study and do business in 27 countries. it is about pooling our strength and speaking to gether in a world full of great powers and in the time of crisis it is about pulling each other up instead of trying to get back to your feet alone and the european union shows how this works in practice and no deal in the world can change reality of gravity in today's economy and today's world we are one of the giants. you will pish on your own is good often likes it for buffett you have misunderstood his other probably most of it chuffed if you have an income it's burden on. our behalf it was a chance to share and that's the 4 bytes and you have an ounce of noise in how such fouth me out an oil for. damage point to mention of

a q one which is the. online addressing the european parliament announcing that breaks that trade deal we were expecting boris johnson british prime minister vos johnson 1st of all surprised us on the line surprise us let's bring in from london data via correspondent charlotte tells them bill and alex on a phenomenon from brussels alexander start with you what do we make what do we take what do we make from this deal from what we've just heard from a sort of on the one who was speaking in very european style in several different languages there. well it and she seemed to be very happy about a deal she said that it was worth fighting for the deal that it is a good deal that it was a long road and she also stressed that she's happy that the rules and standards will be respect to quoting to the deal and i think this is a very important issue here it was crucial for the european union to make sure that

in the future we will have a level playing field for competition between british companies and european union's companies that they will be playing by the same rules and that is apparently award was agreed upon between the u.k. and the european union now we got news last night that this deal was imminent it's taken another 24 hours or so to come about what's been the hold up well apparently it was all about fish and both sides seem to be really wrangling over the use of rights to fish in u.k. waters it was an important issue for member states such as france and belgium and it was also important for the u.k. to make a point here even though fisher is represent just 1.12 percent of the u.k.'s g.d.p. but it was a highly emotional and symbolic issue there a topic for the u.k.

to make a point showing that this represents what they has been trying to achieve by leading the european union to to gain back control over the legislations of borders and money or an example of phenomena thanks for the moment stay with this shot it will come to you shortly but we're going to go back to the panel where you commission president as if on the line speaking again in english. thank you madam president. the clock is no longer ticking. after 4 years of connectivity for time the e.u. you need deep to preserve peace and stability on the island of ireland to protect the citizens and this you go to market to build a new partnership with the u.k.

thank you all thank you all this is the work of so many women and men here in the commission and the you leadership madam the president ordered services and in particular the e.u. task force for the brics it we feel nothing is and put in addition mic and order team and in the member states the council the european parliament i also paid tribute or so to the you u.k. negotiating team and the chief negotiator david frost and eve deputies his process as engage so many citizens businesses stick orders and obviously so many journalists thank you for your patience and for your attention today is a day of relief but dinged and by some sadness.

as we compare what came before all was what laurie said you know what you mean the ash was you to keep it in your pen it enough to need. the north sea world while it was haven't done it tom. if you can cool. bricks and negotiate a mission banja speaking in english is now switched to french so let's cross to london where charlottesville some pill is standing by charlotte the e.u. they're sounding very chuffed with this deal we haven't we're yet to hear from prime minister barak johnson but do you think this is the deal that he wanted as well. chief chief negotiator them a show about saying the club is no longer taking now that phrase is one that so

many here in the u.k. are going to be absolutely thrilled to hear he's been mourning her for years now that the clock has been ticking down on the gauche asians but now 4 and a half years after the u.k. voted to leave the e.u. we do now have a deal now as for your question whether it's the deal that boris johnson wanted prime minister boris johnson wanted well that the devil is of course in the detail and we don't know millions details as of yet but it's number 10 boris johnson will certainly be trying to sell this deal to the british public to tell them that the sovereignty as we've heard so often here has been achieved in this deal now just to give you a sense of what's coming out of number 10 the u.k. government today a source has written a deal is done everything that the british public was promised during the 2016 referendum and in the general election last year which we know gave boris johnson prime minister majority has been delivered by this deal he said the source said we

have taken back control of our money borders law trade and our fishing waters and for those members of the british public who voted this really is what this is all about. charlotte thank you it was a lot to get through more than 2000 pages obviously prime minister boris johnson will be addressing the public shortly and we will be bringing you that live when it happens but alexandra i'd like to come back to you give us a sense of how tough these negotiations have been or realize that you've not been able to look at the deal yet but you know what that what the main sticking points here for the e.u. there have been 3 main sticking points we have to say at the talks were circling around those 3 issues for months so it's a really success that apparently both sides were now able to agree on that one of those sticking points as we mentioned before were fisheries and the access to u.

k. waters and other sticking point was still level playing fields making sure that both sides play by the same rule that we have a fair competition and especially for the european union it was important to make sure that the u.k. only gets access to europe single market if it will be sticking with the same regulations and the same rules with regards to environmental regulations with regard to labor rights and of course for the european union it was also important to make sure that there will be arbitrary mechanism to make sure that there will be tariffs on or other penalties if one side is going to undercut the r vers regulations right charlotte now i want to know will will this deal be hard for johnson to sell to britain. well

we've just seen in the last couple of minutes that he's tweeted a picture of himself celebrating saying that the deal has been done but as you say that will be boris johnson's big task over the coming hours we know that he is expected to give a press conference any minute now and it can be really crucial to see how he sells this to the public of course this is the public that isn't most of them are unlikely to go through the 2000 pages of legal texts in detail so this really is going to be all about the narrative in the way that this is sold by prime minister boris johnson going forward that's of course will define how the public views this many of whom we see media to facts certainly in terms of the economy immediately from the deal he will have to try and tell the public that this is what they voted for that software and he has been returned to the u.k. i'm sure that's something that we will hear several times in the press conference

when boris johnson speaks but you have to bear in mind though that there will be members of the public who no matter what boris johnson says warning me want to. buy the idea of a deal of course many will be thankful that there is a deal at school the consequences of no deal have been quite have been quite frightening to a lot of people here so there'll be some who think at least at least it's a deal but at the same time they might think the very should remain that staying in the you would have been better in the 1st place and of course nothing boris johnson has to say now is likely to change their minds or not care we know it's an obviously very divisive topic in britain what about bricks and tears do you think some have placed the brakes of tears will they still. some of the noises coming out to brett cities in the last couple of hours have said that they are tentatively hopeful but of course they will be looking at this agreement

extremely closely we know that great cities have got lawyers at the ready to scrutinize this deal they have in the past posed major challenges for part of the support of johnson and his predecessor to reason may say they were their thoughts on this will be decisive but it is believed that this deal will regardless of what they say passed through parliament it has been expected that the opposition party the labor party will vote for this deal so we aren't at this stage expecting any major sticking points when it comes to the parliamentary response to this deal but of course we'll have to see exactly what is in that text once it's once it's made available and just to remind. to those people just joining us now we are waiting for british prime minister boris johnson to come on to the stage and now it's this trade deal with your pain union now alexander phenomena standing by for us in brussels the european parliament has said it's too late to ratify the deal

before the end of the year so what happens now how will they fill that gap. while so we know how to have a closer look at the legal text to analyze it and then each member states all of them $27.00 have to sign off on their legal framework on the deal and after they have done so we expect the european commission to make it possible to provisionally implemented a deal so that there is that the u.k. is not crushing out of the european union without the deal and finally probably in the next year in january they were pre-owned problem and will have to vote on the agree. and right now alexander e.u. commission president as a fun time is addressing reporters questions in the new parliament so let's cross over to that now great excellent thank you very much for the question and good

afternoon to the president and mr bernstein. given the explain time pressure at the end of the of the negotiations the deadline being only 7 days away i knew confident put you really safeguarded of the interests of the union and its member states or did you have to give in to british demands just to avoid. a week from now thank you very much. we had a very strong go shooting position indeed you're right the time was very very short at the beginning of the year we have already said very clearly that such a comprehensive agreement. 12 months really short really short and on top came covered this did not make negotiations more easy and therefore it is outstanding what the negotiating team has. done and achieved in only 12 months that is one

part and our negotiating position was as strong because it was the european union was it very clear if the united kingdom wants access to the single market the largest single market in the world without court and without tariffs then they are as a sovereign country free to decide whether they play by the rules like every other company in the single market to this is the level playing field if they do not want to follow the rules then there will be for tariffs so there is a price to pay for that and as we knew in any case if there would have been a hard breck's it it would not have been good for both sides. but it would have hit the united kingdom harder than the european union with all its might all 450000000 citizens and therefore from

a position of strength we were able to come forward with the most comprehensive agreement we've ever had this agreement will write history if you look at the clear composition of rules that are very distinct to make sure that there is fair play on both sides that is a very clear if you want to accept the single market you have to buy to the rules all the other ones are biting too and in the fishery field i think we made a huge step forward and got a very good agreement so this shows that from a position of strength you can achieve a lot resident i know that you have to go and inform the college there is interest for additional questions but we have a technical briefing where all the questions will be addressed so thank you so much thank you so much for joining us in the commission's. press room for this press conference and stay tuned for the technical briefing off the record which we'll

find out in a few minutes. and you've been listening to hear pay and commission president on the line addressing the press in the press room at the european parliament announcing that it's trade deal with the u.k. we are expecting british prime minister virus johnson to be addressing the public any moment now we would of course bring you that live as and when it happens let's bring in our correspondents standing by charlottesville simple in london alexander phenomena standing by for us in brussels and he's under. the line there really toeing the new message or staying on message that britain would be hard hit by a hard break that obviously something that i don't need to worry about now but do you think this deal has favored the e.u.'s she mentioned she is that as they had a strong bargaining position do you think that you have come out on top.

certainly that's what it was a lot fundal lion was talking about and she was trying to sell the deal as a huge success for the european union and i think what is important to stress here that indeed the european union were negotiating from a position of strength they didn't wants to walk away from the negotiating table but they also wanted to make clear that if you want access to the european markets you need to play by the same rules the e.u. member states are playing i think what was also very important and very telling during this press conference how. funded lyon as well as the chief negotiator mr bernier were stressing that the european union remained united during those very tough and difficult talks we know that boris

johnson. so to speak in the final stretch wanted to talk to or called the german chancellor he wanted to speak to the french president mr mccraw but the you was united saying that this is the u. commission negotiating here that they are not going to be divided so that there was a united front from the european union and that was i think a major factor in making this deal possible at all. charlotte boris johnson is we are still waiting for him to speak but he is obviously going to sell this is a win for britain as well. can both sides can the we can both sides when is it a win win situation or has bars had to michael to johnson had to make lots of concessions. back in an ideal world with a trade negotiation it should be when when there should be mutual obligations for

mutual benefits that's how a trade it deals are often described but this really is going to be a as a sales process now if the bar is johnson just to show the public how hard he fought of course it is not a bad thing for either side really that this has gone down to the wire just days before the u.k. leaves the transition period it does send a signal to people that the prime minister it fought as hard as he possibly could for those interests but it does remain to be seen exactly where concessions where compromises have been made but of course because of course we've known all along that neither side could get exactly what they wanted out of this trade deal and those compromises would have to be made now we know that fish for example were a key sticking point for some time in these negotiations indeed today some of the the final details that were being ironed out before this announcement surrounded fish numbers fish quotas and that is something which has

a huge significance in the u.k. not in terms of its of the economy but in terms of principle the idea that the u.k. wanted to take control back all of its war since they will be looking extremely closely to see what's concessions have been made there and exactly how that is going to go down whether whether the the offer that the u.k. has made on our own waters previously has been watered down if you like now it still obviously needs to be ratified in the british parliament will boris johnson have support. that's certainly the way it's been looking in the run up to this announcement about the deal of course you'd get dissenters but the main sides that we could be looking at is the opposition party here the labor party now we have heard from the leader of the labor party in the last few days to say that his priority is to get

a deal so it is expected that this will be signed off in parliament and not something that should be unlike the chief before the end of the year. are alex and we've been hearing from the e.u. a very good deal give us a sense of how tough it's been to get to this point for both sides. well i think it's for telling that took 10 months to negotiate the deal and in the final stretch we also saw that both sides were indicating that maybe there would be no deal in the end and i think it was also a funded lion's personal success that she was able to seal the deal talking almost constantly with boris johnson and as she talks sort of speaking control of the negotiating negotiations in the end because many issues that key sticking points

apparently were not able to be agreed upon among the negotiators so when we talk about fair competition something she also stressed to during their press conference that both sides will stick to the same or similar regulations and rules when we talk about a number a sticking point how this agreement will be. monitored in the future that there will be a mechanism to make sure that both sides can retaliate if one of them is going to undercut the regulations and rules and of course the question of fisheries here especially friends. insisting that it's fisherman and fish or women have to have access. to u.k. waters this was a very important issue for the french president so all those who are funded ally in

the final stretch and got engaged and the talks and that's why i would said was also her success to be able to announce to steal today smiling and apparently being very happy about that indeed and preempting the book the statement we were expecting from birth johnston there now stay with us both of you like to now play some of what she had to say as she addressed and made that statement. and ladies and gentlemen at the end of a successful negotiation jeremy i normally feel truly. but true then i only feel quite dysfunctional and frankly speaking really. well i know we're interrupting. on the line there to bring in british prime minister virus johnson who is addressing the public now control of their money

their borders their laws and their waters and to leave the european union and earlier this year we fulfilled that promise in that we left on january the 31st with that i've been ready deal since that time we've been getting on with our agenda and acting the points based immigration system that you voted for that will come into force on generally the 1st doing free trade deals with $58.00 countries around the world and preparing the new relationship with the e.u. and there's been plenty of people who have told us that the challenges of the coded pandemic have made this work impossible and that we should extend the transition period and incur yet more delay and i rejected that approach precisely because beating couvade is our number one national priority and i wanted to end any extra uncertainty and to give this country the best possible chance of bouncing

back strongly next year and so i'm very pleased to tell you this afternoon that we have completed the biggest trade deal yet worth 660000000000 pounds a year a comprehensive canada style free trade deal between the u.k. and the e.u. a deal that will protect jobs across this country. goods u.k. goods and components to be sold without tariffs and without quotas in the e.u. market a deal which will if anything allow our companies and our exporters to do even more business with our european friends and yet. which is chivas something that the people of this country instinctively knew was doable but which they were told was impossible we've taken back control of our laws and our destiny we've taken back control of every jot and tittle of our regulation in

a way that is complete and unfettered from january the 1st we are outside the customs union and outside the single market british laws will be made soley by the british parliament interpreted by u.k. judges judges sitting in u.k. courts and the jurisdiction of the european court of justice will come to an end we'll be able to set our own standards to innovate in the way that we want to originate new frameworks for the sectors in which this country leads the world from bio sciences to financial services artificial intelligence and beyond will be able to decide how and where we're going to stimulate new jobs and new hope with free ports new green industrial zones will be able to cherish our landscape and our environment in the way we choose backing our farmers backing

british food and agricultural production and for the 1st time since 1973 we will be an independent coastal state with full control of our waters with the u.k. sea share of fish in our waters rising substantially from roughly half today to closer to 2 thirds in 5 and a half years time after which there is no theoretical limit beyond those placed by science or conservation on the quantity of our own fish that we can fish in our waters and to get ready for those and for that moment those.