it's been nearly 10 years since the un called for major cleanup in one area is niger delta but a new report says little has actually been done decades of oil spills of course severe damage the delta in 2011 the u.n. said the cleanup could take 30 years and cost a $1000000000.00 up to $40000000.00 people face major health risks because of contamination to agricultural land fisheries and drinking water across the delta the region has also seen a rise in infant mortality the study also found un backed emergency measures on water and health protection have not been implemented properly investigation by pressure groups including friends of the earth and amnesty found cleanup work had only begun on 11 percent of the contaminated sites in a statement shell petroleum nigeria which. operates in the niger delta said this this report fails to recognize that the majority of the un environment programmes recommendations need multi-stakeholder efforts coordinated by the federal government of nigeria and that shell has acted on all recommendations directed to it in the un e.p.a. report we continue

at amnesty international he says there isn't enough accountability to force the clean up of the niger delta. what we're calling for is the nigerian government to once again will really commit itself to this cleanup it set up a body in 2015 when president bihari was 1st elected he promised that his administration would see this cleanup through well our findings show that he has failed so we're calling on president bihari and the government to completely we examine what has been done. and we launch this initiative to make sure that it is affective one of the things we're asking for the government to do is to remove shell from the body which oversees. oversees this cleanup we're concerned that there's a potential conflict of interest in having the company responsible for the pollution then also having a say in the oversight of how the cleanup is carried out. still ahead on. that basis. hundreds of lawyers protested in malawi accusing the president of trying to crush the courts to stay in power. i was. on my mind with her hit hard by coronavirus medical workers say they not getting the support

long governmental organizations have released a report on efforts to clean up vast areas of the niger delta that are contaminated with oil the u.n. issued its clean up play a decade ago but the ngos including environmental rights action say that works only begun in 11 percent of affected areas millions of liters of oil spill into the niger delta every year. the violent arrest of a protest in paris is causing outrage across france police were filmed removing the woman from a crowd of demonstrating health workers who are demanding better pay for their work during the pandemic police say that she was arrested for throwing objects. i believe posted online video of this arrest caused a flurry of indignation on social media a nurse at a protest in paris will choose day is held down by police officers surround her before school in her own way blood is again on her face health workers were demonstrating for higher pay their dedication has been revealed to during the convict pandemic so the image of a nurse being roughly handled by police sparked outrage the nurses daughter tweeted this woman is my

percent of the contaminated sites so in a statement shell petroleum nigeria which operate in the niger delta said this this report fails to recognize that the majority of the un environment programs recommendations need lol to stakeholder efforts coordinated by the federal government of nigeria and that shell has acted on all recommendations directed to hit it in the u.n. report to continue to actively support the cleanup process along with other stakeholders romulus that speak to and go be a mission for risk within in the united kingdom she's a member of the state oil and environment commission a group set up by the archbishop of york to investigate oil spills in the niger delta and we appreciate your time so much so does anything about this report surprise you. thank you very logical have in your channel the 1st thing i should say. rafa are you. that's the one thing. to be honest the record it lets you know look at so it's not surprising the problems in the mind of the ongoing for decades. and there was no hope of pulling will never forgive the level. that it will be. the stimulus for actu

calls for a major cleanup in nigeria's niger delta but a new report says little has actually be donedecades of oil spills of course severe damage to the delta in 2011 the u.n. said the cleanup could take 30 years and cost $1000000000.00 up to $40000000.00 people face major health risks because of contamination to agricultural land fisheries and drinking water the region is also. arise in infant mortality the study also found un backed emergency measures on water and health protection of not been implemented properly the investigation by pressure groups including friends of the earth and amnesty found cleanup work had only begun on 11 percent of the contaminated sites in a statement shell petroleum nigeria which operates in the niger delta said this this report fails to recognize that the majority of the un environment programmes recommendations need multi-stakeholder efforts coordinated by the federal government of nigeria and that shell has acted on all recommendations directed to it in the un e.p.a. report we continue to actively support the cleanup process along with other stakeho

for non-governmental organizations are released a report on efforts to clean up vast areas of the niger delta that are contaminated with oil the u.n. issued its cleanup play a decade ago but the ngos including environmental rights actions say works only begun in 11 percent of affected areas. part time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera donald trump has been accused of asking the chinese president to help him win the u.s. election it's one of a series of allegations which will appear in a new book by a former national security advisor john bolton both the u.s. justice department and the white house are taking legal action to block its release has more from washington d.c. . fulton's publishers are absolutely insistent that there's no national security issue here what there is is a great embarrassment for president trump and that is not something that could lead to the banning of the publication but certainly the details of very damaging and they are very detailed indeed and we'll wait and see if as it is likely the court rules in favor of the publishers that the public can g

has been nearly 10 years since the un called for a major cleanup in nigeria's niger delta but a new report says little has been done investigation by environmental groups found cleanup work had only begun on 11 percent of contaminated sites decades of spills of course severe damage to the delta in 2011 the un warned the cleanup could take 30 years there were companies shell is one of those blamed for the damage but says it has acted on the recommendations and quote actively supports the clean up process. china's top decision making body is considering a draft of hong kong's controversial security bill that's caused weeks of protests a standing committee of the national people's congress is reviewing the bill over 3 days chinese officials say they want to implement the girls without delay the legislation sparked a new wave of pro-democracy protests but it was announced in may. argentina is expected to extend coronavirus restrictions around the capital the bulk of new infections are being detected around where desire is argentina appears to have weathered the pandemic better than its latin a

conduct this cleanup in this one region called it go to land which is just one small part of the niger delta but the efforts to date have big too little too weak and they haven't resulted in any effective cleanup when the result of that the inhabitants of the area are stupid exposed to serious health risks the u.n. found for example that groundwater had been heavily contaminated by years and years of oil spills and pollution and a failure to clean it up though is nigerian citizens are still forced to drink but polluted water so many years off to this situation was exposed so where is the accountability i mean where where where what is the mechanism to force somebody to do something about it is there a line. well but that's a really good question and to date there hasn't been any accountability what we're calling for is the nigerian government to once again was really committed itself to this cleanup it set up a body in 2051 president bihari was 1st elected he promised that his administration would see this cleanup through well all fine and show that he has failed so we're calling on presiden