2 essential health services now more than it needs w.h.y. make you feel when. everyone. a dutch court order giant shell to pay compensation to contaminating communities in nigeria. or a car that says al jazeera live from doha also coming out they use astra zeneca is bound by contract to deliver millions of doses of its covert 19 vaccine and the has to give it emergent approval for emergency use. and another vaccine could come on

stream later this year not novak says its trials show its job to be nearly 90 percent of fact against it 19. plus china says it will no longer recognize a special british passport issued to people in hong kong and accuses the u.k. of political interference. to begin this hour with breaking news from the netherlands where the court of appeals has ordered the oil giant shell to pay compensation to a group of nigerian farmers they accuse the company of destroying their fishing villages as a result of 3 oil spills it's the 1st time a dutch company has been held liable for actions by its foreign subsidiary let's go straight to step fasten she's standing by for us in. step with a ruling then gone against shell what are the courts say.

exactly same here as a clear victory according to a friends of the earth or nablus who actually filed this case to get away for a nigerian farmers against shout the court said that the daughter company of shell s.p.c. in nigeria is liable for the pollution that has happened over the many years by all pipes it's using in nigeria and that it also is seen that it has to pay for compensation it's not said how much but there will be compensation paid to these farmers and another interesting aspect of this verdict is that the model company shall also order to have its duty to clean these pipes this is the 1st time that a court has actually ordered the mater company shell to clean its pipes and that it has to implement a detection system in which it will make clear if there's any leakage is happening or not this case has lasted 13 years and the friends of earth madeline's told me

that there were tears of joy after this victory as they say there was one downside to this verdict according to them and that one village hasn't been seen as a failing i mean this one village is still needs to have more information. provided to the court before a verdict will be done in this case but all the other villages that have suffered very badly from this pollution will now see some kind of compensation step thanks for bringing the latest places there from sudan acknowledges he is following the proceedings from. 13 long is this cases last of 4 has this news going to be received by farmers in nigeria. be greeted with joy. by the way laura this is not the. court either in the

netherlands or in the u.k. where hundreds of people at cuba. well for contaminating the niger delta i spoke to an actor is a short while ago he said this is just the beginning and a lot of analysts also believe that it will open the floodgates into so many late edition's against all producing company production companies that have been operating in nigeria some of these cases have been there for a very long time and they were unsuccessful several communities up and successful to try quote a shell in nigerian courts for example in this particular case today in the netherlands 2 of the people who filed that case have died have already died but again i give is that saying that this could lead to more litigation against shell and other international oil companies here in nigeria meanwhile the cleanup process in the niger delta is. progressing but slowly in that area communities are

worried that this could take a long time to accomplish. what is as you take anything but to flush out truck or inboard agree. as it all comes to the surface a broom trust this light for you back which it's a job the contractors hired by all john child must quickly accomplish before the tight returns the clean up is due to litigation against the company following a massive oil spill in the border in 2009 is a couple of days walkies jewel really did. pollute the board of creek. after the next phase will be the restoration revegetation out among groups and a monitoring so far is a $1000.00 head does. while shellings contract to say they have done a lot to some sites 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 catch up there's 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 2011 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 is dead fish and crustaceans no longer spawn here farmlands fish bones 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 how many.

people there is hope for. one. and how many of. them are. and that's not the only concern significant amount of all theft continues in the region father 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 is clean up me in the end be a waste of time and resources as re contamination could occur. nora the pipelines that have been laid since the 1950s in niger delta to

extract all and ship it outside of niger are still there a lot of environmentalists are concerned that these pipes have gotten bad and continue to the oil into the environment and apart from that this is only a fraction of the niger delta that we talking about $25.00 times that size decisive orgone is not properly or environmentally assessed for the damage done to the environment by oil exploration in the niger delta so it could be ages before these communities will find out. the environment would be really due to the natural environment the fish for issues i mean motion plants can come back to life so it's we generations to come before this is done only itself could take 25 to 30 years to keep still a long way to go thank you very much i'm going to just reporting from. let's

bring you some other news now and the european union is expected to give astra zeneca its covert 1000 vaccine limited emergency approval in the coming hours that's despite a growing dispute between the blog and the company about a shortage of supply the e.u. says the vaccine makers breached his multi-million dollar contract it was expecting at least $80000000.00 doses by the end of march but astra zeneca cut supply a week ago laming manufacturing issues on thursday brussels warned it may have to ban exports of vaccines produced on the constant to protect stock and has questioned why it appears that the u.k. supply has been unaffected and there is another potential help for the global inoculation drive the novak's vaccine produced by an american firm but which has been tested in the u.k. and elsewhere has shown to be around 90 percent effective full blown is in london with more on the never vax effect of the results. well the reaction to the united

front from novak's this morning here in the u.k. has been was like spectacular and thrilled and compare and contrast for example the trials and tribulations that the europeans have been having with a vaccine rollout to the rollout that's been taking place here in the u.k. i'm outside a mass vaccination santa in wembley within within sight of the famous football stadium here this one of 50 mass vaccination centers that are in existence and some $1300.00 vaccinations senses large and small to authorize these that are scattered around the u.k. novak's is a drug which has a lot of advantages according to the data 1st of all storage it can be stored at a normal refrigerator temperature so it doesn't have the difficulties that the fossil by own tech vaccine has as far as transportation and storage secondly the results themselves were extremely encouraging 89 percent effectiveness the numbers

involved in the trial were relatively small these phase 3 trials on the data now has to be presented to regulate says in a matter of weeks from now so we're not talking about an imminent approval most likely we're talking about approve or consideration somewhere around a proton on the rollout of the actual vaccine itself in the 2nd hoff of 2021 so it's not an immediate breakthrough that said huge encouraging and absent of 3 other vaccines that have already been approved for use here in the u.k. . well the mccain is covering the dispute between the e.u. and astra zeneca from violin. the point to make here is the urgency which the european union believes needs to be brought into this whole scenario they want they were expecting remember tens of millions of doses of this vaccine for which they've already made a very large upfront payment more than $400000000.00 they were expecting to have

tens of millions of doses of the vaccine once it's approved which we expect approval to come sometime this afternoon european time from amsterdam where the regulator body for the e.u. is based on the ones that would be approved that then tens of 1000000 doses over the course of the next few months would be made available but we now know that that's not going to be the case or at least half fuel will be made available and the route between the e.u. and the case has come down and the astra zeneca rather which is based in the u.k. headquarters there the hours come down to the interpretation of the contract signed between the 2 parties so you see this it's not quite a war of words but there's no question here that the european union is insisting upon what it believes is a binding commitment and it has a serious shortfall of millions of doses of vaccine to deal with over the course of the next couple of months china says it will no longer recognize the british

national overseas passport available to 3000000 hong kong residents aging made the may evolve to the u.k. launched a visa scheme in this allows these possible holders to apply for a better system than step as in response to the national security law imposed on hong kong by china u.k. government says it's standing up for freedom they then or as a pro-democracy activist who fled to london from hong kong in says he doesn't expect beijing's decision to hama b.n.a. a passport holders lights to emigrate to the u k. for now we don't have much information about how the transcript carried out these notion of the statement basically 100 people get into mainland china we don't use the n or passport we use the term permits and when we leave hong kong if government is going to apply these. this statement to the way that they have brought the control maybe we need to use the whole passport to leave the border and when we arrive in the u.k. we are getting with all the in all possible. action see announced by

the chinese government i don't see it. really creating a lot of chaos in terms of getting people moving into the u.k. or in the daily lives. it has clarified themselves online they don't know they have not reached any part of the. sun the british on that corrosion yes they are just awful in a route to for people assume a great to the u.k. and changing the status of the and the identity of the people under that arrangement and of course we can see the side reach. of the british on that procedure 1st by. the national security law and destroying the freedom in hong kong so i think it is ripe for a response from the u.k.

governments. still ahead hang on al-jazeera. i'm white hey in 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 it . it's time for the perfect jenny. went sponsored plan qatar airways i once again we've got more wintry weather piling into japan over the next couple of days little circulation swirling away in the sea of japan tightly packed ice about the way it is coming in from that cool northerly direction across the a relatively warm waters of the sea of japan coles condenses forms the platforms the snow which will dump its way across many western parts of honshu into northern

areas of the country iran across hokkaido sheltered by the mountains not so bad in tokyo temperatures here at around 9 or 10 celsius over the next couple of days a similar picture on sunday hopefully the showers becoming fewer and further between and by that stage as the winds fall a little lighter slightly milder air starts to push its way back in so with around 8 celsius getting up to 5 degrees there in beijing not just the central parts of china more the way of cloud and rain coming in here but down to the south it's just a fine and dry front to try to across the good parts of south asia got some showers into eastern india maybe into addition into time will not do some heavy showers there lingering across sri lanka with the winds continuing to fade in on that northeasterly monsoon so some very heavy rain coming in over the next couple of days further north it stay small but cloudy for new delhi. sponsored poll qatar airways it's 10 years since revolutions across the arab world

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a result of 3 oil spills. china will no longer recognise the british national overseas passport available to millions of hong kong residents as often as a scheme allowing holders to apply for persistent ship in response to china's national security law. and the european union is expected to give astra zeneca its covert 19 vaccine emergency approval in the coming hours as despite a growing dispute between the block and the company over a shortage of supply. thailand's government is facing criticism about its vaccine rolled out after it switched vaccine companies just 2 weeks out from its 1st phase thailand had originally chosen the chinese side of that job and is now moving forward with the one produced by oxford astra zeneca that vaccine is set to be produced locally later in the air by a firm by the thai king scott hide reports from bangkok. protesters

gathered outside the offices of bio science in bangkok this week accusing the government of being swayed by royal influence over its covert 19 vaccine program become pennies owned by the king and now holds the exclusive contract to manufacture the oxford astra zeneca jab in thailand so far the only certified vaccine that prompted the main opposition figure who was banned from holding political office for 10 years by a court last year to go public with what he saw as a flawed process. other question is better disc game gave too much benefit to one company on a royal defamation complaint has been filed against hanna torn for his criticism but he's undeterred and says his concern is more than just possible collusion during contract negotiations if anything were to go wrong with the vaccine manufacturing the government's hands are tied you have legal immunity because it used to stand but as

a window to the government contract she is the chair of this committee and the things go wrong the government cannot. do or no become body the minister of public health says there's no room for politics when it comes to vaccines i fully believe strongly believe that i have acquired the best the most proper. people i will make sure that there will be. i already privilege siham by a science or alternately manufacturer the oxford astra zeneca japara thailand and the region up to $200000000.00 doses a year to receive $20000000.00 in government funds to upgrade its facilities part of a pandemic grant system the job will be free to all thais and will run as a nonprofit operation but c.m. bio science stands to substantially boost its revenue once the pandemic is over

busy times at this buddhist temple here and bangkok's chinatown as people come out to pray for good fortune ahead of the lunar new year while recognizing the government success in containing kobe 1000 some are concerned about the vaccine rollout and the politics surrounding it. but i think that the vaccine plan is not clear we still do not know if the vaccine is safe enough to use and that's what we want. well you might that know. i don't know what the future holds i think that this is a very early phase and we won't find out the results of the vaccine immediately. what the year of the ox will hold for the people of thailand depends on controlling the virus and the success of its vaccine and many people here praying for just that it's got harder al-jazeera bangkok. experts from the world health organization have met chinese scientists in will hand as they continue their investigation into the origins of covert 19 the team is now expected to conduct its 1st field visit in the

city that research has been to visit hospitals labs at the food markets that have been linked to the earliest cases of the virus coronavirus deaths in one of america's worst hit states may have been grossly underestimated according to a report and investigation by new york's attorney general has found deaths in care homes may be more than 50 percent higher than officially reported a 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 it's someone's 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. made it so much more horrible so there's this was a just you know among all the other pain that we went through in 2020 this was arguably the very worst part of it. our 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. supporters of india's ruling b.j. party are accused of attacking farmers who are demanding the government withdraws controversial laws they say will ruin their livelihoods thousands of farmers refused to move during the standoff on the outskirts of new delhi police then intervened using tear gas to disperse the crowds the farmers have been holding their demonstrations for months and accept her as the secretary of the all india kiss and sign hardcore nation committee that's an organization supporting the farmers and he joins us from kolkata via skype good to have you with us 1st of all

can you explain what's been happening at this site at the single border crossing it's ridiculous to say it looks like. the ruling party. central government is on the farm of the. fall more than 50 percent of the population this is bizarre and the farmer the demand below you if you look. back lou don't defeat it on the streets. and seemingly for the government. so why do you think they are why do you think the your seeing these groups of supporters attacking the farmers. it's a recent agenda and the government of the. wants to bring in free market in agriculture and far too many be a dependent on agriculture. for free markets to play itself out that is too much

insecurity in the minds of far short of farmers want a guaranteed law guarantee there. the ruling party does not want to go into that and they have their supporters a small number of them against this much of a farce that is strange and that should not have been the political spectacle of the ruling so just to be thing you are saying that the the the numbers of people the people who are attacking the farmers at this site have the support the backing of the ruling the j.p. far party. it's absolutely clear from the view all that we have seen using the war on the ruling of the g.o.p. and the farmers have reacted this tone with grit to this and b.'s the sat together and started to gives of the sick religion and have refused to engage with the attackers so far is that this is about their level your new global this

peace and care and concern for the rest of the country what was the response of the police. the police and you know it's controlled by the government they were mute spectators for a while no one knows why they allowed these 500 outsiders to come into the farmers can and british to. generally create a meeting and then the police reacted so it's as if the police is acting in concert with these hooligans who are acting alou struction from the ruling party which is running the central bank less and less bitter there because not the only violence that we've seen in the course of this process is that on tuesday we saw breeching of the red for it's all violence at that protest that saw one dead and 400 police officers injured there are some people who are saying that that incident somehow it's a damages than just messy of the farmers protest movement as

a whole. do those we now realise what triggers about 821500 people who are planning to exclude the wreck for the hamas movement did not have any plan to get into the city or the border the road or unthought of there that the demand for the part was all going to secular they don't use religious symbols so this is clearly a conspiracy and what you saw today at the sea wall earth is a continuation of that conspiracy we are joining rounds steadily for and ensuring that this conspiracy don't knock down roots and destroy the farmers. thank you very much taking the time to speak to us there from kolkata and. other coronavirus pandemic has devastated the live music industry and most countries but in new zealand it's emerged as one of the few places in the world where bands can still

play a large crowds when hey reports from the town of wright and. i . 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 lockdown l. a b. has been traveling the country playing to packed stadiums we've been able to still perform. get out there and play gigs and and tour material which has made our fan base just explode. so it's been a 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 for a 2nd consecutive year industry leaders worry that without support from the government and insurance companies some concerts and festivals may be lost to the goods it's very hard to. underestimate the states you wonder exact

on in the music industry and what 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 world to a 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. 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 constant support staff

close its doors 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 pandemic 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 too much of the city because you don't rub it in their faces when you know it's like it's pretty unfair what's happening. very unfair you know to fellow music 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. these are all top stories the dutch court of appeals has ruled that oil giant shell must pay compensation to a group of nigerian farmers thank you the company of destroying their fishing

villages as a result of 3 oil spills up until this more.