Outside of a pandemic, specialist critical care nurses would be responsible for just a single patient. In Covid they were looking after four, five or even six – often all on a ventilator.
Dyer says love is an interesting dynamic."We need more love in the world, by the way," he says.
"Where's all the love gone? Too much hatred and division going on."Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he will travel to Turkey's capital Ankara to meet President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and will be available for direct talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in Istanbul on Thursday."We will do everything to ensure that this meeting takes place," he told reporters in a hastily-arranged briefing in Kyiv.
Russia has not yet said who will fly to Istanbul, only that it would be announced "as soon as [Putin] deems it necessary". Putin and Zelensky have not themselves met since December 2019.Direct talks between the two countries last took place in Istanbul, in March 2022, in the early weeks of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Putin had initially called for direct talks in Turkey's largest city "without pre-conditions", before Zelensky announced that he would go in person and expected the Russian president to travel as well.
The US is also expected to send a high-level delegation.And their normalisation is not an entirely new phenomenon. Former Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, a centre-right politician, was the first EU leader to take the plunge. He formed a government with the post-fascist political group, Movimento Sociale Italiano, back in 1994.
Six years later, Austria’s conservatives went into coalition with the far-right Freedom Party. At the time, the EU was so outraged that it blocked official bilateral contacts with Austria for several months.Post-war political etiquette dictated the political mainstream must form a
, a “health barrier”, at election time to keep the extreme right out of European governments.The universally recognised term for that practice is French, which gives you a sense how passionately many in France felt about it.