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the show, german foreign minister and alina bear, bog praises the european response to russia's war in ukraine. in a speech before the council of europe, outrage in the middle east protests are rocked out for a far right politician, burns a coffee of the koran in sweden could. the incident derailed the country's bed to join nato and momentos of wives up ended by the holocaust. the german parliament displays 16 reminders of jewish life in nazi germany. to commemorate the 70th anniversary of israel's yacht if a sham holocaust memorial. ah . hello, i'm glad richardson a very warm welcome to the show. germany's france minister says the country will

soon decide whether it will allow its powerful leopard 2 tanks to be sent to ukraine. after talks with the head of nato, worse historian, dress than berlin would not stop other countries from training ukrainian forces to use the tank. but he added that german chancellor shawls would make the final decision on sending the leopard to to ukraine. as comes as poland on tuesday piled more pressure on berlin, making a formal request to allow it to send its own leverts to ukraine. the 1st official meeting of nato's general secretary and germany's new defense minister, dominated by one question. i was, i remark one remark, since i know you're all going to ask anyway regarding the leper tangs, there's no new state of seattle in stunned. germany has received criticism recently over its hesitancy to send battle tax to ukraine. but his doria says it's an international debate. the sampler from and from friday fridays meeting. and ramstein showed clearly that some countries when the careful considered approach of

past us our chancellor. while other countries are making brush demands, which is also fine for us in the fall, all the for going off in the end, it is the task of a country like germany that's willing to show leadership to bring everyone together hot off rules. oh and see what name ukraine is clear that it once weapons and tanks for nato says it's listening. we discussed the issue of battle tongues. consultations among our laws will continue on. i'm confident that we will have a solution soon, but it's unclear when the german chancellor will decide on a possible delivery of the leper to tags. and patients within the government is running out of indicators. dr. ultimately, we need to show vladimir putin that we will not permit an aggressive attack for 11 months if we can't accept murder and rape votes, kidnapping, and torture, and accepted rules. as europe waits for a decision, ukrainian soldiers are now allowed to be trained to use the german made. let her

tax let's go to our political correspondent, correspondent benjamin alvarez gruber for more so benjamin, the german defense minister saying that other european countries can start training ukrainian forces on how to use their german made lopper tanks. but germany still hasn't committed to sending their own lepper tanks to ukraine. why is that? that's a very good question and it shows the criticism and all eyes on the german chancellor . he said that he will take that position a soon. that something that the defense minister sat so many also ukraine allies did not expect a very big change with in you defense minister, the recent national council, a off security. but we know that the decision is up to shoulds a to make it. but for many, also within the german government, and that's something that we just saw in the report. the patient is running out not by also by ukraine. we have the ukraine and president who said this is not the time for discussion. who will go 1st? who will not go 1st, germany is always stressed. the german chancellor has always stressed that he will

not go along. but of course, that argument is not that convincing any more. when we have poland officially asking balloon to be able to re expose the leper tanks with other countries in the brits, for example, the french saying that they are analyzing it. and for many, it's been too late that the decisions that they are taking now many expected germany to give green light, at least for the allies when they met it of option and base. but the only thing that the defense minister said that instead of exporting them 1st they have to count how many, how many tanks they have. and that's the question of many a say, why was this not done earlier? now in that report, we also saw nato secretary general youngest oldenburg on his visit to berlin. to day he called for the speedy delivery of new weapons to ukraine. do you think that we should read that as pressure on germany to send its own leper tanks more quickly? so he said that ukraine needs those heavy weapons and they need it now. so this is not time a for discussion. they need to be a clear signal, also from berlin,

that this tanks, it will be send and that's something that many allies looking for. so it's definitely also signed from the secretary general there. but also a sign of confidence that something that he has repeated that he is confident that there will be an answer to this question pretty soon. and we are also hearing from a german official, a confirmation that germany has indeed received poland official request to re export leopard tanks to ukraine. do you think that means thing? we'll start moving faster now, bowl and host for a quick response, and that's something that the polish government has said. they accused germany of dragging its feet when it comes to giving at least any signal. and we'll, we also heard from the german foreign minister on french t, v that she said that berlin will not say in the way in that now we come back to the initial it thing that i mentioned about the communication that we have different signs. we have the frenchman is the same one thing with the defense minister saying another thing, but the, the answer that we need if it's

a yes of and no has to come from the chancellor. and he has been reluctant to answer that question every time he's been asked that he has thought that sofa right . all eyes on off shall to thank you so much for that. it's our correspondent correspondent benjamin of escrow. in the french city of strasbourg, lawmakers from the council of europe are meeting this week and german foreign minister and alina bare. bach address the organization member states on the legal and human rights aspects of the war in ukraine. remember, the council of europe is a body of $46.00 european countries, it separate from the european union, listening to what bare balkan to say about europe's response to russia's aggression and the threat to peace in europe. president putin wants to drag your bag in a pass dominated by power politics with dates can trample on individual rights in the pursuit of imperial glory, where rouelis dispose of their citizens like horns in geopolitical chess game.

that is why in the face of russia's war neutrality was not an option. we had to make a choice between injustice and justice, freedom and oppression. between standing on the side of the dresser and standing on the side of the victim's foe. d. w. special correspondent, i abraham is in strasbourg for us. i bear bach, accusing rush of dragging your back into the path. what stood out for you in her speech. i think it was just how much she sees the council of europe as an important mechanism to safeguard peace and security in europe. i mean, she started out her speech invoking a quote by a holocaust survivor and seeing that, well, the council was founded precisely in the aftermath of that horrible war to prevent such a such atrocities from happening. and then she, you know,

she went into seeing how the council had detected sort of warning signs of russia on its path to it on its path to dictatorship and eventually would turn into a full fledged war against ukraine. she was also very critical towards germany. the council of europe, after russia annex crimea, in 2014, had voted to suspend russia's voting rights. these voting rights were then given back in 2019 with the support and approval of, of germany. and she did say that her own country, germany was not a heating or was not listening well enough to the warnings about russia that were coming from this council. the council of europe as an alarm system for sliding democracy. burbock, of course, also focused

a lot in her speech on women's rights as a yardstick for democracy. and she had criticized russia in particular on this issue. what more can you tell us about that? that's not surprising. coming from foreign minister bareback, who has mentioned that many times that her tenure is going to be characterized by putting feminism and women at the heart of german foreign policy. and the message that she was trying to dissent today was look around, look at countries around you. and if you see regimes cracking down on women taking away their rights, that's a sign that they are sliding towards authoritarianism. and she cited the deteriorating status of women and their rights. you know, rules making it more difficult for women to seek help. when it comes to domestic violence in russia, as one of the signs that the country was going in, in the bad direction when it comes to peace and security. and so does not surprise a surprising message coming from a foreign minister burbock today. but she did,

we're sure to make that connection again, that women's rights are at the heart a functioning democracy. about herself. also criticizing germany for ignoring those past warnings and signs of aggression from russia. obviously, looking at major criticism of berlin for not acting fast enough to support ukraine militarily. do you think that that issue is going to be something that is discussed further in strasbourg? it's unlikely that it will be a big topic here, even within the german context. the issue of providing tanks for ukraine is really something that is up to the chancellor to decide on. and but, you know, the council will be discussing sort of more legal, legal ways to hold russia accountable for perhaps holding a special tribunal to prosecute a legit russian war crimes. that is also something that

a foreign ministry burbock has mentioned in the hague. just a couple of weeks ago, saying that it is important to try and establish such a tribunal as it is very, very difficult to prosecute russia and international criminal court, which does not recognize the jurisdiction of that court. and it is very unlikely that they would lead the united nations security council refer the case to the international criminal court as russia would veto any such resolution. thank you so much for that. that is our special correspondent. i abraham let's bring you up to speed. now, with some other stories making world news headlines, a judge in lebanon investigating the 2020 port explosion has charged several senior personalities, including the former prime minister in connection with the incident. political pressure has delayed the probe for more than a year. the powerful blast killed 220 people after a warehouse with tons of poorly stored ammonium nitrate caught fire. powers

being restored in pakistan after millions of people were left in. the dark authorities blamed the major power cut on a voltage surge after generators were temporarily switched off to save energy. it's the 2nd grid failure in 3 months. at least 7 people are dead after a shooting and 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. it comes just 2 days after another shooter killed, 11 people in monterey park in california. extreme cold has hit china's northernmost city of mo, with temperatures falling to minus 53 degrees celsius. the city near the border with russia see snow in ice for 8 months of the year, but this is the lowest temperature it has ever recorded to ukraine. now, where several government officials have resigned amid accusations of food at

procurement fraud, it is the country's largest corruption scandal since russia's invasion began. ukraine's president volunteers lensky and the key personnel changes in a video address. he has also dismissed the governors of 5 provinces. they include lava, a younger savage from the her son region, the scene of fears fighting in recent month, ukraine's under pressure to tackle corruption as billions of dollars of 8 and military assistance flow in the country. so straight across then to keep and our correspondent mightiest bullying or who is standing by so much he has ukraine does have a history of endemic corruption, including among the political leads. and his efforts to stamp out graph have been overshadowed by, of course, moscow's full scale war. so do you think that this really, despite that comes as a surprise we have seen, heard very little about corruption during the 1st 11 months of this war. and that

was in part, deliberately, by many investigative journalists who have said that it's more important now to stand together and to support the government in its efforts to defend the country than to look into these things and it, with the clear or intention not to undermine trust in ukraine, especially by the partners which read crane relies on but that period seems to be over. now, what we've seen is that, um, we are seeing a quite a few cases are flowing up to the surface. now, all of these cases might have not been running me to corruption cases in there before the war. there, they are relatively limited, but they are corruption cases in the harming the country, the harming also the country's ability to defend itself. if, if, if further there is a fraud in the, in the procurement of course of food for the army, this money is lacking somewhere. and it has broadened our civil society and her many journalists to the point where they say, we need to resume our,

our role as watchdogs of the government. and we need to bring these cases to light . that's why we're seeing such a r a. yeah. we, we are seen quite a few cases coming up now or more than usually all in this, in, within the short period of time. this is something i liked it, a dam broke with these 1st investigations. so that down breaking what kind of public reaction have we seen to all of us there is the clear expectation that the government needs to react harshly to these officials who have been enriching themselves during the war. and that to corruption during the war is even less tolerable than in peaceful times. so the government is under pressure now. president lensky with these we shuffle. man's house is trying to put himself ahead of the wave on top of the events and dare to get control over the situation and over his personal reputation off cause arm and her

defense ministers under harsh criticism for denying um that is this a corruption scandal about the procurements of food for the army um has really had the same or, or has really happened. he's basically saying there was nothing wrong with that. that has met harsh criticism, saying that it would be his job now to clear the ministry of these and suspicions and to cooperate with the public and are and just to admit if there's something to admit, he is not accused himself of being responsible for that. but um, there is clearly a shift and the clear message that corruption is not tolerable under these correct circumstances and hezbollah. many thanks, as always. fair applauding. meanwhile, a turkish company says it's in talk to send

a floating power ships to help supply electricity to ukraine. russia, as of course, stepped up a tax on the countries power grid around half of its energy infrastructure has been disabled. ukraine says that putting millions of people are 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 countries, the energy system has been crippled, official se ukrainian president were loading zalinski accuses moscow of energy. terrorism st fought 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 battlefield. and that is why they are trying to break out people who is in miss what had been magically deep countries around the world have pledged immediate aid to help rebuild ukraine's energy grid supplying generates as transformers and other hardware. one possible solution to the countries, the energy emergency could come from turkey. and it involves ships like these. they call them power ships floating electricity generation plants, the turkey based company called 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 megawatts per hour. gordon is gamma yolk. the scholarship over here can generate about 420 megawatts of ha english enough for 4000000 people like yourself. so it could supply the

residence of a city like berlin. the 2nd edison irvin, good. as the ships have been used in shortage stricken countries like lebanon, synagogue, and indonesia, zayna potter 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 all the for 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 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 security so far part for now of our ships. and if this is not possible while operating within ukrainian borders, it may be possible while operating at a glacially port in moldova, or costanza port and romania and transmitting the elect through sea to ukraine via transmission lines. costs and financing also remain t 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 hope ukraine get some lights back on during a brutal winter of blackouts. all turkey's president has warned

sweden not to expect his support in its bed to join the nato military alliance. his commons come after a far right politician, burned a copy of the koran, outside anchor, as embassy in stockholm at the weekend. the incident has set off a series of protests across the middle east ah condemnation in yemen, capital santa, against the burning of the koran. islam sacred scripture. the incident in sweden has caused outreach in parts of the middle east. oh god, that is important to boycott sweden, what is become our charity? bad them are one with us. oh, in iraq's capital baghdad. 6 testers gathered in front of the swedish embassy, calling for its closure. ah, bobby sigh, this is offensive to own museum to 3. we don't want it to happen again. more or

less an overall and we're calling on the european union to condemn such insults, to religion. shedra, it's all good jago hello. all on saturday, ross miss paladin, 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. moved him is in beer kids in clay, but those who allowed have such a wildness to take place in front of our embassy. i no longer expect any charity from us. all regarding van i membership applications,

look big them is if there are to go. so about was im sorry, i thought you said this at the beginning of it, so you will let type of organizations were wild on your avenues and streets. alan expects our supports for getting into nato and that that is not happening in your groups. the law suite and enter key appeared to be making headway in nato negotiations. the quran provocation is putting their ties to the test yet again, carmella. while the german parliament is opening a new exhibition this evening to mark the 70th anniversary of eod fashion, israel's holocaust memorial, it highlights 16 everyday objects at jews took with them as they fled nazi persecution. one of the mementos belongs to a holocaust survivor now in her eighties, who made the trip back to germany to share her story. finger a doll wearing your baby's pajamas is all that's left of laura meyer, fields,

childhood and germany. now the dahl is part of an exhibition 16 objects, 16 mementos of jewish life and germany lives that were destroyed by the holocaust. ringback my can, john, i will crystal now the pajamas that she wore to sleep one night 1938 when she was just a year old on krista knocked night of broken glass. when the nazis destroyed synagogues, jewish businesses and home we were told beforehand what was going to happen. my mother and i were hidden by neighbors. and in the meantime, the nazis came in. they broke every bit of furniture in the house. her father was arrested that night, but eventually was able to escape nazi germany with the help of the u. s. vsa little laura stayed behind with her mother and he said,

i can't leave you here. you know? my mother said, if you don't go, then we will all die here. so close. very reluctantly. he went, took a year and a half until he was able to send babies if my mother and myself and it was a very difficult time, the headman in america and my mother in germany. not knowing will we as i get out, they manage to flee just in time. dingo. the doll was loris farewell present from her grandparents day and the rest of her family stayed behind. grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, all died. they never heard from them again. the exhibition carefully reveals these personal stories through the unique objects, individual fates, intertwined with those of the millions of jews who were murdered or driven out a piano. an evening bag. a 12 year old's

diary. oh, history, it's interesting. yeah. ah, laura mire feld now lives in israel. she donated her doll to the yad vashem holocaust memorial so that we never forget or that's news update to. so we're coming up next it up in east asia with my colleague, melissa jan, stating for that. and thanks so much for watching with

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