you know where i live there again i don't know so i'm not sure. that matters. made for minds. breaks it is here have mocking and end to any era we have all freedom. and views to us to make the most of the prison ends it's hoffa's century partnership with the european union so what changes are installed now that it has

become a reality also coming up. the u.s. saying goodbye and good riddance to 2020 the ball drops in new york times square but without the usual crowds to ring in the new get people in cities around the world have been age to stay home to combat the global pandemic. and evolve and give that will see her leave office german chancellor i'm going to back the calls of crisis a once in a century challenge. hello i'm christine one it's good to have your company. offs a century part a century and a half brother britain has finalized its fares with the european union as the clock struck midnight here at the border control near colony france breaks it became

a reality new customs form and seas came in to fix the u.k. quits the single market breaks of supporters are hailing the freedoms won by the agreement but those who once of britain to remain in the e.u. fear the deal could isolate the good as it brings new and complicated bureaucratic hurdles. it. takes a closer look at the immediate impact. from generally 1st british drivers on french or italian roads maybe needing some pieces of paper a green insurance card and an international driver's license and the future of their health coverage in europe is also still in the air. not so happy holidays for some loving brits in spain they'll be thrown in was everyone else and must apply and pay for a long stay visa if they want to enjoy their holiday homes for more than 90 days because from now on free movement be free anymore. meanwhile e.u.

citizens hoping to make a life in britain will be faced with a points based immigration system and prove their worst to the british state bad news for british farmers desperately looking for help during harvest time. traffic jams at the borders will simply become effect of life because goods entering and leaving the e.u. will undergo new checks and require lots of new paperwork so get ready truckers for those 7 hour waits for these fishermen in the north of france breaks it is bad news they lose unfettered access to british waters home to 80 percent of their catch that means their livelihood is at risk but british fisherman should not start rejoicing yet most of their catch is sold on the european market. it's all change for bankers and brokers how much when and where they'll be allowed to work in the

european union will be totally in brussels hands to avoid nasty surprises many banks and insurance companies have already established in the good presence somewhere new european country. and for more we're joined by the author of that reports the state of your correspondent barbara vessel and kelly frasca just see you barbara so the new border checks just went out what went into force just a few hours ago right there in a way you are always seeing those those here delays that may be feared. nothing to see here of course on the 1st of january it's a very quiet moment morning we've just see a handful of trucks rolling up and down here behind the ferries we see in them on my back there's been a bit of traffic coming in as is usual but it is very quick and very smooth because of course it the big companies who knew about the changes that were coming up they

could prepare it is going to hit a lot of these smaller transport companies that carry mixed to lose that for instance carry any molds that carry food stuff and so on afford them life is going to be much more difficult and of course all this will really come into in effect because we have a long weekend now next monday and then we might see those traffic jams that everybody has been warning about and we talked to a few truckers who had been waiting ed truckstop about what they think about the changes that will come up and that's going to change yeah but. it doesn't make a start you know i mean if just going to get on with you know mean that that's where it is so you just got to bite the bullet you've just got to do it go to the floor that's all you can do that's such a. paper so stop support stop train. it will be a problem we wait for one week about. it do it it'll be difficult in january

because of the agreement we're doing well here in europe so worn a b. and c. how things happen. everything that's changing with breaks it is because of politics everything that i and you and my companions are losing is time and money it's everything and it's all politics. i keep the receipt regular w. morning is ready. but so mixed reaction from from truckers they have but that breaks it also means the end off freedom of movement for people between the u.k. and the e.u. what does that mean in practice. it means in practice of course for people who come here as through this port of call a who used to tunnel a bit further on use one of the ferries here in the background it will seem normal

because they just have to show their passports and they can still go by problems follow them will stop once they are on european soil because they lose all their rights as e.u. citizens they are now a 3rd country that means they will have to follow rules like americans australians or everybody else in the world they can settle here any more they can stay on a european so for more than 90 days in a row if they want to work here it's going to be very complicated so it's just look at life for those many people who for years have been going back and forwards who are working part time in london for instance and part in paris or somewhere else on the continent they will have to really follow new rules and their life will become exceedingly more difficult. i mean bob are you a better place to say this right at 4 and a half years breaks it is now a reality i'm always going to see this britain pursuing its own interests as has been promised by mr barr's johnson. that's the i jolly g

a francs it of course you know the promise of golden tomorrow because people had to you know keep state convinced this is a great move politically and not think this is really a regression we're going backwards so what does that mean it means britain could have followed its own interests before and nobody would have kept them from doing that they if they hope to create some sort of singapore and thames really lowers standards that's what we know have the the deal to trade deal for which will impede that and as regard to financial services if boris johnson plans to sort of move the city of london fire away from normal international regulation and from the e.u. once they can just unilaterally withdraw exits so this is very thin ice britain is going to walk on in the future economically and legally and a lot of those big promises might just not come true thank you barbara.

and it's taken a hit some of the international stories microsoft say is hacked has recently access some of the companies could take giant shows customer data is safe and that its systems weren't used to attack others it was a aca campaign against thousands of companies and days off the buses were meant to drive them to a shelter a 1000 migrants are still stranded in a burnt out camp in bosnia the vehicles have been after off the protests from residents in the village where they were going the migrants are struggling to survive in freezing temperatures without heating or adequate clothing. pope francis has been absent from the traditional new year's eve thanksgiving. due to back pain he was replaced by a cardinal who read the end of you have prayer another cardinal will lead friday mass in place of the pope hasn't missed a major papal event and he is. german chancellor going to back all has

handed over his presidency to portugal germany's presidency ended on december 31st in a video message. wished coachable every success and say that he would support portugal to the best of its ability the presidency rotates among e.u. member nations every 6 months. the world has been saying goodbye to 2020 and bringing in 2021 and the shadow of the current i spent there with despite tight restrictions on gatherings new head state abrasions took place around the globe in new york city the bowl was raised into its traditional position at times square but this year only a few gifts were in attendance i are i. just

mean just really makes the eerie quiet in this city that never sleeps. here and front line workers got front row seats to the traditional event in new york city social distancing in times square this is the new year in the age of coded 19 i. mean at the copacabana in rio de janeiro the beach was nearly empty as the city rang in 2021. the eiffel towers sparkled in the city of light as police across paris were on hand to enforce the country's strict 8 pm covert. curfew. in berlin the annual fireworks were more subdued than in years past after the government banned their sale but not their destination. an hour later britain heralded in the new year its 1st post brags that new year's

eve was less than celebrate torii with police out in force to discourage crowds. ever in the chinese city of will hand where the 1st cases of covert 19 emerged just over a year ago revelers hope the darkest days of the outbreak are now in the past. the . new zealanders were partying like there's no pandemic the country successfully eliminated the coronavirus and 2020 combining strict measures with a unified national leadership that meant large crowds could gather to ring in the new year a rare away says in a world of scale back celebrations. german chancellor again a magical has called on germans to help the pandemic by sticking to the rules in the weeks and months ahead in what is likely to be her final knew his address the

chancellor said the country is facing hard times but all that 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 one of the it was panda me of the coronavirus pandemic was and is a once in a century political social and economic challenge is and 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 biome tech pfizer vaccine already in use in several countries and after 15

years is chancellor by the end of her political career beckoning merkel ended on a personal note in noyon we're not there will be federal general elections in one month and i will not be running for reelection fawcett's nothing today i'm likely speaking to you on new years as federal chancellor for the last time in the south east bank 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 greeted the new year is so much hope that's despite all of our concerns and some skepticism or civility in and so you and your families have my very best wishes for good health confidence and blessings in the new year 2021 months. you can watch going to michael's music in full on all of all platforms now for a quick spot i say manchester united striker. has been banned for 3 matches off to

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well welcome to the show. it's good to have you with us well it's official the u.k. is out of the e.u. customs union and single market and all eyes are now on the new customs border with crossing procedures now in place the truckers face long lines slowing deliveries or will traffic flow smoothly facades are watching closely. with the clock ticking down on 2020 and a new year approaching this is what britain's future with the european union will play out the new pit stop at the euro tunnel a brand new facility where trucks are processed with paperwork no driver has seen in decades midnight prada historic moment not least for the 1st driver to cross here amazing. this to be for the 1st. not only for new. but is it not for the new. ok.

it all seemed like a logistical nightmare the weeks before breck's it had seen thousands of trucks trained in lines extending for miles many rerouted to a local airfield their future on clear london in brussels reached a final trade agreement only days before the new year meanwhile tunnel operators were doing their best to get their act together. before. the 1st truck passed through as expected just after midnight the teams were there systems are ready so there you go a few minutes of waiting at the stop we give a small gift to the 1st driver who went through so it's a very calm atmosphere everything's ready the teams are active everything's going well tonight. well sort of it seems not everyone was ready for the change of pace and the 1st chuckle for the tunnel made it to cull a on the french side of the channel with only 17 trucks on board that's half the

usual capacity. oren for more of this i'm joined by my colleague rob what's your studio rob hello. it's only been hours since this border has come about is clued known about it for a while but what we what we said so far is are things slowing down or what are we seeing well it's seems all quiet on the frontier so we have had traffic going from both the e.u. to the u.k. and the u.k. to the e.u. freight traffic that is we've seen the 1st truck is going through a very chip a romanian truck driver passed through kalai into the u.k. and almost straight after midnight french time and said he was very pleased to do so and is very easy was waved to very way through very quickly but you have to bear in mind that the restrictions and the changes for traffic going from the e.u. to the u.k. is actually not changing that much for another 6 months the u.k. has decided to make that a staged change in the other direction where we most likely to see problems we've

also seen drivers going from britain with their freight through to the e.u. and so far with very few problems but as we saw in that report you know there is a reduced number i suppose it's either through luck or design but fortunately this does come out on a new year's day so which is the day off in the u.k. and straight for a weekend which means we're not going to see full business travel until you know next week or even the weeks after that as the as we ramp up into the new yes and once we get to that point we do see the full business travel and say there are lines remind us again what are the stakes for businesses that depend on those shipments coming through timely rate well the stakes for many businesses very high and you mentioned states actually food is one of the things that potentially a risk here is supplies of the right amounts of fresh food particularly being able to get into britain us i mean that's a concern but also we have just in time manufacturing the required parts on a specific day for them to be able to continue to make whatever products it has

been a car albeit a train or whatever and. sort of delay to that would be a real problem to them and we saw a ripple effect on the way i guess and yeah exactly and that can that can be a real issue but we have seen businesses taking for cautions to avoid that they've been trying to avoid crossings web poll and arranging frights i know this is that they're actually not going to send any lorries across until maybe beyond the 10th of january so the full extent of it was becoming become clear until halfway through january out of thought all right some more wait and see i guess with gregg's as it's like the past 5 years almost all right i reporter rob watts joining me in studio thank you so much well it's not just border crossings that have changed with you can his departure fisherman on both sides of the english channel face new quotas for their catches and they don't have much time to study the new rules. captain fritz flint is in cook's hoben getting ready for the 1st catch since the brakes a transition period ended his ship is one of the most modern to sail the north sea

captain and crew are relieved the deal is done at least now they know the ground rules. figures crossed it all works out otherwise we'd all be out of a job for a while it's not good when they say they can't reach an agreement we've already been laid up for 2 months there or we just kicked us out too it's not nice we're waiting with bated breath we've got families to think about. a few meters away things boss caught on a schmidt pours over the new deal he's been at it for hours. it's keeping me busy as opposed to. while schmidt reads flint and his crew give the boat a once over. they're ready to go. but the deal means massive cuts in british waters for quite a fish germany's last dedicated fishing fleet that's. just skimmed through the

parts about cotton polic will have 20 percent less catch that means we need 2 boats fewer in the next 5 years sense which is why i fought so you feel any sense of him . on the british side small scale fishermen on the english channel are afraid they won't benefit from the deal with the e.u. but in scotland the situation is quite different that's where most of the fish are caught by large vessels anyway and that's where the british profit the most from the quota increase castoff in cooktop from the e.u. this makes its way through the north sea on course for norwegian waters at least this catch is guaranteed but the ball still doesn't know what the new year will bring does he have enough people on january 1st we don't know who's allowed in norwegian waters norway said as long as the u.k. and e.u. haven't reached an agreement no one's allowed in. the last days of 2020 were turbulent ones for fisherman around the north sea and

despite the breaks that deal there's no promise that the waters will be any calmer for europe's fisherman in 2021. and staying with global trade a shortage of shipping containers is threatening supply chains and driving up container prices which have tripled in some parts that in turn is threatening to undermine recovery from the pendant. as one of the largest traders ever to steer its way into hamburg harbor on route between asia and europe it can transport around 20000 containers but at the moment there's a shortage of shipping containers worldwide the coronavirus pandemic has thrown the global rotation of containers into disarray. at the same time china's export economy is running at full speed again pushing maritime shipping to the limit. the

price of a container from the far east to europe has almost tripled in recent months about nouns are for shipping companies but german transport company lloyd has come under fire for the high prices. today it is very clear that there is more demand than there is supply and it of course results in higher prices at the moment but we should not forget that shipping has been making losses for a very long time and we have harbored lord for example will probably our cost of capital for the 1st time in 10 years. high demand in the u.s. makes problems worse for european importers routes between asia and the west coast of the us a more lucrative for shipping companies so more ships are sent on those trips german companies could lose out in the global competition for scarce freight capacity. that we're criticizing the fact that what happens here is

upsetting entire supply chains in europe current supply chains can't even meet the current demand and we're running the risk that the economy's recovery after the pandemic is in extreme danger chuffed not corner extreme if you notice. it affects consumers too many products manufactured in asia could become more expensive or unavailable for weeks in case of bikes especially even retailers are already feeling the strain of overstretched supply chains. you still don't have any delivery dates from one of our main suppliers they only see 2nd or 3rd quarter that affects us wish talk to them about their reasons it seems they're not getting parts delivered and can't assemble their bikes. with no end to the supply crisis in sight lloyd has its entire fleet in operation and free

cargo space remains a hot commodity germany's largest shipping company is predicting even higher container prices giving them even larger profits and 2020. 2.7000000000 euros. are those higher shipping costs $1.00 thing that could weigh on balance sheet for companies and affect market values another thing that could be in store for markets for 2021 perhaps fact scenes are financial correspondent frankfurt pandy takes a look at whether vaccines drive the worldwide economic recovery 50 year 2020 was all about the coronavirus and lockdowns this year promises to be about vaccines and a return to normalcy the pharma industry created several vaccines in record time it's about getting those shots into the arms of people all around the world global markets impressive rallies last year despite the pandemic wreaking havoc vaccine

breakthrough suggest market participants could ignore the immediate pains and look forward to a swift post pandemic recovery the jury is still out on how global stock markets will fare this year some experts say that the markets have already factored in a vaccine ledger coverage others say there is still a lot of steam left however days little doubt when it comes to shares in travel and tourism companies airline stocks took a battering last year as a pandemic broad international travel to a virtual halt they could be ready for takeoff once restrictions are lifted and then there is the biden factor the incoming u.s. president is seen as less combative and more predictable than president trump and that would be a big relief for global markets which are still reeling from tranced trade wars and that means global trade is likely to continue its impressive post pandemic recovery last year saw a 9 percent slump but the w.t. who expects global good straight to right 7 percent in 2021 that bodes well for

germany's export reliant economy the global recovery has so far been well supported by government cash and ultra cheap loans from central banks any premature tightening there could spell doom for markets and the mutating why this may yet throwing a ball or 2 but fingers crossed. all right our financial correspondent there in frankfurt and that's it for me and the business seen online dot com slash business have a safe and happy 2021. man and animal living together and unspoiled nature nelson only a rainy cofounded national life the only african wildlife conservation center run by the mass i community but since the coronavirus pandemic they have faced many more challenges than usual needs a ton of them shoot in their conservation movement to find out other alternatives.

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