Covert 1000 locked down measures. President Joe Bidens Administration signals a more assertive approach to the conflict in libya on turkish and Russian Forces to leave immediately. And claims of contaminated communities in the geria dutch court is expected to deliver its verdict against oil giant shell. So we begin with news of another Coronavirus Vaccine that could soon enter circulation late stage trials of the u. S. Produce novaks vaccine show it to be almost 90 percent effective and shown promising efficacy against both the u. K. And to a slightly lesser extent South African strains of the virus meanwhile the head of the European Commission says drug maker asked as zeneca has not given a plausible explanation for delaying is deliveries after the block leaders demanded an inspection of their plant in belgium and Germany Health officials have warned that the astra zeneca vaccine should only be given to people under the age of 65. 00 saying there isnt enough data on older people but is a social epidemiologist and fessor of the center of social medicine and Community Health at joel narrow university and he joins us from new delhi via skype very good to have you with us weve got another highly effective vaccine in the works tell us about as and how it differs to the other vaccines that are already in circulation who are manning. This vaccine comes from a relatively less known company in the u. S. Which was part of the initial 1600000000. 00 u. S. Dollar so used to be in the operation was speed so what you did sensually does based on your experiences with martin sars virus is that did you use a Novel Technology where it basically. Extracts the spike proteins from the are in a virus causing. B b b to convert 19. If it cultures in a sense in a virus going back of the virus and then. Then replicate this in a morgue system to create new particles which which it converts into nano particles and then uses an had given to enhance an argument be immune response in short whats causing the optimism its very encouraging results in the recently completed their trials in new. And in specific its its its but to ensure the good results against the new variance certainly against that you get very in but somewhat less against the South African hierarchy is it less against a South African variant or should we be concerned about constantly having to catch up as the virus mutates. 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 and to genic 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 vaccine options and virus adaptations if we look at someone bison is really in sight case in the astra zeneca vaccine weve got a rally going on over in the in the e. U. And part of us is germany saying that it is not for pad to give that advice saying to the over 60 fives whilst the u. K. Is doing that so why the discrepancy. Well that seems to be the decision of the german regulator coming in the last 24 hours there have been concerns about it if you can see and possible safety among the older than 65 Year Old Age Group and therefore for the present the german regulator has limited it to the age groups 14 to 65 though as you very rightly say is going on 4 for the age groups and their response from u. K. Seems to be that they are indeed satisfied this is probably an evolving situation but should be clearing soon ok all right rajeev does go up to thanks very much for taking time to join us with your expertise there from new delhi thank you omar brazil has vaccinated more than 1000000 people but its less than half of one percent of the population and that is like manna else the gateways the amazon rain forest still face a shortage of oxygen and hospitals corruption scandals are also hampering the vaccine rollout well again a kiev has more when you back to vaccines has arrived in my mouth and inoculations have resumed after being suspended from. The Vaccination Program team under scrutiny after vocal off dorothys work used to fever in themselves and friends i think keeping the mind in taking shots i had 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 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 both anything he does and didnt make it was you ask a nurse to help 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 man hours this week for the 2nd time hes also being investigated for allegedly mishandling the crisis. So we to 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 mouth and much more contagious than the 1st it has already spread to some bomoh brazils richest city as a result countries like the United States portugal peru and colombia are restricting flights to and from brazil. Bring tell us 1st period of 30 days passenger flights from colombia to brazil and brazil to colombia will be suspended us brazil as the largest covert 900. 00 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. Wilson now who has always downplayed the virus and even questioned the value of vaccine he has also asked governors and mayors to avoid walk down government after all its got think twice about restrictive policies you must understand that isolation locked down 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. Mind being inactive or just sirrah the additional. Experts from the World Health Organization have that chinese scientists and will harness they continue their investigation into the origins of covert 19 a team is now expected to conduct its 1st failed visit in the city w. H. O. Said research as will visit hospitals labs and the food markets that have been linked to the earliest cases of the virus. Protests in lebanon have been growing. Measures and 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 rest in a honda 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 2 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 lockdown they said that the government is not for writing the poor and the funder of the Financial Freedom to 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 theyre not they want to new 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 states 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 are drowning in poverty the un says 55 percent of the population are now poor and this is a small nation of 5000000 people one 3rd of the workforce unemployed so difficult a tense situation in this city. Still ahead. What the free trading up small time investors to get rich has come under fire. God bless you all thank you thank you thank you and we take a look back at the life of american hollywood legend cicely tyson. Weve got much smaller approaching into western parts of the year but we are going to still see a fair bit of snow in the forecast is because through the next couple days because that moderate streaming in from the atlantic is bumping into decidedly colder air is it does so what rain we do have coming in from the west were really turn to snow on the leading flank so we see some snow coming in across germany poland austria easing further east was fair bit of snow coming in across eos maybe another meter also a fresh snow coming in here be some snow to around the balkans and of course to the east weve already got snow there into ukraine pushing up into that western side of russia through the Baltic States but heres that model red that wetter weather which will eventually talk its way in over the next couple of days temps getting up to 15 celsius in madrid will see highs of around 17 into processes pretty good weather coming in here that moderate that wetter weather will continue to push its way further race with so some heavy downpours moving across france a. Because on 3 sats day still some right around of course on the pulse of england and wales and still a little bit of snow there its east anglia the low countries pushing down to the southern parts of germany will see some snow say by this stage making its way across central and eastern parts of turkey and turning very wet and windy for the eastern med. American people have finally for poking around here as i see it when america is off balance or become more dangerous the world is looking and i was feeling mixture of sadness and grief. With the election behind us while the Republican Party dumptruck the feel we can take on us politics and society not the bottom line. On prompted and uninterrupted discussions from on Nandan Brokaw centime. On and using a. Router or or. Form. And there again youre watching out of there as a reminder of our top stories this hour the u. S. Drug company novak says its Coronavirus Vaccine has been shown to be more than 89 percent effective during trials in the u. K. These trials suggest its a factor because the new variant of 19 1st found in the u. K. And protests in lebanon have been growing as anger rises that lockdown measures and government corruption 2 people being killed and hundreds injured in 4 days of unrest. There is actually general and the Un Security Council are once again calling on all Foreign Forces and mercenaries to leave libya under a cease fire deal they were told to withdraw by the end of this month that has not yet happened. James bays reports. Its now almost 10 years since the start of the uprising in libya its been a decade of death and misery but the uns outgoing acting special representative Stephanie Williams told the Security Council there was no reason for hope that cease fire 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 Administration and he demonstrated what appears to be a more forceful u. S. Policy we call all external parties to include russia turkey and the u. A. E. To respect libyan sovereignty and immediately cease all military intervention in libya a line echoed later when i asked the u. N. Secretary general about libya can you please today give us your message to those countries that are still involved militarily in libya. The libyans are doing their part its essential that all the others that are involved in the libyan crisis will do their part its essential that all foreign troops and all foreign mercenaries move 1st to benghazi and to tripoli and from there move back and leave the libyans alone because the leaders have already proven that left alone that able to address their problems at the end of the meeting the Security Council agreed to position calling on all foreign fighters to leave libya russia in a statement to out 0 said that it has no military in the country although there be numerous reports that the wagner group a mercenary company has been operating in libya turkey has long said that its forces are in the country at the request of the legitimate government both those countries though now know theres a new policy from the u. S. Government as does the United Arab Emirates which is already seen an arms deal worth 23000000000. 00 blocked for now james out 0 of the United Nations. The u. S. Says its still committed to a negotiated settlement with the taliban in afghanistan president joe bidens team says it will review the deal the trumpet ministrations signed with the armed group we are still involved in trying to get a negotiated settlement the taliban have not met their commitments. As you know there is a looming deadline of early may that that is before everybody in terms of you know wanting to have. A solution here but without them meeting their commitments to renounce terrorism and to. Stop the Violent Attacks on the Afghan NationalSecurity Forces and you know by dint of that the Afghan People its very hard to see. A specific way forward for the negotiated settlement but were still committed. Talks of peace with the taliban continue another group is taking up arms the ethnic hazaar a community has been persecuted figure is in afghanistan now young men are forming militias of their own. Head has more of a regular walk to visit the grave site of her sons to watch her so that is among the thousands of grieving has our mothers in afghanistan who followed this routine her sons were killed in an attack on the Shia Community in november. My youngest son answered my call from the hospital he said his brother was injured and asked me to go to the hospital as soon as i can when i arrived at the doctors were around him and he was dying i left him and went to find my eldest son but he was dead. Most of the people buried at the cemetery in the central city of by me on our radar as their leaders say since the 1990 s. They are the most persecuted ethnic group in afghanistan the Un Human Rights Commission estimates more than a 1000 hazaar as have been killed or injured in incidents of targeted attacks beheadings and kidnapping young boys are men many of whom have been wounded in the attacks so they are forming their own militia they say thousands of them are now united to fight for their own protection i see has claimed responsibility for recent attacks but many here accuse the taliban of targeting has are as the taliban has told al jazeera its fighters do not target ethnic minorities. They got more visible at us than we believe the only way for his or people to choose to stand is only stage and not stand they are always oppressed when we stand at least our conscience is clear in front of our people and made on board the province members of the resistance for Justice Movement militia say their commander Abdul Ghani Ali poor the militia leader whos been accused of human rights abuse was released on bail in 2018 after his arrest caused violent demonstrations. Because our fight is the they have to pick up weapons because the government has repeatedly failed them but. Because unfortunately our expectation from the government to defend us was not fulfilled and we had to take the gun and stand in defense in order to survive otherwise we pay taxes there is a government and the budget is spent they must defend us but we have not been defended for many years. In the last decade thousands of us our men have also taken part in the fighting in syria the fierce battles have provided trained fighters for the Minority Community some as our leaders told aljazeera the shia fighters were driven more by Economic Opportunity and religious ideology. Thats likely not going to change until there is security in jobs and are going to stand and the complicated war haunts us our civilians who continue to pay the ultimate price some of the job there. For years efforts to clean up contaminated communities in nigerias Oil Rich Delta being bogged down in dispute and democracy in 2011 the United NationsEnvironment Program proposed the creation of a 1000000000. 00 fund to repair the damage done by decades of spills in the land area but activists say they are not impressed with the pace of what. In the niger delta. Workers educate anything better to flush out or look in border creek. As all comes to the surface a boom truss this large 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 this is to remediate. Creek. After. Restoring. Groups 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 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 are not on target for what we have planned but were trying to see what we can do to catch 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 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 buy some activists in the region are less impressed with the work so far. People hope for. Is one. How many years. And thats not the only concern significant amount of all 3rd continues in the region for the 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 clean up me in the end be a waste of time and resources as re contamination could occur our media greece. Or in nigerias Oil Producing niger delta has been another twist in the financial battle between multibillion dollar wall street hedge funds on small time traders a number of lawsuits filed against Trading Platform robin hood. Blocks people from buying war shares in the gaming gaming store game stop. Has more. Robin hood online brokerage has been one of the hottest been use for investors in retail trading 2. Now its a target of disgruntled customers celebrities and politicians heres the latest on that robin hood shares in the u. S. Store game stop were down until a chat group on reddit recently banded together to buy stocks that sent the company skyrocketing undercutting major hedge funds who were shorting the stock but on thursday those shares tanks after robinhood restricted purchases of new stocks of game stop on top of that robinhood also blocked a new trades in several other Companies Including amc blackberry and nokia which were also soaring because of the chat group users on the app can still close out positions but cant buy more adaptive blogger dave portnoy says robin hood cant just try to block online trends simply because they dont favor traditional trading theres no way to force you to add thats why things we want to get or you can just pick up and change the rules at a whim whenever you feel like it why why can a bank if i make a deposit just say thats our money now. One of. 6 her many investors who made it big on game stop and other blocks companies are furious as fuck they have a big stake in robin hood and they did the film with you know thats not right theyre going to throw over the word but the c. E. O. Of robin hood says he is doing his customers a favor we absolutely did not do this in the direction of the market maker or hedge fund or anyone we rally to your other Market Participants so were really unprecedented. In order to protect the firm and protect our customers we have a few limit buy in these in the starts this user on twitter said this is my portfolio when robin hood decides to protect me. Other investors who buy stocks based on internet trends feel the same way. Thoughts that by the way i invested in because i believe in the internet i believe in wall street i believe in reddit and i believe that they would go up because i believe in the power of that in you cant cry foul if youre too john to realize the power of the internet the fall out even cause to u. S. Political adversaries to band together democrat Alexandria Ocasio Cortez says she supported a hearing to investigate robin hoods actions republican ted cruz tweeted saying he fully agrees the irony of robin hoods name is not lost on game stop investors this woman said imagine naming your app robin hood and then blocking purchases when the poor are literally swindling the rich leo harding aljazeera American Television fair to film star sesame tyson has died age of 96 i just shy of living the life i like knowing there was a winning actress as well known for her role as the foremost slave in the autobiography of misjudging pittman and more recently in 2011 and the help of a foreman is often spoke to americas difficult racial possed and in 2016 black obama awarded her the president ial medal of freedom john murray as an independent media and Popular Culture critic he says cicely tyson broke down barriers for black women in hollywood. Well you know cicely tyson was a force of nature shes what i call a performance activists actually use the arts to expand the perception and the humanity of black people she was a former model turned actress and her mom didnt want to become an actress but she became one anyway and she took on a complex historic it personal character is critically acclaimed roles like sound of the autobiography of miss jane pittman roots and one of my favorites the women of bruce the point you know cicely had been acting since 1956 and she had a career resurgence in the mid 2000 with a series of roles that tyler perry put her in her body of work won her 3 emmys a tony award a peabody and she even received an Honorary Academy award for rock obama gave her the president ial medal of freedom and thats not too bad for a woman who didnt start acting until she was 31 she broke down barriers for not just black people in hollywood but for black women ever typically women of darker skin did we know what the goal were violet davis Octavia SpencerLupita Nyongo go with out cicely tyson she wanted to uplift the culture she wanted to change this perceptions and not buy into the stereotypes that we know that hollywood in the Entertainment Industry has historically had for black people she was groundbreaking and pioneering and she used her art to make change and the fact that she was still working up into the very end she had just done and im a juror interview her memoir with gayle king that just aired 2 days before she passed living until youre 96 with a body of work and a legacy like cicely tyson thats what we call good living and thats the legacy we should all aim to have