ah ah ah ah, this is the w news ly, but from berlin to night could german maintains soon be on their way to you. great . holland says that it is prepared to send leopard to tapes, to the front lines with or without german permission. germany is hinting that it would not stand in the way. also coming up to night, prosecutors in germany charge 5 people with high treason for allegedly wanting to

kidnap the country's health minister and then powerful the government and the w's culture expert shares. what we can expect to see on the big screen next month during the bell and all the prelim telling festival the 1st real post pandemic with addition. ah, i'm break off is good to have you with us on this monday, and we begin with german made leopard to babble tanks and where they may or may not be headed to de poland said that it and other countries will send the tanks to ukraine to help ukraine's military fight against the russians with or without german consent. a leper to tanks are manufactured here in germany. governments purchasing the tanks are required to seek german permission if those tanks are to be transfer to another country. they sound like

a technicality. but with the war in ukraine about to enter a 2nd year time and patience appear to be running out. 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. his goggles thought that even if we were not given the approval within the framework of a small coalition, if the germans were not present at this coalition, we would still send the tanks together with others to ukraine. a 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, german foreign minister on a lena bear box said berlin would not stand in the way if poland decided to sent its leopard tangs to key of. and that an e u foreign minister meeting a day later, she reiterated the importance of full fledge support for ukraine. mission obvious and asking is the service this does fios internet is an awesome hoard on that. we as an international community, do everything we can to defend ukraine, so that it wins and wins the right to live in peace and freedom again. he is has been asking western allies to supply them with modern tanks for months. ukraine and officials say the military vehicles in particular, the leper tanks are vital for fighting off and anticipated kremlin offensive in the spring and retaking territory. they put their thought earlier. i spoke with raphael bo song from the german institute for international insecurity affairs here in berlin. and i asked him what he makes of the mixed messages regarding tank

deliveries to you. great. why? i'm sorry. i got a disappoint you there. i mean, i think we all really left guessing in these few days. i mean, do newspapers present different reports which country is saying, what's which minister saying what the current coalition in germany is being divided over this for some time already? are the leading green politicians have been making the case for sending more tang weapons including tanks. so it all in the end boils down to the question, what is the chancellor going to do? and the chancellor is not saying anything. so we're running in circles waiting for the decisive signal from one of shorts, but he's not ready to move at least yet. so i don't think we can really make this already a green light and it might be just of the foreign minister expressed a personal preference and she already did not confirm the statement this morning in the brussels meeting for ministers. so unfortunately, no clarity yet yet there is no clarity and there is silence at the same time that forces the rest of us to interpret, to read into this silence and what,

what are you reading? what does the german chancellor, what does he want to do? do we know? well, there is a lot of speculation that it's his style not to be well forthcoming and that he makes this decision on his own and then takes his time on that. i think this is really beside the point. so the main point and of course, judgment can vary on this, but the main point is that actually almost everybody expects. no, it's only a matter of time and whether it's germany now leading the free or whether it's germany coming later a week or 2 or a month later, the result is more or less pre determined. that's at least what really the expectation is. and i think for good reasons, so that's really what is a little bit disconcerting that even if we really see this on the horizon, why is germany not ready to actually go with the flow and take up a leadership position? and rather than seeing as this sort of foot dragging, reluctant, unreliable alley,

i think this is really where the problem lies at the moment, not sholtes, and particularly only what, what about public opinion that the latest polls show that there's still overwhelming support for ukraine among the german public, but when it comes to the question of sending tanks to ukraine, it's about $5050.00 for and against it. germany. is that informing the chance or should it be informing the chancellor in his what appears to be long decision making tie? well, when he can't ignore it for sure, but of course he's also the chancellor and also any deputy is not just following public opinion by the minute. sure. we need to explain. we need to. it's sort of explained to the general public what the intentions are, what the strategy used, and this is also on the bottom is beryl. that one thing leads to the next. i can see these concerns. but particularly these matters of minutes or strategy all some of something average people have fully formed opinions about so while not everybody may change the mind if the government was set out to really communicate what

they're doing. i think it's weld fair to say that they may sway another 10 percent of the population. so this 5050 isn't the decisive factor. i really think it's more this kind of hesitation of in the party and sort of trying to sell it to the party . and of course, i may be managing the risk of escalation if that's still a consideration. but we left in the dark. we are in the dark. that is for sure. tonight we'll be able song with the german institute for international insecurity affairs here in berlin. it's always thank you. a prosecutor here in germany have charged 5 people with high treason for allegedly plotting to topple the german government and to kidnap the countries. help minister. you see him right there. karl lauterbach also peters say that the group had a 3 step plan 1st to cause a nationwide blackout, then to a duck, the health minister, and finally, to deposed the government. it's believe the plotters were prepared to kill and lauterbach body guards in order to carry out their plan. they got the even ugly,

to conduct our political correspondence. here in berlin, simon young, who told me more about exactly through the queues are and what they were allegedly planning. yeah, these 5 people are for madden and one woman who's been in custody as since last year's, most them since last april. and there are keys by prosecutors, as you say, of, of essentially planning to topple the germans state, that we're going to sort of cause a power black out across the country and kidnapped the health minister. and then according to some reports, get actors to appear as the chancellor in the gym and president on t v and sort of polish the german state and you know, cause chaos, civil war conditions, prosecutors to get. so really pretty serious allegations. they also say that they found weapons cash and munitions in cash

money that had been put aside in preparation for sort of taking over power and this group doing so because they're going to divide up the future political offices in germany between them. so who all day with their said to have links to the right citizens movement. this is this group that's come to prominence, particularly during the coven pandemic party, on the back of opposition to government restrictions over that. and there people, essentially you just reject the german state. they say there's no democracy in germany. they want to return to some previous german rice. and they're normally ascribed to the far, right. some of them can be very violent and dangerous. and these are the kind of people, at least that we're talking about here with, with the proceedings that are going to now go forward in court in simon, do we know why was the german health minister carl lauterbach, why was he targeted in this plot?

yeah, i think that's because he's somebody, he's very prominently been carrying for the german government policy on responding to where the covey pandemic and he, somebody spoken up the seriously in favor of tough restrictions. and he has said that he's faced a very serious threats. death threats are online and threats against his family. he said he's very worried about the safety of his family and he can't go out without a permanent body guard. so i think that explains the sort of hatred targeted, particularly against the health minister did abuse simon young with lived here in berlin as always, simon, thank you here to look down some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world authorities in california say that one of the wounded sundays, monterey park shooting has died. that raises the death told to beloved police are still trying to find out what motivated a 72 year old gunman to open fire at

a ballroom dance club. during chinese lunar new year's celebrations before killing himself, the holocaust survivor margot friedlander has been awarded. germany's federal cross of merit right here in berlin. the 101 year old emigrated to the united states after surviving a concentration camp. in 2010, she moved back to berlin. she's been telling her story in schools ever since. burkina faso has confirmed its intentions to end its military cooperation with france. the military junta has given france one month to withdraw its troops. observers believe the hunter is trying to rekindle tries with russia. 400 french special forces are stationed in burkina, faso, to help battle and islamist insurgence. the organizers of berlin's international film festival, known as the belly nala, have unveiled to this year's program artistic director, harley shaw, 3 young,

revealed that rushes, evasion of ukraine, and the iranian protest movement, they may be major and see the actor in director sean penn. we'll go from mir superpower. that's his documentary about the ukraine work, the berlin oliver officer, feature french director, nicola, in the bad sir let emma a documentary about mentally disabled people and the on the me movie talk soon by japanese director makoto. sion caught the bell in all the starts on february 16th. it runs 11 dates earlier i spoke with our culture guru scott roxborough, and i asked him whether we can expect the bell in all his pre pandemic him or to return this year. it's been actually 3 years since we've had a proper of that bad, you know, last year they did have one, but there were still some cobit restrictions and social distance thing and so forth in place. so he didn't really have to pack theaters didn't have the,

the red carpet craziness that is always a part of the building. and i think people like back help be going to so many a $1000000000.00 over the years really missed. and i'm hoping it'll come back this year. i mean, we have enough star power coming again. we've got, you know, and halfway coming and keep blanche, tad and helen, we are in some of my favorites. we've got other, the hunky alexander scar star who's going to be walking the right carpet and the almost a hunky john markovich. you will also be coming kirsten stewart star twilight. she's going to be in berlin the whole time because she's the jury president this years we'll be seeing a lot of her. and we should be able to spot a steven spielberg because he'll be dropping in 3 feet a lifetime achievement golden bear. so hopefully that will be enough star power to really get people out again and get the dollar back to it. sort of pre, coven normal. we had started up scott boxborough. they're talking about the bell anal sports news. now in the german bonus, lee, you're bruce. you dorman ended up on the right side of a sudden go match against our sport. besides traded goals until darkman pounced

late in the game to seal a memorable went, ah don't means jude bellingham dazzled the defensive out bird to open his glory. moves like this. show why the 19 year old is among the most sought after talent in the bud slager. ah, shortly before the break, the scoring intensified outs berg answer through on a mire. dorm is niko slaugh to beg, blamed himself for losing possession. less than 3 minutes later, slaughter back made up for his mistake. to admit ahead, $21.00 went out berg's amadine, demure of it broke free to level the score it to all. late in the 2nd half. dorman took the lead again through jamie bio gittens. a rocket of a goal from bio gittens that nearly took the head off of jude bellingham.

one minute later, david selina level for ellsberg once again. and in the in geo raina said the day with doors mid. the assist came from jude bellingham endorsement escape this roller coaster ride of 7 goals. on top. i'll read your watch the w news from berlin rob watches of next with the w visits the stick around rec that i'll see you tomorrow. i just enjoying the dish. come take a look at this. our tv highlights every week in box subscribe. now mine is recorded. i am getting ahead using tech.