black in its place a race for america part one on a just. the u.s. is always of in fact the people all right the world people pay attention to what gets on here and i just it was very good to bring the news to the world from here. europe's export controls on vaccines made in the blog leads to heightened tensions with the united kingdom. can put out this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. shares in gaming retailer game stop continue to rise and cause market jitters as amateur investors take on wall street titans. i thought i would have to be driven out of hong kong

literally into an hour. we speak to those determined to stay in hong kong despite china's growing crackdown on the city's freedoms. plus why all the world's a stage for this there is a truth in florida even during a global pandemic. the european union is imposing export controls on vaccines made within the block limiting shipments to dozens of countries including the u.s. japan australia and the u.k. that has raised diplomatic tensions with the u.k. because the controls could prevent vaccines from entering the u.k. through northern ireland the e.u. has since clarified that it will not use an emergency clause in the brics it deal to block access the block is under increasing pressure following sharp cuts to planned vaccine deliveries it wants the pharmaceutical pharmaceutical company astra

zeneca to stick to its contractual delivery schedule the drug company says it will supply british orders 1st the e.u. has just approved astra zeneca vaccine for adults and now the approval process is beginning for 2 new vaccines from novak's and johnson and johnson both produced weaker results against the more infectious south african string for to be with this report. 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 e.u. climbdown northern ireland's 1st minister say. it amounted to the imposition of a border this is an incredibly hostile and aggressive act by the european union block 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 strictly targeted measures that will allow us to gods or accurate information about the production of slack since 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 vaccine 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 ation of the astra zeneca covert 19 vaccine this expand the range of

vaccines available to e.u. member states but 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 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 brow 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 said be reported and france has closed its borders to most known you travel victoria gate and be. it is there. only a handful of nations in africa have started vaccinating people against covert 19 and their affairs 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 cases there doubled in just 2 weeks 9991 on january 14th 222204 in the $28.00 the continent's covered 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 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. meanwhile health officials in the west african nation of senegal take over 19 variants of fueling a surge in infections its health system is completely overwhelmed and medical students are being mobilized to make up for a shortage of doctors reports 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 coronavirus doof wasn't even aware that cove in 1000 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 then you very little variant from the u.k. has been detected in the country it's the mantra of poor people to respect. and.

it's critical for people to respect it a curfew is in place and both 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. mexico's economy has suffered its biggest contraction since the great depression of the 19th thirty's mexico now has the 3rd highest number of corona virus they tell us in the world with more than 156000 confirmed deaths by no reports from mexico city. this is a scene that plays out every day in mexico each time it's a different family saying 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 covert the rest heart attacks natural causes but now it's 8 for cove it and 2 normal funeral services so it's a big increase in deaths because of coated. over the past month the death toll in

mexico has risen dramatically and on thursday the country overtook india for the 3rd highest coronavirus death toll in the world is even more thought of general that 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 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 code 19 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 eye here. let me just close with a general report as we do every day about the health of president and just man lopez obrador he has had some brief and lead a besides

a fever practically none of the discomfort. president lopez obrador has been widely criticized for downplaying the severity of the outbreak in his country. the still worsening death toll highlights the enormous challenge mexico continues to face in curbing contagion. al-jazeera mexico city game stop shares shot up again on friday the latest twist in a wall street saga that's drawn the attention of billionaires the white house and thousands of social media use the video game retailer stock has risen by over 70 percent clawing back most of thursday's losses amateur investors have been pushing up the prices in a bid to damage hedge funds and make a profit by betting against the shares of failing businesses christensen reports. didn't have a thought 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. in order to protect the firm and protect our customers we had a few limited by. the starks some traders dispute that but experts say eventually prices will fall rob that he is real is will eventually normalized but we may see a number of major the. 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. still ahead on al-jazeera. international a mom grows over a possible coup and close. one of the front of the sunbed often decorated viruses from god making the sale of funny genuity she and stephanie decker his mother the regime media among $114000000.00 and. we'll have that story coming up.

hello we've got some quiet weather pushing into eastern parts of the u.s. over the next couple of days this massive clouds in the process of pulling out of the way this dog bordello windy weather wet weather at times when she weather easing off the eastern seaboard then so we're going to pull in a northerly wind so it's going to be cold as we go through the next day or so temperatures new york no higher than minus one celsius in the heat of the day on saturday a whole lot better in they say we got some disturbed weather pushing across the plains as we go on through saturday some heavy rain here bumping into that cold rexy of the winds coming from a solid direction that most direct coming in from the gulf of mexico to hit in the cold air significant snow fall that will cause some disruption and we have seen some disruption recently across parts of california think squatting down here is to go on through saturday temps getting up to around 16 celsius in san francisco by

sunday night 20 there in l.a. so something of a rise in temperatures here and it will be somewhat dry and bright are not so she pushed further north more snow into northern parts of california oregon washington state and pushing up towards that western side of canada as the central areas in between is largely fine and dry with some crisp sunshine coming through this week. india beauty 3000000 people have been excluded from the least of see just. one i won a speech the family's life to live a long. shot out of the. al-jazeera . every.

the. good. watching i was there a reminder of our top stories this hour 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 clause in the brics a deal that controls would have prevented vaccines from entering the u.k. through northern ireland. drug companies novak's and johnson and johnson have introduced 2 new vaccines to find a pandemic johnson and johnson's inoculation is a single shot jab to both produced weaker results on the more infectious south african strain. game stop shares have shot up again their stock has risen by around

70 percent clawing back most of those days losses amateur investors have been pushing up the prices in a bid to damage hedge funds and profit by betting against the shares of failing businesses. more than a dozen countries including the u.s. and the u.k. have urged me in martis stick to democratic norms as international concern grows over a possible coup the military made claims of 4 to november's election which saw a cheese governing party win a majority of seats in parliament the election commission rejected the allegations but the army says it may take action if its complaints are not addressed doctor menzel all is the executive director of me and my institute for peace and security he joins us live now by skype from yang gong thank you for your time how serious is this threat from the military. well right now the threat has become serious

we have faith informed that the government and the military have the negotiations section yesterday so far the result has not been coming yet but like the other coop's happening happened in may and more in the past the military. was like a warning several times letting the government of the public know the. concern there what action they might take or they may not take a power of or in the streets in other parts of me and more we did us the significant military venue the deck could precipitate the military coup by what we saw in the past ok so this is about the military making claims of fraud in november's election the election commission has rejected the allegations so other claims of fraud in any way legitimate why are they doing this

. well the military claimed there were irregularities and a potential fraud. so the military stopped short of saying that there were fraud or the military stopped short of saying they do no recognize the result actually the military was still very 1st one who released a statement right after the election and say that the election has just assessable but. there were some problems as some. of the complaints by the yeasty the election commission. usually did not respond these. allegations and the was what the election commission did not release that data but data they usually. easily available in other democratic countries the military

u.e.c. to release that died or at the e.c. did not release it and then tension escalated and the government the u.s. she conceded that was a military acting. it's prophecy toadie lost the election and on the other hand the military conceded that there were irregularities the issue to be addressed by the government and the e.c. but due to the tension this is a situation did not have proper dialogue and eventually we have reached the point of the military. with the coup ok what does this all say to us about the relationship between on something and the military. well the relationship was bad actually. the relationship between the commander in chief and daw assess suchi the sour last 5 years the military.

denote the military one that the government do call for ness in their defense a security council which is the that made the decision making body. they the allowed by the the current constitution or the government doesn't want to hold that already and also the government did not fall the committee or any platform to include the comment in chief in last 5 years so says that and that that relationship has been. really dead between these 2 and that relationship between the military and the government reached to attention right the full elections in regard to the some of the electoral procedures the military started complaints before the elections and that complaint a celebrated and tashan amounted. to 2 months after the elections and we have

reached to that point thank you so much for your time or executive director of mean my institute for peace and security thank you. the hong kong government says it will no longer recognize the british national overseas or be a no passport ells after china made the same announcement and move comes into effect on sunday the same day holders can apply for a special visa to move to the u.k. as adrian brown reports many a determined to stay even as china moves to 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 the fight he is already more more peaceful when people become friendly to each other again despite their political believe and couple with 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 chair and believes that hong kong's future is dependent on close 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's 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's for the worse it's just different because any major global city changes that's what makes it a city but there is fear in the unknown and i believe that's what is causing

people to look at other option option options is the fear of the unknown. it's a fear of those who remain will also need to overcome adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong china has executed a former top banker found guilty of taking more than a quarter of a $1000000000.00 in bribes. once led one of china's biggest asset management firms hundreds of officials and executives have been prosecuted since president xi jinping launched an anti corruption drive in 2012. adult court has ordered the nigerian branch of oil giant shell to pay compensation to a group of farmers $4.00 nigerian farmers brought a case against the company in 2008 accusing it of destroying their fishing villages with oil spills 2 of the plaintiffs have since died is the 1st time the anglo dutch company has been held liable for actions by its foreign subsidiary. but pandemic

has had a devastating effect on businesses initially but one famous food product is thriving with domestic sales and exports up parmesan cheese is so valuable it's even used as a guarantee for bank loans 70 dekker reports from italy's reggio emilia province. i it doesn't look anything yet like it's final delicious and valuable form each of these bats 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 what a loss there is the warming of the milk we add what's essentially a starter which works to acidify and from in the middle then we had a coagulant and it becomes that 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 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 mess to clients has seen a small increase the explore during this period however went up around 30 percent. lauren have gone organizes cycling tours for americans in italy and like the rest of the world that's had to stop i miss that i mean mrs scenery i miss of food i miss i miss the bus the job 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 hear get get 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 i'm a john doe 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 loan you may imagine bars of gold but not here just a question and that grows every of them and it shows you just how valuable the product and the brand of money john have it down. 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 it was william shakespeare who wrote all the world's

a stage with countless there's his around the world still shalt some before was a taking that famous phrase even literally than before and the gallacher ports 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 note of 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 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 laugh 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.