A special british passport issued to people in hong kong and accuses the u. K. Of political interference. Thanks for joining us the European Union is expected to give astra zeneca as covert 1000 Vaccine Limited emergency approval in the coming hours and 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 its contract which it says proves the vaccine maker is obliged to meet its promised 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 on thursday brussels war and it may have to ban exports of vaccines produced on the continent to protect stock its also questioned why it appears that the u. K. Supply has been unaffected and there is more potential help for the global inoculation dr with 2 more american jobs nearing completion there is no novaks vaccine its shown to be around 90 percent effective. And trials of a
Welcome to the program the European Commission has approved corona virus vaccine for use across the e. U. Brussels signed off on the drug after the European Medicines Agency gave the go ahead to allow inoculations for people over the age of 18 he was facing a storm of criticism for the slow pace of its vaccine rollout astra zeneca is the 3rd vaccine to gain approval after those from biotech pfizer and medan. Straight to brussels that we find correspondent teri schultz welcome teri millions of people in the u. K. Have already received this vaccine why is the e. U. Been so slow. Thats right phil but despite all the pressure and the criticism the European Medicines Agency is not in the business of apologizing for taking whatever time it feels is necessary in a life or death issue like this so today in our briefing yemeni officials said that the astra zeneca data was very complex and despite the fact that it was the 1st one that they started looking to approve they were still getting data
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
Of knowledge to. Add will get reaction from kenya where doctors had been forced to drop some of their Reproductive Services because of a lack of dont aid from the u. S. Now the new us president has just reversed that policy. Plus weve got the story on what is behind the turtle hatchlings in kenya 7 beaches. Hello im kristie wonder its good to have your Company South africas chief pandemic advise us say a 3rd wave of covert 19 which is expected in the 2nd half of the year could be even worse than the current to 2nd way south africa is the worst hit country. A continent with 43000 deaths and 1400000 cases now the number of infections has soared because of the new variant of the virus that is say to be 50 percent more transmissible now the country is expecting its 1st delivery of 1000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine thats made to arrive on monday ill be talking to professor sally in a deal karim after this report. Health care workers at the frontline of south africas Coronavirus Cris
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