well we are here in amsterdam field because this city is becoming an increasingly popular destination for brics it's impacted companies companies operating in financial sector i see advertising industry the media and many of them have to sided so relocates to the neverland to be able to be operational in the european union and to talk about the advantages we are joined here by you are not on the ha search you are had to offer the go as currency cloud and fin tech company and you are to have you have quarters. but. and i'm saddam why i just got that's correct their currency clouds in tech company launched in 2012 we have offices in london and in new york but we decided to expand an opus and open an office here in amsterdam well we've always had plans to come times to rex this really accelerated those plans for us because you were afraid you were not able to do business in the you opinion yeah i think for us off to the referendum of became clear that there was a real risk that as a u.k. licensed entity we would lose the ability to service our european customers with our u.k. license so

thank you for being with us so you decided to move to amsterdam 2016 after the breakfast referendum was dat the reason for you to move to the european union it wasn't the solve removing but it definitely contributed to boy i wanted to leave and i didn't know when i would get another opportunity to experience start being abroad and now it will be more difficult for people who want to live to work in the european union so what do you think about that i mean i certainly take away a lot of opportunities for young people who want to experience everything being abroad can give me the times that i've mindedness and experiences and the friendships. and yeah i feel sorry for the british if you know one gets experience out especially with the putting out of the erasmus program as well you are so far from a british from breakfast bricks it's hard louella and so are you still feeling connected to your friends and maybe colleagues there i mean yes i guess i don't think so in terms of. my values now and i think the ongoing content because of sequels to rifts as well you know being able to visit each

government's $900000000000.00 relief package in a moment and step process is in amsterdam to bring you the latest on the in use race for vaccines but 1st we'll bring in a said big who's standing by for us in london with just an update on what's going on there as downing street is saying about all of this well so far around 30 countries have stopped have stopped u.k. arrivals into their countries because of this new variant now we understand british prime minister blair is johnson movie chairing those chairing a cobra meeting now that's a high level decision making meeting that takes place at a time of a crisis the government has said that people should carry on shopping as normal because the office of panic buying current as you said there have been warning of warnings from one of the leading supermarket chains here but we are seeing those queues at the border there is no doubt we're doing will travel currently taking place and there is a considerable fear that the health secretary has said that this new variant is out of control further increasing fears inside of the u.k. and outside

>> the university in amsterdam has found a way to model in 3d. traditional way that we do this is by taking a temperature through a rectal examination of the cadaver. the university of amsterdam has figured out that you don't need to touch anything on the crime scene. you can gather the skin temperature, air temperature, body size, but that all into a 3d model, and it becomes much more accurate, estimates the time of death within 40 minutes as opposed to 3-7 hours. >> forensic genomics, what is that about? >> this is an exciting field and is allowing a lot of cold cases to be solved. you get a piece of dna from the crime scene and put it to a database that has thousands of other people's dna. this is typically a family member. could be close, like your parents, or it could be a distant relative who has a tiny fraction of dna. this is very powerful stuff. >> all of this is raising privacy concerns because we are talking about personal data. >> there are a lot of privacy questions over this. innocent people being kept in these databases for years a

there's a third pcr test upon arrival in amsterdam.nly if that is negative can you avoid quarantine. >> it's really the idea of stacking tests or sequential testing to try and capture any of those individuals that either falsely tested negative initially and/or maybe of that converted in that three-day period since they had their initial test performed. just another layer of protection. >> reporter: building covid corridors is part of the airline industry's effort to restore confidence and revive air travel, eliminating the need for time-consuming quarantines. >> we're hoping that in the first quarter of next year, we'll also be able to add more cities. >> reporter: there are similar corridors, from rome to new york, and soon, atlanta to rome. currently, the number of passengers on these flights is limited because of both eu and u.s. travel restrictions that ban each other's citizens from nonessential travel. delta airlines isn't alone. all the major transatlantic carriers are experimenting with corridors of one sort or another. but th

we have an incentive for peace and nowhere we can see it more then in peace for amsterdam, much of which from the picturesque canals. recovery has been rapid in holland things to the marshall plan. when we came to the harbor i was astonished to see the number of shipyards hard at work. is 90% prewar.ty ♪ of reconstruction and building as been done to shortage.e housing i was encouraged to learn that in many places the old primitive homes had been replaced by modern houses. naturally the trip was not all economic. sometimes we were just plain torahs. plained to take -- tourists. i wanted to take my grandchildren -- some 30 or 40 of these kind --.le turned out to be i have always loved paris because it makes everyone thinking at the european scale, not always on a global one. it felt strange to be doing , whening so peaceful france was in a government crisis caused by the fact that salaries have not kept pace with the cost of living, 20 times higher than it was before the war. this creates real hardship. when i went to talk with the president of france i discovered the reason. me france is

we have an incentive for peace and no where does one feel it more than in peace for amsterdam, much of i saw from the picturesque canals. recovery has been rapid in holland thanks to the marshall plan. when we came to the harbor i was astonished to see the number of shipyards hard at work. shipping activity is 90% prewar. -- 90% of prewar. ♪ a great deal of reconstruction and building has been done to improve the acute housing shortage. i was encouraged to learn that in many places the old primitive homes had been replaced by modern houses. naturally the trip was not all economic. sometimes we were just plain tourists. i wanted to take my grandchildren to see the house where their ancestors moved from to come and settle in america. some 30 or 40 of these kind people turned out to be very resourceful. i have always loved paris, the city which i believe makes everyone think on a european scale, not always on a global one. it felt strange to be doing something so peaceful, seeing beautiful fountain displays, when france was in a government crisis caused by the fact that salaries have not

half of the dutch population has serious doubts about getting a job a step vasa reports now from amsterdam. stocking up on dry ice needed to keep defies so biotech baxi at minus 70 degrees even in mid air at amsterdam airport a large operation is gearing up to safely transport covert 900 back scenes to destinations as far as africa and asia we have been preparing and we've been moving pharmaceutical go for a long time we've expanded our pool capacity and also are having capacity for instance for his containers so we are immediately ready but outside the airport many in the netherlands are far from prepared well the dutch national airline is getting ready to do this job you'd vaccines worldwide millions here in the netherlands are still reluctant to be vaccinated and some say they will use the inoculation with covert 90 altogether though until we know what the side effects are it's not monthly lex and his daughter maxime i'm not against vaccinations but won't take a covert shot for at least a few years until more information is available to cleveland i'm sorry to say i'd rather have a longe

and race and in london patrick vernon a cultural historian a woman to you all i want to begin in amsterdamwith that michel says michel this character black pete is effectively the helper of st nicholas he arrives some point in the 19th century as a helper to st nicholas into the netherlands at the same time there's a global slave trade happening these are all caricature of what some white people thought a black person might look like but then a grotesque caricature i'm sure but this is not just about a cute christmas tradition this is almost celebrating slavery isn't it. it is it is . the tradition was invented in 850. guarantee in our guy from around black history to black our graphs and here you can see. one of the 1st book in which it was introduced and it was introduced 13 years before the abolishment of slavery so that was a time in which people in europe in the netherlands look at black people as inferior beings so on that context this characterised created and that's why we protest against it but it's not just about that anymore about the fact that the character was created from one

approach that some state officials are criticizing all we've got steadfast in standing by for us in amsterdam to bring you all the latest on the race for vaccines bennett smith is in paris with more on those border close as for us but 1st let's go to maidstone in kent with laurie chalons where it does seem that there's a bit of a nest developing but the french suggesting that this may ease up soon. yet is certainly a match just because you know it will very much do until the real mess comes along and actually that real mess is just around the corner with no deal brecht's it looming i think the u.k. at the moment is feeling more lonely more isolated and more atomized than i can remember in my lifetime and that's saying something considering the state of 2020 this is the m 20 motorway it's one of the arteries coming out of london heading down towards the the channel ports you might be able to see yellow flashing light just up there saying. to france closed now when truckers and lorry drivers get further down this motorway they will find much of it is shut down to access into the economy she get

my name is neil's i'm 27 years old and i live in amsterdam i just finished right in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic instead of the cold outside. and we didn't have any income at all for the 1st 3 months after the lock down in march we lived off our savings and borrowed money so we don't have any family here either. not that i'm a funny about. this group i click into him from at the start of the 1st wave i began looking for a job because there were a few offers but i didn't find the right one. builder in theory there aren't enough qualified workers in i.t. there's a lot of demand in the so i wasn't really afraid to. have any man or woman in the hygiene measures include social distancing and that's impossible with tango it's a couples dance and the partners get very close to one another and we constantly change our dance partners and we knew from the outset that we would be the last to be able to return to normal. so they could later i accepted. and offered 2 weeks ago in software engineering. for engineering but i've still never met my coworkers it's very impersonal i don't know

next weeks short the next weeks the european medicines agency which is now after breaks it based in amsterdam is to check and recheck and cross check all the data that have been given by pfizer throughout the last 2 weeks and they say they will give authorization probably right after christmas maybe some experts say they can be a big quicker and do it before christmas but the difference here is do you trust buy on tech and pfizer enough to say ok we just look at your data and we say go or do you say ok we put our experts to it and we just recheck everything before we say go we know that they are those conspiracy theorists and vets in deniers throughout europe and if you sort of give this very quick also rise ation they might just be jumping on it and say look the authorities are not doing their best so the european union is determined to sort of go the regular way and just give it a couple more weeks until the huge production rollout here can begin for the whole european union which probably is also fines isabelle's in science where the vaccine will be produced and then ships to the well than

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less than 10 days left for both sides to reach a trade agreements we've got step standing by in amsterdam step will bring you the latest on the race for the vaccines in europe bernard smith will join us from paris with more on those border closures but 1st we'll speak to rory challenge joining us from dover in kent where you are rory there must be huge logistical challenges right now. this early on in this season normally one of the if not the busiest ports 'd in the united kingdom with ships leaving all the time to cross the channel to. kalai in france and what can you see behind me nothing that is a completely swept and desolate landscape or seascape behind me. let's have a little sit rep of where we are you know in the united kingdom in the moment christmas is effectively being cancelled for millions of people london and the southeast is cut off from the rest of the country we have the country itself isolated from much of the world with all these travel bans that you have just mentioned and we have little way to go till christmas and about 9 or 10 days till the end of the breaks a tran

a nice but what's grown in these greenhouses new the danish town of wooden's it won't end up in amsterdam coffee shops this is medicinal cannabis for an up and coming european market. it all started here just a few greenhouses down the road much speed as a family business is scandinavia slogs producer of tomatoes and cucumbers now he's branched out into cannabis what drives him creating a product that can help people. for me personally was a personal story for a living your boy who had seizures and simply no miss him didn't help him and out of this race and his parents bought illegal cannabis. and he tried that and after 20 minutes she just ups. and that was we have what triggered me to look into this because i knew i could do some of the some of the notice we had in this climate we can transfer to milk it is all cannabis as well as it has decades of experience planting tomatoes in denmark's harsh climate he's channeling all this expertise into his new product on the climate on the way you made it here for those who control all these things we really really good at controlling that's the

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normalize for the next size blackness in your from sheffield pitts travel to paris and brussels on to amsterdam berlin stark rome and my say he wanted to meet black europeans from the most diverse backgrounds the result is a look at a black d. aspirant in europe whose realities often go unnoticed. did start to rise in racism and it troubled me and i started to know it's a kind of insularity that was taking place in this country that scares me a smooth brown skin living on an island. is leaning towards the right so i want to look beyond britain i discovered an old continent that was creaking. black community is very often living on the periphery of europe. the notion of blackness that never really fit together properly you know the more i tried the afro peon solidly on to something the more it fell apart what is afro paean isn't something that actually exists or is it a construct. stefania construct i think that's something that the black community in europe haven't had historically in the same way that the african-american community of you know a kind of solidarity in the face of racism. in int

europe it will be the 1st covert 19 vaccine to be authorized by the european medicines agency and amsterdam the shot has already been given the go ahead under emergency provisions by officials in britain and the united states scientists at the mayo are expected to conclude that the vaccine is safe the european commission must still rubber stamp the decision before the inauguration can be rolled out across the 27 e.u. member states. let's cross straight to mark sunday to get the view from brussels max welcome we're expecting the approval of the biotech pfizer vaccine from the a today we've been waiting a long time for that approval haven't we. well that's right we call it did really feel like an eternity in a way but in actuality have a close look at it this is quite an impressive achievement or only just not even a year after the start of the pandemic 1st take europe and now is the big day in the e.m.a.'s hopefully finally give the give their green light on the pfizer vaccine later today they have been assessing reviewing the vaccine for the past couple weeks having a look at all the data c

rapidly in parts of the continent the european medicines agency is meeting to discuss the approvals in amsterdam stuff awesome is there. we hope to hear the approval by the european medicines agency they're having in meeting here a days earlier that initially was the plans because of the pressure coming from germany and other european countries hundreds of millions of europeans are eagerly waiting what is vaccine while you're going through this very serious 2nd wave off infractions the husband is the lady because the u.k. of course and the u.s. and canada and other countries have been vaccinated already with this so by impacts why so sexy but the european agency said we are doing it more so really we are basing our decision on more evidence so if we think the decision is legally binding it's a thorough decision you can be sure that the fact is safe and they have to say this because a lot of people here in europe especially also in the netherlands a very reluctant to be vaccinated are very worried about their safety procedures they are worried about side effects so that's why the european union h

. >> [speaking french] >> the european medicines agency announced that amsterdam is assessing vaccines by pfizer and moderna. monte: to the u.s. where cases of the coronavirus and deaths are spiraling out of control. the death toll reached 3100 people in just the last 24 hours. that cshes a record set in april. there is no sign of a letter. the head of the centers for disease control once that january and february would be the most difficult time in public health history of the nation. our correspondent has more from washington. >> these experts are saying that the records that we saw on wednesday, the daily deaths, the cases, the number of people currently in hospital right now, it is about 100,000 people. these records will likely -- very likely be beaten in the coming days. we might be seeing these numbers over and over again in the next couple of months. they are saying watch out, there is hope with the vaccine but don't let your guard down. things will get worse before they start getting better. this is true across the united states. you're seeing states really starting to dial ba

the documents were hacked from the european medicines agency, the eu's drugs regulator, based in amsterdamit's in charge of approving covid-19 vaccines in the region. the agency confirmed on its website on wednesday it had been the target of a cyber attack. pfizer and biontech jointly said in a statement they had been notified of the cyber attack. they added their own systems had not been breached and company not believe study participants had been identified. the ema is working to approve the pfizer-biontech vaccine for the states by the end of the year. the cyber attack is not expected to impact the timeline. according to data by johns hopkins university in the united states, the global tally for confirmed coronavirus cases has surged to over 68 million. the global death toll has topped 1.5 million. >>> south korea's chief prosecutor is facing a disciplinary committee. the focus is on whether he acted improperly during past investigations. but the details remain unclear, leading some to speculate the case may be politically motivated. thursday's meeting is being held behind closed doors.

life in prison, the judge said he had been poised to carry out a mass killing on that train from amsterdamo paris in august, 2015. he was overpowered by passengers after emerging from the toilets armed with a rifle, a pistol, knives, and 270 rounds of ammunition. his accomplices were sentenced to around 27 and seven years for aiding and abetting a terrorist organization for helping him with logistics, but also helping the man who the prosecutors said was a coordinator of this attack as well as the november 2015 attacks on the cafes in the city which killed 130 people. >> it is 10 years today since the moment the start of arab spring, the tunisian market -- burn himself in protest after his cart was confiscated. this act came from anger and frustration that was much deeper. as word spread, it became aware that this feeling had been fermenting across the borders and neighboring states. >> this is where the arab spring was born on december 17, 2010 in the tunisian city. this man let himself on fire after police confiscated his fruit cart. an act of desperation and defiance that sparked nation

today, amsterdam has 767 kilometres of cycle lanes and more bikes than people.anging the way people get about. because of covid—19, it didn't feel right to go by tram any more, so it was actually the right time to now get a bakfiets cargo bike. judith and johan hartog bought an electric cargo bike at the start of lockdown. we're not really going on a — on a vacation now, so, like a staycation, we stay in holland and we do a lot by bike now, so it's — you can put a lot of things in, you can get the bags and go out, like here in the park or maybe — and we're going to the beach by bike so it's easy for days — days off. could you have imagined having this, being this dutch mum, six months ago? no, we would never have thought. so, yeah, it's fun. it's — it's different and it's also a bit cliched, but yeah, we like it, we love it. the pandemic has been a catalyst for many people here to invest savings they wouldn't otherwise have had. it's not only mobility any more, you know, because it's also fun. they're singing in the bike and they have fun, you're in nature. it's

amsterdam, dublin, frankfurt.bably all of those places to make sure they are able to make further moves. it is unlikely you are going to see major new investments in the city for a while. brokers, interactive the news they are going on a hiring spree in ireland on the back of this. me, a brit, living abroad. i'm on my home turf for a while. is thetside looking in, -- the importance of london and the u.k. irrevocably damaged and never really going to be reasserting itself anytime soon? london, i think there is a degree of damage which cannot be reversed. went up a notch after the single market started in 1992 and again even though britain was not in the euro zone after the beginning of the euro zone. notchwill plainly be one down after that. habitk also, london has a -- the city i am in at the moment, new york, also has the habit of thinking it is more important that it is. you think the world revolves around where you are there. asm not sure london is important as it thinks it is, but it is also way too important

anchor: let's hear from our correspondent in amsterdam. >> 450 million people here in the european union to get this vaccine as soon as possible. but, despite the pressure and despite the fact that they moved this meeting eight days forward, they said the whole decision was based on science. there was no political consideration. that is why all 27 member states waited for approval. possibly by wednesday, there will be this marketing authorization from the european commission, which means that the rollout can start. then, the vaccine will travel to all of the countries in the european union. some are way ahead of others in preparedness. germany has put up large vaccination centers already. they want to start on sunday already. countries like the netherlands do not have their the structure, nor i.t. in order because this needs to be properly prepared. everybody needs to be registered and follow very carefully. it needs a lot of preparations and some countries have simply not done that yet. it will be a huge operation. first, the medical personnel will be inoculated. people like healthy peo

who stitched london for amsterdam. it's a business south africa has become the 1st country on the african continent to suppose a 1000000 coronavirus cases a new variant of the virus thought to be more rapidly transmissible is spreading leading to travel bans to and from south africa the pandemic has already hit africa's 2nd largest economy hard in late summer the economy had recovered slightly mainly due to the easing of lockdown restrictions front for the holiday season restrictions but tightened somewhat analysts expected to take around 5 years for the south african economy to fully recover from the crisis. but that's a long white how a south african is going to fail during that time as for joins us from cape town ellis which sectors are hurting hardest right now i mentioned tourism of course. yes definitely juror ism is one of them and usually mainly here in cape town where i am this is top season for and for tourism for international tourism you'll hear french german and people from all around the world coming to y

anna holligan was listening in to the ema announcement which was made in amsterdam.e vaccine. a christmas gift for the continent. so the ema is the body that authorises and assesses medicines across the eu. and they have concluded today that the pfizer biotech visine is safe and efficient. and the benefits of deploying it across the eu outweighed the risk. we had this announcement this afternoon. health experts believe deploying this vaccine is the best hope of ending their pandemic. but during the course of the announcements they really focus on the disinformation which is rampant at the moment. and the need to really inspire constant confidence in citizens. in orderfor vaccines to work people actually have to be prepared to have them. they have to have confidence in the science. and in terms of the roll—out, the european union has been making a great deal of the fact that it will act as a one on vaccine. because it's going to ensure that happens? we just getting more information on this from your p and president. she gave a very short statement in brussels. she sai

who stitched london for amsterdam. that's the business south africa has become the 1st country on the african continent to suppose a 1000000 coronavirus cases and you variant of the virus thought to be more rapidly transmissible is spreading leading to travel bans to and from south africa the pandemic has already hit africa's 2nd largest economy hard in late summer the economy had recovered slightly mainly due to the easing of lockdown restrictions front for the holiday season restrictions but tightened somewhat analysts expected to take around 5 years for the south african economy to fully recover from the crisis. but that's a long white how a south african is going to fare during that time as far as the joins us from cape town ellis which sectors are hurting hardest right now i mentioned tourism of course. yes definitely juror ism is one of them and usually mainly here in cape town where i have this is top season for for tourism for international tourism you'll hear french german and people from all around the world

nearly half of the dutch population has serious doubts about getting a job a step vasant reports from amsterdam. stocking up on dry ice needed to keep defies so biotech vaccine at minus 70 degrees even in mid air at amsterdam airport the large operation is gearing up to safely transport covert 900 accedes to destinations as far as africa and asia we have been preparing and we've been moving pharmaceutical go for a long time we've expanded our pool capacity and also are having capacity for instance for these containers so we are immediately ready. but outside the airport many in the netherlands are far from pier well the dutch national airline is getting ready for this job you'd vaccines worldwide millions here in the level and are still reluctant to be vaccinated and some say they will use the inoculation with that 90 altogether though until we know what the side effects or it's not monthly let's birth a man and his daughter maxime i'm not against vaccinations but won't take a covert shot for at least a few years until more information is available don't have the cleveland i'm sorry to say i'd

been talking to some of them across the block where focusing on 4 british migrant communities in amsterdam the french ports of alone and today our brussels bureau chief alexander phenomenon is in chantilly about an hour's drive north of paris. with its racecourse and chateau until he has been a visitor magnet for decades today so so many brits have settled in the area there's even a cricket club an english shop. is standing by for us. alexandra there she is in a very festive scene behind her tell us a little bit about this piece of britain you seem to have found in france. well yes indeed to we are in the end the english shop here and you can buy even products like this for example caps like this one i was told are best sellers here and we are joined by the owner of this shop carolyn deafen tame thank you for having asked her this evening here so tell us more about your shop but this shop exist since now 25 years and i bought it about 5 years ago now nearly and the sun has been very nice to have it to insist now but with the brakes it as you know it's will be quite complicated. for the foo

born to lanes but what's grown in these greenhouses near the danish town of wooden won't end up in amsterdam coffee shops this is medicinal cannabis for an up and coming here pin market. it all started here just a few greenhouses down the road much speed as family business is scandinavians largest producer of tomatoes and cucumbers now he's branched out into cannabis what drives him creating a product that can help people. for me personally was a personal story for a living your boy who had seizures and simply enormous in didn't help him and out of this race and his parents bought illegal cannabis and and he tried that and after 20 minutes she just ups. and that was we of what triggered me to look into this because i knew i could do some of the some of those we have in this climate we can transfer to milk it is all kind of as well as it has decades of experience planting tomatoes in denmark's harsh climate he's channeling all this expertise into his new product and there's a limit on the way you meet it's here for those who control all these things we really really good at controlling that's

and the agency in amsterdam, it does a more thorough job than probably some other countries. they look at more data, more intensely into possible side effects. for instance, in great britain, the problems with allergy sufferers came up, and how safe it is for people over 18, under 18, are there enough persons in the test group? all of these need to be researched into. . that is what they are doing. normally, that takes a bit longer. a normal process like this would take a year or more. >> but still, it leaves a lot of doubt that the difference of a few weeks will make a difference when it comes to determining how dangerous or safe these vaccines are. we know that germany has put pressure on the european medical agency to expedite its approval. did that have an impact on their decision? >> we can never prove it, but it is extremely likely, because it is a political decision. the germans want it now. internationally, to see the pictures of people getting the vaccine in britain and the u.s. and somehow created impatience and the feeling -- particularly in parts of the press -- t

kush or delays but what's grown in these greenhouses near the danish town of wooden won't end up in amsterdam coffee shops this is medicinal cannabis for an up and coming european market. it all started here just a few greenhouses down the road much speed as a family business is scandinavians largest producer of tomatoes and cucumbers now he's branched out into cannabis what drives him creating a product that can help people. for me personally was a personal story for living your boy who had seizures and simply no miss and didn't help him and out of this race in his presence border illegal cannabis. and he tried that and offered 20 minutes she just ups. and that was really what triggered me to look into this because i knew i could do some of the some of those we had in this climate we can transfer to a mill that is a look at it as well as it has decades of experience planting tomatoes in denmark's harsh climate he's channeling all this expertise into his new product on the climate on the way you meet it's here below to control all these things we really really good at controlling that's the s

australia said just this week it will be shifting its european headquarters out of london and into amsterdamand bloomberg has reported that u.s. investment bank morgan stanley plans to move 100 billion euros of assets to frankfurt, and that will happen in the first quarter of next year. more widely in the sector, more german lenders have said they will be moving 400 billion euros worth of assets to the country, to germanyby the end of the year. one of them is j.p. morgan, as well, who will be moving 200 billion euros in assets at 200 staff, and they said this is just the first wave, so we are expected to see more companies, more banks moving abroad and deserting london. >> so the u.k. has signed some other trade deals this week, but they have been overlooked. what are they? >> that is right. these trade deals seem to be lost in this noise around the eu and the u.k. negotiations. there has been very little found two trade deals were signed this week was singapore and vietnam. the reason they have been overlooked is partly because they are not new, they're essentially re-creating pacts already

there is more good news out of amsterdam. expecting to release a decisionn moderna vaccine on the sixth of january. so, there is something, some positive news here in tu europe this evening. >> let's go straight to the u.s. with president-elect joe biden is getting ready to receive his vaccination. 'let' listen in. [unintelligible] >> ok. >> we have seen a number of high ofile politicians in the u.s. have their vaccination on camera. this, of course, is the most high profile person to do it yet. the reaso is because one concern we have heard expressed from anthony faucher, the expert on the virus in the u.s. and many others is that for that vaccine to be effective, the majority of americans are probably going to nn d to have itder to reach herd immunity. we know there are some people who are skeptical aboing the vaccine. and joe biden and many other high profile politicians are determined to persuade americans there is nothing to fear by having it done live on camera. that is what the president is getting ready to do. [laught

to a little later in the day thank you very much for the time being stuff us and reporting from amsterdam let's now bring in which the bottom line he's the managing director for europe at eurasia group he's joining us from london thanks very much for your time with us on the news hour so these travel bans that haven't been imposed by a number of countries on the u.k. are they quicker this time around when they were earlier in the or in the year with china or is it too late for these bands to actually be really effective. i know that very they've moved very quickly that u.k. site has moved quite quickly to implement t.f. 4 which is a de facto national lockdown for parts of the country london in the southeast and you've seen the reaction across the rypien you need primarily to introduce travel bans and certainly with regard. to in france also laurie blockages on the ferries as well to stop up to a transports as well and i think this is driven by their concern frankly the potency of this new strain and the impact that could have both politically and on the play of course of course on how the

than exhaust society's blackness and you're from sheffield pitts travel to paris and brussels on to amsterdam berlin stockholm rome and my saying he wanted to meet black europeans from the most diverse backgrounds the result is a look at a black day asper in europe realities often go unnoticed. it starts rising racism and it troubled me i start to know it's a kind of insularity that is taking place in this country that scares me a smooth brown skin living on an island. leaning towards the right so i want to look beyond britain i discovered an old continent that was creaking. and black community is very often living on the periphery of europe. the notion of blackness that never really fit together properly you know the more i tried to. solidly on to something the more it fell upon what is afro peer is it something that actually exists or is it a construct. stefania construct i think that's something that the black community in europe. historically in the same way that the african-american community of you know a kind of solidarity in the face of racism afro paean interweave stories of the peop

safety of our citizens above the speed of this authorization process and the a the the agency in amsterdam does a reality does a more thorough job than probably some other countries they look at more data they look more intensely into possible side effects for instance in great britain some cases of problems was elegy sufferers came up and how safe is it for people under 18 how safe is it for people over 80 are there enough persons in the tests were there enough persons in the to screw up so all these really needs to be researched into and that is what they're doing and that takes normally a bit longer than normal process like this would take a year or even more. course still leaves a lot of dell that the difference of a few weeks is really going to make a big difference when it comes to determining how dangerous are health seeds these vaccines or we know that germany has put pressure on the european medical agency to expedite its approval did that have an impact on their decision. we can't have a probably prove it but it is extremely unlikely because if this is a political decision they g

also wondering whether they should be following suit to eurostar trains between london brussels and amsterdamare also being counseled from monday let's go live now to a political commentator and see whether welcome back to r.t. see those pictures of packed trains packed terminals in central london just as everyone's found out there's a more infectious strain of covert out there should the government of anticipated that reaction last night. well festival cohen i've taken off my father christmas hat like also paid to because the prime minister and the governments are clearly destroyed the christmas base year but we won't go into the . next occasion yes we had it the official i had to review. was going to happen all the sexy for december no no hole will we not untypical december everything changes and when we get students are going to pay a lot of shifts a situation. it used just as our. and a long time ago commentators were in city. to go to offices or crisis or. basically this is all earth lord editor it's a parody of this that you need stranger perturbing non-si. virus but her reality aids ar

they overpowered ayoub el khazzani on the amsterdam to paris express train.poke to alek skarlatos former us army national guard soldier who, along with fellow americans spencer stone and anthony sadler, overpowered the gunman. i asked his reaction to the life in prison sentence for el khazzani. honestly, i am just glad that he got the maximum allowed under french law. it's a huge relief that he will at least be locked up for the foreseeable future, anyway. and large part of that of course thanks to your efforts, you and your friends on that train in those moments. if it is ok, just take us back to that moment when you first realised what was going on, a man with a gun in your train carriage, what happened next? well, i just heard a gunshot and breaking glass and a train employee running away from the noise and i looked back to see what he was running from and there was a shirtless man with an ak—47. i ducked down behind my seat, spencer stone was on the aisle seat next to me, waking up from a dead sleep, he turned around and saw the terrorist and ducked next

over in amsterdam, a lucky retired klm 747 has been stripped down, repainted and repositioned as a visitorircraft, who would've believed it? you can see my grandkids in years to come that i will be saying, "well, i flew a double—decker aircraft", because they won't believe it. it moved more people than a modern aircraft in a single day. it's incredible. the 747, born alongside concorde and apollo, its long voyage finally brought to rest by the pandemic of 2020. oh, i think one's heart aches and one thinks back to the days that we had such great times. and it allowed so many people to fly all over the world. radio: we're going to miss you, girl. it was the queen of the sky. but it also was the mother of everything that followed it. i still feel like a pioneer. she was a classy, classy, elegant lady. radio: everything looks very normal. a wonderful machine, ijust feel like home in here. when we pause and look up at the sky and see the 747, we can say, when we're at our best, that's what we can achieve. a very frosty night out there in the glens of scotland. temperatures are not far off —10 d

rows of data and so on if this is a very difficult process now the european regulator the e m a n amsterdam they have already a panel of i ranking experts on standby since may then who are now ready to sort of jump in was their scientists and their laboratories and say we're going to do the work so they want to do it very well and very sorry because there is an aspect to this as well as in the united states you find in europe those conspiracy theorists and those vex interests who are all too ready to jump on a product that might not be quite ready might not be a 100 percent state yeah i mean if the regulators if they're if they're quick can the same be said about politicians in the e.u. we know there's another you summit scheduled for next week we know that poland and hungary the threatening to block a passage of passage of the e.u. budget which is worth trillions of euro's i mean is that is that impasse going to be broken next week. you can't but hope i mean this whole situation is truly hell on wheels and the european union really sort of being beaten down and sort of thrown and plunged i