and re imagined dante's teachings for relevance to gandhi's legacy starts january 28th on p. w. ah ah, business dw sly from berlin, no let up to the fighting in ukraine despite the russian proposed cease fire. heavy shelling is reported in the countries east after rock key of dismissal moscow's troops announcement as a ploy to reposition russian soldiers also on the program. new hope

for millions of people suffering from alzheimer's disease. a promising new drug is on the verge of approval by us regulate ah, i'm glad o f as well come to the program. a unilateral cease fire announced by russia's president vladimir putin appears to have fallen through as fighting in ukraine, continues. ukraine had already rejected the announcement as a trick. many rational, as well as ukrainian christians celebrate the orthodox christmas holiday, which begins to day. ukrainian president vladimir lansky accused putting of planning to use a pause in fighting to consolidate russian positions. russia has accused ukraine of not respecting the ceasefire. i talked about this with dr. joe mcglenn. she's a senior research at the monterey initiative in russian studies and oxford england

. after the 36, our unilateral cease by appears to have fallen through or already i asked her whether putting couldn't see that coming. i imagine he did, i don't think any point. i think the purpose of declaring the sci fi was to have me . it was obvious, it would fall apart. i mean, even last night when we had the spreadsheet in the head of the people's republic, the unrecognized statement. well, that was, that's now annexed by russia. they say. and he said that he refused to abide by any sci fi, because he didn't believe that ukrainians, that his men were fighting were indeed orthodox. so what was behind this is fire then in terms of motivations. and it seems quite clear that one of the motivations was to, i space,

keep up the shirad in the sense that it looks good abroad. perhaps it can even exploit some divisions in europe between those who might want to pressure or, and of course in the u. s administration, she knew she might want to pressure ukraine to accept certain conditions, to make certain concessions in between those you who want king to want to support your claim for it to restore all of its territorial integrity that katie didn't want to give him the weapons deliveries that you were just being bound, we've been hearing about it the last couple of days. but i was thinking there's a message to a domestic audience here to vastly, of course, is reflective of putin zone ideology and understanding of ukrainians as, as russian people most ukrainians now from this year have, is been going on for a while. but from this year, in particular, most europeans do tend to celebrate christmas on the 25th december. so this referenced celebration on the 7th. it's again her sort of

a call to the fraternal brothers narrative that the beating deploy, innovative lead malevolent way. but it also makes it like a peacemaker at home, particularly at a time when consent amounting about a 2nd wave of mobilization. and of course about the recent explosion on news. even mckeever, i was about to come to the do you think there is a direct link to that set back? the news eva talked in which almost 90 russian soldiers were killed. certainly it's causing trouble. i mean it, a direct link is difficult to know. i mean, there were a lot of weapons, i think the fusion is sitting there in the morning and they've made it very clear in the ground that they are prepared to take enormous losses. so i don't think it's the number of men killed that would have had the impact. it could be the amount of ammunition that was, that was blown up because no from that was,

that just means that now, and you latest who needs to be sorted out, or of course, and they need to find a new way to sort of regroup, to get my mission, i do think that because this is something that has resonated, there's a lot of pressure from the nationalist bloggers. he won't get into the fight, fight harder and is very passionate about the war. and there's a lot of domestic spaced, upset about the way that the mobilized. so just the more weeks have been treated. i do think that perhaps now was a useful time for get into sort of play the. i mean, i have a trace, i would like to have peace, it was a helpful characterization of them in time given the domestic context to with thank you very much for your insights. is a look now at some more stories making headlines today. germany has released more details about this decision to send armored vehicles to ukraine. a spokesman for

the government said germany will send about 40 marta arman vehicles in the by the end of march, the decision to send the vehicles are anti x battery came a day ago. police and carrier investigating the death of a prominent l g b t campaign, whose body was found stuffed in a metal box. earlier this week. edward chill lobo was a fashion entrepreneur and model human rights groups have decry yes, house of representatives is still without to speak up front front. kevin, the coffee from the republican party failed to gather the necessary votes in 11 successive rounds of voting. the speaker of the house is considered the most powerful role in the u. s. congress. that is going to convince my new mexicans security forces have captured the alleged cartel leader, video guzman, the son of the drug, lord george kane guzman, known as l. chapel, a pre don operation,

set of gun fights and road blocks across the western state of sinaloa video guzman was briefly arrested in 2019, but escaped after a deadly gun fund between government forces and called town alzheimer's disease effects tens of millions of people around the world and that number's 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 japanese pharma company, a side, and us biotech firm biogen may get accelerated approval in the us as soon as today, all timers disease was 1st diagnosed and a woman named august a 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 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 top who didn't talk about it. second and the funding we have $15.00 to $20.00 times less funding for this disease aria 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 it 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 and metaphor for that. so the emily tough fallacy is the trigger that of the gun. but finally, the bullet that killed certainly 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 amyloid 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 phase 3 clinical trial. i think the science is hotter and so this is opening the door. i would say it's a milestone. it's definitely a very important milestone because it's the 1st druck, but it's not acting. some symptomatic lee, it's clearly deceased modifying. and the circumstance that showed in a phase 3 trial, positive outcome in all family and secondary. 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 bob to stroke, but he's one of the was leading out some our research as he also and briefly in our report. and i asked him about this new medication and what it can do for patients. but the crime shows is that it slows the decay so that people remain longer at a certain stage of the disease. and overall, it's a mean and we need to be it's h a mean over a whole population. but overall patience game, certainly a few months in becoming in their decay 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 and 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 um people or last year. and so there have been one or 2 days 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 global health research is focused on the disease. why is this so under funded? yeah, that's a good question i, i am asking myself ready for the gates. so i think it has partially due with the top to it disease mainly of the elderly. it's something which many people don't like to talk about. and so that is sort of fatalities. morality is disorder, like yeah, we can't do anything about it. it's happening, etc. and i think that has being why it's not in the mainstream and not fancy. and but this is changing. i have the impression that was about to stop us speaking to us earlier. now many countries in europe are celebrating epiphany. that's

a catholic and orthodox christian holiday in venice rose dressed up as old witches for, for this the traditional boat race. despite the icy weather people in bulgaria, celebrated in waste, deep water in greece, some rebels joined a tradition of throwing crosses and swam over to fetch it 1st, according to popular belief, the want to retrieve it is freed from evil spirits and spain. people are ringing the grand church bells in albedo. let's have a look and a listen. ah, sometimes a requires a fine touch o and sometime a little more effort. these are the church bells and al, by the spam they rang in the new year and announced the death of pope benedict the 16th. but to day there ringing in the feast of the epiphany. when the bible says

the 3 kings have visited jesus for many spanish children, that means gifts and so neither knows his sound how it feels. it's just fun to announce faith days for the people, for everything yonah aspect. so not as though this musical language recently came under united nations protection. as part of youth goes intangible, cultural heritage of humanity less it has. the social, a social function that she has met is connecting over people together did been in regardless of their of her background in about 1000 spanish villages. bell ringer still worn a fog or fire or when there's cause for sadness or joy. there now world heritage custodians. lady up until that up in there, it's a joy for all the people who ring these bells in many villages often alone and across spain. audio to day that joy is ringing out to announce the epiphany.

as of culture, news, the general music director of berlin state opera, daniel baldwin. as in elsie's stepping down from his position. ah, datto pianist says his health has significantly worse than the last year 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 just 10 years before becoming a lead conductor. later in life, training audience with his foreman says, for decades, you're watching t w news coming up next in d, w. 's asia was china's 0 cove policy over the holiday rush ahead. is it time to mask up again?

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