tell isabel when story in a way that it hasn't fully been told before, the ordinary everyday life was involved with is that people are writing about patina, kappa, out of darkness, my zimbabwe on al jazeera. ah, this is al jazeera ah, hello, i'm barbara sarah. this is the al jazeera news, our live from london. thank you for joining us, coming up in the next 60 minutes. digging in on the ukrainian border or more than a 100000 russian troops on standby to the east of the country. as military and diplomatic efforts to avert the crisis, continue class i gave rose rando in a cold and snowy new york city were

a major snow storm has had the entire northeast of u. s. military court in democratic republic of congo delivers its verdicts on the 2017 killings of to you when investigators with some of the accused sentence to death and is for host nascent camera now into the semi finals of the africa cup of ne says they be the gun he had to nail to move within sight over fixed continental title. ah, as the stand off over ukraine continues between russia, the us and it's nato allies, the countries foreign minister says western allies should remain vigilant and firm more than a $100000.00 russian troops and masses of military hardware remained stationed east of the border with ukraine. and fears of an invasion remain high. but as charlie

stratford reports not from don ensco, many of the people living in eastern ukraine already aligned themselves with russia . this is no man's land between ukrainian government forces and separatist fighters with the self declared don x people's republic. the russian banked authorities and ask have given us rare access to the territory they control. for the 1st time since 2017. the city seems more russian than when we were lost on the surface. at least the statue of lenin still stands, prowled over the main square next to a russian flag. but they're also vast pro russia mil rules on buildings. this one reads russian, don bass, a heart in the colors of the russian flag, sits in the snow covered park destruction from 8 years of conflict is

worse, nay. what used to be done at scamp port? this was where some of the heaviest fighting took place between pro russia separatists and the ukrainian government forces. when conflict started in 2014 nichol, i says he and many people like him see little chance of a future with a ukrainian government wanting closer ties with europe and nato. russia and russia will help putin warned the west don't dare to put a foot in this region. there is no future with ukraine unless it changes. some residents, like vladimir occasionally come to try and repair their homes, may not have to ship $32.00. we are between a rock in a hard place. there are no jobs. we are doing our best to survive. many people say they don't want to go back to ukraine off to what's happened, eat people, one independence, want to join russia. most of the people that used to live in this neighborhood, a too afraid to return because of the sporadic shelling. and now increasing phase

of a potential renewed conflict. but there is a side to life internet, so that perhaps reflects a determination to live a normal life, especially amongst the young generation, many of whom were children. when the conflict started, many young people have left for russia or elsewhere in search of jobs. nightclubs like this one only open at weekends and have to close when the curfew starts at 10 p. m. engine, as we are separated from the rest of the world. for example, we cannot use international payment systems and it's difficult to get in and out my travel to, to buy in europe, but those i can't afford to go out. they just stuck. ne, here really no matter what happens he, a young people are trying to find joy in life. we try our best to live right people day in the rest of the world. russia has always denied supporting the separatists militarily, saying the conflict as an internal matter for the ukrainian government and their

opponents to solve. but russia's influence here seems stronger than ever. something people say the ukrainian government international backers always fail to understand charleston but al jazeera, don't ask the sake a look now at how the military capabilities of russia and ukraine stack up. russian air strikes have the potential to overwhelm ukraine's air defenses before troops even cross the border. president putin as built up army units that could be used in a ground invasion, such as the 8 guards that oversee pro russian separatists in eastern ukraine. and there is the 1st guards tank army which has been modernized. ukraine believes 127000 russian soldiers may be waiting along the border. russia has sent fighter jets and their defense systems to western bell. a roof for combat readiness checks and military drills. but it's not completely one sided. ukraine's military has

doubled in size since 2014 and its troops have recent combat experience against pro russian separatists. while doug plane is the assistant director of a time counsel eurasia center, a think tank, specializing on eastern european and asian affairs. sir, thank you so much for joining us here in algebra, from what we have just read out. do you think that the indications are there to suggest that perhaps a conflict is now inevitable? or conflict is not inevitable. the u. s. has worked really hard to try to give russia off ramps from this escalate tory pattern. this week we saw the u. s. and nato deliver their official responses to russian demands for nato to essentially compromise its core principles and withdraw from its new members back to pre 997 levels. and the u. s. is made overtures to russia and said, there are things that we can talk about here. if you want to negotiate,

we can examine missile deployments. we can examine our forest posture and they try to do that to give putin ways to save face, to go back and say that he did have winds here and to avert a larger conflict. so in light of all of that, and i know it may be an impossible question, the answer about. but what do you think president putin's next moves might be? i don't think that president putin knows what his next move might be. nobody knows what's going on in his mind and if he's already reached a decision, we may not know. but there are indicators that the u. s. has been watching for a long time. we've been seeing their forces mobilizing on ukraine's borders and now we see more than a 130000 troops are ready there. but for a long time we haven't seen other important supplies coming in. things like medical supplies, blood supplies, things that if a larger conflict were to break out, russian forces would be able to treat casualties. this week reports came that we are now seeing those supplies coming in. and that seriously concerning

a leg just before, as speaking to you, we had a report from our correspondent child stratford, who is in donnette sky, an area of course, which has been under effectively russian influence. what do you think that the u. s . o nato in general, have learned from that last russian incursion. what we've learned over the last 8 years, that putin is not stopping. and then the last in the west do need to take strong steps to deter further aggression. when moscow invaded and started this for 8 years ago and annexed crimea and fuel the war and the don bass and lead forces there. we saw under the obama administration that there were not quite a strong of actions that perhaps should have been taken. and so i think that's something that the by the administration is watching now that they're able to see in hindsight, where stronger action should have been taken. and they're working very hard to present a united front. and to tell putin that if he does go in and going big,

there will be serious consequences that he has not seen before. you mentioned a united front, it's perhaps not that united. a keen nato member in germany in key, obviously for geographical reasons, even not many, many more. i'm isn't necessarily on board with the idea of escalating tensions with russia. how do you read that and how united do you think the nato alliance is over this right now? we've seen a lot of mixed messages from germany. that's true. and the biggest point of tension by far, of course, has been the nord stream to pipeline running for russia to germany. that's something though that germany while for years they have refused to budge on. we did get good news this week. the u. s. has said that if russia does go in big and start a brand new invasion here and a new offensive in the war, that nord stream to that they would take all steps to shut it down. and i, yesterday, i believe the german ambassador us did say that nothing would be off the table

including north stream too. so that is a good sign. that's something that the u. s. in germany should focus on closing that daylight and closing that gap there. we've also seen plenty of other european partners and allies, though, showing really strong support for ukraine. the u. k. has made a big show of it over the last several weeks with arms shipments going in and sending ukraine. anti tank weapons. that's a really important sign support that more europeans should do. i mean, you mentioned energy earlier, obviously that is an issue. some european countries more dependent than others on the, on the russian energy. but there is also the question at the bottom. all of this is under whose sphere of influence should ukraine be, and does russia not have a valid point to say that it is a country that is not a member of nato, and that ultimately is under its sphere. busy of influence, well, it's up to ukrainians under whose sphere of influence, if any they fall under and in 2014 ukrainians pro proclaimed very loudly that they

saw a path to prosperity for ukraine by integrating themselves with europe and with the west. that's where they saw prosperity. and putin has seen that if you crane is successful in trying to create and build a democracy there, then that would provide an alternative not only for russians, but for people living under authoritarian governments around the world. that's at the root of this war that's been going on for 8 years, put in is trying to prevent ukraine from being successful. he's trying to prevent a democracy from flourishing there and trying to show that democracy doesn't have a place in eastern europe and for slot of people, but it's up to ukrainians. and what happens to them that claim, assistant director of atlanta counsels eurasia center, speaking to us from washington dc. sir, thank you for sharing your views with us. thank. you. know millions of people on the us east coast have woken up to a severe snow storm which threatens to get worse during the day. new york and boston are expected to bear the brunt of blizzard conditions. the governors of

maryland, massachusetts, new jersey and new york state have declared an emergency warning of power outages. thousands of flights have been cancelled. gabrielle is under, has more for us from new york, very cold and windy day in new york city, and you can get a sense of how much snow is actually fallen here by just looking back on the streets here. they are anticipating some parts of new york could see an upwards of 30 inches of snow. the sub boys still running, but many of the commuter rail lines and the ferry service across the hudson river have been totally closed down. the mayor was urging people not to come out on the streets. but as you can see, a lot of people are here in times square area. so there are a lot of tourist here taking pictures and wanting to get a really rare look at this huge snow storm. i mean, it's normal for there to be snow this time a year in new york, but this is unusual. this amount of snow and how cold it is. at some point it was

minus 10 degrees celsius, but this is a storm they're calling a bomb, say, clone. that's effecting all of the ne of the us, some parts of massachusetts. we're expecting potentially 60 centimeters of snow and saying it could be one of the biggest and most powerful storms in nearly 40 years. there's also concern about storm surge on coastal areas. and when all of this snow melts, it's potentially could cause flooding as well, which has some officials, definitely worried. still to come on the news, our aah! my my life. it's one of the biggest jobs in italian politics and he didn't want to keep doing it. but at least president has the ability in mind . also. i'm out. i'm rainy and lisbon. portugal snap election on sunday is meant to

break political deadlock here. but it could lead to further political polarization . and in for so fairly as 44 year wait for a home single champion at the really an open house come to an end sun. i will be here with that story and more ah, a military course in democratic republic of congo has sent in 51 former soldiers to death for their part in the killings of 2 united nations investigators. 5 years ago, the catalogue from sweden and michael sharp from the united states, were executed while investigating alleged atrocities in the cafe region. it happened as government forces were fighting a local uprising, 4 of their congo. lease colleagues are still missing now can web has more now from nairobi. the 2 investigators went the 5 years ago to try and investigate

reports of massacres of civilians at the time. that's what their mission was. they would, they would, they've met with people from the community. they were misled by somebody who they thought was the translator, but turned out to be somebody working for the security agencies. then they were apprehended on the road, held up at gunpoint, taken into the bush and executed. now the whole incident was video, the video was released taken on a camera for and that was released just a few weeks later. what initially appeared to show members of the armed group who were in a conflict with a government carrying out the execution later on closer inspection because of the language they spoke. because of other minor details. there was some fairly major questions about that, which gave a lot of credence to the kind of growing belief among many that this was, in fact, the congo, the state that was behind the killings. thousands of people have been forced from

their homes and democrats, the republic of congo because of fighting between the army and of rebel group. on tuesday, an army position was attacked in sure, which is north of the city of goma. the m 23 group widely believed to be backed by the one that has been blamed. it is one of more. busy than $120.00 armed groups operating in the east of the country. brianca group reports talk to outside a church on the deal can sky villages in the eastern democratic republic of congo. find the only shelter they hope will keep them safe from the bullets and the bloodshed vianza near sissy. and we'll go got known both the attack began and you see see, go go in columbia. we more in the field on wednesday. we couldn't pull it over the hills and we flayed abandoned everything. and now we are here in cuba. every time you spend the night in the church, while others sleep outside my door, we have nothing to eat, no food with no bullshit or medicine that i'm gotten. at least to a 1000 people,

abandon their homes this week to escape fighting between the army and the m. 20. 0 and on proved that rebelled against the government in 2012 but it all fire into my body. put the ugly. so several dead people. i lost my children and my husband and the chaos, and i've been left with nothing. well now messenger in the a c. c. one of the 6 villages caught in the crossfire farms, lions tended homes. they are empty and not a soul to be seen. back at a church in cuba, people from other villages tell how the 2 were caught and the violence made inquiry . when barney i was at home, when i saw soldiers choosing bullets of the hills, another bullets coming from the other side jamarion. since november m 23 fighters have been accused of several attacks on the army. the latest on tuesday, un peacekeepers are on the ground. but for these families,

it may be too soon to return. grandpapa artisan, italy's 80 year old president said to me that a law has been overwhelmingly voted in for a 2nd. the term in parliament. he had actually wanted to retire, but was persuaded to stay all in a period of political instability. nadine baba has more he repeatedly ruled out serving another turn, a president now off the police from italy's various political parties. sergio marcella has agreed to stay on program. all, and i don't, but i did enter the public up saturday that i was elected by members of italy, parliament and regional representatives at the 8th attempt. it emerged as the front runner on saturday morning after they spent days trying and failing to reach agreement on a single name. on friday, mateo sal vini, head of the far right league party, had appeared to back the head of the secret services, is

a better bologna to become the country's 1st woman head of state that went down badly with other groups. in the right, we glock. i'm going to shoot us would be as is a relative majority of the center, right in parliament. we gave them a leading role in the negotiations to solve this style made. but now we must say they use that role wrongly the handling of the situation is really shocking, because many italians have expressed support for the prime minister mario druggie to take the presidency. but some parties have insisted he's too important to lose as the head of government matter rela, staying on, even if it's just until the 2023 general election in theory lead druggie free to oversee italy's post. pandemic recovery. mario draggy is like the architect that plan and then the person who's really best capable of seeing who some of these very challenging reforms. so the question is, if he became the president who would become the prime minister and all the politicians felt that if he became president, they wouldn't be able to create

a successor. prime minister and the government would collapse. the economy has started to pick up, but more than $200000000000.00 in a you funds for italy depends on a tight time table of reforms. nadine baba al jazeera, well joining us now via skype from rome is christina fossil and associate professor of comparative public law at louis university in ro, madam, thank you so much for joining us here on al jazeera, so it really keeps the same president. instead of doing that, i laid off a keeps the same prime minister and mighty that argue is this. so when for stability and continuity thanks for this question. and yes indeed, there is certainly a win for continuity and stability. not sure whether this is a win for politics on the hall or because there are, over the last 6 days, a young part of their men and the political leaders have struggled to find and as parent teeth to my parent allow or to my do that id was one of the 1st names put

forward, but the estimate as being overcome my finding as the only way out the outgoing president, which then as being relaxed and, and it's the 2nd time it up pants in italy. obviously this is a key time for actually like most western countries in most countries everywhere recovering from the from that make. it's been given the quite a lot of money by the you to try to as recover as well. and mario druggie is seen by the you as a safe pair of hands. so can we expect all of this to be delayed? not in 7 years when, when the term is bent and for president, what do you think that we might see a new president shortly after the elections for prime minister i you, when that ideally becomes free again? that's a possibility indeed. and that's what often. and when we witness the 1st reaction, abbot of a president of the republic with president annapolis,

donal would assign one year after the his re election at when a some important reforms, namely the electoral reform was approved. now certainly, and the 2023 a political action will be decisive. more meant $40000.00 politics also because this sides of the parliament is going to be reduced at one 3rd or for each chamber. so also the new party amend and and will be compose the of betty different people where there will be the new president of the republic collected and certainly president method i let me decide to resign early on without waiting for 7 more years of mandate. yeah, i mean he had made it very clear, hadn't he, that he didn't want it anyway, so yeah, that, that doesn't sound particularly unlikely. and ma'am,

is that the election of the president is always a strange affair. when parliamentarians can just put any name down, even if someone has proposed themselves or not. so apart from the issue of video, that idea sitting prime minister that many people might have wanted as president. you think there were other reasons why it was just so difficult to find one candidate to that, that all the parties would be able to agree on? well, one reason, 1st of all, is that this parliament is extremely fragmented. we are used to a fragment that part of the month, but i think this one and as, as seen a m p 's moving from one political group to the other. and many we have a betty big group which we call a mix group a because or non affiliated members. good there. and it's very big. and many parties including the fives that movement that probably also parties are we be in this center right. and the center left are heavily fragmented. and the 2nd

a reason i think is that also they pay soft political communication as change. and maybe they read them of communication through social media as change some practice that we didn't see before, including the fact that potential candidates were not disclosed to the public or to the journalist and to the media weight. in this case, we have seen every day and natalie, one announcement, but probably 2 or 3 candidates being exposed, not to the public discussion. and i think this reflects all saw the timing of the communication through social media through twitter and which were not that present in previous selection. maybe the seller has only associate professor of comparative public law at the louis university in rome. madam,

that thank you for sharing your expertise with us. and thanks very much. a delegation from the economic community of west african states is in booking a fall. so to meet with the leaders of monday's coup, when the military sees power, the leaders said the president was failing to stop violence from groups linked to iceland, al qaeda in the north of the country. the armies on recruitment drive to send more people to the front line, but as nicholas hart reports, not from what to do, it is a dangerous mission. in search for his family's approval, miriam's brother joined burkina. faso was armed with a uniform comes respect, but also the risk of death. she didn't make much of the call he made when night announcing he was going to the frontline, the war in the north feels far away from walker. do go. almost like it's happening in a different country. but now the reality of war is heading home. bodies of soldiers are returning in coffins among them. mirrors, brother, he was killed in an ambush by al qaeda fighters. she sent these people as you can,

like when i see soldiers uniform. i want to break down and cry. it reminds me of my brother of a corpse laying in a coffins. dale. the sight of uniforms makes me scared me. fear is spreading. millions are displaced. al qaeda and i so fighters continue to gain ground almost a week after colonel dominga took power in a qu, there's a precarious calm in the capital and fear that with political instability he will likely be more tax. this is what is less of kenneth fossils military headquarters. it was attacked in 2018 by nel canada affiliate 4 years on it still has not been rebuilt. curled them, he bought promise. this change in the military to shore up the morales troops that has suffered so many losses. and it starts with a call to arms broadcast on the radio across the nation. the message of colonel dominga joined the fight to save the country. i am ready to take up arms because each time the attack to put our country in morning. why is this happening to our

country? why are we under attack under those that killed her brother? are al qaeda fighters, but only by name says miriam. they are locals. she believes poverty is feeling the violence and not ideology. poverty and unemployment means young men are leered by armed groups. we need to find a way to feed families and bring back the states authority in those remote areas while she cannot bring back her brother. she hopes peace can be brought back to this nation. gripped by bloodshed, nicholas hawk al jazeera walker, dooku military leaders remain in control of sudan, 3 months since the crew, with little sign of a return to the democratic transition. the anti coo movement is continuing with thousands of protesters killed. and as he been, morgan reports now from the city of wad mcdonny, relatives of those who died, hope the movements demands will be fulfilled. guessing how much family is in morning. the 24 year old from what melanie incidence and 0 state was killed during

an antique military protest. a week ago, a pearl and i was in cartoon. someone called me and said, your brother was hit by a tear gas canister. i called those who are with him and they told me he had had a small injury when in reality he was hit by a bullet to the head. then i got a call from someone who gave me his condolences. that's what i knew my brother had died and i said, oh, garcia was the one who supported this family. he dropped out of school to drive an auto rick show. whenever i called him, he was either of the funeral or at weddings helping people as a state has witnessed large protest since the military took overpower in october, dissolving a 2 year transitional government, which was meant to lead down to democracy. security forces have repeatedly you hear guys and live ammunition against demonstrators. at least 78 protest has have been

killed and more than 2 and a half 1000 injured what met and may not be the only city beside the capital. how to more 1000 have taken the 3 to protest against military rule, but its location in central for them is significant. it shows that the demand for civilian rule and democracy transcends the social and ethnic barriers that used to dominate them on the pick a landscape. for decades, for down central region was more stable than other areas which suffered from civil wars. but since december 2018, when for dance revolution began, many more people in cities closer to the capital, joined the anti government movement. that movement was re ignited when the military took control, had not fee with them in the protest movement and was mad and he is not less than what is happening and hard to him. when to protesters from here were killed, including guessing, people came from all over the state and from neighboring states. we want to see the future of those protesters who died, envisioned we want to democratic united sudan,

gossamer family, say it's may be painful, but they take comfort, knowing he died, demanding change, and to see a better country. he bought morgan al jazeera, what made any, so dam is al jazeera life in london still to come, extract thing the invisible dna from the air around us. scientists discover a new technique that could help save the world's most endangered species will explain why and how and in sport an important wind from hulu, as they him to qualify for this year's world cuff in. ah hey, there, we've got wild weather across northwestern sections of europe. hello, everyone. so here is where a storm malik is on sunday generating blizzard conditions for the baltic states and

western russia. in fact, some of this could be record breaking snow. our next storm system swoops in to the united kingdom. this one's going to be particularly bad for scotland. we've got rain, we've got snow. and for example, winds in edinburgh will be gusting to a 100 plus kilometers per hour where their makers swirling around the eastern bed. that's chuck and rain toward the greek island southern sections of turkey. this time around. it's rain, not snow, but we are talking about snow as we look toward poland, ukraine, and romania on sunday. now, jack, suppose that's what's going on in iberia, southern sections anyway, seville at $22.00 degrees. your january temperature record is 24 for getting close . found in death storms around the gulf of guinea, western africa, toward the northeast of libya and northern egypt on sunday. now remnants leftovers of what was tropical cyclone ana, zip and across the southern sections and angola, northern new min b through central areas. and meantime, in cape town,

and mostly cloudy day for you with the highest $28.00 degrees on sunday c later ah, counting the cost of rough dollars a year after full run is that our sense in stock markets hate to say. the prices are 10 year high where the cost of the cooking become even more affordable. and nigeria, petroleum minister on reforming the nation soil, sex counseling to cough on al jazeera post clearings and now taking over what used to be pristine forest, where giant trees once too tall and cheap quincy, you scroll conservationist say they are yes. warming with ico. tim, below gus and butcher's, 4 years ago, the government to city and the on the east, the ban on the timber trade. but that decision only open a floodgate of uncontrolled illegal looking sierra leone is home to more than

$5000.00 was to gypsies, more than $1500.00 of them are found on the normal mon, to range and on the far from safe. cuz the vision is under pressure to save them after the resumption of looking and the return of lu the a reminder of the top stories here are now just the efforts to find the diplomatic solution to the mountain military crisis on the border between ukraine and russia are continuing, your foreign minister says western allies should remain vigilant and firmed with russian. millions of people and the u. s. east coast have woken up to a severe snow storm which threatens to get worse. thousands of flights have been

cancelled in new york mayor is telling people to stay enjoy in a military course and democrats who was helping congo his sentence, 51 former soldiers to death with their part in the killing of the united nations. investigators vita cath london. michael sharp, 5 years ago, voters in portugal head to the polls for a snap election on sunday. but the pool could lead to more division and political uncertainty. just as the country requires a steady leadership to get billions of dollars from europe spending mac recovery fund. adam rainy reports from lisbon, green grocer, pedro gomez says his business, one of small margins has gotten even tougher these past years. he hopes portugal snap election on sunday leads to a political consensus that propels portugal out of the pandemic right now. businesses are being strangled by higher taxes more than ever and it's been hard to

cope with that. and ever since cove it had, it's been crisis over crisis. and for small businesses that's, that's he'll really hard to deal with. the overwhelming majority of seats on sunday will go to both of portugal to leading parties. the ruling socialists on the left and the center right opposition party. the social democrats, the election was called in november when the socialists, former coalition partners, the communists and the left. this block voted with right wing parties to kill the 2022 budget. bouncing back from the pandemic is the top concerned for many voters. prime minister antonio costa over saw one of the most successful vaccination campaigns in europe. and the government has helped bring unemployment down to prepare demick levels. some voters are word though that the government is it risk of missing out of billions of dollars and you recovery funds if they don't meet

certain requirements. pulse, so cost a socialist holding a slight edge of the social democrats. few voters though are fired up. he said it made me pretty. i don't have a lot of hope in the election. i'm still not sure which party to support. maybe it's better if we have a correlation. when voters go to the polls here on sunday, they could end up electing a new government, whether it be on the left or the right that further polarizes portuguese politics rather than bringing parties to the center. that's how political scientist, antonio cost a pinto, sees it. the 2 major parties will face basically the same type of challenge if the socialist, when they will have problems and negotiated with their left the communist in the left or in the block. if the social democrats wins, they will have problems in negotiate with agreement with the radical right tween hawkins is a party expected to make games on sunday. it could be shaker. a far right wing

party form just 3 years ago. currently holding just one seat. it could win as many as a dozen according to polls. portugal, the poor country in western europe has struggled for decades to catch up with richer countries in the block brazilian immigrant edi conciliate. a doesn't believe the next government will do much better when we portage k won't want to thought the me to politics is the same all over the world. politicians fight to hold the country back and not move forward. it's a fight for power. who will win that power and what they'll do with it? as many here, uneasy about the future. adarine al jazeera, lisbon. doctors have been left baffled as to why people with long covert are often breathless, even though scans on their lungs show that nothing's wrong. but researchers think they might have an answer. normal c t scans suggest that people who have suffered lingering breathlessness have unimpaired lung functions. so researchers instead

asked patients to lie in an m r i scanner and breathing a liter over zen on odorless, colorless tasteless, and crucially safe gas. now it operates a lot like oxygen, and the scientists could then see that there was a significant change in how much transferred from the lungs and then into the bloodstream. they say it shows the damage and nobody had identified before. and it gives an indication of where to look to, to explain and treat symptoms that linger for a year or more. well, joining us now is dr. new renal wine and associate professor public health of the university of south hampton. madam, thank you so much for joining us here. now, is there a long code that has been such a mystery? really? i mean, even now, 2 years into the print that there's so much that we don't know. what do you make of this new research? what surprises you, what perhaps i don't know excites you in the sense that we might find the cure for it. yeah, thank you, barbara. it's so it's really promising that we're seeing studies like this because

as you say, the mechanism of long coverage has been you know, really unknown for the past 2 years. and, but it's in the quiet findings are not surprising to me that there are, you know, there's something going on that the base some of the basic tests and stands that patients are having who have symptoms along covered or not showing. so these are really promising and the study will go on and you know, because this, these are only private data from the study, but it is promising. and let's remember the study. the people who aware the impaired gas transfer was found, you know, from the long to the bloodstream. they actually people who weren't hospitalized with come. so these are not the people who had very severe code at the start, which isn't the majority of long cobit patients, which i guess is one of the i don't know what you call it a mission, but certainly surprising. sometimes you can think you've kind of got through cove, it almost got free, and then you get long covey. do we have any indication as to who perhaps is more

vulnerable? because there's also cases of children getting long coded that is correct and long code that happens in old age group groups. unfortunately, we do know it's more common and adults and children and the age group that seems where, you know, most commonly happened instead of the adult working age group, which is about, you know, 35 to 69 years of age. but it can happen in children, it seems to be slightly more common in women than men. and also seems to be more common and people who have their profession as a profession is kind of frontline, perhaps more with more exposure code like like people in health care, social care and teaching profession. but everybody can have long cobra, that we still can't really predict accurately who is more likely to go on and have it. it could really follow very mild infections at the start. so although it's more common and severe and you know more, so if you have a severe infection,

you end up in the hospital, you are you, there's a very high portion of people who don't recover for months or even years after. but actually, the vast majority of people don't go into hospital covered and best of the vast majority of long copays for people who aren't hospitalized and actually yeah, and often they can be incredibly debilitating and people not being able to go back to work really for months i guess the question everyone's asking now, is it, does it look like were anywhere near a cure? i mean, now that we have vaccines, and most people, at least in the west, are vaccinated is that leading us closer to a cure. so so then we have some good news, initial good news from the boxing since, since the studies are showing. but if you don't have long coverage, you get the vaccine and you, you get infection after the vaccine that actually seems a likelihood of developing lung, which is reduced, doesn't completely go away. but it's reduced. and also some initial evidence that people with long co but who get the vaccine. it might be that there is a, you know,

likelihood of a reduction in best symptoms. but again, we need long to follow up to foxy to see this is just part of the natural cost of long coverage, because in many people the symptoms come and go and they are not constant all the time. or it's a true effect of the vaccine. and that might be related to what the mechanism of blanco is if it's to do with some immune dis regulation. everybody that's causing the symptoms or at least that's a little bit of good news, which i'm sure everyone is quite came to here. doctor is rina and one associate professor of public health at the university of south hampton. here in the u. k. madam, thank you so much. thailand has declared a beach along its eastern coast. a disaster area is oil continues to wash up on its sans a pipeline in the gulf of thailand. 20 kilometers off the coast of ryan province began leaking on tuesday. at least 60 tons of crude oil leak ending up at my around

point beach, around 350 people are trying to clean up the beach while the navy is working to fix the leak and contain the spill at sea. scientists in denmark believe they have found a revolutionary new way of monitoring endangered animals in the wild. up to now it's been a laborious process, involving remote cameras and trained local trackers. but the new technique involves extracting dna from the air around us to alert conservationists of animal life nearby. alexey o'brien reports, armed with a tiny vacuum, and a filter scientist christine bowman is gathering data at the copenhagen. so she's trying to find out which animals are kept there, not by wandering the enclosures, but from the air. what we found was that we can not only detect the animals that are kept here at the so we could also detect even species that are used to feed the

animals here and assume they're using what's called environmental dna. it's been used before to work out the kinds of fish or plants living in water. but these scientists and denmark in the u. k. have worked out how to capture e dna from the air. they filters catching microscopic pieces of fer saliva and feces, while life is difficult to monitor. but if you look for giraffe, an open savannah, that's fairly easy. but if you look for something like a tape here, like this, not in a, an append like this, but in benz rainforest, it's immensely difficult. if this works in a greater scale, it'll revolutionize the way we look at greenforest animals. the teams worked in zoos because it made it easier to confirm the source of the dna and how far it had traveled. identified dozens of species, including mere cats living, 245 meters away. the researchers think it will be useful in the field to help track and conserve wildlife. there are 2. it's

a small one until now scientific to rely on the signs animals leave behind travelling to remote areas using camera traps to snap pictures of hard to find creatures. then wonderful thing about environmental dna is almost every other bio monitoring method we have requires that the animal be present when you're assessing them. so if you're using a camera trap, they have to walk in front of the camera. if they walk behind it, you'll never see them. the great thing about environmental dna is it's more like a footprint. they leave it behind. it's early days for the researchers who don't know why some animal dna wasn't detected even though they were in the zoo. and it's unclear, it won't impact the way that could have on collecting the data. but the scientists hope the answers to some of the toughest questions and conservation could just be hanging in the air. alexia braun al jazeera. coming out on al

jazeera, the battle of the beget will tell you why a row has erupted in france over the price of the traditional lo for bread, and then sport. the devils pay or no is the special case serve up another home when the ad vs for alien open. ah, the world of high frequency share trading exposed. i had this engine that was basically trading. i could have lost $30000000.00, was a terrifying experience. how artificial intelligence has raised the stakes and risks on the money markets? as markets go faster, faster, we're opening up the possibility for an instability for no, no use with money books. on al jazeera, the latest news believe it's truly harsh provisions on for 10 years they was the victims of not just most people got to the money to cherry and prices with detailed

coverage born and that, oh my problem infection. so empower large partial providers with polygon, dep. it here from the around the world on the house people, years of living on the street actually accelerates the aging, brought them lou ah, high profile criminal trial is underway in germany. in the dark, 6 men suspected of the biggest jewel theft in the nation's modern history. more than a $1000000.00 worth of diamonds were taken from the museum in the city of dresden 3

years ago. and have yet to be recovered. gillian wolf has more. the 6 men, aged between 22 and 27, appeared in court on friday, accused of the daring diamond robbery inside the greenville museum of dresden royal palace. the suspects are said to have taken just 8 minutes to steal 21 pieces of 18th century jewellery encrusted with more than 4300 diamonds. their worth is estimated to be more than a $126000000.00. but experts say their value is priceless as a deal, i get lucky going to thought the defendant on lucidly prepared the crime meticulously . according to the prosecution, the defenders checked out the crime scene beforehand. it is also a light touch of parts of the window was cut out before the crime was committed in order to get into the building as quickly as possible. during the execution of the crime, i'm one of the museums, best known treasures. the 41,

kara green diamond was a way on loan to new york city metropolitan museum of art. at the time of the heist, the stolen treasurers had survived allied bombing raids in world war 2, only to be carted off as more booty by the soviet union. they were returned to the german city in 1958. the trial is expected to run until october, and while there still no trace of the stolen jewels, experts say the chances of recovering them are slim. in what has become known as germany's biggest artist in modern history, gillian wolf, al jazeera, now to a food fight in france over the price of a beget the usually cost about a dollar a bakeries. but a french supermarket chain is now selling the bread for a fraction of the price with some accusing the retailer of destroying french values . natasha butler explained from paris. ah, the french baker's a baguette isn't just a loaf of bread. it's a work of art or both goofy,

by your offer. i look bomb you for them on the moon. a 1000 people think or bread is the same or that, but it needs a lot of care. the dough is a life. you have to feel whether it's good or not, in your $35.00, your traditional bakery cell packets for around $1.00. so a decision by a major french supermarket chain to slash its by get price to $0.30 a scandalized or tis, nor baker's lecture. felipe, just her to reply, but they are disrupting prices and a compromising on the flower and quality life is about passion. it's not just about money in business. more with faulty. retail in the cloud says the cut price by get aims to shield customers at a time of inflation and rising prices. but the move has caused something of an uproar in france, some fear and erosion of french values, others, the demise of quality. the debate has even made its way into the french

presidential campaign. let me get that not enough salty my locker to plead la faren, $0.30 for a big flower is $0.10, so prices are being destroyed. savage of chain destruction velo, the bagget price war has certainly stood emotions, but there is also the question of taste every year in france the prize is awarded for the best bagget in paris. the jury is made up of top bakers, but also members of the public because nearly every one in france has an opinion about what makes a good buy get. so let's see if people can pick a 30 cent by get from a traditional one. she says, hello, yes, yes, version to le. yes. that boy, if it is a tradition, you know, when you go abroad you can try hard to find a french bag out, but it doesn't exist thing time, so i will get off. but i know the cookie, it has to be all crusty and very fluffy inside. the supermarket is called the bagget ro, ridiculous. it says the promotion poses little long term threat to bakers,

as it will end in a few months. but the debate reveals that few things in sight. passions in france quite like this. natasha butler, al jazeera, paris sketson's, sports news. now here's santa thank you very much, barbara. our host nation camera now into the semi finals of the africa cup of nations. sh. they be the gambia to nail, to move with inside of the 6 continental title and the richardson reports ah, whatever this cameron team achieves on the pitch. the countries, africa cup of nations will forever be associated with the fatal stadium crush that killed 8 fans. on monday, the tragedy at the l. m. bay stadium remembered at the host's court, a final against the gambia dollar amount that bob cameron, captain vincent ado becca, has made go screwing look easy in this tournament with 6 goals in his 1st full

matches what he over complicated this early chance with the gambia slotting in c survival mode, i got a couple udi. a booby car was getting incrementally closer to putting his team ahead. the despite his best efforts, the 1st half came and went without a goal. with the breakthrough finally came early in the 2nd period, another cross. and this time a decisive finish from col turco accompanied good to go look to be again to form for tournament debit. since the gambia, so cor cumby added a 2nd, and cameron were easing their way into the semi finals. where was that do not refer to the job it finished to nil cameroon, a closing in on a 6 african title, and the 1st on home soil. and he, richardson, al, jazeera and saturdays other call to find a book in our fossil knocked out in india. single goal decided this game. it was called a bi dangle or tire just before half time sofa was then sent off in late in the

2nd half, but it seemed hold on for the wind. i could hook in a fossil will now be the cynical or it's a saw a guinea in the semi finals on wednesday. ah, true have boosted their chances of reaching the 2020 to walk up and cut off. they secured and away when over columbia on friday the d. c. united winger edison flora scored late to seal a one. no victory result means to set forth in the standing oblivious hopes of making it to the woke up have been severely damaged. solomon rondon score the hat trick as the groups bottom side fence will execute a full one home. when over the bolivians there's mountain speculation about the future of 7 times super bowl champion tom brady. multiple news outlets. how

reporting that the 44 year old a has called time on his career. brady's father is quoted as saying that his son is not retiring. play himself is yet to make any public comments on the issue. actually bought, he has the end of the for decade. wait for a home singles champion at the australians open. you will that number one did it with the straight sets when over danielle collins and the melvin final family cripples. it's a site that australians have been waiting 44 years to see the country finally has a home grand slam singles champion once again. ashley barty has been in scintillating form throughout the tournament in melbourne and continued in the final against danielle collins. as the world number one took the 1st that with these 63, her american opponent, however,

wasn't about to roll over. collins showed some real fight on route to taking a 51 lead in the 2nd set. oh bought you rallied though. she came back with the 2nd set going to a tie break. from there the outcome was routine, body dominated the tie break winning. it's $72.00 for the match. and the championship. oh this is just a dream come true man. i'm so proud to be nosy, so thank you so much everyone. ah, australians with the, with the much anticipated triumph. they'll hope the wait for the next home singles champion won't be as long to hail molly al jazeera. but his compatriot nick carriers has won his 1st grand slam title. it came in the

man's doubles alongside to nasty cocaine i kiss. or this was an all australian a final. with that matthew at an and at max personal. on the other side of the next, the parent that have become known as the special case, winning the title decided straight. cricket is a sport well known for being delayed by the weather, but a match at the under 19. it woke up m a dish through a seismic event. i believe having an earthquake right now in the box. we are indeed having an earthquake. i've never, never experience up before. it felt like commentary team and the prayers keeping their cool as an ast quick hit, trinidad and tobago. a tremor didn't stop at play in this game, betweens, and barbara an island. and that's it for me. back to barbara. imagine that playing right, so an earthquake anyway, that said for this news our,

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