From this moment onwards dutch multinationals will be held accountable for their activities and their actions in developing countries and thats an enormous victory for for for that the rights of more globally. By degrees has been following proceedings from a boozer. This is not the only case in court either in the netherlands or in the u. K. Where hundreds of people have queued up to shell 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 similar communities up and successful to try call a shell in nigeria and 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 activists are sa
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Trials so its jobs to be nearly 90 percent effective against covert 19. A dutch Court Orders Oil giant shell to pay compensation for contaminating communities in nigeria. And 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. With a small 12. 00 to 14. 00 days of quarantine the wools took to the stalls are back on cooled him astray and firms were allowed to. Welcome to the news hour the European Union is expected to give astra zeneca covert 1000 Vaccine Limited emergency approval in the coming hours thats despite a growing dispute between the block and the company about a shortage of supply so the e. U. Has released a redacted copy of a contract which it says proves the vaccine maker is obliged to meet its promise supply it was expecting at least 80000000. 00 doses by the end of march but astra zeneca cut supply a week ago blaming manufacturing issues now on thursday brussels warned that it ma
Shell to pay compensation for damages caused by oil spill. More protests and scuffles near indias capital as farmers demonstrate against laws they say will hurt them but benefit corporate farms. So the new European Health regulators have given emergency approval for the office for the astra zeneca Coronavirus Vaccine to be used by adults across the 27 country blog the announcement comes after a dispute between the e. U. And the company the e. U. Was expecting at least 80000000 doses by the end of march but we go astra zeneca cut it supply blaming manufacturing issues. Its a real pleasure to be here until i announce the 3rd positive opinion for the authorize ation of the astra zeneca covert 19 vaccine this expand the range of Vaccines Available to e. U. Member states which will all help to bring the pandemic under control and protect the citizens of the e. U. We now have 3 vaccines that have been developed and recommended for approval approval against a disease that we did not know one
Im next on American History tv. Author Donald Miller interviews Jessica Shattuck about her novel, the women in the castle. She explains how her familys connection to nazi germany influenced her work, and how her research informed her understanding of german citizens during world war ii. This when our top was part of a three Day Conference hosted by the National World War Ii Museum in new orleans. So, welcome back. This next session is a unique one for our conference. For those of you who come here regularly, you are used to seeing the best and brightest minds in the field of world war ii history. This normally means the best selling authors of history books, leading professors and documentarians. But when we were planning this years program, we decided to mix it up by inviting a novelist, and only the second one that weve hosted in the conferences for the entire time that weve been doing these. Don miller, authors of masters at the air is also one of our longest standing advisers and c