ah ah ah ah ah, this is deed of the news live from berlin. ukraine deserves you membership talks. this year, a declaration from ukraine's president of european commission chief was left on the line and a team of top you officials visiting cuba, where they'll hold a summit with president for the de lensky. also coming up. russia marks 80 years in

the battle of stalingrad. vladimir putin commemorates the soviet victory over that to germany, and attempts to draw parallels. he's more of aggression you prayed. and scientists in the u. s. are trying to piece together the puzzle that as long covert trying to figure out why people suffer from the facts of covert months or even years after they've had it. ah and told me a little welcome to the program. ukraine's president village immerse. lensky says his country deserves to start talks this year on joining the european union. his comments in his nightly address came after initial meetings with your commission president, was the last on the line ahead of a major in some it set for friday in the you. in the ukraine in capital. but as

rushers war drags on for nearly a year, realizing that membership dream isn't likely to happen as quickly as cave would like. there is the feel of a family get together. as members at the e commission gathered in cave for a historic joint meeting with the ukranian government. he, you commission president or sullivan de lion said they were there to show you up stands as firmly as ever with ukraine in its war with russia. our presence in keep today 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 crack down on corruption, including this rate at the home of one of your cranes 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 or by that regarding the reconstruction of you. there were

a lot of discussions on various levels in europe 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 given and for fast financing of his process for are important for 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. but when it comes to e u membership, it looks like president the landscape would just have to wait a little. earlier we talked to journalists, aaliyah, shandra, who is the editor in chief at euro met in cress in give. and she told us what ukrainian people think about the summit with you officials today. well, ukrainians are demonstrating regular high support for you membership and no more than 86 percent of the credits or the countries session tonight or even more

support session to they appear on union union. so we are very happy about the summit of seeking place in cuba. definitely sounds a strong signal that you is together with us. you are supporting us and. 3 are you commissioner, president of underlines words today, that the future of the use being decided in ukraine today? they really signs an unprecedented signal of sports. and we're very grateful for this that we're not alone and fight against russia. you member states chosen to support us on our quest for freedom and that you is synonymous with you is really it's a symbol of what we aspire to, to be free of the russian empire and it's authoritarian regime. and so today's summit in here we're definitely sounds a strong signal that they use boarding ukrainians, and our russia vladimir put in has attended the commemoration

of the 80th anniversary of the soviet victory over german forces and the battle of stalingrad in the city now known as vulgar grant, the russian president began with laying a wreath at the memorial complex to the fallen red on the soldiers. and the later spoke at an event where he criticized germany for helping ukraine. he said russia is once again threatened by german tanks. this is his latest attempt to compare russia's will against ukraine to the soviet victory over nazi germany in world war 2. let's listen to what puttin said you are. yup, no, no fuck. it is unbelievable. no, but it is a fog scheme. duncan, we are a gang threatened by german lepper. tongues with crosses on this side. miss williams, we have not sent our tongues to that border, but we have something to answer with. and the use of armored vehicles will not be the end of it on yet. yeah, everyone should understand this, sir, those,

and at that point you might, we asked d. w, russia analysts constant in ag out who exactly put in is targeting when he compares their ukraine conflict with world war 2. but give you an example, a friend of mine who is a presenter for one of our russian, a 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 is. busy 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 put in his 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 italy says, okay, put in, knows 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 is not you cry. if you look at russian propaganda channels, they're all is full of praise for the ukranian people, boat and vote rushes fighting nato in the proxy war. this is the message that's being sent by boot into the russian people. and that's why he mentions, lay apart tanks with crosses ah, on them they're not going to have any crosses on them anyway, because they were going to be repainted in or by the graham's bought. the idea is to invoke this old soviet or dodge, 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 couldn't use german support for ukraine to draw parallel with nasty germany. we asked the w political correspondent,

simon young. if berlin is 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 with frankly offensive suggestion that the modern federal republic of germany is somehow in league with no, it is, but of course german leaders know very well that it's, it's easy to miss, represent your support, giving now to ukraine as it, as it battles against the invader. as by making these comparisons putin makes with the nazis in the 2nd world war, the ukranian soil, after all, is the very territory where some of the worst not sea troy cities were carried out

in the day. putting himself 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, la 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 him by phone as he's been periodically doing let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines around the world debate in the united states republicans are voted to remove representative ellen omar from the foreign affairs committee over commons, she made about israel from our has apologize for the 21000 remarks which were

condemned as anti semitic democrats. a housing is political, revenge, or removals they made in the last congress for the child. tax stocks have posted their biggest gains in 5 months on wall street. riley was fueled by facebook. parent company matters quarterly revenue report, which showed a better than expected 23.3 percent increase. the tech heavy nasdaq stock index rose 3.3 percent. all the broader dow index remained flat. protestors in the democratic republic of congo have urgent frances to address sexual abuse in the church. the demonstrators gathered ahead of the pontiff arrival at notre them. the federal in the capital kinshasa is the 3rd day of the pope's visit to one of africa's most catholic countries. covered 19 because 1000 pandemic was officially declared global health crisis 3 years ago by the world

health organization. this week, the w 2 said that the pandemic was not yet over. never the last 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 defects of coven months, or even years after they had it. they have what's called long cove. it one family in the u. k. showed us how that 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 fainting 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 getting hung up on friday because they had a young healthy. i'm 60, i was 14. when i go i was 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, that'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. as a reminder of our top story, ah, the president of ukraine's, as his country deserves to begin membership talks with the e you this year paula, dimmer zaleski has been holding talks with the commission president, who's left on the line on the eve of

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