latest news from the uk and across the globe. britain's prime minister boris johnson and european commission president ursuala van der leyen will seek to break the deadlock over a post—brexit trade deal. negotiators for the two sides called in the two leaders after saying "significa nt divergences" remained following a week of intensive talks. most of the deal has been completed but key sticking points remain.these include fishing rights, the rules governing state subsidies for business and how the agreement is policed. time is running out to get a deal through before the uk leaves eu trading rules on december 31st. here's the eu chief negotiator michel barnier speaking this morning on his way back to brussels. good morning, monsieur barnier. hello, how are you? what will you be saying to president von der leyen? good morning. we keep calm, as always, and if there is still a way, we will see, huh?

thank you. au revoir. is all hope of a deal lost, mr barnier? if there is still a way we will see, huh? au revoir. thank you. safe trip. with me now is our political correspondent jonathan blake. not much said but then not much to say? no, we're treading water at the moment. significant divergences between the two sides, we are told. i think we can take that to mean that there are big gaps between their positions on those three key sticking point which we have been talking about throughout. they are worth reminding ourselves of is. the fishing access of eu countries voting uk waters, the governance of enforcement of any deal that is done and competition rules, the so—called level playing field, so now we have

a situation where their negotiating teams are putting their feet up on the day and it is over to their political masters. borisjohnson the prime minister and ursula von der leyen the president of the european commission to talk and see if they can even indicate into each other that there is room for a deal to be done. it will require compromise most likely from both sides in one or all of those issues and this is being seen as a key moment where i think there will either be a breakthrough and the talks will resume, probably not before tomorrow, or a breakdown and the process co m es tomorrow, or a breakdown and the process comes to an end. one man who knows a thing or two about how these negotiations go is the former brexit secretary david davis, who said on bbc breakfast this morning that this is undoubtedly an important moment. it will go the distance. it will be decided politically not in the negotiating chambers. there will be compromises, i suspect, negotiating chambers. there will be compromises, isuspect, on negotiating chambers. there will be compromises, i suspect, on both

sides. what the prime minister will have to protect, the key issues of control, not giving control away to the european union in pursuit of economic outcomes but there will be, in my view, it is an everybody's interest succumb to a deal but i am afraid it will be tense, it will be nerve—racking, it will run to the end of month. he is talking as you said isa end of month. he is talking as you said is a former brexit secretary. a lot of noises this weekend, we heard for example from the french europe minister on friday saying that france is prepared to wield its veto and of course every single member country has a potential veto over a deal even if one is agreed between the european commission and the british. tough talk from the french, absolutely. yesterday we had the irish prime minister urging both sides to do a deal really highlighting the benefits of a deal as he cedes it so absolutely there are political factors it's as he cedes it so absolutely there

are politicalfactors it's play as he cedes it so absolutely there are political factors it's play and there are all meant the members of there are all meant the members of the european unions with a vested interest in getting a deal that is not only in the eu's interest but that country individual interest. borisjohnson on the other side with his staunch brexiteer credentials on the promises he made at the last election and everything we have heard from him about taking back control, as he and the government put it, and maintaining the eu's independence as a sovereign nation in the future after the transition period ends in december 31, so that's are worth bearing in mind when we hear these noises coming from different quarters at different points in the process. what is your reading of the mood at westminster? there is a sense, i think, that this process is not in its last moments, necessarily. help is not lost. i think it is important to bear in mind that while both sides are talking and neither is either threatening to all in the process of walking away... —— hope is not not.

it isa walking away... —— hope is not not. it is a chance that there is still a deal that can be done even if things go to the wire and the answer we have to see what happened but this morning is really stressing that importance that the government puts on upholding the uk's independence and sovereignty after the exit and that competition rules, the so—called level playing field, and how both sides will agree or not to undercut each other or to avoid undercutting each other in terms of how governments can support businesses in the future and that seems to be, of course, there three areas of the sticking points are crucial but that seems to be the one that the government is stressing at the moment. jonathan blake our political correspondent, thanks very much. with a deal so far not in place there is uncertainty for businesses on both sides of the negotiations. lord bilimoria is the president of the confederation of british industry —

which represents nearly 200,000 businesses, many of them the largest that operate across the uk. he said many of them need answers. it is 11.5 years since the referendum and we still haven't been able to agree this. the uncertainty is just so, so scary, so worrying. and what a time for this to be happening! the 31st of december, right between christmas and new year, when right around the world many country sort of shut down, and at a time like that you have got to cope with all this uncertainty and all this disruption. if we have a deal, at least there is some certainty. even if we have a deal we have to adjust to it. i mean, the government have sent out a letter to every business in the country saying "check, change, go". well, check what? change what? go where? we need to know now! this has now got to be done and there's got to be compromise on both sides.

fishing remains one of the major sticking points in the brexit trade talks. let's talk now to dr bryce stewart — fisheries scientist at the university of york and who has been following the talks closely. thanks very much for being with us here on bbc news. let us start with the basics. how important are the respective fishing industries in the uk and indeed on the continent of europe? economically they are actually not very important at all. fishing represent something like 0.12% of the gdp of the uk so, for example, there is more money going through harrods every year, the lawn mower industry is worth more than fishing, but politically it is obviously much more important than that, and it is obviously very important for certain coastal communities where it provides a lot of thejobs communities where it provides a lot of the jobs and that is the same on both sides of the channel. in terms of the practicalities here, the sticking point, one of the sticking points, seems to be how long and how

much access european vessels should enjoy to british territorial waters after the deal. presumably, enjoy to british territorial waters afterthe deal. presumably, if enjoy to british territorial waters after the deal. presumably, if there is no deal, they would have no access. , is no deal, they would have no access., such as oppression are presumably for both sides to find and similarly the british would have no a ccess and similarly the british would have no access to the market to buy much of theirfish so no access to the market to buy much of their fish so presumably it is trying to find a point that both can sell as a compromise back home? yeah, that is it. but the two things at stake. one is access to uk waters and the other one is the share of the quota. there about 100 fish stocks that are biologically shared between the uk europe and so we need to work together whether we have a heart of the soft brexit or whatever to set sustainable limits on that and that is where the sticking point is, really. —— hard ora and that is where the sticking point is, really. —— hard or a soft brexit. that is where the sticking point is. uk wants to get more of that quota considering it got a raw deal in the common fisheries problem was set up but as you said the

results of the problem with trade for the uk. we export about 60% of what we catch to give up on it relies on being able to be traded very rapidly so at the moment, you know, you can catch a lobster in cornwall, it can be in a dining venue cornwall, it can be in a dining venue table in paris the next day. with a no—deal brexit, there will be significant delays to that process, loads of paperwork, tariffs as well, and so that product might take three orfour and so that product might take three or four days, and so that product might take three orfour days, by which and so that product might take three or four days, by which time it's and so that product might take three orfour days, by which time it's not going to taste so good, it is not going to taste so good, it is not going to taste so good, it is not going to be worth so much, and people may not want it at all. we have had a few incidents, very small small scale, frustrating, maybe even frightening for those involved were vessels have clashed with each other. is that not the other danger that governments have got to be aware of? that these are communities that really feel a sense of being economically on the edge and if the politicians mess this up they could come into real direct conflict with

one another over access to fish because it could become almost a lola situation as opposed to one where there is an agreement and rules laid down? —— a low loss situation. yes, a mean the rules will be there but you're right that feelings run high on this issue. -- lawless situation. levels will be there and i hope we don't see what we saw in the so—called scallop was a few years ago. if we say that we wa nt to a few years ago. if we say that we want to keep catching as much more than we have done in the past then we will actually end up catching unsustainable levels of fish and within a couple of years the stocks will cut start the clash, clash and then everybody loses us in that situation. can i ask briefly, as ever we are fighting for time, but can ask you one question, more generally, do you think voters have achieved their objective because

they obviously controversial mechanism, would you think there is evidence they have done what they have were designed to do? actually, over the last decade or so the performance of the common fisheries policy has really improved. it wasn't very good in the first couple of decades, to be honest. that is mostly because the managers were ignoring the science of at least setting the quote is much higher than the sign said. since then, actually, it has been much better and lots of stocks of improving. voters are and lots of stocks of improving. voters a re not and lots of stocks of improving. voters are not perfect, you need to mix them with other measures, but they are generally considered to be they are generally considered to be the best way of managing fisheries but we just need to get the way that they are shared out between the different countries, and even within the countries, shared out between different fishermen. at the moment, the small—scale fishermen in the uk get a very, very small amount of quota, and it would be great if that could be improved after brexit. particularly, as you say, something like three quarters of our fishing

boats are no bigger than ten metres so there are, british fishermen tend to be the small fisherman. that is exactly right and actually most of those fishermen at the moment focus on inshore species, lobsters, crabs, wealth tax, scallops, and they won't get any more of those after brexit because there are not actually managed by europe anyway, but those products are the ones that are really exported in high amounts to give up. —— lobsters, crabs, whelks. 85 or 90% sometimes, often alive, so this is where that trading becomes that frictionless trade. the moment you start putting in nontariff barriers never mind tariffs the process is slowed. there is nothing less edible than a fish that isn't fresh! laughter thank you very much and thanks so much to be talking to us. fascinating stuff and quite literally food for thought.

gps in england will start offering the coronavirus vaccine from the fourteenth of december. patients aged 80 or over will be the first to get it. care homes in england are expected to get the vaccine within two weeks, with the first vaccinations in hospitals taking place next week. andy moore reports. any allergies that you may have? nurses in a coventry hospital practising how they will administer the new pfizer vaccine, beginning next week. because the jab comes in large batches at low temperatures, the initial roll—out will be at 50 hospitals across the uk. but we now know that will be swiftly followed with the vaccinations by groups of gps in england, beginning on monday 1a december. the priority for getting the jab will be the over—80s who can make their own way to the vaccination centre. special freezers will be provided to store the vaccine at —70. gp practices will come together to manage the programme. they have been told that is their priority, with only urgent care for all other patients.

after that, within two weeks, doses of the vaccine will start going out to care homes. plans are in place to reduce the boxes containing the vaccine doses to more manageable consignments. all of this will place a huge burden on the nhs, and so the chief medical officers of the four home nations have written to staff, praising them for their hard work, while warning that this winter will be especially hard because of the pressures from covid. they warn of a possible surge in cases because of extra socialising over christmas, and they say for the next three months, vaccines will only have a marginal effect on the burden for the nhs. every action counts when it comes to protecting ourselves and our loved ones from coronavirus. that's why the nhs has launched a new public information film comparing the wrong and the right ways we can go about our lives every day to stop the spread of covid. it reminds us that up to a third of people show no symptoms, so they can spread

the virus unknowingly. andy moore, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news so far this saturday... uk prime minister borisjohnson and the president of the european commission will speak later today, to try and break the brexit trade talks deadlock. the two sides remain divided on fishing rights, the rules governing state subsidies for business and how the deal is policed — uk businesses say they need clarity now. the uk vaccine regulator says , the covid—19 vaccine will ‘definitely‘ be ready to go into care homes in the next two weeks. russia's coronavirus vaccination programme is beginning today — despite the sputnik vaccine still going through safety and efficacy trials. the firstjabs have been administered in clinics in moscow. it comes as russia is reporting record high numbers

of infections. mark lobel reports... russia's roll out begins here in moscow, with a cautiously optimistic public looking on. translation: i don't know whether the vaccine works or not, but i'm sure there's nothing wrong with it. i'm not an anti—vaxxer, but it's yet to be proved how effective the vaccine will be. with thousands signed up already, those currently eligible to apply online are medics, teachers, social workers, and those in contact with lots of people during their day—to—day duties. we expect to vaccinate around two million people in december. sputnik has good safety, good efficacy, it can be stored at plus two, plus eight. one jab costs less than ten dollars so definitely is a very good contender to be part of solution, but of course it cannot be the only solution to the world vaccine, you know, issues. president putin has now ordered the large—scale roll out of this vaccine across russia, which is yet to finish its stage three safety checks, having registered it back in august, as the country with the world's

fourth worst case load for coronavirus and the recent grim domestic record of 589 covid deaths in a day. so far, the sputnik vaccine's trial results have not been peer reviewed or approved by any international drug control agency, but the vaccine has been preordered by india, south korea, china, brazil and hungary. one challenge will be to convince some of the somewhat sceptical russians of the reliability of sputnik v. translation: i am not going to get the vaccine jab. let everybody else get vaccinated, and if they will i will survive. but the vaccine producers say this offers real hope for russian medical workers and hospitals alike, who, despite the constraints put in their path by coronavirus, are still finding ways to smile and keep safe this christmas season. mark lobel, bbc news.

not everyone is convinced by the sputnik roll—out — a short while ago i was joined by natasha loder, health policy editor for the economist, who questioned the ethics of the spped with which the vaccine programme is being advanced. she questioned the ethics of starting to vaccinate people in that i still haven't been completed and the vaccine itself. the most important thing we don't know is the most important thing which is what we can trust it or not and that is because of the weight has been developed and something which has created a lot of concern and suspicion all over the world, i would say. i would point out that it really is unethical to start giving vaccines to people when you have put them through late stage trials and, you know, these spots make a vaccine really just deeds you know, these spots make a vaccine reallyjust deeds get an entire stage of testing before it was registered in russia and that's normal and it is not unusual at all. essentially, they just normal and it is not unusual at all. essentially, theyjust did away with the last stage of testing and said 0k, the last stage of testing and said ok, we're going to register it, and thatis ok, we're going to register it, and that is really not the way to do it.

the uk public are being encouraged to offer vital support to small businesses as high streets reopen in time for christmas. the annual small business saturday campaign taking place today is calling on people to shop locally at independent retailers. research by the campaign group suggests there is growing public support for small businesses. we can now speak to deryayn tadd, who owns the dressing room in st albans in hertfordshire. thank you very much for talking to was on bbc news. is a little bit, festival, about the business. what you do? we have a ladies fashion business and have a store in st albans business and have a store in st alba ns and online business and have a store in st albans and online as well, the dressing room dot—com. the trading is kinda gone from strength to strength over those years and really kind of grown the online and the retail side of things as well so it has been a really challenging time but, you know, we are supporting,

asking people to support small business, and i think the shop small campaign couldn't have come at a better time for small business. presumably it, self—evidently, has been the toughest year you have known. i am sure it is true for pretty much every business in the country. what has got you through?” think, being a small business, we can adapt more quickly than larger corporations so i think that is kind of what discusses through this. being quick to adapt, being more nimble, and kind of engaging with our customers a lot more has really got us through and i think the fact that customers are responding very well so that has meant that we are where we are. i think at the beginning of the year, they told me we had been closed for four months i wouldn't have seen a way through it but it is about kind of using your initiative and just putting your head down and getting on with anything as a small business we can

do that webs largest corporations of struggle a little bit more with that. i was going to ask you about that. i was going to ask you about that. i was going to ask you about that. i have been to st albans very well but i don't know st albans well enough to know whether you had a top shopin enough to know whether you had a top shop in debenhams at an end point. when you see names like that disappearing from the high street, does that have an impact on smaller businesses? i think it certainly makes you think a lot more and it makes you think a lot more and it makes you think a lot more and it makes you realise that the high street is changing and i think it is the time for small businesses to any kind of thrive and i think there is a very much a movement for people wanting to shop with small business, the fact that they want familiarity, they were personality when they go shopping. if you just want to buy something you can do that for many large corporation. if you want retail therapy, something that is going to make you feel good, something that is going to put a spring in your step and i think definitely shopping with a small business is going to make that difference and it has been a very, very challenging year and you can't

get away from the fact that we have lost a third of our turnover but, you know, we have come through it by larger corporations haven't and they shop small campaign like the one thatis shop small campaign like the one that is launching this weekend just encourages people to get out there to visit their local stores and realise that it really makes a difference. they will help to keep jobs alive, they will keep the local economy is thriving. what advice we give to other small business because device eight that might be another lockdown between now and the vaccine actually kicking improperly to kinda keepin actually kicking improperly to kinda keep in touch with their customers because presumably there is a real danger that if you shop for a month, six weeks, you'll israelis regular contact that ensures the customer are going to be levied on them and you open your doors.” are going to be levied on them and you open your doors. i think you have to do, if you're not already prevalent on social media, that is isa prevalent on social media, that is is a way that we can really, really connect with our customers. you know, 20 or 25 years ago it would have been a completely different situation and is now we do have

social media at the touch of a button it is free media in a way to engage with others our customers and we have always been very strong social media but we have really ramped it up and i have increased the amount of styling videos i do, through the first lockdown i quickly realise that people really wanted to engage with us. it was a bit of light relief from from kind of all the negativity that was out there. the shopping situation we'll find ourselves in, i thinkjust engaging with customers on social media really help. the dressing room in st albans, really help. the dressing room in st alba ns, thank you really help. the dressing room in st albans, thank you very much. good luck in the run—up to christmas. i hope it is a big success for you and if you have got a business and you don't know about social media, ask a teenager, they usually know it all. just bringing up some breaking news from the scottish fishermans federation. the eva policy will not accept any material change to

rates... recognise the truth about 70... reminded boris rates... recognise the truth about 70. .. reminded boris johnson rates... recognise the truth about 70... reminded borisjohnson of the pledges he and his ministers have made to ensure that he remained a fully —— pledges they made to ensure the uk became a fully fledged coastal state and not one in name only. now here for the weather. hello there. for many of us today is going to be a pretty cloudy day, we've got a few patches of rain to come through. now we have seen a little bit of snow mixed in, particularly over the hills. this was gloucestershire early this morning near the wye valley with a sprinkling of snow. the colder has been moving in, of course, across the uk, coming in from polar regions thanks to this area of low pressure. this is what brought the heavy snow that quite a few of you had yesterday. today, temperatures are a degree or two higher so for the most part it is cold rain that is falling. but it's still cold enough to bring

some snow across the high ground in scotland above about 200 metres elevation and a bit of snow as well mixed in with this as it pushes into parts of wales as well. now into the afternoon, generally the weather is going to slowly improve, it'll slowly brighten up and the patches of rain become a little less so there will be a bit more in the way of dry weather around. it stays chilly, however. temperatures struggling — highs today of around six maybe eight in places and that is colder than we often see at this time of the year. overnight tonight, we've got more rain to come off the north sea affecting east scotland and north—east england as well. maybe a bit more rain returning from the south—east of england as well, but in between these areas of rain it turns chilly with clear skies with patches of frost expected. that means we could have some icy surfaces to start the day on sunday as well as a few fog patches which could take time to clear as well. this area of rain, as it pushes inland across parts of england, perhaps reaching east wales, the rain becomes light and patchy but it will leave a legacy of cloudy skies again across a good part of england. the best of any sunshine probably for west scotland, northern ireland and north—west

but after a colder start to the day, there's temperatures will be lower into the afternoon. a colder afternoon with highs of typically four to six celsius. into monday, we find ourselves between a couple of areas of low pressure. the wind is very light between these two systems and so monday promises to be a cold, frosty and potentially very murky start to the day with extensive fog patches and some of that fog is likely to linger all day. where that happens, temperatures will struggle to get much above freezing but even if the fog does lift into low cloud, we are only looking at lows of around four or 5 degrees and we've got some rain towards the east coast. that rain through monday night pushes inland, bumps into the cold air and turns to snow for a time in scotland and northern england over high ground.

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