we'll be able to decide how and where we're going to stimulate new jobs and new hope we 3 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. so 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 fishing communities

will be helped with a big 100000000 pro pound program to modernize their fleets and the fish processing industry. and i want to stress that although of course the the arguments with our european friends and partners were with sometimes fierce this is that this is i believe a good deal for the whole of europe and for us for our friends and partners as well because it will not be a bad thing in my view for the e.u. to have a prosperous and dynamic and contented u.k. on your doorstep and it will be a good thing it will be it will drive jobs and prosperity across the whole continent and i do to be a bad thing if we in the u.k. do things differently or take a different approach to legislation because in so many ways our basic goals are the same and in the context of this giant free trade zone that we're

jointly creating the stimulus of regulatory competition will i think benefit us both and if one side believes it's somehow being unfairly undercut by the other then subject to independent 3rd party arbitration and provided the measures are proportionate we can either of us decide as sovereign equals to protect our consumers or businesses but this treaty explicitly envisages that such action should only happen infrequently and the concepts of uniformity and harmonize ation are banished in favor of mutual respect and mutual recognition and free trade . and for squaring that circle for finding the philosopher's stone it's enabled us to do this i want to thank a present for the lion said i want to learn of the european commission are

brilliant negotiators led by lord frost and michel barnier a on the e.u. side as stephanie research as well as all of the louis tim barrier lindsay appleby many others their work will be available for scrutiny followed by a parliamentary vote i hope on december the 30th. this agreement this deal above all means certainty it means certainty for the aviation industry and the whole years who have suffered so much in the cave in pandemic it means certainty for the police the border forces the security services all those we rely on across europe to keep us all safe i mean certainty for our scientists who would be able to work together to continue to work together on great collective projects because although we want in the u.k. to be a science superpower we also want to be a collaborative science superpower and above all it means certainty for

business from financial services to our world leading manufacturers our car industry a certainty for all those who are working in high skilled jobs and in firms and factories across the whole the whole country because there will be no palisade of terrorists on january the 1st and they'll be no non-tariff barriers to trade and instead there will be a giant free trade zone of which we will once be a member and at the same time be able to do our own free trade deals as one u.k. whole and entire england northern ireland scotland and wales together and i should stress this deal was done by a huge negotiating team from every part of the u.k. and it will benefit every part of our united kingdom helping to unite level up

across the country and so i say again directly to our e.u. friends and partners i think this deal means a new stability and a new certainty in what has sometimes been a fractious and difficult relationship we will be your friend your ally. your supporter and indeed never let it be forgotten your number one market because although we have left the e.u. this country will remain culturally emotionally historically strategically geologically attached to europe not least of course through the 4000000 in u. nationals who have requested to settle in the u.k. over the last 4 years and who make an enormous contribution to our country and to

our lives and i say to all of you at home at the end of this toughest of years that our focus in the weeks ahead is of course on defeating the pandemic and don't be beating coronavirus and rebuilding our economy and delivering jobs across the country and i'm utterly confident that we can and will do it we've by today we vaccinated almost 800000 people and we've also today resolved the question that has bedeviled our politics for decades and it is up to us all together as a new really and truly independent nation to realize the immensity of this moment and to make the most of it happy christmas to you all that's the good news from brussels now for the sprouts actually is not

the media let's go to the let's go to the media who i think we've got your kids book. over to you laura. thank you very much trying to establish we are yet to see the text of a steel which we understand runs to some tea guys and pages you've presumably had the benefit of pouring over every word or pretty crap so every single word but can you tell the public honestly where did the u.k. give the most ground and where did the country mice the most you think. thanks laura would actually tell you about $500.00 pages and i think it would and it's readily intelligible i think i think the pit would be fair to say that we wanted we wanted to. make sure for instance that. we got access to. complete control over of our fisheries from

the get go that's the to say we had annual negotiations on fisheries within the shortest possible delay the e.u. began with i think wanting. a transition period of 14 years we wanted 3 years we've ended up at 5 years i think that was a reasonable a reasonable transition period and i can assure a great fish fanatics in this country we will as a result of this deal be able to catch and eat quite prodigious quantities of extra fish so that's why we're going to have to make these investments in the in the fishing sector thanks very much laura let's go to robert best of i.t.v. . prime minister you said all along you wanted a canada style deal but what you've agreed means that we in the u.k.

have to follow e.u. rules on subsidies or tax on workers' rights on the environment or potentially incur the imposition of tariffs that's right isn't it i mean we just heard you live on the line to say that she got her level playing field which you've explicitly rejected all the way through you also just said there would be no non-tariff barriers again that's not right from january the 1st as a result of leaving the customs union and michael gove has been warning about this week in week out for months there is a ton of new bureaucracy of british businesses lots of new non-tariff barriers she's not to say the deal is a bad deal but you're not selling it correctly are your mis selling. well iran is respectfully disagree with you because there is indeed a clause in the in the deal which is nothing like has as damaging as it as it was and used in my view neutralize which says that if either country we feel

that the other one is in some way undercutting them or or dumping in in some way then subject to arbitration and provided the measure is proportionate. and that i mean independent arbitration or arbitration by the european court of justice but subject and then a pow they can if they really choose put on tariffs to protect their their consumers and and their businesses and to give you an example of the kind of thing where that might occur for instance in the u.k. we want to do go further animal welfare standards and it might be that we do things for instance on how you how you really are pigs banding sokrates and so on that would encourage your costs for our farmers. it might be that bacon coming from elsewhere in for him from the e.u. was it was a risk of death or of undercut his we might under those circumstances consider

imposing tariffs i think it highly unlikely but we might consider it it would be have to be subject to arbitration it would have to be proportionate according to the arbitrator and under no circumstances would we be in any way constrained legally or otherwise by in the thing that the e.u. deed or chose to do them selves nor furthermore would there be any a role for the european court of justice and for people at home who've zoned out while i've been talking about this is let me tell you this is a very very long day's march from where we were of a few years ago you'll remember robert when we were talking about basically having a common rulebook with the e.u. and having dynamic alignment with e.u. law so that the u.k. was forced to keep step and that has gone from this treaty and so far as the

e.u. wanted it and there is no role for the european court of justice whatever so i think it's i think it's a great treaty and as your point about non-tariff barriers yes i think it's important to stress. what i'm talking about is barriers on the grounds of you know your plugs what won't work in our in our country that for their band or whatever. that kind of that kind of technical barriers to trade there's a lot in this treaty to try to reduce all that kind of thing make sure that doesn't that doesn't that's a good thing that's a good thing for businesses and consumers in that sense it's a great free trade deal but i must stress to people getting ready for january the 1st that you know there will be change. as you get on the the go but u.k. website exporters will need a or reforms and everything else people should be aware of the change that is

coming but there's also an opportunity because for british exporters now the whole world will be treated the same for export purposes and i think that will actually galvanize our exporters to think much more positively and dynamically about the the opportunities that they have so i must respectfully disagree with both the points that. you made this is a this is a a jumbo canada style free trade deal and exactly the kind that i think this country needs and it and as i say i believe it resolves a longstanding and very very difficult problem. people said you couldn't be part of the of a free trade zone with the e.u. without being obliged to follow you laws if you remember people i think there was a it was i think we were told we couldn't have our cake and eat it in that kind of thing i'm not going to i'm not going to claim that this is a cake used treaty robert but. you know it's it's because that

it is i believe. what the country needs at this time and the right way forward for it for the u.k. let's go to san coats of sky. i mean so you say this is an unprecedented deal and says all your red lines and promises to the country can people trust that life will be better as a result of this deal and that there won't be any disruption even in the short term and can you guarantee the government won't up re end up reopening elements at the new relationship in the years to come well sam i mean really good really good questions i mean short term yes as i said just now there are things we have to get right process that the process is that maybe people have to to do that they need to be aware of and i'm going to see in that point really is worth reinforcing i do believe that the freedoms that this treaty winds as basically a new independence from the e.u. are worth having but you know and so the free ports free trade deals being able to

. do as i say to look after. your europe your livestock differently improving your your your your landscape in a different way doing all sorts of things differently regulating financial services differently chemicals also things where we want we may want to do things differently and and better but i would just say to people watching this it if i'm sorry for disturbing cause 3 by the way to say to people watching this i would say it's one thing to get freedom for winning freedom is a fantastic thing and that this is an important element of what we've done but it's how we use it and how we make the most of it that's what's going to matter in the in the in the months and years to come i've no doubt that we can do fantastic things with this treaty if we with this new relationship which i think will be stable and prosperous for for both sides let's go to the top and you can dine of

times radio. good afternoon prime minister and thank you a couple of quick questions if you don't mind every deal means both sides have to compromise do you accept that you have to compromise throughout the last 11 months to keep up the last 11 days from perhaps your earlier slightly absolute its positions perhaps that was a negotiating ploy but compromise is not a dirty word do you agree with that and secondly can you address services because i haven't heard you say much about 80 percent of course in the u.k. economy you say some british companies would do more trade with the e.u. because this deal will the british service expression of financial services sector will they better do more trade or less trade well there's a there's a 1st of all on the compromise point a compromise isn't a dirty word and unquestionably there are things that we've done to help our friends and partners to move things forward you know i mentioned i think to laura

where we got to on fish we started out wanting a very short. transition period. of 3 years they wanted a much longer one of 14 years we've we've compromised on that the 5 and a half and on on you know. so the vital services sector yes of course they will they've they feature in this in this deal quite quite rightly there's a there's a some good language about equivalents for financial services perhaps not as much as as we would have liked but it is nonetheless you know going to enable a dynamic city of london to get on and prosper as never before the some good stuff about. barristers lister's noirs be able to practice around the european union we will be able to continue to

have masse. give and growing economic interpenetration without the need for. what i've always talked about this this blew your pool of law this and i'm not as i say this is this is something that i think can benefit people on both sides of the channel be a healthy dynamic productive happy stable relationship that's what we're aiming for let's go to george parker of the f t a prime minister position the change that will happen at the border in any event on january the 1st i just wanted it there was anything in this deal where the 2 sides agreed saying introduce some sort of flexibility in the courts to make sure we don't have chaos and over in cali conjunction the 1st and 2nd more general point you nice to be a reporter in brussels we've covered the so psychodrama of british e.u. relations for

a number of decades not just for our said today that the war is over i just wanted if you saw it in those terms. no i think the 1st of all on on on on the border measures to. there are all sorts of things in the treaty that you will recognize about trusted trader schemes and special measures on sentry and phytosanitary recognition and steps to. make sure that you know things flow as smoothly as we possibly can to again i stress that there will be things that people have to do look i mean the one of the great the e.u. was a mix was and is an extraordinary concept and it was born out of the agony of the of the 2nd world war. founded by. idealistic people in france and germany and italy who never wanted the countries to go to war with each other again and other countries belgium holland others and in many ways it's

an it was and is a very noble enterprise so i you know i don't recognize that the kind of language that you that you talk of i think that the ukase own relationship with it was always difficult we always found some of the the language about ever closer union the idea of this political union this very dense idea of this ideology of endless integration we found quite hard george and i think you know as a fellow brussels reporter you remember that there was there was quite a lot of friction involved i think that what we've got here is the basis of a new long term friendship and partnership that basically stabilizes that relationship and insofar as the u.k. needs to be in i'm always must be a great european power always must be a great great european power where than outside the main body of the e.u.

but where there is a friend and as a supporter. as a flying buttress if you like to make sure as we have done so many times in the last. couple of 100 years that we're able to lend our voice when it's when it's needed and to be of value to our european friends and partners in a strategic way and that's what the u.k. will obviously continue to do but i think the very dense program of integration wasn't right for the for the u.k. and that's why it was right to take back control in the way that we that we have and i think that this deal this deal expresses what the people of the country voted for in 2060 and i think there was a wisdom in what they decided and i think that will be able to go forward on this basis let's go to gordon rayner of the telegraph you're watching the devil here in news and we have been covering watching british prime minister barak johnson make

that historic announcement that the e.u. and the u.k. have struck an agreement on a historic trade deal post breck set which is due to take place in little over 7 days let's bring in our correspondents in london and brussels shallot charles and phil i will start with you let's break it down a little bit for our view is one of the k. takeaways of what last johnson had to say. yeah quite a long speech that rebecca considerably longer than the the speech we had from the commission e.u. commission president von der leyen of course this was the speech of boris johnson's career and many people are saying his sales pitch for this breaks a deal that broke that deal that he said he would he promised to secure when he was voted into office he is now selling that to the british public now what struck me about the general tone of that start speech is it was an gloating it didn't gloat

the fact that a deal about the fact that a deal had been done didn't gloat about u.k. victories which i'm sure a lot of the newspaper from pages will do tomorrow morning instead he stressed that this is the start of a long friendship with the u.k. and the e.u. now of course it was rife with boris johnson that for example he said. the u.k. has taken back control of every jot and tittle of its regulations on the nation's well he said that the u.k. would be out to catch prodigious amounts of fate now going forward so those are some of the statements that he gave a was quite a quite a light press conference crucially though he said that this deal will give a lot of businesses clarity that's the word they used over and over again because that's what has been a big concern to say many businesses here with just days before the end of the

transition period with say they are trying to prepare for what ever the outcome may have been but they simply didn't know exactly what they needed to do boris johnson saying today that this will give them the clarity now going forward to prepare for the end of the year alexander the e.u. will lose a member paid into the union leaving it worse off financially potentially where does that leave the e.u. budget. well it's not only about budgets of course also about military strength and we of course have to say that the european union will be missing the u.k. because of the 2 points on the other hand and that was force or the real funder line and was also stressing in during her press conference that it's the european union and all its 27 members are still a huge market and force to be reckoned with and with regard to all the areas

that are important. i think suppose just before we leave i have to ask will be sad to see britain lave alexandra well we are getting some reactions to the deal right now actually no one is really saying that they are sad there are some cautious reactions from austria as chancellor of us john of course for example who is saying that now they have to carefully study that text but it's so interesting what the german chancellor angela merkel had to say about the deal she sounded more would say and said that this is a deal of historic importance and they're creating a basis for a new chapter in our relations that ship in their relations between the u.k. and the european union so there is also hope i would say that this legal framework will be needed for a new relationship between the u.k.

and the historic importance indeed fill in london and alexander phenomena in brussels will leave it there thank you very much. a quick recap of our top story britain and the european union have struck a post breaks a trade deal at the 11th hour agreeing the terms just days before days before the end of the brics a transition period for the precise details still to emerge but a new chief sort of on the line of british prime minister barak's johnson harold heralded the historic agreement. you are watching news for the top of the hour. to.

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go to his closest associates among them longtime confidant roger stone and the father of his son in law. i'm a backer it is welcome to the program after months of uncertainty britain and the european union have finally struck an agreement on a post for exit trade deal the 2 sides managed to patch up their differences at the 11th hour 2 of. encroaching crisis as the end of the 12 month transition period approached speaking in brussels european commission chief on the line heralded the 2 sides last minute compromise let's listen to some of what she had to say and then gentleman. at the end of the successful negotiation. i know. but today i only feel quite.

and he can really. i know the difficulty. and to our friends in the united kingdom i want to say. but to use the light on. what we call the beginning itself in the end and to make an end. to. all you know things i say it's time to write behind our future europe thanks so much u.k. prime minister boss johnson has also filed the agreement as fantastic news he played up the strong relationship between the u.k. and the european union and promised that would continue and so i say again directly to our e.u. friends and partners i think this deal means a new stability and

a new certainty in what has sometimes been a fractious and difficult relationship we will be your friend your ally your supporter and indeed never let it be forgotten your number one market because although we've left the e.u. this country will remain culturally emotionally historically strategically geologically attached to europe not least of course through the 4000000 e.u. nationals who have requested to settle in the u.k. over the last 4 years and to make an enormous contribution to our country and to our lives let's bring in davis challenge charles impel standing by for us in london and alexander phenomena with us from brussels alexander i'll start with you 1st

what's your take on this historic deal. well i think it was for both a huge success to be able to seal the deal to get legal a platform upon which they can rebuild their trade relations for the european union it was crucial to make sure that the u.k. only gets access to the single market when they promise to respect are the rules and standards and according to all the law funder lie in the commission's president it's the case that is what they have agreed upon in the deal and of course for the european union it was also important to have a mechanism to make sure that they can retaliate if the you kids would try to undercut the rules and regulations and apparently that is also something that both

sides were able to agree upon. charlotte is this the deal that bars johnson wanted or if he had to make concessions do you think. well boris johnson will be working hard we heard it just. a performance he gave to sell this to the public as a major victory this is indeed why he was elected into office under the promise that he would get done and that is exactly what he has done that's despite many cools that over the last couple of days for the transition period to be extended someone the u.k. side saying there was simply too much good but at the moment with she's dealing with this new strain of the coronavirus and all of the implications that involve involved not to make mention the implications for the economy so johnson really trying to sell this as a major victory for the u.k.

he didn't really go into many details in terms of compromises that have he's made they did say that compromise is not a dirty word so it's clear that compromises have been made in the case that if you would expect in a negotiation like this that one thing that he did that was key to stress was the deal that has been reached a fish no fish make up a very small part of the u.k. economy here but in terms of the emotions they evoke among many in the u.k. public the idea that the u.k. is part of broke that is taking back control of its water it is very important and he stressed that the e.u. had given some ground on fish on fish but the amount that he you. can. fish in u.k. waters so he was keen to stress some of the wins but he did strike i think quite say. a mild mannered tone i would say he was in the low saying about any victories

that have been made which i'm sure a lot of the newspaper front pages will be instead some are instead he stressed that this is all a good friendship with the e.u. going forward well alexandra. the e.u. certainly appears very happy with the deal but it has taken a really long time in fact we were notified last night already that a deal was probably in the making it's taken another 24 hours what's been the holdup and how difficult has it been for these 2 sides to come together while we're looking back at the very tough negotiations and of course charlotte already mentioned that it was all about fish in the end the fisheries and home march access to european union would get to you k. waters not a very important issue in terms of trade relations and economic relations but still a very emotional and symbolic issue for both sides here member states like friends

and belgian and of course for the u.k. fisherman and actually in this context it's quite interesting to look at the 1st reactions from for example the french president who said on twitter that. paid off to be united and that this deal is essential to protect our citizens fisherman and our producers so he seems to be quite happy with what was achieved however we are also hearing some cautious reactions from our stressed chancellor of course for example who is saying that now all the members needs to carefully study the text illegal text of the deal to decide after scrutinizing it shall it will this deal be hard for boris johnson to sell to the british people.

but most people today would just be feeling a good deal of relief that a deal has been done i mean the u.k. leaves the transit. days and the transition period ends in just days now and a lot of people have been greatly concerned about the implications of the deal and everything that that would mean for the economy if we just got a taste of some of the chaos at the borders that could have the board at the dover that could have a reason. no deal breaks it so relief among many that a deal has been done indeed the leader of the opposition labor party here in the u.k. has stressed for some time that their priority is seeing a deal done it is expected that it will back the deal in parliament this is expected to go through parliament albeit with of course as you would expect people . very closely the details of this tax to those in parliament

voting on this but on line to tears they all want to see that the promises that were made have been met and for the public but that likely to go through these 2000 pages of illegal tax that are part of this deal instead it is their opinion is likely to be shaped by the messaging from boris johnson not just today but going forward as well now alexander just briefly before we go obviously this do need to be ratified by the e.u. parliament they've said it's there's not enough time now before that end of year deadline what happens next. well next what is important next that the new ambassadors will come together tomorrow here in brussels to analyze the text and then each member state all 27 of them need to have proof of the deal then the european parliament will be able to vote on the text in january

and the you commission until then has the possibility to provisionally implement the deal so that we are not going to see the u.k. christian go out of the european union without a deal good news there alexander phenomena speaking to us from brussels shallot shells and pill in london thank you both let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world if the opium state media say the military has killed over 40 people involved in wednesday's massacre in western bend sang google most region security forces arrested 5 local officials following that attack which left more than 100 people dead it's the latest episode of unrest in ethiopia following a deadly civil conflict into grime. has opened its scale lifts for christmas winter sports are on the way at $400.00 alpine locations despite a 3rd national lockdown which is about to come into force the government says that

as an outdoor sport skiing in safe under strict conditions restaurants though remind us. all u.s. president donald trump has issued new pardons for his allies including the father of his son in law jared krishna trump has now granted clemency to 50 people this past week the list includes several people convicted in the investigation into the trunk campaign's ties to russia allies from congress and other felons championed by friends have also been pardoned. christmas is the time for family and friends and donald trump has not forgotten his not long after his arrival in florida for the holiday season the outgoing president's latest set of pardons were announced. what is interesting about the latest batch of pardons from president trouble is that many of them have centered on people with whom he has a personal or political connection or bond among them was the father of his senior

advisor and son in law jared cushion. chiles know was sentenced to 2 years in prison for tax evasion witness tampering and making unlawful campaign donations the white house cited cushions charitable work since completing his sentence as the reason he deserved clemency but it's the pardoning of pole manifold and brought just stunned that has sparked the most outrage both men were convicted under the investigation into ties between the trump campaign and rush up trump is now part and full people convicted in that investigation. mr president my family and i humbly thank you for the presidential part and you to start on me what's cannot fully convey how grateful we are manifold and start in a not considered conventional part of recipients in part because birth was saying to show a lack of respect to the criminal justice system manifold was accused of witness

tampering and star and was convicted of lying to congress republican senator ben sas code that pardoning rotten to the cole. ok make up a fraction of the $26.00 tortured pardons the president issued on wednesday and with less than a month left in office pardons aren't supposed to from the outgoing president. and every one of that top breaking story for your britain and the european union have struck a brics a trade deal at the 11th hour agreeing terms just days before the end of the 12 month transition period the precise details are still to emerge but both in your chase and sort of on the line and british prime minister virus johnson hailed the agreement as a huge victory for the u.k. parliament is set to ratify the deal on december 30th. nor changing the news up next date every business we've typed ferguson will take a closer look at the financial implications of the brics a trade agreement phil gayle will bring in the news headlines next hour if you

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