this is d.w. news live from berlin today it's out with 2020 and not with us we have all 3 do you know it's obvious to us to make the most of. what the split is now official britain ends its half a century membership in the european union and we'll take a look at the changes ahead as one era ends and another against also coming up on the show getting everyone vaccinated against code red 19 is a massive undertaking and in most cases it true injections are needed for full

coverage governments are now asking whether giving more people one job could make sense to get the pandemic under control quickly but an expert that might pose a new dangers. richards i know welcome to the show and a very happy new year to you well after a half a century of partnership a britain has a finalized it's split with the european union and bracks it appears to be off to a smooth start at a key e.u. u.k. trade link the port of call a the 1st trucks went through customs checks at the border moments after the separation act midnight and today may be smooth sailing for both european and british businesses warn the historic split could still cause massive disruptions in the flow of trade and people once the holiday weekend ends. and for

more we are joined by david obey a correspondent bob a vase at dunkirk france new york are the new border checks went into force overnight there and don clark are you seeing the sort of chaos that many had predicted no absolutely not it is a very quiet day 1st of january of course and the proof of whether the new systems work all the new customs check that are coming in the veterinary checks and all the paperwork that is needed the proof whether that is will work will come next week of course when normal traffic will begin to flow back and forth across the channel here in the back you see some of the ferries repositioning and sort of moving up and down and waiting to take on trucks on their journey to dover and would be here is if in the power money from the d.f.t. as a ferry company and you have really worked hard and quite a while to prepare for this you know how is this going to work yeah so we have

prepared for quite a while and it works the way that our customers they present the cousin documents in dover and then they they sell across an s.s.l. across the fence we offload the data to the french authorities that then they check their customs declaration so everything and then they tell us who needs to go to check to customs check and who can just continue the journey into europe thank you very much as all this has been prepared of course and there are trucks taking goes through but about tens of all trucks in the future will be checked and there is a particular parts of all these harbors here and ports are set to part with those that have to undergo checks will just have to sit and wait till till the customs.