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you have. to sing along. to the. very. active exercise is. done on facebook in the. w. the big day is finally here britain set to break its close ties to the e.u. almost 5 years after its present referendum we'll look at how relations between the 2 sides will change and what it means for businesses. also on the show it's been a wild ride for stock exchanges this year look back at how 2020 rock the markets.

close the show i'm seeing beers in berlin well it's finally happening 4 and a half years after its brags that referendum britain is set to walk away from the world's largest trading block at midnight friday brussels time it's been a messy split sending the british pound into turmoil and forcing businesses on both sides of the channel to seek cover and moral not just a moment but 1st let's take a look at what the separation itself means for both sides. fishing rights snag many of the headlines in the final days of talks. complete control over british waters turned into a symbol for the entire breck's it movement. but much like the larger trade deal compromise won out in the end european fishermen are now giving up just one quarter of their previous quota. it's an imperfect deal for both sides. trade across the channel becomes more complicated beginning friday involving

customs forms and inspections. that means longer truck queues at the borders delaying shipments it's needed and obama is now official flexibility and ounce and limitation. it's a dying treaty don't introduce christmas eve and fully implemented days. ahead. and now. perhaps most significant the deal guarantees tariff free trade in goods between both sides there's also now an agreement that the u.k. and a you hold to similar social and environmental standards government subsidies will also be closely regulated to prevent dumping on e.u. markets the deal also means an end to freedom of movement between the 2 sides complicating worker flows. the biggest question marks around the u.k. services sector where the deal did not smooth axis that's 80 percent of the british gross domestic product and includes london's powerful financial sector. on the

positive side britain is now free to make its own trade deals with nonie you partners including the us china and india on its own terms. so there's the big picture view of bragg's that with plenty of uncertainty looking ahead now for companies in the u.k. uncertainty has been a fellow traveller for the past 4 and a half years without clarity on a trade agreement till just last week business owners struggle to offset risk now that a deal is all but ant they're taking a new look at exactly where they stand gregory mcdonald likes to hedge his bets a few months ago the british businessman bought this factory for construction tech in the u.k. . he produces switches and cable dumps there. but his other factories produce parts for the car industry. with his most

important customers located in the e.u. . exports are always. the same rights and have to think about setting that's all about not a part. of the side effects. whilst also why this is the best of what. this acquisition brings the best it was producing for the home market and for export to the e.u. a complicated balancing act but he doesn't really have a choice whether he likes it or not breaks it has brought fresh uncertainty to his businesses from here he supplies parts to mercedes and b.m.w. having decided a while back to keep working with e.u. based customers that's why he's planned to build an additional factory in e.u. member countries slovakia britain society for motor manufacturers and traders has

predicted factory closures and job losses in the u.k. for years so the fundamental problem is that correct if both uncertainty and business is right they need certainty to invest and what we've seen is a direct result of uncertainty and investment into the pickard it's very. positive as it breaks it we're in bad enough the coronavirus crisis added to the worries gregory mcdonald slovakian expansion plans came screeching to a halt. or covered 19 has sessions back because we don't have the reserves that we had before to expand further. you know we need cash reserves to expand into slovakia so we have to wait and build those up again 2021 and beyond after we've got coded out of the way so it's such as. mcdonald still sees a future across the channel post brags that he's just waiting for an end to the

pandemic for now he's focusing on rebuilding the reserves he needs to push ahead with his e.u. expansion plans. and for more on this my colleague rob watts is with me here in the studio rob good to see you let's say that i'm a business owner in the u.k. what changes for me tonight at midnight well i guess that depends on your sort of business stephen but if you are sort of business that has been relatively easy easily sending goods to the you or importing them from there from 11 o'clock u.k. time tonight midnight brussels time tonight you're going to become an export or an importer in a way that you really weren't before because the u.k. is about to become a 3rd country so far as the e.u. is concerned with that comes obstacles as we're talking about safety checks customs declarations that maybe changes in the way you can transport your goods for example if you are the sort of business that sends sausages and burgers raw meat to the you

can have to start sending them frozen from tonight this is going to eat up all my time yeah exactly you're going to spend all that time thawing them out of the other end as well if you happen steve to work in the services access or banking architecture accounting you're about to lose your automatic rights to work in e.u. markets now we don't know the full extent of the services sector yet that's yet to be decided but we know that the implications are going to be significant if that qualifications for example if you've been to fashion qualification in the u.k. that stops being automatically valid in e.u. member states you have to go to each individual member states if they will accept your qualification when it comes down to it and then business travelers are going have to leave a little bit of extra time as they make that trips because they going to lose access to that only queue at the airports are plenty to contend with ok so not just small changes here but at the same time i've had 5 years almost 5 years to prepare for this moment right there shouldn't be ready as a business or looking at all the options what's coming you know this is a been told oh businesses have been told you know 5 months of years to prepare for

this but the question has always been for half a want and we've only known for less than a week now exactly what shape the relationship is going to get and even then as i was talking about the services sector we. still don't fully know what the implications are going to be said there is expected to be disruption businesses have been trying to prepare for the disruption at places like dover in a ports of entry the side they've been trying to find alternative ways to get their goods to the e.u. so for example in aviation the starting to increase the number of flights so even the british government accepts that it's going to be a bumpy ride to the full extent we have a right to businesses rob watts thank you very much all right we'll take a quick look now at some of the other business stories making headlines. the u.s. says it will raise tariffs on a range of goods including wines from the e.u. it's the latest development in a 16 year battle over subsidies paid by the 2 sides to boeing and airbus further

charges are being placed on airline parts airplane parts rather as wells brandy's from france and germany. factory activity in china slowed modestly during december that's according to the purchasing managers index released on thursday demand for chinese exports was hit by fresh lockdowns and strict containment measures in key markets including europe and the united states well it's the last trading day of the year and most countries some trading floors are already closed and what it's most was here it's been for exchanges around the world our financial correspondent frankfurt. takes stock of 2020. the world is in the middle of the worst recession since the 2nd world war but you wouldn't know that by the performance of the stock markets this year global markets kept breaking records after records even as log downs shuttered forms and costs

millions of jobs tech companies like apple google and amazon outperform the index so did the so-called stay at home stocks leg zoom and netflix but it was restored the shoe soaring more than 600 percent this year but the miracle of the year was prices turning negative which meant traders were essentially paying bias to take oil off their hands while prices were battered by a record slump in demand due to the pandemic and a price war led by saudi arabia they finally recovered some lost ground when riyadh and moscow agreed to unprecedented output cuts the pandemic added to gold safe haven appeal the precious metal breached the $2000.00 an ounce milestone for the 1st time but gold's tunder was stolen by bitcoin the cryptocurrency emerged from the fringes and forced mainstream investors to take notice bitcoin enjoyed

a wild run splashing records after records as institutional investors and public companies joined the party the global rally was supported by governments and central banks which kept the money taps wide open that's something the markets would be hoping to continue even in 2021. financial correspondent ashutosh pandit there well caviar is a new year's eve tradition for some black fish eggs are among the most expensive foods in the world but a change of color can make them even more valuable take a look. this is caviar but not as you might recognize it white caviar can be more than 3 times the price of its black equivalent and austrian fish farm. insists it's worth it. because the white caviar is even softer even more creamy tasted i think it's the only way you can properly describe it. at 13 you're is

a gram most of us will just have to take vultures word for it the source after delicacy comes from this the albino sturgeon there are no more than 40 breeders of this rare fish worldwide. it's white caviar production is perhaps one percent if not less of total caviar production it's a very rare product and is not available in sufficient quantities. to call me. this single 16 year old sturgeon contains 600 grams of roe that's 8000 euros worth of white caviar. around a 3rd of overall caviar sales happen during the christmas and new year period alone . and that the price people are willing to pay every single gram counts. and before we go let's have a look at where the world of robotics leaves us in 2020 take

a look that's right dancing this isn't computer generated it's the real thing and these guys are just good dancers they're experts actually at remote inspection and sensing that's their day jobs and they have become extremely flexible and accurate in every move on the dance floor and the robots themselves are developed by boston dynamics a company that was recently snapped up by south korea's 100 i and is valued now at a cool $1000000000.00. that's it for me and the deed of the business team here in berlin we hope you have a happy and safe year. one continent. 700000000 people. with their own personal stories. europe. we explored every day life. with europeans fear and what they hope

for. focus on your. next on d w. to sift through need to see a day. for over that's in home the fortune for the most recent article about. the bottom of the valley at the nasa dragons this one has called home to 3 years. on. a warm welcome to focus on europe with me liz show today we'll bring you people who are impressed and moved us in 2020. because they are different and wants to be respected that way because they produce something that makes the world go crazy.

they stand up for the law even though it's tough they dare to do something even though they are still young or they are old and can offer us wisdom. but 1st let's start with the sweet things in life honey it's used across the world to sweeten food and drinks it's also a well known home remedy against symptoms of the common cold like a sore throat or a cup the honey of beekeeper has some quick who is known to his home on the turkish black sea coast because it's supposed to have special powers and here's a warning this time he can mess with your head. the sun couture artist mother suffers from high blood pressure making her an ideal test subject because it's time for him to measure it again sanchia to alter the means to have found just the right

medicine for it. this time. he tells his daughter to do he's convinced this honey boosts the human immune system. it's just such a small amount but when we were blood pressure a little bit more would have a bigger effect if you want too much of it you can fall into a coma. good luck as honey is that this is healing properties and more it can also have an intoxicating effect hence the name. turkish for mad honey to do what it takes orders for it from all across turkey and sometimes even from abroad but his bees produce this honey extremely sparingly. just from all of the dark in the center his chest not a loss of money you need a light marker and the eyesight is my honey. this honey has gained a sort of world wide fame partly because of this reluctance movie adaptations of a transistor the stone locally is what's wrong with glass to much for me to see.

the key to a lot of family lives in the wild landscape of turkey's black sea coast every day they drive up into the mountains to check on their beehives the medicinal or intoxicating effects their honey can have on people can be traced to the flowers of the pond to little dendreon it's thrives in this area it's flowers and leaves contain substances that can have toxic effects when consumed. if someone eats too much of it they can start to see black and stagger around and. their head and ears get hot and her pulse slows down. in fact the emergency room of the nearest provincial hospital regularly treats victims of mad honey. good she's good with a puppy if you talk to dave a caller because some of them start seeing double digits i can cause heart attacks or even cardiac arrest all of the skin that but in most cases of delhi we just want

to the patients for 24 hours and then send them home you know once the post has stabilised fulfilled loves and. they do it. yet the honey is not prohibited beekeeper his son to to la to naturally into sizes gets beneficial qualities he's willing to climb to the treetops been pursued with it the only place the highs are safe in the region spares around 16 years ago he surprised a bear raiding his hives and almost didn't survive the encounter so he learned it was out of here attacked me right away. we were close to a steep slope and both rolled about 20 meters down into a creek. there we started fighting each other. on the boat i tried to keep him at a distance with my hand in his mouth you see here are the scars for us i feel. like i should be all you but the bear was quite old and drunk from the money

eventually he let go of me. local people can vouch for the story they've nicknamed. the bear wrestler. back to the bees and the alleged healing effects of the mad honey 10 minutes later coup to want to checks his mother's blood pressure again he finds that it's dropped another percentage point the honey seems to be working but now his daughter isn't feeling well. i feel about my head how. we can i just want to sleep. the sun too too locked up already has iran a salty younger tree at the ready to counter the side effects then he finishes up the next time it's all part of the method to his mad honey.

the covert 900 pandemic was without a doubt the dominating topic of 2020 millions of lives have been massively affected by the coronavirus people have lost their jobs their health their loved ones 10 year old lorenzo knows all too well how the virus can change a life instead he lives in a belgian town that was the cleared a hot spot back in march and 1 of the 1st people to die from the virus was lorenzo's grandfather his death left the young boy deeply scarred. before corona didn't know loneliness now. every day and sleep here. and it's just not right with the 10 year old misses his grandfather luke they were inseparable grandpa was the best pretty happy yeah i was happy

the renzo lived with his grandparents for years and they took him everywhere luke was always the one to pick lorenzo up at school when his grandfather got coated 19 in march and became the 1st known victim of the virus in their hometown of st truman lorenzo was left confused and angry. i if corona wasn't here on ballot. nothing of this would have happened his grandmother janine is still pained to recall how difficult it was to explain to lorenzo luke wasn't coming home from the hospital and i have to say that. he was so. good that while janine had to deal with her own grief her daughter's and her grandsons lorenzo was troubled he'd never gotten to say goodbye these were grasses and those are all the names of.

people that want to see you again. but then a chance arose for lorenzo to say farewell when his city's mayor decided to create a memorial in a local park around the theme of the flower forget me not. and assess from the beginning i want. from a little child who lost his grandfather of grandmother the mayor asked lorenzo if he would like to speak at the dedication he declined because life the were i gonna laugh at me. but. i don't know. i was just thinking something. that i set that and. that when i said something about my grandpa i was going to cry. there's a medal for it. maybe you can do it for grandpa. oh yes i will do it for

him. at the ceremony with his mother nellie beside him lorenzo poured out his heart and touched everyone else's evil. your grandpa i miss you very much i am mad about corona mad about what happened you were best and always are going to be the best interest of friend and. when you are standing up there and people are listening to you know what you think you are thinking. he's a brave boy. and no longer he realized and angry boy i was happy that i did it that i. rode el out. and was happy. everyone was.

grampa. and in the spring this corner of the park where lorenzo throughout his sadness will be filled with little blue flowers each blossom a promise to those who are gone we won't forget you. spain is also struggling with the effects of the pandemic the country's economy has taken a massive hit given that it highly depends on tourism in cities like barcelona in many hotels bars and restaurants remain closed the economic decline also means that more and more people don't have enough money to pay their rent and that's why bailiff's like pac or grass and martinez are working around the clock his job of carrying out evictions can be both emotionally taxing and dangerous. clearly he's a bearer of bad news. we have

a court warrant will you open up. some martinez works in barcelona's last detail at area his job is to even people the coronavirus pandemic is a busy time for him more and more people slip into poverty and can no longer pay their rent we have a court ruling you have to leave today. why weren't we told. leif i'm here now you must have been given plenty of notice more women out of your government fathers i know. the owner of the apartment wants them out and he has the law on his side. i want the apartments back. for my son. so that he can live here. the locks are changed to straight away courts are cracking down especially on behalf of private owners when apartments belong to banks or companies decisions can take longer. our. landlord has the

final say if he's willing to give them another 2 days then that's what happens if he wants them out today they're out it's up to him. as you go. down this department was owned by a bank would be one thing. but the owner is someone who worked for decades to buy property it's different. i have no sympathy for them. spain's housing problem is nothing new high rents low incomes during the financial crisis several years ago many people couldn't pay their mortgages and many homes were repulsed by banks now the pandemic has ushered in the next crisis. people who were struggling before are now at rock bottom they had precarious work contracts and now they've lost their jobs so they stop paying their rent.

the chronic housing crisis is on full display at his next appointment the building belongs to a bank it's now being occupied illegally palko calls for assistance. police back up illegal occupants aren't opening the door. we've been threatened with knives someone turned on the gas to try and cause an explosion or are you know it can get dangerous that's when we call in the police officer. parco knows a lot of the police officers well. how's it going the bad guy again. the police go in ahead to check the situation. one of the squatters is still there he's sick the others have fled to.

really. sort of living like this of course the father the mother lost everything. so presumably i think i'm on the side of justice there's always someone who gets the short end of the stick a lot but that's the way it is after all a judge has made a ruling that's the way the law is i don't have a guilty conscience or morgan but. this water won't leave so he's taken away. sees a lot of misery in his job which makes him even more aware of how lucky he is that 52 year old lives with his partner in their own apartment and he is mortgage free. a few streets away he's called on to other day young woman from the dominican republic who gave birth just 2 weeks ago. when mom i'm not doing well where am i supposed to take my child.

on a group of activists are here to support her all parco can do is try to get her more time everything depends on the landlord the woman's last hope is a phone conversation with him. her through you know the welfare system doesn't function right now. the only way to get another apartment would be. a few. more degrees to let the woman stay another 6 weeks but after that she has to go situations like these still upset even after 12 years in the job. there have been many occasions when i've had to grit my teeth and get on with it if it were up to me i'd cave in on humanitarian grounds. but when you've been told you're being evicted 4 times and you haven't looked for a new home at some point you have to draw a line. pago has been called to 8 addictions today

in his district alone he knows that number will keep rising the longer the pandemic continue. living your life the way you want so that's saturday if stuffy of dream and his home country russia he faces hate on a daily basis members of the l g b t q community risk being rubbly or physically attacked in public the perpetrators and not held to account homophobia is widespread in the russian society but these risks don't subset a gay from following his past and of being a drag queen on high heels and dazzling makeup he is living life to the fullest. just so. i know. giving everyone was easy just say i might

have to my other name is miami or miami drag queen was in miami but i. can't. find it. plenty 7 year old sag a name yes miami school music's 3 monkeys ok in most cases. it's how he makes his living even if his job cache is with the to do in russia. have a 2nd face for face id it doesn't recognize me i did a good job on the makeup today. i don't think. she's that kind of woman hello i think it's her 2nd personality i mean with that i don't think it's an illness and the unstated but it isn't yes gary thanks guys these attacks. say one stage at the top the track winfield's competent free and easy

outside the club his biddy early's provokes a different thread she's good at it i don't want to see that. yes just makes me want to vomit. rider sends him into the army. not just for one year he ought to serve 3 was. the one time you could have got your head torn off for that. sergei works hard on his act developing the choreography is himself step by step in 2015 he came to moscow from a little village in western russia he felt liberated but only within the safe confines of the club. the best. with my wigs and high heels i don't fit the image of the russian male. i can't walk down the street as my army it's not because i don't want to become

a star but because i'm afraid. afraid for my life and for my faces freeze that. there are good reasons to be afraid in russia it's very dangerous for a man to appear in public wearing makeup and women's clothes as seen here in moscow's metro homophobic groups may quickly turn violent and deep bass their victims say gays well aware of the danger and never leave the club in drag even so much as posting about his act on the internet without including an age limit could land him in court on charges of homosexual propaganda in such an environment sag a says it's dangerous to come out as gay even to one's own family. i haven't had any contact with my father for about 10 years because once i got drunk and messaged him saying father i'm bisexual i'm not bisexual i'm gay but that's how

i put it the thought of the easier for him would have nothing against girls but i also like boys he's never called me since. my stepmother called me from his telephone and said what if you don't you know we raised us. but sag doesn't intend to stay hidden away forever so in his outfits in secret he has dreams of a grand career and he's invested his creativity and about 11000 euros in fabrics makeup and shoes you just think i'd like to be in the media and appearing in movies and shows so people will be scared of us that would like to be able to walk the streets by armies and not have people you know things of me like your places in the cemetery there's. such things frighten saguenay but he's not giving miami up he'll carry on as the dazzling drag queen but maybe not in russia

sagging and screams about life in another country. for centuries we as human beings have been trying to find the secrets to a long and healthy life is it about diet to getting enough exercise does it have to do with your genes well the answer may be found on the greek island of carry out a surprisingly high number of people living there it's a very old age researchers are trying to find out what their secret is and i can tell you one thing i believe it has to do with the breathtaking beauty of the island. here in the sea of. nice the island of korea. it's famous for its namesake interest from greek mythology and for the adenike it's been ages. but these days it's mainly renowned for the no guarantee of its residence and is known as the island of

centenarians. demetrius crusie is one of these centenarians actually he's 101. his wife is 93 when crusie was born there weren't any streets electronic korea poverty and hard work influenced his lifestyle and diet but to this day he only sees his doctor for routine check ups what's the secret to his good health. though it's a lot of fish. do in after all i was a fisherman myself. i eat meat twice a week at most. you were to go. and i really liked lentils. maybe daddy gaghan like him my wine doesn't agree with me it gives me a ration of bells when i only drink beer. is close to a 3rd of a korea's 10000 residents live to be older than 90 finding out why this is has been

keeping countless greek and foreign researches busy for years. man may cost kalimba here says pleased that it korea centenarians have attracted international attention however he's also concerns that the elderly could soon be the and only ones left on the island we're going to be giving up if you want to we have to improve our infrastructure so young people will stay on it korea will be large we need to make investments in health care education and transport as usual believe it or ports and roads which make british political what you seem a condition our streets are a. minority national we're always having to slalom. in. we took one of the islands better roads to speak with someone who should know more about why people learn in korea live so long. for. the islands resident docs are

and yes larry addis suspects that genetics play a role but he also thinks it carians love lives have something to do with it. always with the case it's really hard though here you have all the directors it's for a good sex life a positive attitude as is that what the proper healthy body and soul before lots of social gatherings is the brief monday of celebrations that was your you i then recently a 92 year old be into my practice and said it with dr spite of my age i can still do everything well the way up it would i ask what do you mean by everything no my son is yours at the. when i say everything i mean isn't everything this one man familiar with this is fun gillis kettle known as the james dean of a come here now a 90 years old he's been married twice but he says women just get too jealous that's why he's now living on his own on his farm with his all if we've been. there

but his energy his boundless his next project to drill a well on the hill behind his house. we have clean air and clean water. that's the main thing you know. 95 sauces still fighting fit and making plans for the future. because. if you've been married twice that you can always try to 3rd time. but you can't. especially not on a career. life on this stunning island in the i.g.n. see is full of passion and free of stress and strife. and perhaps that is the secret behind the long given t. of a career is serious. i should think of moving there when i retire or at least the visit the island for an extended vacation well with that we've come to the end

of the day so thank you so much for watching the team and i would like to wish you all the best for 2021 and of course we'll be back next week with more stories from across europe until then.

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11th on d w. this is date of the news live from the new zealand crosses the threshold into the new year. i and a country largely free of covert 9 st celebrations to welcome 2021 kickoff with a bang in its biggest city planned but elsewhere around the world coronavirus restrictions are set to dampen the party spirits also coming up. on the eve of

a year that will see her leave office german chancellor angela merkel calls for.