ah ah ah ah, it's a d w. news live from berlin. the in your plans, new sanctions on moscow by february 24th a year since russia's invasion of ukraine. european commission president ursula found a line and a team of top officials had been holding talks at the cranes below 2 years. the

lensky and keith had of a summit there on friday, with also coming up 80 years on from the battle of stolen bride. the soviet victory over to nazi germany is still a point of pride in russia. president vladimir putin is set to use the commemorations to rally support for his military campaign and ukraine. and scientists in the u. k. are trying to piece together the puzzles surrounding long coping. scientists want to know why people suffer from the effects of cobit months or even years after they've had flood felton drug gangs, bringing cocaine through the port of antwerp wage a deadly war. europe's top, the leasing agency, struggles to control a trade that many port workers are too scared to talk about. ah,

i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program ukraine's president volota mersa lensky and european commission. president ursula funder line have been meeting in cheve fonder line, and her team on the top officials are part of the biggest e u delegation thing to visit since the start of russia invasion houses, they happened discussing the sanctions on moscow as well as b u aide. to ukraine to sanction. so it's important to him here now is ukraine's president volota mersa lansky and the european commission president ursula funder lie. let's have listed europe has been by ukraine side since day one, because we know that the future of our continent is being written here. we know that you are fighting for more than yourselves. what is at stake is freedom. this is a fight of democracies against authoritarian regimes putting tries to deny the existence of ukraine,

but what he risks instead is the future of russia. our presence in cuba to day gives a very clear signal. the whole of the european union is in this with ukraine for the long ukrainians at the battlefield. defense pacifically, those values that europe has good united on and keeps uniting, and we cannot lose it. so every that to you with ego, a union between ukraine and the european union inspires though with people. and this give result to the entire it gives the result to our society model in order to get us to put defendant against the always joint enemy. but and let's get more on those statements now. we are joined by correspond mathias ballinger, who has been at the press conference for us, meant he has. what should we make of the statements from funder line inter lensky?

it is, of course, highly unusual, that the whole leadership of the eel, that means the 16 commissars and underline who is the president of, of the commission, and also the president of the council. i will head the meetings which he has the meetings off of the heads of state and heads of government that they all together travel to a war zone. as highly unusual. it's meant as a strong symbol. but there are also a lot of things to discuss on the working level. um, it is a ukraine's session process has started. and her there are a many measures that you is undertaking to support ukraine in this war. economic measures, but also a military aid as so there's lots of things to be discussed and we just

heard a little bit lofty tone of the statement or it is really meant as a strong c signal at the same time. and as delivering an aid package, you can ukraine expect any further pledges from the on this as it yes, yes there, there lots of are a very specific and i may be not very general or, or, or, or like, i wouldn't say small because it's a lot with like very specific things that they are delivering from delivering 35000000 l u d light bulbs to help ukraine save energy that would be distributed free to the people to billions of economic aids and her lots of agree for example, on her customs, free on exports that was pledged last year that has been in place already, but this will be extended and many,

many specific or steps that will 1st of all help ukraine survive. and then also a ease of use in the way of you create into the european union. some things that member states usually get only when they accessed the european union. okay. are being already granted to ukraine in advance. mateus ballinger and keith. thank you . and now we had to brussels. we're correspond at jack parrot is standing by with a view from there. so we've just seen jack the european commissions commitment to continue to help ukraine. how did commission president ursula underlines announcements resonate bear in brussels? well, i think it's very much what we're expecting. vonda line during that press conference was really keen to outline all the money that has been going to ukraine from the european union. all the things they've done, the sanctions that they've been putting on russia in order to try and strangle the

russian economy to try and bring an end to the war. but it was interesting, hiv laudermill, zalinski responded. he said that the sanctions had slowed down. and they wanted to do more also, there's a slightly interesting aspect of how this is being termed the ukrainian translation of what this visit was being called by the ukrainian president was you integration day these next 2 days past trying to avoid confusing a general ukrainian population with all of the sort of names of the you structures of how they do meters, it's being who the cranes summit. but it shows that the ukrainian see this as a gear towards entering the european union. they wanted a promise from the, from the commission president, the framework to get into the you could be within the next 2 from 345 years maybe. but a lot of the capitals of the european union are saying that this still needs to be a very fun process. normally, exception take somewhere in the region of some 10 to 20 years for, for, for

a normal process. and many, even longer than that. well, the you is trying to show your claim that it can go quickly. crane the message is that this still needs to continue in the normal formalities about shows where action is. and in the meantime, the european parliament has held a session in which it reaffirmed its commitment to ukraine's e u. membership of what can you tell us about that? yeah, they did earlier today, they voted on a resolution calling on pretty much the same thing, to be honest, the focus of it being the accession process saying that ukraine should be offered this, this route into the european union. the whole of, you know, in 2014 when, when, when the initial annexation of crimea and everything that happens since, and a lot of that is a, by a pro you government in key rather than a pro russian one. so the european union, which is trying to export democratic values around the world, and especially with the neighbors news that it needs to remain committed to those

promises. but what the european parliamentarians also voted in their resolution was the ordinary process of making sure that all of the sort of formalities are fulfilled and all of the agreements come and the standards of government governance come in line with the european union. they called on that as well, and the use enlargement commissioner, who's in charge of this, olivia boy, hey, he tweeted it. he's also in ukraine at the moment. he's wanted to say that there needs to be the same same process d all an oligarchy. validation he called, it needs to make sure that the justice structures in ukraine are up to standard and many other things that are also quite difficult for a country to do when they are in war time. not in peace time, which is normally how a country would enter the you, jack, parrot, and brussels. thank you. the funeral of a ukrainian decathlon. it's a load of mir undrugged. choke has taken place in western ukraine. he was struck in

the head by shrapnel last week while fighting russian forces near back much. the current epicenter of the conflict. a 22 year old was a national youth champion. his death has intensified calls for the international olympic committee, not to allow russian and bella was seen athletes and last year's at next year's paris k. have a look to kathleen for lot, amir andrew. chuck was one of ukraine's most promising sportsman. he died in combat last week as a member of the national team. he didn't have to fight in the war, but he chose to a young life once full of hope for the paris olympics. cut short loose with him, the longer than fervor was a very talented sportsman. he had the perfect character for sports when he had everything to be successful in training and in competition, one of the largest him vest sadness,

but also anger here at what these people see as a grave injustice. why should russians and barry ruffians get to compete in paris when many ukrainians can't? because of the death and destruction? ukraine says 340 sports facilities have been damaged or ruined since the war began . because of the games has been muted unless the international olympic committee changes. course. it's president thomas park, personally called out by one of ukraine's biggest sport stars. you proposed to refer as russian and bill russian atlas to participate in the parish games. i tell you the russians are olympic champions in crimes against civilians. they have the gold medal and the partition of children and rep of women. you cannot put your olympic emblem on this cross because you will be an accomplice with his abominable war. the i see called click go statement defamatory. it says it's mission is to

bring all athletes together in the name of peace. only. now that mission won't include for lot amir. andrew shook one more victim of russia's war and he has a look at some other stories making headlines around the world. us vice president comalla harris has called for police perform at the funeral of tyrene nichols in memphis, tennessee. nichols died after being brutally beaten by police during an arrest him of 5 officers have been charged with murder is following the 29 year old stats. you israel launched era strikes on targets in the gaza strip early on thursday, and palestinian militants fired rockets into israel. in response, the strikes came hours after israeli air defense intercepted, a rocket launched from gaza. this latest exchange of fire comes amid a surge and violence in the region. scandal had indian billionaire gout m a. donnie

has called off a major share sale as his business empire continues to plunge and value. a donnie, a sprawling conglomerate, which stretches from ports to patrol station, has lost more than 90000000000 euros and market value following allegations of market manipulation and fraud. in vulgar grad, formerly known as stolen grads celebrations, are under way to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the soviet victory at the battle of stolen brown russian president vladimir putin is expected to take pardoning riffling ceremony and speak it a concert. according to the kremlin, the battle of stalingrad was one of the bloodiest battles in world war 2. it ended with a surrender of the german troops after more than 1000000 people were killed. here's more on the battle that turned the tide and world war 2. this is vulgar to day.

the city formerly known as stalingrad lives in the shadow of the past. this banner says, stalingrad is the birthplace of victory. that's because this is where according to military historians, the tide turned in world war 2. in the summer of 1942 nazi germany had pushed deep into the soviet union, stalingrad was strategically important. capturing, it would allow germany to push further towards vital oil fields and control the vulgar river. but the germans were far from home with overstretched supply lines. and the soviet union poured massive numbers of troops and resources into the battle . fighting raged for 6 months until the soviets were able to surround the german forces and cut off their supplies. on february, 2nd, 1943, the germans, starving, and out of ammunition, gave up. the victory came at a terrible cost between one and 2000000 people died. despite losing so many soviet

soldiers, the battle is part of the legendary struggle and triumph over nazi germany. the coven 19 pandemic was officially declared a global health crisis 3 years ago by the world health organization. here. this week, the w. h chose that the pandemic is not yet over. never the last many countries around the world are returning to some sort of normality measure, such as wearing masks in public places have been scrapped. but life is far from normal for the millions of people who continue to suffer from the effects of coven months, or even years after they've had it. they have what's called long cove. it one family in the u. k showed us how it has changed their lives abandoned. that's often how people with long cove it feel. sammy mcfarland was infected with cove at 193 years ago. she still suffers from lethargy, difficulty concentrating, and the loss of her sense of smell. she's had to give up working and sell her house

. her husband has become her care. but her daughter who was 14, when she caught covet, has had an even worse time of it. she was blacking out painting and she had really severe abdominal pain. and the pain would paralyze her. sammy is slowly recovering, but her daughter kitty is still having a tough time with long at all. okay, this because they have strong uses a young and healthy. i'm 16. i was 14, when i go i was, it's 40 young, active nature. there were lots of brilliant, curious doctors and reset south there. but it isn't yet enough and hasn't yet found a treatment. and that, you know, there's a lot of work to be done. we need investment in biomedical research in britain about $70000.00 children suffered covered symptoms for longer than 3 months.

london's university college hospital is carrying out the world's biggest study tracking 7011 to 17 year olds. long covert affects about 10 percent. most eventually recover, but for about one percent of the cases, symptoms can persist for a very long time. it's commoner in girls and boys is commoner in older children than younger children. are the things that seem to make you more vulnerable? ah, if you've got health problems, physical or mental health problems before the pandemic, there is no quick cure and it's not yet well understood. professor stevenson says long cold. it is still a puzzle for sammy. she tries to deal with it by getting back to her old hobbies like swimming in the sea. her daughter kitty is also making slow progress.

here are some other stories making headlines around the world. energy giant shell says that its annual prophet search to a record 38000000000 euros in 2022. that's more than double what it made in 2021. the huge increase comes after russia's invasion of ukraine than gas and oil prices soaring last year. hope francis has addressed thousands of young people at a stadium in the democratic republic of congo, capital kinshasa, he called again for forgiveness and reconciliation in the war torn nation. it is the 3rd day of the pope's visit to one of africa's most catholic countries. the port of and for up in belgium has become the number one gateway for latin american cocaine destined for europe. the trade is controlled by powerful international gangs and comes with high levels of violence and corruption. the problem is so acute that adverbs mayor is calling for the army to be deployed the w's. terry

sholtes reports looks to me like a kalashnikov very small, completely rounds. is that what the drug dealers are using some from on the recent shooting death of an 11 year old girl in her family home in antwerp, believe to be an accidental killing in a dispute between gangs has drug culture research to important. fearing attacks will now spiral, i hope it will be cycle revenge, because then you have a whole new level of violence in, in, in predictable dynamics. belgian authorities seized a $110.00 tons of cocaine last year, a record, but they estimate that's only about 10 percent of what's imported. not enough to disrupt criminals business. they're boosting their efforts planning to deploy more than a 100 extra people at the port along with new scanning equipment. but the added scrutiny may make smugglers even more determined to recruit insiders to help get the cocaine on to land. they're already targeting port employees. they approach you very

directly show pictures of your family, of her kits, of, of friends. and this is a, not a very subtle way of working it's, it's a real threats. stephan vanham is the general manager at alpha port vodka, which represents employers at the port of antwerp. he said it was risky to even speak with us on the topic. i realized that this is a danger maybe also for myself and my family. i think there's no alternative than being open about this problem. if you stay silent, i considered as to be cooperation to these guys. i think we need to stop them. that's a top priority for the you police agency euro pool because so many other crimes are linked to drug trafficking. whoever is involved in drug trafficking is also involved in money laundering and document for europe. whole emphasizes. it can't even begin to tackle this problem without help. from around the globe, yon up in north says they're increasingly teaming up with origin countries like

colombia, as well as places where king often sit. he says it's working step by step quite a few high volume targets read taken out were arrested in dubai. and they were allegedly orchestrating cocaine trafficking into the you from dubai. so this new pool will be close, so many loopholes remain open, but 10 voting says, doing nothing. it is not an option. you're just gonna say, oh, we just let them do their way a little did the city of the country in europe flock with cocaine. it is not an option. in the meantime though, the piles of confiscating cocaine in belgium are so big already that authorities fear the gangs will try to steal the drugs back before they can be destroyed. a suicide bomb attack on a mosque in pakistan this week has left the country security forces unsettled the attack targeted officials praying at the building which was located in

a secure police compound. the bomber was reportedly disguised in a police uniform. now officers are calling for measures to be put in place to protect the people tasked with protecting the public. oh, it is a red protest. they are not civilians, but police officers in pakistan's happened. bucklin a province demanding security. su, thank bombing in a mosque on monday, killed many of their colleagues, but this is not the only attack militants here. i relentlessly targeting the police last year, more than 100 police officials lost their lives in desert related incidents. i was them every day. are men are being martin, a know what is protesting and asking why they're being killed. don't what is it under just on your head? how did a suicide attack into the police compound, boys?

are we demand answers, we go up, we demand justice for our did in common. he thought military as this protest was happening, funeralish were taking place, but the guilt in the class dis, family if morning there last, a policeman with father was also killed in a bomb attack. more than 40 ethical and just a few kilometers away. and their family is grieving for an officer who leaves behind a widow and 5 children. singly. these frequent attacks on security officials mean fibbing and stu are forced to stay alert. roblis of now one police officers pass me. i fear that if the police are attacked and i might also be attack a nominal. but if the people are meant to protect us being attacked for them who will really protect us, won't get to got the product you are investigating. who is responsible for the

mosque attack as security for 5th fight history, 13th of militancy in north western pakistan, american football superstar tom brady has announced his retirement at the age of $45.00. he retired briefly after a championship in 2021, but ended up returning for a far less successful year and a message posted on social media. he said this time, his going for good, ah, considered by many as the greatest of all time in american football, a serial winner. ah. his professional career began without much fanfare in 2000 juncture, thus the 190 nines overall, picking the nfl by the new england patriots. after a rookie season on the bench, the quarterback slowly found his stride on the coach. bill bella, check winning back to back. super bowls in 2003 in 2004. for more super bowl wins

followed as plenty of nfl records tumbled. the one blemish during this period was 20 fifteens deflate gate scandal, where he and his team were accused of manipulating footballs to gain an advantage resulting in a 4 game suspension in 2020 after 2 decades with the patriots, brady moved to the tampa bay buccaneers in his 1st season with the new franchise, he claimed his 7th super bowl at age 43, seemingly unaffected by age return for good. i know the process, i was a pretty big deal our firm. so when i woke up this morning, i figured i'd just 1st record what you guys know for, so i won't be long winded. you only get one super emotional retirement essay and i use my not last year. so i really thank you guys so much to every single one

of you for supporting me. now, it's really the end tom brady's records and the sport may last forever. and a quick reminder now of our top story here on dw names, european commission president ursula funder line has said that the you plans to place the brush sanctions on moscow before the 24th of february, exactly one year after russia invaded ukraine under line made the announcement at a summit and keep with other top e officials. the sanctions are expected to include additional price caps on russian petroleum products. in volvo. grad, formerly known as stolen grad celebrations, are under way to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the soviet victory at the

battle of stolen grad. russian president. vladimir putin is expected to take part in a brief lane ceremony and speak a concert according to the kremlin battled stalingrad was one of the bloodiest battles in world war 2. coming up next on the w. h o y. as a group of indonesian islanders taking one of the biggest cement makers in the world to court to stay with us if you can for that story in a whole lot more with my colleagues, i'm sarah kelly and berlin. thanks for watching in awe with

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