al-jazeera. you're watching the news hour life from headquarters and. here's what's coming up in the next 60 minutes. astra zeneca is bound by contract to deliver millions of doses of its covert 1000 vaccine as the block prepares to give it approval for emergency use and another vaccine could become available later this year no vioxx

trials so it's jobs to be nearly 90 percent effective against covert 19. a dutch court orders oil giant shell to pay compensation for contaminating communities in nigeria. and 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. with a small $12.00 to $14.00 days of quarantine the wools took to the stalls are back on cooled him astray and firms were allowed to. welcome to the news hour the european union is expected to give astra zeneca covert 1000 vaccine limited emergency approval in the coming hours that's despite a growing dispute between the block and the company about a shortage of supply so the e.u. has released a redacted copy of a contract which it says proves the vaccine maker is obliged to meet its promise

supply it was expecting at least $80000000.00 doses by the end of march but astra zeneca cut supply a week ago blaming manufacturing issues now on thursday brussels warned that it may have to ban exports of vaccines produced on the continent to protect stock and it's questioned why it appears that the u.k. supply has been unaffected and there's another potential help for the global inoculation dr that's the novak's vaccine it's produced by an american firm but has been tested in the u.k. and elsewhere and it's shown to be around 90 percent effective we'll get more on the situation in the u.k. shortly with paul brennan he'll join us from london stepped in as in the netherlands to tell us more about the expected approval of astra zeneca vaccine for emergency use but 1st we'll bring in dominic came in from berlin because dominic we now know that the contract has been published between the european commission and

astra zeneca tell us more about what we're learning about the contract and how it all fits into this route between the e.u. and the company. the contract has been published heavily redacted but big big chunks of it blacked out so that we can't see what was in part of the agreement but there are several sections which are particularly interesting and speak to this rally that's developed between the 2 science of the european union the european commission and astra zeneca remember astra zeneca as c.e.o. mr sorry a couple of days ago sent that the agreement between his company and the e.u. involved astra zeneca agreeing to carry out its best efforts to produce the doses that it said it would produce under the terms of the contract by a certain time so that meant tens of millions of doses by the end of march i have a few pages from the contract here and this is the 2nd phase where it's make that you'll see the parts of the blacked out redacted but this particular refers to the

best reasonable efforts that the e.u. can expect that astra zeneca will provide it's a phrase that appears several times here also where it talks about the number of doses it will be prepared to provide and in what timeframe which coincides with what we've already known about the up to the end of the 1st quarter of this year and then for the rest of the year and the amount of money that will be supplied upfront by the e.u. but there's one final area which seems to back up the european union's some of its arguments and that's lower down where astra zeneca represents warrants and covenants in other words attests that this is the case that it has not engaged in any other obligation contractually or otherwise with another person or a 3rd party which would in keyed the complete fulfillment of this agreement of this contract all of these hundreds of millions of doses that were going to be provided by astra zeneca to the e.u. so you can see in this contract there are different clauses which seem to back up

the 2 different sides here certainly it's in black and white that astra zeneca said it would promise its best. reasonable efforts but equally promise that it had no obligation to anybody else contractually that would make it harder that would make it impossible for it to deliver what it was promising the e.u. and it's on the basis of that that you see the round playing out the way it has been so far over the course of this week all right dominic thank you very much for that update from berlin let's now bring in sebastian she is joining us from amsterdam so as that route takes place there but we know that the e.u. medicines agency right behind you is expected to be to give astra zeneca emergency approval for use do we expect any surprises there. well in an hour or so the european medicines agency will get approval to put that in perspective that's nearly one month after the u.k. has already been vaccinated people with the astra zeneca vaccine the main question

here is though will there be an age limit 65 or a bar because the german vaccine committee has already said that there's not enough data available in that age group from the effects seen trials so gifted vaccine to people are really people 65 or above but of course that would be a serious setback for the elderly in the european union who of course are more vulnerable for covert 19 and this cancer t. of the other vaccines as well so the main question here is will that be a follow the german advice which was announced yesterday and that would be a serious limitation for the availability of the vaccine but it also could be some kind of face saving operation abidi european union because simply they don't need that many vaccines if the 65 last group is not allowed to get the. right stuff thank you so much for that update from amsterdam let's cross over to london and

speak to paul brennan he's joining us from there paul tell us about this novak's vaccine what we're learning about its safety and efficacy against coke in 1000. gets the announcement made by novak's in the us relating to the phase 3 large scale trials which have been taking place since september because here in the u.k. and in south africa and the results extremely exciting according to both the epidemiologists and the politicians in the u.k. the effectiveness of the novak's vaccine that some 89.3 percent according to the company. the effectiveness against the new u.k. variant is around 85 percent so that's 6 string the encouraging bearing in mind that the new variants. of coronaviruses covert 19 have been causing some serious concern that they might actually circumvent the original vaccine process now what

happens now well the u.k. regulates at the m h a is not going to engage in a kind of a rolling assessments all of the ongoing work that's going on with novak's to get the data for some several weeks away from the vaccine actually submitting a final dossier a final folder of data for to the regulators for final approval for use that said what they're going to hopefully have if the shuttle pans out as they hope it will is use approval by the 1st quarter of 2021 now cast your mind back not so many months ago drug companies were worried that they might not be a vaccine for curve at 19 now we already have 3 approved in the u.k. and one in the pipeline you can see why politicians and the public are rather excited about this development all right paul thank you so much paul brennan reporting from london and in some breaking news out of the us the drug firm johnson

and johnson is now saying that its one dose vaccine appears to be at least 66 percent effective in preventing cover 19 the company is expected to apply for emergency use authorization in the u.s. next week well jeff lazaridis as they head of health system at the barcelona institute for global health and he explains how the de lay's are affecting the vaccine campaign. if we don't have the supply it was expected that the nation slows down and that that's really devastating right now we're still in the winter months we're seeing cases increasing high levels of mortality so we need to be vaccinated as quickly as possible and importantly we've told the population we've convinced them you need to get vaccinated the majority of europeans are willing to get vaccinated now we're telling them that are though we had contracts in place we don't have the expected supply so i'm not it's hard to know if it will escalate i'm glad to see that the european commission and astra zeneca officials are meeting

they need to do everything possible to to ramp up production to resolve the matter we know there's 2 plants in the u.k. there's plants in belgium and the netherlands we also need to remember that right now the e.u. hasn't even approved. yesterday and it makes you know that's expected to come right about now so sort all of this has been going on to get ready for them all out for expected. approval so i think the u.k. government the e.u. the asters an official see to sit down look at the supply make the numbers more transparent so we know what's going on and also look importantly where else we can increase production so we have the astra zeneca plants but i mean this is we're talking about 27 e.u. countries so what other opportunities are there to produce the next. experts from the world health organization have met chinese scientists in more han as they continue their investigation into the origins of covert 19 the team is that we're

expected to conduct its 1st field visits in the city the w.h.o. said researchers would visit hospitals labs and the food markets that have been linked to the earliest cases of the virus. thailand's government is facing criticism about its vaccine rollout after its switch companies just 2 weeks out from its 1st phase thailand had originally chosen the chinese job but is now moving forward with the one produced by oxford. that vaccine is set to be produced locally later in the year by a firm own by the thai king scott highlight 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 the company is 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 court last year to go public with what he saw as a flawed process of a question is better disclaim gave too much benefit to one company on a royal defamation complaint has been filed against hannah 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 it been done to the government contract she's the author of this committee and if things go wrong the government cannot. do or know become. the minister of public health says there's no room for politics when it comes to vaccines i fully believe strongly. choir is

the best. the most proper. people make sure that there will be the. priority of privilege symbiosis science will ultimately manufacture 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 $1000.00 some are concerned about the vaccine rollout and the politics surrounding it. 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 but let me stop no one like you are we are not 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. plenty more ahead on the al-jazeera news hour including this street fights erupt in new delhi after farmers protesting are attacked by government supporters. why the free trading that allowed small time investors to get rich under fire. and back to winning ways we'll have action from liverpool's victory in the premier coming up.

but 1st china says it will no longer recognize the british national overseas pos word available to 3000000 hong kong residents beijing made the move after the u.k. launched a visa scheme that allows these passport holders to apply for british citizenship it's in response to the national security law imposed on hong kong by china u.k. government says it's standing up for freedom nathan law's a pro-democracy activist who fled to london from hong kong he says he doesn't expect beijing's decision to harm holder's right to immigrate to the u k. for now we don't have much information about how the transcript will carry out notion of the statement basically 100 people get into mainland china we don't use your passport we use it and when we leave hong kong if hong kong government is going to apply these. these statement to the way that they have brought the control

maybe we need to use the home possible to leave the border and when we arrive in the u.k. we are getting with all the and all possible. actions you announced by the chinese government i don't see it. really creating a lot of tables in terms of getting people moving into the u.k. or in the daily lives. it has clarified themselves online they don't they have not reached any part of the. sun the british on decoration yes they are just awful in a roots to for people assume a great to the u.k. and not changing the status of the you know and the identity of the people under that. and of course we can see the side reach.

the 1st bite of the national security law and destroying the freedom in hong kong so i think it is right for a response from the u.k. government. in the netherlands the court of appeals has ordered 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 or all spells it's the 1st time a dutch company has been held liable for actions by its foreign subsidiary amid the dresses following proceedings from a butcher so what is the reaction to this. ecstatic the people in the niger delta especially communities affected by oil spills over the last 50 is not really happy about the verdict of the appeal court in the netherlands a lot of them are saying that this case the way for them to raise issues of contamination issues of reaper ration issues of human rights abuses in the niger

delta following years of exploration by or by old companies and we're looking at probably only a fraction of those all steel works or that most people damage that's being treated right now by both shell and the nigerian government does it have visited a go any especially the border creeks and other neighboring communities to look at how the was pills over the years have impacted on the environment and what the company as well as the government i doing to do to remedy the situation. what case you take anything but to flush out the truck or inboard a creek. as it all comes to the surface a boom truss the sludge for you back to a ship 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 pulling

a massive oil spill in the court in 2009 is a couple of days walkies jewel really did. pollute the board of creek. after the next phase will be to restore a shunt revegetation out among groups and a monitoring so far is a $1000.00 hectares. while shellings contract to say they have done a lot to subsides 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 take it for what we had 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 to take. 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 all regionally 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 ponds and even underground water supplies have been polluted by hydrocarbons leaking from old pipelines we could buy some activists in the region are less impressed with the work so far. is one. and 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 more of nigeria's oil producing region require the attention is currently receiving. but they fear that the listening thai region is decontaminated clean up me in the end be a waste of time and resources as re contamination could occur. and the other war is that only a fraction of that carries be clean up now and people are wondering what will happen to the presence of pipelines that have been there for more than half a century activists in the region say that these pipelines to leak oil into the environment father damaging the environment and even complicating the existing and work being done to remediate decides affected by pollution over the years yeah my den in fact i'm going to ask my next guest about this specifically for the time

being a report on that which i thank you so much let's bring in sallust an apothecary who's at ogoni activists he and others have been working to halt production in their homeland along the niger delta for more than a decade in santa stands joining us from port tara core over nigeria thanks so much for speaking to us on the news hour so you must be pleased with this verdict by the court of appeals in the netherlands tell us what it means for you yeah actually. i'm happy like several people who worked at court that day long years though he had these it is particularly very important to us because people didn't believe that we were actually correct and that in cancer were always monies grave today that yes these practitioners at the country. and this year will be standing in the dark as compass also very happy because.

shell. and him all the other comment that a lot of outsource it is against the environment you have destroyed livelihoods destroyed you want to destroy. the life that we leave so if they are all gone through the netherlands who would not probably have products that the company actually. so so it gives me joy that it means she has gone through. that we can say so just just for clarity and confirmation we should say that it's shelves nigerian subsidiary that has been found responsible for the oil spill so do you think that this decision could pave the way for more environmental cases against the company it sounds like you do because you are accusing them of being behind other oil

spills deafen the company what you have. you cannot believe that after. this. that be a routine checks that they're supposed to do they don't carry out but it takes it in bad lined out where lig over 5 because it will have not been used why do you think that is why do you think that is there's an activist or what have people like your soft done about that well you know when we are coming from we have productions in the act in that 23. and we we want it to be activities opt out of it not that in fact we want other communities in the not that are. but you know from bill good it will stop them from producing these going through so that you know if we are going to start there with you know not. fund us what they're

doing that do that they would not doing any other country of the work they've just gone i mean i can't you can't but my pleas and destroy everything the air we breathe that we want that we drink is what looked at the land. so i mean like move out in a place where there is almost an absence of government you formed because of your children take care of your health you'll see a blow by what you've got not right so you live by everything. where you are likely all destroyed or you miss of lovely destroyed what do you what do you good. luck and poverty everywhere so i think the judgment we get some sense. i'm going is that ok i will leave it there for barry thank you so much for speaking to us from nigeria supporters of india's governing b j p r accused of attacking farmers who are demanding that 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 crowd the farmers have been holding their demonstrations for months now. is the secretary of the all india q son sangharsh coordination committee which is supporting the farmers he says it was a strange decision by b j p members to attack the farmers. it looks like. the ruling party acting to get out of central government is waging war on the farmers the video will fall more than 50 percent of the population this is bizarre and the farmers are demanding labor you. and to battle it don't contest it on the streets since it was one seemingly for a government in power today it's a reset agenda and the government of the day. wants to bring in free market in

agriculture and far too many people addicted to magic culture in india for free markets to plead self out there is too much insecurity in the minds of our so all of ours want a guaranteed law guarantee they are. the ruling party does not want to go and be of let use their supporters a small number of them against this a multitude of farmers that is strange and that should not have the political strategy of the ruling. it's absolutely clear from the deal that we have seen the are using the war of the ruling g.o.p. and the farmers have reacted this day and with great ease and peace we sat together started seeing kids of the sikh religion and have refused to engage with the attackers so far was that this is about their low you level global this

piece and care and concern for the rest of the country. how there is developing news from india's capital now where an explosion has been reported outside israel's embassy in delhi police say it was a small blast and there have been no reports of deaths or injuries. when mars military is refusing to rule out the possibility of a coup in the aftermath of last year's election and sansom she is the governing party won a majority of seats in parliament the army says made. take action if it's complaints of fraud it's aren't addressed the election commission has rejected the allegations the threats come as parliament is set to open on monday the un secretary general to undergo terrorist expressed concern and said all electoral disputes should be resolved through established legal mechanisms. the time for a check on the weather has ever eaten. hello there is no shortage of wintry weather across northern parts of the middle east at the moment

a lot of cloud driving ounce of to keep pushing further east was pushing towards the caspian sea we will see spells a snow across the eastern half of some parts of turkey as well see some significant snowfall and that wet weather irakli across cyprus into that he's been sort of the mediterranean into the levant so syria lebanon jordan looking very stormy as we go on through saturday some very very strong winds it is going to feel basically cold for many and that will drive its way further east was as we go on through sunday most know this and the over the high ground we have flooding problems already to northern parts of syria far northwest of iraq war that wintry mix pushing in as we go on through sunday for the south is a good deal kwassa a good job right so there will be a brisk wind around the gulf for a time on saturday but those winds east down through sunday to just here in doha at around 22 degrees celsius that dry weather that will stretch its way down across the whole of africa but plenty of us once again just still around the rift valley

will see some heavy showers into kenya into tanzania pushing into southern parts of africa as well those shows all the way down is that eastern side south africa. still ahead on the al-jazeera news our the u.s. architect of the iran nuclear deal is named as the new special envoy by county to bridge the divide between different in washington also coming up. what are the part of the meadow there in the current environment and then making this a 0 party generating team m f and decker in the fall or the bridge you need out among 114000000 dollars and. will have that story coming up. on pakistan cruised to victory against south africa on the 1st cricket test peter will be here with reaction from sponsors to the side pretty easily.

indeed nearly 3000000 people have been excluded from the least but the. one i won a speech the family's life for the long. run out 0. february on al-jazeera under strict accents to iran's nuclear program is about to end will u.s. president joe biden overturn trump sanctions and help rebuild relations sense out of the journey to the heart of what it means to be a true supporter of the beautiful game the u.s. has the highest approval 19 counts in the world the new administration has promised to turn that around we'll have extensive coverage the big picture reveals how the perfect storm of events in 2020 exposed the truth about race at the top of the united states and as president joe biden embarks on just 1st month in the white house we'll bring you the latest developments in the attempts to repair global relationships february on. moon lose.

the only. top stories on the al-jazeera news hour they are opinion is expected to give over 1000 vaccine emergency approval in the coming hours despite a growing dispute between the blog on the company over a shortage of supply. u.s. drug firm johnson and johnson is expected to be for emergency use authorization for its vaccine in the u.s. next week they say its one dose appears to be at least 66 percent effective in preventing cope with 19. the dutch court of appeals has ruled that oil giant shell must pay compensation to a group of nigerian farmers they accuse the company of destroying their fishing

villages as a result of 3 year old spills. the un has once again calling on all foreign forces on mercenaries 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 our diplomatic editor 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 now reason for hope that 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 external parties to include russia turkey and the u.a.e.

to respect libyan foreign t. and immediately seize all military intervention in libya a line echoed later when i asked the u.n. 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 parts it's essential that all the others at that involved in the libyan crisis will do their part it's essential that all foreign troops and all foreign mercenaries 1st to benghazi and to tripoli and from there move back and leave the libyans alone because the leaders have already proven that left alone they're 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 the the 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 of the united nations one of the people responsible for the iran nuclear deal has been named as the new u.s. special envoy to iran robert malley is a former top advisor to the obama administration and was part of the team that helped negotiate the 2015 deal. as head of the public diplomacy research institute he says mali's understanding of iran could go a long way to furthering negotiations. appointment of robert malley can be a positive signal to iranians since the person has been in the negotiation doing all my administration and he had

a constructive and positive approach toward iran and he has a good understanding of iranian i actually because a major problem that has been the theme iran and united states for decades has been the issue dead the 2 sides don't seem to have a correct understanding from each other especially the americans from the rain so misunderstanding was a great hindrance in they were situations talks or any relations between the 2 countries so if the person who is now is appointed now is familiar with what you are scenes and you're in your mind sitting in demand then the talks can be constructing up for it what you want the amounts that the americans need to remove the sanctions and compensate the damages and then we get back to day one then it. is becoming. beyond that is seemingly war king

brazil has vaccinated more than a 1000000 people but that's less than half of one percent of the population and cities like menow as the gateway to the amazon rain forest still face a shortage of oxygen and hospitals corruption scandals are also hampering the vaccine rollout monica had a cat has more. i knew back to vaccines has arrived in my mouth and inoculations have resumed after being suspended for a week the vaccination program team under scrutiny after local law thora these were cues to favoring themselves and friends by skipping the line in taking shots ahead of health workers and the elderly 2 field hospitals have been set up in my mouth where patients must wait for a room in shock or are they to me worse want field hospital should help us redistribute patients but this is the largest city in the brazilian amazon still faces a shortage of oxygen and health workers have been working around the clock to keep

patients from suffocating to death like many votes they need he does 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 is dying right in front of you there aren't enough health care workers to deal with this we wouldn't be in the situation if the amazon a state had invested in health care where did all the money go the health minister . visited man hours this week for the 2nd time he's also being investigated for allegedly mishandling the crisis. that we lost so we had a 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. has always downplayed the virus and even placed in the value of vaccines he has also asked governors and mayors to avoid lockdown you get the bank lift i think twice about restrictive policies you must

understand that isolation lockdown and confinement leads to distribution i've always said that the economy walks hand in hand with life. some and now some have just imposed new restriction measures but in rio de janeiro where the number of infections is also growing the beaches are crowded and social distancing seems to be a thing of the. mine not give. me and visionary. protests in lebanon have been growing as anger rises at lockdown measures on government corruption security forces have been firing tear gas and water cannon to crowds of protesters gathered in the city of tripoli 2 people have been killed and hundreds injured in 4 days off unrest. has the sup date from tripoli. another night of protests another night of violence 11 on the 2nd largest city dozens of protesters have been injured over recent days 2 protesters killed the situation

on the ground is the estimate that there is a lot of anger people initially took to the streets to protest the coronavirus lockdown they said that the government is not providing the poor and the undervote with financial assistance in order to cope with the loss but now that that lockdown exacerbated the economic crisis and the subsidy it connally was already collapsing before that lockdown so most of these people are unemployed and those who are very hard work in the informal sector which means they do. if they buy they if they don't work today they can 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're not they want to new leadership in fact. in fact there has been

a popular uprising in lebanon for more than a year now 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 protest movements so and of course you 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 has 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. the pandemic has had

a devastating effect on businesses in italy but one famous local food product has done better with domestic sales and exports are up and it's so valuable it's even used as guarantees for bank loans stephanie decker is an italian programs i've read your media and has the story. it doesn't look anything yet like it's final delicious and valuable form each of these vats will make 2 wheels a part of me janet and john all that together are worth almost $1000.00 and method that goes back generations involving knowledge and passion it's a disguise i mean with a lot there is the warming of the milk we had what's essentially a starter which works to acidify and for me in the movie the miracle where you and and it becomes that and rice like in the last part is the cooking. it's a production line that is never stopped despite coronavirus restrictions these cows

need to be milked on a daily basis there is no option to stop or told the wood well i'm guilty of even thought of we've had to readjust how we work as a company so we started free home deliveries the numbers too optimistic lions have seen a small increase the explorer during this period however went up around 30 percent of. lauren have grown organizes cycling tours for americans in italy and like the rest of the world that's had to stop i miss that i mean this is scenery on this the food i miss i miss the passage you know there's not much of that i don't miss you know now she imports parmesan from this farm to her clients in the us because probably johnno is something you'd get get get it the same way you know it's a what a story to tell you i'm i've got this great this is great but it john oh it's from a place that we you know you all know from our trips it's also a very precise and controlled process every wheel is checked by the parmesan consortium before getting the official stamp of approval. it's so valued here that

it's actually become a currency it may surprise you but this is a bank usually if you think of a bank you may imagine bars of gold but not here just a question and the rows of wheels of and it shows you just how valuable the product and the brand of. this warehouse holds around $140000000.00 worth of parmesan. but it's. the cheese is so precious the older it gets the more it gains in value so the producers use it as a guarantee for bank loans. it's a currency and international name a comforting and traditional family staple that people have wanted more of as they're forced to stay home both here in italy and even thousands of kilometers away. stephanie decker in the province of. still ahead on the news hour the sports is coming up we'll hear from tom brady. to win the super bowl.

there's been another twist in the financial battle between multi-billion dollar wall street had funds and small time traders a number of lawsuits have been filed against trading platform robin hood's after a block people from buying more shares in the gaming store game stop their heart. robin hood online brokerage has been one of the hottest been use for investors in

retail trading. now it's a target of disgruntled customers celebrities and politicians here's the latest on that robin hood shares in the u.s. store game stop were down until a chat group on reddit recently banded together to buy stocks that sent the company skyrocketing undercutting major hedge funds who were shorting the stock but on thursday those shares tanked after robinhood restricted purchases of new stocks of game stop on top of that robinhood also blocked a new trades in several other companies including amc blackberry and nokia which were also soaring because of the chat group users on the app can still close out positions but can't buy more adapted by blogger dave portnoy says robin hood can't just try to block online trends simply because they don't favor traditional trading there's no way to force you to add and that's why things people have to go get or

you can just pick up and change the rules at a with them whenever you feel like it like why can't a bank if i make a deposit just say that's our money now. one of. her many investors who made it big on game stop and other blocks companies are furious as fuck they have a big stake in robin hood and they get to tell him what you know that's not right they're going to follow the herd but the c.e.o. of robin hood says he is doing his customers a favor we absolutely did not do this in the direction of the market maker or hedge fund or anyone we rally to your other market participants so we're really unprecedented. in order to protect the firm and protect our customers we have a few limit buy in these in the starts this user on twitter said this is my portfolio when robin hood decides to protect me. other investors who buy stocks

based on internet trends feel the same way. thoughts that by the way i invested in because i believe in the internet i believe the wall street that i believe in reddit and i believe that they would go up because i believe in the power of that and you can't cry foul if you're too dumb to realize the power of the internet the fall out even cause to u.s. political adversaries to band together democrat alexandria ocasio cortez says she supported a hearing to investigate robin hood's actions republican ted cruz tweeted saying he fully agrees the irony of robin hood's name is not lost on game stop investors this woman said imagine naming your app robin hood and then blocking purchases when the poor are literally swindling the rich leo harding al-jazeera. let's get an update on the sports news with peter thank you very much after 14 days of course and seen the world's top tennis stars have been enjoying some freedom ahead of the

australian open and a few of them have been back out on court playing in front of fans for the 1st time of the year david stokes reports. after 2 weeks largely confined to their hotel rooms it was no surprise to see novak djokovic and serena williams taking a stroll outside in the adelaide sun unlike more than 70 of their fellow pros in full lockdown in melbourne they have at least been able to train for 5 hours a day but still they clash it's over putting bare feet on the ground you know just doing something that i didn't have a chance to do so you know just that just having the space i think that's what we all kind of missed for williams she's been quarantining with a 3 year old daughter and they mark their release with a trip to disease we had a calendar in our room and every day we mark the x. on the days that went by in a big circle on the corn team ending day and we promised her that we would take her to the zoo to see who i was and. is the players then headed across town to

play in an exhibition tournament 24000 fans were allowed to watch but minutes before he was due on court joke a bitch pulled out of his match because of blisters on his hand maybe not what the crowd wanted to hear but his practice partner philip crown of it stepped in and took the opening set against yannick cinna only for djokovic to then make a u. turn and make an appearance after all. that was. despite the blister on his right hand the serve produced some trademark shots to secure the victory. i'm sorry that i didn't step in on the court from the beginning. i had to. had to do some treatment with my physio and i wasn't feeling my best last couple of days. serina got a fright as she stepped out on court for her match as did her opponent i am air

saka williams came out on top in this one but both players clearly enjoyed performing in front of a live audience again we have been playing for overcrowding over here so it's been a really long time so this is really cool for having us and trusting us with your with your loss was great we were so happy just to be here and now it's we're just really coming out i haven't seen people in if you like. just to play in front of you know it's really amazing meanwhile in melbourne the process to release players from full lockdown continues because of carbon 19 cases on that flight they've been confined to their rooms for 14 days or more and unable to train sure to be a huge disadvantage when the australian open begins in 10 days' time david stokes al-jazeera in football of a poor live in the witness run with a $31.00 victory over talk them the defending champions have gone 5 games without a win for without a goal but they look back to their old selves on thursday night with goals from roberta for me no train to alexander arnold and saudia morning victory with them

back to 4th in the table still 4 points of leaders manchester city having played a game more in motors a marina and top unfun selves down in 6th place most going both necessary as well. it was a good moment to to show a little bit up and we're still here told it's good to know and so now we go home anyway and come back in a few hours to give us time some transfer news concerning title contenders manchester united it's being reported that they have agreed to loan midfielder jesse lynn god to wear spam for the rest of the season than international has not played a single league match for united this campaign. meanwhile over in the netherlands check out this go from davy clawson as i.x. extended their lead at the top of the year to the v.c. this was the pick of the bunch in a $31.00 win over them to a poor 2nd from bottom and 10 games without

a win i aks moved 4 points clear of p.s.p. . pakistan have won the 1st cricket test against south africa in karachi by 7 wickets spendable or not mama picked up 5 wickets in south africa a 2nd innings all these efforts helped dismissed the tourists for just 245 that left the pakistanis needing just 88 for victory player of the match always 1st inning century from hitting the winning boundary the 2nd set starts in a row thinly on february 4th time for practice time. and. the defending n.b.a. champions los angeles lakers have lost a 2nd game in a row on thursday the lakers were hoping to bounce back after a one point to feature the philadelphia 76 is the night before but it was not to be the detroit pistons were in no mood to do the lakers any favors play christian

school in 23 pointers 22110792. the biggest game in american sport the super bowl is less than 10 days away now in the 2 competing teams are hard at work preparing for the contest the tampa bay buccaneers have reached the n.f.l. showpiece fixture for only the 2nd time and 1st since 2002 thanks to the performances of star quarterback tom brady he joined from the new england patriots at the start of the season after spending 20 years in boston and winning 6 super bowls. experience doesn't matter playing well matters in a team that wins is not to be the most experienced team and community in a place the best so we've got to prepare the best we've got to execute the best. not to perform the best under pressure. and if we do that we'll be champions and if we don't we won't be the buccaneers will enjoy a home field advantage as the super bowl is being held in tampa a formidable opponent awaits the kansas city chiefs all gunning for a 2nd league championship title in a row chiefs quarterback patrick mahoney says the build up is not the same as in

2020 it's definitely little different compared to last year last the same time last year when we were here we were practicing time the same manner making sure that we're ready to go for you probably get a little bit more info because you get a full full nother week where you don't have as many obligations as far as going to different places in media and i never thing right. so it's a little different but the same time there is a football game at end of the day if that makes your rating go matter matter when it is finally on call fan patrick greed has a share of the lead at the pharmacy insurance open the form of mosses champion hold 8 birdies and he's opening round at torrey pines in san diego which will host the u.s. open in june refinished the day and the pole it's hard with sweden's alex noren who showed some impressive back spin skills here to set up one of these beauties at the 9th hole. i'll be here again later with more sports news the rain

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