From Oil Giant Shell of the environmental damage caused by will for this team deal they go back. A method he held welcome to the Program Germany is imposing a travel ban on countries most affected by new coronavirus variants the measure came into effect just alice ago and will remain until at least the 17th of february early and says the restrictions on necessary to prevent a surge in new infections. The fear of new coronavirus mutations is real in germany its also one of the main concerns for German Authorities to prevent them from spreading fast in the country the government has now announced a new travel restrictions the interior ministry has imposed an entry by until the 17th of february for travelers from countries that are particularly affected by them brazil ireland portugal south africa the u. K. List so 2 and a swat team. Mutations have not hit germany as hard as other countries but a radio hospital in berlin was forced to halt admissions after several cases were fond of the mutation 1st discovered in britain and Health Officials are stressing that the situation could deteriorate. We have to assume that if the more contagious variants continue to break in this country they will lead to even more cases in the near future and the situation will probably get worse we must Work Together to prevent. Desmond turner is missing. The travel ban a seen as a step in that direction but it is still unclear how effective it could be. All the ban takes hold just when transmission rights appear to be slowing in germany for the 1st time in months the countrys 7 day incidence has fallen below 100. 00 per 100000 residents so why impose the travel ban now when the current restrictions appear to be working hes the devil of Political Correspondent has brought. Well the answer to that is fear fear of the new mutations in the virus the ones that were 1st detected in south africa and Great Britain and in brazil and are said to be a lot more infective theyre safe to spread a lot more quickly than the corona virus variants that weve had to deal with recently until now and we have seen in countries such as portugal that there have been explosions of infections in ireland 2 and earlier in the United Kingdom so the fear that these virus variants could enter germany is the reason why this travel ban was non posed of course there have been similar sorts of restrictions in place for dozens of countries already for many months it is not easy to travel around the world as everyone who has tried to do that knows there are restrictions such as. Isolated that one has to go into quarantine rules or possibly presenting a negative test so this is the highest possible restriction travel from these countries into germany is going to be banned now from saturday for 2 weeks or so. That woman while france has also announced International Travel restrictions starting sunday people arriving on nonessential travel from outside the e. U. Will be entry the government says its responding to the virus variants 1st to take did in britain and south africa the country is also increasing its internal restrictions nonessential shops are closed and Police Checks on Rule Breakers are being increased and not the curfew comes into force at 6 pm. And the e. U. Commission has approved meanwhile astra zeneca is corona virus vaccine for use across the e. U. This as the euro pain Medicines Agency gave the go ahead to allow inoculations of people over the ides of saying the e. U. Is by saying a storm of criticism for the slow pace of its vaccine rollout this is the 3rd vaccine to get approval from the e. U. Following shots from biotech pfizer and modern the e. M. I. Is executive director explained why the body of astra zeneca the green line the recommendation to approve the aust is the seneca vaccine is based on that they chose the vaccine all for its protection against covert 19 with a reassuring safety profile while the 1st to approve both were for messenger r. N. A. Fox seems the astra zeneca vaccine is based on another technology its an at the no virus faith vaccine this this means both about 15 uses a common virus from the virus that has been modified to carry a portion of the code with 19 coronavirus called the 5 protein. I think of our respective vaccines are easier to handle than m. R. In a box scenes in terms of transport and storage and this should simplify the logistics of road and vaccine out across the u. And hopefully it can provide a boost to vaccinations in the member state. Correspondent teri schultz has been following this for us in brussels we asked why the e. U. Has been so slow in granting approval for the astra zeneca fax the european Medicines Agency is coming under some criticism for what some see as taking a very long time to approve vaccines much like the European Union itself is coming under criticism for what is seen as a slow vaccination rollout throughout the block but in this case e. M. E. A. Makes no apologies for doing what it says is necessary diligence on life or death matters in this case said that the data it received from masters anika was very complex in the meantime both the pfizer biotech vaccine and madonna both came in and were authorized but they said that astra zeneca was still sending them data as recently as this week so they simply worked as fast as they could to get through this this very large set of complex data in any case now the vaccine has been approved for people aged 18 and over but there is some controversy and some confusion over whether its safe for people over 65 both france and germany have expressed some concern about this but what it may said was not that they found it could be possibly dangerous or even ineffective but simply that they didnt have enough data to draw a firm conclusion at this point only 13 percent of patients in the data they received were of this age group so they said that they would expect more information to be coming in and perhaps they will be able to release some firmer conclusions later astra zeneca representatives also held a briefing this evening and said basically the same thing that they d didnt have a lot of information yet on that age group but they would expect that more research is being done and there is also information coming in on a very large study from the United States so we would expect to hear more about this age group but certainly there havent been any contra indications from what weve heard from officials so far and astra zeneca pointed out that with me taking what everyone agrees is quite a long time to make its assessments the representative said they wouldnt have approved it if they thought it was dangerous. Teri schultz there will but you approval comes in made a bitter dispute between the e. U. And astra zeneca over delays to the delivery of Vaccine Supplies brussels accuses the Pharmaceutical Company of failing to fulfill its contractual obligations the company says its working hard to overcome production problems of its deal with a huge requires it to make its best efforts to supply vaccines with no clear delivery timeline redacted copy of that contract has now been my public. This contract is at the heart of an ongoing feud between the European Commission and specialist swedish Family Company astra zeneca over the lace in vixen deliveries the e. U. Has made the contract public that many of the crucial parts have been blacked out but astra zeneca a scandal say members of the european parliament. Your problem are simply not except that pharmaceutical companies which gets a lot of your money tax prio money. Im not really. Its those who all. Last week astra zeneca shocked e. U. States by announcing significant delays in its big scene deliveries to the bloc especially because the e. U. Has paid hundreds of millions of euros to produce to astra zeneca projection and because supplies to the u. K. Do not face the same shortages the dispute prompted the e. U. Should introduce a scheme to monitor big scene experts but the e. U. Commission emphasizes this is not an expert ban we are not in competition or in a race against any country the only race we are in is against the cyrus this comes as the block is facing criticism for its 12 x. Syndrome which so it is states are relieved that the vaccine has been recommended for use in the block this spider difficulties with astra zeneca its 3rd vaccine to gain approval. From around the world now. And italys president is trying to resolve disputes between Party Leaders following the collapse of the government to leave base month lets hope the squabbling factions can you not to form a new coalition Prime Minister just said the conte had resigned this week. Poland is saying trade not to protest a near total ban on abortion terminations are now forbidding except in cases of right and insist or where the mothers life is at risk the Constitutional Court has backed the legislation. Scientists say theyve produced to know that what embryos are bright for names there are now 5 viable embryos of the species the last 2 surviving northern white rhinos of both fame and its eggs were harvested in kenya and fertilized with persons from david miles. Well a court in the netherlands has ordered the energy multinational shell to pay compensation for oil spills in the niger delta the 13 year legal battle was brought by 4 nigerian farmers whose land was polluted the amount of compensation is not yet fixed. It looks like justice has finally been done and. After 13 years of legal wrangling the Dutch Appeals Court is holding the Oil Multinational shell responsible for spills from its pipelines in nigeria. In old age and can afford to told the court finds that Shell Nigeria is responsible for damages caused by the leaks shall nigerias here by order to pay compensation to the farmers. Now there were forced to. Now these farmers could finally see summer dress for the land and ponds that they lost. Yes with the fish bowl that we have one of the i like what i would do it 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 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 steak and. For some it will be too late in any case. To have the claimants have already died. But the verdict helps to empower poor farmers who take on powerful global corporations. 2 german football and stuttgart hosted mine in the bonus legace friday night fixture hunting war run by a strike jersey in support of diversity both on and off the pitch it took some 55 minutes to get on the scoreboard such a collage which took a century cost not a in went on to win this 1. 00. Up to tennis now and there is tennis being played down on that in the run up to the strive in open. Strolled out on the court wearing a mask in adelaide for an exhibition the 1st since he and dozens of other players were put in quarantine when they arrived in australia 2 weeks ago the dollars rank 2nd in the world he played number 3 dont mean dominant team in front of a packed crowd thats because adelaide has 0 active cases correct. 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This is deja vu news africa on the program today hoping for the best but preparing for the worst south africa is battling an aggressive 2nd wave of covert 19 thats being fueled by a more infectious variant of the virus the countrys top scientific advisor ses the 3rd wave could spell even more trouble. If we see a new variant its likely to be much worse we are here on the basis of the worst case. Advantage reaction from kenya where doctors had been forced to drop some of their Reproductive Services because of a lack of dont aid from the us now the new us president has just reversed that policy. Last week on the story on what is behind the turtle hatching in kenya 7 beaches. Hello im christine wonder why its good to have your Company South africas chief pandemic advisors say a 3rd wave of covert 19 which is expected in the 2nd half of the year could be even worse than the current a 2nd wave south africa is the worst hit country on the 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 off 1000000. 00 doses off the astra zeneca vaccine thats made to arrive on monday ill be talking to professor sally in a bill karim after this report. Health care workers at the frontline of south africas Coronavirus Crisis theyll be the 1st to be inoculated when the country starts its Vaccination Program but the initial delivery of 1000000 doses point even be enough to vaccinate half of south africas Health Professionals its still not clear when more vaccines will arrive and how many South Africans will get the jab only 2 thirds want to be inoculated a recent survey found that is far below the global average when one of the. People in. Some precedent injects any becomes ok ill be. There did i would. Im afraid we. Are is your word that person good teacher day should be just. Good. To get that its what you think but if the. Peoples how. Did you get what. South africas Vaccination Campaign comes as the country appears to have passed the peak of the 2nd wave this all confirmed cases and hospitalizations spike in january. Deaths from the coronavirus also soared to triple the level seen during the 1st wife last year. Just put in the whole. Quarter just put pressure on the 11 you just not immune from. The decline in confirmed cases says the Health Minister is partly due to the stricter lock down brought in at the end of december. But the countrys still on high alert with a new more infectious variant of the virus circulating in south africa making it more pressing than ever for the country to finally kick off its Vaccination Campaign. Im now joined by professor selim abdul karim he is an epidemiologist an Infectious Disease specialist he is the south african governments top scientific adviser on the pandemic welcome back to the Program Professor so south africa is expecting its 1st in every office 90 vaccines on monday when we actually start vaccinating people and how many people are 1st in line is going to a tuesday in the days of the e. U. Is we are expecting delivery to take place on monday there are some procedures that need to be followed and looting release of the individual lots following larry passes so i think it will probably take another 7. 00 to 10. 00 days for those procedures to be done so you can expect that the 1st vaccinations will be sometime close to the middle of february professor is this the right time to be talking about and perhaps preparing for a 3rd wave of the virus and perhaps even more mutations or variants. So what we have seen so far of this violence its been quite surprising we had thought that this is a very stable virus there are very few mutations and every month i look at the sequences im i see again generally one of 2 mutations or that changed in november when suddenly we have a new thread into 23 mutations and that is quite a concerning observation when we look at that we did not anticipate that that variant would be able to spread so much faster its estimated that its about 50 percent more transmissible and thats what drove our 2nd when we anticipated a 2nd wave would only be generally but instead we ended up with it being about 5 to 6 weeks earlier based on what we know now we can anticipate that we will see a 3rd and 4th wave in the course of this year probably the 2nd with the 3rd wave occurring when we get into our winter months thats usually when people spend more times more time indoors with the windows closed and we can anticipate that thats the likely time if we see a new vietnam and that would be even more concerning if it had to immunise kate because it would mean that they would be a higher proportion of our population that could be susceptible as things stand we are in the midst already of planning for the 3rd wave of doing some estimates of what that wave might look like when it might