ah ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin tonight, germany reportedly giving the green light to send battle tanks to ukraine after days of silence derby transfer over short said that other european countries can now send their german made leopard to take to you great, the us also reportedly planning to said it's takes 2 the battlefields also coming

up tonight. you grades president zalinski fired several senior government officials accused of corruption with the war in a ring, a potentially critical phase. we'll take a look at the allegations and whether they could undermine support for zalinski government at home and abroad. and the nominees are the years oscar nods are out. we'll look at which films have the best shot at backing the biggest prize in show business and mementos of lives of ended find the holocaust, the german government parliament displaced 16 reminders of jewish life in nazi germany. ah, i bring gov is good to have you with us tonight. the german government has reportedly decided to supply you crane with leopard to battle tanks. this is

according to a growing number of media reports here in germany. if this is true, the move would follow days of talks between ukraine's allies, during which germany was widely criticized for moving too slow with the decision. other allies, including poland, france in the united states, are also reportedly planning to sit cobbett takes to ukraine. whitelist. good at our political correspond to benjamin alvarez group. he told me the story force bridgeman, we've got these media reports, the rigidity, it looks like chancellor olaf shoulds as made the decision to send these takes to ukraine. we can or cannot confirmed that that's right. that was the 1st article that we had by the speaker saying a decision was made on 2 things on one side, giving green lights to other european allies to one to sent the tanks that they can do so to ukraine because they have to get the green light from belinda, the other one brother surprising one as well. is that,

that germany is also planning on sending these tang so german tanks out of the bonuses, so that could be then sent to ukraine. the number that the spiegel is reporting is a company of leopard, to a 6 tanks, a company of 14 tanks. so rather a surprising news when it comes to this number. but as you just sat, these comes after several days, several weeks of pressure and of discussion, not only from within the german out position, but also from within the government, with many, also not applauding these a media reports. but as you just mentioned, we still have to wait for the confirmation by the german government. yet we know that the german government has been under pressure for many, many allies. talk to me about what we have been seeing the past few days, what could possibly lead to this shift in oh, what shelters position what the german chancellor has always said. so this was the final coal that he needed to made was sure that it would not have been the defense minister at last. been in the office only for

a few days. one of the allies who has criticized a berlin pretty strongly was poland, implying that they would also sent the tanks without even having the green light from berlin. so the had this official announcement, we have this me to report earlier today saying that a decision would be taken in a few days, but also from within the government. and some of them also praised at this decision for this media report. one of them is the chair of the bonus site defense committee . molly act instruct him and who said that the decision to deliver this thanks was a tough one but inevitable. it's pretty similar to they. m m chief of they am conservative city, you potty, frederick massey said it was a good decision, but shalt hesitated for too long. that was something that allies have been saying. why is he taking so long for this decision? as you say, we're giving you the green lights to send the leper tanks to ukraine. the judge is or has always said that germany will not go it alone by sending tanks to ukraine. that was always a message that many understood to be directed to the united states,

and that it should send its tanks to ukraine. we've got reports of that is now going to happen. could this have anything to do that? with this chancellor's apparent change of heart, the german government spokesperson denied that there is any relation that berlin is not waiting for washington to take this, this 1st step to then as say that germany will also send those thanks. but of course, it increases pressure because the argument to say that germany will not act alone and wait for the allies as soon as french as soon as british say that brit say that they want to send their tanks and they showing that they also have interest to do it, of course that argument is not valid is not strong anymore. so many said that the chancellor was isolating himself with a these cautious approach. my approach that he always mentioned that he will not take the set alone. but if the several allies to say we want to do this, of course, and it was a matter of time and they did, the pressure was increasing on the german chancellor to finally take the step

d w. 's benjamin over as goober, with the latest you're in berlin, beach with thank you. we want to take the story now to our washington bureau chief in his pulse. she is follow me from that side of the atlantic. edith, there are reports. there is a report that the u. s. has committed to city its own tanks, those abrams tanks to ukraine. can we confirmed that i can confirm it. i just a talk to a source in the process is really in the making and we just expect this decision to be announced pretty much every hour, at least in this week brand. so these m one abrams battle tanks and they have some disadvantages and therefore the u. s. took so long really to decide on that why they're super heavy in 1st place. they might not make it over some bridges and ukraine. that's what general portray, has told us in an interview some weeks ago, then they need jet fuel. that's also really difficult to get on and ukrainian, a battle field, for example, the leo parts they are running on diesel,

much easier to provide. and then on the 3rd point kind of is that the needs a lot of training to be able to rent these abram tanks. so even if the united states would make this decision today, it would take some months probably before the tanks really would reach ukraine in, in a if you will. i was asking benjamin about drivetrain or shorts. he have said that germany will not go it alone in sending tanks to ukraine. the has, the united states hasn't got the message and is this decision, this possible decision of sending abrams tanks? is that the answer? it definitely plays a role in no. i was at the state department press conference yesterday and i could ask the press person of the secretary or you know how the relationship is with germany. and if the u. s. understands the hesitation and he basically said, yes, we do understand and reminded us who would have thought the germany would be so heavily involved just one year ago. and so i'm sure that the u. s. government that

the white house once it wants to make it as easy for germany as possible to, to provide those tanks, which are obviously so crucial for president vladimir lensky. w e. is paul with elise tonight from washington in his thank you from ukraine's a war against russia to its war against corruption. today, several government officials and ukraine resigned amid accusations of bribery and food procurement fraud crates, president vote of his zalinski, announcing key personnel changes, announced them in a video address. he also dismissed the governors of 5 provinces, and they include the governor of the harrison region. the scene of fierce fighting in recent months. ukraine is under pressure to tackle corruption as billions of dollars of aid and military assistance continue to flow into the country.

ukraine has a history of corruption, including among its political elite, but efforts to stamp out graft have been overshadowed by moscow full scale war. i asked you to be as much. he is berlin in. keep if these new allegations, if they have come as a surprise, we have seen heard very little about corruption during the 1st 11 months as 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 a, with the clear, a 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 the 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 her there is of her fraud in the, in the procurement of course, of food for the army. this money is lacking somewhere. and this has broadened our civil society and many journalists to the point where they say we need to resume our role as watch talks of the government. and we need to bring these cases to light. that's why we're seeing such a, a, a. yeah, we, we're seeing quite a few cases coming up. no more than usually all in this in, within a short period of time. this is something i'm a like, a dam broke with these 1st investigations that was des. but he is really good. the reporting from keith, a turkish company says that it is in talks to st floating power ships to help supply you electricity to ukraine. russia has stepped up

a tax on ukraine's power grid. about half of the power grid is now off lime green says that's putting millions of people at risk of getting sick 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 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, st. fox, the very fact that russia resorted to terror against the energy industry and shows the weakness of the enemy force locked before i can not defeat ukraine on the battlefield. and that is why they are trying to break out people who is in ms.

white hot. the nasa 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 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. yeah, the scholarship over here can generate about 420 megawatts of alcohol is enough for 4000000 people or q, sir. so it could supply the residence of a city like berlin in the 2nd edison over the this,

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 crane energy crisis. we are in discussions with oakland argo, with on the for 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 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 secular to far parser now of our ships. and if this is not possible while operating within ukrainian borders, it may be possible while operating at egg gillespie, 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 hope ukraine get some lights back on during a brutal winter of blackouts. over more on the challenges facing a ukraine of janelle by james hans and he is the ceo of a i for good foundation. he's also co founder of economist fort ukraine. he joins

us from berkeley, california. it's good. have you on the show, james? the u. n. says that half of ukraine's energy infrastructure has been destroyed by russian attacks. you wrote in a recent eli op ed piece that you blame part of this condition, this the, that miserable condition on western technology explained that. why is it so well, thank you for inviting me back to, to the show. and i last time when we were discussing, we also talked about infrastructure damage. it was right at the beginning of the infrastructure strikes when, roughly half of the infrastructure had been hit in a space of 2 weeks. and we talked that about the resiliency of ukraine's energy system. now i, yes, i think that there is a part of the damage that has occurred to ukraine's infrastructure that can be pin on the provision of western technology to russia, which is

a continuing continuing process since the beginning of the warrens and somebody long before then let me put it a little bit into context because it sounds little bit stock when put like that. in november we released a recommendation paper for technology sanctions against the russian federation, which had 3 parts. one was to remove military enabling technology that the west continues to provide. the 2nd was about cyber warfare technology and the 3rd was about information space technology. now, it is extremely important, right, in order to prevent russia from continuing the war in general, that we remove the technology capabilities that western companies under, within russia. and that's something that continues to be the case. however, the thing that's breaking ukraine's energy grid is russian missiles, right, and attacks by russia and a continuing attacks within civilian spaces,

which also prevent the reconstruction of those grids and the potential strengthening and resilience of those grids going forward. so it's not just about western technology, it's mostly about russia continuing than military attacks, which are very traditional military attacks at this point. and james, moving forward then talked to me about the role of western technology in rebuilding, i guess rebuilding the infrastructure during the war. but also when the war is over . yeah, i think it's important to talk generally about the merging of western and ukrainian technology when, when we're talking about rebuilding both the kind of power infrastructure, the general kind of civil society infrastructure and putting you crate on a on a strong footing going forward. we have to remember that ukraine's tech sector is extremely strong, extremely resilient, and in fact, i'm very innovative as well. what ukraine has been able to do with western supplied

weapons with that also societal infrastructure. so sub panels and the grid technology in order to quickly the centralized and increase the resiliency of, of society and, and kind of the critical infrastructure that, that relies on has been astounding. and you know, i've been working in the technology in a i sector for 2 decades at this point. and it's incredible to see what ukraine has been able to do over such a short span of time. we need to continue supporting ukraine with as much of that technology. we need to help decentralize these different grids and i'm kind of technology components that helps down to protecting the grid, allowing people to continue living normal lives to the extent possible and keeping the economy running. and that's why western technology can have a big impact. big investments in the future for sure. james johnson, joining us tonight from berkeley, california. james is always thank you. thank you. we're going to stay in california

now. the nomination for this year's oscars awards have been announced in los angeles. the bid was hosted by actors riz ahmed and allison williams. netflix, german anti war drama, all quiet on the western front. c. 9 nominations, including best picture and best international feature. it's the 1st non english language adaptation of eric maria remarks, anti war novel that bears the same name, but action company, everything everywhere, all at once. it is the film to beat it landed 11 nominations. the winners will be announced at the oscars on the 12th of march, someone who will be watching that is my colleague or cultural goobers. got roxborough, he is here to talk us through these nominations, got the german film, all quiet on the western front, 9 nominations. i mean that is impressive. what are the chances that it's going to

pick up all of these as awards? oh yeah, well of, i don't think it'll take up all of them. that would be a bit of a bit of a reach, i think. but at 9 aman agencies, really phenomenal. i mean for non english language films to do that well is almost unheard of i've, we've seen like 2 films, roma mexican film from couple years back and, and a crouching tiger hidden dragon, meaning sort of epic or chinese language. a movie. vague both got 10 nominations, otherwise it's never, it's never happened before that a non english language don't get so many nominations. and i think that almost guarantees all quite on western prop will walk home with a few awards. come the academy awards in march. and it's really impressive movie because i say not only is it the 1st german adaptation of remarks and anti war novel, which of course was written in german. and it also really combines sort of the sort of apic war movie that is quite popular with the academy awards of, with

a very sort of international perspective and a very almost unique perspective, the sort of drip perspective of the ordinary german soldier in the 1st world war incredibly powerful movie and really great. it's really great to see that it's done so well, at least with the oscar nomination. and i want to ask you what your favorites are among the nominations. but let, let's start with this, sy, fi am film. everything everywhere, all at once. i haven't seen that and is a jamie lee curtis. she starts in it. i was hearing people dancing. she's been around for ever. and she surprised everyone in this movie talked to me about this new yeah, this is kind of a crazy film. this is sort of the, the, the underdog story of last year. it's a small, little independent movie. it is kind of crazy described. it's sort of an action sy fy met adverse comedy. it's sort of a stoner comedy. these is the humor and this is out of this world. basically, michelle, yo place a and e, asian american is small business owner who is actually a super hero in

a pair in parallel universe and another parallel universe. she is jamie lee. curtis is a lover and has huge, long sausage like fingers. it's almost a possible described as movie without spinning off it to the moorehead on into a multi verse my own. but the filled it incredibly well, i'm at the box office and it's really been celebrated here of at the oscars as sake with lebanon agents. it is the film to be with such a crazy be i don't think it will really, it'll really break through at the end in 2 months time. if i have to look and pick a favorite of of the nominees, i probably go for the irish film. the banshees of insurance, which is sort of a balance of drama and, and, and sort of like comedy that i think might play well better with the academy in any surprises in these nominations. big surprises up. there's a couple surprises on the i'm acting nominations, particularly. i'm enter a rece forro. she's english actress of very well known actually, but her film to leslie didn't really getting attention a leading into the oscars. i'm. it was almost ignored pretty well. good. bonded the

box office but was discovered by other actresses in particular. oscar winning actors, as people like kate wins that like hate. blanchett was also nominated, and they celebrated this film and particularly andrew res rose performance in it. and it was basically their sort of ground roots campaign that got the nomination. i still think she's got a big hill to climb, to go up against michelle leo and cate blanchett in the best actors category. but she's definitely my dark horse candidate to watch this years. awesome. and i'm still thinking about the sausage like fingers there. when you go into an alternative with the film we got to see, you know, he's got roger bro, scott, thank you. the german parliament is opening a new exhibition this evening to mark the 7th anniversary of yon version israel's holocaust memorial. it highlights 16 every day objects that 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. ah, bingo a doll wearing a baby's pajamas is all that's left of laura meyer fields childhood in 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. ready my to john, i will of chris down now the pajamas that she wore to sleep one night in 1938 when she was just a year old on cost on that night of broken glass. when the nazis destroyed the synagogues, jewish businesses and hopes 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 baby's 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. i 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. ah, a piano, an evening bag. a 12 year olds diary. ah, oh history, it's interesting. ah, laura meyer feld now lives in israel. she donated her doll to the yad vashem holocaust memorial so that we never forget who's reminded the top stories that we are following for you this outward. the german news magazine there spiegel reporting that german chancellor olaf sholtes has given the green light for germany's powerful leopard to take to be delivered to ukraine. the u. s. will also reportedly begin delivering its modern bowel, take the m one abrams keeps as it needs to take to combat

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