well when it comes to fighting crime or cross border terrorism will the u.k. still have the same type of core cooperation would appear by this deal that there will be somewhat of a lessening of access for the u.k. for example to databases but there will still be cooperation but when it comes to the key question things like trade the u.k. saying that there will be no little there won't be any terrorists on trying to tween the 2 sides there won't be any quotas on trade between the 2 sides but there will be more red tape and we've seen the effects of some of that in anticipation of the end of the transition period if you move to the new relationships huge help out there in cannes we've covered it extensively here on r.t. truck drivers and get stranded for days exacerbated by code restrictions and christmas queues as well and that will be a backlog that has to be worked through but it would appear that going forward there won't be frictionless movement of people between both sides when it comes to

freedom of movement of course people able to move back and forth as it stands until the end of the transition period but is that the travel to the to live to work and vice versa as well uses and could come here now of course the u.k. will introduce the social points based immigration system they said that it's going to be similar to one to the one implemented in australia and that's going to be an imitation of people's abilities to move around contrarily the promise of boris johnson saying that actually this deal is what people voted for in the 2060 referendum that is what people went to the polls and asked for but not possibly may not be the case for a variety of reasons there will be of course those who want the relationship to continue sokal remain as but only those even within the conservative party the so-called hard perhaps it is who will feel like this deal. is

a capitulation we've seen the e.u. side claiming for example that the u.k. capitulated when it came to fisheries now fisheries are a small part of the case economy they account for about 0 point one percent of g.d.p. but it was a question of sovereignty it was a question of britain taking back control of the costa waters the british government say that's exactly what they've done with this deal the french side say that the agreement that the u.k. has come to an agreed when it comes to access to fishing waters is far away from their initial position and we've seen french politicians and officials saying that the the u.k. essentially backed down from their demands and that's the e.u. will continue to have good access to british fishing waters but that will be negotiated going forward and that's a key thing with this agreement there will be a number of issues that will be revisited in the future not least the so-called playing field and here's where it might get complex will negotiate to both sides

the ear of insisted all along if there is to be a trade deal then businesses in the u.k. and the e.u. have to all be. subject to the same types of rules and regulations specially when it comes to things like standards and there when it comes to subsidies now that will be the case there will be an equal playing field that's something the e.u. insisted on they've secured it but if for example the u.k. is found to be breaking any of these rules for example they subsidise british industries will they lower standards in order to bring down costs for british businesses and that would give them an unfair advantage of the e.u. businesses then restrictions and terrorists will be put in place who will arbitrate those disagreements well the u.k. say that they've secured a win on that front because it won't be a european courts and i made negotiated a separate mechanism in order to arbitrate that so there's a lot of technical details still to be fleshed out and 3 thrashed out but ultimately both sides will be going back to not only. constituencies and saying

we've made a deal it's a good deal it's better than no deal whether people agree on what the future will tell them in particular boris johnson could be facing some backlash from those whole groups of jews within his own party there's been rumblings that leadership contest. he will feel he's quite secure today the day before christmas having struck this deal and deals with the duck worst case scenario of how much to both sides of the nodal groups that. ok well thanks there was a tyranny there giving us some details of this trade deal that's been announced this afternoon and we can get more details to hopefully because we'll go to allan scared he's a professor of international history of the london school of economics for this now you very grateful for your time this evening allan what thursley what do you make of this trade deal because boris johnson is very positive as you would expect in his press conference juice do you share the same optimism. yes i do on the whole but it's 2000 pages long and nobody's ready yet so we don't know all the fine print

or all the details but it does seem as if he's got a good deal from his press conference he seems spiritual to argue the things that he promised essentially delivered so until we see evidence to the contrary i think we must accept that i mean there's nothing i've heard that suggests that he hasn't got a good deal here on do you think business is how do you think businesses in the u.k. will be failing because they've been told look just go on a website and you can find out more about this tale by the way you've got one a week to get yourself ready it doesn't seem to be a business that they've had to have had a year to get themselves ready in a sense of had for the whole few years to get ready we came out in 2016 it's now almost 2021 of the businesses of the c.e.o.'s didn't get themselves ready in that time they deserved to be sacked the transition period to spin

a year they must have known there was going to be differences so they weren't being ready and they've been asked to get ready for months and months and months and months anybody who isn't ready. shareholders who simply sank their executive. what do you think then about the short term implications here because presumably it is going to be a bumpy ride isn't it no matter what you think the danish have a role do you think it will be smooth. well we don't know i mean trust in macro to us closing of the border. as if cab drivers and lorries were all by themselves somehow going to transmit a virus which is already prevalent in france anyway i don't know what the that that that was a political decision but i don't know why you seems to think you'll use this popularity but that's created confusion just now which will probably last until the end of the year so they'll be a spin off from that i mean i don't know how much confusion will be it depends on

where these executives and businesses of that state done the homework but yeah i expect there will be a few blips but i think they'll be ironed out in a couple of weeks. notice what he said about regulations because businesses are keep talking about businesses because they must feel they've got to comply with things sets of regulations well like the stuff that's set in the u.k. and also stuff and it's nice that in europe i mean that's going to be more complicated and more costly isn't. well i think there's supposed to be a freak there's no terrorists and there's no quotas there's always been non-tariff barriers even though we were in the e.u. i mean most of the reasons why we didn't do a booming trade with the e.u. we did a better trade with the rest of the world was non-tariff barriers that were there anyway but any export who exports to anywhere in the world not just the e.u. has to abide both by british and foreign regulations as part of the life of an

export mean with us astray earlier china america you have to deal with other people's rules that don't see what's called on having to deal with the rules as well and on the issue of disputes we need what you'll fail unmet because on the one hand i was listening to boris johnson saying look this is great for us you know we can impose our own regulations but at the same time europe are saying well yeah but if we get an unfair advantage we can a genie case on this and perhaps take it to some sort of tribunals i just wondered how well but then let me say this i mean if they do something that we don't like we could take them to an independent tribunal 'd it's just. something that is quite ordinary and free trade deals that you have. mechanisms putin that deal to make sure the bills properly abide by. i k i'm looking to the long term the positive

thing is that the u.k. can i try and strike strike trade deals with other countries tell you do you think they'll come quick and fast or is this going to be another another little crisis but we've signed up a trade deal with japan which is very cool with signing one missing the pool we saw in one with canada and i think there were 58 that we've already so i think. it was something that boris said yeah i expect these to be done quickly the most important one would be to sign one with the united states and i think we'll do that because the by an administration could have no objections to what's happening in northern ireland and since we already have a trade deal. with the e.u. we can go ahead and sign deals with everybody else without them having to worry but what would happen if only you deal suddenly came on board it's already there so yes i think the trade deals will happen quite quickly and just lastly alan g.

think the u.k. is economy will benefit quickly from this obvious and some commentators say look in the 1st year the u.k. economy is going to have to take a hit and then it might grow but what's your what's your thought on what might happen. well i think it will benefit recently quickly you must pool these forecasts to one side because most economic forecasts are usually wrong and good just guessed a bit slow people who are very critical of bricks it and these people look at making dire forecasts was the last 4 years none of which would come true. i expect will do well i didn't listen to these people you might as well 'd go to this job and just page of the sun from where you are probably more reliable for us that i carry out and we'll leave it that a very happy christmas t. we appreciate your time this evening we know you think the. thank you heated i was down in scant professor of international history at the london school of economics

thank you. sure i will it's total sassy style and she's in the studio to saskia. looking quickly over the last 4 and a half years many people perhaps thought we would never reach this point given the fact what we have a week left before we were going to. talk about a last minute deal i mean the transition period for the u.k. to leave the e.u. runs out on the thoughts faster december here we are christmas eve the 24th and a deal has just been announced now it has been a long road of course let's not forget britain's voted to leave the european bloc 4 years ago back in 2016 and all this time they've been waiting patiently to see what kind of deal they'd get would it be a hard one without it your all would be one with the deal in place and despite prime minister boris johnson warning only recently that actually a hard break that was a very real possibility thankfully i'm sure many will say that was avoided but

really getting to this moment was a rollercoaster to say the least i mean those who campaign for breakfast said it's going to be plain sailing one politician even said you know what it's got something that could be resolved over afternoon tea but that was just one of the many i think overly optimistic things that was said. to us. and. well that's all the see not what happened we've seen countless protest fury from remain as who wins locking with brussels endless negotiations round table talks parliamentary vetoing david cameron resign to resume a resigned bars johnson came in point said i'm going to get it done he got it done but it took 11 months so it wasn't as easy as they promised it was long it was

winding it was tense but yes we do finally have a deal it seems. what he said he said to remain is his message would be you know let's all move on from what happened 4 and a half years ago but i just wondered if that's really going to happen so quickly because these politicians have to vote on this. they're going to go to a number of days to digest this 500 page documents. there's going to be a lot of flak still to come to the government why absolutely i mean i don't think we can close the book quite yet it is definitely a big step that's been taken today it's a historic moment as boris johnson said brussels that we had the chief negotiator michel barnier saying. we're finally moving on from life will change from the 1st of john when the rules come in of course time will only tell what kind of teething problems there are in find out as the months pass their own will undoubtedly be bumps in the road but as you quite rightly said the deal does need to be ratified

by the british parliament and westminster has of course gone on to christmas holidays but boris johnson that did confirm that they will be recalled on the 30th of december they are going to vote for it debate but then of course it also needs to be approved on the other side of the channel by both the e.u. council and the parliament that is a slightly more complicated process because you've got far more people involved it is a hurdle and time is against them he said hundreds of pages to be read through this has been translated into $23.00 languages this is a process that usually takes several months so it will be difficult but i think. given how unique a situation that says the process will be sped up so not signed sealed and delivered but almost and in terms of people's reaction to strive this is a victory people and celebrating are limited to seems to be more of a sense of relief given the alternative would have been the brics it wants action

exactly what. from the from the e.u. you know usually i feel triumphant often goes i feel a quiet satisfaction but parting is such sweet sorrow one constant though that we can say that has been throughout these 4 years is of course how polarizing breck's it has been we saw protests counter protest sparring in the halls of westminster we saw mutiny from boris johnson's own m.p.'s it would have been almost impossible to strike a deal that everyone would have been happy with there were a few sticking points especially fishing perhaps quite surprisingly that have seen british politicians head out the prime minister who also seemed a general more and i'm going to also assad what's happened. it sounds like the british team have dropped the ball before the line no wonder they want a christmas eve announcement to hide the fishery so a lot today amidst all the debate and details of the trade deal one fundamental

truth remains that at a time of global insecurity we're no longer part of one of history's greatest and most noble project bringing nations together to build peace at the ruins of war this is disastrous begs the outcome for scottish farmers and like all other experts of britons it was just in scotland against our will so maybe a political victory for johnson but certainly there's not a huge fan club around him at the moment of course time will tell whether bracks it really is a victory and it is a chance at this dazzling independent future that was promised to the british public by the way we are a step closer towards the u.k. becoming an oil unto itself a deal has been reached and given what we've been seeing over the past 4 years i think we can say that truly here's a christmas miracle a good present for many people i would say ok thanks for. the reporting on that late great deal to remind them of what has happened breaking news this over 4 years

in the making a landmark trade deal between the u.k. and he has finally been struck bringing an end to the brics saga and great britain's membership within the european union in the storage moment and just days before the new year deadline to which would have seen britain leave with that dreaded no deal scenario and a nightmare for many businesses to heading into 2021 however it's not all done and dusted yet it still needs to be ratified this week spain by both sides but that's expected to go much smoother than the negotiations could go much worse could it and during his press conference today the british prime minister boris johnson has said it is an immense moment and one in which everybody benefits it is up to us together. and a newly and truly independent nation to realize the main city of this moment and to make the most of it.

ok let's get the thoughts now john bricmont he's in paris he's a political commentator and philosopher john. the saving the thing that struck me initially was listening to boris johnson it's very much a victory for the u.k. listening to europe whether it's the president there saying it's a fair dale and then you listen to michel barnier saying i've got some regrets the seems to be a difference of failing in the u.k. and in europe at the moment. yes well 1st of all i always thought there would be a deal because the british walk wait they don't mind to accept a no deal but it would have been a disaster for the european exporters to pay greater than to the u.k. and so i always thought they would end up having a deal. now of course everybody you know when there is a deal of 2000 pages you can't feed it in and out on the way he can read and probably never know with these are going to read it in detail so except maybe the

translators but. you can't really comment on it before reading it is like the he did in the united states you can't really comment on it but i notice indeed that johnson is small optimistic than the european union and i think it's because he's been negotiating in a position of strengthening you know if he said he was willing to contemplate a new deal and the other one that they had to yell but of course yes probably had it certain things i don't know exactly what. but i think the main thing is that britain does recover itself and he does recover its laws it does recover its borders it can do with it want to for its early culture for it industry can subsidize it if you want and you can do she trade agreement with the entire world it has paid to the european union halls and that i think is a big victory. anything that other countries need not look at the sky but for us to

be a good idea leaving the. yes i hope that it does that the other countries but they're not all in the same position of strength as. does the european integration is much much stronger it's almost the whole region is there on the left college and that's left you'll be integration in the dungeon and in the generation i've been here in west which has never been the case in britain into believing in indication then there are counties of course like hungary and i'm not happy with the integration because of these moral issues because they are not in an economic position as strong as plate and they receive money from the user they are they have an incentive to stay there and they were going to happen. wouldn't anticipate any problems with the member states ratifying this stale it's been and i. think they will have it because. i mean they will have to renegotiate start again if they

refuse it what will happen the pressure will be very strong to that if i don't think there's been a lot of negotiation and they have a deal they will have to have a deal anyway i don't think anybody wants a new deal yeah there are enough to negotiate a deal and then that means it will be hard. there's a lot of concern i know in the u.k. a bag of what this will mean to businesses going forward in the short term having to comply with a lot of new regulations and customs checks except for. saying sort of sense of. faithfulness from europe aimed business is over this or is this where the saying is it's a smaller issue. well. i don't know i'm not in business and that's because as you pose all these holes you can adapt to those relations and on the hermitage along the days that i didn't again you have to read that you will have to hit in 2000 which is how could they do that in the in and out of the german he sang for everybody including the politicians that have to vote in it that only have but

a matter of days to look at it but let's just put more generally then it's a symbolic victory because he has gotten there meaning in the european court of justice has nothing to say in britain anymore the european union cannot impose its cool and that's what they wanted they wanted someone and then they got some and then there's the main thing. to get over it immigration yeah just talking more generally do you think this will lead to a better relationship than between britain and the. well better what you mean i mean well i mean if you look at what's happened in europe it's always been britain has always been the one that's dragging its feet to the one that doesn't like the way brussels is doing stuff if you can remove all of that and say that's just a business is it a very going to continue to lead to a more integrated europe because they are they verging forces in europe you know being sold in the world and between east and west and. i don't think the european project is just. going to need in the. very different

peoples not doing a distance which started as one people and now is very divided but the because of immigration to be sure it used to be really needed nation you know i did down through those no longer job has never been needed belgium is not you know a diversion is getting more and more the very word you expect their job to get more and more the lady then europe and will to go to be belong to the same girls we don't see how that. is interesting is that the kids that we met many more ramifications that come not at all she would have to leave it at that reform bricmont a political commentator and philosophy thanks for coming on and you being dismissed after christmas only to appeal. ok now in other news argentina has officially registered russia's sputnik 3 vaccine it has been approved for emergency use by the country's regulator based on the results of clinical trials in russia a plane carrying argentina's 1st batch they arrived in buenos aires under the

supply agreement moscow will provide enough doses for up to $10000000.00 people and earlier this month the i can time president expressed confidence in the russian vaccine saying that he will be the 1st to take it. and. in argentina some raised doubts about the quality of russian science to clear everyone's doubts when sputnik v. is here in argentina i will be the 1st one to take that vaccine because i have no doubt about the quality of the vaccine. as well as sputnik. argentina has also signed up for vaccine supplies from astra zeneca and the united nations kovacs program the country's regulator has approved the use of the pfizer biotech vaccine to despite ongoing talks with on that the argentine health minister has criticised pfizer's approach to the negotiations they asked us for a law giving them immunity and the congress gave them that law but then faces negotiators not to local ones but those in the us started asking for more

conditions they want to sponsor a new law they want to the president to sign the contract instead of me the conditions started getting somewhat unacceptable government of argentina is there nothing that this is going to be perhaps the most efficient way to bring in effect of vaccine to its citizens so looks like they're essentially. betting on or putting their money on the russian vaccine the fact that pfizer had those kinds of conditions and that the government of argentina was not pleased with those conditions i think there's going to be a lot of that kind of thing i think that there is going to be an awful lot of questions about liability and about potential long term side effects and the long term efficacy of the vaccines out sounds to me why aren't you know didn't like the deal that pfizer was giving them and was was looking elsewhere and i think that's why they turned toward the russian vaccine meanwhile rush's pandemic is getting worse with more grim milestones being passed however frontline workers on the most

fun rule have been getting vaccinated earlier i spoke with artie's constantine rushkoff. almost 30000 new coronavirus cases have been registered in russia and it's a new record put in a 3rd globally in terms of the new daily infections this thursday russia is now says just behind the u.k. and u.s. just in moscow russia skeptical had over 8000 new corona virus in the past 24 hours again this is a new record in terms of deaths there were 635 linked to the virus across the whole of russia and yet this is another all time high ground is keen to avoid a stricter lockdown. on the hospitality industry in p.p.t. measures will remain in place while all companies have to have at least a 3rd of their employees to work remotely no mass gatherings are allowed of course

and universities into russia's biggest cities have gone online only until february however a mass vaccination is under way already $52000.00 russians have taken the job it is expected that wider vaccination will take place next february and according to a russia's health care ministry over at half of russia's population are keen or willing to get inoculated and you are among those willing to get vaccinated just talk us through you experience that sure i got my job this tobar and it wasn't that bad i mean i had a few mild side effects my temperature were elevated a bit and i was feeling a little bit to the teeth the next day but then the next day all were off so now here i am safe and sound then i'm enjoying the fact that i have antibodies and that was. speaking to me a little bit earlier so that's how the news is that today

a reminder of our main headline a trade deal has been reached between the u.k. and the e.u. will have more than half a. she sure movielink it was it was just that it just means that. you don't mind the chest but. the shining was all. the time you could look to my face you know along today much of the night if they were established at the map. and you. can only take more than a few last sept is that. you will still be. good enough do you mean that i'm still.

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we need in a world where industry doesn't want any regulation they just want to put their products on the market. and. we need a regulation so we don't do. crazy things because maybe sometimes we would do crazy things i don't know but i'll accept that we have regulation we want regulation i was in this. if you don't behave.