where is india headed in? this is the moment to unleash on violet bars on these legacy starts january 28th on d, w. ah ah, this is dw is alive from berlin. good german made tanks a soon be on their way to ukraine. poland says it is prepared to send a leopard, 2 tanks to the front line, even without berlin's permission. germany's foreign minister says berlin won't stand in his way, but the german chancellor is yet to change his official position. also coming up on

the prosecutors in germany, charge 5 people with high treason for a legit. the plotting to kidnap health minister col lauterbach and toppled the german government and the you foreign ministers agree, a new package of sanctions on iran. i made calls to brand the country's revolutionary guards, a terrorist organization? ah, hello, i'm claire richardson very warm. welcome to the show. german made a leopard to tanks, could soon be helping to defend ukraine. that's after poland that it would take its own action on sending the tanks there. germany's neighbor says it's eager to ensure ukraine has better weaponry to fight the russian invasion and will apply directly to berlin for permission. instead of waiting for the okay from the german chancellor. ukraine might be one step closer to finally getting the modern german

made battle tanks. it says it urgently needs. poland. prime minister, mateusz mode of ascii, said his country will apply for permission from berlin to supply its lepper tanks to ukraine. but he added that poland could also export the tanks without a green light from germany. is going to affect the she even if we were not given the approval within the framework of a small coalition. if the germans were not present of this coalition, we would still send the tanks together with others to ukraine. condition for us is to build at least a small coalition of countries concerned with the issue. although germany has been providing substantial support to key if it's been criticized for hesitating when it comes to sending battle tanks or allowing others to do so. but there appears to be a shift in berlin's position by default speaking to french television on sunday. the german foreign minister on elena bear book said berlin would not stand in the way if poland decided to send its leopard tangs to key of and at an

e u foreign minister meeting a day later, she reiterated the importance of full fledge support for ukraine. mission observation is when testing is the severe, this does fios internet support on that. we as an international community and do everything we can to defend ukraine so that it wins and wins the right to live in peace and freedom again. he has been asking western allies to supply them with modern tanks. for months. you created officials say the military vehicles in particular the leper tanks are vital for fighting off an anticipated kremlin offensive in the spring and retaking territory. but your thought earlier i spoke to the w shameful article correspond at nina hossa. and i asked her about the mixed messages coming from germany's chancellor and foreign minister. well, i think that is one of the very big problems here in this ad tank discussion that there is no single government position in this ed topic. so if you want,

that position hasn't changed. even with an alina bedbug statement, there is no big news that has come out of berlin. the decision has not been made. it's a decision that officially the national security council makes, and that was repeated by a government spokes person who spoke for chancellor shorts to day. but unofficially, everybody knows it's the chance level of choice. who has the last word? the new defense minister boris historian said on friday that the decision will be made soon though, but that decision can be positive. it can also be negative. we don't know when it'll come. we're expecting it for this week on next. however, many are seeing the fact that the defense ministry is not officially looking at what they could get, hold off in terms of leopard 2 tanks. if the position, if the decision is then positive as a sign that germany could be willing and municipal stories also said that other partners can of course, start training ukrainian soldiers on the tanks already. but yes, you're right. the chancellor himself has been very tight lipped on it. he's thrown lots of criticism for it. and as a result, there's just a lot of speculation and

a mixed picture. and give us a bit of context. what is behind this reluctance to send these tanks? well there is one thing that does seem to be clear is that combat tank deliveries are seen by the german government as a different quality in terms of weapons delivery. the chancellor himself has always said that germany would only be taking such an important step to deliver those battle tangs enclosed coordination with its partners. now everybody knows that all afterwards means the u. s. berlin, once the us to be involved in such a step, there is fear of german tanks facing russian hangs on the ground and all of so it's just want to wants to avoid those pictures. and that argument is, of course, beginning to sound less convincing because other countries are also saying they would deliver. there's like the brits would or the challenge or 2 tanks for example . and you also do get hints here in berlin, that there is a real fear of escalation because doria said in an interview on his very 1st day

last week that germany is not a nuclear power. so there is a fear. what do we do? this is seen as too much by the kremlin. what if this is considered a, an escalation? and what is also true is that german public opinion here with the people is split on the issue and narrow majority once leopards to be sent to ukraine. but a majority doesn't want them used to get back crimea, for example. now perhaps we'll learn more at the press conference on tuesday morning between nature chief and started back and forth to stories. that might be the breakthrough for that green light for tanks. but i wouldn't bet on it could also just be about details of air defense deliveries. i thank you so much for that . that is did the chief political correspondent in house for us? prosecutors in germany have charged 5 people with high treason for allegedly plotting to toppled the german government and kidnap health minister. carlotta bar prosecutor said, the brute had a 3 plan 1st to call the nationwide walk out. then to have him talk to the health

minister and finally, to depose the government's men. to leave the plotters work hard to kill, wash about body guards will carry out their plan is gone up. and our political correspondence, simon young in berlin, told me more about who the accused are and what their alleged plans were. yes, bless him. bizarre details. these 4 men and one woman against whom charges have been brought now. they've been in custody since last year. most of them since last april, in fact, and the prosecutors say that they had these concrete plans to cause a nation wide power blackout and then to sort of profit somehow from the shooting chaos to as you mentioned, kidnapped the health minister and then they were going allegedly, to actors in front of t, v cameras who would impersonate the the chancellor and the german president who

would then sort of abolish the current government. and these people had apparently already caught up the future government of their new state to you who would be leading in, who would be doing what job. so quite advanced plans. now these people have said to have connections with the circle, right? citizens movement. that's a great, we've heard of a lot of a, particularly during the pandemic. they've risen to find to, to a degree on pandemic skepticism. but there people essentially who reject the german state and the proposed various methods of changing that and installing their own people in power. and why was it that we saw german health minister carlotta box specifically targeted this and led targeted in this alleged plot? yeah, well of course the hell of ministers been heavily involved in leading the government's response to the covey pandemic. and he's somebody who's stood up for particularly tough restrictions. and he's faced a lot of vitriol in particular online he reported last year that he has repeatedly

face threats of violence, death threats against him and his family. he can't go out. he says without a permanent body guard. so that i think fits with this idea of these rights citizens and people who reject the german state. also rejecting the pandemic measures that a lot of people have complained about thank you so much for that update that is d w simon young. so let's bring you up to speed with mother world news headlines at this hour to the holocaust survivor, margot, a few lender has been awarded. germany's federal cross of merit, early to 101 year old, emigrated to the united states after surviving a concentration camp. in 2010, she moved back to berlin and has been telling her story in schools ever, says russia and estonia have expelled each other's ambassadors and are downgrading their diplomatic relations. moscow said it took its decision after the baltic

country ordered a reduction in the number of russian embassy staff. the already strained relations have taken a further downward turn since the war in ukraine began. akina also has confirmed its intentions to end its military cooperation with france, military whom to has given france one month to pull out its troops. observers leave the hoot as trying to rekindle ties with russia. some 400 french special forces are stationed in burkina faso to help battle and islamist insurgency and hundreds of french bakers of march through paris, calling for more financial aid from the government in the face of high energy prices. the baker say they're now pain or to 5 times more for electricity, and that's more to them to raise their prices by over 50 percent, making it impossible to keep compete with cheaper lower quality products. and e u foreign ministers have agreed to impose a new set of sanctions on iran over its brutal repression of anti government

protesters. the ministers are meeting in brussels to discuss a range of issues including punitive measures against the country. but there's been no mention of iran revolutionary guards, which some member states they should be listed as a terrorist organization. terran has a task. the guards with stamping out anti government protests and gripped around since september. let's take a closer look at them. the home of the founder of modern day iran and it's a religious government in flames. youth versus old age and the people versus the state. i mean, that state is made up of the elite revolutionary guards who control most of the economy and security, and the clerics lead by supreme leader, ayatollah hammond nay, who make the rules. the regime has long blamed the west for its troubles, including the latest round of protests should oh, the smoke. why did the enemies,

why did america and the zionist regime, conspire against our nation, our country, and our revolution? and create these riots. as the supreme leader said, our country is advancing and the enemies don't want our country to make progress. only the protesters don't seem to be buying it. the brutality of the security services, the corruption of the revolutionary guards, the decline in living standards as the country strains under sanctions. all feed into a rejection of the ruling classes. and the authorities seem split on what to do about it. there were announcements that the dreaded morality police would be shut down. and the law requiring women to wear had job be relaxed. but it's unclear if either has happened. meanwhile, the executions of protesters have spurred fresh outrage. death to the dictator,

the crowd shouts, not death to america as the regime would prefer. and it's not just young women and students getting involved. these auto workers walked off the job to support the demonstrations. no one knows if or when a reckoning is coming for the guards and the clerics. but the states brutality has guaranteed that the divisions will not go away any time soon to pakistan now where government, the government is scrambling to restore power to millions of people after a fault in the electricity greater triggered a major outage officials, blaine, the cuts on a voltage surge after generators were temporarily switched off and then on again to save energy. it is the 2nd major grid failure in 3 months, and that in addition to the blackouts, millions of people in pakistan suffer almost daily

lives reliant on backup generators. at this hospital in karachi that was running without any great electricity for several hours up and down the country, people sat in darkness. a regular occurrence in a country plagued by unreliable power. some attempted to keep businesses open in the hope that the power would come back on. she was beginning, we're facing so many issues are worked depends on electricity. only when there's light, are we able to do business? otherwise we can't work on it. otherwise, yes, are gone manageable. schools were also pitched into darkness. something that many students are used to by not my when, when there is no power at our school, then we have to study in the dark. but sometimes we even have to leave the classroom and sit outside in the cold because sometimes there is no natural light inside for us to see the plasma, particularly if, if these are some of the problems we are facing. the stuckey issues is going to

pick them. pakistan's grid is in desperate need of an upgrade. one which the government says it cannot afford. this is the 2nd nation wide power outage in the last 2 years, highlighting the infrastructure, a weakness of a countries struggling through an economic crisis. attorneys update at this our coming up next close up looks at the independence movement in scotland seeking separation from united kingdom enforcing there's more news and analysis on our website to at t w dot com. thanks for watching leonardo da vinci's, mysterious masterpiece is perhaps the greatest leonardo masterpiece of the collection of the louvre. it is the virgin of the rocks. was there another symbolic meaning.