Stream later this year not novak says its trials show its job to be nearly 90 percent of fact against it 19. Plus china says it will no longer recognize a special british passport issued to people in hong kong and accuses the u. K. Of political interference. To begin this hour with breaking news from the netherlands where the court of appeals has ordered the 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 its the 1st time a Dutch Company has been held liable for actions by its foreign subsidiary lets go straight to step fasten shes standing by for us in. Step with a ruling then gone against shell what are the courts say. Exactly same here as a clear victory according to a friends of the earth or nablus who actually filed this case to get away for a nigerian farmers against shout the court said that the Daughter Company of shell s. P. C. In nigeria is liable for the pollution that has happened over the many years by all pipes its using in nigeria and that it also is seen that it has to pay for compensation its not said how much but there will be compensation paid to these farmers and another interesting aspect of this verdict is that the Model Company shall also order to have its duty to clean these pipes this is the 1st time that a court has actually ordered the mater Company Shell to clean its pipes and that it has to implement a detection system in which it will make clear if theres any leakage is happening or not this case has lasted 13 years and the friends of earth madelines told me that there were tears of joy after this victory as they say there was one downside to this verdict according to them and that one village hasnt been seen as a failing i mean this one village is still needs to have more information. Provided to the court before a verdict will be done in this case but all the other villages that have suffered very badly from this pollution will now see some kind of compensation step thanks for bringing the latest places there from sudan acknowledges he is following the proceedings from. 13 long is this cases last of 4 has this news going to be received by farmers in nigeria. Be greeted with joy. By the way laura this is not the. Court either in the netherlands or in the u. K. Where hundreds of people at cuba. Well 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 into so many late editions against all producing Company Production companies that have been operating in nigeria some of these cases have been there for a very long time and they were unsuccessful several communities up and successful to try quote a shell in nigerian courts for example in this particular case today in the netherlands 2 of the people who filed that case have died have already died but again i give is that saying that this could lead to more litigation against shell and other International Oil companies here in nigeria meanwhile the cleanup process in the niger delta is. Progressing but slowly in that area communities are worried that this could take a long time to accomplish. What is as you take anything but to flush out truck or inboard agree. As it all comes to the surface a broom trust this light for you back which its a job the contractors hired by all john child must quickly accomplish before the tight returns the clean up is due to litigation against the Company Following a Massive Oil Spill in the border in 2009 is a couple of days walkies jewel really did. Pollute the board of creek. After the next phase will be the restoration revegetation out among groups and a monitoring so far is a 1000. 00 head does. While shellings contract to say they have done a lot to some sites 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 catch up theres 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 2011 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 is dead fish and crustaceans no longer spawn here farmlands fish bones 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 how many. People there is hope for. One. And how many of. Them are. And thats not the only concern significant amount of all theft continues in the region father 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 is clean up me in the end be a waste of time and resources as re contamination could occur. Nora the pipelines that have been laid since the 1950s in niger delta to extract all and ship it outside of niger are still there a lot of environmentalists are concerned that these pipes have gotten bad and continue to the oil into the environment and apart from that this is only a fraction of the niger delta that we talking about 25. 00 times that size decisive orgone is not properly or environmentally assessed for the damage done to the environment by Oil Exploration in the niger delta so it could be ages before these communities will find out. The environment would be really due to the Natural Environment the fish for issues i mean motion plants can come back to life so its we generations to come before this is done only itself could take 25 to 30 years to keep still a long way to go thank you very much im going to just reporting from. Lets bring you some other news now and the European Union is expected to give astra zeneca its covert 1000 Vaccine Limited emergency approval in the coming hours thats despite a growing dispute between the blog and the company about a shortage of supply the e. U. Says the vaccine makers breached his multimillion dollar contract it was expecting at least 80000000. 00 doses by the end of march but astra zeneca cut supply a week ago laming manufacturing issues on thursday brussels warned it may have to ban exports of vaccines produced on the constant to protect stock and has questioned why it appears that the u. K. Supply has been unaffected and there is another potential help for the global inoculation drive the novaks vaccine produced by an American Firm but which has been tested in the u. K. And elsewhere has shown to be around 90 percent effective full blown is in london with more on the never vax effect of the results. Well the reaction to the united front from novaks this morning here in the u. K. Has been was like spectacular and thrilled and compare and contrast for example the trials and tribulations that the europeans have been having with a vaccine rollout to the rollout thats been taking place here in the u. K. Im outside a mass vaccination santa in wembley within within sight of the famous football stadium here this one of 50 Mass Vaccination Centers that are in existence and some 1300. 00 vaccinations senses large and small to authorize these that are scattered around the u. K. Novaks is a drug which has a lot of advantages according to the data 1st of all storage it can be stored at a normal refrigerator temperature so it doesnt have the difficulties that the fossil by own tech vaccine has as far as transportation and storage secondly the results themselves were extremely encouraging 89 percent effectiveness the numbers involved in the trial were relatively small these phase 3 trials on the data now has to be presented to regulate says in a matter of weeks from now so were not talking about an imminent approval most likely were talking about approve or consideration somewhere around a proton on the rollout of the actual vaccine itself in the 2nd hoff of 2021 so its not an immediate breakthrough that said huge encouraging and absent of 3 other vaccines that have already been approved for use here in the u. K. Well the mccain is covering the dispute between the e. U. And astra zeneca from violin. The point to make here is the urgency which the European Union believes needs to be brought into this whole scenario they want they were expecting remember tens of millions of doses of this vaccine for which theyve already made a very large upfront payment more than 400000000. 00 they were expecting to have tens of millions of doses of the vaccine once its approved which we expect approval to come sometime this afternoon european time from amsterdam where the regulator body for the e. U. Is based on the ones that would be approved that then tens of 1000000 doses over the course of the next few months would be made available but we now know that thats not going to be the case or at least half fuel will be made available and the route between the e. U. And the case has come down and the astra zeneca rather which is based in the u. K. Headquarters there the hours come down to the interpretation of the contract signed between the 2 parties so you see this its not quite a war of words but theres no question here that the European Union is insisting upon what it believes is a binding commitment and it has a serious shortfall of millions of doses of vaccine to deal with over the course of the next couple of months china says it will no longer recognize the British National overseas passport available to 3000000 hong kong residents aging made the may evolve to the u. K. Launched a visa scheme in this allows these possible holders to apply for a better system than step as in response to the National Security law imposed on hong kong by china u. K. Government says its standing up for freedom they then or as a prodemocracy activist who fled to london from hong kong in says he doesnt expect beijings decision to hama b. N. A. A passport holders lights to emigrate to the u k. For now we dont have much information about how the transcript carried out these notion of the statement basically 100 people get into Mainland China we dont use the n or passport we use the term permits and when we leave hong kong if government is going to apply these. This statement to the way that they have brought the control maybe we need to use the whole passport to leave the border and when we arrive in the u. K. We are getting with all the in all possible. Action see announced by the Chinese Government i dont see it. Really creating a lot of chaos in terms of getting people moving into the u. K. Or in the daily lives. It has clarified themselves online they dont know they have not reached any part of the. Sun the british on that corrosion yes they are just awful in a route to for people assume a great to the u. K. And changing the status of the and the identity of the people under that arrangement and of course we can see the side reach. Of the british on that procedure 1st by. The National Security law and destroying the freedom in hong kong so i think it is ripe for a response from the u. K. Governments. Still ahead hang on aljazeera. Im white hey in 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 it. Its time for the perfect jenny. Went sponsored plan Qatar Airways i once again weve got more wintry weather piling into japan over the next couple of days little circulation swirling away in the sea of japan tightly packed ice about the way it is coming in from that cool northerly direction across the a relatively warm waters of the sea of japan coles condenses forms the platforms the snow which will dump its way across many western parts of honshu into Northern Areas of the country iran across hokkaido sheltered by the mountains not so bad in tokyo temperatures here at around 9 or 10 celsius over the next couple of days a similar picture on sunday hopefully the showers becoming fewer and further between and by that stage as the winds fall a little lighter slightly milder air starts to push its way back in so with around 8 celsius getting up to 5 degrees there in beijing not just the central parts of china more the way of cloud and rain coming in here but down to the south its just a fine and dry front to try to across the good parts of south asia got some showers into eastern india maybe into addition into time will not do some heavy showers there lingering across sri lanka with the Winds Continuing to fade in on that northeasterly monsoon so some very heavy rain coming in over the next couple of days further north it stay small but cloudy for new delhi. Sponsored poll Qatar Airways its 10 years since revolutions across the arab world challenge the power of the us but how did these leaders rise to their positions the principle of the performers dictation is to be patient they play their game very carefully and how did they stay in control of the common thing amongst the arabic states as is incredible will to survive the arab awakening absolute power. On a. Whole. 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 chinas 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. Thailands 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. Protesters gathered outside the offices of bio science in bangkok this week accusing the government of being swayed by royal influence over its covert 19 Vaccine Program become pennies owned by the king and now holds the exclusive contract to manufacture the Oxford Astra Zeneca jab in thailand so far the only certified vaccine that prompted the main opposition figure who was banned from Holding Political office for 10 years by a court last year to go public with what he saw as a flawed process. Other question is better disc game gave too much benefit to one company on a royal defamation complaint has been filed against hanna torn for his criticism but hes undeterred and says his concern is more than just possible collusion during contract negotiations if anything were to go wrong with the vaccine manufacturing the governments hands are tied you have legal immunity because it used to stand but as a window to the government contract she is the chair of this committee and the things go wrong the government cannot. Do or no become body the minister of Public Health says theres no room for politics when it comes to vaccines i fully believe strongly believe that i have acquired the best the most proper. People i will make sure that there will be. I already privilege siham by a science or alternately manufacturer the Oxford Astra Zeneca japara thailand and the region up to 200000000. 00 doses a year to receive 20000000. 00 in Government Funds to upgrade its facilities part of a pandemic grant system the job will be free to all thais and will run as a nonprofit operation but c. M. Bio science stands to substantially boost its revenue once the pandemic is over busy times at this buddhist temple here and bangkoks chinatown as people come out to pray for good fortune ahead of the Lunar New Year while recognizing the government success in containing kobe 1000 some are concerned about the vaccine rollout and the politics surrounding it. But i think that the vaccine plan is not clear we still do not know if the vaccine is safe enough to use and thats what we want. Well you might that know. I dont know what the future holds i think that this is a very early phase and we wont find out the results of the vaccine immediately. What the year of the ox will hold for the people of thailand depends on controlling the virus and the success of its vaccine and many people here praying for just that its got harder aljazeera bangkok. Experts from the World Health