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BBC news with David Harper.   

Britain's post-Brexit trade deal with the EU has been signed by the Prime Minister Boris Johnson after approval by the House of Commerce. Mr. Johnson called the treaty a new beginning. A leader of the opposition labor party Keir Starmer called it a sin deal, but said it was better than no deal. It's being debated in the Upper House.

The British government is extending its toughest restrictions to three quarters of England's population, as it prepares to start using a newly approved vaccine from Monday. Cases have surpassed the 50,000 daymark for two days' running.

Further evidence is spreading a new more infectious coronavirus variant first detected in Britain. The Irish Prime Minister Michael Martin has said the rate has surpassed the most pessimistic modules available. He has announced four-weeks of tougher public health restrictions.

At least 22 people have been killed in an attack on the city of Aden airport in Yemen, soon after a plane carrying the country's new government landed. An aid worker from the International Committee of the Red cross was among the dead. The minister was unharmed.

Emergency workers in Norway have been unable to investigate a landslip near Oslo to look for 11 people, who remained unaccounted for. The Prime Minister Erna Solberg said the mud was too unstable for anything more than searches by helicopter.

Prosecutors in Bosnia-Herzegovina have charged two former Bosnia served reservists with murdering 51 Bosnian Muslim and Croat civilians during the war in the former Yugoslavia. Most were gunned down at a mass grave known as the * pit.

The police in Uganda say only journalists who have been recently approved by the country's media council will be allowed to cover political events. It comes just hours after the arrest of several journalists at a planned rally by the opposition candidate Bobi Wine.

BBC news.