ah ah ah ah, is this the w news coming to live from berlin? power returns to pakistan after a massive outage leaves millions in the dark. the blackout happened after generators were temporarily switched off to save energy. also coming up, poland says it's prepared to send german made lepper, 2 tanks to ukraine with or without berlin's permission and outrage in the middle

east to protest to rupture a far right politician, burns a copy of the koran in sweden and could derail the country's bid. to join nato. ah. hello, i'm terry martin. thanks for joining us. officials in pakistan say the national electricity grid has been restored nearly 24 hours after tens of millions of people were left without power. authorities blame the major power cut on a voltage surge after generators were temporarily switched off to save energy. the nationwide blackout cut supplies to water pump, sleeping many without access to drinking water is the 2nd grid failure. in 3 months, dw asia editor shami of charms joins me now from corrupt. she, so she melt,

the power was out in pakistan for quite a while. how did that affect people's lives? or was it is still and not been restored for lee, and it is the i was wondering if i would be able to talk to you from here in karachi because in boss of the city, the electricity has not been restored. it has affected people's lives badly. common people cannot do their shores and the small businesses are suffering because everything depends on the electricity from the northwest focused on the northern areas to the southern bar off of the country. nationwide fear it has been a big gastro. fever government says not it is not something extraordinary, but it has been pretty extraordinary unprecedented. and people's lives are suffering because the economic crisis so, so big,

so crippling and boxed on that. there is gas shortage. there's electricity shortages, food shortage. there is a medicine shortage. so all kinds of shortages in people's lives have been affected very badly and it is a lot of resentment against the go understand this is the 2nd major grid failure in pakistan since october. why is the countries electricity infrastructure so unstable? because infrastructure is quite own, it needs, it needs only and the government does not have the money. i mean, no government has actually interested in overhauling and repairing the infrastructure. it has been functional for decades. it requires a lot of repairs and there is no money to run the country. as i told you, there's no gas in the country. the actual hike is just just huge and

the people's lives, the businesses are suffering very badly because the small businesses depend on electricity and gas. and as far as i know, i've spoken to a lot of people here, the common people as well as the analysts and experts. they said that the country's economy is just going down. and people are even comparing the situation and boxed on a land which saw a huge public protests against crippling come to me. thank you so much. d, w a. show me a sharp there in karachi. thank you so much now to poland, which says it will send it's german made leopard tanks to ukraine to help fight the russians with or without germany's consent. leopard tanks or made in germany and contractual lee governments that have purchased the tanks, must seek berlin permission before they can be re exported to another country.

berlin has not signaled any willingness to prove 3rd country delivery and its wavering on the issue is causing frustration among of sellers. ukraine might be one step closer to finally getting the modern and german made battle tanks. it says it urgently needs. poland prime minister montage 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 tangs without a green light from germany. google's 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 available speaking to french television on sunday. the german foreign minister on elena bear box, and berlin would not stand in the way if pollen decided to send its leopard tangs to kiev. and at an e. u foreign minister meeting a day later, she reiterated the importance of full fledged support for ukraine mission, upgrade weakness. and i thing 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. 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. runaways they both have both. a turkish company says it is in talks to send floating power ships to help supply electricity to ukraine.

russia has stepped up a tax on the countries power grid of round half of its energy infrastructure has been disabled. ukraine says, let's putting millions of people at risk of sickness and even death during the cold winter months. now is the winter of black house in ukraine, like here in the city of levine nights without power, has become part of wartime life for millions. russia has been relentless in its attacks on ukraine's power plants, sub stations, and distribution lines. about half of the countries energy system has been crippled, official se ukrainian president followed me. zalinski accuses moscow of energy, terrorism, st. fox. the very fact that russia resorted to terror against the energy industry and shows the weakness of the enemy,

prost locked before it cannot defeat ukraine on the. i don't feel to do. and that is why they are trying to break out people who's in this. what haunted nasa? 30 countries around the world have pledged immediate aid to help rebuild ukraine's, the energy grid supplying generates as transformers and other hardware, one possible solution to the countries. the energy emergency could come from tacky and it involves ships like these. they call them power ships floating electricity generation plants, the turkey based company, car power ship has a fleet of 36. they are to energy crisis spots around the world. the ships use either fuel oil or natural gas to generate electricity and feed it into local power . grits. some have an output of several 100 megabits per hour. but gordon is gamma. yeah, the scholarship over here can generate about 420 megawatts of law. it is an awful

4000000 people like yourself, so it could supply the residence of a city like berlin, the 2nd edison irving, that is, the ships have been used in shortage stricken countries, like lebanon, synagogue, and indonesia. they know how to easy. one of the companies senior executive says she is and talks to send several power ships to help alleviate the ukraine energy crisis. we are in discussions with oakland argo, with or the for governor it with moldova utilities, with romania utilities to understand the best way to sound alike, through the, to ukraine. we can actually deploy these ships in less than 30 days and make them operational to inject new kilowatt hours, new electricity on the grid, which is the what does need that for ukraine. the initial idea was to send the power ships to odessa, ukraine's largest port holly's. he says,

but security and hence, insurance or major considerations, the ships may be deployed to neighboring countries. instead, we need to ensure the safety of secular till far parcel. now of our ships, and if this is not pulls the boat while operating within ukrainian borders, it may be possible while operating at deck give you less the port in moldova, or costanza port and romania, and transmitting the electricity to ukraine via the transmission lines. costs and financing also remain key issues. so far, there is no deal. ukraine's energy ministry wasn't available for comment. so it's not clear if a, when the 1st power ships might make their way to help you crane get some nights back on during a brutal winter of blackouts. take look at a few other stories making headlines today. ukraine's president val autumn,

is lensky says, 2000000 ukrainians have been deported to russia since the start of the war. lansky may declaim in an address to the national association of state chambers via video link. he also accused moscow of stealing goods and equipment from occupied ukrainian territory. cultural prosecutors here in germany have charged 5 people with high treason for allegedly plotting to kidnap health minister car, lauterbach, and overthrow the german government. boy protesters service, prosecutors rather say the group had a 3 step plan 1st to cause a nationwide blackout, then to abduct the health minister. and finally, to deposed the government. want to leave in the hallway. at least 7 people are dead after a shooting and half moon bay in the us state of california. a gunman opened fire at a mushroom farm and then at a nearby trucking business, police have detained a 67 year old suspects. if this comes 2 days after another shooter killed 11 people

in monterey park, california and riot police and peruse and capital, lima have fired tear gas to disperse protesters as fresh demonstrations sprang up across the city. the protesters are continuing their demand for president dina will out his resignation. at least $46.00 people have died since protests over inequality and rising prices began last month. a koran burning incident in sweden has set off a series of rallies across the middle east of pol, write swedish danish politicians, set fire to is lambs, holy book in stockholm, in front of turkeys embassy. the incident has threatened to derail sweden's bid to join the nato military alliance ah, condemnation in yemen, capital santa, against the burning of the quran, isms sacred scripture. the incident in sweden has caused outreach in parts

of the middle east. i will go that is important to boycott sweden. why did this become our gender? had them won rather over, interact, capital, baghdad, protestors gathered in front of the swedish embassy calling for its closure. ah, foggy sky. this is offensive to old. lose, learned to read. we don't want it to happen again. more latin overall and recalling on the european union to condemn such insults, to religions on the shedra. it's all to johnson. oh, hello. well, on saturday brass miss pallet, in head of a far right danish party, held a protest in front of turkey's embassy in stockholm. the swedish danish national set fire to the koran, sweden's prime minister called the act,

deeply disrespectful, but defended the right to free speech. that has put sweden's nato application in jeopardy. a session to the military alliance must be approved unanimously by member states including turkey, who tim is in bure, kids in labor vote who allowed have such a vileness to take place in front of our embassy can no longer expect any child see from us on regarding van nate, i membership application big there music did artic gustavo was im sorry, i thought you said this at the beginning. i did it so you will let in type of organizations were wild on your avenues and streets enough. alan expects our supports for getting into ne titles and that that is not happening in new york robes. la de la sweden enter key appeared to be making headway in nato negotiations

. the koran provocation is putting their ties to the test yet again, i. c i know you are the organizers of berlin's international film festival. the belly nella have unveiled this year's program. russia's invasion of ukraine and protests in iran will be cor themes, actor and director, sean, penn, will premier superpower, his documentary about ukraine war belli, nala wall. so feature french director nichol out really bad sir. the other more you're watching the w news. ah ah ah, leonardo da vinci's mysterious masterpiece.