ah make up your own mind. ah d w made for mines? ah, leonor davinci, mysterious masterpiece. oh, it is perhaps the greatest leonardo masterpiece in the collection of the louvre and no, it is not the mono laser. it is the virgin of the rocks. was there another symbolic meaning to this beautiful painting that perhaps we just don't understand? the search for answers starts february 10th on the w whatever russia might have in store, the e. u will be by ukraine's side, a clear message delivered personally to president the lensky by a chief or the law fund, a line, a timely expression of support as fears, grow and keep that russia may be gearing up to launch

a major offensive on february 24th the anniversary of the invasion about a 1000 kilometers east vladimir putin was marking an anniversary of a different kind. invoking the battle of stalingrad, the russian president compared his invasion of ukraine to the fight against nancy, germany and directly threatened berlin for helping you. crane defend its territory, uncle, furnish in berlin, and this is the day. ah, you have its own believable book. true. we are again being threatened by german leper tanks, but they are again preparing to about russia. ukraine claim it was. russia is concentrating its forces to try to take revenge. but it was, this is a fight of democracies against authoritarian regimes, that woman to you,

the dream of a peaceful europe can only be realized by hope and ukraine and defeating russian aggression. ah, also on the day tyree nichols is laid to rest in memphis, but demands for police reform only grow louder. his violent death has shed new light on the problems in american law enforcement. this is a family that lost their son and their brother through an act of violence at the hands and the feet of people who had been charged with keeping them. say welcome to the show. we began the day with the european union telling ukraine, we've got your back. european commission president was enough on the line and several top you officials have met with ukrainian president volota mir zalinski. and keith found a line said she was there to show. europe stands as firmly as ever behind ukraine.

they discussed imposing a new round of sanctions on russia and more aid for ukraine. lensky used the visit to push his bed for e u membership. he wants ukraine to become a fully fledged member of the european union. as soon as possible. he warned that russian forces are gearing up for a new offensive one that not only threatens ukraine, but europe as a whole. zera's regime could we all know that russia is concentrating its forces to try to take revenge, not only against ukraine, but also against europe and for free world. in order to defeat such an enemy on the success of a battlefield alone is not enough. a faith in europe is needed to take the view of faith in a free, peaceful and united europe, europe with a strength of our institutions this national institute in, while russia has marked any year since the end of a battle that turned the tide in the 2nd world war on this day and 943,

the remnants of the germans, 6th army surrendered, and the ruins of the city of stalingrad. from that moment on nazi forces were in near constant retreat all the way to berlin. russian president vladimir putin commemorated the soviet victory in a special ceremony and vulgar god, that's how the city is known to day. he attempted to draw parallels between hitler's invasion of the soviet union in 1941 and his war of aggression in ukraine on the present day. he tried to claim that history was repeating itself. north tier, dr. european countries including germany. having drawn into a new war with russia, if you will, it is a clear, some people are even irresponsibly declaring that the outcome is certain. i shoot the betting that they will defeat russia on the battlefield. another i see you by building these people clearly don't understand what modern war with russia means

would then you it will be quite different for them. we don't send our tanks to every countries borders with the law, but we have the means to respond too much. and it won't be limited to using armored vehicles, dealings, liquid, or join now by daniel as hamilton, a non resident senior fellow at the brookings institution is written extensively on the ukraine war and russia and joins us from washington. mr. hamilton, welcome to the day, we just heard vladimir putin there saying he is ready to respond to what he sees as threats with more than just tangs. is this just hot air or could the delivery of western tanks really trigger an escalation of the war? well, the war continues to escalate regardless of the tanks. the tanks are not going to be the reason for the escalation. he is preparing for through mobilization of additional forces and probing assaults right now and are as parts of ukraine.

probably a new offensive of finding the weak spot, ukrainian defense to go on the offense. so i think we should be prepared that he is ready to escalate these tanks and things don't even arrive for a long time to calm. they're not there now. so of this is war bluster and trying to change the narrative. the route, the narrative that we understand is that he is invaded ukraine a 2 times in the last 8 years, including was consequentially last year. and, and not because of the collective west or nato or anything like that. it's because he cannot stand the idea that the independent ukraine would prosper and thrive without being part of a larger russian or so we had federation. i think that's really what it's more. well, yeah, this is not the 1st time of course that food is using the 2nd world war to promote his modern day political agenda. but he must be aware of the dramatic irony here,

right? because there is an important twist in the parallels he's trying to draw. that's right. of course he knows how to pluck the german nerves and of course, you know, war time the association of guilt with not nazi or crimes to the former soviet union or you know, very important. but one has to keep in mind that the ukrainians were probably the 1st victims of nazi aggression within the so former soviet union and the tanks that are being sent now or to defend them against russian progression. it's simply not the same in germany is not alone. last time, german aggression in germany was on its own was nazi germany. now it is that it is the collective west that stands by ukraine because ukraine has been invaded by its neighbor. it's really not just about ukraine, so broader global issue that ukraine is symbolic of whether we stand for this

international order or not. absolutely what he seems to be implying though, with what he said to day aimed at germany is that he is prepared to take this war beyond ukraine. that would you think there is a chance of that happening? there is always a chance of germany and his allies have been very careful to thread the line to support ukraine without risking an escalation into direct conflict between nato and russia. so though, i think they'll continue to try to tread the careful line, but i think there's a change in nato thinking now before it was incremental piece will support ukraine . but all that to us was prolong the death suffering. and we will end up in a terrible stalemate that will only benefit russia. and i think there is a change of thinking, know, within nato that you have to help to ukrainians do as much as they can. so they

have a stronger position should who to never want to talk to them seriously about ending this conflict at, let's talk about what was happening and key today because voluntary zalinski was hoping, i think the biggest group of your officials since russia launched in full scale invasion, rolling out the red carpet for any international gas, no less. a big group of them was unthinkable just under a year ago. what signal does that send towards russia? well, a signal sir, the worst is determined to include ukraine in its orbit, if you will. the ukrainians have made the choice to turn to the worst they are doing what they can right now to survive. but they're also taking on true troubling issues of their own past corruption and other issues. so have held them back in their western journey before. oh, so i think the message is it'll take some time you friends are going to join the

european union anytime soon. but the closer can be associated on a daily basis with the kind of standards and norms. so we enjoy. this will be a wound for european security overall, of course will be essential to ukraine survival as a nation. daniel, as hamilton from the brookings institution. thank you such a pleasure. speaking to you today. thank you. oh, black people in the united states are $3.00 times more likely to be killed at the hands of the police and white americans. one and every 1000 black americans is killed by those who have sworn to serve and protect. those are numbers that hint at structural problems. the country has time and again fail to tackle to break the cycle president joe biden, and vice president, comma harris or consulting with lawmakers to discuss ways of moving forward with

legislation, addressing police brutality. the issue ain't no urgency with the death of terry nichols after being beaten by police in the city of memphis speaking at his funeral . on wednesday the vice president said police reform was badly needed calling it non negotiable. ah, you ah true. after days of protests over his teeth, morn is gathered to celebrate tyree nichols life, his friends, family, and civil rights activists attending mister nichols funeral on the 1st day of black history month. remembering a father, son, brother denied, escaped border, liberty and photographer. steady diary was a beautiful person for this to happen to here is just a bachelor book. these flowers now lie and memory of tyree nichols at the skate

park. he used to visit. mister nichols died 3 weeks ago after being brutally beaten by memphis police officers who pulled him over while he was driving home. 5 officers have since been arrested and charged with murder. in his eulogy, civil rights leader, reverend al sharpton, condemned their actions. there's nothing more insulting and offensive to those, or was that fight to open doors that you want to those doors and act like the folks we had to fight for to get you through the door. you with vice president carmella harris also paid tribute to mister nichols saying the country mourned with his family. this is a family that lost their son and their brother threw an act of violence

at the hands and the feet of people who had been charged with keeping them safe. and as vice president of the united states, we demand that congress passed the george lloyd justice and policing act. joe biden will sign it. i re, nichols family are also calling for the x to be brought in, which would require a data base school police officer misconduct and a ban on no, not warrants those pools for change. now getting louder than the hope that more lives won't be lost. and to talk more about the case of terry nichols. i can now welcome brandon buskie. he's the director of the seal. you criminal law reform project in new york city. mr. pesky, welcome. the death of tyree nichols has painfully re ignited the discussion about

police brutality and abuse of power in the united states. how deeply rooted is the problem within the police force. it is unfortunately extremely deeply rooted and goes back to the founding of this country. the use of slavery to subjugate black bodies. the use of protocol is forces to enforce those norms and make sure that there were slave patrols to return property back to masters is only carried through and to present a policing. and that is a major reason why. well, extraordinarily tragic, the involvement of black officers in some ways isn't surprising. and in many ways it shows the depth of systemic racism in this country. and how that lineage can be eliminated simply by diversifying police forces. it's gotta be a much more transformative approach in order to stop these kinds of tragedies. what,

what made this even more tragic and you hinted at is, is that that the officers who beat him up so badly and ultimately leading to his death were black members of the police force. and the belief was long that if, if the forest reflected the diversity of the community that these kinds of incidents wouldn't happen or would become extremely aware. so what are the structures in the u. s. police force that encourage violence towards black people, regardless of the officers race the structures in place that facilitate these kinds of acts or at several levels. there is, there is the individual level, of course, where you have officers coming in who harbor their own implicit biases be they black or white. and then when they go out to patrol, they express those biases against black people. and that's a common story that we've heard

a number of times in the past. but the more important level here really is the structural right. which is how officers are trained. you know, we often see, and police forces the teaching of the men of a warrior mentality. the idea that police are essentially an occupying force in the communities that they are meant to serve. and the people who are in these communities, especially in the so called i crime areas, are really enemy combatants really the, the enemy. and that's part of a major feature of the terry nichols case where we had a scorpion unit that was trained to police a high crime neighborhood. another level which is really beyond the training and the individual bias that you might see in these incidents, which is even if you can address individual bias, which is a, a major question right now. if you are only asking police officers to police

certain neighborhoods and you are getting in the weapons of war, or you are continuing to train them to use force without the escalating, you are still going to see disparities, even if it's not due to the individual bias of police officers, it's due to where they are being asked to police. and the fact that that kind of punitive approach is always going to lead to more disparities with respect to the number of interactions between black people. and therefore, the number of uses a force and often death, that black people experience at the hands of police, your organization, the seal, you wants to reimagined the role of police. how can that be achieved and what you to reform police force one that really is there to protect and serve. everybody look like re imagining how we approach safety really means thinking about what are the kinds of investments that we need to really ensure true

safety. we have to often rely on the police to enforce and rest our way into a safe neighborhood when we know that there are other components, things like investments in schools, in after school programs and job programs that are as much or even more effective than modern day policing and don't come with the severe downsides force and risk of death. use the state violence to enforce norms. we know that we can achieve those things. and ultimately what that requires in terms of the lease is to really rethink their role in doing things like enforcing homelessness, or addressing mental health crisis or substance abuse crisis. we know a lot of work ahead. i'm sorry, we're going to have to leave it there because we're running out of time brandon bus . give the feel you're joining us from new york city. great speaking to you.

ah. covered 19 pandemic was officially declared a global health crisis 3 years ago by the world health organization. this week, the w and show said that the pandemic is not yet over. nevertheless, many countries around the world have been scrapping measures such as wearing masks in public life. is far from normal for the millions of people who continue to suffer from the effects of cov, it months or even years after they had a recent us study, highlighted several risk factors for contracting. what's called long co bid. it found women current and former smokers and people who had had more severe courses of infection are more likely to go on to develop the condition. the lasting legacy of the current 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 cove it cases are in patients who weren'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 covered, 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 covert 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 for such as are investigating full main possibilities. it may be that there is a store of the corona virus hidden somewhere. the immune system could be turned

against the body. the initial infection could have activated to other domains, viruses and tissues damaged in the early days of the illness may not have been properly repaired. and these 4 hypotheses are not mutually exclusive. it's possible that a person can have multiple of these things going on or sequentially. and that's what we're investigating long curve. it may last for weeks, months, oh, years off to an initial infection. patience. but on cove in 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 in a law, a lot quicker than the pace that we're doing it right now. for kiki i was talking to colleagues to planning a trial to investigate the effectiveness of the antiviral drug pox. of it,

a treating loan 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 more questions than answers at this point here to talk about what we do know is dr. david strain from the university of exeter in the u. k. he has the british medical associations work on the long term impact of coven 19 dr. stream. good to have you on the day, we just heard it in the report there roughly 36 percent of former coven patients affected. that is millions of people around the globe. so as long over the pandemic after the pandemic, absolutely, with this number of patients still affected weeks, months, in some cases, years afterwards. this is actually the major health, economic impact of cove. it that we have literally millions of people globally that

are not in a position to function. no man, these are people who were previously very fit, very well contributing in so many ways. and all a sudden they've been left in a position that they are debilitated. unable to care for themselves, let alone that family or do the work. so this is a major health crisis. long cove, it can take many forms we saw in the report, and that is part of why it's so hard to tackle. what are the most frequent manifestations you've been able to document? so there are 2 broad groups of people with long coat with those who got covey to really bad at the outset, and they left with the damage of that initial virus. lun scarring, the strokes the, the clock's, the heart attacks and the i to use in rows. and that represents a severe illness. but it's only relatively small population because remember only about 5 percent of people who got koby actually got sick with it. the much bigger health problem of those who got the raw, the nondescript, the vague,

shipped and those are like the attributed to why that residual virus or other virus is being activated and they present with breathlessness, weigh them, muscle aches and pains with chest pains or difficulty breathing for no apparent reason. now it's really important to distinguish the fatigue that we all, it's a we are working off from this profound post exemption malays that people experienced. they can feel as if i just run a mouse and something as simple as walking across the kitchen. this disproportionate f, a t. the post exertion malays is one of the hallmarks of this particular type of loan cove. it and you're saying it there, it's not only physically exhausting. there's also huge psychological pressure on the people who suffer from continued for team brain fog and you know, are certainly unable to carry out their everyday task. as long as there is no cure for long coven, how can they be helped?

well, there are many different things that we can do to support our patients and the fatigue . and i say that the brain fog, the difficulty concentrating on things that we can teach, you see a cognitive behavior therapy to help people adapt to it. and i want to stress that the use of the psychological support is not in any way suggesting that this is a disease at all in the head. but actually, the only thing that we have a good evidence base for now in these long term conditions is the use of psychological support to help people to live and to adapt to this major change. and recall there are, there's work and going with packs loads. one of the antivirus or our own group is doing work with a different anti virus of our lives, given intravenously renders it there. and we're starting to see some very promising results. but it is way too early to suggest that this is going to be the long term

solution. a promising results in the short term is not necessarily going to translate to long term benefit. in the meantime, we just need to make sure that we've got supportive networks in place that we teach people how to deal with him and, and how to minimize the impact, how to minimize stress and know where the boundaries are. if, if you go all the way to 100 percent, will have to live in there, dr. david strain or wishing you all the success in your, in your research and hoping to find a solution to this very, very great problems in you're welcome. and that's our time. they with us were coming up with you tomorrow. ah ah, with

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