Lebanese city of tripoli as i go by is it straight coronavirus locked down national. Claims of contaminated communities in nigeria dutch course is expected to deliver its verdict against Oil Giant Shell. God bless you all thank you. Well take a look back at the life of american hollywood legend cicely tyson. We begin with news of another covert 19 vaccine that could soon enter circulation late stage trials of the u. S. Produced novaks job so its been nearly 90 percent effective and it shown to have some effect in this against both the u. K. And to a slightly lesser extent South African variance and the head of the European Commission says drug maker astra zeneca hasnt given a plausible explanation for delaying deliveries brussels has warned it may stop any vaccines manufactured in the block from being exported they too on friday europes Medicine Agency is expected to recommend approval of the astra zeneca vaccine for emergency use but German Health officials have warned it should only be given to people under 65 saying there isnt enough data on older people. Is a social epidemiologist a professor at the center of social medicine and Community Health at. University he says the vaccines potential against new variance is encouraging. This vaccine comes from a relatively less known company in the us which was part of the initial 1600000000. 00 us dollar so he was the deal in the operation was up speed whats causing the optimism its very encouraging results in the recently completed their trials in the u. K. And in specific its potentially good results against the new variants certainly against that you get a variant but somewhat less against the South African variant that is a known challenge in biology and and as we know even from the influenza vaccines that we have where you need to immunize annually particularly the elderly and the otherwise vulnerable there are whats known as antigenic ships and jeffs because the virus is constantly mutating itself particularly if its under pressure from various therapeutic regimens particularly a whole host of them now being now being administered in the ongoing covert epidemic so the virus is constantly modifying itself and it is going to be a constant challenge between treatment exene options and virus adaptations but still has vaccinated more than 1000000. 00 people bots thats less than half of one percent of the population as it is like a gateway to the amazon rain forest still faces shortage of oxygen and hospitals and scandals are also hampering the vaccine rollout when i can get to kiev has more. My new back to vaccines has arrived in my mouse and inoculations have resumed after being suspended for a week the Vaccination Program team under scrutiny after local off already is work you have favoring themselves and friends by skipping the line and taking shots ahead of Health Workers and the elderly to Field Hospitals have been set up in my mouth where patients must wait for room in shock or are they to me were swapped Field Hospital should help us redistribute patients. But this the largest city in the brazilian amazon still uses a shortage of oxygen and Health Workers have been working around the clock to keep patients from suffocating to death like many anything he does and didnt make it well you ask a nurse to hope for you and she says she cant do anything because shes dealing with another patient whos dying right in front of you there arent enough Health Care Workers to deal with this we wouldnt be in this situation if the amazon a state had invested in health care where did all the money go the health minister. Visited mahnaz this week for the 2nd time hes also being investigated for allegedly mishandling the crisis. So we did begin increasing the number of the actions in early january tripling the number of infected people this was a completely unknown situation to everyone. And then there is a new variant of the corona virus discovered in my novels and much more contagious than the 1st it has already spread to some brazils richest city as a result countries like the United States portugal peru and colombia are restricting flights to and from brazil. Photo and Video Editing tell us for a period of 30 days passenger flights from colombia to brazil and brazil to colombia will be suspended us were still as the largest covert 19 death toll after the United States but according to a study by Australias Lowy Institute comparing how 98. 00 countries have dealt with the pandemic brazil is considered the worst its at the bottom of the list right after Mexico Colombia iran and the us china it was not included due to a lack of data. Brazils president j. Boss and has always downplayed the virus and even question the value of vaccine he has also asked governors and mayors to avoid lock down the government after all its got think twice about restrictive policies you must understand that isolation lockdown and confinement leads to destitution ive always said that the economy works hand in hand with life. Some and now some have just imposed new restriction measures but in Rio De Janeiro where the number of infections is also growing the beaches are crowded and social distancing seems to be a thing of the past. Mine pinaki of all just era the addition or. The highly infectious South African variant of covert 19 has reached the United States so infections were confirmed in the state of South Carolina neither of the cases had any travel history nor any contact with each other Officials Say this suggests its already spreading in the Community Scientists are particularly worried about this strain because it appears less responsive to available vaccines. Credible as deaths in one of americas worst hit states may have been grossly underestimated thats according to a report an investigation by new yorks attorney general has found deaths in care homes may be more than 50 percent higher than officially reported christian salumi explains. The elderly especially those in Long Term Care homes have been among the most vulnerable to co the 19 a new report finds the number of nursing home deaths in new york may be much higher than the 8700 state officials have recorded by as much as 50 percent we have to make sense of this we have to get the full truth and we have to make sure it never ever happens again nothing like this happens again and we have to be honest about the numbers the states attorney general faulted the department of health for not including in their tally nursing home residents who died after being moved to hospitals or in the case of 88 year old norman are being taken home to our only. Agency. Stake people who put people 1st and suffered the most. Maddest only 2nd here related to the impact of covert 19 on Nursing Homes the report has reignited a controversy that prompted hearings over an order from Governor Andrew Cuomo requiring Nursing Homes to accept patients whod been discharged from hospitals even if they might have the coronavirus Nursing Homes there are a top priority they have been from day one a move the governor defended as necessary to keep hospital beds free but later rescinded saying it wasnt needed the report acknowledges the policy may have contributed to more deaths but also cites a lack of infection controls in Nursing Homes as well as low Staffing Levels and under reporting which some say are the bigger issues the report is obviously devastating and heartbreaking but unfortunately it also speaks of the light on what weve known for throughout the pandemic and what we were really trying to call attention to at the very beginning is that poor staffing the poor infection show protocols the governor has yet to respond to the findings but his Health Commissioner argues the state has been transparent while the total number of the taliban is on change the higher death count in Nursing Homes undermines claims by the governor that new york has been better than other states when it comes to protecting the elderly kristen salumi al jazeera new york well experts from the World Health Organization have met chinese scientists and will happen as they continue their investigation into the origins of cave in 19 the team is now expected to conduct its 1st field visits in the city of races that researches would visit hospitals labs and the food markets that have been linked to the earliest cases of the virus. Protests in lebanon have been growing as. Government corruption and Security Forces have been firing tear gas and water cannon the crowds of protesters gathered in the city of tripoli 2 people have been killed and hundreds injured in 4 days of unrest has this update from tripoli. Another night of protests another night of violence in lebanon 2nd largest city dozens of protesters have been injured over recent days to protesters killed the situation on the ground is estimated there is a lot of anger people initially took to the streets to protest the coronavirus. They said that the government is not the writing the poor and the funder of the Financial Services order to cope with the loss but now that lockdown exacerbate the economic crisis and the money was already collapsing before that lockdown so most of these people are unemployed those who. Work in the sector which means they live day by day if they dont work today they cant feed their kids and this city has long been impoverished before the pandemic was 1st detected last year so a lot of anger in the streets theyre saying that. They want to do leadership in fact. In fact there has been a Popular Uprising in lebanon for more than a year now people have been holding protests in other cities as well on and off theyve largely fizzled out because 1st of all the response of the state of militarized state arrest the tensions heavy handed tactics to clamp down on protest movements so and of course you also have. The corona virus spreading among the community its not clear whether or not the situation can be contained in the days ahead but this is a country for over a year now there has been a social unrest political turmoil and as the our economy collapse more and more people are are drowning in poverty the u. N. Says 55 percent of the population are now poor and this is a small nation of 5000000 people one 3rd of the workforce employed so difficult days tense situation in this city. Still ahead here on aljazeera outrage in the u. S. As pakistans top court holds. Convicted of killing american journalist daniel plus. The color red is considered a really good fortune for the chinese during the new year but im fond of reporting about these cherries is turning out to be green very bad luck here in chile. For the past chinese. Sponsored play Qatar Airways hello weve got more clout of the rain streaming into western parts of you more coming in as well but ahead of that it does remain very unsettled well see the wet weather coming into the british. Rights the snow piling into of france but dont. Stays on the warm side of it was the southeast been pretty cold we see some larvae storms now in the process of clearing away from the eastern side of the mediterranean crossing turkey right sleet and snow here dry weather coming in behind temporarily see a fair bit of snow and crying into western parts of russia and to the baltics as well in the game thats just not in a little further race was a bank of snow coming out soon rumania austria pushing all the way up across the potent and on into northern parts of germany theres that next batch of wet weather which will push its way into a western pa still getting up to 1516. 00 celsius in spain and portugal theres that cloud and rain just tumbles its way into many Western Areas itll cool off down towards the southwest but still in the mall side the t. T. Badly here see that was the weather coming in across france and notice it turns a good deal cooler in london temper just at around 5 degrees celsius while restatements now down towards the out southern parts of france another batch a Stormy Weather pushing across that eastern side of the mediterranean. Qatar airways a calm and make sure youre not hyping the situation be part of the debate my main characters are women when no topic is off the table there was in the last allowed Child Marriage to happen legally these are basically archaic walls they have often legitimized and legal one is kind of silly on ara online jumping to the comments section and the team to be part of the discussion this stream on out is the inner. World. Well again youre watching aljazeera has a reminder of our top stories this hour u. S. Drug company nowak says its perfect 1000. 00 vaccine has been shown to be more than 89 percent effective trials in the u. K. Just its effective against the new variant of the virus 1st found in the u. K. Brazils president has promised to quickly backs made everybody in the country amid a new wave of current virus infections so far less than one percent of the population has received the vaccine. And protests in lebanon have been growing as anger rises that knocks down measures in government corruption 2 people have been killed and hundreds injured in 4 days of unrest. A dutch court is expected to hand down its verdict in the next few hours in a long running case against Oil Giant Shell for nigerian farmers accuse the company of causing widespread pollution and demanding compensation and the cleanup of their villages which were devastated by 3 oil spills and the 2 thousands although work has begun on some contaminated sites environmental activists say they are not impressed with the pace of work reports from in the niger delta. Workers educate everybody to flush out truck oil in border creek as all comes to the surface a boom truss the sludge for evacuation its a job the contractors hired by all john child must quickly accomplish before the tide returns the cleanup is due to litigation against the Company Following a Massive Oil Spill in the record in 2009 after the next phase will be to restore. And monitoring so far is a 1000. 00 hectares. While shellings contract to say they have done a lot to subside the Nigerian Government led decontamination effort drawn to be funded by the Shell Company is off to a slow start heavy machinery is now deployed farther inland to excavate and treat contaminated soil we im not all take it for what we have planned or were trying to see what we can do to patch up they still a lot of work to do to catch up and we talked to get. An assessment by the United NationsEnvironment Program 1st published in print 11 shows that pollution from more than half a century of Oil Production was worse than or originally thought the report recommended a 1000000000. 00 fund to clean up alone an area covering 1000 square kilometers the work which began success later could take at least 25 years to complete. Much of a is a wasteland this one group is dead as fish and crustaceans no longer spawn here farmlands fish ponds and even underground Water Supplies have been polluted by hydrocarbons leaking from old pipelines we could play some activists in the region are less impressed with the work so far. People hope for. One. And how many years we have not getting it right. And thats not the only concern significant amount of 3rd continues in the region further complicating the process of reversing the environmental damage experts believe 15 to 20000 square kilometers of nigerias Oil Producing region require the attention is currently receiving they fear that unless the entire region is decontaminated or going as clean up me in the end be a waste of time and resources as re contamination could occur i have a deep freeze. In nigerias Oil Producing niger delta china says it will no longer recognize the British National overseas passport held by 3000000 hong kong residents beijing made the move. To visa scheme that will allow these passport holders to apply for persistent ship its in response to the National Security law imposed on the hong kong by china government said it was standing up for freedom. The white house has expressed outrage after pakistans top court acquitted the man previously convicted of killing american journalist daniel pearl. Says his country is ready to prosecute him instead his own Supreme Court has ordered the release of british born. Shaikh big has more. After 18 years in prison i am an almost side shakes acquittal has been confirmed pakistans Supreme Court rejected an appeal by daniel pearls family and the provincial government one of the countrys high courts had to quit it last year but had remained in prison while appeals were lodged and heard before the Supreme Court however after years of denial has admitted in a handw