other than watching i was there as a reminder of our top stories this hour the dutch court of appeals has ruled that oil giant shell must pay compensation to a group of nigerian farmers the company of destroying their fishing villages as a result of 3 oil spills. china will no longer recognise the british national overseas passport available to millions of hong kong residents as often as a scheme allowing holders to apply for persistent ship in response to china's national security law. and the european union is expected to give astra zeneca its covert 19 vaccine emergency approval in the coming hours as despite a growing dispute between the block and the company over a shortage of supply. thailand's government is facing criticism about its vaccine rolled out after it switched vaccine companies just 2 weeks out from its 1st phase thailand had originally chosen the chinese side of that job and is now moving forward with the one produced by oxford astra zeneca that vaccine is set to be produced locally later in the air by a firm by the thai king scott hide reports from bangkok. proteste

these are all top stories the dutch court of appeals has ruled that oil giant shell must pay compensation to a group of nigerian farmers thank you's the company of destroying their fishing villages as a result of 3 oil spills up until this morning dutch multinationals could act with impunity in developing countries trading their the rights of people bought food. and this is james no from this moment onwards dutch multinationals will be held accountable for their activities and their actions are developing countries and that's an enormous victory for. all the right of more globally. the european union is expected to give us a. vaccine emergency approval in the coming hours despite a growing dispute between the block and the company over a shortage of supplies astra zeneca reduce their commitment a week ago blaming manufacturing issues. experts from the world health organization have met chinese scientists in the as they continue their investigation into the origins of covert 19 the team is now expected to conduct its 1st field visits in the city said researches would visit hospitals labs a

single dose job appears to be at least 66 percent effective in preventing coronavirus the dutch court of appeals has ruled that oil giant shell was paid compensation to a group of nigerian farms cuse the company of destroying their fishing villages as a result of 3 or spills. memo's military is refusing to rule out the possibility of a coup in the aftermath of last year's election it says it was fraudulent and sense that she's governing party won a majority of seats in parliament but the army says it may take action if its complaints of fraud are not addressed the election commission has rejected the allegations un secretary general and to make a terrorist expressed concern and said all electoral disputes should be resolved through established legal mechanisms china will no longer recognize the british national overseas passport available to millions of hong kong residents itself of the u.k. launched a scheme allowing holders to apply for british citizenship in response to china's national security law one of the people that helped negotiate the 2015 iran nuclear deal has been named as the new u

single dose job appears to be at least 66 percent effective in preventing coronavirus the dutch court of appeals has ruled that oil giant shell must pay compensation to a group of nigerian farmers cuse the company of destroying their fishing villages as a result of 3 oil spills. experts from the world health organization have met chinese scientists as they continue their investigation into the origins of covert 19 the team is now expected to conduct its 1st visits in the city w.h.o. said researchers would visit hospitals labs on the food markets that have been linked to the earliest cases of the virus thailand's government is facing criticism about its vaccine rollout author it's switch companies just 2 weeks out from its 1st phase had originally chosen the chinese center back job but is now moving forward with one produced by oxford astra zeneca that vaccine is set to be produced locally later in the year by a firm by the thai king scott hi-lo reports from bangkok. protesters gathered outside the offices of bio science in bangkok this week accusing the government of being swayed by royal influe

and dutch court of appeals has ruled that oil giant shell must pay compensation to a group of nigerian farmers accuse the company of destroying their fishing villages as a result of 3 oil spill. experts from the world health organization have met chinese scientists and will as they continue their investigation to the origins of covert 19 the team is now expected to conduct its 1st field visits in the city the debate shows said research as would visit hospitals labs in the food markets that have been linked to the earliest cases of the virus. the united nations says more than 200000 people have fled violence in central african republic in the past 2 months just last week the u.n. estimates were substantially lower with the agency reporting 100000 people many have fled to neighboring states with the vast majority crossing into the democratic republic of congo foreign forces supporting the government of ca all have been battling a coalition of groups trying to overturn december's presidential elections mean miles military is refusing to rule out the possibility of a coup in the aftermath

its single dose japp appears to be at least 66 percent effective in preventing cave 19 the dutch court of appeals has ruled that oil giant shell must pay compensation to a group of nigerian farmers the company was accused of destroying fishing villages with $3.00 oil spills it's the 1st time a dutch company has been held liable for actions by its foreign subsidiary china will no longer recognise the british national overseas passport available to millions of hong kong residents it's after the u.k. launched a scheme allowing holders to apply for british citizenship in response to china's national security and the supporters of india's ruling. party are accused of attacking farmers who are demanding the government withdraws laws they say will ruin their livelihoods thousands of farms 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. yes they were headlines more news here and on to syria right off the inside story often are. armchair investors and wall street int

its single dose job appears to be a cli 66 percent effective in preventing coronavirus the dutch court of appeals has ruled the oil giant shell bust by a compensation to a group of nigerian farmers they choose the company of destroying their fishing villages as a result of 3 or all spills. military is refusing to rule out the possibility of a coup in the aftermath of last year's election. governing party won a majority of seats in parliament the army says it may take action if its complaints of fraud aren't addressed the election commission has rejected the allegations china will no longer recognize the british national overseas prospered available to millions of hong kong residents it's off to the u.k. launched a scheme allowing holders to apply for british citizenship and response to china's national security law. supporters of india's ruling b j p party years are accused of attacking farmers who are demanding the government withdraw its controversial laws they say will ruin their livelihoods thousands of farmers refused to move during the standoff on the outskirts of new delhi the farmers have

this is al jazeera i'm doubting obligato with a check on your world headlines the dutch 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 oil spills it's the 1st time a dutch company has been held liable for actions by its foreign substance jury up until this morning dutch multinationals could act with impunity in developing countries trading their the rights of people bought food. and this is change now from this moment onwards dutch multinationals will be held accountable for their activities and their actions in developing countries and that's an enormous victory for for for that the rights of more globally. by degrees has been following proceedings from a boozer. this is not the only case in court either in the netherlands or in the u.k. where hundreds of people have queued up to shell for contaminating the niger delta i spoke to an actor is a short while ago he said this is just the beginning and a lot of analysts also believe that it will open the floodgates i

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

the dutch court of appeals has ruled that oil giant shell must pay compensation to a group of nigerian farmers they cues the company destroying their fishing villages as a result of 3 boil spills. china says it will no longer recognise the british national overseas passport available to 3000000 hong kong residents beijing made the move on to 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 standing up for freedom nathan lor's a pro-democracy activist who fled to london from hong kong he says he doesn't expect beijing's decision to home be a passport holders right as rights to emigrate to the u k. for now we don't have much information about how the transcript will carry out these notion of the statement basically 100 people get into mainland china we don't use b.n. or passport we use it and when we leave hong kong if government is going to apply these. to the way that they have brought the control maybe we need to use the hong kong passp

after 13 years of legal wrangling the dutch appeals court is holding the oil multinational shell responsible for spills from its pipelines in one area. in all directions i can for the top of the court finds that shell nigeria is responsible for damages caused by the leaks of shell nigeria's here by order to pay compensation to the farmers who. now do want to foster. now these farmers could finally see summer dress for the land and ponds that they lost to the deprived live. with. fish bar that we had welcome to fish they are like what i would do it with. these fields were so tainted by oil that nothing much has grown here since. what made me angry was that last night. is that just right my fish pond the verdict is good news for the farmers who took the oil giant to court but it could also help other nigerians who have suffered the un discovered chemicals that can cause cancer in some drinking water in the region and babies born within a 10 kilometer radius are most twice as likely to die before they are month old many more victims could now claim compensation from the world's 2nd largest oil

weeks of january that's as kenya says it's hoping to inoculate a 3rd of its population by june next year. and a dutch appeals court has ordered the nigerian branch of oil giant shell to pay compensation to a group of farmers for oil spills in their fishing villages it's the 1st time a dutch company has been held liable for actions by its foreign subsidiary. the u.k. has warned the e.u. that it is considering its next steps after the block restricted the export of covert 1000 vaccines to northern ireland the e.u. wants to prevent northern ireland from being used as a back door to move vaccines into the u.k. while it's tussling with the person company astra zeneca of that delayed vaccine supplies it's now invokes a protocol that allows it to override parts of the price that agreement which says there should be no export restrictions between the e.u. and northern ireland it's meant to avoid a hard order between northern ireland in the irish republic which is a member of the e.u. stis gustus now with political commentators jonathan lissie joins us from london via skype just put this into some perspective for us how ho

in the republic of congo refugees continued through. a dutch appeals court has ordered the nigerian branch of oil giant shell to pay compensation to a group of follow hmas for nigerian farmers $2.00 of whom have since died brought a case against the company in 2008 accusing it of destroying their fishing villages with 3 or oil spills it's the 1st time a dutch company has been held liable for actions by its foreign subsidiary and could pave the way for more cases against the oil firm or work is already underway to clean up another contaminated site in one theory but environmental activists are saying and not impressed i'm going to address reports from a goni in the niger delta. workers educate every forbad to flush out truck oil in border creek as all comes to the surface a boom truss the slides for evacuation it's a job the contractors hired by all john child must quickly accomplish before the tide returns the clean up is due to litigation against the company following a massive oil spill in the record in 2009 is walkies to remediate. creek. after the next p

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anchor: the nigerian subsidiary of the oil giant royal dutch shell has been found liable and ordered to compensate a group of farmers. the ruling was made in the appeals courtgue. the farmers sued shell over the pollution of their villages in eastern nigeria. we have this from the hague. reporter: a victory for the farmers and the environmental group that supported their 30-your legal quest. >> up until an hour ago, people in developing countries were without any rights when confronted with multinationals such as shell, and from now on, they know they can get their rights in the netherlands, when confronted by the destruction of their livelihoods by a multinational -- in this case, shell. >> it's great news. my clients have been waiting for this for a very long time. it's great to have reached this point. i do help -- i do hope they will actually get some compensation soon. it has taken too long already. reporter: the case revolved around spills from underground pipelines. according to the farmers, their villages were made virtually uninhabitable, contaminated land unusable. fishing grounds have been lost, causg them to lose their livelihoods. shell argued

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about the combined effect of lebanon stick coronavirus lock down and the country's ongoing economic crisis. ordered an appeals court in the netherlands has ordered the british dutch all on gas company shell to pay compensation for damage caused by oil spills in the knees adult of the case was brought by 4 nigerian farmers who allege widespread pollution on their land. was. china will no longer recognize the british national overseas passport many hong kong residents hold beijing's move to revoke the documents realty comes after the british government recently announced it will open its doors to hong kong residents following china's clampdown on the territories freedoms. a gay couple has been caned in indonesia as conservative akshaye problems for having sex. each of the met men received nearly 80 lashes archie is the only region of indonesia that opposes islamic sharia law which outlaws homosexuality. now it's been called the david versus goliath battle on wall street the game stop frenzy as in a group of small investors buying a surge of stock and creating losses in the billions for hedge fund professionals but now there's. the online forums where this rebellion

subsidiary of the oil giant royal dutch shell has been found liable for oil pipeline leaks in the niger delta and ordered to compensate a group of farmers. the ruling was made by the appeals court—eastern nigeria. anna holligan sent this report. a victory for the farmers and friends of the earth, the environmental group that supported their 13—year legal quest. up untilan hourago, people in developing countries were without any rights when confronted by multinationals such as shell, and from today on, they know they can get their rights in the netherlands when confronted by the destruction of their livelihoods by a dutch multinational — in this case, shell. it's fantastic news. my clients have been struggling and waiting for this for a very long time, so it's very satisfying that we've reached this point. i do hope that they will actually get some compensation soon because, of course, it's taken too long already. the case revolved around spills from underground oil pipelines. according to the farmers, their villages were made virtually uninhabitable, the contaminated land unusable and fishing grounds have been lost, causing them shell argued that the spills were the result of s

extremists over his support of chancellor angela merkel's immigration policies, which opened germany's doors to asylum seekers during the 2015-2016 refugee crisis. a dutch appeals courts ruled shell is responsible for oil spills in 2004 and 2005 in nigeria's niger delta and must pay damages. the case was brought by friends of the earth and nigerian farmers who were seeking compensation for the leaks that contaminated their land and deprived them of income. the ruling could lead to more cases against royal dutch shell. general motors said thursday it will stop manufacturing cars that produce tailpipe emissions by 2035 as part of a pledge to become carbon neutral by 2040. gm's move to all-electric cars could cause other major automakers to follow suit. a recent report by the union of concerned scientists found electric cars generate half the emissions of the average comparable gasoline car, even when pollution from battery manufacturing is accounted for. lawmakers are demanding a congressional investigation into the trading app robinhood after it stopped allowing users to purchase stock in the video game retailer gamestop and other companies. gamestop's share prices ha