ah, ah ah, this is the double the news, my from berlin, china side with russia and opposing nature expansion. vladimir putin, charles to beijing for talks with gigi and paying a both at odds with the west, the to lead a signal close of ties in the future. also on the program, european union joins germany and condemning russia's decision to ban deutsche a valid at the w. moscow bureau is forced to close retaliation from russia. state media outlets are not being allowed to broadcast in germany. egyptians to celebrate their team semi final, where the africa cup of nations are host cover,

see their hopes dashed ah, i'm fil gale. welcome to the program. china has joined russia and criticizing nater expansion. chinese president g pig and russian president vladimir putin. i've been meeting in beijing ahead of the opening of the winter olympics. this comes amid growing tensions over russia's troop build up on it for the ukraine. you statement from the to lead us highlighted that agreement and proposed cooperation on a raft of issues including energy supplies and stepping beta protest, movements little glass, get more from a journalist or fabian crouch, my in beijing. welcome fabian. so talk us through the main points

emerging from this meeting. yet the meeting was quite remarkable. i mean, what we expected and what are so many analysts taught me, is that both sides will announce some energy deal, some corporation. but the meeting went far beyond that. the statement was already quite a long, 5300 words and had really strong political message is a message that was mainly aimed at to washington and to some degree also to brussels. so both sides or po, oppose, an expansion of nato, the boss m. o. m a post, the trilateral em military corporation between m, australia, united states, enter the united kingdom, arcus and, and basically, they shall m solidarity towards each other, moscow and beijing. they show unity and demonstrate that they have a common and shared foreign policy interests. and they that they ex, or pulse also m a u. s. lead world order, so to speak. right?

and a bit of domestic issues in there as well, that pledging, closer cooperation to stem political protest movements. so what is that likely to involve what that's a good question they left to quite wake and am cynically speaking, at least from the chinese perspective. am it's hard to imagine why am baiting would still need any assistance or cooperation with moscow to stem protest. because that's what they do every day, just to day one activists in hong kong was arrested. why? because he was trying to protest against the olympic or winter games which started today because it's against the national security law. and that gives you an idea how strict authority is there is no descent or am dissent possible within the mainland. and also in hong kong. and their protest movement basically disappeared already. so um yeah, it cannot even escalate any further. so i would guess we have to wait and see what

that will mean in the future or, and cross of the big issue is the russian true build up or on, on its borders with ukraine. what has been china stance on that and how does to day statement a fit in with that it's quite ambivalent. so a china official stands that they support a peaceful m solution in the ukraine conflict. however, today, statement showed very clearly that the solidarity of begging is with moscow and m. how far that will go. however, we're not sure. i mean, we know that and abating doesn't want any further military escalation during the winter games because that's their stage of presenting themselves and they don't want any interference. however, if, for example, russia would invade ukraine than it would also be tactical knowledge for china itself. because they have that issue on their own, they have a conflict with taiwan. and even though the matters are slightly different and separate, there is some parallel. and if a china, for example,

see that the west will not oppose strongly a possible invasion in ukraine, then maybe they could also feel more confident in containing toe on. okay, thank you for that fabric crash more in beijing the european union has joined the german government in condemning moscow's decision to shut down the russian operations of fish channel deutscher vela moves apparently in retaliation for german media regulations, prohibiting russia, state media outlet ot t from broadcasting in germany to, to the lack of a valid license or critics, i ought to often broadcast, scrambling propaganda and dis, inflation. foreign ministry and balance at the decision would increase the strain on already terms. german russian relations. though each of alice, moscow office is now closed and the w's journalist can no longer work from russia. the russian government announced on thursday that it would shut down d w's bureau,

and revoke the accreditation of the w's journalists and russia. it also said in the statement, it would terminate the satellite and other broadcasting output of deutsche avella in the country. the measures come after germany's media regulators banned the german language broadcasting of russia's state media, r t. for operating with our license, the german government says russia's actions are unjustified. people disagree with german government, strongly condemned the measures being taken against arch avella, the measures are completely unfounded and go against the principles of freedom of the press. portraying this as being a legitimate response, the german authorities decision to prohibit ortiz broadcasting due to licensing issues is neither legally nor substantively understandable in hope. it's not what's he, bob? germany's commissioner for culture and media criticize the decision and called it hostile. yes, ma globe is these drastic measures from the russian side are not acceptable by any

means. allan, for melissa, shes either always for to it is a truly aggressive act as, as in victory. i don't, we don't need aggressive acts. all we need dialogue actors or we need de escalation and not escalation, and that so wouldn't managed as colored. so the russian government also said it plans to initiate proceedings to label deutsch avella as a media outlet acting as a foreign agent, a designation that carries further government scrutiny. for now, d. w, as considering possible legal avenues and says it will not stop reporting on russia . russia. let's take a closer look at this with the w 's editor in chief, manuela casper. clarity. welcome to the studio. so let's start with what d. w is doing about reversing this decision. well, our colleagues had to give back their accreditation today at a foreign ministry. unfortunately, but people are certainly take legal action. we have spoken to our solicitors and to

leave a go and negotiate, of course, also with the russian or authorities next week. or there's already an appointment been made. and we see how we proceed from there. and what reason has moscow given for for closing down t w's operations? well, as you had a report or the russian state own broadcast her r t, germany, or was told to shut down its services or to broadcast in germany, because they don't have a papa license. for deutsch avelaire, it's probably, it's totally different because we have a license or had a license up till today to broadcast in russia and knows his license has been taking away. and the reason see russian authorities are given given is retaliation . they have said that this week are the victims of this retaliation. so, so just to be clear but rational authorities have said we are closing you down because you closer to them. exactly. ok. why is zeal is not us understood.

why does this matter? why does it matter for whom, for us, why, why, why does it matter if a dodge of other that russia chooses to close down operations in that country? obviously, i mean, we need to feed them to report in russia. you can't report, then you don't have accreditation. it's, it's forbidden, you know, that means our journalist can't work from today on, and we have quite a bit of his air and we do extensive reporting from russia. it's of a important reaching for us, you know, a stuff in any danger. well, hopefully not there, but they could be in danger if they are declared phone agent. because that means if say where to do a report then since they have been proclaimed for an agent, they can get a, they can go to court, you know, and so it's that can be dangerous for them. but at the moment, no,

our staff is not in danger. and of course the on continuous contact, the sim and b will look after them. we do whatever we can. and so what, what happens, what are they doing while the 2 governments wrangle? well, unfortunately, at the moment we have to wait how things are developed, but we have plans, and we will a go on reporting about russia, probably not from russia, of a likely not from russia, but from regions around russia. we have offices in latvia and, and other many other countries like and ukraine and so on. poverty, go on to report from there, about russia and we have an extensive network. so don't very nice if the government is the german government doing enough about this when you heard the statements in the report. so obviously there's an awareness and chancellor charlotte's visit moscow and hopefully he will talk about our situation as well that we don't know

yet. okay, so with your as it stands, your content that the german government is doing enough about the situation with statements and the possibility that this will be raised when the chancellor visits russia next. yes, they trust the german government that they do, but if necessary. certainly. thank you so much for joining us, the www. the editor in chief, i'm going to casper class, like i'm kind of take a look now. small stores making news around the world. nato is holding naval gels in the mediterranean and adriatic, sees a usaa carrier group, is leading the neptune strike 2022 exercises. italy and germany crease and spirals are taking fox news come amid tensions in eastern europe of russia. but if you build up its order with ukraine, the european union has sanctioned 5 high ranking members of marley's transitional government, including the intern, prime minister, chug, where luck alcala, my god,

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celebrated despondent, cameroon eons came to terms with their loss after they missed out on a chance to win it all on home ground. the game was decided on penalties where egypt kept their cool and broke the home sites. hearts sundays final pit 7 time champions, egypt against a highly rated cynical side who are chasing their countries 1st. ever aft con, title sunday's game will be special for 2 players in particular to team made. so usually line up together for liverpool. we'll now go head to head d w's. ali search. a former takes a look at this years. africa cup of nations file were added business end of the african cup of nations in cameron grace, i'm in finals at witness cecilia maddie, lead in senegal, against book in i fastened a 1st for the goes to want to qualify for the finals and well egypt mohammed sala, he did not, it had they did penalties, but i still wanted to go to one over cameron. heartbreak for cameron have got the

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