ok from barbara faisal's in brussels let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. but counting has begun in ghana as presidential and parliamentary elections with results expected by wednesday it's said to be a tight race between incumbent. oddo and his longtime rival john muhammad ghana is considered one of the most politically stable countries in africa but the coronavirus pandemic has plunged the country into economic crisis. coca-cola pepsi and nestlé have been named the world's top plastic polluters for the 3rd year in a row all 3 companies have been accused of making 0 progress on reducing plastic waste coca cola announced earlier this year it would not abandon plastic bottles saying they were popular with customers. bob dylan's entire catalog of songs has been bought up by universal music for an undisclosed sum to deal covers the rights to 600 songs composed composed rather of a 6 decades thing clude times are a changing knocking on heaven's door and like a rolling stone reports the deal was struck directly with to. the new york city where all pub

and indeed out brussels correspondent barbara faisal gave us this is isman on whether london's decision to drop the clauses is being treated as an important concession in brussels. we really have to look at what's happening here the british government has agreed not to break in international treaty it has signed 11 months ago so yes indeed that is very welcome because the people in the european union are quite incensed about this blackmail scenario that boris johnson had built up there was those 2 laws in question in order to not implement the northern irish protocol that would have meant unending trouble there that would have meant the borders couldn't really been kept open against what had been agreed in general and so on and so forth and even joe biden the incoming u.s. president had warned boris johnson over that and said you know if you wouldn't take care of peace in northern ireland there would be punishment coming down from washington is so it was necessary to take this down because the e.u. had also said we want to rectify any deal as long as the stand so yes it's a good sign bu

s barbara faisal reporting and the deputy has much more on the new u.k. tried relationship in have documentary titled more than sweep across one us talk about who they see as being brings its biggest winners and losers that's available right now on how you chip channel titled d w news staying in the region and britain has become the 1st country in the world to authorize the coronavirus vaccine developed by asked resume and oxford university but while the drug has received emergency approval on its home turf the european union and the united states ready to follow suit just yet lead the vaccine is cheaper and easier to transport them the biotech pfizer and modern versions but trial data suggests it's not as effective there is also uncertainty about the best dosage for the present make a vaccine and here are some of the of a latest developments in the pandemic in the u.s. more than 3900 people died from covenanting on wednesday a record for daily fatalities that's according to the lead discount jumps hopkins university for the 1st time germany registered mo

to have used barbara faisal there and he has much more on the new e.u. u.k. trade relationship in our documentary more a better than suite where our correspondents talk about who they see as being brecht's its biggest winners and losers that's available now on our you tube channel t w news. you're watching the news still to come argentina votes to legalize abortion and a landmark bill that could have across latin america. now let's take a look at some other stories making headlines. syria is state news agency says 28 people have been killed in an attack on a bus the ambush occurred on a highway about 50 kilometers southwest of the city of. unconfirmed reports say the bus was carrying syrian army soldiers. 12 people remain unaccounted for after a landslide struck the norwegian village of guardroom north of oslo authorities evacuated some 700 residents after the early morning disaster which left at least 10 people injured emergency services are searching for survivors and securing homes teetering on the edge of the crater left by the sly. bitcoin has surged to

correspondent barbara faisal joins us from the french port of cali. well welcome barbara looks cold that is the poor having to become a customs border what changes will it say. there will be lots of changes here but let's still maybe just take one last moment to look at the stair you see here in the background because what you see there. on and no mention and this is the last time that they can do this easily and freely because there is just nothing between them and this ferry there front of course everything will change there will be so many more controls it will be lots of paperwork a lot of the wrong crissy there will be checks into the goods and so on and so for so for the truckers themselves this is going to be become so much more hotter and also it has of course the symbolic importance it has a symbolic meaning because this is the final tear this is the final cut between the 2 sides that for more than around 50 years we're living so close together so how are people there feeling. that people are a bit sad you do feel among the inhabitants here a

correspondent barbara faisal is in the french quarter of callaway i asked her how people there are viewing the new reality when the borders tight at midnight. people are if it said you do feel among the inhabitants here a certain amount of free correct few who work for the port because the ports here is really what color he lives off this is their main existence will mainstay really and that is for them really a moment of a certain regret because they've they felt that they were so closely tied to britain there was no really there was no border there was really nothing between than just this bit of water here which is just 37 kilometers nothing more or less and so they. are said but they also in a way are quite matter of fact and say they will have to learn to live with it if this is what they wanted then we can't help it we will just have to arrange ourselves with it we just have to sort of make do and yes it will become more complicated and yes we are using them as sort of close friends but they will still stay neighbors that's pretty much what everybody here says. professional who don't

faisal islam, many thanks. tributes have been pouring in today for dame barbara windsor, who's died at the age of 83.0 years. she found fame in the carry on films of the 1960s and ‘70s, and went on to spend nearly 20 years behind the bar of the queen vic in eastenders, playing the formidable landlady peggy mitchell. our entertainment correspondent david sillito looks back at her life. barbara giggles. that'll do, that'll do. all right, girls, get in the coach, and you get on with the loading. barbara windsor — funny, cheeky and much loved. so we were told to bring the minimum of clothing. now, really let's see those chests come out! the tributes today to a star whose career goes back almost 70 years. ooh, matron, take them away! a career that ended with eastenders and this scene. alzheimer's was already beginning to take hold. we asked how she would remember her friend and co—star. with sadness, with, i suppose if i'm rational, a certain amount of relief. for somebody to have that awful condition, when they've been such a ray of light and a person of such joy and life, yes, it is a relief. born barba