this is bbc news — these are the latest headlines in the uk and around the world. pope francis gives his christmas day address at the end of the year dominated by the coronavirus pandemic. mission accomplished. the deal is done, now for the detailed. eu ambassadors are getting a briefing on the historic free trade deal with britain. an extra 800 military personnel are deployed near the english port of dover to help clear the backlog of lorries waiting to cross into france. christmas in the castle, queen elizabeth and prince philip break tradition by spending the holiday period at windsor.

hello and welcome if you are watching in the uk are around the world. stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and gci’oss news and analysis from here and across the globe. pope francis is delivering his christmas day address at st peter's basilica in the vatican. he led the christmas eve mass with a smaller congregation yesterday. it was held early in the evening rather than the traditional time of midnight because ofa 10pm traditional time of midnight because of a 10pm curfew imposed in italy. let's have a listen in. translation: jesus was born to ink and us without any borders, privileges or exclusions. —— born to us privileges or exclusions. —— born to us without any borders, privileges

oi’ us without any borders, privileges or exclusions. he was born for everyone. he is the son that god has given to the entire human family. thanks to this child, we can all call one another brothers and sisters for so we truly are. we come from every continent, with our own language and culture, identities and differences, yet we are all brothers and sisters. thanks to this child, all of us can speak to god and call him father. jesus is the only begotten son. he came into this world for the reason to show us the face of the heavenly father. thanks to this child, we can all call one another brothers and sisters, for so we truly are. we come from every continent, every language and

culture with our own identities and differences, yet we are all brothers and sisters. at this moment in history, marked by the ecological crisis and grave economic and social imbalances, only worsened by the coronavirus pandemic, it is all the more important for us to acknowledge one another as brothers and sisters. god has made this return of unity possible by giving us his sonjesus. the return of fraternity has nothing to do with fine words, abstract ideals or bagged sentiments. it is a fraternity grounded in genuine love, making it possible for me to encounter others different from myself feeling compassion for their suffering. caring for them, myself feeling compassion for their suffering. caring forthem, even though they do not belong to my family, my ethnic group or my religion. for all their differences, they are still my brothers and

sisters. the same is true of relationships between people and nations. may the child of bethlehem help ink then to be generous and supportive and helpful to those who are vulnerable and sick, those who are vulnerable and sick, those who are unemployed or experiencing hardship due to the economic effects of the pandemic, and women who have suffered domestic violence during these months of lockdown. may the son of god when you in political leaders a spirit of international cooperation. —— renew in political leaders a spirit of

international cooperation. i pray... well, that is pope francis delivering his traditional christmas day address. not of course from the balcony of saint peter's square, which would ordinarily be packed on christmas day, but he is inside the apostolic palace and his address is being livestreamed. he is, as you could hear, delivering words of comfort for people and made the tremendous hardships and challenges of this year due to the pandemic. now, after relief on both sides following a post—brexit trade deal,

the european ambassadors are now getting some of the details at a christmas day briefing. they are hearing from michel barnier who arrived at the eu parliament in the last hour with a copy of the document and saying mission accomplished. he led the eu negotiating team during nearly a year of fraught negotiations with britain. the uk prime minister boris johnson said britain had achieved a £660 billion per year trade agreement which would protectjobs, but the labour party said the deal was thin and did not protect workers. the deal must be ratified if it comes in on the ist of january. i'm joined now by our political correspondent leila nathoo. michel barnier isn't the only person to have a copy of this document, you have it too? yes, we have seen a full copy of the post—brexit trade agreement, so eu ambassadors meeting in brussels today have seen a copy of the document. the uk government has so far only published a summary but the

full text runs to something like 1246 pages. 400 pages odd of that covers the actual content of the deal, then a further 800 pages of annexes i cannot pretend to have gone through with a fine comb just yet, but it is a very meaty document clearly a nd yet, but it is a very meaty document clearly and there will be lots of details that need to be looked at, but the full text is being considered today by eu ambassadors. because remember, all the eu states have to give it the 0k. they have been kept in the loop throughout so it is unlikely we will get a veto. there was talk of that previously that some member states might be unhappy with some elements. the eu parliament has to go through its own process of voting officially for this deal, as does the uk parliament which will be recalled on the 30th of december. so there are some bits of december. so there are some bits of process to get this deal into

practice, but really this deal is going to go through. labour here have said they will vote for it, even though they are not completely happy with it, so no real barriers. is there a timetable for this? is it all going to be done byjanuary the ist? all going to be done byjanuary the 1st? the european parliament have said so far that because it is so tight, remember this agreement was only reached with one week to go before the end of the transition period where everything has stayed the same, and then the new arrangements are due to come into force on the 1st of january, but without the formal ratification it cannot officially happen. in practice it will come into force and the eu parliament is likely to agree but there might be some official procedural delay on that side. 0k, many thanks. we can speak now to a senior lecturer in law at middlesex university london. hello

there. i don't know if you heard leila nathoo describing the 1246 pages i think she said the document was. will you be poring over that with a fine tooth comb when it comes your way? then -- can i first express envy. i'm delighted to say for my own interest it is a little bit shorter than we were worrying about, but to put this in context, ifi about, but to put this in context, if i spent the next five days before parliament is recalled on wednesday, spending ten hours a dayjust reading that document, i will have a maximum of two minutes and 30 seconds to fully understand, analyse and comment on it. i will probably be giving up my christmas today, but i haven't yet seen the document i have to say. i sent a slight element of relief in your voice. it goes to show, doesn't it, how complex the uk's relationship with the eu was to

require such detail. exactly. in fa ct, require such detail. exactly. in fact, what this document represents isa fact, what this document represents is a foundational shift in the very relationship between the uk and the eu. what we should also underline is that this is a trade agreement on goods primarily, so a lot of questions as regards say the movement of uk citizens in europe and also services are likely to be beyond the scope of this agreement. this is free trade, not the same kind of all—encompassing relationship we previously had with the european union. sojust explain to us how important that might prove to us how important that might prove to be that there aren't yet rules governing services. very, very important for everyone who is currently providing services to the european union. 0ne currently providing services to the european union. one of the critical things i need to underline, and i would express a bit of concern as regards the fact we only have five

days or four days if we take of christmas, as i think we should, to properly analyse what this agreement means in practice. but there is still a lot of legal uncertainty. we are seeing an agreement which will almost certainly be ratified which is highly unusual. we are not getting a lot of time to scrutinise this or understand it. i know there's going to be a lot of questions as regards service providers as to what this means for them. we understand you haven't seen this document, but once it comes your way, can you give us an idea of what sort of thing you will be looking for. i will be taking a very strong cup of coffee before even opening that document. 1200 pages, it is gargantuan. but critically what i will be looking for from the very beginning is the governance mechanisms. so what that means in practice is if there is a

disagreement between the uk and the eu as the interpretation or understanding some part of the agreement what happens, that is going to be something very important going to be something very important going forward. because one of the red lines announced almost from the beginning is the jurisdiction from the court ofjustice of the european union is not applicable. so trying to find out how to resolve questions of conflict, not only between the uk and the eu at governance level is in between governments, but also for ordinary citizens and businesses just trying to understand what this agreement means in practice. really interesting. we are very grateful to you for giving up some of your christmas day to speak to us on bbc news. thank you so much. doctor grogan, a lecturer of law in middlesex university. an extra 800 military personnel are being deployed to clear the backlog

of lorries waiting to cross the channel. 0ur correspondent is in the port of dover this morning and said a little earlier that while things are now moving it could take a long time for the tailback to clear. for many of us this isn't the christmas we hoped we would have, sat at home, but spare a thought for a lot of these drivers who have been stuck, some of them for four nights here, queueing to try to get on the ferries going across the channel to france. if you look behind me you will be able to see we have movement. some of these lorries are moving, they are slowly but surely being loaded onto ferries this morning to make their way across the channel. port staff have been working through christmas throughout the night to try to get this moving, to see these scenes, all these lorries will have tested negative. in order to get those tests, there has been a huge wait in store.

around 800 troops were drafted to try to speed up the process. and that seems to be the case. just over here, as we head into central dover, a lot of the roads seem to have cleared, but there is still a big backlog. there are thousands of hauliers still parked up at manston airport, still parked up along the m20 this morning. still a long wait in store for many of them, and i don't want to be the bearer of bad news on christmas, but some of these lorry drivers will not make it home in time for christmas and it will be some time before things here get back to some kind of normality. lets get some of the day's other news now. us authorities have announced that passengers arriving on flights from the uk will need to test negative for coronavirus before departure. this is the latest restriction imposed due to a new covid—19 variant. the strain is believed to be more transmissible and has led nations around the world to close their borders to travellers from the uk.

democrats in the us congress have failed in their attempts to increase direct covid relief payments to americans from $600 to $2,000. the increase was demanded by president donald trump on tuesday but republicans in congress have blocked the change. president trump has refused to say if he will sign the bill if the payments are not increased. the former japanese the formerjapanese prime minister shinzo abe has apologised over a political funding scandal that saw his secretary charged on thursday. he has faced allegations that his office improperly topped up money for lavish dinners held for supporters. prosecutors said there wasn't enough evidence to charge him. prosecutors in japan wasn't enough evidence to charge him. prosecutors injapan are barred from giving gifts to supporters. india's prime minister andrew modi has announced around $2.4 billion of benefits for farmers. amid mounting pressure to scrap

controversial farming reforms. amid mounting pressure to scrap controversialfarming reforms. mr modi has today been addressing millions of farmers virtually, accusing his political opposition for misleading them over contentious new laws that will loosen the rules around the sale, pricing and storage of farm items. for more on the protests a nd attem pts of farm items. for more on the protests and attempts to pacify farmers, here is our south asia editor. this was a counter push by farmers who have camped outside delhi, not farfrom who have camped outside delhi, not far from where who have camped outside delhi, not farfrom where i am now, and it's almost been a month, this farmer protest, and it's generated a lot of debate in this country. now the government has firmly ruled out these reforms. what they are now doing is going on a campaign explaining to the other farming communities about how they would

benefit from these new farm reforms, and that is why prime minister rendering modi was addressing virtually millions of farmers and explaining to them the advantages saying they can go and sell anywhere in the country and lots of private investment will come into their culture, and this will free them from some of the agents who take money from farmers to sell their produce. but this has not satisfied the farmers who are already protesting. mostly they are from nearby states of punjab and pakistan, and they have been telling the government that unless you promise to repeal these laws, we will not sit down for any negotiations. for the first time in more than 40 years the queen and the duke of edinburgh are spending the festive period at windsor instead of sandringham. 0ur correspondent told

me how different this christmas is even for the queen and the royal family. they have had to make the same kind of decisions are so many other families have had to do this year. and yes of course they have the castle and the support bubble of a tea m castle and the support bubble of a team around them to look after them at this time of year but essentially they have done what so many other families have done and chosen to scale down their christmas, to limit the number of family members they see and to keep it very small this year. 0fficials see and to keep it very small this year. officials say they will be spending christmas quietly here at windsor castle away from their wider family, following the tfr rules, winds are now in tier 4. but the decisions about what the queen would be doing were decided at the beginning of the month, that she would stay here and not go to sandringham with her wider family, which is how she would normally be spending christmas day. at this sort of time normally we would be seeing hundreds of people queueing up outside the church on the sandringham estate where the queen

and her family would sandringham estate where the queen and herfamily would go sandringham estate where the queen and her family would go for the 11 o'clock service. nobody here at windsor, and that was the plan. the royalfamily windsor, and that was the plan. the royal family didn't want lots of people gathering here outside the castle causing any kind of problems for anybody here. they want it to be very quiet, scaled back, and that is what is happening. and the queen'straditional christmas message will be broadcast a little later on, but unusually there are no extracts from the message this year. yes, thatis from the message this year. yes, that is unusual. normally in previous years we get a snippet, a clip of the message or a sense of what she would be saying in text, but not this year. there's been a decision to hold everything back until three o'clock this afternoon so until three o'clock this afternoon so perhaps it would have the greatest impact. there are no previews at all. but having said that, i think we can all pretty much ta ke that, i think we can all pretty much take an educated guess of the kind of themes of this year's christmas message and the country's response

to the pandemic will run through her whole message, i think we can expect to see that. and if we look back to april and the message she gave to the nation at the beginning of lockdown, perhaps that gives a clue as to the tone and the kind of things she will be saying today. she will of course reference the challenges that many families have faced over the past few months, but i suspect as ever with her christmas message she will also want to offer note of hope and optimism. the millions of people celebrating at this time of year, 2020 is set to bea at this time of year, 2020 is set to be a christmas like no other. we have returned to talk to some of the doctors, nurses and experts we have heard from on bbc world news since the pandemic took hold in march. we will be asking them how they are marking christmas in these extraordinary circumstances. last march we spoke to a social psychologist when italy was introducing restrictions to try to control case numbers, and we can

hear how to professor's christmas is shaping up now. giuseppejoins us from the land. hello, and a merry christmas to you. that looks like a very festive table that you have behind you. how is the day going to behind you. how is the day going to be for you this year? how will it be different? hello, everybody, and merry christmas to everyone. thank you. this is a quite silent day in comparison with other days, especially in italy because we know actually because of the pandemic but we are still trying to celebrate, and so we have prepared something here and we willjoin at this table but we will be only two people

according to the indications that the government gave everyone. just two of you, so who are you spending it with? well, i spend this day with a person who is very near to me but i would also like to harbour a little secret for the moment, and so i won't spoil her name. we won't ask any more questions. moving swiftly on, onto the main reason for christmas day which is of course the meal, what are you going to eat? yeah, we are going to eat something traditional. for instance seafood. i tried to show you very quickly. traditional mushrooms and shrimp and squid. i don't know if you can see the preparation. we can see.

traditionaljamon, then the preparation. we can see. traditional jamon, then fried. the preparation. we can see. traditionaljamon, then fried. so we have prepared many side dishes more than main courses, and among the main courses we will have this meatloaf with potatoes and carrots and pepperoni here. then what we have on this table is something traditional, a traditional cake in milan and also in the world by now. this is the panettone, and that can be translated as bread made by tony or anthony. and then we will finish up or anthony. and then we will finish up with some chocolate tower.

everything has been home—baked, handmade, and so it should be also very tasty. you can't hear, giuseppe, the sounds of delight i can hear in my earfrom everybody in the studio and gallery. it looks absolutely sumptuous. it looks really lovely but we must remember the incredibly difficult year that italy has had. what is the mood at the moment? well, i don't know, i expected more extreme reactions actually, but people are understanding that we have to behave and not just following understanding that we have to behave and notjust following restrictions because they are somehow imposed on us because they are somehow imposed on us but this is the only way to come out of the tunnel. so people are, well, in comparison with what happened last year, they are more

silent of course. but they are also showing hopes. so i guess we will go in that direction, march in the direction of spring not only in a traditional way but also in a metaphorical way. so it's relatively good, we are accepting the necessary restrictions. and you are a social psychologist, how would you assess people's mental health? well, i am a social psychologist, so i'm not entitled to do the work of clinical psychologists. many collea g u es clinical psychologists. many colleagues of mine such as for insta nce colleagues of mine such as for instance howard dean, hello professor andrea, merry christmas, they are focused on mental health andi they are focused on mental health and i am more focused on dynamics among people so extreme reactions or crowd behaviour. i would say some

people, even... giuseppe, i'm going to have to jump people, even... giuseppe, i'm going to have tojump in because we people, even... giuseppe, i'm going to have to jump in because we are out of time. we wish you a very merry christmas, thank you very much. hello, even the weather is taking it fairly easy this christmas day. a chilly start but a fine day for the majority with light winds. it will remain feeling cold, even where we see decent sunshine. the reason it is pretty quiet for today is this area of high pressure here. we will see perhaps a few showers squeezing into eastern reaches of england today, and later in the day the westerly winds will pick up across scotla nd westerly winds will pick up across scotland and northern ireland, so more cloud arriving here and there will be some rain for western scotla nd will be some rain for western scotland and parts of northern ireland come the afternoon. as the cloud comes in, we will see temperatures coming up so perhaps our warmer spots up to 7 degrees, just four or five further south.

into boxing day we see a weather front sliding south across the uk, an early frost in the south—east before the cloud descends. not much in the way of rain on the front as it gets into the south of the uk, but then another spell of heavy rain approaching western scotland by the end of the night. all of the cloud will make for a mild start to boxing day. the wind picking up all the while, some high totals here as it sinks southwards. england and wales dry for the majority but heavier showers are possible for northern england and down towards the south coast, but a much milder day with temperatures in double figures. take a look at this for boxing day night, storm bella sinking down, with heavy rain pushing across england and wales. the wind is the biggest issue. for the south coast gusts up to 80 mph. widely and lined up to 60 mph, strong enough to do some damage

and cause disruption. with saturated ground of course, yet another lot of heavy rainfall will mean there is quite a significant risk of flooding across many parts of england and wales on sunday. things clear up quite nicely come the afternoon, but towards the north and west we will pull ina towards the north and west we will pull in a lot of showers on a chilly, north—westerly wind. the air is cold enough that we could see some snow even on lower ground. temperatures around the 7 degrees mark. we stay on the chilly side as we look ahead into the coming week. a chance of snow showers further south across the uk on monday.

this is bbc world news, the headlines. pope francis says these are usually times. he was giving an address in the vatican. eu ambassadors are to receive a briefing. they will hear from michel barnier after a year of negotiations. chile, mexico and costa rica have begun vaccinating thousands of people against coronavirus. they have become the first countries in south america to do so and are using the pfizerjob. the military have been deployed in dover to help the backlog of lorries cross over to france. thousands of drivers are spending christmas day locked in their vehicles.