this is d.w. news live from berlin the european union and britain on the brink of a free trade deal the white goes on outside downing street where british prime minister taurus johnson is expected to make an announcement shortly after talks went into the night in brussels will bring you all the details. meanwhile anger amounts of british courts truckers confront elites as thousands remain stranded even off to france lift its blockade over a new variant of the coronavirus. and from the seat of any ice here to

a nationwide network will meet the twins in india mobilizing communities to help those hit by the pandemic. i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program with just days to go before the end of the brics a transition period the european union and britain are on the brink of a post breaks a trade deal reporters are waiting outside 10 downing street in london where british prime minister barak johnson is expected to announce the outcome of the negotiations talks went on into the night in brussels to hash out the final details of the treaty it lays out rules for when the u.k. leaves the a use a single market and customs union in just a week's time. they'd max and that is with us from brussels with

more on this story max what more do we know about the negotiations. all right rebecca you senator ready and negotiations were going on for quite a while through the night up until now actually and right now it seems we don't have that much knowledge of what exactly is happening where we stand now not much is being officially communicated officials are being very tightlipped here but there were some signs last night in the beginning of today that we were close to a deal mostly based on rumors and then what what followed after that was an eerie silence so it seems that one of the major stumbling blocks the competition rules has been has been dealt with but another one regarding fisheries this is still up and on the table was right at the moment and it seems that at the moment they go shooters are still going over spreadsheets with lines and lines of fishing quotas and even going over details such as which fish which species of fish can be fished

in u.k. waters by e.u. fishermen so it really there is still a quite some things that are unclear at the moment and the devil certainly in a day to tell her what is the significance of this tailbacks. right so a lot is going to change at the end of the year the u.k. is going to finally leave the single market and the transition period is going to be over so if there is no deal in place this could mean a huge blow to both the u.k. and the e.u. economies and a deal could potentially cushion the fall out of. the u.k. exit ing in this this relationship so to say but this is going to via a rough framework on the.