ah virgin of the rocks. was there another symbolic meaning to this beautiful painting that perhaps we just don't understand today? the search for answers starts from 1110 on d, w ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, germany inches closer to green lighting, the use of german made tags, and you crate defense. minister forrest to storia says allies can start training ukrainians to use their stock of leverage tax. but the chancellor is still waiting a decision on whether berlin will supply its own text to keith. also,

coming up on the shout, protests erupt across the middle east. after a far right politician burns a copy of the koran in sweden. could the incident derail the country's bid to join nato? the nominees are the knots for the oscars have just been released. that will take a look at which bones have the best shot at back to the biggest prize in show business. ah hello, i'm claire richardson, a very warm welcome to the show. germany's defense minister says the country will soon decide whether it will allow its powerful leopard 2 tanks to be sent to ukraine. after talked with the head of nato, boris historian, dress, that berlin would not stop other countries from training ukrainian forces to use the tank. but he added that german chancellor schultz would make the final decision

on sending the leopard to to ukraine. this comes as poland on tuesday piled more pressure on berlin, making a formal request to allow it to send its own leopards to the battlefields. the 1st official meeting of nato secretary general and germany's new defense minister dominated by one question. i remark one remarks, 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 tanks to ukraine. but historian says it's an international debate. the sample of in for private friday's meeting and ramstein showed clearly that some countries, when the careful considered approach of asked us our transfer was kind of, while other countries are making brush demands, which is also fine, falls into florida. all this was opened up in the end. it is the task of a country like germany that's willing to show leadership to bring everyone together hot or fuels. oh, honestly what name?

ukraine is clear that it wants weapons and tanks for nato says it's listening. we discussed the issue of butler 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 tanks and patients within the government is running out of indicators talked. ultimately we need to show vladimir putin that we will not permit an aggressive attack for 11 months. if not, we can't accept murder and rape void to kidnapping and torture and accepted rules. as europe waits for a decision, ukrainian soldiers are now allied to be trained to use the german made, let her tax. so the german defense minister saying that other european countries can start training ukrainian forces on how to use their german made leper tanks. but why is germany stolen committed to sending their own lepper tanks to ukraine? i put that question to our political correspondent, benjamin over

a scrubber. 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 as soon that's something that the defense minister said so many also ukraine allies did not expect a very big change with in you. defense minister there is a 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 drama chantelle has always stressed that he will not go alone, but of course that argument is not that convincing. any more when we have poland officially asking berlin to be able to re expose the leper tangs with other countries at 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 a 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 a question of many a say, why was this not done earlier? now in that report, we also saw nato secretary general young stoughton berg on his visit to berlin. today 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 sent. 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. and that's something that he has repeated that he is confident that there will be a nonsense to this question previously. and we are also hearing from

a german official, a confirmation, a germany has indeed received poland official request to re export leopard tanks to ukraine. do you think that these things will start moving faster now? bowl and hopes 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. and that now we come back to the initial, it thing that i mentioned about the communication that we have different signs where 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 the know has to come from the chantelle 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, and our correspondent correspondent benjamin of escrow. and it could bring you up to speed. now, with some other world news headlines,

germany's foreign minister and alana barbara has praised europe's response to russia's war against ukraine, addressing lawmakers from the council of europe in a transport there. bach focused on the legal and human rights aspects of the war. she said neutrality is not an option in the face of russia's aggression, 17 russia, ukraine's president bloomers a lump. he says a 2000000 ukrainians have been deported to russia since the start of the war. once he made the claim and an address to the national association of state chambers of the video link, he also accused moscow with stealing goods and equipment from occupied cranium, territory, cultural machine. at least 7 people are dead after a shooting and half moon bay in the u. s. state of california. a gunman opened fire writing mushroom form and then at a nearby trucking business, police detained a 67 year old suspect. it comes just 2 days after another shooter killed 11 people in monterey park, california while

a turkish company says it is and talks to send a floating power ships to help supply electricity to ukraine. russia has stepped up a tax on the countries power grid, round half of its energy infrastructure has been disable. 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 country's energy system has been crippled, official se ukrainian president were loading his lensky accuses moscow of energy, terrorism st. fault. the very fact that russia resorted to terror against the

energy industry and shows the weakness of the enemy was locked before they cannot defeat ukraine on the battlefield. and that is why they are trying to break out people who in this one hobby measure, 30 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 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 megabits per hour. gordon is gamer yolk. the scholarship over here can generate about on

a 20 megawatts of talking to there's an awful 4000000 people like yourself. so it could supply the residence of a city like belinda, the thinking that the scenario good as 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 odessa governor it with moldova utilities, with romania utilities to understand the best way to send the electricity 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 ground, 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 shapes may be deployed to neighboring countries. instead, we need to ensure the safety and security of our 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 target less the port in moldova, or costanza port and 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 ships might make their way to hope ukraine get some lights back on during a brutal winter of blackouts. so let's talk more about those challenges facing

ukraine. a very pleased welcome tatiana during a associate professor of finance at the university of illinois. she's also part of the global collective economist for ukraine. tatyana the u. n says half of ukraine's energy infrastructure has been destroyed and russian attacks when everything is in ruins. where do you even start rebuilding? that is a great question. i do think that energy is on mental. so the way that modern economy operate, it's just necessary for getting anything else done. and i think you absolutely have to start rebuilding with energy infrastructure or recent estimate by the world bank put the total cost of rebuilding ukraine to be up to $600000000000.00 euros. that is a lot of money. who do you think should pay for it? well, i think the obvious answer is russia. russia has caused the damage in ukraine,

and it obviously has been very unsurpassed. right? so ultimately, it should be rational pace. but what would that actually look like in practical terms? is there any mechanism by which you could have russia peg? so i'm not a legal expert, but i know that many legal experts are working currently on setting up a system by which these russian assets are frozen. russian acids can be used as reparations for ukraine. i think obviously we need a very transparent framework to make sure everything is done legally, but i believe that it should be possible. and if it's not, then i do think european donors need to step out because this is a matter of life and death. and at least temporarily provide the funds that you need before russia is me to pay regardless of who does end up paying whenever you're looking at that much money on the table. there's also the risk of corruption

. and that's the problem we've seen. even in recent days that ukraine is no stranger to how do you go about making sure that financing to rebuild does go into the right places and not just into somebody's pockets? yeah, i think you need a lot of transparency. you need a lot of oversight. for example, if you have. 4 you should have competitive contracts or who is going to do that, rebuilding the details of these contracts and all the bid i should be made public so that it is easier to ensure that the money goes where it needs to go and rebuilding some would say is the silver lining is it's also a chance to re imagine. do you think there are opportunities for ukraine as it rebuilds? absolutely, i think, you know, ukraine for example, had a lot of are very outdated, very energy, inefficient housing,

stock. and so whatever housing needs to be replaced should be built to highest energy efficiency standards. industrial prophecies world outdated. so there's a lot of modernization that can happen at the same time that will help make ukraine a stronger economy. thank you so much for that. that is taught yet there again our associate professor of finance at the university of illinois. i really appreciate you taking the time to speak with us. thank a turkeys president, has warrant a sweden not to expect his support in its event to join the nato military alliance . his commons come after a far right politician, burned a copy of the koran outside anchor's 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, why did you come out with him to have them won. rather over in iraq's 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 latin overall and we're calling on the european union to condemn such insults to religions on the jamaica. it's all to the dancing. oh hello. well on saturday rasmus peloton 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 this is clay, but those who allowed have such a bio nurse to take place in front of our embassy. no longer expect any charity from us. all regarding the i membership applications look big them is it does have ah go so about was im sorry that we said this at the beginning of it so you will let it type of organizations were wild on your avenues and streets enough. i would expect i was supposed to be getting into night toilet, but that is not happening in new york robes. the law suite in turkey appeared to be making headway in nato negotiations. the co round provocation is putting their ties

to the test yet again. hello. c let's bring you up to speed now with some other 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. extreme cold has had shine as a northernmost city of mo, hey, with temperatures falling to negative, 53 degrees celsius. the city near the border with russia. he snow and ice for 8 months of the year. but this is the lowest temperature it has ever recorded. riot police improves capital, lima fired tear gas to disperse protesters as fresh demonstrations sprang up across the city. the protesters are continuing their demand for president dana bolo,

i take resignation. at least $46.00 people have died since protests over inequality and rising prices began last month. while germany's ministry for economic cooperation and development says it wants to help african countries make their economies more climate friendly. other priorities listed in the ministries newly unveiled africa strategy. include improving social and health services and making the agriculture sector less dependent on foreign sources, seed, fertilizer, and pesticides. and as populations grow, the ministry says week action is needed to stave off mass migration events, new conflicts pandemic, and hire a global carbon emissions. well, germany's minister for economic cooperation and development vignette shots, i gave d. w. an exclusive interview. she stressed that she wants to build mutually beneficial partnerships with african countries. viola in we don't want these

countries to be permanently dependent on us. we don't want to create some kind of neo colonialism, but rather a partnership relationship. we see how africa's developing, what potential for innovation. there is, how many young people there are involved and, and we want to build networks partnerships from which both parties benefit. and you can see that in the large infrastructure projects that china has, especially they make these countries dependent for many, many years. they can then no longer decide for themselves. so we're making a more democratic offer that something that reflects our common value lives on via to. oh, cool. and he tells you africa editor daniel pelt has more on this. a daniel to start us off. can you tell us how you expect germany's new africa strategy to differ from the previous one? the previous strategy was largely about promoting german private investments in africa, helping germany, companies to set up

a presence there or extending its presence. and we see a turn know to a strategy that is more classical, it's more development oriented than the old strategy of 2017. and so how do they expect this approach to benefit germany's partners in africa? well, africa population is growing rapidly 582050, about 2500000000 people are going to live on the continent. so there is, of course, a dire need to create more jobs for the rising numbers of young people that are going to enter the job market every year. and then also supporting african countries in the green transformation of their economies is, is very important. since we are living in the age of climate change and many african country needs come trees are really feeling the effects of climate change and are going to feel them even more in the next years. they said this is a move to a more traditional development agenda. how much do you think the strategy is about

expanding german influence in relation to that of russia or china on the african continent? germany is, government has made it very clear that it wants to extend a germany's influence and its presence in africa. but it's going to be very difficult even with a new strategy because china has a lot a lot larger footprint on the continent. turkey in some areas has a bigger footprint than germany has, and turning all of these words into action is going to be a very, very tall order. exactly. how do we expect them to turn these words into action specifically regarding their plans to make the agricultural sector less dependent on foreign sources? fertilizer and pesticides have they outlined, outlined a clear plan on how to move forward with that? well, the clear plans are going to be outlined in the next years. of course, it depends a lot on the details, but it's clear that a lot of money is going to be needed. and many of the plans that outlined in this

strategy will take years until they are implemented. so there is a lot of work that is remaining for the drum and development ministry for the development organizations. and of course, also for african governments. i thank you so much for that. that is daniel health for us. really appreciate it. and the nominations for this year's oscars awards have been announced in los angeles. the event was hosted by actors resentment, and allison williams, the action comedy, everything everywhere, all at once. a story. michelle yo is the film to beat with 11 nominations. not far behind it is the netflix and german anti work drama. all quiet on the western front . it's received 9 nominations, including best picture with the winners via now. they're only on march hosted by the comedian jimmy kimmel, the van, she's in a chair and a scot roxborough from our culture department can certainly tell us more about all

of that. got that german film all quiet on the western front. got 9 nominations. what are its chances of picking up all of those awards? oh, picking up all that is probably going to be a re cheaper for this dough, which is, which is really quite a phenomenal. i mean, it's the 1st german language adaptation of the famous anti war novel from the 1920s, which has already been made into a movie that actually won best picture in 1030. but that really was in english. this is a is a german language film and 9 nominations for a non english language. film is incredibly impressive. only a crouching tiger hidden dragon and roma chinese and a mexican spanish language film for mexico. a managed to beat that with 10 nominations. they both want, if you oscars, i think all quiet on the western front is also going to come home with a few oscars in march, but i think is, can be reached to pull off a 9 p in this. are your other favorites to win this year? yeah, this year's really interesting because there's no real favorite i'm and i think

it's going to come down to what the academy a decides if they're going to go to the really big film, sort of the avatars and a top gun. maverick, which are both nominated for best picture and a bunch of other other awards or for the more independent films. you mentioned everything everywhere, not all at once. that's a big surprise that picks up 9 nominations. that could be considered a front runner, but it's such a strange film. it's sort of a, a stoner, multi verse comedy. it's unlike anything that's ever one best picture of the oscars . and if i had to pick, i would go for the irish film, the banshees of insurance, which is a strong front runner. and it's a, it's a nice balance of light and dark because he did a bit of drama. i think it's the kind of movie that the academy might really go for this year. yeah, everything everywhere, all at once, i saw that in theaters. i did not know what i was getting myself into this. got you think there any other surprises that we should be keeping an eye on on this year's oscars? so i'm really surprised me this year was in the best actress, a category which i'm handling res bro. i english actors getting

a nomination for to leslie. i'm, this is a surprise because the film really hasn't made much noise at all, and it hasn't been well at the box office. i was almost completely ignored until a bunch of other actresses, including her competitor and the best actress, a category cate blanchett. i'm he not in support of this film and said this is the best performance of the year. and her getting an audacious, a huge surprise. i think she's one, keep an eye out because she may pull off a real surprise this year. all right, thank you. so much for that is into these scarecrow, let's say you update at this hour coming up next, is it kick off with all the highlights of from a match day 16 of the buddhist lager. and as you know, there's always more news and analysis on our website to at dw dot com, or you can check us out on social media. the handle there is at the news. i'm richard said in berlin from in the team, working behind the scenes. thanks. so much for watching

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