Lets listen in for a moment. Cheering this is the scene over Auckland Harbour bridge and how lovely to hear peoples voices as they welcome 2021. New zealand, one of the few places in the world where new years celebrations are relatively normal. So many cities around the world, either cancelling or scaling back traditional displays to welcoming the new year because of course of covid. Here in new zealand, where according to the latest bulletin from the new zealand bulletin of health, no new cases of covid in the community, the celebrations are able to go ahead in a relatively normal fashion. Cheering samoa and tonga already welcoming in the new year, 2021, ahead of new zealand, but auckland the first major world city to welcoming the new year and say goodbye to 2020. A year that i think most of us will be glad to see the buckle. With hopes that 2021 will bring a much better and healthier here for all of us glad to see the back of. How lovely to see that scene in auckland. Borisjohnsons
It comes ahead of a government roll out of mass testing. On monday of next week, all secondary schools are going to be getting a drop of tests, all the equipment they of tests, all the equipment need, all the ppe they formula 1 World Champion, Lewis Hamilton receives a knighthood in the queens new years honours, alongside members of the public recognised for their efforts this year. Hello and welcome, if youre watching in the uk or around the world. Borisjohnsons trade deal with the European Union has become law. The bill has cleared parliament, after being approved by mps and peers. 0vernight it was given royal assent by the queen. The deal takes effect at 11pm gmt tonight when the uk will stop following eu rules. Heres our political correspondent, chris mason. This was the moment, late into the night, when the brexit trade deal became the law of the land. Her majesty has signified her royal assent to the following act European Union future relationship act 2020. The final confirmatio
On monday of next week, all secondary schools are going to be getting a drop of tests, all the equipment that they need to set up. All the ppe that they need. Formula one World Champion, Lewis Hamilton receives a knighthood in the queens new years honours alongside members of the public recognised for their efforts this year. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. Borisjohnsons trade deal with the European Union has become law. The bill has cleared parliament, after being approved by mps and peers. Overnight it was given royal assent by the queen. The deal takes effect at 11pm when the uk will stop following eu rules. Heres our political correspondent, chris mason. This was the moment, late into the night, when the brexit trade deal became the law of the land. Her majesty has signified her royal assent to the following act European Union future relationship act 2020. The final confirmation that at 11 oclock tonight, after four and a half years of argument si
With a mass street party but across the world celebrations are being scaled down due to the pandemic. Well find out how Different Countries hello and welcome to bbc news. Lets stick with those fireworks in thailand to celebrate the new year. The bells are ringing out for all those lost in the pandemic. Due to the coronavirus. And of course sweden, such a fascinating history as they took a very different approach to most European Countries initially in terms of the levels of restrictions and then a couple of months ago, very rapidly altering course as they saw their cases and their death toll spiralling. So the bells ringing out there in stockholm to mark the number who have passed during 2020 and the covid virus pandemic. And i just want to show you some picture that came to us in the last hour this is wuhan. The capital of Hubei Province in china where theyre celebrating new year it comes exactly one year after the city reported an unknown pneumonia outbreak to the world health organi
This is the scene live in pyongyang as north korea begins its new year celebrations. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. Lets stick with those fireworks to celebrate the new year. This is a live broadcast injapan, showing their celebrations for new year. Those are coming into us live from a secret location in tokyo. We are not entirely sure where it is. The japanese authorities are not releasing the location of the displays to stop crowds from gathering. Japanese people are sharing in a new year, 2021. 2020 was supposed to be an olympic year foiljapan, year, 2021. 2020 was supposed to be an olympic yearfoiljapan, with year, 2021. 2020 was supposed to be an olympic year foiljapan, with the tokyo 0lympics. That has been postponed and will hopefully go ahead in the summer. I am not sure why there is a picture of a cow, but maybe it is giving birth . No. We we re maybe it is giving birth . No. We were inspecting fireworks and dragons, but we are bringing you