again the press is not after trying this after that we're not the enemy of the people we are the people the usa the current battleground whose truth is it anyway on al jazeera. europe's export controls on back sees made in the bloc raises tensions with the united kingdom. alonzo raman you're watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in doha also coming up concerns that africa is far behind in the fight to stop the pandemic kenya is expecting to vaccinate just a 3rd of its population by june next year also a major win for farmers in nigeria

a dutch court orders shell to pay compensation for damages caused by oil spills and gaming retail again stops continued surge causes anxiety on wall street small investors take on the market tightening this. welcome to the program the european union is imposing export controls on back scenes made within the block limiting shipments to dozens of countries including the u.s. japan australia and the united kingdom that's raised diplomatic tensions with the u.k. because the controls could prevent vaccines from entering the rest of the u.k. through northern ireland now the e.u. has since clarified that it will not to use that emergency calls in the brics that deal to block access the block is a drug creasing pressure following sharp cuts to planned vaccine deliveries it was the pharmaceutical company astra zeneca to. stick to its contractual delivery

showed jewel but the drug companies there's little supply british orders 1st that use just approved astra zeneca as vaccine for adults now the approval process is beginning to new vaccines from over vax and johnson and johnson but both produced weaker results against the more infectious south african strain came begins our coverage from berlin this is the astra zeneca vaccine in use available to british patients most at risk from covert since late last month and from now on officially so too for many e.u. citizens most at risk from the pandemic it's a real pleasure to be here and to announce the 3rd positive opinion for the authorize ation of the astra zeneca covert 19 vaccine this expand the range of vaccines available to you and a member states which will all help to bring the pandemic under control and protect

the citizens of the e.u. except that far fewer e.u. citizens will be able to receive the vaccine for the next few months after the company cut back what it could deliver to the block astra zeneca a british swedish firm blames production problems at some of its plants and said it can only deliver fewer than half of the 80000000 doses promised the europeans have complained and decided to protect all vaccine stocks made on their territory as a commission because a lot of strictly targeted measures that will allow us to gather information about the production of like since and where manufacturers intend to ship them. the measure is term limited and specifically applies served as all scored 19 vaccines that were agreed to by advanced purchase agreements as a measure is intended to run until the end of march although on the face of it this measure could apply to pfizer by on tag more downer and astra zeneca it appears

most targeted at astra zeneca the root of the disagreement between the 2 sides lies in the contract they agreed last year the company says it promised its best reasonable efforts to produce sufficient vaccine for the e.u. the europeans disagree saying the deal is binding to both they say the company agreed to use its plants both in the e.u. and in britain in order to guarantee supply. the europeans have also asked how astra zeneca going to have insufficient product for the e.u. but still supply the british who are immunizing far more people than in the e.u. particularly since in the terms of this contract the company confirmed it had no other contractual obligation with any other party to prevent it fulfilling its obligations to the european union and while the round rages on the measures to deal with the pandemic are intensifying in place germany has announced that from saturday it will ban travel from several countries where covert mutations have been

reported dominick came al-jazeera berlin. kenya says health care and security personnel will be 1st in line when it starts inoculating people that month that scenes are being secured through the african union and the w.h.o. but health officials say it will take until june next year to vaccinate around a 3rd of the population kenya is a member of the kovacs by cd and has made an initial commitment to procure vaccines through this for cd release commitment the country will receive 24000000 doses from their facility and their procure $11000000.00 doses from either macaulay's ins to vaccinate nearly $16000000.00 people that is 30 percent of our population of a period of 18 months only a handful of nations in africa have started vaccinating people against covert 19 there are fears the continent is being left behind in the fight to stop the

pandemic 6 of the top 10 countries in the world with the fastest rising infections are in africa take a look at malawi which is number 2 on that list of cases there doubled in just 2 weeks from 1991 on january the 14th 222204 the 28th the continent's covert 90 mortality rate is now higher than that of the rest of the. well that 2.5 percent compared to the global average of 2.2 percent there is some good news though they have a communion has secured a deal for another 400000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine but it could take up to 3 years to vaccinate 60 percent of the continent's 1300000000 strong population which is the threshold needed to vaccines to woo. p. to talk about the global health specialist addressing all of these call center a social of trip on a ship in oxford university he has more on how africa has responded to the pandemic

a lot of countries in africa did a very admirable job of responding quickly to try to contain the outbreak early on depends emic but it's difficult to maintain you know significant restrictions for long periods of time as we all know but particularly in settings of of poverty and families that are living on the margins it's really hard to ask them to stay home so you can't sort of hold on forever and i think that's part of what we're seeing right now certainly the spread of some of the new variants including the one you mentioned out of south africa that are more transmissible is of great concern not least because they spread so much more quickly but also because of this emerging evidence that the there appears to be lower after effects excuse me efficacy of several of the vaccines you know to this and so if it's an extremely concerning moment it's almost all of the vaccinations have been concentrated in wealthier countries to this point about looks to be the case for the forseeable future many countries are aligned in that kovacs facility

a multilateral. you know partnership that w.h.o. and others helped organize to try to allow for some equitable distribution of vaccines and other technologies the role of that could be delayed by supply problems and it could be further worsened by you know some of the sort of trade war type talk that we're now starting to see out of the e.u. so this is incredibly concerning. mexico's economy has suffered its biggest contraction since the great depression of the 1930 s. it's crow virus death tolls the past that of india this week mexico has the 3rd highest number of fatalities in the world with more than 155000 deaths reports now from back soko city. this is a scene that plays out every day in mexico each time it's a different family seeing their goodbyes to a loved one lost to cope with 19. years before if we had 10 funeral services then about 2 of them were for coated the rest

heart attacks natural causes but now it's 8 for covert and 2 normal funeral services so it's a big increase in deaths because of coded. over the past month the death toll in mexico has risen dramatically and on thursday the country over to india for the 3rd highest coronavirus death toll in the world. if we keep on going like this we will be the 1st in the world for deaths a piece of advice that people keep on looking after themselves use face masks use hands follow orders from the government because if not will be 1st in the world. in the mexican capital hospitals are nearing their occupancy limits many are already for for months mexico city ambulance drivers have been reporting difficulties finding hospitals with available beds now 11 months into the covert 900 pandemic many fear the public health system is nearing collapse. this week mexico's president and the. other was tested positive for the virus and has since been out

of the public eyes here. let me just close with a general report as we do every day about the health of president and. he has had some brief and lead a besides a fever practically none of the discomfort. president lobe is over the top has been widely criticized for downplaying the severity of the outbreak in his country. this still worsening death toll highlights the enormous challenge mexico continues to face intervene contagion. al-jazeera mexico city or to the day's other news now in china says it will no longer recognize the british national overseas passport available to 3000000 residents in hong kong a former british colony now the move comes into effect on sunday the same day that passport holders can apply for a special visa to move to the u.k. the scheme is a response to the controversial national security law imposed on hong kong which

has led to dozens of arrests the u.k. government says it's standing up for freedom while if the law is a pro-democracy activist who fled to london from hong kong he says he doesn't expect beijing's decision to harm british national overseas passport holders right to emigrate to the u.k. . for now we don't have much information about how will transfer them or carry out notion of the statement basically when one people get into mainland china we don't use the n or passport we used the term permits and when we leave hong kong if hong kong government is going to apply these. these steamin to the wind that they have brought the control maybe we need to use the home passport to leave the border and when we arrive in the u.k. we get in with the in your passport file now you know of the actions you announced by the chance government i don't see it. really creating

a lot of chaos in terms of getting people moving to you do you k. or in their lives daily lives you care. it has clarified themselves online they don't know they have not reached any part of the summer british on decoration yes they are just awful in our roots too for people assume a great to the u.k. and not changing the status of. being or and the identity of the people under that religion and of course we can see the side reach. of the british and approaches 1st by implementing 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 try there was executed a former top bank guilty of taking more than a quarter of a $1000000000.00 in bribes lives who was also convicted of bigamy he wants lead one

of china's biggest asset management firms state media says lie was put to death on friday in the northern city of tunisia hundreds of officials i think zech it has have been prosecuted since president xi jinping in law and the corruption drive in 2012. we have miles military isn't ruling out the possibility of a coup in the aftermath of last year's election as unsuited cheese governing party won a majority of seats in parliament but the army says it may take action if it completes its complaints of fraud aren't addressed the election commission has rejected the allegations the un secretary general are turning to tara she expressed concern and said that all electoral dispute should be resolved through established legal mechanisms. well still ahead here on al-jazeera accused of stoking violence india's ruling party faces allegations that it incited fights that broke out as far as protests plus. one of the products done better then decorated

lines from damage from this sale of body generally i know i'm deaf and deaf every mother raising medium amount of hunger and $14000000.00. will have that story coming up. it's time for the perfect jenny. sponsored party qatar airways hello we're saying some very heavy snowfall recently across a good part of northern japan and western areas of qana shute disruptive snow power outages and a lot of travel disruption as a systems made its way through tightly packed isobar so we do still have strong winds coming in across the warm waters the relatively warm waters of the save japan the air cools condenses it forms the cloud and it dumps

a lot of snow across the western side of concho there will be more snow flurries as we go through saturday to do expect further disruption here then possibility of power outages as well and an increased avalanche risk things will slowly improve through the 2nd half of the weekend the winds stay turn a little lighter the skies become a little brighter we will see or the way of sunshine but there will be problems here over the next 48 hours or so further west was where we're looking at temperatures starting to pick up so around 8 celsius similar temperatures there in with han and just into central parts of china central southwestern parts of china there is some rain in the forecast right in the forecast as usual to across the southeast asia more lively showers erath link through the recent showers there into the philippines but the wet. weather will be across a good part of indonesia with the risk of flooding. super sponsored paul qatar airways it's 10 years since revolutions across the arab world challenge the power.

but how did these leaders rise to their positions the principle of the performers dictation is to be patient they play their game very carefully and how did they stayed in control of the common thing amongst the arabic states as is incredible will to survive the arab awakening absolute power. on a jazzy and i. believe the orioles form. well the back i want you all deserve means the whole robin a reminder of our top stories the european union has reversed a decision to impose export controls on vaccines made within the block to the u.k.

which would have invoked an emergency calls in the books that deal the controls would have prevented vaccines from entering the u.k. through northern ireland. drug companies overvalue said johnson and johnson have introduced 2 new vaccines to fight the pandemic johnson and johnson occupation is a single shot job but both produce weaker results on the more infectious south african strain. and mexico's economy last year suffered its biggest contraction since the great depression of the 1930 s. its coronavirus death toll surpassed that of india this week and it now has the 3rd highest number of a tallit in the world. 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 sin of that job but is now moving forward with a one produced by oxford's astra zeneca vaccine set to be produced locally later in the year by a firm owned by the thai king scot high reports now 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 1000 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 10 a torrent 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 is the chair hoarder of this company and if things go wrong the government cannot sue to 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. for 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 they 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. 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 are. well i might add not one leg out we're 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 others court has ordered the united front of the oil giant shell to pay compensation to

a group of farmers for nigerian farmers who are brought the case against the company in 2008 keys in it of destroying the fishing villages with oil spills to the plaintiffs have since died and it's the 1st time the anglo dutch company has been held liable for actions by its foreign subsidiary evident dress has more from the nigerian capital abuja the people in the niger delta especially communities affected by oil spills over the last 50 years really happy about the verdict of the appeal court in the netherlands a lot of them are saying that this clears the way for them to raise issues of contamination issues of repair relations issues of human rights abuses in the niger delta following years of exploration by or all companies and we're looking at probably only a fraction of those or spill works or other people damage that's being treated right now by both shell and the nigerian government al-jazeera visited of going he

especially the border creeks and other neighboring communities to look at how the or spills 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. u.s. stock markets remain volatile as concern grows on wall street over how much damage can be done in the battle between multi-billion dollar hedge funds and small time traders and online campaign to buy shares in struggling videogames retailer game stop has seen prices rally by 1700 percent in just a week small traders have been trying to push up prices in a bid to thwart wall street hedge funds who make a profit by trading shares in failing businesses kristen salumi is in new york she says the ongoing campaign by some retail investors against hedge funds is destructing widely accepted assumptions about the markets. it was the worst week for wall street since october with all 3 major indexes closing 2 percent lower

about 2 percent lower even as game stuff in other stocks that are considered overpriced and overvalued continue to soar game stop was considered overvalued for example when it was trading at $40.00 a share it's now trading at $325.00 a share and amc which is a very troubled theater chain here in the united states is up 50 percent despite difficulties with its business so all of this causing great concern for hedge funds and institutional investors who were betting that the stocks would go down and one hedge fund had to bake 8 its positions on game stop after losing literally billions of dollars some of these other hedge funds are hanging on hoping that the price will eventually drop in the be able to recoup their losses but all of this is

weighing on the broader market as it shares challenges some basic assumptions about wall street namely that. for a stock to be valuable it has to meet certain so-called fundamentals there has to be profitability there has to be assets and growth possibilities and so on so all of that you know is something that is new to the marketplace. but supporters of india's governing b j p being accused of stoking violence towards protesting farmers the incidents being blocked in one state have to finally break out of one of the protest camps where the farmers want to go but to screw up new laws they say will ruin their livelihoods alexy abroad reports. at the single crossing in the outskirts of india's capital new delhi protesting face off against groups of men who were shouting slogans against them. some farmers are seen calling for calm

but police fire tear gas and use their betterness with force because. tensions been rising since tuesday india's republic day in the farmers major tractor rally culminated in these scenes at new delhi's famous red fort 6 authorities blame some of the farmers for instigating the violence. from the man my government has always respected freedom of expression and holding of peaceful protests in a democratic set up however the recent acts of dishonoring the national flag and showing disrespect to the or suspicious occasion of the republic day are unfortunate. the opposition boycotted the president's speech in solidarity with the farmers who accuse supporters of the governing be j.p. of causing the recent on wrist vote in the protest camps and at the red fort the family did not have any plan to get into the city. 'd or on further

than. the family. they don't use religious symbols so this is clearly a conspiracy and what you saw today at the scene who is a continuation of that conspiracy. farmers have been holding leases homes for 2 months they want the government to scrap laws i'm dead modernizing the industry the farmers believe the changes only benefit to big business and will damage their livelihoods there's been increasing pressure to close down the protest sites on thursday night extra police were sent to one site on the other side of the capital at gezi park but union leaders say any retreat would constitute a surrender and a call for action so files and more families arrive instead. to get made aware our leader cried for help and him cried the farmers of india that is why we decided early this. we should come quickly but. the protests are the biggest challenge to

prime minister the new ranger modi's government m a r 10 i go with the environment we like this government during the election s. so we voted for them and now they are defaming us they are betraying us not the other way around the. they are promising to stay until the law was a repealed but talks with the government have so far been unsuccessful brian al jazeera. poland has seen a 3rd night of protests sparked by a court ruling that makes abortion illegal in almost all cases thousands defied credit i was for structures to attend rallies in several cities abortion is now only about in cases of rape incest or when the mother's life is at risk. the pandemic has had a devastating effect on businesses in italy but one famous food product is thriving with domestic sales and exports up cheese is so valuable it's even used as a guarantee for bank loans stephanie decker reports from italy's as your media

province. it doesn't look anything yet like its 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 a method that goes back generations involving knowledge and passion it's a disguise i mean what they lost there is the warming of the milk we had what's essentially a starter which works to acidify and from in the middle of the miracle where you want and it becomes thick and rice like in the last part is the cooking. it's a production line that has never stopped despite coronavirus restrictions these cows need to be milked on a daily basis there is no option to stop we're told they have to move 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 to out the mesta clients have seen a small increase the explore 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 and this of food i miss i miss the bus and you know there's not much at that i don't miss you know now she imports parmesan from this farm to her clients in the us because it's probably john it was something you'd hear you get get here you can get it the same way you know it's always 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 be. comma currency it may surprise you but this is a bank usually if you think about bank loans you may imagine bars of gold but not here just a question and the rows of wheels of cheese 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 and 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 al-jazeera in the province of edgy media. watch al-jazeera means a whole rather wide of our top stories the european union has reversed a decision to impose export controls on vaccines made within the block to the u.k. they.