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planet. the truth. the meal. on the green. and to me it's clear remains true. the solutions are out there. to join me for a deep into the green transformation for me. for the. if forced to choose it's the sense of smell that most people believe they could live without. but losing it can be life altering scientists say covert attacks the cells that help communicate what we're smelling. we can lose our appetite or worse still the will to live sense of smell helps

define who we are. nice to have you along a study of 2 and a half 1000 patients who lost their sense of smell and taste showed 40 percent of them had completely regained of half a year later 2 percent reported no improvement whatsoever for belch an answer a few are camp less incense such as her favorite per fumes smell or fall after she got in fact to do with corbett 19 a few months ago at 1st she could no longer smell anything then many smells were distorted one of the most common side effects of the virus she can only see the spring on her balcony. there is a tiny bit of something but i don't know the smell. that's frustrating and makes me

a bit sad. chale michelle my yard can understand very well how our car is feeling the frenchman lost his sense of smell due to an accident 5 years ago it's the smell of his children he misses most but mayor does not want to give up his passion for cooking. up a bit of color is good we eat with our eyes after all a bit like the great chefs in france are doing it but it is the nose with its millions of factory cells that they find to tell you stuff this silent after his accident my i was angry because no one could help him even if an estimated 5 percent of the french population suffers from a distorted sense of smell but with time his anger gave way to an idea he founded a necessary action and developed off actually training incorporation we scientists with concentrated sense rose lemon laughs. the sense of

smell is a sense that is as important as other senses. many forget about it. most people only discover it once they've lost it or gone since the beginning of the pandemic thousands of affected people all over europe have been using his sense of smell training techniques belgian answer feel our count is also exercising her nose her doctor has seen for herself there are plenty patients are recovering thanks to training for example because the a factory sells damaged by the virus renew themselves. this gives me hope but my motivation very soon and so does my hope because sometimes i'm just scared i keep asking myself if it will ever come back. even if things are getting better only slowly answer feel your car. hoping these smell bottles will help her put on her

perfume again without upsetting her no. let's look at the science surrounding this panel adult is an old factory scientist so badly just how quickly can people recover their sense of smell because the researchers i've spoken to say the shorty of covert suffers a massively in bad. you're correct in that they can be massively impaired during the acute form of the virus however fortunately most people do recover their ability just smell sometimes within days or weeks after the virus passes unfortunately a small portion of individuals seem to have a persistent loss they even the ones who are suffering from a long coated. in some cases smell loss is the only symptom that they may have ever experienced from cove it but yes some individuals with long cove it also do experience this persistent smell loss can go on beyond 6 months well and one of

the consequences of that i mean i guess you just don't want to eat too you if it doesn't taste good and there are lots of other things involved like relationships and depression it can really impact on your life confit. it can be very distressing particularly for people who never thought that losing their sense of smell would have such a dramatic impact on their life eating is certainly the 1st thing that is affected and some people actually go into different ways some people stop eating because of the lack of enjoyment of food and some people overeat because they're looking for that satisfaction that they can no longer get from food flavor aside the loss of smell can also so sorry what are you going to say. loss of smell can also change your relationships with your environment and the people around you familiar

places and familiar people no longer seem quite the same when you cannot smell them so as scientists any closer to agreeing on why this happens. and there are intriguing studies being published almost every week we know for example that the virus does attack certain types of cells that express the ace 2 receptors are but it looks like the persistent loss of smell may be more associated with ongoing viral replication and inflammation in the nasal passages in the noro apathy ileum where all of the cells that support our sense of smell are located what does the virus do this because it's basically giving itself away it's a clear sign you're about to become infectious and most people would quarantine themselves of course and prevent the virus from spreading. well actually that's

really interesting question because until it was made clear that sudden loss of smell was a cardinal symptom of sars tovey to infection most people really didn't understand what was going on with them if they experienced a fever for example or severe muscle aches or extreme coughing they might have isolated but many people who suddenly lost their sense of smell were not actually quarantining themselves until the message got out that this was indeed one of the best ways to know whether someone had been infected with the virus we also mentioned earlier in the show that the old factory cells are able to bring you themselves and regulate is that the same for everyone though. well in the normal human sense of smell yes the olfactory neurons regenerate throughout the lifespan unfortunately when there is just russian by

a virus that can lead to inflammation this can actually attack the system in multiple ways it can produce inflammation as i said earlier it can also attack the supporting cells that are involved in the region aeration process and some viruses also attack the olfactory neurons themselves and what's your take on smell training and its effectiveness. at the present time it's not training seems to be the best recommendation for people who have persistent smell loss following kovan infection it requires some persistence and compliance it doesn't work if you only do it casually but the evidence is that if you stick with the program which generally involves about 12 weeks of smelling for odorants twice a day and doing it very mindfully that approximately half of the people that have been in studies actually do regain their sense of smell and do so faster than

people who don't undertake small training so it's a lot of work but definitely worth it in the long run you say. if you're depressed if your lifestyle has changed because you can no longer smell that people the places the food you enjoy eating then it certainly is a worthwhile effort it has very little risk except for perhaps boredom and overall frustration in the early days but it has been shown to have efficacy in post-viral smell loss and so therefore it is one of the recommended treatments for to hear about adults and thanks for joining us today on this our pleasure my pleasure thank you. williams now he's got an interesting question about natural immunity. how long does not show immunity acquired from having the disease last. this is another question where

a little background comes in handy when you're infected by a pathogen for the 1st time your body forms what's called an immunological memory of it now experts say these kinds of memories are in some ways like neurological memories a few will stay with use throughout your life while others will disappear after just a few months when it comes to cupid 19 we still don't know exactly how long immunity and those who recovered will on average last but several studies including one from early february that's been cited a lot they indicate that in most people who caught the disease naturally acquired immunity seems to remain pretty robust for quite a while the study looked at a range of factors associated with an ongoing immune response in people who'd

recovered from coke at 19 and then found that in the overwhelming majority of them immune memory remained apparently strong at least 6 months after recovery many experts are now hopeful that most people who had the disease could prove resistant to reinfection for at least a year and hopefully longer. that's good news though it's likely not the whole story with other coronaviruses immune memory tends to lapse over time which is why authorities also recommend that people who had covert 19 and recovered still get vaccinated at least was because vaccines provide a safe way to update and refresh immune memory and could patel. usually make you even more resistant to sars kovi 2 and for a longer period of time then natural infection alone world.

and 2 of the show we leave you with a touch scientists who've taught bees to sniff out coated 19 researchers gave them sugary water as a reward for identifying positive samples are like once they got used to the system they'd stick out their tongues automatically the results can be provided in just seconds. of course bees have a keen sense of smell let's hope they don't lose it from covert thanks for joining us on to tell us covered $900.00 special. into the conflict zone with tim sebastian america's secretary of state grounds in a blimp it was in ukraine last big is a mccarthy's offer words of comfort and support for the country the russian troops of most of the huge numbers close to its border my guest this week is ukraine's foreign minister dumitru coolly about getting out of the business so what was he

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between here and there. is this thank you was worth a try me to come to germany. and got my license to work as a swimming instructor. and i wanted to children who don't subscribe fast. that's your story take part cherish on info migrants die. because this is all that we will be defending if they have crossed that border what do you think the west would have done for you i would reduce health system is in bad shape american secretary of state found to me lincoln was in ukraine last week is a the power to me to offer words of comfort and support for the country after russian troops took most of the huge numbers close to its border my guest this week from kiev feels ukraine's foreign minister did meet troops clearly about what did he get

out of the visit and what with you to give. them each of course they about welcome to conflict zone good afternoon the u.s. secretary of state was visiting. last week and said he stands strongly with your country what do you understand that to mean standing strongly with you that means political. and military and reforms. support for ukraine we count on our partnership with the united states as much as we count. on the partnership with the european union and its key capitals your president was clear that he wanted more

than that a few days before blinken arrived he posted a tweet calling for a clear signal about the european and euro aglow the prospect in other words a clear signal about your big for membership in the e.u. or nato did you get that clear signal well both perspectives of your atlantic and european membership are long overdue you and i would like to recall that for example when it comes to nato the promise was given by elyse in 2008 before a summit so we've been it's been 13 years now and my president reiterated the ambition to achieve that we have not heard affirmative positive response yet but this is you know we aspirants we are seeking membership so we will keep pushing this story forward so you didn't get what you wanted so in effect mr blinken just bought

a basket of fine words and that was it. i know it would be not entirely correct mr blinking with others not entirely but there is some truth to it. well he did not bring with himself a promise that ukraine will become a member of nato this year or next year but he reaffirmed that the united states states stand by the decision of 2008 where it states clearly ukraine and georgia because it applies to both countries will be members of nato and we will be working with our friends and partners on achieving this goal but the problem is without a timetable it's meaningless isn't it well what we need we currently have a timetable which is called national program of cooperation between ukraine and nato it is structured very much. along the pattern of the membership action

plan but what we do need and i can agree with you here is a clear timeline of granting membership action plan and what will follow after that this is the next step in our integration with the alliance how far did you get with your shopping list because you're going to be looking for enhanced anti drone and the aircraft capabilities you also want the patriot missile is washington going to meet those requests well we did submit to the united states a list of. the most urgent needs for ukrainian army some of the items on the list are more easier to get some are more difficult we did not expect to get everything at the time but we are making progress on those items on those positions which. which are feasible at this at this point you say you're making

progress so you didn't get any of them you haven't signed any deals to get them it's not it's not fixed. mr secretary blinken did not bring an antecedent or complex with him but. no nor is there that he was going to give you one either nor a date i have no doubt that we will we will receive and number of items from our list this does not require reiteration it's a mental matter of cooperation of certain technicalities but i have no doubt that we will give them this global let's talk if we may about the frozen war in the eastern part of your country if we can talk about it that way there's been some the escalation in tension with moscow it withdrew many of its troops after the sudden massive deployment close to your joint border if they had crossed that border what do you think the west would have done for you expressions of condemnation maybe some sanctions while 1st there is no withdrawal

adequate. to the number of russian troops and military machinery assembled along the border of ukraine and in the occupied territories what is happening cannot be called it was that all russian forces largely stay where they are what has changed is a drop in military forex this is true but the threat is still there and you know in the soviet union they had to show trials trials without justice and now what we observe is that a show withdrawal was drove without removal of forces and this we should be we should be we should remain vigilant on this when it comes to your 2nd question is this this is our land this is our our people we will defend it we will fight for it we do not expect foreign troops to arrive and help us but we do expect from

partners to provide ukraine with all assistance they can offer to make us prevail in this struggle for our country so you're not expecting nato to go to war with you with russia you're clear on that to defend you. absolutely we are not a member of nato yet and i would like to. see again clearly and squarely that this is our land we will be defending it but partners can help us to defend our land and i'm sure that this is what will this will be happening when it comes to negotiations your president has made it clear he no longer thinks the minsk 2 agreement is laid down 6 years ago is the way forward is that because neither you nor the russians know the separatists that actually done what you signed up to do. well the key demand off russia in minsk is to

recognize so-called lugansk and honest people's republic as party to the conflict which would effectively turn an international armed conflict between ukraine and russia into an internal armed conflict between ukraine and separatists this is the cornerstone of the discussions that are taking place in. in minsk now my president is saying that alf goal number one should be peace and security and lives of people and not the political political recognitions and we call on moscow to focus on the same on bringing peace to don't bust and on making progress on a number of drug decisions which are ready to be adopted they are pending green light from moscow moscow can easily give the green light but that continues playing this game with demands to recognize donetsk and lugansk as part of the conflict so

this is in essence what is happening in minsk and this is why we are making steps to. ensure a way forward out of this stalemate the middle to agreement is you know contains political commitments on you and on the other side article for a dialogue on local elections was supposed to start the day after heavy weapons were pulled back from the contact ploy article 11 the new ukrainian constitution should have entered into force by the end of 2015 its key element was to have been decentralization none of these things happened did any child blame the other for not fulfilling their side of the bargain where do you go from here. you are absolutely right this is this is the work toward by word to russian narrative about means when moscow meets the fact that item paragraph one of the

security 1st you stop shooting and then you proceed to political settlement ukraine spared the no effort and made a number of painful concessions to ensure a cease fire unfortunately the cease fire has been violated on a systemic basis and more and more in many soldiers have been killed. i would like to assure you that we are absolutely committed to moving along the political part of the of the minsk of the minsk agreements you really think through security 1st you think you can get those through your parliament those political aspects of the minutes to agreement well if we see if we see that russia is not killing our soldiers is was drawing its heavy machine heavy military machinery from ukraine and that it abides by security provisions this will give us an additional argument in the parliament to convince that this is the road to peace this is the road to

settlement and this is what my parliament wants but we will never accept any russian idea of federal ideation of ukraine because. in this country we have a very advanced reform of decentralization and by the way i would like to thank the government of germany in helping us with this reform to really empower communities on the ground and to give them more right right and when certain regions of donetsk and lugansk parts of ukraine which are currently occupied by russia return to ukraine they will enjoy all those vast possibilities for development and prosperity yeah but why did your president say he's not going to talk to them russia says talk to the separatists your president refuses i'm curious as to why he refuses because the people in there that's going to count because they are ukrainian citizens aren't they why is your president refusing to talk to ukrainian if he wants that area back under his control my president will talk to legitimately elected

ukrainians in the currently occupied parts of donetsk and lugansk will not talk to holders of russian passports who vigorously in the implement only instructions coming from moscow. we should not mix this 2 categories of. once we hold elections as provided by the minsk agreements when there are legitimately elected representatives they will be become part of the political system and we will talk to them but today the only party that makes decisions and instructs people on the ground how to act is moscow it's not the so called separatists yes but this process is going nowhere isn't it and the fact is that you're out of ideas for how to pursue it something that the president's chief of staff actually admitted at the

end of last month under your mike on television he said it's necessary to continue working in all directions and in all formats because in the end we don't know what format will bring peace to ireland 7 years after the seizure of crimea that's an extraordinary admission of both failure and despair isn't it you don't know how to continue. there is no fate neither failure not despair in kiev we have. well we are upset with the behavior of moscow with this unwillingness to play constructively interest super kate sincere willingness of ukraine and of germany and france to put an end to the war in donbas when it comes to crimea you know we launched we came up with a very good idea of a crimea platform and this idea this initiative is gathering more and more international support so now we are not running out of ideas but unfortunately

russia has adopted a very. very unhelpful tactics of simply downplaying every any idea that if they do not like or ignoring them but will keep trying because as i said just a couple of minutes before this is all when we cannot sit down with and lay down our hands we have to come up we have with new ideas we have to be creative and we will be doing that this is all down to and it may take some time but in the end we will succeed the fact is that your president was elected 2 years ago on a promise to end the war in the donbass region he didn't do it even blaming the continuing conflict on its previous president poroshenko saying it wasn't russian aggression that was the problem it was the ukrainian side being unreasonable that came back to bite him as well given that in effect he's over promised and the livered the biggest sin the politician can commit isnt it. well my president still

has a couple of years in office to deliver on that and. before the end of his 1st term . the 2nd point is that in just 1st year of his presidency there were some very good achievements in our relations with russia and they were promising for example the exchange of prisoners including the return of the famous director or all expense all who was a political prisoner in russia russia returned our vessels captured. the carriage straight so there was a good period now there is a better period but it doesn't mean that we will not find a solution that will bring very good period and we will find will settle the conflict without crossing our red lines this girl labor it's clear that if you want more help from washington in the west you're going to have to do more to deal with the rampant political corruption in your country aren't you the state

department says that's key to securing ukraine's democratic institutions its economic prosperity and euro atlantic future every year the same message from the u.s. from europe year after year why are you not doing better on this front. well 1st we're doing it for ourselves not for the sake of support when you're not. doing you're not doing it at all you're not getting to grips with corrupt well you are in your country you are you are your story you are either misinformed or exaggerating it was under the present of. under the present selenski that the anti-corruption court finally started functioning in ukraine and it was a very long battle to set up that court and make it operational unfortunately the previous president did not allow that to happen president selenski did and he does

not interfere in the operations of the court when you can see to tional court of ukraine another body of our judicial system to try to destroy an anti-corruption reform it was the president who stepped in immediately and then if he was followed by the government and the parliament who restored parts of critical legislation that was declared null and void and void by by the constitutional court things are happening and you know every country is is a difficult combination of there is factors but this country is moving in the right direction and those who are calling on us to move faster they are cordially invited to come and join us and help us well those who are you are called yearly inviting by those who were there last week if you look at the state department's human rights report the latest one what's clear is that what's damaging western confidence in you is this continual drumbeat of human rights abuses that are reported in your country as pointed out in the latest human rights report from

washington the concern that highlighted is not just the abuse that the corruption the abuse or torture that's carried out by state employees in your security service not mad enough but the impunity that surrounds them the fact they can. or with a pretty strong assurance that they'll get away with it are you happy about that when it comes to human rights abuses in security institutions you know this is something that is not just one of the systemic nor large scale and unfortunately to my deepest regrets present not only in ukraine but also in other countries of europe will follow recommendations of the european committee against torture on that and we enjoy excellent cooperation with them otherwise i do not understand what kind of systemic violations of human rights you are referring to well it's quite clear in the report the report says abuse of detainees remains a widespread problem the government generally failed to take adequate steps to

prosecute or punish most officials who committed abuses most officials resulting in a climate of impunity that couldn't be clearer could it that's been your friends in washington. you are probably you are referring to the situation in prisons with regard to the imprisoned. imprisoned persons this is a big score which not only for ukraine but also for other european countries but. this is not a large scale systemic oppression of human rights happening across the country as i said to you answering my previous question we are absolutely calculating with all human rights bodies including the council of europe and the european union to address outstanding issues related to the treatment of prisoners in. in prisons one of the other key issues which is being raised by washington is the low

level of confidence reported in your judges the us says that despite efforts to reform the judiciary and the prosecutor general's office corruption among judges and prosecutors remained in demick in demick why is it that your absolutely why have you to lose your event when you have labels to guarantee the rule of law in your country. well 1st rule of law and tradition is not the same thing traditionally it is part of the rule of law and there is a rule of law in this country but the one of the weakest point that requires. systemic attention is judiciary our judicial system is in a bad shape i can fully agree with that it's i as a citizen i regret it. and the president and the government and the

parliament they are all addressing this issue in close cooperation with our international partners and the venice commission of the council of europe because we all realize that judiciary is an essential important element for foreign investments and for bringing also for 4 for bringing justice to the country for for protecting human rights in the country so we are addressing it this problem through a set of reforms conducted in the closest possible cooperation was international institutions and international partners this is a good barman so some judges were pressured by high level politicians others reportedly took bribes in exchange for giving particular verdicts if they're found to be breaking the law like that why can't they be removed from office i'm not aware of any report that a member of the government or the president's office would be pressuring pressuring

. a judicial in a quarter or a judge quite to the contrary as some of the. elements of the ukrainian judiciary are putting pressure on the government and on by issue. illegitimate judgments in particular the one that i mentioned the judgment of the constitutional court the right to destroy the anti-corruption reform that was designed and implemented by ukraine and its friends and partners from abroad but i'm sure that there will come this problem as well because no corrupt judge can succeed against the government and the people of ukraine that are willing to overcome the resolve and overcome this problem what about the press journalists to a feeling the heat in your country when they deal with sensitive topics washington says violence against the breast remain the problem with human rights groups

blaming government inaction in solving crimes against them why this action on the part of the government well the problem of press should be considered from 2 sides on the one side it's the problem of dissent from nation flowing into the country and the spreading around among among citizens this is something that the government should be addressing and is addressing to ensure security of the country on the other hand. we do have to ensure the freedom of speech and we are absolutely committed to it. and of course to ensure safety of journalists i'm not aware of any recent cases where government agent or a representative for someone associated with the government would be conducting would be suppressing freedom of speech in fact. the criticism against the president

the parliament the government as a whole is the coming from many many media corners and that's normal because we live in a democracy and these seats vibrant and there are many different opinions all these can can exist can and should exist in a free. democratic country however we will not allow this information specifically coming from russian media to. destroy our people's most people's minds is the question is also to what extent you are protecting your journalist because the state department report mentioned a journalist from her ahmad scale who was beaten by a police officer while he was filming protests in front of a government building that was april last year 7 months later the state's bureau of investigations was still quote looking into it is that good enough as far as you're concerned well if we start picking up one specific case and focus on it of course

this situation will look at doom and gloom i. am where i'm aware of this case i find it disturbing as well and i stand on the on the side of a journalist in this particular case but please do not try to create a picture of doom and doom and gloom picture bans on i'm not granting any cases taking out taking out of the context now we're in a dialogue with you i'm just trying to make the point yes i'm not creating any any image that hasn't been reflected in the state department human rights report just one final question you talk about how your protecting your country and you talk about getting your land back do you seriously imagine a day when the russians will say to you sorry we took crimea big mistake have it back or has that train left the station well did you imagine that the soviet union well one would seriously say eastern germany can go back to germany and

reunite again i'm sure that if your leadership and your politicians never imagined that they would never succeed. mr chorley but been a pleasure having your own colleagues on thank you very much thank you.

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