That history teacher who was killed outside of his School Last Week. Im off its good to have you with us folks francis has said that he supports Civil Union Laws to protect the rights of same sex couples he made the comment in a new documentary about the pontiff entitled francisco which premiered today at the rome Film Festival the statement marks a decided shift for the Roman Catholic church the film also tackles other controversial issues such as racism Climate Change sexual abuse and relations between christians muslims and jews. Thank you. Ok just where were having some technical problems we just asked my producer where are we going now. Now in ok now we apologize for that all right here other news German Health minister u. N. Spawn has tested positive for the corona virus he immediately went into self isolation the Health Ministry say that he is experiencing cold like symptoms the announcement came just hours after spawn spot had attended a Cabinet Meeting with german chancellor Angela Merkel as Health Minister of spawn is a prominent figure in efforts to control the virus only recently the 40 year old got his annual flu vaccine shot and urge people to do the same. Ok were going to go back now to our. Top story and that is what the pope has said about same sex civil unions and to talk about that im joined by our religious Affairs Correspondent john there john there you are its good to see you tell me what exactly did the pope say. Well he said that it was the responsibility of societies to pass legislation to protect the rights of people in same sex unions this is groundbreaking brand its explosive its incendiary its really the most productive thing hes done i think since he got into a bus at immediately after being elected pope and went back to the hotel to piers and it settled bill i dont know that its going to have any immediate Effect People of course around the world are saying that it will that the church is changing its teaching on homosexuality and on the possibility of homosexuals marrying in the church i think thats going too far that the expectations are too high but its never the less explicit and does it threaten to create another cleavage if you will in the church i can imagine that in poland for example or in africa where the Catholic Church congregations are growing and where you see more conservative views that this attitude would not be appreciated but perhaps in north america it will. Well i think it wont create a new cleavage the cleavage is there the Catholic Church is really split wide open people talk about conservative and liberal groups i think thats misleading there are 2 really 2 basic ways of looking at the Church Francis represents one and his predecessors after the vatican 2 in the 1960 s. That is pope paul the 6th in particular Pope John Paul 1st Pope John Paul the 2nd and benedict the sixteenths were all somewhat inward looking they all paid tribute to that in 2 to the reforms about intubate in fact they were peddling as it passed as they could against the stream theyre trying to turn things back the Catholic Church has a kind of myth that it doesnt change but in fact it does change of course it mustnt be seen to change and francis is the 1st pope really since the vatican 2 who has taken the Council Teaching very serious and wants the church to go out into the world and to engage with the world where it is and he has been signaling ever since he became the pope that this is what he is thinking i mean he has been saying things about not not condemning gays we know that one of his Close Friends for example is a gay man in the u. S. Who we visited with that mans partner in washington d. C. So the signals have been there of acceptance and love were you surprised by the news today. No i think its just really yet another balloon that hes sending out this is his way of doing things brant he has to be very careful about it changing a Church Teaching that as i said the Catholic Church continues a kind of myth that it doesnt change its teaching its lets things fall away by the side that it doesnt want to emphasize anymore but he does has to try and carry the church with him and its very difficult to do this at the moment if he were to change Church Teaching on homosexuality for example overnight then he would create a precedent hes already 83. 00 hes going to be succeeded by another parent pretty soon and if he did that he would create the president that the next pope could reverse that decision ok john barry explaining what is sick a significant piece of news for the Roman Catholic church today john thank you. Ok we want to go back now to that story news of the German Health minister testing positive for coded 19 we want to go straight now to our political correspondents emanuel schon she is following this story for us tonight him its good to see you the Health Minister tested positive just after attending a Cabinet Meeting that included the german chancellor Angela Merkel is there concern now that the entire cabinet could be infected. Well brenda i can imagine that all those who have been in close contact with the house minister might get tested quite soon however we also got a Statement Today from the chancellor is press office highlighting the fact that the federal cabinet meets in compliance with hygiene and distance rules and that ensures that theres no need for participants to be quarantined if a person who later test positive for koren of virus is present of the meeting now we dont know yet if the chancellor has been tested about daddy ideas here she immediately went into a choir and seen when her doctor had tested positive shortly after having given her vaccine shot now in terms of continued here within the House Ministry for now. Will probably it continue working from isolation he also tweeted that he only suffered from cold like symptoms as you mentioned but of course he wont be meeting with anyone of course the has minister has been a leading figure behind Aguilar America behind the chancellor for the governments response to the pandemic so this is of course a setback but theres also no reason to believe that this will disturb the countrys governance and handling of the pandemic w. s on the story corps tonight here in berlin and a thank you. I heres a quick summary now with some of the other headlines from today authorities in nigerias biggest city lago say theyll investigate reports that Security Forces opened fire on protesters whites groups are citing what they call credible reports that some demonstrators were killed the army calls the reports fake news snide jury and have been protesting for weeks against Police Brutality and Police Corruption thailands Prime Minister says that he will end a state of emergency that was imposed in the capital bangkok to suppress antigovernment demonstrations its the 7th consecutive day of protests jesters want the government to resign they want a new constitution and they want reforms to the monarchy. At least 34 members of afghanistans Security Forces have been killed in attacks by the taliban in northern takar province according to afghan officials the taliban attacked the government soldiers while they were sleeping the rising violence comes despite ongoing peace talks between the Afghan Government and the taliban in qatar. France is holding a National Tribute to samuel poncy the teacher he was killed outside his School Last Week people have been gathering across the country french president has addressed a Memorial Ceremony together with his family at these her Bone University in paris this evening samual pansy was killed on friday after showing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during classes on the freedom of expression the suspected perpetrator and 18 year old chechen refugee was shot by police. Are for more now were joined by g. W. Correspondent Marina Strauss in paris good evening to you today a national day of tribute is held all over the country theres a Memorial Ceremony where you were at the. What more can you tell us. Earlier this evening french president. Held a very emotional speech very personal he said that. The teacher was one of those teachers who will never forget that he was one of those teachers who told his students how to think by themselves how to be critical like a citizens here in france and some across also said that some will but she is now the face of france and when i was looking around here at this location in front of the 7 university i could see many people like having tears in their eyes people being very moved and after the speech they clapped and said this occasion here its so funny even if it was actually chosen by such a nice family themselves that they were also present here at this tribute today and they chose because its a symbol for all knowledge a symbol for an item and we know that the french government is taking this attack very seriously a special investigation is underway what do we know about the progress in that investigation. All we know that several people have been taken into custody its just stuff to tack some have already been released what we learned today is said 7 people will be put in front of terrorist watch and among them to students of some of the thats probably or maybe hinted to were petty you know like we remember you came outside of the school and then was beheaded so these 2 students underage students are also facing charges and so weve been seeing rates in france over france anti islamist rights ok w. s Marina Strauss with the latest tonight here in paris thank you for this weeks conflict zone it takes a look at the fighting between armenia and azerbaijan over the nagornokarabakh region the w sara kelly you spoke with the foreign minister of armenia he would cuse is turkey of exacerbating the conflict. Turkey has been the destabilizing force in this situation we have been warning about this consistently we have been seeing this. Aggressive policy in every direction of the neighborhood of turkey mediterranean north africa made the least and we were absolutely cognizant of the risks of doing this they stabilize and policies in our region we have been seeing the signs of it when there was a transfer of military equipment to azerbaijan when there want to transfer all foreign terrorist fighters. Are recruited in the parts of syria controlled by time but mr foreign minister my question. Was about azerbaijan has done is absolutely crazy or should i say you absolutely crazy that as i was reading today is a terrorist top my question to you was about whether you see the risk of being isolated in the region you can watch the latest edition of conflict zone at the bottom of the hour about 15 minutes or you can watch it online dot com slash. Our lists get a reminder now the top story that were following for you pope francis has expressed his support for civil unions for same sex couples its the 1st time francis has done so since he became head of the Catholic Church germanys Health Minister is in self isolation tonight after testing positive for cocaine 19 the end spawn symptoms are reported to be model. You can always get you know you news on the go just download out from google play or from the app store you that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news and if youre part of a new store you can use the app to send us photos and video so. Youre watching the w. News ill be back at the top of the hour with more world news followed by the day i hope to see you this. Combating the corona pandemic. Where does research stand. What are scientists learning. Background information and. Our corona update. Coded 19 special next on d w. Still that people go for information. Means they want to express. Facebook and twitter up to date in touch follow us. Weve been. Told what to watch out for fever a loss of taste or smell a dry cough just some of the symptoms. But the effects of covert 19 on the body can go well beyond those and run much deeper a disease that begins in the lungs can have a profound impact on many parts of the body for some the effects can be long lasting. In the world many people showing symptoms of what we called a lot of people are having Health Consequences and after they are supposed to recover from infection most covert patients recover within weeks but some have been living with the effects for months exactly how long it can last we have yet to find out could covert 1000 be a disease from which some of us never fully recover. And this is the w. s covert 19 special hello and welcome to the show im Stephen Beardsley in berlin 26 weeks thats the typical Recovery Time for a covert 1000 patient at least according to the World Health Organization and after all researchers are trying to figure out why some Patients Experience the disease more seriously and suffer more long term consequences heres the story of one such case. Eric alderman is struggling to return to normal life the 51 year old was infected with cove at 19 in march it started with a cold and a bad cough and then a trip to the emergency room he was in an artificial coma for 2 and a half months now hes being treated at a neurological rehab clinic in the southern german town affair nolen he has to relearn everything walking talking even how to set up or if they have there for i have no preexisting conditions. Nothing. I came straight out of the blue. Oh ive been abroad i had been on a ski trip. My friends were fine. I just dont know how i got it. Alderman is a Sports Reporter for a newspaper helping him get through all this is positive attitude and the support from his family his wife and his 4 children. 3 pets are all very it was touch and go oh. Well there were times when i i almost didnt make it oh they are hard. On the new role or just treating aardman dr friedly from rose in diagnosis or rebuild their dysfunction which can be directly attributed to the 1000 virus he also has car tissue on his lungs and no one knows if hell ever recover from that. We see patients who developed weak hearts which they never previously suffered from we see patients with liver impairment which only slowly returns to normal function we see patients with distinct muscle paralysis due to nerve damage which only gradually heroes to see others whose muscle paralysis quickly subsides so we see quite a wide variety of symptoms affecting different organs for. Research on the illness is going on everywhere including at the clinic in nuremberg in the meantime its become clear that the virus does attack the brain it can even cause strokes and make a persons immune system overreact. Its an illness that in many respects is unique and we learn new things every week and every month about it and well only be able to look back in a few years in order to say what weve done right and what weve done wrong. 10 percent of patients have a hard time with this disease just like Eric Alderman has 90 percent to recover even if it does take some time. Eric all those wife told us recently that her husband continues to make progress since the story was filmed and can now feed himself again speaking and walking remain difficult however the good news is that he has been relocated to a clinic much closer to the familys home or lets talk about more about Recovery Times with yon hennigs hes a specials for pulmonary medicine coleader the post code 1000 clinic at the university of hamburg Medical Center thank you for joining us is there such a thing as postcode syndrome. As well apparently there is right so we have reports of probably thousands of patients reporting long term effects after the disease raising. Mental problems but also breathlessness so yes we have to say there seems to be Something Like that. Are we talking about the damage from a serious case of kobe for example of lung damage your heart damage or are we talking about an ongoing path ology for example some people saying that theyre smell and taste go again months later. Thats the thats the basic paradigm so that the virus is causing cellular damage and these this damage then translate into long term effects and long term problems but there seems to be an additional component to that that is not just explained by the direct cellular damage that we have to figure out and we know from many viral diseases that there are long term effects the convalescence coming along. Might be neural problems so what we really have to figure out now is what specific to the virus whats additional but nevertheless i mean we have we have probably thousands i mean given the. 40000000 infected people we probably have hundreds of thousands of people with. Patients of lung covered so thats going to be a real burden to our Health Care Systems and we have to figure out a way to see these patients are clearly going to help them what are the common symptoms or conditions that were seeing that might be lumped under long covert. Well basically were seeing a whole variety of symptoms so you might even call it a syndrome because basically the most commonly reported symptom seems to be fatigue but short of breath headache joint pain. Red eyes so muscle pain so theres a lot of things but also we have anxiety we have a Cognitive Impairment so that is really a whole variety of plethora of symptoms that were dealing with and that makes it so difficult to basically. Treat the patients well because it is i mean we need a lot of specialists to really take care of the patients at the beginning of the study a 2 year study i have to ask you even though youre at the beginning do you have any sort of results or any sort of trends that youre seeing right now that are applicable to how we look at long coven. Obviously since we just started a couple of weeks ago we dont have any solid data and that is basically the main problem were dealing with all around the world in. Long covert so what were seeing is which is interesting so the disease in our court is not associated naturally with the severity of the acute infection so we have patients who are totally fine you know after as you showed in your in your and movie in had a severe disease with acute london damage and still they recover completely so now the lung function are totally normal the patients are feeling better than ever but on the other hand we have they have seen pym patients with mild disease who are doing terrible right now they can recover and are really there and able to work so that is a big problem and we dont know how that belongs together but others have shown that basically women seem to be at higher risk to have more severe long it if youre older you seem to be at risk to have long coated but really we have to find out whats going on and thats why were trying to investigate for 2 years how these symptoms evolve and how. How we can help patients best at the beginning of this pandemic 1000 was really described as a respiratory illness based on what we know now how would you describe it. Well it certainly starts in the lungs and we know that in fact the blood vessels and the kidney as a main target of the acute disease but from the long term symptoms the long term effects it seems to be a syndrome so it seems to really affect every part of the body so far the muster system the cognitive system even the psyche is part of it so. It is it is something that we really have to be really have to look into how this is. How we can help these patients and really how we actually are able to see all these patients because this might lead them these patients might be in the hundreds of thousands or a young heggs university of hamburg Medical Center thank you so much thank you thanks. And now its time for your questions its the part of the show where our science correspondent Derrick Williams as the questions youve posted for you tube channel over to derek. If youre diagnosed with coverage 19 and a recovering at tire what measures should you take to prevent your family from catching it as well the last thing you want to do if you catch cove at 19 is give it to your friends or your family unfortunately that can prove challenging if you live in the same household on the Positive Side the evidence we have so far indicates that after your symptoms appear with every day that passes youre likely grows less infectious though its still grinding its way through studies at least currently we think that maximum infectiousness hits around the 1st day that you show symptoms if not before so if you tested positive after you develop symptoms and are now convalescing at home and the people around you have tested negative then the likelihood youll infect them should as a rule drop by the day heres what authorities recommend you do 1st no visitors of course and both you and caregivers should wear masks and any interactions even if its hard stay as isolated as you possibly can preferably in your own room with a window that can remain open if temperatures permit it door closed try to only eat there as well a dedicated set of silverware and plates is a good idea if you have the option in your home of multiple bathrooms and toilets then dedicate one to your use limit contact with caregivers if at all possible they really should belong to a High Risk Group theyll need to disinfect regularly leave any dirty laundry or bed linens unwashed for as long as possible and finally dont forget that caregivers will. Also need to quarantine for as long as Health Authorities require even if that means long after your own symptoms have been proved. Science correspondent there claims there dont forget that you can post your questions to derek on our Youtube Channel and if youd like to keep up with the latest developments in the crowbars to subscribe to our newsletter just log on to be dot com slash kuroda dash newsletter. Thats all for us thanks for watching. Them. Enter the conflict zone fronting the powerful more than 2 years ago the new government in armenia came to power in a socalled velvet revolution with the hope of fundamental democratic reform my guest this week from europe on his armenian foreign minister igor osman nothing kanya how much responsibility does armenia fan for the conflict escalate conflicts and. Next month difficulties. How does a virus spread. 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The observers are inside has chosen the path of cool it seems as if youre not signaling that youre serious about peace excuse me i cannot agree with me i will never agree with this for more than 2 years ago a new government in armenia rose to power and the socalled velvet revolution which raised hopes of fundamental democratic reform and a thaw in relations with azerbaijan over the long disputed territory was born about now the region has been hit by the worst fighting in debt