the worse to come to pass because the worst just seems unbelievable, like something you don't want to go back to and has life there improved as a result of the nato mission. you know, some aspects of life have changed for sure. there's been economic development. there's been reconstruction, there's been rights that were gained and regained over the last 20 years. but if you look at the current situation, you know, in terms of the german presence, you know, if you look at some of the cities that are most in danger, right now, like on doors like missouri on these are all places where the germans either more or they were near those places until the fact that they're still so dangerous and people are still fleeing those places. or that they say that they can hear gunfire around the city at night. and during the day they feel that the taller bomb getting closer and closer from the nearby district, you know that and south call itself called the german president and the overall

international president into question because it's, it's 20 years later. and people in a city like, my god, you know, one of the cultural economic come to the country or does the 5th largest city in the country. if they don't feel safe and they feel like they need to flee, then again, it's a question of well, what did you really do over the last 20 years? where did you secure, if you can't secure these big cities, then what can we say about the districts and the villages? okay, thank you for that. i mean the t free and campbell in cube and scatter perspective political perspective now from germany. 7 to miller is a member of the countries parliament for the social democrats and sits on the defense committee. welcome to d, w to germany. achieve what it set out to do. and i've got to stop a hire alone. hello from the north coast. i didn't get the question. i had some technica questions. could you please repeat?

did germany achieve what it set out to do in afghanistan? was so far we had the we had the operational we had the operation to go to the sheet international terrorism and disco has been achieved so far. however, the future of ghana stan puts me a bit for it because we have sylvia. we have severe things going on on the ground. all right, let's explore that a little further. would you please for sure, outline the ways in which germany's mission in afghanistan was successful? well, we had the, we had the nato, a line that has set a goal and the operation in the military operations. and the goal was to defeat international terrorism, and that was no longer home for international chosen. and this goal has been

achieved because johnson is no longer home for international toes such as well. but however, yes, well, if you want that, you say you say that, well let's, let's look at that because you say that it has been achieved. but it does seem that as soon as the international troops, including germany's leave, certainly but the taliban will come back and the country will become a haven for whom have a deal to be done with with a terrorist and pack. they started all sorts of places. so this is only it, this only seems to be a temporary fix, even though it's taking 20 years. well, however, we have, we have said that it's a decision made by the lines and in front of her set by the, you know, i said with troops and that the alliance takes decision as a whole, as and so we leave the country side by side with the united states of america,

of course, we have to think how we can secure the future of the guns and how they can be by the side of the people. and that, that is why germany has said to stand by the african people. and so that we have the civil civil have going on on the ground, but we cannot take decision by germany itself to stand alone while the united states of america withdraw from, from the ground. okay, thank you so much for joining us. assume to a member of the german policy for the s d. s p d bank. thank you. i said he'd weighs a sweeping across western canada is causing tons of deaths and breaking records as temperatures hit 49 degrees celsius. cooling centers have been set up to give people some rest by the sweltering heat is forecasted to continue. a prolonged,

dangerous, and historic heat wave engulfing western canada has already caused dozens of death . people are being encouraged to go to cooling centers to combat the extreme heat. it's just on bearable. it's impossible to be out. so never seen anything like this . i hope it never becomes like this. her again, it's not really pleasant. this is too much, too much summer for us here. but some are enjoying being out doors feel like and coover, but it's an interesting experience. the nice getting outside, but basically been consuming gallons of water the whole time. not surprising with temperature is exceeding 45 degrees in some places, some feeling close to 50 degrees in others because of the human conditions. some are taken to the water to cool down, while others are helping the vulnerable by distributing food and drink to provide relief. officials point to this being part of a wider problem. in this instance,

i think the, the big lesson coming out of the past number of days is that the climate crisis is not a fiction. that is absolutely real. and if you look, i've had a briefing from the wildfire service yesterday and again today the entire west coast of north america from baja to alaska is red hot. this is not a british columbia problem. it's not a candidate problem. it is a global challenge and we all need to have citizens of the world coming together. sewland college classes have been cancelled in british columbia, which means more playtime, perhaps. but extreme heat and the search for relief looks like a climate emergency problem that just isn't going away. is look at some of the other stories making news around the world. at least 7 migrants, including a pregnant women, had drowned off the coast of italy at their boat capsized. the coast guard say 46 people were brought to shore butter and tennis still missing goods believe to set

off from 2 nice, you know, korean leader kim jong on has criticize his own party for failures in dealing with the corona virus pandemic. the media reporting a grave incident, but given no further details. north korea has no officially confirmed cases of covered 90. more russian president vladimir putin has confirmed. he has had been sputnik v corona, virus, of vaccine. you got his 1st shot in march and the 2nd a month later, the comment in which just goes to disclose at the time which vaccines venues and germany have been knocked out of football, euro 2020 toner, by arch rivals england. the 1st time the 3 lines had beaten them in and out gave me 55 years. england now advanced to play ukraine in the quarter finals. ecstatic fans have been celebrating. i started the victory the 3 line road and england

sword. a clean mil when against germany. finally break because it's the best english misery. things. 966 june. we be german loss and lockout for them to invoke talk. it's affected, you know, 10 minutes or so. another company we put it through the box talking is brilliant and contested. i would like german fans when the stadium tried to make the best of it. both teams played definitively and i think it miller had put it in. we would have sub job. but, you know, in the end of the buying unit forward to mila, gave pounds in germany a moment of hope. if only for a few seconds the, because the channel, the english fans are in the state of ecstasy,

despite elia doubts of catch goth southgate strategy. i say we spoke earlier on on may no, no 11 penalty that we wanted to know 90 minutes. i could not believe it. i think i do. but before it comes, the english team has to go on the road and is now off to rome. the dangerous moment for us with a warmth of success and the feeling around the country that we've only got to turn up to win the thing. and we know it's going to be an immense challenge from harold. while police tried to disperse the cheering

crowds, the magic is far from the german law also mark's end. if you ask him to come in as national team coach, he's been in charge since 2006. i'm on the 2014 world cup in brazil. but it's already 18 well cap campaign in russia marked a low point. germany were knocked out in the group stages. so as far as last nights, if he goes love was clear about where the buck stops linked in mine offer and taught on one to take full responsibility for this course. i take responsibility as well for being not this early without any effort or but it's also going to take time to process and to digest this disappointment so far off. i think these were 15 very long years with some wonderful moment. like a bargain for me. smith field in mid field, but they also had their fair share of disappointment to it, and torsional,

when you slow but us, these are my think that this team and some of the players that will be with us in the years to comes and some of them have a very bright future. it's yes, it's a concept forces hard. hopefully they achieve the success for they were all hoping for. this is oliver and conventional to the oh. my hands, a flick, my successor. i was all the very best on and much success. my heart continues to be blind read by the goal. that's what called ukraine. meanwhile, is celebrating going through the quarter finals. thanks to a to one victory over sweden in extra time. government ministers put on the national teams just for a cabinet meeting and gave plays a round of applause, the prime minister hoping that thing spirit shown by the country's football as well, the buyer, the society. you know, you have a british advice which is set you up to date more world news at the top of the hour

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it's really debilitating. some tend to 20 percent of those infected later suffer from long cove. it recent studies suggest women are at greater risk than men. the lungs, heart, brain, or mental health can be affected and it is still not exactly clear what causes long cove it or what can be done to treat it. hello and welcome to are covered 900 special. because cobra and berlin being tired out of breath and feeling like the infection simply won't leave. long covert syndrome is grueling for patients and a challenge to medical professionals. now researchers in the german city of atlanta and might have taken an important step towards understanding more about the condition a single drop of blood. it's all it's needed for the examination. at the university long and math monk institute in germany, scientists are looking for the causes of long covert or post covered 900 syndrome

in which patients suffer from lingering breathlessness, tightness and chest or fatigue. we've seen many different blood cells react very strongly. they get bigger and have a greater volume, some become more malleable, others become more rigid. these characteristics might have something to do with the shells, not passing through the capillaries as easily. and instead, getting stuck in the lungs, advantage come the longest tech climb to measure the cell smelly ability. scientists have developed this so called chip which contains tiny holes finer than a human hair. blood is pumped through these canals and films with the high speed camera. the result, healthy blood cells become ron shaped, infected ones remain around clams, potential alone, the finding that old blood cells changes very significant. and what we then saw is

that these characteristics revert back to normal in most patients, once they've got over the disease and made a full recovery. i did this the test method from among and provides doctors with yet another tool for better understanding, covert 19. and it's long term. so there is some indication of what could be causing long coded symptoms, but a lot still needs to be figured out. let's try to unpack of what is known so far. with me is matthew barton's professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at one of your a medical center in new york. welcome back to our program, matthew. as we just saw, the report, abnormalities in the blood could be a cause of long cove. it could this finding help the prevention or even therapy of it. this is a very interesting finding because, you know, we have not really at this point understood the exact causes of long code. and it

is a systemic type of disease and in manifest in many ways as you have in your intro piece . the idea is something that the blood of malady may contribute to a systemic diseases is not at all something that would be unusual. many people are familiar with sickle cell and although that's a genetic condition and very different having maladies of the blood cells, they are cause many effects including central neurological symptoms of t cause muscular skeletal complaints problems with the joints. so having something that is present all throughout the body like blood showing these long term abnormalities may be a very important step in understanding part of where we may be getting the cause of our long cove. it 10 to 20 percent of covert patients end up suffering from long cove. it symptoms like fatigue, shortness of breath, headache. how long do those usually last?

well, that's a very good point. we don't really know. we are, you know, at this point only a year and a half into the pandemic, but we are seeing in our own medical center and we have a long coded clinic. numerous patients that a year out are still seeing symptoms. the fatigue seems to be one of the greatest ones. there are of course, patients who have long term lung damage that have come from having had the co and that causes scarring that we don't know if it's going to reverse. but it seems in very. ready severe cases unfortunately, that it persists and we're now starting to be concerned that may actually progress to the point where patients may actually require long transplantation. as the disease progresses and the neurologic symptoms of the many patients complain of a fogginess or a little bit of mental clouding. that persists for a long time. we don't know exactly what the causes of these things are, but we do know that exercise and that having patients participate in our therapy

programs rehabilitation things that we would do for patients who have other causes of either neurologic or pulmonary or chronic fatigue or muscular skeletal symptoms do seem to have effect as well for this population, so we're having benefit and we're actually making them feel better. but we still have a problem with not understanding fully the long term time course because it's just too early for us to know the long term effects. ok. we know that high age being overweight and other symptoms at the risk of a severe covert infection. do these conditions also contribute to the risk of long coping? it appears that the folks who had a higher risk for having coven seemed to have more symptoms. but it's not just only those patients we have young, otherwise active and healthy patients who are presenting with long coping symptoms . and so it's pretty broad spread. but they do see,

it does seem to be that very severe patients seem to have more of a pulmonary and cardiac symptoms that persists. whereas we're very surprised to see a lot of patients who are never admitted to hospital and who were never in an intensive care unit or on a breathing machine who are presenting now with long coded. so they had a relatively mild initial, of course, but are still presenting with the fatigue and some of the mental clouding. and that is very interesting and kind of concerning because we don't necessarily have a handle to say, oh, you are definitely going to be free of this because it happens to everyone is the fact that we've just quote, unquote just been one and a half years into this pandemic does this fact make it so difficult to do proper research on long coven? well, the, the research, there's some things that are progressing rapidly. and because so many individuals

have had long. this is a disease and have that code with. we are actually getting a much better categorization of for the long terms, the quello or the long term side effects of this condition. it's difficult for us to actually tell because we don't have a long term yet. so we don't know yet to say what will happen to people 51015 years from now. but the other challenge that we have is a lot of the symptoms of long coping overlap with symptoms that we can see from other kinds of syndrome such as chronic fatigue syndrome or from mild dimensions or from other kinds of metabolic conditions that may cause some brain abnormalities which cause people to have some confusion. and then as you resolve those underlying metabolic conditions, you can resolve the underlying problem. so we really, at this point are looking at such a constellation of so many symptoms that it makes it a little hard to focus in because it's not like long over it is just causing one thing. causes a whole constellation of symptoms which may actually be either enhancer worse and

by other conditions, or may just be the other condition and we're thinking it may be long proven. so it's a bit challenging for researchers to actually tie it, get it tied up in the play bundle because we have so many complexities that are actually in there. but the knowledge that we're getting now is moving forward. if for example, the blood study that you just mentioned is one of these things, we're now starting see the physiologic background, right? matthew barton is professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation. thank you for your thoughts. thank you. and from the feeling that covey had never left its now onto the worry of catching it again. here is one of your questions for a science correspond the dare. williams. paul, i had coven 19 recently and recovered. then not long ago, found out i was exposed again, could i have been infected again? the data we have indicates that although it's not impossible it's,

it's highly unlikely. a lot of researchers have looked at this question and come to that conclusion. for instance, a recent large scale study involving over 25000 healthcare workers in britain showed that having had cobit 900 once, had a dramatic protective effect for at least 7 months after an infection. the strength of the effect was close to the one observed and people who had 2 doses of our most effective vaccines. additionally, this study showed that people who had covert 19 then tested positive again for it a few months or weeks after convalescence. the chances of developing symptoms were also much lower than and those were infected with the 1st time. but if you have the disease and recovered, it's still doesn't mean that you can just sit back and relax completely. you still

really need to follow it up with the vaccination. that's because although recent studies into the robustness of long term immune response in people who got the disease, although they've been very encouraging, we still don't know whether that response might wayne over time. in fact, a growing body of research now indicates that people who recovered and were subsequently vaccinated, that they could very well have the best protection of all. some experts believe the immune response after that double whammy will be so powerful and so long lasting and those who recovered and been vaccinated, that they might never need future booster shots. but for those of us who have only been vaccinated, a lot of experts expect a booster shot will be necessary at some point down the line.

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