ah ah ah, this is d w. news coming to live from berlin. will germany ok? the delivery of levered tanks to ukraine? there's still no clear answer from berlin on the issue of poland says it is prepared descended stalk of tanks to keep with or without permission. also coming up, power is returning to pakistan after a massive outage leaves millions in the dark. the blackout happened after

generators were temporarily switched off to save energy and al for age in the middle east. protests to rock top to report, a politician, burns a copy of the koran in sweden. it could derail the country's bid to join nato. ah hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. pressure is mounting on berlin to approve deliveries of german made leopard to battle tanks to ukraine. the issue is likely to top the agenda at a meeting this morning between germany's new defense minister borders pastorius and nato secretary general yen stoughton back. berlin has been giving mixed signals as to whether it will okay. delivery, it's wavering is causing prostration among allies, such as poland, which is looking to send his own stock of leopards. with her withheld berlin's

consent. 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 good for that she 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 available, speaking to french television on sunday, german foreign minister on elena burbock said berlin would not stand in the way if

poland decided to send its lepper tanks to key of and that an e. u foreign minister meeting a day later, she reiterated the importance of full fledged support for ukraine. mission observation is when testing is the salvage. this does 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. runaway a political correspond, thomas sparrow has been following the story. all along. thomas were getting mixed signals from germany's transfer and foreign minister about whether the country is willing to approve tank deliveries of battle tank main battle tank deliveries to ukraine. what is the government's position on this thomas?

why i don't think there is just one government position. what we're hearing from different government officials are different positions and all this, which is not unusual by their way. we have a 3 partner coalition here in germany. so it is normal to have different views depending on what part you come from, depending on what position you have. i think the german government is now trying to find one common position which they can also present to their international partners. because this, these mixed views. i really creating an image of germany not being an organized country in terms of that leadership that has different positions that he's not presenting one view to the world and so on. so it's really affecting germany's international image. so the step now, not only for not in a babble, the foreign minister or the chancellor or left shots or the new defense minister bestows is to really try and present one common image when it comes to this very important issue of the tanks deliveries. that leopard tanks deliveries so that all

this confusion is actually stopped. leadership, credibility, these are terms we're hearing now an association up in question with germany's with the german government, germany has provided a great deal of support to ukraine. it must be said, but it's been very hesitant to provide hardware, military hardware. why? the key word there is hesitant. germany has been a sort of reluctant leader when it comes to these kinds of issues. it has to do with germany's past, with the fact that germany for a long time was very reluctant to send military equipment to was owns that started to change with the war in ukraine, with a new leadership under olaf shots. but is not a change that happens over nights, and i think partners are putting pressure on germany to make decisions faster. it's not a question of what germany is sending, because germany has, in fact, provided a lot of military equipment. but it's about how germany makes those decisions,

how fast germany actually carries them out. i think no one actually doubts the germany in the end will allow those tanks to be sent to ukraine. the thing is, many partners would want germany to do that faster. and without all these mixed signals, nato secretary general young stoughton bag is in berlin. today he'll be meeting with germany is brand new defense minister boris historian. they'll hold a highly anticipated press conference together. any big announcements expect to thomas, but officially it's all about meeting. it's all about planning the next steps and so on. but obviously the focus will be on these leopard towns and where the germany will approve the delivery of those tanks, both from its own stocks and via 3rd countries. in particular, poland has been the center of attention here. i don't expect any major announcement just now. what i do is expect is that the focus on germany will not only continue, but will increase germany's partners are looking very carefully at what steps not.

only bogus story is takes as new, german defense minister. but in general, the german government, when it comes to the stance when it comes to military equipment destined to ukraine, thomas, thank you very much re insights and we'll be talking course during the next hour when we carry that press conference live, told sparrow. our political correspond while staying with ukraine, a turkish company says it is and talks to sand floating power ships to help supply electricity to crane. russia has stepped up, the tax on the country's power grid, around half of ukraine's energy infrastructure has been disabled. the country says that that's putting millions of people at risk of sickness and even death during the cold winter months now is the winter of blackouts in ukraine, like here in the city of levine nights without power, have become part of war time life for millions. russia has been

relentless in its attacks on ukraine's power plants, sub stations, and distribution lines. about half of the country's energy system has been crippled, official se ukrainian president were loading zalinski accuses moscow of energy terrorism. so far, the very fact that russia resorted to terror against the energy industry and shows the weakness of the enemy force locked before they cannot defeat ukraine on the battlefield. and that is why they are trying to break out people who in this, what hot nasa. 30 countries around the world have pledged immediate aid to help rebuild ukraine's energy grid, supplying generators, 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 sports 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 megawatts per holler, golden, his dinner douglas gala. this ship over here can generate about 420 megawatts of ha, enough for 4000000 people like yourself. so it could supply the residence of a city like berlin. the 2nd edison over that is the ships have been used in shortage stricken countries, like lebanon synagogue, and indonesia. zayna potter easy, one of the company's 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 odessa governor it with moldova utilities,

with romania utilities to understand the best way to sound like 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. how easy 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 security so far, parcel now of our ships. and if this is not possible while operating within ukrainian borders, it may be possible while operating at del gillespie, port in moldova, or costanza port and romania and transmitting the elect through sea to ukraine via

transmission lines, costs and fine and thing 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 shifts might make their way to hope ukraine get some lights back on. during a brutal winter blackouts. pakistan's energy minister says the national electricity grid in that country has been restored after it's worst breakdown and months. despite this claim, some areas in the country including major cities, are still without power. tens of millions of people were left in the dark after the major power caught. authorities have blamed the outage on voltage on a voltage surge after generators were temporarily switched off to save energy. the nationwide blackout cut supplies to water pumps leaving many without access to drinking water. it's the 2nd grid failure. in 3 months.

dw asia editor sha sha mm. is in karachi. he gave us this update on the power outage in pakistan. well, it is still not been restored shortly, and it is the i was wondering if i would be able to talk to you from here in karachi because and boss of the city the electricity has not been restored. it has perfected people's lives. dog common people can not do dirt 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 catastrophe. government says not, it is not something extraordinary, but it has been pretty extraordinary unfair presented on people's lives are suffering because the economic crisis so, so big,

so crippling and boxed on that there is gas. georgia is 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 gum. 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 actually interested in overhauling and repairing the structure. 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 actual hike is just just huge

of 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 was spoken to a lot of people here. the common people as well as the analysts and experts. they said that the concrete economy is just going down and people are even comparing the situation and boxed on longer, which saw a huge public protests against crippling con, shamir. thank you so much. d, w, shoot me a shoot that in karachi. thank you so much. take a look at some of the stories making headlines around the world today. ukraine's president loudermilk lansky says 2000000 ukrainians have been deported to russia since the start of the war. lensky made the claimant and addressed to the national association of state chambers via video lately, he also accused moscow of stealing goods and equipment from occupied ukrainian

territory council. at least 7 people are dead after shooting in half moon bay in the u. s. 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 suspect. this comes 2 days after another shooter killed 11 people in monterey park. california. honestly, prosecutors here in germany have charged 5 people with high treason for allegedly plodding to kidnap health minister coral lauterbach and overthrow. the german government prosecutor say the group had a 3 step plan is 1st 2 calls and nationwide black out into a doctor. the health minister and finally, to deposed the government, medical and dog on to be the end of in the wake of russia's war in ukraine, africa has increasingly come into focus as many states search for alternative sources of energy and raw materials. that's also reflected in germany's new

strategy for investment in africa, being presented today by the german government. for years, africa was at best a secondary concern for germany. now german chancellor, all of shall says it is becoming a global center of gravity. the reason is simple. germany is looking for alternative energy sources and raw materials, especially as sanctions imposed on russia over the korean war. rule out an important former supplier. germany does require to diversify its resources, specifically and energy resources. that is the main, the main idea of post a russian ukraine conflicts. this has become, become really clear to many and that there the needs to be more diversification. africa might be the new center of attention for germany. but other countries have been there a long time like china. china is investing billions in africa,

for example in road construction, thus securing access to raw materials for years now, china has been a big player in the cobalt business. 3 quarters of the world's deposits are in africa and demand is rising due to the electric car boom. cobalt is used in car batteries. china owns 8th of the 14 largest cobalt mines, but many african countries are looking for more balanced partnerships. they don't want just to exports raw materials anymore, and more and more countries are going over to demand. that value is being created onsite in african countries. germany wants to act as a partner and invest in solar energy and green hydrogen. but germany on like china has the legacy of the colonial era to deal with. so far, germany and namibia have been unable to reach a settlement on the genocide committed by imperial germany over 100 years ago. this is one of the challenge with the west. now, these are the, china's work to come up with a, with a convincing argument to say,

through post colonial structures. now african states have the chance to help shape future policy more in this, i'm joined by garret courts. he's an african expert at the german institute for international insecurity fairs here in berlin. welcome to the program. first of all, tell us how you expect germany's new africa strategy to differ from the previous one. well, john is previous development. mr. miller from the conservative party i had to strategy for africans. hi foot. moscow plan with africa and it's main focus was promoting and leveraging private investments to create jobs basically. and it is expected that the strategy that minister, when you're sorts of a present today with what was much less on that on private investments and more on

what to cause. i'm in this kind of development policy including janai quality climate. and i mean, preparedness ok, how could this new approach benefit germany's partners in africa? but we have yet to see. of course, what germany's partners in africa will make out of the strategy once it's published . they will of been consulted in the writing office in general. they may, will come doing away with the title marshall plan on which to some sounded brought to the listing, some half jokingly, asking them which grade was devastated. as you know, europe was after the 2nd world war when it became when he got the, the master plan that the original one still, of course this discussion it within the german government degree to which the

strategy should refer to you political trends. you also already refer to that in your program, in particular, the growing plot of china and russia on the african continent. so african will watch these interest based approaches closely. all speaking of interest based approaches, what, what are germany's interests? what are germany's priorities in africa? well, africa europe's neighboring continent and, and for a long time from german government's point of view was dominated by development corporation. this has changed over the past years, more and more. also, economic aspects come into play as well as on policy. renewable energy is certainly a very important one on the scene. for example, also the economic minister traveling to africa and opening up an important

investments in renewable energy. and this is certainly an important guy kurtz from the german institute for international security fair. thank you very much. looking at some other world news down, riot police in peruse capital, lima, that fired tear gas to disperse protesters as fresh demonstrations, sprang up across the city. the protesters are continuing their demand for president . dina will awhile to his resignation. at least $46.00 people have died since protests over inequality and rising prices began last month. brazil's president to louise in nazi alluding to silva is on his 1st foreign trip since taking office ease in argentina for talks with his counterpart, alberto were fernandez. the leaders are discussing a new gas pipeline and the possible creation of

a common south american currency. brazil is one of argentina's largest trading partner. extreme cold has hit china's northernmost city of mo, with temperatures falling to minus 53 degrees celsius. the city and near the border with russia, see snow and ice for 8 months of the year, but this is the lowest temperature it has ever recorded. a koran burning incident in sweden has set off a series of rallies across the middle east up. all right, swedish danish politicians set fire to islam holy book in stockholm in front of turkey's 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,

islam sacred scripture. the incident in sweden has caused outreach in parts of the middle east. oh god, that is important to boycott sweden, why did his become out with amazon rather, i 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 we're calling on the european union to condemn such insults, to religions, shedra. it's all together. oh, hello. well, on saturday ross miss paloton, 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, puts tweens nato application in jeopardy. a session to the military alliance must be approved unanimously by member states including turkey, who tim is in because it is clay, but those who allowed have such a vile nurse to take places for to have our embassy can no longer protect any charity from us. all regarding their names i membership application big there music that i to gustavo was im sorry, i thought we said this at the beginning of it, so you will let it over. organizations were wild on your avenues and streets enough and then expect our support for getting into nato and that that is not happening in new york, wrote the law suite and enter key appeared to be making headway in nato negotiations

. the koran provocation is putting their ties to the test yet again. hello, hello. the organizers of berlin's international film festival, the belly non have unveiled this year's program. russia's invasion of ukraine and the protest jenny wren, will be cor themes, actor and director, sean, penn or premier super powered his documentary about the ukraine war, or you know, the wall. so feature french director nicola really bows to the other mall, a documentary about mentally disabled people and the enema movie sues army by japanese director makoto o. d. w culture's scott rock. sperl has more on what we can expect as the belly, not a returns to his full, pre pandemic level of glamour this year. it's been actually 3 years since we've had a proper data. you know, last year they did have one,

but there were still some covert restrictions and social distance thing and so forth in place. so he didn't really have to pack theaters, didn't have the, the rank carpet craziness that is always a part of the building on. and i think people like back going to so many hours over the years really met and i'm hoping it'll come back this year. i mean, we least have enough star power coming again. we've got, you know, and halfway coming and keep blanche, tad and helen, we're in some of my favorites. we've got other, the hunky alexander scars car who's going to be walking the right carpet. and the almost the hunky john malkovich will also be coming kirsten stewart star twilight. she's going to be in berlin the whole time because she's the jury present this year . so 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 kobe normal . you're watching dw news from berlin coming up next. it's kicked off and all the

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