Lots to discuss so lets get started. Today is the start of the first full week for traders who are getting to grips the new terms of engagement between the uk and the european union. Many Companies Face new checks, regulations and paperwork. Business groups warn that could cost them money and fear it could lead to significant delays at borders, at least until the new system settles down. So how is it going so far . Are we experiencing any delays at the uks borders . Joining me now is alex veitch, head of Public Policy at logistics uk. Really good to see you again. What are you hearing . 50 really good to see you again. What are you hearing . So far so good, good morning to you. Its been a quiet weekend, volumes have been down, been low but we do expect things to ramp up this week and so we are hoping that everybody has been listening to the advice from the government, from ourselves, and has been busily getting ready for all of the new customs and other kind of paperwork to do from today. And what do you make of the advice, from your perspective, is it something very hard to get your head around. There are differing views out there as to how difficult this is. Well, its not straightforward. I think it is like learning anything for the first time, learning a new language, learning a new language, learning the ropes, it is going to ta ke learning the ropes, it is going to take some time. The guidance is much better than it was. I think one criticism we have had of the government is that things have been a little bit late coming through but they are in place now and it is not too late for any exporting business listening to this, please do check out gov. Uk transition please do check out gov. Uk tra nsition and google brexit. You will find what you need and you do need some time to make sure that your paperwork is in order so that your haulier or other kind of Freight Carrier can get your goods across the border quickly. In terms of the pandemic, we saw the terrible impact that was having on logistics before christmas, miles of queues of lorries around the border crossing. Do you anticipate anything like that in the next few weeks . M wont be as bad as that. That was a full closure of the border and however bad it gets this week, which we hope it isnt too bad, there will be a flow of trucks proved over and through eurotunnel. The big question is how fast that flow will be. So, the key thing is for all of the Logistics Community to make sure that they need to do, they are registered for the eu ports they are travelling to, have informed their drivers what they need to be aware of, but crucially exporters from the uk to the eu must get their paperwork in order for things to flow as quickly as possible. And just before we say goodbye, alex, where do people need to go to find out that Vital Information if they are panicking watching that now . No need to panic, there is still time. Gov. Uk transition is a great starting point. Google anything to do brexit, brexit guidance, youll find what you need. Its not too late. A common website is a good starting point and the goods will get through as long as people do what they need to do, learn what they need to learn and have patience and bear with it this week and we are pretty confident, or at least hopeful, things will get much, much smoother in the coming weeks. All right, alex good luck. Alex veitch, head of Public Policy at logistics uk. Ever since the brexit vote the uk has been scrambling for fresh trade deals around the world and a Free Trade Agreement with australia may be among the first to be signed. Australias winemakers are among those hoping to benefit they shipped 383 million australian worth of wine to britain in the last Financial Year thats 210 million worth. And demand for alcohol has only grown during the coronavirus lockdown. Shaimaa khalil reports from south australia. Many of you may be nodding your headis many of you may be nodding your head is when i say that. Quenching the International First for australian wine means doing things on a massive scale stop accolade is one of the countrys biggest producers thirst. Each of these fats hold the equivalent of almost 400,000 bottles. And much of it is destined for britain. Pumped into shipping containers, descends to the other side of the world to be packaged and sold stop brands made here are some of the uks bestsellers. Britain leaving the eu has allowed to negotiate free trade deals, including with australia. Prospect they relish here. But brexit isnt all good news for australian wine makers who still dont know what it will mean for moving their products from the uk into mainland europe. And there are questions over how labelling requirements will change and the costs involved. We are doing Everything Possible to minimise any disruptions off the back of brexit. I think for us regardless of the outcome, when looking for now is the potential is associated with the Free Trade Agreement between the uk and australia. At the moment the tariffs imposed on australian wine imports into the uk or anywhere between 13 to 15p per litre. That compared to new world competitors like chile and south africa who have a zero tariff. Australia exports more wine to the uk than anywhere else in the world but most of it is at the cheaper end of the market. So could a free trade deal with written Health Producers here sell their more expensive brands competitively . This binary is very different from the big producers owned by private equity firms all listed on the stock market. Most of its business comes from tourists and loyal customers. But it used to supply a major uk retailer and hopes a trade deal will invigorate sales in britain. It is a very Challenging Market to be in any you uk channel. The market is very competitive under martin isa very competitive under martin is a very small. The volume is there to certainly support increasing as applying to the uk and it also allows us to showcase our artisanal uk and it also allows us to showcase our artisa nal product. Details are still being flushed out and the trade deal is unlikely to get signed until well into 2021. But with china 110w well into 2021. But with china now slapping heavy tariffs on imports of australian wine, uk sales may become even more important than ever. Shaimaa khalil, bbc news, south australia. Now to china where from the first of january its ban of all imports of solid waste from abroad came into effect. The country was at one point the worlds biggest recipient of waste, which it used to recycle for Raw Materials but since 2017 china has sought to phase out such imports. The practice has become increasingly unpopular given its Environmental Impact and concerns about its effect on the health of workers in the sector. The question is where will the worlds waste go now . Isabel hilton is chief executive of China Dialogue an independent think tank that focuses on china and its environmental challenges. Tell us a bit more as to why china made this decision. When china made this decision. When china was importing waste, its economy was in rather a different place. It started off as a low end, high volume, low added value Manufacturing Base and it wasnt producing enough waste itself to service its feedstock for its industrial sector. As the economy has grown more sophisticated, it has priced itself pretty much out of that market, plus as a middle income country, is producing quite a lot of waste itself so doesnt really need those imports. They were becoming politically toxic as well as environmentally toxic. There was a lot of contamination, there were a couple of documentaries about the appalling working conditions are people who process the waste. So became very difficult for the authorities to justify. Also given the contamination, a lot of it wasnt of any value to china so it was simply going into either landfill or into the ocean, plastics being one of the main problems. So all of that added up to a situation that added up to a situation that had to change and there has been some preparation in china for this moment. A partial ban a couple of years back and much improved Waste Management in china itself and now a complete ban. The rest of the world has adjusted rather more slowly i will say. Where is the waste going down . What should have happened is the exporting countries should have started to deal with their own so called recycling which tends to be dumping onto low wage economies. Unfortunately that is not what happened. So waste exporters then look for other low wage economies to take this waste but china had been taking such a volume, half of the worlds rubbish, but no country really could absorb the sheer volume of waste but was looking for a home. So very quickly, neighbouring countries became overwhelmed and had to introduce their own hands. It is still being exported so now most of it, the largest recipient country by volume is now turkey but i would anticipate that that is a rather short lived solution to what we need, which is proper recycling where the waste is produced. Isabel, sadly we have run out of time and such an important issue. We appreciate you getting up early to talk to us you getting up early to talk to us about it. The New York Stock Exchange had announced it will delist three Chinese Telecommunications firms based on claimed links with its military. China mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom Hong Kong have all been targeted by the trump administration. So whats been the reaction from china . Lets go to Sharanjit Leyl in our Asia Business hub. Tell us more. Well, that is right, sally. Chinas security regulator has essentially hit back at the move. They said late yesterday that the moves to delist the three Chinese Telecom firms was political and the impact will be limited and does not comply with market rules. However, the shares of those firms are trading lower today. China mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom Hong Kong are all down between three and 496 in are all down between three and 4 in hong kong where they are also listed. The Chinese Commerce industry had already chipped in earlier, saying that they would take necessary measures to safeguard the interests of chinese firms. The companies themselves in a statement said they regretted the move but have not actually gotten any official notification from the New York Stock Exchange. 0ther shares though interestingly taking a summer today are companies from chinas petrochemical sector because some analysts suggest those Companies May be next on his every spending less. This list was originally published in november as part of the trump mensurations efforts to buy Us Investment in 31 firms trump administration, owned and controlled by the chinese military. That list was expanded in december and now more chinese firms are added doing what is essentially two essentially President Trumps last days in office. They are designed to make it difficult for president elect biden to wind back when he is born into office. Chinese diplomats have expressed hopes that bidens collection will help ease the tension seen between the two countries but really, signs suggest that trade tensions between the worlds two largest economies will continue to dominate this new year as they have done in past years. Yes indeed, i believe it well. Thank you, see you again soon. Lets get some of the days other news. Bitcoins value topped 34,000 for the first time on sunday. The worlds biggest cryptocurrency has drifted a little lower but remains around 33,000 according to the coindesk website. Fiatchrysler is in the process of merging with psa of france, the firm that owns citroen and peugeot. Today shareholders will vote on the marriage, a tie up that will create the worlds fourth biggest automotive company. Shareholders are widely expected to back the deal. Mgm resorts the us Casino Company has made a bid to buy the owner of british Bookmaker Ladbrokes with the Financial Support of us billionaire mogul Barry Dillers iac group, thats according to newpaper reports. Entain has more than three thousand betting shops under the ladbrokes and coral brands and has a market value of about 9 billion. Martay reemac has been called europes answer to elon musk. But why would anyone want to build an electric supercar in croatia, a country with little car industry to speak of . His firm is not only successful, its branched out from High Performance vehicles into making parts for porsche and hyundai. Theo leggett caught up with him and began by asking why hes working in what on the face of it are two rather different businesses. We kind of stumbled into it. I started a company ten years ago ina started a company ten years ago in a country that didnt have a car industry and no investors or Government Support and so on. In the early days in the company, it was hard for us and we we re company, it was hard for us and we were struggling. I wanted to build a car, that is all i wa nted build a car, that is all i wanted to do. But because we didnt have the investor support, we had to make revenue from day one which we did a working for the other Car Companies. That is when we realised, people dont want to invest in a boutique car company, they want to invest in a scalable part of the business and that was developing and Building Components and the key systems for electric cars. We are kind of working with the industry to help them go electric instead of working against them. They have the big scale and so on. So it is kind of easier to piggyback on them and help them transition than to try to work against all of them. So it kind of evolved out of necessity but that does make the best thing that happened to us the best thing that happened to us because we created a lot of value creating our own cars and technologies and then spread that value. So it is very unique Business Model that works very well hand in hand. Also, the hyper cars are the best Marketing Tool we could have. We are a Little Company in croatia and in geneva, for example, when you have the big auto show, we are at the same stance, like all the big guys and all the ceos of the big Car Companies are walking by and seeing our car. The Playing Field is level. It is four times the revenue of correctionals gdp and we are tiny compared to such Huge Companies adopt croatias gdp was up this guys are aware of us because of our cars. It works well together for the you mentioned bolts wagon. You mentioned bolts wagon. You mentioned volkswagen. How do you as a much Smaller Company have something to offer here . Element when i started to build my First Electric car, most Car Companies didnt have any serious projects for electrification, especially not High Performance. Electrification, especially not highperformance. We were focused on High Performance from day one and being a very Small Company with no, how would i say, on one side negative being from croatia and having no experience we were also thinking different in the big Car Companies. We had a wea k big Car Companies. We had a weak strategy and goal from the beginning to focus on High Performance and in this ten yea rs High Performance and in this ten years we have filled up the know how and experience in the tea m know how and experience in the team to do some things that are pushing the limits in terms of performance and that is where we are strong. All the big Car Companies, they are focused on their mainstream products but for the High Performance stuff, it is not in their immediate focus right now. We have it ready, we have built it and now it is about scaling it. Lets keep an eye on him. Stay with us on bbc news, still to come and we meet the trainers who make lots of money out of old sneakers. Learn how you could too. The japanese people are in mourning following the death of emperor hirohito. Thousands converged on the imperial palace to pay their respects when it was announced he was dead. Good grief after half a century of delighting fans around the world, Charlie Brown and the rest of the gang are calling it quits. The singer paul simon starts his tour of south Africa Tomorrow in spite of protests and violence from some black activist groups. They Say International artists should continue to boycott south africa until majority rule is established. Around the world, people have been paying tribute to the iconic rock star david bowie who sold 140 million albums in a career that spanned half a century. His family announced overnight that he had died of cancer at the age of 69. The worlds tallest skyscraper opens later today. The burj dubai, has easily overtaken its nearest rivals. This is bbc world news, the latest headlines a recording is released of President Trump urging georgias secretary of state to find enough votes for him to be able to overturn joe bidens electoral victory. Five days after being approved for use in the uk, the first half a million doses of the 0xford University Astrazeneca vaccine are ready to be given out. Oil prices edged lower on the first day of 2021 trading, ahead of a meeting of 0pec and allied producers to discuss output levels for february. With the Global Pandemic still hitting economies hard in the western world there are fears demand for oil will wane with countries enforcing tighter covid restrictions. 0pecs secretary general Mohammad Barkindo said that while crude demand is expected to rise by five point nine Million Barrels per day there are plenty of challenges ahead. Joining me now is cornelia meyer, economist and independent energy analyst. Good morning and happy new year to you. Happy new year to you, sally. Give us your take on this meeting and the year ahead for oil. Year ahead for oil is actually not too bad. Many a nalysts actually not too bad. Many analysts call it, as myself, the reflation trade because as economies well, not in the first quarter, but in the second and third quarter, come out of lockdowns and so on, there will be demand for oil, so the outlook is not bad, but right now, west, it is the us, uk, other european countries, are uk, other european countries, a re really not uk, other european countries, are really not doing well, whereas, we see in china, they are still very Strong Demand and in india there is a Strong Demand, so it is very much a tale of two sides. East and west. Will we see opec plus getting along with each other in terms of their decisions on production cuts in the short term . Yes, we will. You have seen about a week ago, both deputy Prime Minister and oil minister for the deputy Prime Minister and oil ministerfor the Energy Minister of saudi arabia, his royal highness, say we stand behind 0pec plus and they did something very clever. They have upped production for this month. They probably wont do it for february but they go incrementally, they tweak, and they had to have monthly meetings was a bit mixes as for the ministers to congregate once a month and decide where to go so they can take corrective measures immediately. All right, were out of time but thank you for being with us. Good to see you. Great to see you, sally. Sneakers you can wear them, but for certain shoes, you might be better off selling them. Asia is just one area where theres growing interest in the casual shoes trading business so much so that at least one teenager has managed to turn it into a profitable business venture. This was the first pair that got me started they got me started with the reselling scheme. The global retreading market is about 6 billion. 2 billion us dollars. I think the asian market currently is on a smaller scale but definitely growing at a fast pace. We have seen tremendous demand from buyers in asia are specifically but we also are satisfied that demand satisfying that demand by unlocking a network of sellers. 0ne unlocking a network of sellers. One of the key drivers i think is the younger consumers, they become the core group of the sneaker where consumers and they are the ones that are really looking for exclusivity, they have the fear lacing out. Who knew . Dig out those old trainers at the back of your cupboard somewhere, you never know, you might be able to make some money. That is all from me for now. Breakfast is up next. Bbc world news, i will see you very soon. Have a good day. Hello. 2021 has certainly started on a cold and wintry note. Through the weekend we have seen sleet and snow from many places, not everywhere, this was near sheffield on sunday afternoon. Theres also been heavy rain showers around. Over the coming few days the story stays the same, staying cold with a mix of rain, sleet and snow, mainly over hills, the snow. Some sunshine but often quite windy conditions, particularly through monday and tuesday. We have High Pressure sitting to the north of the uk, low pressure down towards the south, south west and in between those two areas, were drawing in that cold wind coming in from the north east of the north sea so that brings showers on monday, rain for east anglia and the south east and the channel isles and further north, one or two wintry showers over the pennines, Southern Uplands and one or two over the Higher Ground of wales. A good deal of sunshine developing for many areas, it will be a windy day, though, with gusts over 40 mph along the coast of east anglia and through the english channel. Temperatures up to about 4 6 degrees, below average for the time of year and feeling colder when you add that wind chill. Moving through monday evening, overnight into tuesday, weve got more showers feeding in from the north sea on the north easterly wind and it could be ice and snow around for parts of eastern scotland and north east england as well. Temperatures overnight not quite as cold as recent nights but still getting down to freezing or below, the coldest across the north west. Heading into tuesday, a similar day to monday, watch out for ice and snow once again, particularly for eastern scotland, Northern England and further rain showers to come for east anglia and the south east of england and the channel isles, this stubborn area of cloud and rain persisting. Another cold day with some sunshine and around 3 6 degrees and still are wind chill on tuesday. Moving through into wednesday, High Pressure tends to move away towards the west so we are in between weather systems heading into wednesday, a quieter day and the breeze turns to a northerly direction for the middle to the end of the week. Probably quite a bit of sunshine, still a few showers for eastern england, one or two for the south east and channel isles as well. And it is staying cold for the time of year with temperatures only about 1 4 degrees on wednesday. Bye for now. Good morning, welcome to breakfast with Louise Minchin and dan walker. 0ur headlines today. Vaccine hope for millions the roll out of the Oxford Astrazeneca jab begins today. Its described as a Pivotal Moment in the uks fight against coronavirus. Primary schools in most of england re open this morning, but theres growing concerns over safety and staff shortages. We are live at Primary School in wiltshire that will welcome children back today but at the start of a new term and a new year and a massive divisive argument about whether or not schools should reopen, it all feels very 2020, doesnt it . Labour calls for an immediate england wide lockdown,