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yesterday she said, united democracies would triumph over russian aggression and tennis. great. roger federer announces his retirement. the 20 time grand slam singles winter describes his decision to leave the court as bitter sweet. after so many injuries, the swift star says his body is trying to tell himself that ah, i'm been fas all and welcome russian president vladimir putin and his chinese counterparts. aging ping have held their 1st face to face talk since moscow's full invasion of you cried. speaking on the sidelines of a, somebody knows pakistan who didn't. thanks china for what he called it, balanced positions, walking crane and urge, deep ties with baking hood and also lashed out against what he called attempts to create a uni polo world president. she signaled eagerness to expand cooperation describing

a relationship between begging and moscow is one of super powers. we should be facing an ever changing world and a new era in history. china is willing to make efforts with russia to assume the role of great powers and play a guiding role to inject stability and positive energy into a world rocked by social turmoil. more in this and joined by a china analyst clifford kuhn and cliff it, it sounds like a new world order is in the making. yeah, i think am this, this summit used to be a very sleepy conference. the people barely paid on the attention to and suddenly it's taken on enormous global geopolitical significance. what you're seeing now is it providing a framework for a loose alliance of authoritarian autocratic states on the one hand. and it's setting them so that we're setting themselves up in counterpoint to people like the us. and also, as we mentioned,

are still on the line from the commission talking about defending democratic values . suddenly you're seeing east versus west polarized world opening up very strongly and all spot by this warren, you, ukraine, has been the catalyst for all this. it's particular with, with china. it's been, it's been very difficult because china still is very economically reliant on trade with the western and technology for the west. so it can't give it's, it hasn't been given. it's full formal backing to russia, but that's changing. in recent days. we've had much stronger statements of support for, for, for russia's invasion. and then today when they're talking about common interests, we also saw things going the other way, where vladimir putin gave his support for china's position on taiwan and criticize the u. s. for escalation, the situation in taiwan. so it's all kinds of things are opening up at the moment. at the beginning of the war, everyone was talking about russia becoming a pariah state. it sounds like moscow is doing

a lot in the background to ensure that economically it does have some sort of standing in the world in, in the next years to come. definitely and it's, it's very much pushing its relationship with china. i think china is a bit concerned. it did say that it supports the ukraine war, but it has some concerns and questions, which putin has promised to address. but i think that if it suddenly be among those concerns must certainly be that the ukraine war is causing all kinds of economic problems for the global economy. and that's something which doesn't suit china at the moment. so when you say concerns, i mean the to of been holding military drills to get that happen. yeah, absolutely. i mean, politically, they're very much in step. but i think that if things go too far, and if russia pushes these, this loose alliance of other say, these countries, all they really have in common is that they're authoritarian, they've, they're, otherwise, they're very, very different in very many ways. and ultimately, china has to kind of straddle both sides, even if ideologically, it,

it very much sides with, with russia, you just wonder what point would would china be pushed too far? you mentioned a loose alliance. they're talking about tighter relationships and ties. and it goes beyond just russia and china. it doesn't, it? that's right. i mean, recent days you've seen the 1st iranian military drone show up in ukraine. the ukrainians are very unhappy about this. so iran and russia, there's been a lot more closeness between around and, and other countries in this seo grouping into shanghai cooperation organization, grouping. so definitely there's more and more cooperation and the point will be these countries, as i said, as i say, the share authoritarian leanings, but traditionally, even russian, china, whenever they've gotten to close something as always happens, it's very difficult for them to get very, very close. so it's the question is going to be whether they can actually keep in step both politically and economically long enough for this to make change for

these changes to happen on analyst clifford coon and thank you very much for coming in european commission. president also lafond, the line is in ukraine to discuss closer cooperation with the european union. president for ms. lewinsky said he hoped his country could join the single market funded lions, said ukraine was making good progress in the accession process to become part of the you. she also reaffirmed the block support for ukraine's fight against russia. we will never be able to match the sacrifice that the ukrainians are giving when they lose their homes all day cry for their beloved than ones that have gone. we will never be able to compensate what you do with your fight for democracy, for humanity, for the respect of the international rule of law. but what we can tell you that you have your european friends by your side,

as long as it takes and that we are friends for ever. more russian attacks have been reported in ukraine following massive gains by key in the east of the country . missiles also hit a reservoir, the president for ms. lewinsky is hometown authorities have taught residence in some areas to evacuate the morning after rushes miss al strikes and creevy read with residents are improvising as authorities work to repair the damage. ukrainian official say 100 homes were flooded when the missiles destroy the water system, the infrastructure is critical to the city, the largest in central ukraine, of usher or get there will does your missile attacks today, like russian missiles targeting previously on the dam of the cottage? near skier reservoir occurring in the objects have no military value at all focus

the bus would empty shield, in fact targeting hundreds of thousands of ordinary civilians is another reason why russia louis eager. earlier the president made a surprise visits easier. one of the cities, recent be liberated by ukrainian forces chiefs counter offensive, has seen the ukrainian army take back a wide swathe of territory in the north east. residents are shocked and traumatized . what they endured during 6 months of russian occupation is just starting to come to light in the battle scarred city of ballad clia, southeast of heart heave reports of torture. our emerging live chronicle day. you made me hold 2 wires attached to an electric generator. it on a bushel forward, the faster you spend quotations, and the higher the voltage anchorage of courtney up. of course they kept spinning it and asking questions. they said i was lying for profit, so they did it more and you thought it happened to some prisoners every of the day,

when the full sure was vista publicly with the ukranian army back in control residence here at long to put the dark days of war. behind them and see the ukrainian flag rise over the country. once again. hoc if is the 2nd largest city in ukraine, despite being or the 40 kilometers from the russian border. ukraine's military has kept the russians from occupying it. but the city has faced relentless artillery fires since the war began. this is heartiest regional council building. it was struck by a russian missile in early march leaving only its facade standing. 6 months on reconstruction work is underway. the rest of the city center also bears the scars of indiscriminate daily showing that and the intense artillery battles that continued into the summer of prompted thousands of civilians. the fleet, the once thriving city more let's bring in dw, corresponded nick connelly. what's the situation therein. hock,

if well, as you can probably see behind me, there is very little of her gift to be seen at pretty early evening hour because lots of people i've often feels in central majority have left and the ones who are remaining arc sticking tool. the recommendations keeping their curtains firmly shut and basically keeping off the streets critic, storage density of more than a 1000000 a half and occasionally only to see some cars passing a distance. a few very rare pedestrians, but it's a real contrast to the times before this war. started, i was here in mid february, when the u. s. government said that the war was imminent and people he just couldn't get there had run it. they couldn't believe that this was on the cards. and this was a thriving city with also tens of thousands of foreign students coming here from around the world who also took their cue from the locals and were convinced that being for to come sway from russia didn't necessarily mean that they were in danger . now since this ukrainian assaults, comprehensive in the east northeast of the country has done so well, we've seen some russian retaliation attacks. we've seen attacks on the energy

infrastructure on the power system or the heating system rather, and extraordinarily, it's proved pretty, are flexible and resilient than able to restore their systems. the most pop power is back, the metro is operating. and even though you know, as i mentioned so many people have left those remaining are keeping the show on the road. but the question, looking now towards the next few months, is even if russian forces are no longer in this part of the country, they are still only as you much there for to come to way on their own territory. so the risk of attacks of missile attacks of longest the to that is still there much there. yes evening, we heard a big explosion in the downtown, off off my hotel, and the air rates are ins, only came on us, but 34 minutes off to it's often it's so difficult to really tell when these things are coming in. they're coming from such short distance that this isn't, he just can't really give anyone a feeling of safety or the, or the real chance to get to a position where they can yet be protected from damage. so it is a very edgy situation. a city that doesn't really quite know yet whether to believe

that the situation is generally safer and whether it's kind of time to go back sometime tomorrow. and nick, i believe you've been to the border region with raf north of hock. if my russian troops only pulled out and matter of days ago and tell us more about what you saw well, this was her. that's an area that is, as you may say, so close to the border and where you can still hear artillery fire pretty much every 1015 minutes. those battles are still going on there. and people, the people who had remained in those villages were kind of days, can kind of shock to see outside as they'd be cut off from the outside world, or at least from caught, given from ukraine, controlled church for 6 months. so the russian army base, he turned up there within the 1st few hours of this war. and people, they're talking about rebuilding their houses time time again, or one older woman we spoke to had just about rebuilt her roof when just a couple of days before the rainfalls came back, her house is basically destroyed. now trying to work out where she's going to spend

the winter, people sending us of being taken to a sellers to being being mistreated by the russian authorities because they have family ties to people serving in the ukranian army. one man we saw were just recovering, some metals that belong to, relative as his ukranian army metals that he'd hidden to make sure that the russians didn't know about quite how illustrious his righteous career had been. people who had disappeared, who still haven't been found or heard of for months. and we even saw the what we were told by the remains of some ukrainian soldiers who died there pretty early on in this war and who the russian authorities hadn't buried a center. so that the russian forces there had left in great haste, bits of tech armored vehicles, dumped paperwork even we saw a drawing from seemingly the child of one of the russian soldiers there sent to the father who was serving in ukraine with that zed symbol that we've seen on all those russian troops or 2 cars. so a real sense that this was an error that really was abandoned yet. great haste. and

there's different suspicion for lots people on the ground. they're still russian forces. russian soldiers hiding in abandon houses who just basically didn't manage to get out in time in an hour, trying to find some way of getting out without being caught. and tell us more about i use out of keith. i believe in you commission president funner lion has been talking to ukraine. your president lensky. what come out of those discussions? well, this is always going to be about cash, that you can give cash for to buy weapons or cash to stabilize ukraine's government . it can't give weapons as a block, and this is definitely question is going more and more important 6 months down to this war, where most only ukraine savings are now at an end. and the government is really, you know, scraping and saving, trying to find some way of paying pensions and salaries. so i think in that sense, she will have, you know, given her hosts what they were expecting, those kind of promises of open ended support and financial direct help for ukraine is government budget. but i think supports,

remember that the sums they just on different scales, the europeans took about 5000000000, maybe 10000000000 in a few months time. but we hear from choppy credit officials who say the country needs about a 100000000 over the next year. so there's still a huge gap there between what europeans, even if they think they're being asked holiday with ukraine, a willing to cough up, and what ukraine says, it needs economy. they're in hack, if updating us on the situation of the war in ukraine. when you think of war heroes, you probably think of soldiers and medics, but in ukraine war heroes also include postal workers providing a lifeline to people. living near the front light, many of them elderly resonance. the w's visitor shook her, followed one letter carrier delivering vital supplies, despite the dangers. luba clark i heads out when the air at alarm stop. she works in the north east of ukraine, delivering mail and cash pensions to people living close to the front lines. they never know when russian artillery might hit bag. uber, swallow, sophia,

who will york, what can i say? the pension is no me and they wait to me. when i was off work for a man gall, some even call it and asked when i'd be back with them for toward them. so it's not just about delivering pensions, she tells us many of the older people living here are completely on their own. like tatiana carver, her children and grandchildren have fled abroad. she's so scared of a text that she barely leaves the house. yeah. you must visit is the highlight of her month or what she, she's very, very helpful. my guess she cares about us, brings us our pensions and news and explains things oh, i'm going to cry. the post service delivers pensions in cash to more than $3000000.00 ukrainians. but they are also taking medication 1st aid kits protective di and even food. and that's crucial for people living near the front lines who

often can't get supplies for themselves. the post headquarters in keith is well organized. eagles, me, lansky is in charge. responsible for 65000 employees who deliver all across ukraine being in the producer rewards. it's a huge logistical challenge, he says, and a dangerous one of them was a village for the cities for love, and 2 or 3 days after certain new mining is done, become only congress pensions began was for food becomes products on bud than to war. and you have to be told of realistic o things can happen in the war. 15 postal workers have already been killed at 14, injured to reduce the risk they changed delivery routes every day. after doing what they can to find out where is safe enough to sent their staff in the morning heritage and, and boats and pro growth her 30 security service for so abrasions are armed forces

are to get new information, word safe on, on, safe to go to day in lube as delivery district things have been getting worse recently. she says that as strikes almost every day, one had this home on the west road. she tried to comfort the couple who lived there . the pension she delivers is about $100.00 you romance. it's enough to survive. she says alexander cove, i ankle, but they won't be able to rebuild their houses. i believe we've done what we can shut. but these monsters have destroyed our lives. only stores of how will we survive the winter? i just don't know what her doctor does or wash, cautious not to take all this and to realize it. this is our life now.

would a me that will stay strong and will be working, but i to work blueberry retained a year until then she continues to serve her people, bringing pensioners their money and offering them a bit of company. her word she says has never been more important or yeah, yeah. ah, the news from the world of tennis 20 time grand slam singles champion, roger federer has announced his retirement from top level tennis. the 41 year old will play his final atp tournament at the labor camp in london later this month. the swiss stars not play the professional torments since wimbledon last year after which he had a 3rd knee operation. that was said on social media that my body's message to me lately has been clear. i've played more than 1500 matches over 24 years. now i must recognize when it is time to end my competitive career. they friday is here from

the w sport day. sounds like a wise man speaking there. yeah, i think so. i mean of course it's always difficult to say for some athletes and you never know how far exactly they can push it. but as you say, these 3 injuries are sorry, surgeries in one year. we just sort of knew it was a slog and i think, you know, as we'll talk about a bit, it's fairly clear he doesn't really have much left to prove to anyone. and although earlier in his career, he did have a moment in 2016 when he recovered from a left knee surgery and went on 2 and 33 grand slam titles since then. so that was sort of a big part of his career, but it looked like this time, it was just too much and he wouldn't have that same come back home and he had before. it's an amazing career. i mean, i haven't been able to, you can't say tennis in the same sentence without mentioning his name. yeah. what is some of the highlights it is. yeah, it's true. and i think in the same way that maybe serena williams plays that role

in the women's game in the last couple of decades. he is sort of the male counterpart to that. and honestly, we're going to rip through as highlights, we probably need 10 minutes or so at the least. and for me it's really tough to even bring it down to just one or 2 matches. i think there are more areas. so, you know, his 1st grand slam title was in 2003, and it was a totally different time in 2005. he. andre agassi just shows how sort of long his career has span that the eighty's or ninety's. exactly. it feels like he's sort of really been a bridge between different areas, but during the late 2002000 and he was just so dominant. and of course, it's sort of eternal battles with other members of the so called big 3 against no actual convention rather than a ball have been great to watch over the last 2 years. ok, you can't define all of those highlights or bring that down to one or 2. but what about is legacy? yeah, i mean, i think that's, that's part of what's wrapped up and it's like, legacy. he's had this incredible longevity. he's been really on this with the sport

and i think he's the most well rounded of the other big names in the open era. so even though technically of those, those big 3, his 20 grand slam titles, i put him statistically at the bottom of those, he's now been eclipsed by both others. still what he does, the way he plays and also who he is off the tennis court. you can speak languages, he's an international superstar, he's philanthropic. he's truly beloved. all over the world of tennis in the world of sport. you heard from dave reineke from d w. well, thank you very much. filling us in, in footballs, champions, league, manchester, city, styling olandt scored and acrobatic like game with it to steal a to one when against is form a close the door. but once again, we can prove to be a masterful goal scorer after goal. this 1st half in midfield, a jude bellingham put open in front just 10 minutes after the break. the 2 late goals from john stones and alon shifted the game in manchester. cities 5 up,

he scored 13 goals in a game since moving from the buddhist club. much to the delight of his coach, pep, quality all up. yeah, he's able to defensively for good or kevin, in the pockets. and when the do, the tradition is 5. have the sense for the 2nd position right to the box of goal score. so yeah, exceptionally i think everybody knows it. not because much management going to tell you. so everybody knows. here's a look at some of the scores from wednesdays, champions late group stage with doping losing 21. they're now 2nd in their group. another german club light say she lost against defending champions. real madrid. chelsea played out one drawer again, side spoke and ukrainian club done. it's dropped to 2nd in a group with a drawer against celtic glasgow. let's take a look at some other stories making news. at least 9 people have been killed and 20 injured in a stampede. in western guatemala, the victims were reportedly caught in

a crush of people trying to leave a music concert, celebrating independent state health experts in pakistan. a warning of a health crisis as cases of water bone diseases rocket following catastrophic flooding. millions of displaced to living close to stagnant water where dingey fever and malaria unknown to thrive. thousands of motors lining up to pay their final respects to queen elizabeth the 2nd. the cue to see the coffin stretches more than 10 kilometers along the thames. the united kingdom's longer serving monarch lion state and london's westminster hall for 4 days before a few rolled on monday. german film director, vendors, and the chinese artist i way way or among the winners of this year's premium awards . the global and surprises stood by japan's royal family given out in 5 categories and have been dubbed the nobel prizes for arts benders known for his independent

efforts. first made his name in feature films before turning to documentaries. let's take a look. film director vendors is one of the winners of the premium in period 2022 american landscape, so like an extra protagonist in his film, paris, texas, how are we doing? stanton's wanting performance? made him an icon. and then hobbies who as a fair, well film to america, so to speak, i actually made a european film that is a european film in america. i know patients in america's vendors is also being honored for his photography and documentaries. his bueno vista, social club, about cuba, music culture was nominated for 3 oscars. his feature film wings of desire blurred the boundary between documentary and drama.

remembering how are we to i made wings of desire 2 years before the fall of the wall. that's why it had a bit of a prophetic quality, especially the angels being able to travel freely. but when we shot the film, we never dreamt we'll be able to go through the wall. today. the film is also a kind of historical document of this berlin that no longer exists, is belinda versus only make it the international belief that developed after the fall of berlin wall was for a while home to another of this year's premium imperial or winners. chinese artist activists and filmmaker i way way is work often touches on hot political topics, including the refugee crisis. his work in his homeland china, led to imprisonment and exile di you're up to date on all the world news. you're watching d. w. coming up in d, w, news, asia, how russia and china are attempting to shape a different world order at

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