and re imagine now these teachings or elements to gandhi's legacy starts january 28th on d, w. ah, [000:00:00;00] ah, this is d w. news coming to live from berlin? no decision yet from germany on supplying tanks to ukraine. germany's new depends minister says he hopes the decision will be made soon, but that the government will be rushed. 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 operate in the middle east protests to erupt out for a far right politician burns a copy of the koran in sweden. it could derail that country's bid to join nato. ah hello, i'm terry martin. thanks for being with us. germany is facing growing pressure to supply ukraine with its leopard tanks and to allow other nations to do the same. germany's new defense minister born historian just met with nato chief in stoughton back here in berlin to discuss the issue. the story is said, the decision was still to be made on whether german made tax in countries like poland can be react forwarded to ukraine. poland however says it's planning to san tanks with or without consent. the german government hesitation is frustrating its

allies, as ukraine continues to face a russian defense. the w chief political correspondent nina has attended that press conference. so nina, we didn't hear any decision on german tanks there in else this morning, but quite a few other details were given. what did you make of that joint press gunners? well, of course, there was a lot of interest by the media. lots of colleagues present here because of course, that is such a contentious issue. gemini, has come very much under criticism. the chancellor has been accused of dragging his feet or of being hesitant to hesitant at ukraine is losing time. but as the message that came out of this meeting here today by natives teeth and the german, though, japanese new defense minister borders to stories was that nato does remain committed to supporting ukraine and nato's tv and start back. actually praise

germany for being such an important contributor when it comes to supplying ukraine with a humanitarian financial. but also millet military aid. and both. he has said that he says he, that message sometimes gets lost because the discussion is too focused on the leopards. they pointed out that germany has announced that it will deliver mazda infantry fighting vehicles. it's also announced that there's going to be a patriot system supplied to ukraine. now of course, and one of the sentences that struck me most was that a german military supply is helping save lives in ukraine every day. so no decision yet on delivering german made leopard tanked to ukraine. what's the hold up, nina? well, that's the $100000000000.00 question. there are procedures in place. another message that came out of this meeting here was that it is not such

a clear an issue that it's just germany that is being hesitant. there are other allies who are also wanting to discuss these matters very, very carefully before they make a decision to send combat tanks to ukraine. everybody sees this as a qualitatively speaking a step hop. so that was one of the message that they tried to send out to the world also to other allies. please hold back your criticism. we are weighing up advantages and disadvantages, but we need a confidential space here as well to have those a very, very well sensitive discussions behind closed doors and, and that was definitely something that also em. germany was probably glad to get some support from the nato chief who also called on allies to please just give germany a bit of time. the decision will come. whether or not is going to be positive. we don't know because of course we're left choice is ultimately the one who has the last word in this. everybody knows that there is not the one berlin opinion on this

matter. he's under pressure from his own party. public opinion in germany is split over the issue. there is a fear of escalation, and of course, russian propaganda would use their step as well. if a germany was let alone, essentially in supplying combat tanks to ukraine, neither. thank you very much. our chief political correspondent, nina houses well, the turkish company says it's in talked to send floating power ships to help supply electricity to ukraine. russia has stepped up attacks on ukraine's power grid around half the countries energy infrastructure has been disabled ukraine. so that's putting millions of people at risk during the cold winter. 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 followed me. zalinski accuses moscow of energy. terrorism so fought the very fact that russia resorted to terror against the energy industry and shows the weakness of the enemy force locked before it cannot defeat ukraine on the battlefield. and that is why they are trying to break out people who is in this. what hot, the nashik, 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 hour. gordon is gamma yolk. the scholarship over here can generate about 420 megawatts of par, enough for 4000000 people or q, sir, so it could supply the residence of a city like berlin. the 2nd edison over that is the ships have been used and shortage stricken countries, like lebanon synagogue, and indonesia. zayna potter easy, one of the company 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 send, 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 and 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 regulation the port in moldova, or costanza port in romania,

and transmitting the electricity to ukraine via 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 shifts might make their way to hope ukraine get some lights back on during a brutal winter of blackouts. while speaking of blackouts, pakistan's energy minister says it has restored the national electricity grid that suffered the worst breakdown in months. despite this claim, some areas in pakistan are still without power. tens of millions of people were left in the dark after the major power cut, forties of blame. the outage on a multi search after generators are temporarily switched off to save energy. nationwide blackout cut supplies to water pump sleeping many without access to drinking water is the 2nd grid failure. in 3 months.

d, w is asia editor, show me a charms, is in karachi. he gave us this update on pakistan's power outage. well, it is still 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 intact, affected people's lives. can common people can not 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. i'm for president did. and people's lives are suffering because the economic crisis so, so big,

so crippling and boxed on that. there is gas shortage. there is electricity shortages shortage. there is a medicine shortage. so all kinds of shortages in people's lives have been affected very badly. and there is a lot of resentment against the go. understand this is the 2nd major grid failure in pakistan since october. why is the country's electricity infrastructure so unstable? because an infrastructure is quite own, it needs, it needs all in and the government does not have the money. no government 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 and the businesses are suffering very badly because the small businesses depend on the 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 say that the country's economy is just going down. and people are even comparing the situation and boxed on too long, which saw a huge public protests against crippling con, shamir, thank you so much. d, w, a. show me a sharp that in karachi. thank you so much. a koran burning incident in sweden has set off a series of rallies across the middle east. the far right swedish danish politician, set fire to islamic 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 you become our i had them won wrath. i interact capital baghdad. protestors gathered in front of the swedish embassy calling for its closure. ah, bobby sigh, this is offensive to own losing arms. we don't want it to happen again, more or less than overall and we're calling on the european union to condemn such insults, to religions on the shedra this alejandro ha. 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 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 kidney says clave of those who allowed have such a while. no to take place in front of our embassy, no longer a in any charity from us. all regarding vanity membership, application big them is it did artic gustavo was im sorry, i thought we said this at the beginning. i did it so you will let type of organizations from wild on your avenues in st center. allen,

expect our support for getting into ne titles and that is not happening in new york verbs, blah de la, sweet and enter key appeared to be making headway in nato negotiations. the koran provocation is putting their ties to the test yet again. if you're watching d w news from berlin, coming up next, it's close up looking at the question of scottish independence. of course you get all the latest news and information on our website at the w dot com. i'm terry martin. thanks for watching. imagine how many pushing of lunch us her now in the world climate change division hospice doors. this is my plan the way from just one week how much was can