billions, outstanding shopping and dining office. enjoy alice services all be our guest at frankfurt. airport city, managed by frappe, bought, ah ah, ah, ah, this is dw news live from berlin tonight. germany reportedly giving the green light to send battle takes to you cray. after days of silence, jethro up schultz saying that other european countries can send their german made leopard to take to you. great. the u. s. also reportedly planning to say it states to the battlefield. also coming up tonight,

the grades president zalinski fiery several senior officials accused of corruption . with the more entering a potentially critical phase will look at the allegations and whether they could undermine support or zalinski government at home and abroad. and the nominees are yours, oscar nods. are eligible look at which films have the best shot at bagging the biggest prize in show business. ah, i'm bring cough is good to have you with as a we begin tonight with a possible decision to send a german made battle takes to ukraine. german media reporting that chancellor o sholtes has given the green light for european countries owning german made leopard to battle tanks to send those weapons to you. cray. of this comes after days talks reportedly heated among western allies over what has been perceived as

germany, dragging its feet to help you grant poland france and the u. s. are also reportedly planning to send combat change to the country. earlier i asked the ws political correspondent benjamin alvarez gruber, about these reports that the german chancellor has made the decision to send those tanks to ukraine. the thread, the 1st media out that, that reported on this assess beagle. they opened the article saying i had the decision has been made for 2 things. on one side, the germany will give the green light for all the european allies who want to sent the battle tanks to ukraine directly. and the other thing is that germany is also intending on sending its own tags. the be reports about a company of flip at to a 6 thanks. a company's usually 14 tanks and at other tanks from the industry. so these 14 tanks are from bonuses stocks, and that other tanks from the industry will be prepared to then a be sent a to ukraine. that's the information that we have from several outlets. we tried to

confirm the information, calling a germany's defense ministry, but they said that they can neither deny not confirm this information. so we expect this to happen tomorrow. we have the german chancellor addressing the jim in parliament tomorrow so that he might say that they're now giving this green light of to so much pressure was put on the gym and chancellor. yeah, after so much pressure and it seems like so much extra time for this decision to come. do we know what has led to what seems to be a shift in position? so definitely a shift in position because there was just too much pressure from the german opposition from german government parties as well as saying that he should give this green light that it was too reluctant and 2 high ranking politicians who reacted to this inflammation. one of them mother mcneish like simon, she's the chair woman of their bonus tag defense committee. she said the decision to deliver these lap at 2 tanks was a tough one, but was inevitable. and also the, the leader of the conservative city. you part, you said that is good news,

but shawls hesitated for too long, and that's something that we've heard from other european allies as well saying the child is dragging its feet when it comes to sending these tanks in between. we are also getting me to report that the united states could drop its opposition to sending abrams tanks to ukraine. could this have anything to do with chancellor sholtes as change of heart? it definitely increases the pressure because the argument that the german chancellor has always said that they don't want to take the in this step alone, that they don't want to act alone. that they want other allies to take this decision as well. of course loses its strength when there are other allies, like for example, the bread. so the french you have said that they're interested in saying in sending these thanks. and also the u. s. has been rather reluctant to sent this out from sacks. but if the u. s. is also saying that they will do it. and if other allies are also saying we want to sent this tanks directly to ukraine, of course the argument that germany is acting alone and taking this decision alone

is not strong anymore. d, w 's benjamin alvarez group are with the latest to night here in berlin. bridgeman, thank you from ukraine's war against russia to its more against corruption. today, several government officials were fired or resigned to bid accusations of bribery and embezzlement. grades president zalinski, announcing keen personnel changes in a video address. he also dismissed the governors of 5 provinces, including the governor of the harrison region. that's where we've seen fierce fighting and recent months. ukraine is under pressure to tackle corruption as billions of dollars in aid and military assistance continue to flow into the country. under vic is the executive director of transparency international ukraine . that's a non profit organization fighting corruption. i asked him for his take on this corruption scandal in the country. actually my summary for the last few days,

not only today is about the democracy. this is actually the evidence that the existence of their independent journalist and working on to corruption bodies in democratic countries such as ukraine reach actually still exist even when we are in active state to for. and i must say that all this war that was done in ukraine since 2014, after the relation of dignity visibility. now that the corruption institutions was a helpful for international partners is actually in such moment showing their best results that they actually work in. because what, what 4 of you are all established in the system, and this is how it's supposed to work. so mister burton, if i understand you correctly, you're saying these resignations, these far as we saw today. this is the direct result of a recent history of attempts to root out corruption in ukraine. is that what you're saying? and this is the results of the reforms that are happening in ukraine of to 2014 and

one of them i, one of the sky reforms that was a demand not from all, not only by the society but also by our partners isn't to corruption reform and this is actually how they supposed to work. yes. i mean, that's a, that's a very positive assessment of the situation. ukraine, because i don't have to tell you the country has had a history of corruption and there's been fear among its western allies. if they send in all this money to help you create that. that money is going to end up in the pockets of people whose names they can't pronounce. but of course, i can say that after 24, so february, it is no more corruption in ukraine as in any other country. but what i can definitely say you can have a look at, at least these last few days. and there a reaction for political leadership and the actions from them to corruption be run to corruption prosecutor's office. to show that we can fight with the correction

and corruption is one of the number one priority is for the government and for the country in order to be at the war with. or is it possible to say that in your opinion, that this war, it is, it is terrible. but there is a silver lining in that it has forced the, the government. it has forced the entire apparatus of government in ukraine to finally come to terms with itself and to come clean and to begin ending corruption . is that what we're see? no, i'm actually saying that it, of course not that this war that's happening is russia was not to cut to lie the 4 fighting with the corruption, ukraine, county corruption reform in last 10 years. and we can say exact, for example, within the corruption perception index, the only index which compares different countries on annual basis. that was the

last 10 years ukraine is one of the most developing countries in the sense of fighting with the corruption in the world. so we have slow but steady improvements in the bike, and they said that was andre borrowed from transparency international ukraine. speaking with me earlier, let's take a look now. some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world authorities in california say to the man suspected of killing southern people in back to back shootings at 2 forms on monday was himself an employee. at one of those locations, investigators say the only known connection between the shooter and his victims is that they could have been co workers. psych loan janessa has hit madagascar bringing strong winds into a rental weight range roads connecting parts of the northwest to the capitol flooded authority say 15000 people have been affected by the storm that is still lashing. the on sweden's prime minister old cristo song,

has re stated that nato membership remains his country's top. national security required sweden and finland bid to join a. there was been sidelined indefinitely by turkey after a right wing protest or in stock home, burned a copy of the korean near the turkish embassy. well, the nominations for this year's oscar awards have been announced to los angeles. the event was hosted by actors resulted in alison williams, the netflix german anti war drama, all quiet on the western front. it received 9 nominations, including best picture in best international feature. now it is the 1st non english language adaptation of eric maria remarks. anti were novel of the same name, the sy fi action comedy, everything everywhere, all at once. that is the film to beat. it landed 11 nominations. the winners will be announced at the ceremony. on the 12th of march, i asked the w's culture guru,

scott roxborough about the chances of germany's all quiet on the western front. picking up some awards. who yeah, well of, i don't think i got all of them. that would be a bit of a bit of a reach i think. but at 9 nominations is really phenomenal. i mean, for non english language film 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 crouching tiger hidden dragon, meaning sort of epic or chinese language. a movie vague a book at 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 the western for a whole while home with a few awards come the academy awards in march. i'm. it's really impressive movie because i say, not only is it the 1st german adaptation of remarks of anti war novel, which of course was written in german. and it also really combines sort of the sort of epic war movie that is quite popular a, with the academy awards. and with

a very sort of international perspective in a very almost unique perspective. the sort of jerk 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 denominations. but like, let's start with this. sy, fi am film, everything everywhere, all at once. i haven't seen that. and is it jamie lee curtis? she starts in it. i was hearing people to day saying she's been around for ever and chic surprise. every one in this movie talked to me about this new yeah, this is kind of a crazy film. this is sort of the, the, the, the underdog story of last year. it's a small little independent movie and it is kind of crazy. describe it, sort of an action sy fy met adverse comedy. it's sort of a stoner comedy, the, the, the humor. and this is out of this world. basically, michelle, yo place a and e, asian, american best 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 impossible to strive this movie without spinning off it to the moorehead 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 such a crazy movie. i don't think it will really. it'll really break through at the end in, in 2 months time. if i had to look and pick a favorite of, of the nominees, i probably go for the irish hill. 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 acting nominations, particularly an enter a res for o. she's a english actress of very well known actually. but her film to leslie didn't really get any attention

a leading into the oscars. it was almost ignored pretty well. good. bonded the box office but was discovered by other actresses in particular, oscar winning actresses. people like kate windsor, like cate blanchett, was also nominated. and they celebrated this film and particularly and are 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 actress 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 freaky with the film we got a c, d, w scottsboro. scott: thank you. or it is a reminder the top story we're following for you. the german. these magazines are spiegel reporting that german transfer all of sholtes has given the green light, germany's powerful leopard to takes to be delivered to ukraine us. we'll also reportedly begin deliveries of its babbled chain. the in one abrams keeps as it

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