i see the world as you've never seen it before. describe now to dw documentary. ah, this is easily news live from burden. poland says is prepared to send leopard 2 tanks to ukraine with or without german commission. germany is hinting it would not sound in the way. also coming off we, we, it's a russian man who said to serbia to escape hooton's military call up. but he says

he still faces daily reminders of the power of russia's propaganda machine. and we'll find out what to expect during the berlin alleys 1st, real post handling traditional place. ah, i'm really mohammed, welcome to the program. hold on says it would send german made leopard tanks to ukraine to help fight the russians with or without germany's consent. leopard tanks are made in germany and governments that have purchased the tanks, must seek berlin's permission before they can be transferred to another country. now with the war in ukraine entering a 2nd year time and patience are running out. you, crean might be one step closer to finally getting the modern german made battle tang it says it urgently needs. pauline's 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 go do stuff as 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. 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 send its lepper tanks to key of and at an e u foreign minister meeting a day later,

she reiterated the importance of full fledged support for ukraine. mixed up good weakness on testing is the salvage distance fios internet slacks important 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. keith has been asking western allies to supply them with modern tanks for months. ukrainian 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. graduates they and brought your thoughts. well, raphael val song is from the javin institute for international and security affairs in berlin. he gave us his thoughts on the mixed messages from japanese chancellor and foreign minister in the last couple of days. well, i'm sorry. i got a disappoint you there. i mean, i think we all really less guessing in these few days. i mean do newspapers present different reports which country is saying what, which minister saying what they called coalition in germany. it's been 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. um, it might be just of the foreign minister expressed a personal preference and she already did not confirmed the statement this morning in the brussels meeting for ministers. so unfortunately, no clarity yet hundreds of thousands of russians left their homeland since september when russian president vladimir putin announced a military call up of men to fight in ukraine. they're gone 2 destinations around the world, including sabbath, which has had long ties with russia to w fanny for shar met one man who was able to escape putin's draft,

but not his propaganda. the owners didn't feel they had to change the name or the, the core when russia invaded ukraine. customer swear, not put off. they admire the russian leader. both the id is the routine, is the only real leader in the world full if you can. all the others just politicians drago, but he looks after his country and these people will not order for yog, many here in the rain, yanine near bol: great! feel that the west cause the ukraine war and yet it's, we're on j rush, young journalist, flat to last september, before the war. he had reported on corruption arrest the pursuit, which became too dangerous when men started being drafted into the army. i left the because of mobilization because of the re, reese, go for to go to jail or a gold true war. well,

i would not go to war anyway, so when i could face a jail or torture or anything else, you can pick it. and i decided to leave right now he decided to come to serbia because he had some friends. he had a be, has cape the put in regime. right. but not his propaganda. now, they have problems with information about war. ah, i'm not in the position to tail soviet people want they should sink and holiday shade to transform the media. oh, good people, angie sas, you feel safe here, but he plans to leave and he's more open when talking in private than when the camera is rolling. belgrade city center shows how close links between the countries have helped spread the russia narrative on serbian

media. roches propaganda mouthpiece recently launched a local online service survey is not the most obvious place or for a few. it should a 1000 fleeing russia. many serve, see a support. the russian regime, glory to russia is painted just outside serbia's presidential office, pull say more than half of the serbian population, cease putin as serbia's closest foreign ally, gama elizabeth. he's a good leader, really because he's challenging the leech because he shaking up the weld alder. sometimes people in serbia try to break through rushes propaganda. these protest doors are showing the names of bombed ukrainian towns in front of a christmas tree donated by russia. their attempt to create awareness is quickly cut short though russians are welcome in serbia, but criticism against russia lesser or has like

a some other stories making headlines around the world. no way has detained a former commander of the wagner mercenary group who is seeking asylum. they're pretty say they believe andre medford ed entered the country illegally with the to holding him for his own protection. but the dev says he, he fears for his life. and after witnessing that, the mistreatment of russian prisoners brought to the front lines to fight, to fall back down. authorities in california say another person has died after the mast shooting in monterey park on sunday, raising the death toll. now $211.00. police are trying to find out what motivated a 7272 year olds gunman, to open fire at a ballroom dance club during chinese new year celebrations. before he claims that brazil's president louis ignacio let,

knew that his silver is parking argentina for talks with his counterpart on alberto fernandez, is the last verse foreign trip in office. the need is on discussing a new gas pipeline and also the creation of a common south american currency. brazil is one of archon tina's largest tried to pot bertina faso says it will end its military cooperation with france. the military genta has given france one month to pull out its troops. observers believe the gin to us trying to rekindle ties with russia around $400.00 french special forces are based in booking, also to help battle and dismissed. excuse me. now pakistan's government is restoring power to millions of people after a faulty in faults is faulty situation in the electricity grid that to a, a major blackout. officials blame the outage on a voltage surge off the generators. work temporarily switched off to save energy.

if the 2nd grid failure, in 3 months 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. he 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 work on it. otherwise, yes, are gone manageable. schools were also pitched into darkness. something that many students are used to by not when there is no power at our school, then we have to study in the dark it. 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 class me person. 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 country struggling through an economic crisis. prosecutors in germany had charged 5 people with high treason for natalie plotting to topple the german government and also kit. now the health minister coll locked about prosecutors say the group had a 3 step plan 1st to cause a nationwide blackout than to adopt the health. when the sub and finally to deposed the government is believed the porters were prepared to kill lots of ox body guards to carry out their plan. oh, our political correspondent, salmon young,

has more on the accused. 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 german 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 and 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 cache and munitions and, and cash money that have been put aside in preparation for sort of taking over power. and this group are doing so because they're going to divide up the future

political offices in germany between them. so who all they will let their said to have links to the right citizens movement. this is a 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 so 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. the organizers of berlin's international film festival, the berlin ali, have unveiled this year's program. russia's invasion of ukraine and the protests in iran will be called things actor and director, sean, penn, will premier superpower,

his documentary about the ukraine rural the, by the now they will also feature french director nicolo the best sir, led them on a documentary about mentally disabled people and also the enemy movie sousa may from japanese director macintosh in kind. 070 is counter reporter scott roxbury has more on the must see movies. at this, he has burden film festival contents, a documentary superpower which it was shot in ukraine, a during the war and features some exclusive interviews with the ukraine. president of oatmeal lensky. that's going to be a must see. i think for everybody or this year at the billing all i but what i love about the bill now is that it's got, it's really, i mean it's something for everyone. it's such a huge, eclectic array of films. of you mentioned to me this a japanese animate, or it's a competition. the 1st animate film in competition over 20 years at the bella. and

it's coming just as a sort of huge wave of japanese animated, sweeping the world. i'm really excited to see that i'm and then for something only different. we've got a horror films, infinity pool from brandon co number, the son of david, a cronum berg, a starring alexander star star. and i, i hear that he is teachers in a sort of odd bazaar breastfeeding scene in the film. so as i think the something for everyone, any taste that you haven't movies, you don't find something to like this is belinda watching t w news lives on valid stick around because robot says all the latest business coming up next. ah, she's up to date. don't miss our highlights the d w program on line d, w dot com highlights for charla navarro office. i am.