this is v.w. news one from the american big global party happening mostly without spectators fireworks lights up cities from sydney to hong kong as the world says hello to 2021 of the coronavirus running rampant all sergeants revising people to stay home and watch the show on t.v. also on the program. the last trucks cross between the european union and great britain head of the u.k.'s faculties popped up on the huge single market admitted going to brussels time and a half century village. and on the eve of

a year that will see her leave german chancellor angela merkel also to patients in tact and contact a crisis she describes what they said st chopped. i'm phil gallo welcome to the program. well the pandemic house put a serious dampener on new year's eve parties this year one of the 1st countries to 2021 new zealand was able to celebrate without restrictions. covered 19 whites out to meet pacific nation crowds gather to celebrate the start of the new year without any need for masks or social distancing. in

australia the traditional spectacular save me harbor bridge fireworks went ahead but a recent new outbreak meant that people have to stay home and watch the show on t.v. . on call staged a dazzling light and laser show although generally the 1st is missing is the chinese new year which will be celebrated in february. jonghyun thousands of north koreans not stop to attend the official fireworks display. whatever it's. well here in europe the united kingdom will leave the e.u.'s customs union and single market at midnight central european time finally bringing an end to its membership of the e.u. the u.k. will then trade goods with the 27 member bloc under a new treaty agreed with brussels last week britain's departure brings down the curtain on nearly 5 decades of membership. goods from britain role of the ferry

at cal a france it's the last day of the year and the last day of the united kingdom place by e.u. rules from midnight brussels time the u.k.'s membership of the single market and customs union ends and with its friction free trade. the deal struck on christmas eve will ensure that goods will continue to flow without tariffs but increased red tape. such as checks and paperwork could cause delays for whole is. one of the concepts the smallest thing even just a couple more minutes for drivers to prove that their merchandise is customs approved with the right documents and the right barcode if that takes just a couple of minutes we know that even with normal activity there is a risk of those infamous traffic queues at all on wednesday the british parliament voted on the trade deal agreed with the e.u. lawmakers had just hours to scrutinize the 1200 page document become only

a few voted against it even though many agreed that it did not fulfill boris johnson's breaks it promises. but for the prime minister the goods were delivered. here it is great to be. with you. i want to really. yes. it's great for you. at the port of dover the last day of the year began with clear skies and clear passage to europe 4 and a half years out of britons voted to leave the european union a cliff edge breaks it has been avoided but rough seas could be just over the horizon. danger because part of barbara fazel joins us from the french port of cali. well welcome barbara looks cold that is the poor ready to become

a customs border what changes will it say. there will be lots of changes here but let's fill maybe just take one last moment to look at these ferries here in the background because what you see there that is one of the last ferries that is going to go across in just a little while over to the as a side to the british dover and the trucks are still rolling on at the moment and this is the last time that they can do this easily and freely because there is just nothing between them and this ferry there but of course everything will change there will be so many more controls really lots of paperwork a lot of the raw crissy there will be checks into the goods and so on and so forth so for the truckers themselves this is going to become so much more harder and also it has of course is symbolic importance it has a symbolic meaning because this is the final tear this is the final cut between the

2 sides that for more than around 50 years we're linked so closely together so how are people there feeling. that people are a bit sad you do feel among the in-house. is here a certain amount of free grant feet who work for the port because the porch here is really what color he lives off this is their main a existence will mainstay really and that is for them really a moment of a certain regret because they've they felt that they were so closely tied to britain there was no really there was no border there was really nothing between then just this bit of watching here which is just 37 kilometers nothing more or less and so they are said but they also in a way are quite matter of fact and say they will have to learn to live with it if this is what they wanted then we can't help it we would just have to arrange

ourselves with it we just have to sort of make do and yes it will become more complicated and yes we are losing them as sort of close friends but they will still stay neighbors that's pretty much what everybody here says yeah that's pretty much what very british prime minister barak is saying he gives the impression of a future relationship between britain and the e.u. will be close to what you're reading. boris johnson of course interprets this as a divorce almost not there that is not the case of course it's a big change it is also an emotional change it's emotional change for people who live in this area because this is no border area and this is somehow the end of the european union that didn't used to be like that and so in a way that is it is means that for the for the the political side will sort of play into people's lives really and they will just have to figure out how to look

to the future and there is a certain to get there is a certain sadness and of course they will have to manage they will just have to make do and they of course are afraid afraid of certain economical fallout if there should be less transport going through here but people just can't help what they say this is politics we would never have chosen to do this. and carry thank you. well for perhaps what we did for actually the last time this year but not for the last time. a list of explore east biting moves amongst us welcome alex so this has been a torturous afford a half years of negotiations political turmoil both here your and in the u.k. what will actually change with midnight strikes when there is going to be more paperwork more red tape coming but i think one of the big changes that we're going to see is the end to free movement that means that automatic right for british

citizens for example to be have to live to was to retire to study in the e.u. will stop and e.u. citizens to do the same in the u.k. will also stop as well instead they were being more immigration rules there will be a call for visas it will be more complicated and the u.k. for example putting a new points face system for its immigration to make sure that e.u. citizens are treated the same as non e.u. citizens but for tourists that want visas if it's short stay but there's still be more complications that have to get a travel insurance and there will still be issues of having to bring pets in and out of the block to have to get will pay for what for that but not a complete change every we have oh that's right so northern ireland which is part of the united kingdom will still have to follow a number of new rules and that's because they wanted to prevent a hardboard across the island of ireland and gibraltar as well which is

a tiny british territory stuck right next to space in a will also continue to have freedom of movement that's because of a deal that's been struck between spain and the u.k. only a few hours ago which will put have brought it into the schengen area so to make sure that they can still while that they will not have a hard border there either so the biggest question then still hanging over post bret's it relations i think it's the whole services industry. now about makes up 80 percent of the british economy and particularly the financial services so for example of the city of london and nobody knows now what the rules are going to be between that say for example can british banks sell their products to the e.u. we don't know that still has to be thrashed out it seems crazy bought you have to remember the british prime minister boris johnson wanted to do something very simple as he said which was to take back control so he for example put a lot of focus on making sure that british warts is would be british that the

fishing rights for example fishing industry with no point 4 percent to the british economy perhaps getting more of a focus than say financial services so from what you say that then it doesn't sound as though this is the view would be talking about rex's i'm afraid it's not going to be the end there's lots more to thrash out and also this could end up leading perhaps to the breakup of the united kingdom itself and that's because scotland voted to remain in the e.u. they're also being forced out because that part of the u.k. they want independence and if that happens well then obviously the u.k. will no longer exist so i think we can just say that this is the end of the beginning of bricks and there will be more to come i think forest wising thank you . here's a look at some other international stories the u.s. says it will increase tariffs on the range of e.u. goods including wine it's the latest development in a 16 year battle over subsidies paid by both sides to the manufacturers boeing and

us new charges of being imposed on airplane parts as well as brandy's from france and germany. police in pakistan have arrested $24.00 people after a hindu temple in the northwestern town of tara with satellite and destroyed several muslim clerics were among those taken into custody the temple became a target of muslim protests after the minority hindu community was given permission to renovate. the vatican has announced that pope francis will not hold new year's eve or new year's day ceremonies because of a flare up of saturday course and paid in his back and leg the pope's suffered from the condition in the past so this is the 1st time in years but ill health has caused him to miss a significant event. in german chancellor angela merkel has called on germans to help beat the pandemic by sticking to the bowls in the weeks and months

ahead and was likely to be her final new year's address the chancellor said the country is facing hard times but now the vaccinations have begun hope is in sight. after a year dominated by one issue it came as no surprise that the main theme of chancellor angela merkel's traditional new year's address was the pandemic. dicko now the us pundit me of the coronavirus pandemic was and is a once in a century political social and economic challenge this idea has to it's a historic crisis that has demanded a great deal of all of us and too much of some of us if i start i know that mustering this is story effort has required tremendous trust and patience on your part and continues to do so. that the pandemic and its effect on german society dominated the speech it was also a message of hope with machall pain tribute to the german scientists who developed

the buy on tech pfizer vaccine already in use in several countries. and after 15 years as chancellor to the end of her political career beckoning ended on a personal note in oil not as there will be federal general elections in 9 months and i will not be running for reelection what falls is not a slow day i'm likely speaking to you on new years as federal chancellor for the last time in the off stink i don't think i'm exaggerating when i say that never in the past 15 years have we all experienced such a difficult year for or niihau and never have we created the new year is so much hope that despite all of our concerns and some skepticism also venture in and so you and your families have my very best wishes for good health confidence and blessings on the new year 2021 months. oh let's go jump ahead of what's the chance to address in full welcome to mccabe so probably her

last one after 15 years in office what do you make of it 1st though we say probably because unless those elections produce a very different difficult situation where coalition talks go on into the next it will be the last one so there is a small chance we might see a talking again but i saw a german chancellor has gone pretty much full so we saw very emotional scenes this year of her talking in parliament how it was breaking her heart to have to implement such a tough $1000.00 messages particular going into that 2nd lockdown here in germany and this if we saw a chance a muse a lot more. her old self i'd say she says she's talking personal but then she would he doesn't talk personal she talks about this most likely being her last address he says it's not all about covered 19 and then she only brushes in passing those big issues like climate change and europe space in the world so no agenda setting here at all but it's. trying to sow empathy with those people hit most like of it 19

here in germany and she talked about this be the most difficult year of her tenure how satisfied have germans been with the pandemic but they have been very satisfied and this against the backdrop of still rising death figures here and many to me is high level of cases more than 30000 new ones here today alone but she was transparent from the word go she's the one who called on her state premiers in october to implement something approaching a lockdown much earlier and they didn't listen to her so even now going into more difficult times for germany she soaring in the opinion polls although one must say . in one opinion poll the german healthiness against spahn now comes on top so the old wisdom that crisis times times for government those in charge is coming true here and she's seen doing what she does best which is christ's money stay for me a year ago you just said what is what is i'm going to going to be remembered for

it's going to be the migration crisis is it going to be that or is it going to be curbing. i think it's going to be a bit of both but i think that it covered 19 because it's such a historic crisis that none of us not even our grandparents remember anything more significant than this that we will remember her as this overarching crisis monson not just in germany but also the one who called for multilateralism who call for europe to work together despite the initial reflex being very national who will still remember her for migration but not for migration and this is the big game changer that we saw saw through this pandemic she wanted to have a legacy of this grand european particularly with german germany having had the e.u. presidency during the 2nd half of this year she had big plans were tired of those who didn't really come true despite that trade that investment agreement we're now seeing she used to be the migration chance until covered $900.00 came that's what she is now. the chief political it is

a thank you and you can see i'm going to magical new year's address in full of midnight berlin time mass in 3 hours on d w and of course on all platforms we'll take a look now at some of the latest coronavirus developments around the world starting in the u.k. which is say nearly a 1000 covered 19 deaths for 2 days in a row 3 quarters of england's population has been placed under the strictest level of restrictions to counter the rapidly spreading new variant of the virus in italy new infections have risen sharply to more than 23007000 more than the day previously italy has seen the highest number of cobi related deaths in europe and china has approved its 1st covered 19 vaccine for general use state owned sign of farm says it's 79 percent effective though it hasn't published the full trial data . migrants brazing braving freezing conditions in bosnia herzegovina

were expecting to be taking to taken to new accommodation but were instead forced to return to the burned out remains of they've been sheltering in the camps in leap close to the border with croatia which is a member of the e.u. it's on the so-called balkans route used by people trying to flee into the e.u. i say get away from war and poverty the un says almost half of the migrants living in bosnia on living without any shelter now bosnia's muslim religious leaders have joined humanitarian groups in condemning the migrants treatment. for hundreds of men many from afghanistan or pakistan it's back to camp a site that's been uninhabitable for a week now on tuesday both need authority sent buses to transfer them to a new camp but they never left in the town now we're heading to there were heavy protests from locals the migrants spent the night waiting in the buses. they didn't

give us any updates they were saying that we have to we're going to meet will take the decision so they didn't take any decision and finally said that you have to go back to your on can lead but the situation is spiraling out of control the bosnian red cross and fallen tears are providing the margarets with one warm meal a day. the camp was set on fire over a week ago after it was closed down with no alternative accommodation arranged. why the camp was set on fire is still unknown the bosnian red cross describes the situation as an all time low for human dignity. it's catastrophic those who make the decisions about the margarets should see what's going on here something has to be done and we can't just wait for tomorrow. but other camps in bosnia rover filled and further accommodation projects are being

met with massive resistance from locals and regional politicians. that have taken over some sports will start with tennis sunday murray has pulled out of the season opening delray beach open in florida say he doesn't want to risk contracting corona virus had a february australian open the 3 time major winner and former world number one have accepted a wild card to play in the florida tournament only last week but the brits had an injury plagued last season has now decided it isn't worth the risk a merry slip to 122nd in the rankings after playing 7 matches in 2020. in basketball becky hammon has made history by becoming the 1st woman to take charge of a side during an n.b.a. game big moment to came when head coach gregg popovich was ejected after receiving 2 technical fouls in the 2nd quarter m and then took the reigns for the rest of the game she couldn't prevent the spurs from losing

a man's brain with spurs spurs since 2014 when she became the n.b.a.'s 1st female official full time assistant coach. formula one driver lewis hamilton has been awarded a knighthood the highest honor given to british citizens by the queen he became the sport's most successful driver this season including michael schumacher as record of 7 titles beating the german drivers 91 race wins as well as his success on the track and times also campaigned against racial injustice as a prominent supporter of the black lives matter. of 2020 was a year to forget for germany's national football team it ended it included an embarrassing 6 nil loss to spain and of course that was the coronavirus pandemic germany played 8 games in just 3 months on top of the not ready cram domestic calendar but they also had troubles off the pitch. if you enjoy british keller and your welcome live

seen here sending out a warm christmas message but the video of the german football association president and his national team coach is over a year old. bunch of for 2020 there was no joint appearance some think there is tension brewing between the 2. i was a very upset that many many things were leaked to the public by someone from. german media claim live and keller have met privately the president supposedly wanted the germany national coach to step down after the european championship. in 10 i once again made it very clear among us that i want more unity and trust as well as more trust on matters that have been discussed internally in the intend to score convincing but the rift within the d.f.t. could also be why live still has his job president keller is reportedly at odds with his general secretary friedrich courteous and their disagreements have stalled

decision making such as letting the go to germany coach has been trying to build a new team for more than 2 years now offensively there are promising signs but in defense there are still too many cracks the 6 will last to spain in november was a historical low on earth and must buy more or less money inside the seats in what's important during rebuilding is to give the players time to develop. and when i see that the team still needs this or that to be successful then i'll definitely do it to win but at the moment i don't see any reason. however time is running out for live in march there are world cup qualifiers followed in the summer by euro 2021 germany is in the same group as world cup champions france and european title holders portugal and early exit could spell the end for live but who could replace him. once he flicked thomas to hell and you are going to clump are favorites among experts and fans former p.s.g. coach to call is the only one available right now. sharing the holidays however

there's time to take stock keller appear to hand out an olive branch in an end of year message in order to discuss them to the entire coaching staff and the players want it this way. you can see who for us i'm very very confident that they will do the right thing by continuing on the path they have taken. what makes teller so optimistic is unclear just like so much else at the german f.a. . this recent goodbye is a 2020 d.w. correspondents around the world have been asking people what they're hoping for next year this is a common thread they all wanted to be very different to the issue for me. i left him and i wish good health for every person for everybody in germany in 2021. might do at home city anyone anyone is actually putting their best food to sydney

who has and actually this lake being a bit more free and i like the idea out but this is so much fear and it would be so nice to be a mosque be to be able to meet family friends to be actually hug them you know just just be able to do the normal things again yeah that's my hopes. for myself i hoping that i can live a better life. i want a good family and for life to just be ok. i don't want a life of struggle although in life there is struggle no matter what nothing. you saw. i hope we can go back to work again. i'm a dancer and would like theatres to open again so that humanity can find its smile that i make at the 2020 through.

thousands of people every day die by a judge just want to make of 2022. let's hope we can all meet in the next hour i'll be back at the top of a hour please join me and so let's clear that of course up as always the web site dumping dot com good. to.

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saying a big hello to my colleagues around. hello sound. thank you and a one welcome from me sundra to nobody here in kampala uganda. you are absolutely right near to on the topic we'll meet the messiah in kenya diverse in egypt and so much more here's what you can look forward to in the next half an hour. we show you the potential big data to protect the environment. you also learn about how designers and spain are recycling old material into. a used to grow mushrooms in ghana. but must we have a look to the northern desert where the effects of climate change are increasingly noticeable in the area around on the so it is dusty it is getting harder for

farmers to cultivate the alarmed average rainfall throughout the year has gone down water has become a luxury fuel on the fuel pharmacy and have a sufficient amount of this precious resource as they are forced to use water more effectively the people in this area aren't getting creative. it takes a lot of water to irrigate his olive groves and vegetables so choosier farmer to have a house 3 systems to collect rainwater. he owns 90 hectares of land which is a lot for the kairouan region. 6 liters per 2nd down to the fields and some of the system runs for 16 to 17 hours a day use less water in the cooler winter months the still enough rain and with our

well we always have enough water. in this way. not everyone's situation is as comfortable. just 10 kilometers away beyond these mountains life is much harder. most families have to walk several kilometers to get to the nearest water source 'd 'd to cover their daily needs they might have to make a number of trips back and forth. jobs like to do requires 250 liters of water every day just for his animals and his fields. he needs an additional 40 liters for himself his wife and their 3 children. it's really tough for the people who live in this region it takes everyone so much time to fetch water retired our children can carry on doing this every day it's a burden on the entire region. we still have no running water at home that affects

our quality of life it's so hard we're all trying to find solutions and ahead of. systems that collect rainwater could offer the people has some relief. and now hundreds of being built with the help of a german development agency. until now a large part of the rainwater head was going on you just. catch the rain water that runs off the houses which can be used as drinking water for irrigation to. recall daughter. the farmers can use it to grow our moans all those and rosemary which don't require that much water. that's been the agency also advises farmers and has set up what it calls water forums constructive strategies are developed and farmers can discuss which plants

they could that would use less water. we have a really unusual situation in the region we're in now. basically no ground water left because too much of it has been used up over the years. so the farmers are now having to resort to stored water. that getting water to store is also a problem. that hasn't rained much in the past 4 years farmers get their water from this impoundment dam it's a price more than half a 1000000 people and. it has also levels decline it's being pumped further and further across the country. and that has a direct impact on the people who live here. pressure is mounting even on the pharmacy didn't think they have to worry about that water

supply. in some places water is actually being stolen. there are an estimated 20000 illegal wells in china. that's why raising awareness of the problem is so important. if nothing changes farmers and that animals will no longer be able to survive in these mountains. and then the region might soon become uninhabited. using our resources wisely will be able to grow out in the coming decades in fact the. change of direction in many areas including textile production i'm up cycling is a new buzzword one clothing designer. uses everything he can get his hands on from plastic bottles to time to clear items on the label his motivation

there is no plan to be. transformed into cruelty jackets plastic bottles become backpacks just 2 of the items made by the label. t. shirts sneakers and jackets almost everything in this madrid shop is made from recycled materials. founder is how. he got the idea for the label in 2009. the nationwide to asian was the frustration with the amount of waste we're creating in the world i believe the most sustainable think too was not to keep on using natural resources so recycling could be a solution if we were to make a new generation of recycled products with the same quota. and if that is the best . that we could demonstrate there's no need to get the independent put to get the trial but we can transform what other people waste into polymer yarn fabrics and

products. these flip flops are made of old car tires they're 100 percent recycled and don't even need glue the labels reveal what goes into these products. all this labeled we try always to put in the in our government the labels on this one says that we need 235 grams of discarded fishing nets to make one yards of fabric. going to change hoping to raise awareness of environmental issues and at the same time create fashion that looks good. gratis journalist brenda chavez reports on sustainability and observes the trend. the past 7 months it's starting to catch on but it didn't really pick up speed until the annual figures for textile waste became more common. now the industry is beginning to react to the problem that we're having with plastic. and. it's recycled over $330.00 tons of waste taken from the sea the label cooperates with spanish fishermen. they

gather the waste from the sea for the fashion house. old fishing nets and plastic bottles are processed to make polymer yarn that goes into the fabrics used to make new clothes. the label wants to make an environmentally conscious lifestyle part of its image that slogan because there is no plan it be. a. part of a whole lifestyle if the whole 0 waste movement is growing and people want to produce less waste and have less impact on the environment. than i am going in. a fashion trend or the future of clothing. how are you going to choose continuing his experiments with cycling and hopes. to catch on in more mediterranean countries.

now and they're awesome very interesting pieces in that report and it's hard to believe that most of them are made from old classics somewhat some of them like this but as we've already seen plastic waste in the sea is especially helpful for wal-mart of marine life including core reefs in egypt over $300.00 professional die of us took advantage of a corner virus logged so cleaned up the popular tourist resorts the team spent about 3 days above and below the water here's this week's doing your bit as evil. egypt's red sea coast is blessed with one of the world's most stunning coral reefs it's a hot spot for divers and tourists. but plastic and other trash endangered the sensitive underwater ecosystem. to counteract this egypt's chamber of diving and water sports initiated underwater cleanups during the covert 19 lock down.

away. from sharm el sheikh. saw it as an opportunity to clean the sea a chance to get rid of the trash and do something good while they had time on our hands. more than 350 professional divers were eager to volunteer. divers in the hub removed plastic film and other debris that could suffocate the coral. in who got a decade's worth of garbage removed from a marina and taken to local waste disposal companies for sorting. many resorts in egypt reopened in mid july but from now on. some of the diving will be devoted to keeping the coral reefs clean. and how about you if you're also doing your bit tell us about it visit our websites post said to us

a tweet hash tag doing your best. we share your story. is tourism a curse blessing this is a question that comes up in many tourist hot spots in kenya appears divided among the messiah population they are about 3000000 messiah in georgia are many of them live from tourism as rangers gods or tall god i guess near to when the coronavirus put an end to tourism it also put an end to these source of income members of the not. obvious in kenya are thinking of new ways to weather the storm together they'll do what ever it takes so that they preserve the environment aren't way of life. these women are sifting through the river of the

national icons of n.c. located right next to canyons famous mossimo national park this tributary flows into the mara riva nelson only real initiative the cleanup he pays the women from the nearby villages $5.00 a day for the a work. this is the most important 'd watershed in this part of the mara the local community relies on this water for there are usage for cooking cleaning and even also the livestock and our wildlife unfortunately the revised heavily polluted because of the activities of. burn areas upstream there tourist comes all the way to that oily reader and his wife were both born in this area because fonda and crew suffer see run by the local muslim community unlike in other natural results white life people in lifestyle quickly steer. national life itself is

a very important corridor allowing wildlife to migrate especially. elephants which normally access this area for by thing and also. they grow migration passes through these corridors although where to the other consequences. these area has always belonged to the local community but with growing communities and 1st land the wildlife was vanishing to create the can see 4 years ago the community members pulled down their fences and 2 years later the word life returned. the biggest problem facing wildlife today in kenya is what actually porting as people might actually think of it it is the lack of space and that space is with communities so all communities have to be at the center of

conservation the members of the conservancy largely rely on funding from donors and only a 5th of its income is generated by tourism but this year they called on a pandemic has never stepped to the region's economy without the 2 areas that visit their each year many only rely on their livestock as they lost their jobs us ranges in hotels or traders on the local markets. everything has become difficult getting food is a problem there are diseases all around us just locked down at home and conti the village elder bill caldwell boom. through crowd funding the national a team has been able to provide food aid to the villages it's a lifeline for now.