really, it's too much on my shoulders, but i have to hold the suede because i'm responsible for the future fall country for the people behind the boss. sh. guardians of truth starts february 18th on d, w. o . d w. news line from berlin. the you plans new sanctions on moscow by february 24th a year since rushes invasion of ukraine. european commission president was left on the line and a team of top you officials have been holding talks with you. grantsville odom, your zalinski, keep ahead of a summit there on friday,

also coming up russia mark the 80 years since the battle of stalingrad flooding. more prudent commemorates the soviet victory over nazi germany and attempts to draw parallels with his war of aggression and ukraine. and scientists in the us are trying to piece together the puzzle that is long cobit trying to find out why people's offer from the effects of coven months, or even years after they had it. ah, really, it's good, happy with us. it's the biggest you delegation to visit ukraine since the start of russia's invasion, european commission president was enough on the line and several other top european officials met with ukrainian president vladimir zalinski and keith to discuss new sanctions on moscow. as well as e u. a to ukraine. there was the feel of a family good. that is members at the e commission gathered in keith for

a historic joint meeting with the ukranian government. he, you, commission president, was to live on the lion said they were there to show you up stands as firmly as ever, with ukraine in its war with 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 haul. and we will stand up for ukraine as we stand up for the fundamental rights and the respect of the international law. but amid still the smiles in solidarity sits another issue, i guess, for you, uh huh. ukraine's president vladimir zalinski once she crane to become a fully fledged member of the e u family. and quickly i moved that born to lion, appears to endorse you, prepared your application for the european union membership brilliantly. i know it by experience you became acquainted at country while fighting an invasion.

you continue to make impressive progress to meet the 7 steps of the commission's opinion. part of that progress is renewed crackdown on corruption, including this rate at the home of one of ukraine's most prominent billionaires. just a day before the e. u team's arrival in cave. that timely demonstration of the landscape determination to prove to doubt as in europe, that he and his government can be trusted. not only as a future e u member state, but also with billions in aid as him when the country starts to rebuild visual door level. but regarding for reconstruction, if there were a lot of discussions on various levels in europe, research regarding the rebuilding of our country after the war. concret. now it is time, i think, for more concrete details,

luasa both the fast reconstruction and for fast financing of his process for our important process. he in the here and now the e. u has promised to continue its support for ukraine by hitting russia with a fresh wave of sanctions who, when it comes to e e. e membership, it looks like president the landscape would just have to ways that a rush as president library futon has attended the commemoration of the eighty's anniversary of the soviet victory over german forces at the battle of stalingrad and the city now known as vulgar grad student began with laying a wreath at the memorial complex to the fallen red army soldiers. he later spoke at an event where he criticized germany for helping arms ukraine. he said russia is once again threatened my german tanks is. this is his latest attempt to compare russia's war against ukraine with the soviet victory over nazi germany in world war 2. listen to some more of what potent had to say when you get a yoke. no, no fuck. it is unbelievable. noah, but it is a fog. me excuse me, duncan,

we are regained, threatened by german leopard, tongues with crosses on this saw you disorder. we swear you. we have not sent our tongues to that boulder, but we have something to answer with this. and the use of ahmed vehicles will not be the end of it. what do you think? everyone should understand this solution if opinion with t w, russia, analysts, constantine, and god gave me his impression of foot and speech today. well, it's very standard putin of the last months and i would say, i would say in the years comparing, what happens today, his invasion of crying to, ah, not to germany's invasion of the soviet union, more than it is. again, a basically it always struck me by the way, the goal is that it escapes the arnie escapes him. it's know he's playing the knots roll in some way if you, if you extrapolated. but i think that this is

a message that he has been hammering home all the time. we are engaged, we as russia are engaged in exec, existential struggle, which is only quote to the 2nd world war which school the great path re arctic war or in the started june and modern day russia. so i mean, he's not veering off from, from, from the script and he sees himself as i don't know, probably not as joseph stalin, but as during his yoke of a stollins, a number one marshal who was a very successful military leader of the time. so yes, we do see potent, once again telling the russians the war that happens today, or rather as it schooled in russia today. a special military operation is absolutely comparable to what happened between 1941 in 1945. but it just said it there, if we want to go in to that comparison, the roles between that war and this war are very whence reverse now. so who exactly

is this narrative aimed at? because in the west, this is falling on deaf ears. everybody knows what happened. so does the audience at home, believe him, who is he, who is he targeting here? well before i also give you an example, a friend of mine who is a presenter for one of a russian independent and a tv and youtube channel channels. oh, told me a week ago that she was trying to weeks to explain to her mother who's probably 60 or something like that. that it was the soviet union that invaded poland in 1939 together with nazi germany. and she told me, my mother didn't believe it for a 3rd time. so it who to this aiming at the oldness in russia, which believes that russia is never at fault. and at the same time, this is the audience that, well, if not support the war then, and he says, okay, put in those what he's doing and put in his always trying to consolidate his base.

and this is exactly the message for it. but now the enemy's not, you cry. if you look at russian propaganda channels, they're all is full of praise for the ukranian people, quote unquote, rushes, fighting nato in the proxy war. this is the message that's being sent by put into the russian people. and that's why he mentions, lay apart tanks with crosses, ah, own them, they're not going to have any crosses on them anyway because they were going to be repainted in or by the gray is bought. the idea is to invoke this old soviet adara, that the whole europe was against the soviet union during the 2nd world war. so essentially we have action replay of saudi of propaganda bought with use of, you know, more than television techniques, social media, and relentless, 247 propaganda. and that makes it auth warren, dangerous d, w. consenting aga in vilnius, thank you so much. thank you. wouldn't use german support for ukraine to draw

a parallel with nazi germany asked me to leave political correspondence. i am young of berlin as prepared for this kind of rhetoric. yeah, i think so. i think vladimir putin has done this again and again, he's got his own version of how the world works. he says that he's in ukraine fighting what he calls ukrainian nazi isn't. now here is doubling down ways, frankly offensive suggestion that the modern federal republic of germany is somehow in league with nazis. but of course, german leaders know very well that it's, it's easy to misrepresent your support, giving now to ukraine as it, as it baffles against the invader. as by making these comparisons that polluted makes with the nazis in the 2nd world war, the ukrainian soil, after all,

is the very territory where some of the worst not sea troll cities were carried out in the day. putting himself with speaking today on the site of stalingrad, the biggest battle in history with the death toll of 2000000. so, you know, it's easy to sort of mix up the history and i think that's what people hear as see that by the mere putin is doing, i would say, oh, laugh schoultz has been speaking this evening. he did just directly respond to vladimir putin threats. but he did say that it was time for vladimir putin to withdraw from ukraine to make way of open the way for peace talks here. and he also said that he would continue to speak with me approaching by phone as he's been periodically doing. do you think the threats that we just heard coming from russia couldn't reinvigorate the debate over providing key with more arms now that we're talking about fighter jet why will invigorate probably those on the far

right of german politics, for instance, in the ifd party. ironically, it's very you who closest to vladimir putin and have been speaking against the arms deliveries. i think as far as the german government is concerned, it's now sending leopard, terence, it says a lot of other equipment over the last months. and you know, as the debate goes forward, people are conscious of the need for caution and the need for circumspection. but sir, i think the german government sort of commitment to backing ukraine is very clear to w salmon, young and berlin. thank you so much. and let's take a look now at some other source making headlines around the world today, a prime minister of finland and sweden said they remain committed to joining nato at the same time. they were speaking a day after the turkish president repeated his opposition to sweden's bed. a recent koran burning and stockholm has angered ankara. protesters in the democratic

republic of the congo, have urged pope frances to address sexual abuse in the church. the demonstrators gathered ahead of the part of the rival at not for dom cathedral in the capital kinshasa. it's the 3rd day of the pope's visit to one of africa's most catholic countries. covered 19 pandemic was officially declared a global health crisis 3 years ago by the world health organization. this week, the double year joe said that the pandemic is not yet over. nevertheless, many countries around the world are returning to some sort of normality measures 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 cove it 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 covert 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 said to give up working and sell her house . her husband has become her carer. but her daughter who was 14, when she caught cove, it has had an even worse time of it as 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 hong credit because they have strong muses. a young a healthy. i'm 60, 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 what 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. it's 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 colored 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. and a reminder of our top story today, european commission president was left on the line. the said that the you plans to place fresh sanctions on moscow before the 24th of february, exactly one year after russia invaded ukraine on a line made the announcement at a summit. and keith, after a short break route was we'll have the latest news from the european central bank in dw business day june for that article early in berlin. thank you so much for your company. lax can aspire, big changes to people breaking you? go africa joined them as they.