Oceans our planet may become an inhabited with the stock taking action we may need to can fix julys the problem and the solution better thats what were here for how welcome to equal india im some that im. If youre standing in the middle of her fathers its quiet and peaceful. But if youre close to a construction site one jackhammer things 90 decibels of selves to go you know. Lets go one notch higher if youre near an airplane its engine will expose you to 120 decibels of some. Noise over 70 decibels for a prolonged period of time stops for damage i heard but what happens if the city you live in is a noisy city a city which is too loud for too little we spend a few days of delhi to find out. Driving on the roads of one of the most polluted and noisiest cities in the world it is not just an assault on nursing pads luck hes also a columnist for his years he has been driving his all the rich in indias capital city death for over 20 years tells us braving the coffin of traffic 190. 00 less honking sounds has become routine to. You but that they are not able honk unnecessarily i would like the government to ban it even if you are waiting at a red light they honk their horns weve got a better. Then you get ready in the modern leave home and this is the 1st thing you encounter doesnt it in fact you did it with that emoticon i was at that absolutely i am in a terrible mood throughout the day but how many people can i fight against no one will understand if people were willing to understand they would not feel the need to have it at the beginning but about. These on the road 8 to 10 hours a day when our reporter asked him if he was afraid that all the Noise Pollution could be harming him he was dismissed. Ill be at the head disturbing what can i do i will not be able to arnie any money or that way. In india where noise permeates every day life if you are aware of the Health Implications it can cause permanent damage to people here. There were more than 10000000 when he comes on the streets of dead in 2080 the normal ambient sounds of the city have become. And. He studies. Using a basic he shows us. The problems. In the. Head of making a noise never just and this is not a very busy road in delhi this would be a normal road and. This this level will be at around 9095. 00. When the noise level. On the ears increase is significant. This is. A big problem in india specially in metropolitan city big city. You know every. Noise pollution in metro metro cities the latest report wasnt going to. Eat every metro city. And all the stations were not. Noisy standards during the daytime or during the nighttime in. The few countries with. In place. Years ago. With different. However unlike. Most pollution is ignored by the authorities the 1st issue is. This level is really really poor compared to air quality and Water Pollution if i compare it to enforcement action on Noise Pollution is very limited to enforcement is given to police you know i like air and Water Pollution but in force. In the pollution of parties police doesnt have you know enough knowledge they do not have. And they generally try not to you know take action on noise issue because they believe it is going to get your attention. To get a sense of how noisy. The problems associated with noise are not of course humans. And scientists in charge of the for ya. It also adversely affects the ecology of the city. Birds on vulcan ideation and songs so they have songs and. We make them to bring meat protect them from the radiator and then for a. Sound of a particular pitch they mix all these different. Dog dont i personally seen that how birds have acquired the out of form of historical white whether theyve been overtaken on the road noir nor are they no context of what we. Know moment so if that is known why is most of the birds started moving here and there and nesting success has grown in many many forward. Noise poses a threat to the wildlife that hampers animals ability to communicate interferes with the ability to detect look at their prey and also to look after their offspring. At the heart of the problem is a serious lack of a very extensive noise is said to be one of the main factors reducing peoples quality of life in big cities and see just be impacting different. Has studied the impact of Noise Pollution on graphic person the doctor is at the forefront of fighting Noise Pollution. Yet it is it is a list of the phenomenon for example when you would go well this is a good budget that so that you have this buzzing you know you have got a couple of 5 and then to get incomes back to normal that is called that then put it its a short shift but when you are exposed to loud noises all want to know what again the bodies says news it is love to come back to normal and then it is becomes pullman and then thats called a moment into a short shift when that happens you hear it becomes it most of the damage and it is looked anything and there is no make this and that can get your hearing back. Or study the spot of the ball getting in front of the ring in the words loud to cities leads to hearing loss equivalent to a person 10 to 20 years old other studies have also linked Noise Pollution stress depression and cardiovascular problems but the problem. On this focused collaboration and conscious efforts on the. Noise about hears could be one solution there is a growing market in india for soundproofing to Consumer Solutions but the problem also needs to be addressed at a more fundamental we have to reduce the outside noise itself and the baby can reduce it is by 1st of all making sure that vehicles are meeting the standards in fact people have to make sure that they can. Get the noise levels are really high we would have to start putting noise values to residential and other critical areas so i think that is construction related mitigation measures that you have to do for noise and ill give it to you people have to all of us feel happy about that and reduce noise. And one mental measures can help to say as scientists for ya. Noise can be reduced with grease and shrubs the to could afford the more efficiently it can serve as a sound and figure out noise what is going to be built in wise there is very interesting. And way to getting air pollution but also cutting Noise Pollution because if it gets. To be noise if noise if there is a noise in a corner. It cannot but ive been through what a. Bark but i was it got built it but it did have plastic and therefore impact. To the birds any most any event of a human being. People like norse and paul who migrated to delhi because it offers them a chance to earn a livelihood living this noise the city is not really an option the best he can do is appeal to his fellow citizens better just. Delhi is not really an exception most cities of the world. And many of them have another big problem if pollution the city of bangkok for example with millions of daily commute is coming in and out of the city traffic is a huge problem is that a feasible and sustainable solution to this lets take a look. Welcome to bangkok and to endless klong streets the traffic crawls along if it moves at all. Most of the drivers here are commuters who live in the thai capital quiet suburbs. Is to rejigger party ma is one of the millions of such commuters she lives in the lock sea district of northern bangkok at 7 am she begins her journey and eats her breakfast at the wheel. Its a pattern repeated by. Commuters all over the city most choose to leave early as they dont know how long theyll need to get to work. The traffic various from one day to the next some days the congestion beginnings right outside my door other days it starts somewhere on the journey but more or less the entire route from my place to work is congested its around 20 kilometers. The journey takes an hour and a half she once worked out that she wastes 32. 00 days of her life every year stuck in traffic not to mention the impact on the environment const by all the exhaust fumes. Monitoring stations across the city measure the air quality and deliver the results to the city authorities officials here say particulate matter is a real problem in bangkok as they know from personal experience. Personally id like to go for walks in the city. Sometimes i notice that its difficult to bring me there but there are times when i get home and my ice of watering in the corner. And sometimes when i walk into the house my family starts now using as if i had brought the particulate matter with me. And this is one of the worst culprits the all diesel powered buses that crisscross the city most are around 25 years old theyre popular because theyre cheap to ride they account for around one 3rd of all journeys made in the city but they need to get stuck in traffic around 60 percent of journeys are made by private car that will have to change if thailand is to meet its pledge of reducing Greenhouse Gas. Emissions by 20 percent by 2030. The Government Transport Department says its on the case. When the. The 1st thing we have to do is build up a better public transport network. The only way and once there are enough public transport options powered buses that crisscross the city most are around 25 years old theyre popular because theyre cheap to ride they account for around one 3rd of all journeys made in the city but they need to get stuck in traffic around 60 percent of journeys are made by private car that will have to change if thailand is to meet its pledge of reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions by 20 percent by 2030. The Government Transport Department says its on the case. When the. The 1st thing we have to do is build up a better public transport network. The only way and once there are enough public transport options for people to use when we start tackling the issue of private cars. Then still insist on using their own car they will have to pay a charge thats about all. Charge. One of the main plans is to expand the elevated Rapid Transit system for sky train as its known by 2029 the network is sent to cover 500 kilometers right now the Train Service remember tim lee small number of people only 3 percent of all urban journeys are made on the sky train or underground metro system. For those who dont live near the train line theres a relatively new Service Available and. App that allows them to book a took took which will then take them to the nearest train station the auto rickshaw. Providing a relatively quiet emission free journey to the sky train. The Company Behind it move me has only been going 3 years. Were doing quite well we got. The call we bought. Before. We. Expand. On this year. Like elsewhere many people in bangkok have seen their income take a hit in the current pandemic so the idea of introducing a tool for cars in the city is a sensitive issue. The benefits would surely make it worthwhile with better air quality and quieter and less congested roads and the income from the toll could be invested in further improving the public transport system. But in european cities too the debate over congestion charges continued for many years before action was taken and many western countries still dont have congestion tolls but things in bangkok clearly cant continue as they are the city currently has over 10000000 motorized vehicles 1000000 of them were added last year alone. Cities. Looks nice doesnt it of living in a 247 lit up city causes a huge problem especially to those whose health and well being depends on getting a good nights sleep. Sky resplendent with stars. Something many people around the world are sadly no longer able to enjoy. And. Artificial light while there are no up to date figures available in 24 team the skies over hong kong were already 82 times brighter than they might be naturally. We suffer sleep deprivation from too much artificial light including that committed by smartphones. It also disrupts the orientation of nocturnal birds and insects. Our Energy Consumption could also be cut drastically by ensuring responsible outdoor lighting. For starters it would help if advertising signs and building facades werent to limited on my lawn. And if nighttime lights were used only for the places where its really needed. Some cities have already committed to minimizing artificial light such as fulda in germany its among the 29. 00 places so far to earn recognition as International Dark sky communities. Cities like these make it possible to see the starlit sky again and reset the body clocks of us creatures below to their natural day and night rhythm. Now bats sleep during the day and come out only at night they had an old species theyve been living on earth for more than 50000000 years but today most of them up threatened the habitats and sources of food a fost one issue and now the even have to deal with Light Pollution in the netherlands scientists have found a solution to this problem. And theres one. And the official on the figures at least 5. Far away from the bright lights of amsterdam dr commute spoelstra is often a creature that likes to operate under the cover of darkness. He is studying how lights are affecting bats so far his team has found that the 19 species of bat found in the netherlands react in widely different ways. Lets have a very strong response to learnt theres actually driven by mostly by fear of predators so if youre about that flies very slowly you better hide away and dont show yourself in the light because its its risky however if youre a bat that flies very fast its very agile and it dont need to be afraid that much for predators so you actually like taking away valuable habitat from the slow flying species and exclude giving it to do these already common. But species and thats one of course not a good thing and domes of biodiversity you actually reducing biodiversity that nocturnal species are sensitive to the blue range of light as they have evolved to use the moon to navigate and brag of the blue the more distracting it is to test how species respond to other parts of the spectrum the researchers have put up almost 200. 00 lamp posts around the country that shine a range of colors if you take away to a new part of the spectrum and and compensate by a bit more rats which you actually see here. And it may actually be less intrusive for these not the most reaches not all species may not perceive this light as intense and thats exactly what we have observed. A different kind of red light is all the rage in amsterdam and the citys nocturnal inhabitants are out in all their splendor. Light here has become so bright it is now considered a pollutant. The world over brightness and luminosity are growing at a rate of 2 percent per year. As the night gets more illuminated studies are linking Light Pollution to destructive Natural Cycles as well as Mental Health in humans. The International DarkSky Association has called for a massive reduction in light leakage as the planet is becoming so bright borders can be clearly seen from space. By the netherlands at the forefront of fighting like pollution in europe with some and its ability is even switching off lights completely on parts of the highway. And there are church outside eindhoven to farmers a nickel and her husband carlos are also members of the Community Fighting for darkness and its bouts for reasons of their own who try to. Kill well you know the harmful insects in the natural way so we use. Insects to cool to kill other insects and thats where also the bats common because birds eat lots of cocks 1st 1st they actually eat the roots of to fruit trees especially the up trees and so if the bets a lot of cooks shaffers we dont have those terrible groups in the ground eating on routes through. If so. Thats why we like best. Thats work is natural best decides and are an essential part of how the ecosystem of the orchard functions. This farm even has a bad hood dell to make the mammals feel extra welcome. You can see over here. That there are there are vets living in the virtual trial because the civil courts over you on the move. There excrements have proved. The Community Around has installed special back friendly lights in the area to make sure the animals stay put as night falls. Around 10 pm the bats check out of the herd and disposed through the farm ready for a meal and to play their role in the ecosystem. Maurice donners is a researcher and signified the company in the design the lights around the orchard. He explains that lighting is more than merely installing glowing lamps. We need lighting but we do solution to it in a really sustainable way. Show obviously energy efficiency. In. The cradle. But also in the direct effect misfires are going to have from you have to effect on their own the whole ecosystem and not just on people. But some districts in the netherlands have in fact become darker as a result of such initiatives as satellite images show giving some of its residents and its resident bats the beloveds night sky in back. But. If each one of us is a very of the consequences of our action on the environment thats when we can start to take action do a small ping every day or 2 healthy and bob would turn off the tap while brushing your teeth use a very usable coffee mug carry a plot back on your shopping trip. 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Of that that i will read them well and. When i am. Like this. Thank god. The European Union approves the astra zeneca Coronavirus Vaccine the e use Health Agency recommends the vaccine for all adults over the age of 18 the e. U. Is locked in a legal dispute with the drug maker over vaccine delivery delay. And taking on big oil for farmers from nigeria when a compensation case against shell for damages caused by oil leaks after a 13 year legal battle. Thanks for joining us we start with some breaking news regulators have approved astra Zeneca Corona virus vaccine for use in the European Union the European Medicines Agency gave the go ahead to begin an ocular in people aged 18 and over the e. U. Is facing a storm of criticism for its sluggish vaccine rollout the European Commission is expected to give the final sign off on the vaccine shortly. Correspondent. Is in brussels why has it taken the e. U. So long to approve this vaccine michael i would say overall the e. U. Is taking a better safe than sorry approach of mobile more cautious approach if you want to compare it to countries like the u. K. When it comes to vaccine approval so what the e. U. Did not want to do including all the 27 Member States is emergency approval because that does not hold Companies Like astra zeneca liable for potential side effects and that is something that has slowed down this process another aspect and maybe an aspect of cusco related to this is that astra zeneca only formally handed in authorization on general re 12 for its vaccine so that is much later than in the u. K. Where its been received in march and see approval already in december so these may be correlated but these are 2 aspects of why the approval has taken so long yesterday German Health officials recommended that the astra zeneca vaccine not be given to people over the age of 65 has he and they said anything about this issue. Other regulator today made clear that its been a socalled rolling refuel and that data is still coming in and that more data will be coming in on that particular age group but so far they said they were happy with the results they have seen they have some good data on the immunization numbers that the vaccine apparently creates in people yes in the face of 3 trials they dont have the the numbers required to make a specific recommendation for that age group but from the numbers they have they see this as a vaccine fit for all adults over 18. This comes as you well know georg as the e. U. Willys is a highly redacted version of its contract with astra zeneca placing the blame for delivery delays clearly on the vaccine producer tell us more about that now thats really interesting and that is why the e. U. Pressed hard for this contract to be released so that there is more transparency unfortunately big parts of the contract are blacked out but i think we can focus on some aspects that are not in the contract and that is for instance mentioning that other contracts out there for instance one with the u. K. Where other countries are privileged and that is something to use us that should have been in the contract if it were to be the case that other other countries receive vaccines of 1st another thing that is in the contract is a specific mentioning of u. K. Sites for production and that is why the e. U. Says so the u. K. Factories are not just turn into places to turn to and that means from their perspective the supply problem in the supply chain in europe should affect all customers around the world including the u. K. In brussels much thanks as always. The yes or seneca vaccine is one of the 3 being used as part of britains vaccination drive the country has one of the highest death tolls in the world but as we have heard it is also making more progress than any other country especially here in europe when it comes to inoculating its citizens. Takes a closer look. This is the most advanced front seen program in europe just like that this lady joins at the 7000000 people in the u. K. Weve received the 1st dose of the vaccine the u. K. Is on track to vaccinate some 15000000 people by the middle of february thats every one of the 70 care home residents and the clinically vulnerable as well as health and social can stuff that. Was quite happy to get it actually it was very nice the people were so friendly so polite. When i was happy it was dead easy to become on line lots of appointments all very efficient its a Great Program the government has undertaken and its extremely rare organized the u. K. Started it flexing rollout in early december it was the 1st to approve both the pfizer biotech and offered astra zeneca vaccines it since set up over 1400. 00 sites with everything from cathedrals mosques and cinemas converted to roll out the scheme theres no doubt that the u. K. s Vaccination Program is an impressive just a cool feat but this is just one side of the u. K. s 900 story well it might be leading the rest of europe in terms of the number of people being vaccinated it also has one of the highest death tolls in the world and thats a fact not lost on anybody here. Over 100000. 00 people have died in the u. K. Within 28. 00 days of a positive test thats more than the entire capacity of Londons Wembley football stadium. The emergence of a new more transmissible variant of the virus has further deepen the crisis it spread like wildfire across the country and left hospital struggling to cope numbers now harder than any other time weve got a journalist on demick so the system is under massive stress. Can stop rationing is Cancer Treatment were running in but she crosses looking after it was crowbar and also is associated with such is this desperate race between the new variants and the vaccine shaping the u. K. s rollout strategy its opting to leave up to 12 weeks between doses deviating from this 3 week camp trial by pfizer by giving some immunity to the maximum number of people authorities hope to cut fatalities and reduce pressure on the health service. From. Professor rob it reads a member of the independent committee which approved the strategy under normal circumstances you must adhere to the regulated because all of however these are not normal circumstances we have to bergson it is many people as we can as quickly as we can and its our job. That by doing this my home is one population the corroboree of us is that if we dont do this there will be considerable home through lost opportunity. But this strategy has its critics with some warning there isnt enough child data to support it all the u. K. Rolled out soft to a strong start this is a marathon not a sprint and potential hurdles still lay ahead but in a world where vaccine supply is becoming increasingly challenging those driving away today know that the lucky ones. Now some more promising news on the vaccine front u. S. Drug maker novak says it its a vaccine in Development Provides robust protection against covert 19 a british trial of 15000 patients found the drug to be almost 90 percent effective the shot proved nearly as successful in preventing the u. K. Variant of the virus but the jab was only 50 percent effective against the new imitation spreading in south africa. Heres a look now at some other developments in the pandemic the makers of russias sputnik the vaccine say they can provide 100000000 doses to the e. U. Hungry is the only country in the block to have approved the russian job mexico has passed india in having the 3rd highest death toll within 155000 have died there and the United Nations has called 2020 the worst year in tourism history global losses top one trillion euros. Lets have a look at other stories making headlines around the world at this hour a bomb has exploded outside the Israeli Embassy in delhi as it marked the anniversary of setting up diplomatic ties with india no injuries were reported but an israeli official says the incident is being viewed as terrorism. China will no longer recognize the British National overseas passport many hong kong residents told the u. K. Government announced it would open its doors to hong kong citizens after beijing imposed a controversial security law. And u. S. President joe biden has reversed a ban on u. S. Foreign aid organizations that perform or promote abortions the policy slashed funding to Health Services across Africa Studies say it restricted womens access to contraceptives leading to more on wanted pregnancy. A court in the netherlands has ordered the energy multinational shell to pay compensation for oil spills in the niger delta after a 13 year legal battle the case was brought by 4 nigerian farmers who claim their land was polluted the amount of compensation is not yet fixed. It looks like justice has finally been done. After 13 years of legal wrangling the Dutch Appeals Court is holding the Oil Multinational shell responsible for spills from its pipelines in nigeria. And all they can afford of the court finds that Shell Nigeria is responsible for damages caused by the leaks sell nigerias here by order to pay compensation to the farmers. So. Now these farmers could finally see summer dress for the land and ponds that they lost. Yes with the 5th ball that we had were looking to finish. Up with. These fields were so tainted by oil that nothing much has grown here since. What made me angry was that last night. Is that we had destroyed my fish pond the verdict is good news for the farmers who took the oil giant to court but it could also help other nigerians who have suffered the un discovered chemicals that can cause cancer in some Drinking Water in the region and babies born within a 10 kilometer radius are most twice as likely to die before they are month old and many more victims could now claim compensation from the worlds 2nd largest oil company. Up until an hour ago people in developing countries were without any rights when confronted by multinationals such a sell and from today on they know they can get their rights but the amount of compensation for the farmers has yet to be determined i do hope that they will actually get some compensation soon because it was a stake and. For some it will be too late in any case. 2 of the claimants have already died. But the verdict helps to empower poor farmers who take on powerful global corporations. Sport now and some of the worlds top tennis stars have been allowed out of corn team before next months Australian Open rafa Nadal Djokovic and Serena Williams were among those stuck in Australian Hotels for 14 days but they were at least able to train outside 72 other players had to undergo full hornstein with no outdoor practice. So what do you do if you are an olympic skiing hopeful but you cant get to the slopes because of the virus while 14 year old george brown has the answer he has built his own mini slope in his back garden in england after a flurry of snow his goal is to make it to the 2026 Winter Olympics hes also been busy training in the garden even when there isnt any snow. A masterpiece by the italian renaissance painter bought to charlie has fetched a record price at an auction in new york the painting sold for 76000000 euros young man with a roundel depicts a young nobleman showing off his own work a decorative medallion bearing the image of a saint it is considered one of the finest portraits and dates all the way back to the 15th century. And a reminder of the top story we are following the European Medicines Agency has authorized over 1000 vaccine for all adults the approval comes with the loft in a dispute with the drug maker over planned vaccine delivery and with european nations struggling to ramp up vaccinations. Coming up next. Well have your Business News more news at the top of the hour of course dont forget you can always get the latest news and information around the clock on our web site thats. Dot com. And im game thats 7 feet through the. Worldwide sheer so that we can. But its not just the animals little suffering its the environment on a journey to find ways out of the machine if you are