into that she wants extra fun is this what the poll said and are really just momentous statements and momentous statements before we have we flesh this out a little bit more tell us is this a departure for the pope i mean what have his views been on civil unions for gay couples before he became pontiff. i think it's you know most of us who have been observing sort of this unfolding during the biopsy i have seen a very consistent. message of tolerance over usually dealing with in the environment of the church and specially having very very reactionary forces operating from the right a lot of them associated with daniel americans churches the decision has been one of negotiating very difficult waters bed there has been repeated statements that clearly point in their action of a boat that things that most security is a it is essentially just one scene among many and that as a matter of fact almost sexual sorry children of god and almost sexual stuff to be

afforded not just legal rights but essentially they still have to have access to the church and who you know the ministry of the church so i mean i think that that has been very consistent he's believed which starts in argentina really it's also in a sense very similar because he also belong to sort of a space in which political space in which westerns of rights of minorities among them. sexual minorities was actually a very nice shoe in conclusion martin and is he testing the waters here is this a thumbs up from the pope or i endorse civil unions or and will this now become doctrine. no i think we're way past testing the waters but certainly we're not at the stage of the tremendous stage of doctrine is something that requires all the ecclesiastical machinery to be aligned in to be moving however the position of the pope is something and he said this here many times but we cannot measure it by you

know the impressions of the gay community or some francies garbling we have to look at these kind of statements in the context of gay rights in places like the philippines in you know. the excluded 3 songs in poland which we call into the free. zones but those are the places in which the recessions of this message will simply be tremendous because it shows basically defer to the head of the church taking it much more slowly darrius this position to a community that in many places under siege well they're just affairs correspondent martin gak thank you you're welcome and we have more breaking news to tell you about a german health minister yes spawn has tested positive for the corona virus he immediately went into self isolation you know last month came just hours after he had attended a cabinet meeting which chance on the american and other ministers was health

minister he is a prominent figure in efforts to control the virus in this country only recently has found got his annual flu vaccine shot and urged people to follow his example. and. say more on these breaking developments political correspondent correspondence in iran shaz is standing by i am out what impact will mr spawn's testing positive for covert have is there concern for his health. well we got the confirmation just moments ago from the house ministry that has been to say yes found suffered from symptoms similar to the simple cold so mild symptoms so far of course this is a very volatile situation this can change any time but for now he seems to only suffer from those marks in terms of he spearheads the national coach response who will take over now what are the political ramifications and implications. well we can imagine that if over the next couple of days he's has a terrier a stent

a state secret she was testing at this stage we don't know if that's going to be the case we must likely have a regular updates very soon over the next couple of hours of a day next couple of days for now yes found will probably isolate continue to isolate himself and he will probably continue to work that way was no meetings passed on of course stands upon has been the leading figure behind the chancellor angela merkel folder government's response to the pandemic so this is said but there's also no reason to believe that this will disturb the country's governance and handing of the pandemic at this stage absolutely spearheads the national response he is now corn teaming as you are reporting what does this tell us about other members of the german government and the chancellor could they have been exposed or possibly infected. well today there was a main person cabinet meeting between the government members and the chancellor angela merkel now we don't know if the chancellor has said has been tested yet but

she immediately went into quarantine might her doctor had tested positive shortly after having given her a vaccine shot now we can imagine that all those who have been in close contact with the has many somites get tested rapidly however we also got a statement here today from the chance that it was press office highlighting the fact that the federal cabinet meets in compliance with hygiene and distance rules and that that ensures that there's no need for participants to be quarantined even a person who later tests positive for core another hour is always present in a meeting. reporting thank you. and here's a look now at some of the other developments in the global pandemic. spain has become the 1st european country to register 1000000 infections the country has been tightening restrictions in recent weeks as new cases continue to soar and russia is

not planning to introduce any new measures to contain the virus that's despite recording its highest daily death toll since the start of the pandemic and south africa faces a high risk of resurging coronavirus infections that may force the country back into a stricter lockdown that's according to the country's health department it comes after cases in western cape province rose by 42 percent in the past 2 weeks. let's get you a quick summary now of some of the day's other headlines. but the words in nigeria's biggest city lagos say they'll investigate will ports the security forces opened fire on protesters reza groups are citing what they call credible reports that some demonstrators were killed the army calls the reports fake news there have been protesting for weeks against police brutality and corruption. thailand's prime minister says he will end a state of emergency that was imposed in the capital bangkok to suppress

anti-government demonstrations it is the 7th consecutive day of protests protesters who want the government to resign and a new constitution as well as reforms to the monarchy. at least 34 members of afghanistan's security forces have been killed in attacks by the taliban in the northern takar province according to afghan officials the taliban attacked the government soldiers while they were sleeping the rising violence comes despite ongoing peace talks between the afghan government and the taleban in qatar german prosecutors say a fatal knife attack in the city of dresden earlier this month is being treated as islamised terrorism 2 german tourists were stabbed one died from his warns later in the hospital a 20 year old syrian was taken into custody on tuesday in connection with the attack. a now says spacecraft has really come into

physical contact with an asteroid called brand new over 320000000 kilometers from earth well the most serious wrecks proved collected rock and dust samples that scientists hope will allow them to learn more about how planets formed and how life began. down declares. 2 words that nasa scientists have waited for since 2016 all right. when robotic spacecraft osiris rex started its journey to the asteroid. for the past 2 years of its mission osiris rex has been orbiting the asteroid looking for the perfect spot to land for only a brief encounter. a few seconds almost like a kiss on the surface was all the time osiris rex had to grab rocks and dust samples from the asteroid seconds that have been here since in the making and. 'd i don't want to hear.

that but i can tell you that everything went well just exactly perfect which is kind of the hallmark of this team we have consistently beating expectations over and over again we have overcome the amazing challenges that this asteroid has thrown at us and the spacecraft appears to have operated flawlessly it was the 1st time nasa has touched down on an asteroid but it could be a week before scientists know if and how much the spacecraft craft still the mission is already a success i mean i haven't we actually pulled this off. if the sample collection was successful cyrus rex will begin its long journey home and return to earth in 2023. exciting stuff football and champions league title holders byron munich face of lazika madrid tonight but forward serge and now bree is ruled out with coronavirus all the other by a players have been tested again and at the moment the game is still on coach fancy

flick is expecting a difficult encounter. it is less than 2 mums since by in munich were crowned champions league winners coronavirus disruptions mean they have had little time to paskin the limelight before starting all over again. the defense of that bonus league title has been opened down so far although they did impress in saturday's 41 win it be the felt was robert leaven dusky scoring yet again. i said good gnabry played in that game but just since tested positive for the coronavirus and is now in quarantine despite the setback the flick hopes to take the renewed on field positivity into the champions league group a opener at home to athletico madrid but he knows the spaniards are dangerous like so many other sides it is not of this is not true should we all know it's difficult because there are lots of good teams out there especially in the champions league

and that's why it's always about taking one game at a time yes we have the bigger picture in our minds but the next game is always decisive and simply and china's a modest escape to sneak. atletico not by and out in the 2016 semi finals and are famously combative close they now boast the goals of luis suarez. suddenly champions league glory seems a long way away. x. germany player mizzou to has criticised arsenal for a lack of loyalty after being left out of their finalised squad for the premier league reports say ozil who earns over 350000 years a week but he has been frozen out at the london side as a group his long silence in a statement saying his allegiance to arsenal had not been reciprocated he still hopes to play again for the club and he still quit the germany team in 2018 after our meeting with turkish president richard. are mine and now for your.

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lasting. and they're all many people. but people still holds quizzes today on this question republican leadership. most covert patients recover within weeks but some have been living with the effects for months exactly how long it can last we have yet to find out could covert 1000 be a disease from which some of us never fully recover. and this is the w.'s covert 19 special hello and welcome to the show i'm stephen beardsley in berlin to 6 weeks that's the typical recovery time for a covert 1000 patient at least according to the world health organization not for all researchers are trying to figure out why some patients experience the disease more seriously and suffer more long term consequences here's the story of one such case. eric alderman is struggling to return to normal life the 51 year old was infected with cove at 19 in march it started with a cold and a bad cough and then

a trip to the emergency room he was in an artificial coma for 2 and a half months now he's being treated at a neurological rehab clinic in the southern german town if. he has to relearn everything walking talking even how to set up a thing. for had no preexisting conditions. nothing. and came straight out of the blue. oh been abroad i hadn't been on a ski trip. my friends were fine. i just don't know how i got it. hall. outman is a sports reporter for a newspaper helping him get through all this is positive attitude and the support from his family his wife and his part children. 303 it was

touch and go oh oh. there were times when i i almost didn't make it. they are hard very. then you all are just treating aardman doctor friedly from rosen diagnosis or rebuild their dysfunction which can be directly attributed to men's club with 19 virus he also has car tissue on his lungs and no one knows if he'll ever recover from that. we see patients who developed weak hearts which they never previously suffered from we see patients with liver impairment which only slowly returns to normal function we see patients with distinct muscle paralysis due to nerve damage which only gradually heroes we also see others whose muscle paralysis quickly subsides so we see quite a wide variety of symptoms affecting different organs for instance or gone. research on the illness is going on everywhere including at the clinic in nuremberg

in the meantime it's become clear that the virus does attack the brain it can even cause strokes and make a person's immune system overreact. it's an illness that in many respects is unique and we learn new things every week and every month about it and will only be able to look back in a few years in order to say what we've done right and what we've done wrong. 10 percent of patients have a hard time with this disease just like eric alderman has 90 percent to recover even if it does take some time. eric opens wife told us recently that her husband continues to make progress since the story was filmed and can now feed himself again speaking and walking remain difficult however the good news is that he has been relocated to a clinic much closer to the family's home or let's talk about more about recovery times with yon hennig's he's a specialist for poetry medicine and co-leader of the post code 1000 clinic at the

university of hamburg medical center john thank you for joining us is there such a thing as post code syndrome. as well apparently there is right so we have reports of. thousands of patients reporting long term effects after the disease raising. mental problems but also restlessness so yes we have to say there seems to be something like a bad. are we talking about the damage from a serious case of covert for example of lung damage your heart damage or are we talking about an ongoing path ology for example some people saying that they're smell and taste go again months later. that's the that's the basic paradigm so that the virus is causing cellular damage and these this damage then translate into long term effects and long term problems but there seems to be an additional

component to that that is not just explained by the direct cellular damage that we have to figure out and we know from many viral diseases that there are long term effects there convalescence coming along. might be neural problems so what we really have to figure out now is what specific to the virus what dish will but nevertheless i mean we we have probably thousands i mean given the. 40000000 infected people we probably have hundreds of thousands of people with. patients of lung covered so that's going to be a real burden to our health care systems and we have to figure out a way to see these patients are clearly going to help them what are the common symptoms or conditions that we're seeing that might be lumped under long covert. well basically we're seeing a whole variety of symptoms so you might even call it a syndrome because basically the most commonly reported symptom seems to be fatigue

but short as a breath headache joint pain. red eyes so muscle pain so there's a lot of things but also we have anxiety we have a cognitive impairment so that is really a whole variety of plethora of symptoms that we're dealing with and that makes it so difficult to basically. treat the patients well because it is i mean we need a lot of specialists to really take care of the patients at the beginning of the study a 2 year study i have to ask you even though you're at the beginning do you have any sort of results or any sort of trends that you're seeing right now that are applicable to how we look at long coven. obviously since we just started a couple of weeks ago we don't have any solid data and that is basically the main problem we're dealing with all around the world in. long cove it so what

we're seeing is which is interesting so the disease in our court is not associated naturally with the severity of the acute infection so we have patients who are totally fine you know after as you showed in your in your and movie in had a severe disease with acute london damage and still they recovered completely so now the lung function are totally normal the patients are feeling better than ever and on the other hand we have they have seen pin patients with mild disease who are doing terrible and how they can recover and are really there and able to work so that is a big problem and we don't know how that belongs together but others have shown that basically women seem to be at higher risk to have more severe long it if you're older you seem to be at risk to have long coated but really we have to find out what's going on and that's why we're trying to investigate for 2 years how

these symptoms evolve and how. how we can help patients best at the beginning of this pandemic 1000 was really described as a respiratory illness based on what we know now how would you describe it well it certainly starts in the lungs and we know that in fact the blood vessels and the kidney as a main target of the acute disease but from the long term symptoms the long term effects it seems to be a syndrome so it seems to really affect every part of the body so far the muscular system the cognitive system even the psyche is part of it so. it is it is something that we really have to really have to look into how this is. how we can help these patients and really how we actually are able to see all these patients because this might be laid these patients might be in the hundreds of thousands or a on her legs at university of hamburg medical center thank you so much thank you.

and now it's time for your questions it's the part of the show where our science correspondent derrick williams as the questions you've posted for you tube channel over to derek. if you're diagnosed with covered 19 and a recovering it's higher what measures should you take to prevent your family from catching it as well the last thing you want to do if you catch cove at 19 is give it to your friends or family unfortunately that can prove challenging if you live in the same household on the positive side the evidence we have so far indicates that after your symptoms appear with every day that passes you'll likely grow the less infectious though it's still grinding its way through studies at least currently we think that maximum infectiousness hits around the 1st day that you show symptoms if not before so if you tested positive after you developed symptoms and are now convalescing at home and the people around you have tested negative

then the likelihood you'll infect them should as a rule drop by the day here's what authorities recommend you do 1st no visitors of course and both you and caregivers should wear masks and any interactions even if it's hard stay as isolated as you possibly can preferably in your own room with a window that can remain open if temperatures permitted door closed try to only eat there as well a dedicated set of silverware and plates is a good idea if you have the option in your home of multiple bathrooms and toilets then dedicate one to your use limit contact with caregivers if at all possible they really should belong to a high risk group they'll need to disinfect regularly leave any dirty laundry or bed linens unwashed for as long as possible and finally don't forget that

caregivers will. also need to quarantine for as long as health authorities require even if that means long after your own sometimes have improved. science correspondent their claims there don't forget that you can post your questions to derek on our youtube channel and if you'd like to keep up with the latest developments in the crowd of virus to subscribe to our newsletter just log on to be dot com slash 2 wrote a dash newsletter. that's all for us thanks for watching.

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