Strict coronavirus lockdown measures. Claims of contaminated communities in nigeria a dutch court is expected to deliver its verdict against Oil Giant Shell. And the u. S. Names robots mali who helped negotiate the 2015 nuclear deal as special envoy to iraq. So we begin with news of another covert 1000 vaccine that could soon and. Late stage trials of the u. S. Produce never backs job so its been nearly 90 percent effective and it sent have some effect of us against both u. K. And to a slightly lesser extent South African variance u. K. May approve its used by june. That scene already in demand is made by astra zeneca however the company has angered e. U. Officials for causing a supply European Commission chief says astra zeneca hasnt given a plausible explanation and is warning it may stop any vaccines money factored in the belt from being exported ice on fighting europes Medicine Agency is expected to recommend approval of the astra zeneca vaccine for legend. But it does go up to as a social epidemiologist and professor at the center of social medicine and Community Health he says the vaccines potential against new variant 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 u. S. D. Deal in the operation was 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 jeff 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 backseat options and virus adaptations. Brazil has back there are more than 1000000. 00 people but thats less than half of one percent of the population as it is like my laos the gateway to the amazon rain forest so face the shortage of oxygen in hospitals perhaps and scandals are also hampering the vaccine roll out like in ghana kiev has more when you back to vaccines has arrived in my mouth and inoculations have resumed after being suspended from. The Vaccination Program reminder scrutiny after vocal off already hes worked used to fever in themselves and friends by skipping the line in taking shots a head of Health Workers and the elderly to Field Hospitals have been set up in my mouth where patients must wait for room each attack or are they to me were swapped Field Hospital should help us redistribute patients. But this is the largest city in the brazilian amazon still thinks is a shortage of oxygen and Health Workers have been working around the clock to keep patients from suffocating to death like both the need for heaters and didnt make it. You ask a nurse the hope here 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 is. Visited man hours this week for the 2nd time hes also being investigated for allegedly mishandling the crisis. That we are so we did big increase in the number of infections in early january tripling the number of infected people this was a completely unknown situation to everyone. And then there is the new variant of the corona virus discovered in my mouth and much more contagious than the 1st it has already spread to brazils richest city as a result countries like the United States portugal peru and colombia are restricting flights to and from brazil. Tell us for a period of 30 days passenger flights from colombia to brazil and brazil to colombia will be suspended brazil has 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 u. S. China was not included due to a lack of data. Brazils president j. Boss and its always downplayed the virus and even question the value of vaccine he has also asked governors and mayors to avoid what damage government yes absolutely 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 like. Some and now some have just imposed new restriction measures but in Rio De Janeiro where the number of infections is also growing beaches are proud and social distancing to be a thing of the past. Mind being inactive or just sirrah the addition or. The highly infectious South African variant of covert 19 has reached the United States to 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 optically worried about the strain because it appears less responsive to available vaccines and coronavirus tests in one of americas worst hit states may have been grossly underestimated us according to a report the best occasion by new yorks attorney general has found death some care homes may be more than 50 percent higher than officially reported the study examined discrepancies in the number of fatalities recorded by state officials and the care homes themselves these are loved ones we lost. You know if someone is grandma someones mother or father and theyre on call i mean this is families are missing someone dear to them and you know for so many people i talked to the fact that they you know people ive talked to people all over the city who have lost folks and they could not be with them. It made it so much more horrible so this was the you know among all the other pain that we went through in 2020 this was arguably the very worst part of it. That 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. From the World Health Organization have met chinese scientists and will they continue their investigation into the origins of cave at 19 the team is now expected to conduct its 1st field visits in the city. Would visit hospitals labs the food markets that have been linked to the cases of the violence virus. Protests have been growing. Government corruption Security Forces have been firing tear gas and water cannon crowds of protesters gathered in the city of tripoli 2 people being killed and hundreds injured in 4 days of rest and a whole 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 kill the situation on the ground is estimating there is a lot of anger people initially took to the streets to protest the coronavirus. They said that the government is not for writing the poor and the Financial Freedom for order to cope with the loss but know that luck exacerbates the economic crisis and. Was already collapsing before that lockdown so 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 a new leadership in fact. In fact there has been a Popular Uprising in lebanon for more than a year and 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 states arrest the tensions heavy handed tactics to clamp down on protests movements so and of course we 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 have been 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 on aljazeera President Joe Biden demonstration signals a more assertive approach to the conflict in libya calling on turkish and Russian Forces to leave immediately plus. Im going to haiti new zealand one of the few countries in the world where people can gather in big numbers and enjoy live music we take a look at the global Music Industry and how the coronavirus pandemic is changing. How we once again welcome star to look at the international forecast the weather isnt that bad across india china not too bad to into the philippines but push a little further south and more pockets of very heavy rainfall coming in 81. 00 millimeters of rain in kuala lumpur around half the jaggery average rainfall in 24 hours and further south are seeing more heavy downpours coming into indonesia jakarta with around 52. 00 millimeters of rain and more the same here as we go on through the next couple of days much of indonesia where we see the heaviest of the showers as we go on through the next a day or 2 the sad state going on into sunday really a case of spot the difference those heavy downpours lingering across the southern parts of the region then turning up with some very heavy rain that we continue to see across northern parts of australia see some big downpours recently just around the darwin weve seen some very heavy rainfall coming in here a little circulation pushing towards broome will bring some very very wet weather into northern parts of w. A. Over the next day or 2 thats is drying for the same in darwin over the past 24 hours 72 millimeters coming in here you see that wet weather draped across northern parts of australia further south things a little quieter now coming into victoria although we have got the chance of some flooding rains here this weekend. In the movie 1000000 people have been excluded for the least but still just. One i want a speech the families forced to take the long. View. It was the 1st trial of its kind for my ugandan child soldier. Is accused of recruiting more children to fight as he rose through the ranks of the in famous moods resistance army. Now he is about to learn his fate at the International Criminal court to make a. Move to the. Allegheny watching algis there has a reminder of our top stories this hour u. S. Drug company novak says its covert 1000. 00 vaccine has been shown to be more than 89 percent effective joint trials in the u. K. Its trial suggests its effective also against the new variant of the virus found in the u. K. Brazils president jabil sonora has promised to quickly vaccinate everyone in his country amid a new wave of corner 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 at lock down measures and government corruption 2 people have been killed and hundreds injured in 4 days of on the west. Of course is expected to hand down its verdict in the next hour and a long running case against Oil Giant Shell for nigerian farmers accuse the company of causing widespread pollution and demanding compensation and. Cleanup of the villages which were devastated by 3 oil spills in the 2000 and although. Contaminated sites environmental activists say they arent impressed by the pace of it with reports from a gurney in the niger delta. Workers educate anything but to flush out trucked oil in border creek as it all comes to the surface trust us like 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 the Massive Oil Spill in the record in 2009 is this walk is to remediate. Creek. After the next phase will be the restoration. Among groups and the 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 jointly 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 on target for what we have planned but were trying to see what we can do to patch up they still a lot of work to do to catch up i mean time 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 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. Is one. How many years. And thats not the only concern significant amount of all 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 meet a priest. In nigerias Oil Producing niger delta china says it will no longer recognise the British National overseas paul supporter available to 3000000 hong kong residents aging made the move to the u. K. Launched a visa scheme this allows these possible holders to apply for bush assistantship its in response to the National Security law imposed on hong kong by china u. K. Government says its standing up for. One of the people responsible for the Iran Nuclear Deal has been named as the new u. S. Special envoy to iran well that malley as a former top adviser to the Obama Administration and was part of the team that helped negotiate the 2015 deal he will have the job of implementing President Joe Bidens when you think with iran russian ships our joy in the Previous Administration after trying pulled out of the deal and imposed harsh sanctions had reza golems out as head of the Public DiplomacyResearch Institute he joins us via skype from tehran good to have you with us what do you think of this appointment of Robert Malley thank you very much for having me. Appointment up Robert Malley can be a positive signal to iranians since the person has been in the negotiation a long white ministration and he had the constructing a particular approach toward the wine and he has a good understanding of irani i actually because a major problem that has been between iran and the United States for decades has been the issue dead the 2 sides dont seem to have a quick understanding from each other especially to mary counts from the rain so misunderstanding was a great hindrance in negotiations or talks or any relations between the 2 countries so if the person who always now is appointed now is familiar with what you are scenes and youre in your mind certainly ring in demand then the talks can be constructing a fruitful so if it was because she you know if it is seen as a goodwill appointment how might might tehran respond. Well theres a point actually that mr malley ease just on one person a point man we can use responsible for your own but more so important than that we have for example jakes only one as National Security adviser we have tony blinken as the point of this excerpt at state and in recent days we have seen not positive retore from mr blinken and we know by the experience that the negotiations are for the just us bad exciting one is not that positive toward you want salt if we want to compare the position that mr mollies going to take to their position of lincoln and suddenly want it doesnt seem that much significant of course especially that we have the experience of 40 years the google that theyre poi