good this is the day of the news live from berlin the long awaited hairpin uni and u.k. trade deal is that you need to say it's fair and balanced the british prime minister appointed a small christmas present also coming up. a christmas eve mass with social distancing and role pope francis holds a scaled back service in the vatican today as if he opposes new restrictions of the holidays and says to. us every year millions of trees are cut down to decorate pope's body to be thrown away weeks later that we need one mad this promotion

a more sustainable christmas tree. hello i'm kristie want to welcome to the program now off the months off uncertainty aggression and the european union has finally struck an agreement on post trade deal its implementation will mock big changes the u.k. and the e.u. will form 2 separate markets and free movement between the 2 will and both sides patched up their differences at the 11th hour what to avert a crisis as the end of the transition period approached. much of the british press hailed it as briggs minus the deal itself more important than the details after months of missed deadlines in terms talks the prime minister tried to reset the e.u. you can't relationship. 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 you will number one market. on the streets of london there was relief at the end of the ordeal. i think it's brilliant it was a mistake to try to come off the union in the 1st place but that was what most people decided and we've done it and we just got to get on with it and make it as profitable for ourselves as possible it seems to me that it was probably deliberately left to the last minute so it could not be properly considered before put into law so that tells me there's something fishy in their fishing rights had been one of the slipperiest subjects the final deal left the u.k.

fishing industry disappointed european boats will still drop nets in british waters giving up only 25 percent of their catch closures. british export has faced new bureaucratic burdens with business groups saying they have little time to prepare. travellers will no longer roam freely facing the hassle of applying for visas and residency rights after 90 days across the channel and u.k. students will be cut off from the e.u.'s university exchange program erasmus. the european commission president turn to shakespeare to express her mixed emotions i only feel quite satisfaction and frankly speaking relief. i know this is a difficult day for some. and to our friends in the united kingdom i want to see.

is such sweet sorrow. for $27.00 b. you governments and the u.k. parliament must now sign off on the deal by december 31st the end of the year should also close out a difficult divorce. all right so for more on the steel we can cross over talk our spondon in london and in brussels big of mass and max and of welcome to the both a few top of the morning big yes so prime minister abbas johnson has finally got breaks it down as he promised when he 1st took office how's he been selling this agreement well you told the british people in the video that you put out on social media that this is the deal is the ideal reading material for your post christmas lunch he said it's happy christmas tidings and he basically said that he was able to keep his promise that he is the one who delivers on the spreads the deal which he has promised all along was going to be doable. that britain will

offer or take back control about the money the north of the border and still be able to come to this agreement with the european union it's not quite the deal he had promised it wasn't quite as easy as he had said in the beginning when he was elected as prime minister it would be but still he made it happen and he has to deal with you and there was a big relief on his face. how much of a win is it really for him to get after all johnson had to back down on his demands of fishing for example. yes although he didn't get over obviously everything he had demanded for but i think a lot of people would say normal in the negotiation but generally for him passionately who became prime minister really on this promise of bread city the always said it was alvin ready now it did take

a long time. but it has finally happened so it's past really i thing it is a win for him and also we haven't seen of course we haven't seen the details of people haven't really had time to poor over it but there were no cries of a big sell out for example by the brits to tears in his own party even niger for raj who was a was always the one who fought for bricks and for decades and he's the hardline great city in the country even he said that it wasn't of the big picture it was 5 and say not that much resistance and business is relieved that there is a deal so i think overall a lot of british people are sighing with relief that this has actually happened. max just coming to you in brussels the e.u. commission president as an underlying announce a deal with a more sort of samba statement she called it fair balanced and right is the e.u. happy. yeah normally if you ask me

a question about is the you happy it sounds very difficult to answer we have 27 e.u. member states usually have 27 different opinions on issues like that but in this case i think it's safe to say that most member states think that brics it was a terrible mistake it has the potential to hurt both economies even with it with a deal done one way or the other now this deal is going to cushion some of the impact of preg sit and will have to see what this brings come january 1st in the in the next coming months in the next year it has put some strict rules in place that's right to make sure that there is no disadvantage no unfair competition this was one of the big worries of the e.u. and if this works out and this plays out well next year then the e.u. perhaps can be happy or perhaps less disappointed all right that's both of us in london and max sunday in brussels thank you x. . and now let's take

a look at some of the other stories making headlines syria's ses israeli jets attacked its military positions day friday and were repelled by air defense systems the i'm confident reports came after witnesses in lebanon which lies between israel and syria say that they saw israeli jets flying low overhead israel has not yet commented on the alleged attacks. austria has reopened its ski lifts for christmas when just ports are underway at $400.00 alpine locations despite the imminent stress of the national lockdown the government argues that as an outdoor sport skiing is safe and the strict conditions mounted restaurants remain closed. and the 1st case of the new coronavirus variant spreading rapidly in the united kingdom has now been identified here in germany be infected person flew into frankfurt airport from london 5 days ago and fell ill at home in several ways. and staying in germany president from my has delivered

a message of hope in his annual christmas day address to the german public emphasizing the challenges brought on by the pandemic but also how it's brought germans together let's take a listen now to what president bush time i had to say the the going on good. rest. and vincent israel was a visit from the ones of them laden. out playing the do is call it's on time and. we're most of. foosball them study on kino on consult the eyes in all of the fire. on feelers under the media depending me on the in the for let's leave the mentions and directly thus is must be on the anomalous leaving them. under those via. these dark views and. then be over

a number of the more and $100.00 that. that was president from my of a in his christmas address to the nation here's a look now at some more developments in the pandemic south korea has seen its biggest daily increase in corona virus infections since the start of the pandemic with over 1200 new cases and israel is set to impose its 3rd nation wide lockdown after case numbers rose dramatically 2 weeks off tightened restrictions begin on sunday and the u.s. is the latest country to improve those restrictions over a new variant off the virus spreading in britain from monday or passengers traveling from the u.k. to the u.s. we need to present a negative cold 1000 taste to fly. pope francis has celebrated the traditional christmas eve mass from st peter's basilica in the vatican this is it service started to i was earlier than usual to comply with its least 10 pm lockdown curfew the congregation was also much smaller due to social distancing.

carols echo through the near empty service made sumber by the coronavirus pandemic . here then a 100 people attended the christmas eve service compared to the usual 10000. or 10 days where masks apart from the small choir and the pope himself a message from pope francis urged people to help those in need this christmas in the god came among us in poverty and need to tell us that in serving the perp we will show our love for him. despite the pandemic residents in the italian capital are hopeful. it's strange. feels like

a war scenario in which something bad is about to happen this. same time there is an air of hope for this change so i think that's what we all want after this difficult year. the. defeat. the hope for the future the next year possible to celebrate christmas all the government. christmas day we'll see more changes when the pope gives his traditional irby at rb blessing from inside st peter's rather than from the balcony overlooking the square an event really attracts tens of thousands of people. in germany as in many countries one of the most popular traditions is by and decorating a tree for christmas now millions of young guys are cut down every get to adorn living rooms but there's growing criticism of of the damaging environmental impact

some entrepreneurs are creating more sustainable alternatives. a tree is cut down. and another. every year we cut down millions of trees just so that we can have one for christmas in germany alone around $30000000.00 trees are sold over the festive season. benedict bruiser is selling christmas trees with a difference to make a difference well the idea of the regions of christmas trees is that we develop a system where we only cut the top off the tree and then have the natural succession off the tree and that will again build a new branch of the so hopefully so it's a regenerative tree that never is being killed but it always regrowth. in january birds of peas people if they bring back the bits they've had over christmas. those bits are cut up and mixed into soil becoming nutrients in the tree plantation.

underneath the cover brazil plants potatoes. or wild strawberries. and in the middle blackberries. and all around them the regenerating christmas trees. which have a special meaning for birds or. through through all the technological advancements and the digital world we have lost many of those just natural ways of coming together and communicating and celebrating life and you know being aware of what life actually means and for me a tradition is a christmas tree at christmas where you come together as a family and you just enjoy being together and having that time to also reflect on the year if the project proves successful hopes the technique will be used around the world to make christmas trees a little bit greener. that's actually

a very good way off making all traditions all sustainable that's it for now at next as my colleague chris clover with news at the business district a closer look at what that breaks that agreement means the economy's on both sides i'll be back at the top of the alec joining me if you can. coordinate personality stories that. really. looks like the best seller the doubling of reporters. the. destinies of. a lot of. people we'd like to meet again.