base trend, but we know that then not in the sense and to protect the, in the sense in the behind the bus. what do you know about the current state of your husband? how are you doing? you know, she's physical state, of course not there will because he is in jail for more than one year already. but his moral state is good. he knows that she doesn't do anything against lo and she understand that he's a changed for nothing and he's brave. he's strong and to protect himself in this trial, what outcome do you expect here? in all the so called judge can give to my husbands and the other people as many years as they want 1527. it doesn't matter. what matters is to

how release all political prisoners and not let them you know, see to it as much as they could just how to release all but the european union and post wide ranging economic sanctions on the bella was today. do you think this will help your husband or other imprison opposition, figures like romano protest which you know all their responsibility to fall for changes in their lives on bills themselves. but in such a situation, when in such level of repression in bills, we have very small window of opportunity inside donors. but people use every inch of these to fight on the ground. but we are fighting and the european union, we are really grateful to your pin union and they use say, in other democrats, congress that they protect in, let's say i was to try for build

a new democratic builders. and in the since august we tried to many of the ways how to deploy medical appealed to the regime by but we went and factions is maybe the most powerful leverage to put pressure on their resume to make them to understand that the critic countries are with us and they will fight to alongside with the sense for rule flow against violence. and the sanction of course, can have impact the decision that's made in the regime. and we want dial at to want to go through the regime about future elections. but before these old school prisoners have to be released and i think functions can help you said that the but this is the case for the reason for civil society and bella bruce to sort this out. do you think the opposition is strong enough?

so as a position is the majority of the builder. since now the us from the millions of people who want changes we have again, we have, they are a huge level of repressions and violence inside bearers. but people are not given up. people are united as never before, and people are continuing to fight people in unite in these threats right themselves in striking committees. we have very good sportsmen movements, medical movements. so people understand what they are fighting for. and the democratically doesn't democratic activities. united around one a new elections. ceylon susan oscar, thank you very much. thank you. cannot have

a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. hundreds of pro democracy protesters have to fight a ban on public gatherings to rally in bangkok. they called for more them across the constitution and criticize the government's response to the co with 19 pending the marches have resumed after a few months break in 2020 thailand. so protest nearly every day gibraltar is voting on plans to ease draconian abortion laws. the issue has exports expose shop the opposing views of the tiny british enclave at the southernmost tip of spain. the government is proposing legal changes to allow termination when a woman's mental of physical health is at risk owing fetuses fatal. physical european union leaders coming together in brussels for summit, us tension flare over hungary and low that several you countries say target members of the l g. b t q. community 16. european leaders signed

a joint letter condemning them. which benz contents deemed to promote homosexuality or transsexuality to children? the eu has announced legal action against hungry calling the law in violation of fundamental rights. and other contentions i did on the agenda is a proposal by germany and france to hold a summit with russian president vladimir and a bid to improve the blocks relations with moscow. hungry prime minister to all has been facing mounting pressure to repeal the controversial law seem to target the v t q community. despite this taking questions from reporters at the summit historically defended it. i'm a freedom fighter in the communities for gene homosexuality was punished. and i fought for their freedom in the rights i am defending the rights of the sexual guys, but the slow is not the builder. it's about the rights of the kids and the parents to accept yourself being a was my move because thing. so except it myself how to say to my parents and to

hear now that it is because maybe i watched something on tv when i was younger, is unacceptable. and to mix appear, failure for no dressy homosexuality is, is unacceptable. so we will have to discuss and to, to say, not again, we have to discuss in future. we have to discuss now. and to, to say that it's unacceptable. it's, it's, it's even so stuff that we have to, to say that we are going to court. it's about co values of european union to be able to be difference in the union, them on the soil as not bring ended on a babel vehicle in brussels. barbara, the us threatening to take legal action against hungry will this overshadow the summit? yeah. does because it really sort of has dominated the debate till now and it will till tomorrow maybe. and during dinner we heard this will be openly discussed among european leaders. this step by the hungarian prime minister, who for years has been demolishing hungary democracy, step by step press freedom,

freedom of signs of freedom off and independence of the judiciary has it seems all of a sudden gone one step too far because for years that you has watched this and commented here and there, but not done much to stop it. and now it seems there is real anger among european top politicians saying this is enough. you stop right here. so it would be interesting to know how this is what is said during this dinner, but the doors are closed. nobody in their hungry prime minister has said she will not go back and he will not walk back on the law. it has to be seen. he has made about turns in the past. maybe he will again, but germany and france now want to resume direct souls with russia. and how is this likely to go down with the other members days at the summer? it doesn't go down very well at all. was many eastern european states, the less yang and from in this the, for instance is said this is like trying to talk to the bear and ask him not to

steal honey. any more, please. it's not going to be very fruitful. and so many countries who don't believe in any change of behavior on the side of vladimir putin, he, they think that he is still increasing his aggressive stance versus europe and the rest of the world. and so in gauging him in top level talks would just sort of validate his position and validate him as rushes lead us sort of prancing around on the world stage. that is something many european leaders do not want to america and the french president and manuel now chrome c. seeing things more from a practical, practical perspective. they say, if we want something from him, we have to talk to him. and we have to sort of do it in a direct manner and try to engage him. so those that it's more or less like 2 against the rest of the european union. so there is no great appetite for that at

all. the w stop of islam, brussels for us. thank you. baba the c o p a. now we're health workers say at least 50 people were killed in the northern figure. i region. witnesses and as strike target has a busy market in the town of to go gun. there are also reports that medical teams were prevented from traveling to the scene. fighting has intensified since november when the government launched and offensive on rebel forces in the region. the wounded were still arriving in the regional capital makella for treatment a day after being caught up in the market to talk about 25 kilometers away. witnesses say that the soldiers stopped ambulances reaching the scene, denying many victims, quick medical assistance. it's an accusation. the p o p and military deny lot of people were injured but they didn't get medical service. and because of

the location of the road, i mean if any of the country this patient has been sustained into this is dylan and just signed to asha by says she was selling vegetables after st tool when a bomb landed seriously wounding her 2 year old daughter. the toddler was one of the 1st victims to arrive in mccann, a where she underwent surgery for her injuries. the un says a t p, disturbed by reports the army held, a tomblin says, which could be a serious violation of international law. it says this has requested access to the area to assess the situation. once again, we want to see and to hostilities in the region, we want to see greater access to for humanitarian workers. and frankly, from what we've seen here,

things are not going in the right direction, say the least rebels integral. i launched a new offense of last week as the p. o. p are prepared to hold national regional elections. there was no voting in the war torn region where the military has been battling rebel forces since november humanitarian agencies war. and that to gripe is now on the brink of famine. the civilian suffering has damaged the image of ethiopian point minister. b med who won the nobel peace prize in 2019. he's expected to be returned to power. despite growing international concern about the situation and to grow i before he goes in sports, news and soccer, the euro 2020. where germany's through to the last 16 but just barely after surviving what was billed as a group of death, wednesdays, rollercoaster gaming and hungry hard fans on the edge of their seat. germany was on

the verge of elimination, but in the spot, while celebration, the waning minutes of the mass, when he's 40, you are a 22 drawers are good enough for the german to advance the knock on the ground against england and sending hungry pocket packing it stories rivals will face us in london on tuesday, and that's it for me on the news seemed don't go away though, coming up next. your daily content update in the covert 19 f as in berlin. ah, the fight against the corona virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection in developing? what does the latest research say information and contact the corona virus because it 19 special next on d, w. in the climate change,

the people who what ideas do they have for their future? d, w dot com, african megacity multimedia. click and answer me . ah, could, would it be the difference between life and death? between a light fever or a stay in intensive care? we know that obesity can lead to severe cobit 19 complications. ask him high blood pressure or diabetes. so is our diet, our destiny?

could eating few animals and more plants be the solution? when you study suggests it could come down to survival of the vegetarians. and what kind of could be $900.00 special? i'm monica jones and i'm a vegetarian it's true. been one for more than 30 years, even though my family then insisted. but it's important to eat need a common notion in those days. so now there is a study that says vegetarians could be in better shape to deal with a co, with 19 infection. let's find out why. the idea that diet has a role in preventing disease has been around for decades. i've had the victim to eat a range of foods, including fruit and vegetables. today, the outcome of a cobit 19 infection appears to be the latest in a string of ways in which vegetarians may fed better in terms of health. a

recent us study published in one of the british medical journals publications looked at helping predominantly vegetarian, impacted the severity of a covert infection. people who mostly followed a plan based diet with found to be 73 percent less likely to develop a moderate to severe case of code that if they did get infected have compared to those who ate the high protein low carbohydrate diet. it's sort of embedded in a huge discussion of how the help the big problem he has. how do we find this out? and this is a interesting study because they use a population which is likely to, to be effective as co it and like it's exposed to comb with that, that is really interesting. the participants in the study were from line health care workers in france, germany, italy, spain, the u. s. and the u. k. more than 2000 doctors, nurses was to record what they ate,

whether or not they got cove it. and if they did, how low and severe their illness was, those who follow predominantly, plant based diet, were much less likely to get seriously l if they became infected. even when age an exercise, habits were taken into account. what we eat also reflects who we are more broadly in western countries. vegetarians are also more likely to be well educated, health, conscious, and female. these factors all have a bearing on the outcome of a covert infection. a minute vishal point of view is always i think it's worrying about patricia is generally not a good idea. it's, it's in most cases the diet is fine. if you sort of get some balance, then they'll go to one extreme or the other. i think that the risk to push people into eating disorders is often worse than the benefit one could the for years

there's been a debate about the relationship between lifestyle choices and disease prove it is just the latest reason to do so. and it shows that a healthy diet doesn't necessarily protect against disease, but it can support immunity. learn for more, i'm joined by sheena crookshank. she's professor off a bio medical sciences, and an immunology is of university of manchester. a very good to have you with us. and going by this report, i suspect that you are a budgetary and perhaps of egan. actually, no, i am no terran or v can. i do re a predominantly based diet. so, but i do enjoy confessions as well. okay, so it's not all that bad but died related health issues. they certainly have been quickly recognized as a huge risk factor. what exactly happens to our immune system when our diet is not healthy? well, it's not really surprising that diet has an impact,

and i mean it's because if you think about it, the ability to find confection on the ability to get new trends from the food that we eat are really fundamental for lice, berry berry into twined. and we know that a very typical western diet, that high and low in vegetables can call something called met, inflammation. this is where your immune can get to balance and you have a kind of a low level inflammation, which surprisingly makes you less able to deal specifically with infections. so you are more vulnerable to cope it. so i mean, it is well known that western style diet is famously unhealthy, lots of sugar sausages, you name it all boosting as you just said, our inflammatory levels, which is bad for our immune system. but why then has cobit 900 cos such havoc

income trees like india, where a vegetarian diet is so much more widespread? well, you've got to look at all the different factors that come into play there. unfortunately, we've got a lot of poverty in jail. got a lot of all the crowding, so that means it's very easy for the inspection to spread. you may have people who are malnourished, you made people who have other infections make from less able to fend off the disease. and we have issues around and a lack of treatment, resources, oxygen, etc. so there's an infrastructure issue there. so cove, it's not just about having a guy is also looking at the other ways you can mitigate your risks. looking at ventilated, your spaces are looking at how much close compacts you've got with people and the activities that you did right now. now if people watching this start to panic can sink. oh my god, i have not been eating healthily. i have to change for last year,

where you show a prime minister boys johnson launched and eat healthy campaign as part of the united kingdom fight against the pandemic. how long does it take to have any effect anything you can report there already? well, i'm not sure how much it probably in the u. k. probably. i'm not sure where it's that he's looking at that. but certainly we know that in, in just for the 6 weeks time, you can really see a huge impact on your immune system. print, changing your lifestyle, just bringing in a bit more variety into the food that you eat, looking at how you kind of get 5 so that you're exercising little bit more not sitting at your computer screen all day. those sorts of things can have a really quick effect on the so simple to do that we can old us. it sounds very easy, but i'm just wondering, is there a one size fits all healthy diet and lifestyle? i think the good will be very ation because some people are more predisposed to

conditions than others. however, the very simple set, such as looking at the variety in your diet and looking at just being a little bit more mobile. i'm not talking extreme side looking at your stress levels. these are things that we can all do. and at the very least they improve our well being out. obviously, i mean to, to have a healthy diet to exercise. all of that is fairly much common knowledge and certainly in parts of the world where people can actually afford to have a healthy life style. they still don't all do it. i mean, if this damage doesn't make us change our habits, what will well, i think that we have actually seen some positive steps into changing our habit because we've seen a lot of people know that they were forced to stay in doors. they really salt the times that they could go outside and they've been exploring their neighborhood.

they've been trying to find the green areas. there is more curiosity about what we can do to stay healthy. so there is more of an interest in that. so i think optimistic actually that may pre, now we can start to make a difference, but we need education campaign so that people know what to do, what to eat and how to get those things that can make them feel better. what did you have for lunch? just to follow you because well that's, that's one way to learn way to do it. she knows you know, crookshank, the professor of biomedical sciences and immunology. is that much as the university . thank you so much for your time. thank. so if a healthy lifestyle protects us from getting seriously ill, what about some mis healthy habits? time for your questions? no. over to derek bull, is it true that nicotine protects you from coded 19?

0, a little over a year ago. what's the nicotine officers made headlines? when, when a couple of studies suggested that tobacco's best known, active chemical might help to protect you from getting perfect 19, the hypothesis was based on what the researcher said was, a disconnect between the number of smokers coming down with the disease and the number of smokers that should have been coming down with a disease. since then, however, there's evidence from other studies that when adjusted for other factors, smokers likely do get cobra 19 as often as non smokers. and what's clear is that when they do get it, it's more likely to take a serious turn that really shouldn't come as much of a surprise, i mean, pandemic,

or no. pandemic smoking is just terrible for your health. and at least the groundwork for many of the co morbidities that are associated very clearly with more severe cove at $900.00 outcomes. there is an interesting aspect to this question. however, that's still being pursued, which is what effect nicotine might have when given to people directly, rather than by having them inhaled smoke from from burning tobacco. there are a couple of different studies looking at things like whether for instance, nicotine patches applied to non smoker patients and hospitals might affect the course of their covert. 19. some researchers think the chemical might interfere with or, or block the receptor that the virus uses to enter cells. and that it could therefore contribute maybe to a future treatment in some way. but the studies i found looking into questions like

that are pretty small scale and they haven't yet released findings. so i wouldn't count on a really convincing argument for it anytime soon. mm . derek williams there and he'll be back tomorrow. of course, that's all from this addition of our cobit 19 special. thank you so much for joining us, and to stay healthy. ah, the news? the news, the news?

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