matt: simone, thank you so much for joining us.omberg's simone foxman they're talking about the winners and the losers for 2020 and what to expect for 2021. that is it for this week's bloomberg etf iq europe. we will be big mac -- we will be back with more next wednesday, next year, with more of etf iq europe. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> the u.k. approves the astrazeneca vaccine with the first shots coming monday. follow. is expected to the u.k. with over a billion doses to start to be just your bid. treaty being signed in boris pain -- putting pen to paper later today. and the e.u. in china -- and the e.u. and china are expected to confirm their much-anticipated treaty today which risks upsetting the incoming biden administered in. good morning, this is bloomberg surveillance. i am guy johnson in london. francine lacqua and tom keene have the day off today. let's go to ritika gupta. ritika: mitch

simon: thank you and happy new year to you.an government ha ordered authorities to open the three months ago. hundreds of migrants have been sleeping out in the freezing cold since agency pulled out of another camp. authorities have refused to connect water and electricity. >> this might look li kind of exodus, but in fact, these people have spent the past week getting nowhere fas and northwestern bosnia. now there headed back to where they staed. -- they are headed back to where they started these buses were supposed to take them to a militard barracks e's outf the country that would've offered them some shelter on the harsh bosnian winter. local authorities refused to take them print after 36 hours of sitting on buses, they ended up back on foot and . were ce last night, we the buses. they are excusing desperate -- we did not know that this would happen. something good would happen with you. unfortunately, they commanded that you had to be the buses and go back. left of the ty.this is this is why its former residents were try

simon: you are right.we know from the history of labor market economics is this history affecting people's ability to commit higher incomes after a period outside the jobs market. the longer that goes on, the more material that scarring is. what we do not know is the degree to which skills become obsolete, attachment to the labor force becomes impaired. jobs being 9 million protected. we think about one million of those will find demand has fundamentally shifted. businessesholds and are spending their money will not be where it was pre-pandemic. is to greaselenge the wheels from people moving from the wrong side of the economy to the right side of the economy. francine: we heard from michael saunders of the mpc saying there is room to cut interest rates below zero, a move that the bank of england has never done before. buying byly said bond itself may not be the best stimulus option, but he is laying out a rate cut with qe is better than qe alone. do you think we will seek negative rates in the u.k., and w

simon jones, at deal with. ok, simon, thank you very much. simonjones, at dover.editor, simonjack. hello. borisjohnson, speaking to oui’ hello. borisjohnson, speaking to our political editor yesterday, saying that the deal but is in place represents the uk being able to have its cake and eat it. what do you make of that assertion by the prime minister? well, i think lawler was spot on when she said, yes, there is some tariff free and quota free access to the eu, but there is significant nontariff barriers, a mountain of paperwork, 220 million customs forms at a cost of up to £7 billion for british business. and if we wa nt billion for british business. and if we want to have our cake, change our regulations, we may get sent a bill for it. if it is thought that we undercut some of their standards or we seem to have a competitive advantage, they can raise a red flag and go to arbitration. we look at how bad the penalty should be, what fowl has been committed, should retaliation be put in place? we are not free of eu surveillance on what the uk is doing. but i think

the united kingdom lisa dependency of the united kingdom and it looks like buckingham palace this is simon dixon of bank to the future dot com welcome to kaiser you for example me again did you receive any boxes for all your service to the big community over the past year just snowball says you know on our christmas week special and new year's week special what we like to do is look back at the year that we were just about and and look forward to the next year so 2020 there's no need to really discuss that it was eventful for everybody all around the world but as we exit 2020. 1 thing that stands out to me and among the many things that stands out is that the u.s. dollar is created 2020 the total is 21 percent of all u.s. dollars were created and 2020 and we have a chart up on the screen here and i mean it looks it looks as exponential as the pandemic so what's going on what does this bode for the future what actually happened in 2020 and what does this mean for the future really reaching the end of the debt cycle and honestly the united states as export has been exporting its inflation gl

simon, good evening.ell us about what has happened, all allegations at this stage of course, and what is happening now. simon: everything to be taken with a pinch of salt. sebastian cortes got into an altercation, and when the refee went to give him aed rd, the assistant referee allegedly said to the black guy, i am using the words he is using , the staff was outraged by the choice of words. there is an exchange circulating on twitter with the former newcastle united stker, sayg whenou point to a whit guy, you s this gu but when you point to this guy, you specify black person? the match has been suspended, the game was due to resume at 10:00 p.m. that has not happened as of yet from what we can see. marco: simon, sorry to cut across you -- i'm seeing here that this game will not restart, the team will not be going back onto the pitch. clearly, the players on the turkish team are feeling extremely strongly aut this. simon: yes, correct. if that information is confirmed and goes against what the french broa

simon: a few weeks ago, this town, hadrut, was populated byrm ethnicians.jan took it in fierce fighting that lasted weeks, the ethnic armenian population had to flee. the question now is, will those residents ever come back, an even bigger question is, does erbaijan want them to? azerbaijan's president has signaled he would be willing to create conditions for armenians to live under his ru >> we see karabakh as a profperous, safe, secure are azerbaijan where people live in azerbaijani and ar where communities live side by side. simon: but aenians will need more than verbal assurances if they a live safely in the territories he now controls. perhaps the best documented alleged war crime of the conflict took place here in the center of hadrut. two armenians, a soldier and an elderly maappear have been dred in armenian flags and executed on this spot in october. i asked one of 'sident aliyevs top aides if incidents like this one would be investigated and the perpetrators brought to justice. >> absolutely, and we do regret that such kinds of incidents happened

francine: simon, thank you so much, simon french of panmure gordon. no sign of a deal. we also speak to the former prime minister, theresa may's, de facto deputy, david lidington. plus, more on airbnb's record-breaking ipo. that is coming up next, and this is bloomberg. ♪ d this is bloomberg. ♪ >> you just had indications at your opening price at $139 a share, which is double what you priced at. i mean, are you at all concerned about stocks? what do you think about that number and the potential that you are leaving billions of dollars on the table? >> that is the first time i have heard that member. in april, that price would have priced us around $35, so i don't know what else to say. that is -- i am very humbled by it. that was all right, the airbnb chief executive brian chesky speaking to bloomberg after the company's debut yesterday. is valuation reach $100 billion. let's bring you a breaking story from china and one of our own reporters. have detained her on suspicion of "endangering national security." her editorlked to around 11:30 p.m. we will have more on that

you're watching bbc news at 9am with me, simon mccoy. the headlines: nhs england says health workers are back in the eye of the storm, as the number of coronavirus cases exceeds the peak that was seen in april. the military will provide remote support to schools and colleges in england with coronavirus testing, as they begin to re—open next week. the ftse 100 is up this morning, as uk financial markets opened for the first time since the brexit deal was announced on christmas eve. vinyl album sales have risen to their highest level since the britpop era of the 1990s. almost 5 million lps have been bought this year. in halfan in half an hour, i will look back on a challenging yearfor in half an hour, i will look back on a challenging year for the in half an hour, i will look back on a challenging yearfor the royal family. for the queen in lockdown and the duke of —— you can do to sussex stepping back from front line duties. that is a year with the royalfamily duties. that is a year with the royal family with me duties. that is a year with

fraser,us now is simon flint global, managing partner. read from you on what looks like an outline of a deal. simon: yes, it looks like finally after 4.5 years we are on the verge of a deal. i would be surprised if it was not completed today. it will be a deal that probably gives us tariff free" a free trade in goods and agriculture, that is important. it is also important to say we have to look at the detail in terms of different sectors and how it applies to different industries. there are a lot of things like trade and services, data provision which we do not know whether they will be covered to what extent. it is a limited deal but it looks like a deal of some sort. yousef: were you surprised they did come through with something? throughout the process you are skeptical that anything would come at all. simon: i have always thought it would more likely we would get a deal because of the political pressures and consequences of no deal. i have been arguing against a no deal, that would have been a bad outcome. the point i was making befo

simon: but u.k.usiness is not home and dry traders will still face paperwork and costs. 200 million additional customs forms will be completing. many businesses are not ready fothis new normal. celebrations may be brief. simon jack, bbc news. lukwesa: sthe european union, what has it been saying about the deal? here is michelle barnier. mr. barnier: the clock is no longer taking. after years to preserve peace and stability on the island eland, to protect the citizens and build a new partnership with u.k. lukwesa: our europe correspondent kevin connolly was listeng, and he gave us is a assessment of reaction in brussels. kevin: barnier is a technocrati figu, so wman like that gives what sounds like an oscar acceance speech, there is a sense of occasion in brussels, different to the sense of occasion in london. brexit is still matter of regret in the european union. they did not want the u.k. to go. they miss u.k. they have seen it as a challenge to be manag with the minimum possible disruption to the

sam simon's came out red-hot 2019 2020 basketball season and she buries the 3 simons led the gaels and scoring earned all-conference first team honors and started all 31 games. her sophomore year. then the pandemic happen putting simons in a tough spot this summer my family and i talked about it a lot. >>and we said if it was all about definitely back in the hot 8. i'm still in a place where we have night covid cases simons home in adelaide australia has been covid free for months this is super crazy because. i people on instagram and snapchat and stuff like that ever and has to wear a mosque council on your stuff like that we haven't had to do that here as the u.s. began to lock down ahead of the second wave of coronavirus simons decided to opt out of the 2020 2021 basketball season, continuing her studies online probably one of the toughest today. some of the gals and time them that i wasn't coming back for the season was programmed hans just because i felt like was kind of letting them down a bit simon says she's staying in touch with her teammates coach paul thomas and watching the

sam simon's came out red-hot in 2019 2020 basketball season and she buries the 3 simons led the gaels and scoring earned all-conference first team honors and started all 31 games. her sophomore year. then the pandemic happen putting simons in a tough spot this summer my family and i talked about it a lot. >>and we said if it was all about definitely back in the hot 8. i'm still in a place where we have night covid cases simons home in adelaide australia has been covid free for months this is super crazy because. i people on instagram and snapchat and stuff like that ever and has to wear a mosque. council on your stuff like that we haven't had to do that here as the u.s. began to lock down ahead of the second wave of coronavirus simons decided to opt out of the 2020 2021 basketball season, continuing her studies online probably one of the toughest things today. some of the gals and time them that i wasn't coming back for the season was programmed hans just because i felt like was kind of letting them down a bit simon says she's staying in touch with her teammates coach paul thomas and

simone foxman joins us.ch countries have jumped on the bandwagon here and what are you watching in potential market impact? saudi arabia, taking the most drastic moves. stopping all international flights for a week, though it did allow foreign carriers which had planes in its airport at the time to depart, but there is a long list from the region of countries that moved to ban in the u.k. travelers or added restrictions. also, travelers from denmark and the netherlands, south africa, they include turkey, kuwait, iran, and israel tightening restrictions for its israeli citizens returning to the country. all eyes have to be on the uae. we have not as of yet seen any increased restrictions, but thed quarantine, tourism industry, incredibly important to dubai. an international study predicted dubai wouldid, the see 2.20 3 million visitors from the u.k. -- 2.2 3 million visitors from the u.k. alone. for is an important market tourism and ex-pats who live in the region. we are watching oman, bahrain, and qatar. th

simon wiesenthal.e all have this idea of simon wiesenthal as this important, famous, historic nazi hunter. imagine simon wiesenthal in 1945. he was a former architect, with no police experience. he stumbled out of a concentration camp, weighing less than a hundred pounds. he was a really tall guy. yet a very keen memory of all the guards names. he was determined to go after these war criminals. he went after these war criminals. one of the chief people on that list was adolf eichmann. he did some core things, he determined that adolf eichmann was still alive and more accurately was not dead. he petitioned the family -- petition the government to declare that he had died. we have prevented that that was not the case. the second thing that wiesenthal did is that he collected documents. despite only being a lt. col. believed in his heart that he would be sought after the war. he made it his mission to never be photographed. so that there was no evidence of what he looked like when he was on the run. he ma

sam simon's came out red-hot 2019 2020 basketball season and she buries the 3 simons led the gaels andence first team honors and started all 31 games. her sophomore year. then the pandemic happen putting simons in a tough spot this summer my family and i talked about it a lot. >>and we said if it was all about definitely back in the hot 8. i'm still in a place where we have night covid cases simons home in adelaide australia has been covid free for months this is super crazy because. i people on instagram and snapchat stuff like that ever and has to wear a mosque council on your stuff like that we haven't had to do not here as the u.s. began to lock down ahead of the second wave of coronavirus simons decided to opt out of the 2020 2021 basketball season, continuing her studies online probably one of the toughest today. some of the gals and time them that i wasn't coming back for the season was programmed hans just cannot felt like those kind of letting them down a bit simon says she's staying in touch with her teammates coach paul thomas and watching the gaels games online still it's n

here is business editor simon jack.imon: it is a tough one to land, but after a titani struggle overish, we have finally netted arade deal, perfect last minute present for businesses that feared the damaging consequences of cutting ourselvesift from the eu. >> this is a huge relief to british industry. our economy has suffered an awful want of damage this year, and we couldn't take anymore. o yes, we have stille the details, but i think a frtariff deal means our factories and farmers --d tariff quota-free deal means our factories and farmers stay in this we are going to need--stay in business. weng are g to need immediate guidance for businesses. we are going to need to agree with europeans. -- a piod of adjustment. simon: without a deal, cheddar cheese from the u.k. could have a phased of up to 50%.--faced tariffs of up to 50%. >> we are hugely relieved we have got certainty now. we have got tariff-free access to europe. the terrace for our business -- tariffs for our business amounted to 4 million pounds per year. anw

simon young joins me now simon a new high of nearly 30000 cases 598 people died one day all that despite the restrictions already imposed why are the figures still rising. well guess what there are a number of different explanations that are being offered for the rising infection numbers one of the things is to look at where the disease has been spreading earlier in the year it was really concentrated in several hot spots and of course that made it somewhat easier to deal with now. really kovan 1000 is spread across germany and that's putting a strain on health services to deal with also as you mentioned in the report the the disease seems to be affecting older people more back in the spring and the initial spike of course older people in care homes and old people's homes were affected but the engineering the summer it seemed to spread more to younger groups now it's back in the older population of germany is 20000 dead 13000 over 80 so it's a very worrying picture and it makes it difficult for both or it is to work out their strategy but germany's interior minister jose offer made his p

simon jack? sorry, we are nearly out of time, just want to bring in simon. the india — china fight.rk here. the deterioration of the relationship between the us and china and also for businesses, what they discovered during the pandemic, they had an awful lot of eggs in one basket. in manufacturing in china. india realises that they noticed that and there is an opportunity for india to ta ke there is an opportunity for india to take up some of that business from china. they need to be more open and have market reforms, as marc said and as ashis said, some of these market reforms are hitting the traditional power base. when you deregulate like that, you will always come up against that. that is fiction we are seeing at the moment. india will try to get in position to ta ke india will try to get in position to take some of the chinese business and to do that, as marc said, you need to de—regulate and become more open. but that is not without problems. ashis, kamala harris, she is half indian, vice president elect, key indians in politics at the moment in the uk. is this a good moment

simon wiesenthal now we all have this idea, or many of you may, simon wiesenthal this important, famous historic nazi hunter. right? imagine simon wiesenthal in 1945. he was a former architect. he had no police experience. he stumbled out of the concentration camp wingless than 100 pounds. he was a big guy. six feet tall. he was determined though to do one thing. he had a very keen memory of all of the people, all the guards names, all the various details of the camps, but he was determined to go after these war criminals. one of the chief people on that list was adolf eichmann. and he did three important things over the course of 1945 to 1948. those two things were one, he determined that adolf eichmann was still alive, or more accurately, he was no longer dead. he petitioned the german a government to declare eichmann had died on the eastern front. for reasons i won't go into, approve that is not the case. the second thing that wiesenthal did was collect evidence of what eichmann did to the jewish people during the war, evidence that was disappearing in many respects. the third thing

simone: it is.are balancing this positive news against some negative news we sought the end of the week, particularly the threat of u.s. sanctions. we did see news breaking late last week that washington is planning to sanction the country after it bought an air defense system from russia. these sanctions have long been expected but had not actually come to the fore. so we are past that ate mark to the dollar last week. we are little stronger than that this week, but that is the key indicator we are going to be watching. manus: thank you so much. big interview about those plans to reopen tourism for the region. joining us in about one hour to discuss that. he talked with us last time about the corridor to london. to the markets. we have not seen this evaluation on a price-to-earnings basis since 1999. no, that was not anything to do with prince, it had to do with the dotcom era when it went pop. what does it do to the analysis from the various people from wall street? it leaves them much divided. th

political correspondent simon young what do you think simon does uncle america's government still have the public support for its handling of this crisis. i think they generally do but as you heard it is a lot of disappointment about particularly this closure of retail shops in the run up to christmas and the economic impacts of this decision are going to be very significant the industry your organizations a warning about that meeting before this latest decision 40 percent of germans was saying that the measures to deal with covert 19 had had an impact on their income so this is just going to make their situation worse at the political level most of the opposition parties are supporting the government but they are saying a clearer and more structured plan and approach going forward would be helpful so i mean broadly i think there is support but the next few weeks ago to be tough let's talk about vaccinations simon coming vaccinations have already begun in britain and the you asked where is germany in this race. well of course a lot of people in germany are impatient to get the vaccine

simon: i think you are right to an extent. i suppose what the market likes about this, first of all, the overall figure that mnuchin proposed was very close in quantity to the bipartisan proposals. second thing is, it included state aid. that was a slightly positive development. thatly, pelosi only said part of it is unacceptable. they can work on those bits with respect to unemployment insurance that the democrats do not like. it is sufficiently positive, i guess, for the markets. anna: you talk about progress which may be is progress. in terms of markets, watching what is going on with brexit negotiations. the pound has moved 2/10 of 1%. the u.k. dropping parts of its controversial bill. waiting for the binary views as to whether there is a deal or no deal right now. simon: yes, we are. i don't think many of us expect it until the end of the year. enough of us believe this will drag itself out and we will find itself still looking at this issue into the new year. theng said that and developments you described are kind of pos

simon jack, thank you. suggest the levels of coronavirus are continuing to rise across most of the uk, except in scotland where cases are falling. the data from the office for national statistics suggests one in 85 people in england had covid—i9 in the week to december the 18th. in wales the figures are up sharply, in northern ireland up slightly. with the details, here's our health correspondent, laura foster. her report contains flash photography. not all people with covid—i9 will need hospital treatment, but if the virus keeps spreading, the nhs will be put under even more pressure. a new, more contagious variant is driving cases in the south—east of england, but now there are fresh concerns about another variant from south africa. we only have evidence ofa south africa. we only have evidence of a couple of cases that have been detected. like the new variant of circulating in the south—east, it appears to be more infectious. again, it is not clear we are getting more severe symptoms and a higher risk of

simon, thank you. simon jones in dover. so, when might the fench re—open the border?n lee is in brussels. gavin, any white smoke coming out where you are? i don't think we are going to have any news on french connection is being opened today. i think the 48—hour period will remain blocked. french officials here are telling me they are trying to work out a way so they have reassurance, with certainty, in the words of the deputy europe minister, that there are negative covid tests produced and provided by lorry drivers before they arrive and they want it in a tiered system. freight and vital first, then medical workers. that is what they want and it depends, pretty patel on the other side of the channel saying she is confident that can be sorted out but we wait for more news. elsewhere in europe, you have every single country now apart from greece and cyprus that are stopping uk travellers entering their countries. in greece and cyprus, they are asking for negative covid tests and a period of quarantine for up to ten days as well. today we expect a statement from the eu

i want to draw your attention to some tweets from our business editor simon jackson. —— simon jack. from. france has banned travel from the uk. to france. for 48 hours. there is a concern lorries may decide not to travel from france to the uk in case they get stuck here. our business editor tweeting he has been speaking to sainsbury‘s supermarket, they are saying all products for the great british christmas lunch are already in the country and we have plenty of these, we are also sourcing everything we can from the uk and looking into alternative transport for products sourced from europe. sainsbury‘s goes on, if nothing changes we will start to see gaps over the coming days and lettuce, salad leaves, cauliflowers, broccoli, citrus fruit, all of which are imported from the eu at this time of year. we hope uk and french governments can come to a solution that prioritises immediate passage of produce and food. that very much chimes with what we heard from the road haulage association a little while ago, saying when a pinch point comes, if it comes, it will be those fresh items such as the

simon jones, bbc news. earlier, simon centre is an update from marston airfield.ave seen activity increasing at the site. a lot of people in high vizjackets. we believe they are involved in this testing operation. military personnel is also involved, 170 of them being drafted into kent to try to get this operation running smoothly. and it is a huge operation, because there are currently 3800 lorries parked up on the site here, a former airfield. it is completely full now. if you take a look down there, there are lorries as far as the eye can see. it is going to be a big operation to shift those. 0n going to be a big operation to shift those. on top of the 3800 lorries here, there is another 1002 —— 1200 parked up on the m20. we see lorries parked up on the m20. we see lorries parked up on the m20. we see lorries parked up inlay buys and other parts of the road they can find a parking space and there is lorries not officially on the site. the government is morning this is going to ta ke government is morning this is going to take several days to clear because altho

i'm sure you own a caravan, simon. if you own a carand a own a caravan, simon.. it was the animal version of the free movement so if you want to take your dog or cat across the channel, you will need to get an animal health certificate from your vet for each time you go. again, it means a spontaneous decisions are probably out. you need to do that a few weeks in advance. 0ne out. you need to do that a few weeks in advance. one of the many ways which northern ireland is going to be treated differently is that you won't need an animal health certificate. if you want to take your pet from northern ireland into the eu, but you will if you want to ta ke the eu, but you will if you want to take it from great britain into northern ireland because northern ireland are still going to be part of the single market for many of the rules and so it's one of the ways in which we are going to be slightly separate from —— it is going to be slightly separate from great britain. is it a foregone conclusion? i think it is. it britain. is it a foregone conclusion? ithink it is. it s

simon harvey, thank you so much.ntinue his conversation with us on bloomberg radio at 9:00. a lot could change in a 40 minutes, so very good to check in with him. coming up here on bloomberg tv, ip omega week. airbnb and doordash are ready to start trading in their long-awaited listing. will it be a busy december for ipo's? some of the uncertainties, brexit aside, are behind us. we talk about that next. this is bloomberg. ♪ anna: welcome back to the european market open. 23 minutes into our trading session. the ftse 100 was just holding its head above water, just dropping into the red. had been going the other way from the currency. that would have been in keeping with pasts of old. it is not keeping with what we saw last week. we saw the pound in the ftse 100 in the same direction, and we are perhaps reinstating that direction today. they are down by a full percent against the u.s. dollar around nervousness about whether there may be no deal. december is set to be the biggest on record for public offerings. we will

simon: you are right. there's a couple of things that struck me about a bloomberg survey that i think was published earlier today. all, only 23 percent believe that the fomc, which shifted distribution of asset purchases to target longer and securities -- end securities, that surprised me and may create further upside risk for stocks and downside risk for 10 year yields. suppose, we hand, i are expecting this guidance to introduce forward guidance on asset purchases. the majority are expecting that. i guess that creates some marginal risk of disappointment. my first point is the most important. there is a possibility of a positive surprise. know, you have a macro best talking about the carry trades in a soft dollar environment. i was looking yesterday. anna pulled up the screen and showed the pound as the worst performer among g10 currencies but it is still a gainer against the dollar because the greenback has done so poorly. what do you expect from the fed today and how could that alter your strategy? sug

political correspondent simon young welcome simon let's start with the this unusual intervention from germany's president what what was behind that. well i think it's part of the president's job in germany address the nation try and bring people together bring people along when major challenges face the country that's obviously what's happening right now people were expecting some easing of the restrictions over christmas as for the politicians and led them to believe now they change tack and impose this tough lockdown and it's not just on the shopping though it's also on schools as we've heard restaurants already closed christmas is going to be very different from how it otherwise would be it's going to be less commercial and i think it is quite a big ask as the president is saying there are people just to sort of fit get about buying presents for their family members and put that off for a couple of months so this a strict lockdown in 2 days' time but will follow this current lockdown light which clearly hasn't worked and lots of people are saying that of course this was predictable

tyler is easy prey for the older simon, who buys him trainers and offers him cash to smuggle drugs onyler is soon thrust into a world of criminals, crack dens and violence. the performances are excellent. conrad khan really holds the attention in his first lead role. and simon is played with chilling brilliance by harris dickinson, who i reckon is shaping up to be the next tom hardy. yes. right, let me call you back. all right, all right. what do you do? entrepreneur. what? someone who works for themselves. not all the dialogue in county lines rings true, but the storytelling is impressive, showing most events through tyler's point of view. it's a worthwhile watch that's in cinemas and on digital now. everyone say "christmas"! no, don't say that, just smile. 0k. blurry, boring. nope, nope, nope. 0k, none of these will do. we will try again tomorrow. thank you. having sat through the likes of the family stone and four christmases, i don't always relish the idea of a glossy festive romantic comedy. but happiest season has a twist on the genre. it's about two women. how can you not like

thanks very much, simon. jonathan, anything to add?to tell you quite openly andl the fact to tell you quite openly and i don't mind telling you, i'm not saying it for effect, the office will tell you it's true, i was quite emotional this morning when i heard pfizer/biontech layout how they had got to their conclusions about the vaccine, and what a momentous journey and international effort it has been. discovery by two scientists, who are originally from turkey, development by a german biotech company, involvement of a massive pharmaceutical giant, and involvement of our own mhr to bring home the goods in terms of the uk. what a fantasticjourney. and i gave you the train analogy many weeks ago now. the train has slowed down safely. it has now stopped in the station. and the doors have opened. that was the authorisation by the mhra and what we need is for people to get on the train and travel safely to their destinations. those destinations are all over the uk. this train will stop several times on the way. it'll have to reach all parts

now for more let's go to our course dump correspondent stephanie simons who is in washington for us tell us more about the details of this package what's in it for americans who have been waiting for it. well there's 3 major things one it increases the amount of unemployment money people become they get because it's federal monies $300.00 and it extends unemployment checks for 11 weeks plus most americans that depends on what their income is income was last year will get $600.00 a one time payments that is the compromise you had mentioned republicans and democrats struck and which the democrats are not trying to make again $2000.00 after donald trump said it should be $2000.00 republicans are not doing this however what happened through the because of the delay of the president and that we're talking about one day here that means that about 12000000 americans will not have any income any unemployment money for about a week why is that because the president signed the bill too late to the states where processing this payment or processing those payments they can't fix their and change the

simon calder is the travel editor of the independent. good morning, simon.eans that whatever applies to eu companies also applies to us. and in the context of coronavirus, there is basically a european union ban on arrivals from pretty much anywhere in the world, apart from a shortlist of countries which includes australia, new zealand, japan, thailand where they have extremely low rates of coronavirus. and the presumption is, unless anything changes from the 1st of january when we choose to become a third country outside the eu, because the transition phase, as you have discussing, will end. effectively, we get left out in the cold. however, important to say if you have got a holiday booked, don‘t panic yet. because individual countries are sovereign and they can decide if they want to let brits in all not. i have been in contact with the big countries we will be going to at this time of year, spain, portugal, italy, malta and cyprus, trying to find out what they will do. but there is no certainty yet. so individual countries can make their own decision so

and from stephan simons in washington let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines this hour for a french soldiers have been killed in the west african nation of mali i was on a patrol in a remote area when an improvised explosive device blew up in the come they are macabre thousands of french troops deployed in mali they're fighting an islamist insurgency that. meanwhile the french government has paid tribute to 3 police a police officers killed in a shootout they were posthumously awarded the legion of honor france's highest service medal the officers with guns down while dealing with a domestic violence incident gunmen committed suicide. european union member states have unanimously backed the block's gregg's a trade agreement with the united kingdom tariff free trading can continue when britain leaves the single market at the end of the european parliament is set to rubber stamp the deal in february. thousands of people have been vaccinated against the coronavirus now the european union mass in the program is on the way but stocks of the pfizer vaccine limited m

to the barn and simon young there let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. gerry and a president. has made his 1st appearance since he was flown to a hospital in germany after testing positive for the corona virus in a toper the 75 year old said he expected to make a complete recovery within 3 weeks. the united states has begun distributing a millions of doses of covidien 1000 a vaccine and occupation of health care workers and nursing home residents with the biotech pfizer vaccine is expected to begin on monday a number of coronavirus of deaths in the us is approaching 830-0000 the highest in the worlds. and as the united states takes on that enormous challenge of vaccinating millions of people imagine the hurdles facing poor countries our next report comes from mali where health officials say inoculating people against kovac $1000.00 would be a slow process. the one of these refrigerators are essential hardware at this health center they hold vital medicines and polio vaccines part of an effort across mali to immunize 5000000 children against th

thanks, simon. a mild and unsettled speu thanks, simon. a mild and unsettled spell of mid—december weather is set to continue. we have lots of views like this, sunshine and showers, plenty of rainbows. that will be the story to the rest of the day, still u nsettled, story to the rest of the day, still unsettled, some brighton centre spells but some heavy showers moving on the breeze and there is more wind and rain in the forecast over the next couple of days, no letter to this unsettled spell. over the past few relatively look at the radar and satellite you can see where the showers have been filtering in, particularly frequent in the match, so particularly frequent in the match, so to northern ireland, wales, southern england and south—west scotland, thierno ballo showers, table head north antrim. many places about them but if you catch one, there could rumble of thunder —— seeing the odd showers, they will head further north. temperatures of about eight to 12, certainly above—average. some showers across scotla nd above—average. some sho

staff and many thanks to defend simons in washington. let's get some sports news now and in the bundesliga continued their strong start of the season with a tight victory at home got last round the wolves suffered their 1st defeat of the season to buy in but they bounced back despite a setback shortly before kick off. stuttgart coach pelligrino matter ratso had good cause to smile after his side were handed a boost ahead of the game opponents both birds plans were thrown into disarray as 2 of their players tested positive for corona virus just hours before kick off with 3 others having to quarantine. but it was the hosts who had the best chance or leon hart twice went close to scoring the opening goal but was denied by gregor coble and the post. got fired back and almost took the lead when see last one minute to go went through on goal. but the winger slid his shot just wide. nil nil at half time but vosburgh finally broke the deadlock soon after the break with more than a hint of good fortune. brecker lows freekick took 2 deflections th