i want to see. a boost in the fight against corona virus novak says late stage trials show it's vaccine to be nearly 90 percent effective against hope at 19. nor a pile this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. a 4th night of violence in the northern lebanese city of tripoli as anger visors that

strict coronavirus lockdown measures. claims of contaminated communities in nigeria a dutch court is expected to deliver its verdict against oil giant shell. and the u.s. names robots' mali who helped negotiate the 2015 nuclear deal as special envoy to iraq. so we begin with news of another covert 1000 vaccine that could soon and. late stage trials of the u.s. produce never backs job so it's been nearly 90 percent effective and it sent have some effect of us against both u.k. and to a slightly lesser extent south african variance u.k. may approve it's used by june. that scene already in demand is made by astra zeneca however the company has angered e.u. officials for causing a supply european commission chief says astra zeneca hasn't given a plausible explanation and is warning it may stop any vaccines money factored in

the belt from being exported ice on fighting europe's medicine agency is expected to recommend approval of the astra zeneca vaccine for legend. but it does go up to as a social epidemiologist and professor at the center of social medicine and community health he says the vaccines potential against new variant is encouraging this vaccine comes from a relatively less known company in the us which was part of the initial $1600000000.00 us dollar so u.s.d. deal in the operation was speed what's causing the optimism it's very encouraging results in the recently completed their trials in the u.k. and in specific it's potentially good results against the new variants certainly against that you get a variant but somewhat less against the south african variant that is a known challenge in biology and and as we know even from the influenza vaccines

that we have where you need to immunize annually particularly the elderly and the otherwise vulnerable there are what's known as antigenic ships and jeff because the virus is constantly mutating itself particularly if it's under pressure from various therapeutic regimens particularly a whole host of them now being now being administered in the ongoing covert epidemic so the virus is constantly modifying itself and it is going to be a constant challenge between treatment backseat options and virus adaptations. brazil has back there are more than $1000000.00 people but that's less than half of one percent of the population as it is like my laos the gateway to the amazon rain forest so face the shortage of oxygen in hospitals perhaps and scandals are also hampering the vaccine roll out like in ghana kiev has more when you back to

vaccines has arrived in my mouth and inoculations have resumed after being suspended from. the vaccination program reminder scrutiny after vocal off already he's worked used to fever in themselves and friends by skipping the line in taking shots a head of health workers and the elderly to field hospitals have been set up in my mouth where patients must wait for room each attack or are they to me were swapped field hospital should help us redistribute patients. but this is the largest city in the brazilian amazon still thinks is a shortage of oxygen and health workers have been working around the clock to keep patients from suffocating to death like both the need for heaters and didn't make it. you ask a nurse the hope here and she says she can't do anything because she's dealing with another patient who's dying right in front of you there aren't enough health care

workers to deal with this we wouldn't be in this situation if the amazon a state had invested in health care where did all the money go the health minister is. visited man hours this week for the 2nd time he's also being investigated for allegedly mishandling the crisis. that we are so we did big increase in the number of infections in early january tripling the number of infected people this was a completely unknown situation to everyone. and then there is the new variant of the corona virus discovered in my mouth and much more contagious than the 1st it has already spread to brazil's richest city as a result countries like the united states portugal peru and colombia are restricting flights to and from brazil. tell us for a period of 30 days passenger flights from colombia to brazil and brazil to colombia will be suspended brazil has the largest covert 19 death toll after the

united states but according to a study by australia's lowy institute comparing how $98.00 countries have dealt with the pandemic brazil is considered the worst it's at the bottom of the list right after mexico colombia iran and the u.s. china was not included due to a lack of data. brazil's president j. boss and it's always downplayed the virus and even question the value of vaccine he has also asked governors and mayors to avoid what damage government yes absolutely think twice about restrictive policies you must understand that isolation lockdown and confinement leads to destitution i've always said that the economy works hand in hand with like. some and now some have just imposed new restriction measures but in rio de janeiro where the number of infections is also growing beaches are

proud and social distancing to be a thing of the past. mind being inactive or just sirrah the addition or. the highly infectious south african variant of covert 19 has reached the united states to infections were confirmed in the state of south carolina neither of the cases had any travel history nor any contact with each other officials say this suggests it's already spreading in the community scientists optically worried about the strain because it appears less responsive to available vaccines and coronavirus tests in one of america's worst hit states may have been grossly underestimated us according to a report the best occasion by new york's attorney general has found death some care homes may be more than 50 percent higher than officially reported the study examined discrepancies in the number of fatalities recorded by state officials and the care homes themselves these are loved ones we lost. you

know if someone is grandma someone's mother or father and they're on call i mean this is families are missing someone dear to them and you know for so many people i talked to the fact that they you know people i've talked to people all over the city who have lost folks and they could not be with them. it made it so much more horrible so this was the you know among all the other pain that we went through in 2020 this was arguably the very worst part of it. that we have to make sense of this we have to get the full truth and we have to make sure it never ever happens again nothing like this happens again and we have to be honest about the numbers. from the world health organization have met chinese scientists and will they continue their investigation into the origins of cave at 19 the team is now expected to conduct its 1st field

visits in the city. would visit hospitals labs the food markets that have been linked to the cases of the violence virus. protests have been growing. government corruption security forces have been firing tear gas and water cannon crowds of protesters gathered in the city of tripoli 2 people being killed and hundreds injured in 4 days of rest and a whole has this update from tripoli. another night of protests another night of violence in lebanon 2nd largest city dozens of protesters have been injured over recent days to protesters kill the situation on the ground is estimating there is a lot of anger people initially took to the streets to protest the coronavirus. they said that the government is not for writing the poor and the financial freedom

for order to cope with the loss but know that luck exacerbates the economic crisis and. was already collapsing before that lockdown so people are unemployed those. who work in the sector which means they live day by day if they don't work today they can't feed their kids and this city has long been impoverished before the pandemic was 1st detected last year so a lot of anger in the streets they're saying that. they want a new leadership in fact. in fact there has been a popular uprising in lebanon for more than a year and people have been holding protests in other cities as well on and off. they've largely fizzled out because 1st of all the response of the state of militarized states arrest the tensions heavy handed tactics to clamp down on

protests movements so and of course we also have. the corona virus spreading among the community it's not clear whether or not the situation can be contained in the days ahead but this is a country for over a year now there have been social unrest political turmoil and as the our economy collapse more and more people are are drowning in poverty the u.n. says 55 percent of the population are now poor and this is a small nation of 5000000 people one 3rd of the workforce employed so difficult days tense situation in this city. still ahead on al-jazeera president joe biden demonstration signals a more assertive approach to the conflict in libya calling on turkish and russian forces to leave immediately plus. i'm going to haiti new zealand one of the few countries in the world where people can gather in big numbers and enjoy live music

we take a look at the global music industry and how the coronavirus pandemic is changing. how we once again welcome star to look at the international forecast the weather isn't that bad across india china not too bad to into the philippines but push a little further south and more pockets of very heavy rainfall coming in $81.00 millimeters of rain in kuala lumpur around half the jaggery average rainfall in 24 hours and further south are seeing more heavy downpours coming into indonesia jakarta with around $52.00 millimeters of rain and more the same here as we go on through the next couple of days much of indonesia where we see the heaviest of the showers as we go on through the next a day or 2 the sad state going on into sunday really a case of spot the difference those heavy downpours lingering across the southern

parts of the region then turning up with some very heavy rain that we continue to see across northern parts of australia see some big downpours recently just around the darwin we've seen some very heavy rainfall coming in here a little circulation pushing towards broome will bring some very very wet weather into northern parts of w.a. over the next day or 2 that's is drying for the same in darwin over the past 24 hours 72 millimeters coming in here you see that wet weather draped across northern parts of australia further south things a little quieter now coming into victoria although we have got the chance of some flooding rains here this weekend. in the movie 1000000 people have been excluded for the least but still just. one i want a speech the families forced to take the long. view. it

was the 1st trial of its kind for my ugandan child soldier. is accused of recruiting more children to fight as he rose through the ranks of the in famous moods resistance army. now he is about to learn his fate at the international criminal court to make a. move to the. allegheny watching algis there has a reminder of our top stories this hour u.s. drug company novak says it's covert $1000.00 vaccine has been shown to be more than 89 percent effective joint trials in the u.k. it's trial suggests it's effective also against the new variant of the virus found in the u.k. . brazil's president jabil sonora has promised to quickly vaccinate everyone in his

country amid a new wave of corner virus infections so far less than one percent of the population has received the vaccine. and protests in lebanon have been growing as anger rises at lock down measures and government corruption 2 people have been killed and hundreds injured in 4 days of on the west. of course is expected to hand down its verdict in the next hour and a long running case against oil giant shell for nigerian farmers accuse the company of causing widespread pollution and demanding compensation and. cleanup of the villages which were devastated by 3 oil spills in the 2000 and although. contaminated sites environmental activists say they aren't impressed by the pace of it with reports from a gurney in the niger delta. workers educate anything but to flush out trucked oil in border creek as it all comes to the surface trust us like for evacuation

it's a job the contractors hired by all john child must quickly accomplish before the tide returns the cleanup is due to litigation against the company following the massive oil spill in the record in 2009 is this walk is to remediate. creek. after the next phase will be the restoration. among groups and the monitoring so far is a $1000.00 hectares. while shellings contract to say they have done a lot to subside the nigerian government led decontamination effort jointly funded by the shell company is off to a slow start heavy machinery is now deployed farther inland to excavate and treat contaminated soil we i'm not on target for what we have planned but we're trying to

see what we can do to patch up they still a lot of work to do to catch up i mean time to get. an assessment by the united nations environment program 1st published in print 11 shows that pollution from more than half a century of oil production was worse than or originally thought the report recommended a $1000000000.00 fund to clean up alone an area covering 1000 square kilometers the work which began success later could take at least 25 years to complete. much of a is a wasteland this one group is dead fish and crustaceans no longer spawn here farmlands fish ponds and even underground water supplies have been polluted by hydrocarbons leaking from old pipelines we could play some activists in the region are less impressed with the work so far.

is one. how many years. and that's not the only concern significant amount of all 3rd continues in the region further complicating the process of reversing the environmental damage experts believe 15 to 20000 square kilometers of nigeria's oil producing region require the attention is currently receiving they fear that unless the entire region is decontaminated or going as clean up me in the end be a waste of time and resources as re contamination could occur i meet a priest. in nigeria's oil producing niger delta china says it will no longer recognise the british national overseas paul supporter available to 3000000 hong kong residents aging made the move to the u.k. launched a visa scheme this allows these possible holders to apply for bush assistantship

it's in response to the national security law imposed on hong kong by china u.k. government says it's standing up for. one of the people responsible for the iran nuclear deal has been named as the new u.s. special envoy to iran well that malley as a former top adviser to the obama administration and was part of the team that helped negotiate the 2015 deal he will have the job of implementing president joe biden's when you think with iran russian ships our joy in the previous administration after trying pulled out of the deal and imposed harsh sanctions had reza golems out as head of the public diplomacy research institute he joins us via skype from tehran good to have you with us what do you think of this appointment of robert malley thank you very much for having me. appointment up robert malley can be a positive signal to iranians since the person has been in the negotiation

a long white ministration and he had the constructing a particular approach toward the wine and he has a good understanding of irani i actually because a major problem that has been between iran and the united states for decades has been the issue dead the 2 sides don't seem to have a quick understanding from each other especially to mary counts from the rain so misunderstanding was a great hindrance in negotiations or talks or any relations between the 2 countries so if the person who always now is appointed now is familiar with what you are scenes and you're in your mind certainly ring in demand then the talks can be constructing a fruitful so if it was because she you know if it is seen as a goodwill appointment how might might tehran respond. well there's a point actually that mr malley ease just on one person a point man we can use responsible for your own but more so important than that we

have for example jake's only one as national security adviser we have tony blinken as the point of this excerpt at state and in recent days we have seen not positive retore from mr blinken and we know by the experience that the negotiations are for the just us bad exciting one is not that positive toward you want salt if we want to compare the position that mr mollies going to take to their position of lincoln and suddenly want it doesn't seem that much significant of course especially that we have the experience of 40 years the google that they're pointing out for you want was a games accepting shot into america and the letter version scares the national security adviser was pro shop and that actually led to. the capture of the

american i'm looking forward to how just and just how on want to move forward from this you know the point is that iran has their law passed by the partly on their own and each man's the government to. stop implementing additional portugal by. february 24th if the sanctions are not removed if i says that we have been everything and the american side has nothing at all they have withdrawn from the case if you wait and if now with the supposed to be alive and the european. fortunately we've lost the connection that 200 reza. do we still have you had reza. oh you're back with me yes we have you thank you let's look because you are saying that the ball is in the u.s. as course of course the u.s.

will say that the ball is in teheran's court that it must stop enriching uranium to new levels beyond the limits of the 2015 deal and that it must step up to the table to restart negotiations i mean who's going to blink 1st here you know the point is that that's what the americans say and that's the discussion that iran cannot accept because there are so that we have done everything and even that limitations that we are removing and the lessening of the comic most of your news taking has always been said that iran is ready to step back and accept the limitations if the americans be fierce to to remove all the sanctions that compensate the damages that we do or what has inflicted upon you and economy according to various sectors or probably it has been at least $70000000000.00.

quote unquote by here in. iran the amount that the americans need to remove the sanctions and compensate the damages and then we get back to day one ok then the basic theory is becoming some. beyond that is seemingly war king ok guns are there we do have to leave it there many thanks for joining us there from tehran with the obvious thank you i mean. well the u.s. says it's still committed to a negotiated settlement with the taliban in afghanistan president joe biden's teams as it will review the deal the trumpet ministrations signed with the armed groups last year we are still involved in trying to get a negotiated settlement the taliban have not met their commitments. as you know there is a looming deadline of early may that that is before everybody in terms of you know wanting to have. a solution here but without them meeting their

commitments to renounce terrorism and to. stop the violent attacks on the afghan national security forces and you know by dint of that the afghan people it's very hard to see. a specific way forward for the negotiated settlement but we're still committed. the un has once again calling on all foreign forces and must needs to leave libya under a cease fire deal they were told to withdraw by the end of this month but that is yet to happen. james bays reports. it's now almost 10 years since the start of the uprising in libya it's been a decade of death and misery but the un's outgoing acting special representative stephanie williams told the security council there was no reason for hope at ceasefire is in place a cease fire agreed in october it was holding despite this she said blatant foreign

interference was continuing this was the 1st security council meeting on libya attended by a diplomat representing the biden the administration and he demonstrated what appears to be a more forceful u.s. policy we call all external parties to include russia turkey and the us. to respect libyan foreign t. and immediately seize all military intervention in libya a line echoed later when i asked the un secretary general about libya can you please today give us your message to those countries that are still involved militarily in libya. the libyans are doing their part it's essential that all the others that are involved in the libyan crisis will do their part it's essential that all foreign troops and all foreign mercenaries move 1st to benghazi and 2 or 3 police and from there move back and leave the libyans alone because the leaders have already proven that left alone able to address their problems at the end of

the meeting the security council agreed to position calling on all foreign fighters to leave libya russia in a statement to out 0 said that it has no military in the country although there be numerous reports that the wagner group a mercenary company has been operating in libya turkey has long said that its forces are in the country at the request of the legitimate government both those countries though now know there's a new policy from the u.s. government as does the united arab emirates which is already seen an arms deal worth $23000000000.00 blocked for now james out 0 at the united nations. another kind of us pandemic has devastated the live music industry and most countries but new zealand has emerged as one of the few places in the world where bands can still place a large crowds i was there as well hey reports from the town of raglan.

it's been a career defining 12 months for this rising new zealand band while much of the world has been in various forms of coronavirus lock down l. ab has been traveling the country playing to packed stadiums we've been able to still perform. get out there and play gigs and then tour material which is as years made our fan base just explode. so it's a spin as been an awesome year but in other countries the pandemic has destroyed the live music industry one of the world's largest festivals glastonbury in the united kingdom has been cancelled 1st. second consecutive year industry leaders worry that without support from the government and insurance companies some concerts and festivals may be lost for good it's very hard to. underestimate the state's pandemic threat on the music industry and we need now government to support that too is very critical time so that we can get to operate again.

with the main form of income playing live music largely gone artists have taken gigs online swedish band the hives are playing what they call the world's 1st world wide web. substituting stadium shows like this for online concerts tailor made to different markets you graphics this it seems important to us that we're actually playing to people i mean. germans are going through you know we can play to the germans in new zealand there are no restrictions on public gatherings so the summer festival season carries on to those in most countries new zealand musicians and bands are clearly in a fortunate position but strict border controls mean no big international acts and that seen at least one company which employed hundreds of concert support staff close its doors figure the people that usually keep the live music industry afloat far away from the bright lights and big stars are the ones that are suffering the

most during the pen demick new zealand stars and their fans are enjoying their freedom while it lasts but feel for their counterparts in other countries a try and not talk to much to much of the city because you don't rub it in their faces various like it's pretty unfair what's happening. very unfit you know to fellow muses around the world so we just feel blessed and lucky to be able to get out and play and right now new zealand bands can claim to be playing some of the largest concerts in the world when hey al jazeera reglan new zealand's. thank. you without as there are these are all top stories in the u.s. drug company novak says it's corona virus vaccine has shown to be more than 89 percent effective trials suggest it's a fact of against the new variant of coded 1001st found in the u.k. brazil's president jabal sonora has probably.