in their country and inspiring the world with their ideas. counted valley africa started february 13 on the w 9. ah ah. this is the w news live from berlin. the you plans new sanctions on moscow by february 24. that's a year since roches invasion of ukraine, european commission president, all of our fund a lion and a team of top you officials have been holding talks with ukraine's blood zalinski in. keep ahead of her summons that on friday. also coming up,

russia mark's 80 years since the battle of stalingrad commemorations of the soviet victory over nazi germany, rally patriotic support for russia's military, as it fights a war of aggression in new price dos scientists and the u. k are trying to piece together the puzzle that is long cove. it trying to find out why people suffer from the effects of coven months or even years after they had it. ah, i'm glad else as well come to the program. ukraine's president vladimir zalinski and european commission president also a fund a lot have been meeting and keith fonder line and her team off top officials are part of the biggest you delegation to visit since the start of rushes. invasion

have been discussing new sanctions on moscow as well as you age to you correction. so it's important to here is ukraine's president for the miss zalinski and the european commission president owes elephant a lot less ticklish. europe hasn't 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 keith to day gives a very clear signal. the whole of the european union is in this with ukraine for the long haul ukrainians at the battlefield. defense pacifically,

those bad years that europe has got united on end of throw keeps uniting and we cannot lose it. so we every give that to you that the bigger unification union between ukraine and the european union inspires old people. and this gives a result to the entire of it gives the result to our society model in order to get us to put the defendant against the our joint enemy. but earlier dw correspondence matches. bellinger gave me this assessment of the statements by upon the line and zalinski is absolutely not part of the usual job description of her e. u. com. massage or travel with all his. their fellow comments are the 16 of them, plus funder line, plus shot. michelle. the head of the european council, where the heads of state and government meet, they altogether travel into a war zone for that's a big gesture, of course,

and you've just heard the words are by on the line and the lens, kia, making sure that this big gesture is perceived as a big gesture, almost a little bit lofty, but it's of course, a working meeting where a lot of things need to be discussed not only assistance to ukraine by the european union. that means monetary assistance, economic assistance, and several measures that should there sustain the ukraine in economy. but also the process of accession ukraine is a candidate for your membership since last year. and of course, this is a follow up on this process whether such a high level delegation or coming to key if that's more than just symbolic. is it exactly that, especially the ukranian side is hoping for some very specific or commitments by the europeans on this membership accessed accession process. the ukrainians have

been venting this idea that there could be a time frame by which accession could be achieved. the ukrainian prime minister has spoken of 2 years. well, that's not very likely we are hearing from the you side, but, and it's may of may be also not very likely that the u. e will commit to a certain time frame. but it is, of course, a symbol of the ukraine has completed one part. they call it a questionnaire one part of the assessment of the state or for ukraine, and is hoping to get an answer. this will not be the formal answer that the you will give at a later stage, but there will be discussing the progress in this accession or process. and that's also something that the lensky can sell to its people that he continues to be working. not only on winning the war, but also on the future of ukraine, maybe after this war. so this meeting is of course,

important for both sides for the, the you to show their commitment and for ukraine or to show that they are having an idea for the future. what is it not only about, of course the membership are possible membership of ukraine or in the e. u, but it's also about the sanctions. what have you heard about that? well, it was left on the line has announced that her sanctions that e. u once to put new sanctions at 10th round of sanctions. a new package of sanctions before her february 24th. that would be the one year anniversary since the beginning of the full scale invasion. but that the, the specifics have not been announced a day, and keith would not be the place where they announce the sanctions. they are consulting with keith on these. so sanctions, they are hearing what are the, the, the input by cave, what they would consider useful and what they would hope for. but of course, the sanctions need to be agreed upon by the e. u. member states and it,

they would be an hours and a meeting of the e. u. member states, not at a meeting between the commission and keith. but here's belinda, their report from care. thank you much. yes. let's go straight to brussels. where are brussels beer jefferson phenomena is standing by, alexander was up on the line, laid out, the commission's commitment to continue helping ukraine, or what was the reaction and brussels there. i think there is, for support for what was a le funder lion, had to say in keith and for the visit itself. and the decision to hold those talks in an active wars zone and was meant to demonstrate to we are not afraid to come. we are there for you and to the talks today. the goal of them was to encourage ukraine to continue with important reforms and also to acknowledge what has been done so far. because of course,

we have to remind ourselves that ukraine is a country at war, defending their territory and to their people against russia's aggression. and at the same time, the government is working on a plan to implement the political and economic reforms. now the european parliament also held a session there today, reaffirming its commitment to ukraine's you membership. does that, can you claim any closer to joining the? no, it does not. and that is the honest answer. because of course, there is a process that ukraine has to undergo. they have to implement reforms. they have to align every single sector of their economy, of their political system, of their educational system, with the european standards. it is a long process it could take up to a decade. so that turn the resolution that was approved by the european parliament

today is not bringing ukraine any closer to becoming a member of the european union. however, we heard from the ukrainian president today who said that every step that could potentially bring ukraine closer to you, queen the way to european integration is a seen as a, as a, as a very important step and, and as an inspiration for his people to continue defending their country. so in symbolic terms, i think this resolution approved by the european parliament could be seen as such an inspiration that you will, p and lawmakers are calling on the institutions to speed up the process to have more sanctions on russia. and to step up their military and financial support for ukraine. now you membership aside, what other support is the you planning for?

well, we heard from your foreign policy chief to day that the european union is planning to extend its training emissions up to 30000 soldiers. a will be trained by the european union. i think that's a significant or the full and funder line. also announce and more financial help for energy equipment, l e d lamps, for instance. or we can also expect more announcement to come, for instance, or, and the other lifting our for tariffs on ukrainian goods, bad of course water. ukraine is hoping for it to get sir. sort of a fast track you membership. what i had heard, demanding and pushing for that is a rather unlikely to happen. w, brussels bureau chief other some are phenomenal reporting there. thank you. and vulgar grant, formerly known as starling grounds, celebrations on the way to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the soviet victory

of a german forces. at the battle of stalingrad, russian president vladimir putin has laid a wreath of the memorial complex to the fallen red army soldiers. the later spoke that an event where he criticized germany's promise to deliver leopard to main battle tax to support ukraine, voice booty compared russia's war against ukraine to the soviet victory against nazi germany in world war 2. will roy we were in now the battle of stalingrad was one of the bloodiest in the war. here is more on the fight that helped turn the tide in world war 2. this is vulgar grant. today, 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. corresponded killian by him, is following the events and will grow from reagan. i asked him why putin is attending these commemorations?

well, this attendance is significant. this event is significant, really, to put it quite frankly, and simply because world war 2 is extremely important in russia. it's known as the great patriotic war, and it was an existential threat really to, to the soviet union from which russia came forth. now stalingrad, as we saw in the report, was a pivotal moment where the, the momentum shifted to the soviet union away from the germans, the nazis who had invaded russia. and they actually managed to defeat the germans and stalingrad and turn the war around. so why is this important for today, and how does that really related today? well, the thing is, the russian propaganda and vladimir putin is saying that the ukrainians are nazis. and they are comparing these 2 conflicts as if they were the same thing. but really, they're not because in the 940 is the soviet union was attacked. last year, russia attacked ukraine. and many of the battles that we see playing out like marie

pool, which was completely destroyed by the russian army, have, have a resemblance also of stalingrad just perpetrated from the other side. now bobo grant has been symbolically renamed back to stalingrad just for a couple of days to mark the anniversary. but what's behind that? well, to be honest, volga grad is renamed back to stalingrad multiple times a year, especially for important dates like this one or also victory day. and this has been done multiple times. now. why was vulgar grad renamed? why was stalingrad renamed to vulgar grad? well, following the purges under styling after stalings death, the soviet union tried to come to terms really with its past understanding isn't where millions of soviet citizens were killed, put into gulags, kind of the russian version of concentrate the soviet version of concentration

camps and, and to do to, to process this past they, they did multiple things among them they, they renamed the city for stalingrad to vulgar grad, a more neutral name based on the river volga. now, how do ordinary russians view this anniversary? i think, you know, it's difficult to say what the exact polls are in russia because we're, we're having trouble getting information out of the country. and we also have to take polls from russia with a huge grain of salt. what we have heard though is that a mental illnesses have considerably grown in russia and anxiety has grown. at the same time, some political scientists are saying that around 25 percent of russians support the war. 25 percent of russians are against the world war and 50 percent are just trying to keep their heads down and, and really have nothing to do with it at all. i would say that probably the people

that are against the war are probably horrified to see these 2 conflicts being compared to each other. did. of course when killian by their thank you, if you turn out to have look at some of the other stories making headlights you as vice president carmella harris has called for police reform at the funeral of terry nichols in memphis, tennessee 29 year old nichols died after being beaten by police during an arrest, 5 officers have been charged with murder in braces. the european central bank has hiked interest rates again, increasing them by half a point to 3 percent on thursday. it's the 5th hike in a row intended to curb yours on inflation. easy be president, christine law. god underlie the best continuing drive to obtain inflation. even as the european economy slows 8 significant and not human rights activists have denounced the arrest of 5 people on terrorism charges in egypt. they have published

a smooth video about a prison visit. the 3 minute clip shows a woman visiting her fiance in jail and has received 7000000 views on facebook. a suicide bomb attack on her mosque and pakistan this week has left the country's 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 offices are calling for measures to protect the people tasked with protecting the public. if i read protest, they're not civilians, but police officers in pakistan's happy button. province demanding security su, faint bombing in a mosque on monday get 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 life in desert related incidents. i asked them every day our men are being martin, and no one is protesting and asking why they're being killed. don't know what he said and did you ever come on your head? how did a suicide attacker enter the police compound? boys? are we demand answers, joe, up we demanded justice for our dead in the army. he thought military as this protest was happening, funerals were taking place, but the guilt in the class def family is mourning their loss. a policeman with father was also killed in a bomb attack more than 40 years ago. and just a few kilometers away and their family is grieving for an officer who lives behind a widow and 5 children. douglas,

the frequent attacks on security official mean civilians do i forced to stay alert? bob bliss them now when police officers pass me, i fear that if the police are attacked and i might also be attack an armload or if the people are meant to protect us or being attacked for them who will really protect us. going, gallagher, authorities are investigating who is responsible for the mosque attack. as security forces fight history, 13th of militancy in north western pakistan. countries around the world have declared an end to the coven. 19 pandemic restrictions. but life is far from normal for the millions of people who continue to suffer from long cove. it even years after they are contracted, the virus and you, us study has found several risk factors that could explain why the illness lingers so long. and some people, the lasting legacy of the current of virus pandemic comes in the form of long cove

it more than 3 years after coven 19 1st broke out. we still haven't pinned down what causes it. one study reported that 36 percent of people who had a positive p. c. r test for covey 19 went on to develop the condition. most long coven cases are in patients who aren't originally hospitalized with the virus. we are seeing people who are suffering from over 200 different symptoms that impact multiple different organs. and we currently don't know the exact cause of long koval, and that's something that we are investigating. the organs effected can include the hot lungs, immune system, kidneys, brain liver, and the reproductive system. long curve, it has been associated with reduce sperm count, diabetes, blood clots, and strokes. the sheer number and diversity of symptoms make singling out the cause difficult. re such as are investigating 4 main possibilities.

it may be that there's a store of the corona virus hidden somewhere. the immune system could be turned against the body. the notion infection could have activated other domain, viruses and tissues damaged in the early days of the illness may not have been properly repaired. and these for hypotheses are not mutually exclusive. it's fossil that a person can have multiple of these things going on or sequence shelly, and that's what we're investigating long curve. it may last for weeks, months. oh, years after an initial infection, patients. but on cove it have been waiting so long to have some sort of therapy that's effective. and we really need to start randomized, placebo controlled clinical trials. as soon as possible. there are some trials that have already begun, but we need a lot more and a lot, a lot quicker than the pace that we're doing it right now. kiki,

i was talking to colleagues to planning a trial to investigate the effectiveness of the anti virus drug packs of it. a treating long cove. it the priority for the scientist is to find therapies that work. in the meantime, the emphasis is on rehabilitation for patients to try and help them cope. earlier i spoke to amanda castell, professor epidemiology at george washington, university of experts on long cove. it started asking whether we have taken long coded seriously enough. no, i would say we haven't, especially if you look at the different stories that we're hearing about from individuals who really are suffering severely from the impact of long cove. it. we don't have a good sense of how many people have long cove. it, we don't know how long people suffer from on cove it. we have no really great ideas around prevention around law cove,

it or treatment around cove it. and so it really is a poorly understood condition that we need to put our resources towards studying more and really trying to understand and support people who develop this condition . so why is that the case? why do we know so little about long go with that? we've been focus too much on, on the actual cove and on well, i think it was initially, the response was focused on those acute infections and it was not until several months later that we started to see that people were having long lasting effects from having these acute infections, and so you know, groups like ours at george washington university, recognize this, and thought that we better start to also focus on the long term impacts of coven 18 . so i think it's a condition that we're starting to see more research and effort put towards understanding, but it has been somewhat delayed. now let's start with the numbers or do we know

how big the problem is, how many people actually do have long coded? so we don't, we don't really understand the magnitude of this condition, at least in the united states is not a reportable condition. whereas you know, acute infection with cove it is. so we really need to kind of shift what we're doing in terms of tracking the numbers of individuals long coded. if you look at various studies, the range is 10 percent to 80 percent of people may suffer from long cove it. and if you think about globally, the overall number of people who had acute covered 19 infections, which is somewhere over 700000000 individuals. even if we use a conservative estimate of one and 3 individuals, that's over 250000000 people that might be suffering from this condition. but we really don't have a good sense. it also can be a short term condition, some people where they may have symptoms for weeks. some people have symptoms for

months and some people have symptoms for more than a year. or for some individuals, the symptoms of long coed will wax and wane, and so where they think they've resolved their infection. it may come back. and actually, you know, be exacerbated several months or weeks later. now, many people come to these people have been vaccinated against covered multiple times, but it does not seem to prevent long cold. it does it well, there is some type of signal that vaccines may be protective against long cove. it . we certainly know that they are protective against severe infection morbidity and mortality, such as hospitalization and death from acute coven 19 infection. but for example, in our study, when we compared people who were up to date on their vaccines for cove it. so people who didn't fully vaccinated and been boosted, those individuals had a lower likelihood of being of having long coven,

compared to individuals who just received their 1st series of vaccines and people who hadn't been vaccinated. so that does give us an indication that vaccines may be protective against sancho of it. but you know, there's still a lot of work to be done to really understand the role of vaccines and their role among cove it. so we know that little about it, so they have hardly any prospect for shows the well, we don't have a cure right now. and unfortunately most of the treatment that we have available to people with long cove, it is really supportive. so it can be a multi system condition, and we really try to direct people who have long coven, to work with specialists. the range of symptoms is broad. it can range in the t and in the to mental health conditions. and so really we try to get people plugged in to specialists who can support them. and then there is a lot of ongoing research to really try to understand this condition better. and

hopefully that will give us some indication as to how we can cure people and certainly prevent people from getting one coated. i'm on the coastal that professor of epidemiology at george washington university. thank you very much for your time . thank you for having me. and that's it from me and the news team for now don't go away coming up russian by as i causing real estate prices to skyrocket in the turkish city of antonio. that's on focus on europe next to gab office in berlin for me on the team. thanks for watching with

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