ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. no, let's up in the fighting in ukraine despite the russian proposed cease fire. heavy shelling is reported in the countries east after keith dismissed as moscow's truce announcement as a ploy to reposition russian fault. also the program hope for millions of people suffering from alzheimer's disease. a promising new drug is on the verge of

approval by us regulate, also coming up winters sports, but without the snow. the unusually warm weather has left many. the slopes in europe bare this season is climate change threatening the future of winter sports ah and gathers, as well come to the program. unilateral cease fire announced by russian president vladimir putin appears to have fallen through as fighting in the ukraine continues . ukraine has already rejected the announcement as a trick. many russians, as well as a ukrainian christian celebrate the orthodox christmas holidays, which begins to day refrain in president vladimir zalinski accused putin of planning to use a pause in fighting to consolidate russian positions. russia has accused ukraine of

not respecting this cease fire. barker responded, roman gone to ranko is in the ukrainian capital, keith, and he spoke more about the status of this ceasefire. well, at the moment it looks like em to fighting continues, but may be less intense than in the, in the past days. or he and key if we heard an error, tyrants are at about mid day. and in other regions of ukraine as well. that was no shelling though, so no rockets, no rush and drones hating the ukrainian capital. but along the frontline, there were reports about the fighting. there were pictures also and in social media, russian social media showing russian short soldiers firing on ukrainian positions and reports from ukrainian side also that the fighting continues. so basically there is maybe a little less fighting. maybe there will be even some changes during the night and

during the actual christmas day, which is on a saturday january 7th. but there is no cease fire. we cannot talk about it now. what was behind putin sees fire announcement. we're here in ukraine own. nearly all people we talk to and, and government officials are saying the same, the basic ground for that and they think is de russian, attempt it to regroup its forces and maybe pull up some reserves, ammunition and then start again with new forces. ah, and am we all we're also hearing and a 2nd reason possible reason, which is propaganda and an attempt to portray the ukrainian side as not willing to negotiate, not willing even to pause for us 36 hours as the russian president suggested. and some also believe that russians may be waiting for a weather change and it is indeed changing it is very,

very cold in ukraine at the moment. also in key of there is it snowing, icey wind is blowing and the temperatures are below 0. so am, these are actually good conditions to use heavy weapons tanks. and maybe russia is just waiting for a couple of days for the ground to freeze and then start it's offensive or smaller offensive on some parts of the front, where there has been intense fighting in their recent weeks. now roman, this is the 1st orthodox christmas since the war started. how is it being celebrated? and here we were, all people are celebrating. we've been up to a couple of churches here and we've seen people just like on a normal christmas day coming. they are praying m m m. and so of course it is, it is a very special christmas. it is overshadowed by this, this war. but on the other hand, we see that people are trying also to preserve traditions to cook 12 meals at his

or orthodox christian tradition. took 12 meals on this on this christmas eve, and many people are doing this. so people try to just find something they can stick on to they can hold on to and, and celebrate despite this war my colleague roman, gone to ranko in t of there. thank you. roman and another development in the wall. germany of u. u. s. say there are now prepared to send armored vehicles to ukraine. the 2 companies leaders announced that ukraine would receive german made mazda and us build bradley fighting vehicles. the decision follows a similar one by france. this is the amex t, n r c. it's a french light battle tank that's highly mo bile and fitted with up powerful gun. now to ukraine's delight frances donating some of these ahmed combat vehicles. to cave france if awarded you are a fran springs,

a new level of european defense support to ukraine. and i thank president my call for this leadership. we'll get more armored vehicles including french made wheeled tanks, which sends a clear signal to all our other partners. there is no rational reason why western style tanks have not yet been supplied to ukraine. it's important in order to restore security for all ukrainians and peace for all europeans. you will please zalinski has clearly been frustrated by the west's reluctance to give his country the tanks. he says it's so desperately needs. joe biden has now sent the us. we'll send bradley fighting vehicles to help key if they've been used by the u. s. military to carry troops around the battle fields since the mid 19 eighties. military experts say the bradley would give ukraine more firepower and strengthen its ability entrench warfare. but biden's move falls short of sending in heavy

tanks like the abram, which is what key if really wants. berlin was reluctant to agree to donate matters which armored personnel carriers. but the shouts government gave way to increasing pressure to change its mind. the thought that we have discussed for putting ukraine in its right to self defense, even with heavy weapons. because fulton believes that that he can hold out longer. and that if at some point you, crean ran out of epin skin and international support, he would win. this was just it. so all skins laden he had isn't he given good and asked the devastation and ukraine mounts the pressure on all key. it's allies will only increase at several of months or the other story is making headlines today. be trial of her jail, bella rouge nova laureate alice biase has begun. he and 2 other activists were accused of financing anti government protests after the 2020 election,

if convicted there could be jailed up to 12 years. president, alexander lucas shanker, was declared the winner of the 2020 vote and has been accused of a brutal crackdown on his opponents. police and kenny m are investigating the death of a prominent l. g. b t component whose body was found stuffed in a metal boss. earlier this week at winter, lubbock was a fashion entrepreneur and model human rights groups of decried the killing. the u. s. house of representatives is still without a speaker front front. kevin mccarthy from the republican party failed to gather the necessary votes in 11th successive frowns and voted the speaker of the house is considered the most powerful role in the u. s. congress. invent my colleagues on this side. mexico security forces of captured the alleged quarterly, the video, guzman lopez, son of a notorious drug lord known as l. chapo authorities,

se 10 soldiers and 19 criminal suspects were killed in the operation as cartel members tried to prevent the arrest. some even staged an attack on an airport where they believed guzman was in custody. terrified air passengers duck for cover rush. their plane comes under fire during takeoff outside cooley, a con airport. our national ram oss captured the mormon to mexican air force plane was shot at her over my mouth, destroyed the frenz. i'm super nervous. he and hundreds of others took shelter in the airport. as the terror unfolded. the thought on that i was filming with the armed forces arrive to you at the airport. and they were welcomed with shops. we

tried to leave walking towards a friend's house for them, but we couldn't because they were shot into plane had to take off again in all as elegant orchestra. unbeknownst to them, their cities most wanted man had just been arrested, unleashing a violent backlash. cart tail foot soldiers set up road blocks and waged war on the police as they try to free their boss right below the rules of life yet. so what is being done? we have 7 state police personal injured. we knew that their military personnel also injured, were still working to control the situation. one of our low, oh, video guzman, lopez, known as the mouse, was previously arrested in 2019 barton, an embarrassment to the mexican authorities. he was later released after the cartel did battle with federal forces authority see his re arrest lands, a powerful blow. see though things young for the rest was the result of 6

months of reconnaissance and surveillance work in the area of influence of this criminal group. where it was known that carried out elicit activities into okay, you've ok, i was was activity though this elicit us officials confirmed good man lopez was floor into central mexico by nightfall. he was behind bars transferred to a high security prison outside the capital. his chaotic capture, a major coup for american and mexican law enforcement. alzheimer's disease affects tens of millions of people worldwide, and that number is expected to rise as population's age right now, there are next to no effective treatments for the disease, but that could soon change a promising new drug developed by a japanese farmer company, a se, and u. s. biotech for him biogen may get accelerated approval from the u. s. as soon as

today, all timers disease was 1st diagnosed in a woman named august the tear over a century ago. it's the most common cause of dementia. in general, it's expected that 2 3rd of all cases are, are due to alzheimer's disease. but for a number of reasons, cures, or even adequate treatments for all timers have proven, stubbornly, elusive to has been a taboo. didn't talk about it. second and the funding, we have $15.00 to $20.00 times less funding for this disease area. go back to cancer, also we have equal numbers about 5055000000 in the world. and 30, it's very difficult. this is a brain disorder. and as the most difficult organ of the body has all timers, disease progresses, clumps of protein called amyloid form in the brain of the affected patient. another protein called tao, which usually stabilizes neurons instead begins to form tangles like those here in

blue. that also plays a key role in degeneration. there is a picture metaphor for that. so the emily tough philosophy is the trigger that's of the gun. but finally, the bullet that killed suddenly top pop up. the g mckenna, mab, the new old timers treatment slows the formation of plaques in the brain. it's an artificially produced antibody that works by binding to m a lloyd. the medication has broken new ground in the field. this is a big success, and this is the 1st, this is the 1st trial with the proven result in a phase 3 clinical trial. i think the science is hard there. and so this is opening the door. i would say it's a milestone. it's definitely a very important milestone because of the 1st druck that is not acting. some

symptomatic lee, it's clearly deceased, modifying in a certain sense that showed in a phase 3 trial, positive outcome in all family. and 2nd point, the cannon mob only slowed the loss of cognition. it didn't halted completely. still, it's a promising step towards potentially stopping or even curing this debilitating neurological condition. earlier i spoke to about a stroke, but he's one of the world leading alzheimer researchers and director of the u. k. dementia research institute. you also saw him briefly in our report and asked them about this new medication and what it can actually do for patients. but the crime shows is that it slows the case so that people remain longer at a certain stage of the disease and overall, which i mean, i really need to be h h a mean overall population. but overall, patients game, certainly a few months in becoming in dedicate basically. what do we know

about the risks that come with this new drug? yeah, there are a quote from reports, all these antibodies. it's known that they can cause brain him what i just, and this is especially the case in patients be to if we for which is in gene. and then she also more happening apparently in paper people who take on people or last year. and so there have been one or 2 reports of severe side effects there. now, according to the world health organization, dementia is a leading cause of death globally. yet only 1.5 percent of the global health research is focused on the disease. why is this so under funded? yeah, that's a good question. i am asking myself already for the gates. so i think it has to do

with the taboo. it's a disease mainly of the elderly. it's something which many people don't like to talk about. and so that is sort of what that is. morality is disorder like yeah, we can do anything about it is happening, etc. and i think that has been why it's not in the mainstream and not fancy and but this is changing. i have the impression now the w h o also expects the number of people with dementia worldwide to almost triple and reach 140000000 by 2050. why is this disease so common? well, 1st of all, it has always been a common disease, but the main driver, but in this expansion is increasing life expectancy all over the world. so we get more and more people who come 7080. and that's the big group of people reach alzheimer's disease. and dementia, so that's the main driver behind this. but also this drug, it just puts the brake on the disease. it doesn't cure it. do you think that will be a cure for alzheimer's within our lifetimes?

yeah. well, i think it's it, of course you need to test these drugs at the moment that the patients have already symptoms. so if you want to put the brake on, you better do it in the beginning of the disease. so what i expect is that these drug will gradually move more forward into the show. there is a 1015 years that people accumulate this. i'm going to brain read off any symptom. and i think that's the moment that you need to use the truck. and so i guess that was the story is approved to see experimentation to that direction. so i think there is a q a possible here. and then in the stage that the drug test it. now that he's also ready to talk, which we here for about another inflammation. and so there is a lot of effort going on at the moment to also stop the reply mission and to stop the stop over g. and so the future for patients in the stage when to have a symptoms will be a combination of therapy. so that's hope bob, to stop there with a u. k. the mentor research institute, thank you very much for sharing your expertise with us. if you're welcome.

aah! tom, for some sports oohs did lose world cup returns from the winter break this weekend with a stop in lithuania. so far this season, germany's traditional dominance has looked like a thing of the past due in part of the departure of german lose legend. girl, how could he now works on coach for the austrian team and has big ambitions with his new employees? no longer a german lucia strolling to success like they once used to one of the missing ingredients is gill cockle. as an athlete and coach, he spent 35 years keeping germany at the very top hospital, 13 olympic medals of his own. and as a coach saw as athletes claim 11 last summer, so heckled,

had to austria. having finally decided that was time for a change in the motion. y'all were gonna ask you some packing. a whole package was so interesting as in that i was happy to go for it and harvey. i'd take this last chance in my life to try something new in my career done again evolving. i'm in health. in the workshop hoc, hollis always prostate the new. his reputation for technical innovation is evident in his nickname, the loose professor. this is a model, ea, it's the aerodynamic form which has to merge with the luge is body and complimented to some and most it all comes down to the blades, the sensitive point of contact with the ice, the price tool of any loser. they are the subject and result of hours of meticulous

care. the style canton there, cool from the seal edges of the blades, have to be so sharp that they damage the ice as little as possible. an ice to screw . so that way the sled can glide, but still gives enough support that you don't start sliding around from side to side during the run. needs to be in sort of it all sounds easy in the words of the loose professor. but a look at his time table offers a glimpse of his task through complexity. looking all the way ahead to the 2026 games. he and his team austria colleagues, are out to finally gain viet over the competition. and we're staying with winter. sports has been an unseasonably warm winter so far across europe, causing plenty of frustration for fans or pursuit in the czech republic is one of the many ski resorts around europe that has been brought to

a stand still. some piece in neighboring areas have only been able to open thanks to artificial snow. the weather has also disrupted the sporting calendar with skiing, woke up events like this one in croatia being called off due to high temperatures. from all this phenomenon i am now joined by professor robert caspar from zabel castle university in south phil to discuss the environmental challenges facing winter sports right now, because we're how worried should organize of skiing and other snow events about the future of their sports. thankfully invitation. glad talking to you today. i think her all of us in sports shall be very concerned about the current state of the climate crisis. and yes indeed, all the stakeholders her shall be very concerned, but she will also be ready to act. ready to act? what does that mean?

well, let us take the, i'll see, i'll see her for the past 2 edition for 22 and 26, only seen 2 candidate cities and they have changed their entire process of bidding . and they are now discussing permanent host the cities for the olympic winter games. they are opening up for party centric bits. that means olympic games across various countries and reducing the capacities in the venues is there, all of that can be done. what about artificial artificial snow? which i, as i understand it, does some damage to the environment as well? well, i think we have to be aware that we are in the middle of the climate crisis and the, the altitude where you have guaranteed snow is rising. so i think it is

about moving up higher in the mountains, but also the both ski federation has i think, to update it. it's environmental strategy to see how we can minimize energy consumption, how we can reduce the transport l and travel for the entire world cup circuit. does this also mean that we are more likely to see these winter sports events going to countries that rely on artificial so even though of saudi arabia, for example. well, i think it, there is 2 options. one is to go back to traditional places in higher alpine locations because if you have to work up a band on 1500 meters altitude, you have a higher likelihood of having a snow guaranteed. so wanted to see were, is there enough natural snow?

well, what is the good and ride altitude rather than creating new areas with artificial snow? professor proper caspar, thank you very much for joining us. thanks for being on the show. tom, now to have a look at some other stories are from the world of sports, the nfl player damar hamlin is breathing on his own and is able to talk after collapsing during a game in ohio. on monday, the 24 year old buffalo bills play a stuff with a cardiac arrest on the field after making a tackle doctor's treating hand and say he had shown a quote, remarkable improvement. over the past 24 hours antennas, world number one, e gosh, one take was left in tears after falling to her worse defeat. in nearly 2 years, she was beaten 6262. i work number 3 at jessica picola at the united come one takes

heavy loss, comes less than 2 weeks before yours. first grand slam failure and open the former italy striker john luke of yearly has died at the age of 58 from pancreatic cancer. while he was 1st diagnosed in 2617 but returned to work as an assistant coach when italy won the european championship in 2021. he played $59.00 times for italy, scoring 16 goals is clubs included. chelsea entrances and from sports to culture news, the general music director of berlin state opera. daniel barn born has analyses stepping down from his position. the world famous conductor and pianist says his health as significantly worse and in the last year and that he is no longer able to deliver the performance required of the role

. the 80 year old began performing as a pianist at the age of 10 years before becoming a lead conductor, later in life and attending audiences with his performances. for many years before we go, the world's largest ice and snow carnival is underway in china. vis a giant ice block towers, the centerpiece of the winter wonderland. in horror. been all the next 2 months. the northwestern city will celebrate the cold. with theme parks skating rinks, and more than $300.00 ice and snow sculpture. hundreds of thousands of tourists, i expected to visit the festival, which was scaled back in previous years because of over 19 restrictions. you watching the w news coming up next in d. w. news asia. with china's 0 cove. it policy over at the holiday, rush ahead is it time to mask off again?

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