and again, we still have time to out. i'm going with his subscribe one more minute like ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin us lawmakers released donald trump's tax returns. the documents give details of the former president's financial affairs before for years to keep them secret. are washington correspondent, assassin, how damaging the information could be? also on the program,

vladimir putin seats closer military ties with china. the russian presidents over church gets a guarded welcome. beijing is officially neutral over the war in new crimes. and china reopens its borders. after nearly 3 years of cope with 19 travel restrictions . but other nations are worried about beijing's rising infection numbers. ah, i'm pablo fo lillius. thanks for joining us. a u. s. house committee has released 6 years of donald trump's tax returns, the former president ford for years to keep them secret. last week, the democratic controlled house ways and means committee voted to release trump's tax records from 2015 to 20. 20. they're likely to provide new revelations about his finances. trump was the 1st presidential candidate in decades who refused to

release his tax records. and this all comes with republicans, it back to take control of the house of representatives. well, d, w correspondence to me, so misconduct, washington, dc told us about the new information revealed in the documents. so public, we've learned important details about how much the former president did and did not pay in taxes. we learned more about how much he donated over the years. we learned about some of his foreign holdings and also how some of his businesses performed. and for example, we knew already that he didn't pay any federal income tax and the year 2020. that's because his businesses took some big hits because of pandemic. but what is interesting to see is that the amount of federal income tax that he paid varied a lot from year to year, so i can throw some numbers out at you. so for example, he paid just $750.00, a federal income tax in the year 2017, a year later, nearly $1000000.00 and a year after that $133000.00. so a big difference there,

as you can see, and these documents really reveal that trump used deductions, he took losses in his businesses and that reduced the amount of tax id he owed significantly and asked for donations. the charitable contributions that i mentioned that also fluctuated quite a bit. so he reported donating nearly $2000000.20 and then nothing in 2020. and one more point that was really interesting. pablo, it was, it was interesting to see that he held financial accounts in foreign countries, including china, through the 1st year of his presidency. so a lot of people here in washington asking questions about that. there are plenty of questions i'm sure that are going to be asked in the coming days to me. one of the reactions there been to the release tax documents. well, it won't surprise you. pablo, that the reactions have fallen a long partisan line. so, democrats have long said that this is important for transparency. and when one of the democrats in the committee that published these returns,

said on friday that these documents show that trump had something to hide, that he used questionable deductions and tax avoidance scheme to get out of paying federal income tax republicans. on the other hand of said, this is private business, this does not need to be made public and they are now warning revenge. so they're threatening to make public tax returns of private citizens. the supreme court justices, business leaders, political enemies as they call them. and you mentioned already that republicans will have a majority in the house of representatives starting next week. i do want to mention what trump himself is sad. he says that these returns show how successful he's been . and that he was able to use tax deductions to create jobs. so to wrap that up, i mean there is no law requiring presidents to publish their tax returns, but tradition a has called for them to do so. president joe biden. # released his return, stating back 22 years when he was running for office. but trump, they're breaking with tradition. to me, tell us this. could these documents cause an issue for donald trump on his run for

president in 2024. it doesn't appear that they will. i mean, observers here seem to get that these documents do not indicate any sort of legal wrong doing and present from supporters have stood squarely behind him through state and federal investigations and controversies. so these tax returns are not likely to shake that core group of supporters and for moderate democrats, this is for them proof that the former president has lied once again. so although it's important to have these documents on record, especially if we know that he's running again in 2024, it is not likely to move the needle much if at all public interesting stuff, thanks to me dw, assuming so misconduct in washington dc. manufacture vladimir putin as cold for closer military cooperation with china. the russian president was speaking during a video summit with the chinese leader shooting pain. though beijing has not condemn the worn ukraine. it also hasn't given russia any direct support. moscow's

latest airstrikes have left to much of ukraine without power. but if you're in missouri, we'll go with it. more attacks from russia on ukrainian cities round after round of drawings and cruise missiles. even though ukraine's air defenses are largely holding up falling debris from the intercepted rockets still cools as significant damage, as this woman in keep looks on in her children's bedroom glass everywhere. vladimir putin held talks with his chinese counterpart. the video cole happened to take place on the $100.00 anniversary of the founding of the soviet union. its demise is something putin bitterly regrets. together he and shouting, ping want to stand up to pressure from the waist. and putin, at least once closer, military cooperation with beijing was, were a special place and russian chinese relations is occupied by military and technical cooperation. this contributes to the security of our countries. we aimed to strength and cooperation between the armed forces of russia and china get in

a difficult international situation. we are ready to build up strategic cooperation with russia. provide each other with development opportunities and be global partners for the benefit of our peoples. china's official stance on putin's war is being quite objective and fair. she told person that position isn't changing and that the road to peace would not be smooth. putin cold, she his dear friend with and invited him to moscow early next year. you was or very me or earlier dental. his spoke to vienna, chuck her over who runs the austrian institute for european and security policy. and we asked if china was just as keen as russia for closer ties. it seems so, though we don't know exactly the scope and scale of dar military technology cur corporation between these 2 states. a lot hasn't been revealed yet. so we have

heard about the intentions about their plans, a lot of military exercises ah, that has been conducted. and even during a rigorous war against ukraine, a but these sir domain is obviously the one that is going to be exploited and explored in the years to come. obviously, russia has become completely dependent on china. chill bypass to western sanctions . some even describe it as a vessel of china or a junior partner. ah, but china also needs to support russia in this critical, critical face alpha. russia swore because it has to avoid that anew. as security vacuum could emerge in the north of its borders next to the military tensions, wheat, india along the line of actual control, as well as the military escalation into straight to for taiwan. so it's not an

altruistic relationship. it's a really based on reale politic national interests, and i anticipate that the military corporation will a further deepen and increase more countries, including france and the u. k. a, requiring people arising from china to show negative cove at 19 tests. beijing has reopened its borders after nearly 3 years of pandemic travel restrictions. but china's surgeon corona virus infections are making other countries nervous. the world health organization has urged china to share more covert data with the international community. a moment to remember for these passengers in china, nationwide travel has opened up again in the world's most populous nation, beijing's decision to loose in its covert 19 restrictions in early december was a welcome surprise for many new from her. they should indeed open up and i'm

supportive of this. everything including travel is getting more convenient and i'm going back to my home town now. finally, i can go home. it's great ally. you know it, i am really looking forward to traveling internationally again because i haven't gone abroad dusky for a long time or i'm a professional skier, so i can't read to ski abroad again a while of the rules surrounding international travel will be relaxed on january 8th ahead of the lunar new year, china's busiest travel season. but a surgeon cove at 19 cases has prompted other countries to already impose restrictions on arrivals from china. the us, japan and south korea are among those now requiring a negative test. italy and spain have also introduced restrictions despite the use health agency saying such measures are unnecessary. chinese state

media called the testing requirements discriminatory with china, 0 covey policy winding down an infection, numbers going up, traveling like it's 2019, could be a long way off. here's a look now at some more stories making headlines around the world. police in the us state of pennsylvania have arrested a suspecting killer in the killing of for university of idaho ad students. last month they were found stop to death in their beds and were likely asleep when attacked. the 28 year old suspect has been charged with 1st degree murder. it's still unclear if he knew the victims. i'd going brazilian president charitable to an auto has made a final emotional address to his supporters on social media. the far right leader defended his legacy and called on followers to oppose. leftist president elect, louise ignacio lula da silva. afterwards, both fernando flew to the u. s. he's expected to break tradition and not attend the

integration syrian authority, say, a militant rocket attack has killed at least 10 people in the eastern dare l 0 province. the petroleum ministry says the attack targeted 3 buses carrying oil industry employees. he may job in well to be in the capital daily where winters can be a battle for survival, for the thousands who live on the streets. during the colder months, the local government opens extra shelters for the homeless and charity organizations also ramp up efforts to help people in meet t w's. many rich audrey reports it's early morning on a frigid day in daily. and scores of people have lined up of what d and breakfast for most of them, it may be the only decent wheel they'll have today. this is just one of the locations where the chat a, d, v g car data, or elder brother's home, as it is called an english is tribute ford, who,

migrant workers and the homeless youth brothers coma g and dream g sing ran the organisation a large group of volunteers joined them every morning during winter they also had the destitute in other ways. apart from giving out food. in the gold through the mob, you find a home they don't have you know warden with molding. she'll read, recollect, or warm clothing or do you or did loading from people and she would do them or even give blankets to them. and you estimate the number of homeless in delhi, at a 150000. the hard winter season becomes a big challenge for them. the state government also has its own set of measures every year for people without a roof over their head. the deli government had launch. it's winter action plan under which it has set up a centralized control room and headline numbers to identify the locations of homeless people. and it has that abreast your teams to ship these people from the

streets do shall, to homes, like the one you see behind me, where they are provided with food and blankets. are good. the efforts seem to have beat off. families eat thing says until a few years ago, many used to die off the cold on the streets. no more people are able to survive. the punishing widow scenes organisation also provides free health care every morning in the old city area. there are many homeless di warranty has give us each to those who are injured and adopted awful as free consultations and medication in the winter winter months. you see lot of people with a lung d b a at the woman. the very high evolution levels of that to lot of people are coming reba breathlessness to live linux. so they're given by the doctor. did he do the drugs for the estimate looking for work every day and living on the streets is a challenge for many poor people in the capital. but organizations like viji

carnita make life a bit easier for some of them. i think it will be back here again tomorrow morning, waiting for a cup of tea. all right, well that's all from me for now. deed of new business is up next with my colleague, been for zealand, and don't forget, you can stay up to date and all the latest news on our website, d, w dot com and of course follows on our social media cats. i'm pablo funny as for me and the team here. berlin, thanks for watching. take care and i'll see again at the top of the next question. okay. questions about life, the universe and everything. do you know the answer? well man give it here.