Inspired by an answer, I wonder if there are good places to watch simple-language multimedia on current topics with subtitles or transcription (and ideally English translation).

For example, Spiegel TV provides a lot of informative content, but it's still not easy to understand as videos don't seem to exactly correspond to articles.

Something similar what I have in mind is Deutsche Welle's Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten but that's just an audio, it's short and vocabulary is a bit too advanced for a beginner.