a desperate situation the indian government set up a new commission to monitor sources of and pollution across 5 known for the state's health experts and mention the same thing wanting for months for the easing of the lockdown would lead to an increase in pollution and the impact that would have on those kind of 19. europe's export controls on vaccines made in the block increases tensions with the united kingdom. the whole robin your geology is there a life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes an overwhelmed health system forced to set a goal to depend on medical students and turn prisons into covert 900 treatment centers. would have to. now and we

speak to those determined to stay in hong kong despite china's growing crackdown on the city's freedoms also gaming retailer game stops continued surge causes anxiety on wall street small investors take on the market titans. bottom to the program the european union is imposing export controls on vaccines made within the block limiting shipments of dozens to dozens of countries including the u.s. japan australia and the united kingdom now that's raised diplomatic tensions with the u.k. because the controls could prevent vaccines from entering the rest of the country through northern ireland now the e.u. has since clarified that it will not use an emergency clause in the brics a deal to block access the block is a drink creasing pressure following sharp cuts to planned vaccine deliveries. no it

wants the pharmaceutical company astra zeneca to stick to its contractual delivery should chill but the drug company says it will supply british orders that use just approved astra zeneca vaccine for adults and now the approval process is beginning for 2 new vaccines from nova vax and johnson and johnson but both produce weaker results against the more infectious south african strain which can be reports. the irish border a flashpoint during break that talks was for several hours on friday at the center of a growing ground over vaccines the european commission has now reversed a decision to impose export controls on vaccines from the republic of ireland to northern ireland but speaking before the ease climbdown northern ireland's 1st minister said it amounted to the imposition of a border this is an incredibly hostile and aggressive act by the european union bloc for years we were told after the european union referendum vote that there

couldn't be a hard border on the island of ireland and in one fell swoop they have put that hard border n.p.'s the catalyst for the diplomatic storm with new rules announced in brussels to control vaccine movement out of the e.u. the commission has adopted a strictly targeted measure that will allow us to geyser accurate information about the production of the accents and where manufacturers intend to ship them. as a measure is time limited and specifically apply certain 19 vaccines that were agreed to by advanced purchase agreements it follows days of disagreement between the e.u. and astra zeneca the company's that theme was authorized for use across europe on friday a month after it was approved in the u.k. it's a real pleasure to be here and to announce the 3rd positive opinion for the authorize a share of the astra zeneca cove at night. inducting this expand the range of

vaccines available to e.u. member states but far fewer 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 blames production problems that some of its plants and said it can only deliver fewer than half of the $80000000.00 doses promised the e.u. has decided to impose export controls on only vaccine stocks made in its territory and while the round rages on the measures to deal with the pandemic are intensifying germany has announced that from saturday it will ban travel from several countries like me taishan to be reported and france has closed its borders to most known you travel victoria gate and be al-jazeera. portugal has extended its nationwide law time and tightened its border with spain was a grapples with the world's highest per capita death toll the state of emergency

will be extended until february the 14th delaying the reopening of schools and non-essential businesses the portuguese health service is hiring foreign medics to tackle staffing shortages as intensive care beds run out and ambulances are forced to queue outside of hospitals another $278.00 deaths were reported on friday. only a handful of nations in africa has started vaccinating people against cave in 19 and 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 rise in infections are in africa take a look at malawi which is number 2 on that list of cases that doubled in just 2 weeks from 1991 on january the 14th 222204 of the 28th the continent's code with 90 mortality rate is now higher than the rest of the world at 2.5 percent compared to the global average of 2.2 percent there is some good news though the african union 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 for vaccines to work. for health officials instead of girls so covert 19 variance are fueling a surge in infections with the health system completely overwhelmed medical students are being mobilized to make up for the shortage of doctors and prisons have been turned into treatment centers nicholas sack reports now from the capital dhaka. if only the dead could speak says up to juve then the living would know of the pain and distress caused by corona virus do you for isn't even aware that coven $1000.00 killed his 40 year old friend with stuff like gay until an autopsy was carried out he now pictures him all alone and gasping for air in a hospital corridor. died in very difficult circumstances he fell ill at home

after he got treatment he died we were later told he got the corona virus in the hospital and that's what killed him. senegal like many other african countries is going through a 2nd wave of infections dr abdulai buso was in charge of the government response says the trends don't look good the new very late variant from the u.k. has been detected in the country it's the mantra of. people to respect. and for us it. is critical for people to respect it a curfew is in place and both the public and private gatherings are banned but many people aren't following the restrictions allowing the virus to spread rapidly to many patients not enough hospitals before the pandemic the senegalese health system was already overstretched now authorities are turning prisons into treatment centers faced with an increased case of infections and whilst the government is

praising medical staff with public messages that like this one there aren't enough doctors to keep the health system running. to make up for this shortage the government has drafted in medical students to work in the wards and treat patients but they are not qualified and are still learning why you want to overwhelmed and being sent to all types of wards some days i'm a cardiologist in the front or just a gynecologist i'm asked to do it all. will be months before most african countries get access to vaccines with health experts predicting the outbreak will only get worse causing many more deaths before it can be contained because hawke al-jazeera the car. in other news the hong kong government says it will no longer recognize the british national overseas or the b n o passport hours after china made the same announcement the move comes into effect on sunday the same day the biennale holders can apply for

a special visa to move to the u.k. but as adrian brown reports many are determined to stay even as trying to move too rapidly cattail the city's freedoms. a music video promoting a message of harmony in a community where politics have been badly out of choose. let's move forward no matter what go the lyrics let's share the new economy. the songs called endless possibilities and was written by leonard chan he's a technology entrepreneur and doesn't intend on joining a growing exodus to the u.k. we can see he is already more calm more peaceful when people become friendly to each other again despite their political believe and couple of the fighting of the cold we have a common target to work together chan is also a government advisor and supports china's recent imposition of a new national security law which he maintains has restored order like many other

businessmen here then a chant believes that hong kong's future is dependent on closer economic integration with the mainland pointing to the chinese government's bold plan to link this city with 10 others in southern china creating a vast innovation cluster that some say could one day rival silicon valley. that's not why and has decided to stay the academic says her reasons are rooted in culture and identity. it's not easy if you have to give up your identity and adapt to a new one it's very different if one is relocating for work but if you are moving to another country thinking of becoming a citizen or national of a different nation there is a lot to put down. like her parents who was born here part of a south asian community numbering more than 80000 she's brand manager for a hotel chain owned by her family apne has the security of

a british passport but as yet has no plans to go i thought i would have to be driven out of hong kong literally into an hour hong kong is home and. given everything that's happening it still the best option in my opinion but like many other remain as she also feels uneasy about hong kong's future hong kong today is a different place i wouldn't say it for the worse it's just different because any major global city changes that's what makes it a city but there is fear the unknown and i believe that's what is causing people to look at other option options is the fear of the unknown. it's a fear others who remain will also need to overcome adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. game stop shares shot of the gun on friday the latest twist in the wall street saga the strongly attention of billionaires the white house and thousands of

social media users the videogame retailers stalk has risen by around 70 percent or in fact most of thursday's losses investors have been pushing up the prices in a bid to damage hedge funds who make a profit by betting against the shares of failing businesses kristen salumi reports . if you didn't have a job it's a question neither the president nor his treasury secretary appear able to answer what to do about a market in turmoil institutional investors are facing billions of dollars in losses as small time investors organized on social media and trading on apps like robin hood continue to drive their preferred stocks values higher and higher game stop a struggling retail chain that was considered overvalued by so-called experts at $40.00 a share ended the week trading at $315.01 of the main drivers of the

frenzy is keith gill known to most through his you tube channel roaring kitty he was recommending a game stop back in august last year game stop is an established uniquely positioned player not surprisingly this week gail and his followers were jubilant so what an incredible day and think that's what it is it's a regular joes versus wall street. when i put money into it i said even if this goes to 0 and i lose everything i like being a part of it and that sentiment is shared amongst a lot a lot of people despite claiming the quiddity problem is that the stock soared mid week the online trading app robin-hood back down from its controversial decision to block users from buying game stop shares after investors and politicians protested some limits however were reimposed late friday we absolutely did not do this in the direction of the market maker. so we're really unprecedented times.

in order to protect the firm and protect our customers we had a few limited by. the stocks some traders dispute that but experts say eventually prices will fall rabbit he is real this will eventually normalized but he made a number of major the. 2 institutions go belly up as a result and i don't think there's going to be a whole lot of sympathy these are these are not like the good guys regulators at the securities and exchange commission say they are monitoring the situation and will act to protect retail investors still others are expressing concern that this frenzied trading will hurt the broader market which saw its worst week in months and wondering if activist online trading is here to stay kristen salumi al-jazeera new york. well still ahead here on al-jazeera amid a crowd of hours long actors and playwrights in florida see an opportunity to keep

doing what they love. and we look at why a possible free trade deal with the u.s. could worsen kenya's problem with plastic waste those stories after the break. it's time for the perfect jenny. went sponsored point qatar airways hello we're saying some very heavy snowfall recently across a good part of northern japan and western areas of honshu 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 rad 8 celsius similar temperature there in with one and just into central parts of china central and 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 wetter weather will be across a good part of indonesia with the risk of flooding. to qatar airways. when all that seems to matter is the headline. there's always 2 sides to a story when narratives and counter narratives of just curiosity the laying there

on the one hand the enemy is open neither on the other hand the listening post strips away the spin what kind of reporting if you can see on the ground misinformation is right place better the bias a lot of people believe things because they want to believe them and uncovers the uncomfortable truths do you think they did enough to scrutinize the case for war listening post on a. but the back you watch al-jazeera means a whole rahman 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 brics it deal the controls would

have prevented vaccines from entering the u.k. through northern ireland. drug companies and novak's and johnson and johnson have introduced 2 new vaccines to fight the pandemic johnson and johnson's inoculation is a single shot but both produced weaker results on the more infectious south african strain than gained stop shares have shot up again the stock has risen by around 70 percent clawing back most of thursday's losses a matter of esther's have been pushing up the prices in a bid to damage hedge funds who make a profit by betting against the shares of saying this and since. the u.s. has a special envoy for iran robert malley will be tasked with navigating one of the most controversial foreign policy files facing the by the administration he'll be in charge of washington's efforts to revive the iran nuclear deal with after it was abandoned under former president trump our diplomatic editor james bays has more he now has one of the most important roles in global diplomacy rob malley who's been

serving as the head of the think tank the international crisis group is a veteran diplomat. he was one of the members of the obama administration who brokered the iran nuclear deal his job according to the new u.s. national security advisor jake sullivan will be to focus on the nuclear agreement 1st and then to deal with the other issues the u.s. has with it we'll get back to diplomacy a political. box that we're created on which to barrow. clearly birdwell is in that region and in europe and elsewhere to tell you know mother is it your experience or is it was my fellow americans president trump who called it the worst steel in history pulled the u.s. out of the nuclear deal in 2018 in an interview for talk to al-jazeera in 2019 mr malley told me he believed that was

a big mistake iran is now itself moving away from the deal so its nuclear activities are worse than they were under the deal so far having a better deal having a worse actual such a reality and 2nd just listen to what the us administration itself is saying iran is escalating its behavior in there it's its anti-american behavior in the region since the us pulled out things have further unraveled iran has slowly rene don't the conditions of the agreement and the tense plant is believed to now be enriching uranium to the level of 20 percent much less than weapons grade 90 percent but much greater than the 3.67 percent allowed under the deal with not only does mr malley have a very tough job potentially he also has a very tight deadline to get things done the u.s. elections may be over but the presidential elections in iran take place in june. there are hardliners in iran who want to abandon all efforts at diplomacy with the

u.s. molly will face many critics at home on capitol hill where most republicans oppose the nuclear deal. and abroad where some of the most powerful countries in the middle east saudi arabia the united arab emirates and israel are strongly against further negotiation jamesburg. of the united nations. can you impose the world's strictest ban on plastic for years ago but environmentalist fear the country is now under pressure to weaken its resolve michael ware has more from nairobi. sifting through mountains of garbage isn't a clean or safe way to make a living but it has a good tongue collecting not clear plastics he can make about $4.00 on a good day that maybe. we are not employed by anyone we are here because of poverty the plastic we sought belongs to

a company they are the ones who make money out of it. she's among hundreds of people who work at this dump in kenya's capital nairobi they're part of a small recycling industry which struggles to cope with the piles of waste that grow with the economy whatever can be recycled is separated and bagged up ready to be taken away organic matter eventually decomposes and then if you look closely at what's left is just plastic which can take more than a century to decompose environmentalists say kenya's plastic problem is about to get much worth because of a free trade deal that the government is negotiating with the u.s. many of america's largest oil and chemical companies who profit from plastics represented by a lobby group called the american chemistry council he wrote to u.s. government trade officials suggesting that kenya could serve as a hub for u.s. made plastics in africa enabled through the kenya u.s.

trade deal. kenya's environmentalist's are alarmed james who gave years one of them he started a campaign led to kenya planning plastic bags 4 years ago he says america's plastics industry wants to increase its trade here and the dumping of american plastic waste america is known to small nations into accepting trade deals that we you know would be good for your side but not for other countries so i'm twisting small nations. into accepting such a trade deal we mean dutch we are going to be vastly games we have made so far some gains that we're ready being reversed for generations soft drinks here have been sold in glass bottles which are returned and refilled the plastic is taking over it's more profitable for plastic manufacturers and more waste for the dump the american chemistry council says it's not seeking to override kenya's existing

regulation of plastics and kenya's trade minister was denied that any such proposal is on the table the environmentalists are skeptical but say president joe biden now has a chance to change the direction of negotiations the. sort of. a cloud that will allow us to be used for the last. 10 years already struggling to deal with its own growing plastic waste the environmentalists say more plastics and more dumping would be disastrous malcolm webb al-jazeera nairobi kenya award winning american actress asli tyson has died at the age of 96 looks back at her life and career. in what you. are was an actress of enormous skill a trailblazer and a role model for black women in theater film and television. tyson was nominated

for an academy award for sounder in which she played a strong sharecropper wife and mother struggling to keep her family together in depression era louisiana. in the 1974 television movie the autobiography of miss jane pittman tyson portrayed a woman born in slaved living through the tribulations of the jim crow south and perseverance until the civil rights movement dawned ok. oh no you can't oh that ain't a lot you can make oh what if. in the climactic scene tyson as jane pittman defies menacing policemen to drink from a whites only water fountain symbolically triumphing over bigotry. tyson

received 2 emmy awards for the film she broke down barriers for not just black people in hollywood but for black women to particularly women of darkness yet she wanted to uplift the culture she wanted to change this the perceptions and not buy into the stereotypes that we know that hollywood in the entertainment industry has historically had for black people born in harlem to west indian immigrant parents tyson broke into show business at age 30 she rejected the standard roles of maid and mammy that hollywood ordained for dark skinned black actresses tyson appeared in dozens of films television shows and plays. she received the tony award broadway's ultimate honor at age 88 for her role in a trip to bountiful she was honored in a ceremony on hollywood's walk of fame in 2018. i just shy that you couldn't live like that. tyson was married to jazz genius miles

davis from 1981 to 1988 in 2016 tyson was awarded the medal of freedom by president barack obama and spoke of her belief in the golden rule we meet each other the way we want to be treated not ok what they are what they should need to know i guess earlier this week tyson's memoir titled just as i am was published in it she wrote i want to be recalled as one who squared my shoulders in the service of black women as one who made us walk taller and envision greater for ourselves in that as in so much else in her long life cicely tyson succeeded. now the events of 2020 played out like this script of a disaster film countless cinemas and theaters around the world are shut due to

restrictions now it doesn't playwrights in florida have come up with a novel way to continue doing what they love best and to gallagher reports from miami. just like every city across the world miami is feeling the impact of the code 19 pandemic businesses normally bustling with activity now stand empty the inevitable impact of the deadly virus that i'll take a look at the playwright and director michel housman see something else but in the crisis has been an opportunity to revive the arts in an unusual way we know that people are hungry to experience theater and they're hungry to experience communion and so you know this idea what a way to do all that in a safe way the concept to turn vacant shop windows into 7 tiny stages is proved to be a big success or dns members socially distance wear masks and listen to each 10 minute

play using headsets i thought it get tickets for those who work in the theater it's a chance to tread the boards in a unique way and boost the local economy yes where doing theater yes where intertainment people yes where touching hearts and that kind of way but also where literally bringing people back to miami beach in a safe way last line you know throughout the productions run actors follow strict code protocols regularly tested and those who perform together also isolate together every performance is sold out money that helps the nonprofit theatre company survive over the past 12 months or so all of our lives have changed drastically and covert pretty good is a very real thing miami new drama is doing that is not just reviving the arts safely are also bringing people much needed entertainment as they pay for fresh produce for those starved of in person artistic entertainment this theatrical production and troubling times has been a hit it's been

a while since anyone's been able to go to a show or see anything live in a long time so it's kind of cool to see people getting creative and doing things outside and making things happen with the current. i don't want big kids going. home buyer can be i don't know let me tell you everything you know. while the immediate future of live entertainment remains in flux here at least is proof that the show can go on. and gallacher al-jazeera miami florida. your charges are of me said whole wrong the reminder of our top stories the european union has reversed a decision to use emergency brakes that measures and restrict exports of coronavirus vaccines to the united kingdom it bank tracked after an outcry over the move which would have prevented vaccines from entering.