still, wall, not particularly windy or take it to friday, spot the difference developing shout. now these could become quite substantial. a flash flood risk shows itself in saudi arabia and inquiry, possibly even in some iraq. the rain is going south out of west african. i would, it hasn't left completely, the focus is going to be, i think more got bomb than cameroon. and d r c was, is orange flashes showing some big showers sit around the weather, sponsored by cattle, i was informed opinions. i believe that our media again should have bilateral negotiations. we've been ruling that the many time critical debate is the commonwealth still something that king child well take on the inside story on al jazeera, ah

a tight race for the u. s. congress has posed close and a midterm election being called the most important in a generation. we already know the results of some states, including florida, with the republicans have dominated ah, madison. this is all to see the light from dough hobb also coming up at least 9 people have been killed in an overnight attack in democratic republic of congo. several vehicles and houses have been burned. we're going to take you inside a bunker in central ukraine where people are preparing from cold winter and more power outages pulls of clothes across the united states in what's been called the most consequential election in a generation. tens of millions of people who turned out to vote on tuesday for congressional state and local races,

all 435 seats in the us house of representatives are being contested, as well as a 3rd of the seats in the u. s. senate. the outcome is going to affect what president jo biden's administration can achieve in the next 2 years. osland jordan reports 1st boats in the u. s. mid term elections are being counted. the turning point for control of congress and president jo biden's agenda in the next 2 years. voters said the country is in serious trouble. our think owner around us inflation and crime. now it's huge. it's huge seizure only going to get worse here to make a change or whole voting system is going to be on the line here. if we don't wind the governorship, for instance, and if we don't have at least some majority in this, in the senate. i mean it's, it's just critical. after republican spent months suggesting democrats were trying to steal the election, the justice department deployed lawyers more than 60 cities to ensure there weren't

any problems counting the vote. machine problems caused delays in arizona's largest county, but a judge reject it. republicans bid to extend voting hours. meantime, joe biden campaigns were democrats hoping they could help him boost his economic policies and his likely reelection campaign to de rephrase the inflection point. one of those moments comes on every 3 or 4 generations. we know in our bones or mockers is at risk and we know that this is your moment to defend it. but democrats hopes died early in florida, where republicans now control all of the top state wide seats. we will never ever surrender to the woke bob. honda is where, oh, or country flounders, due to failed leadership in washington. florida is on the right track.

former president donald trump promised to take credit for any g o p victories. and on tuesday night, he did just that, the wonder what biden would do right now, but we, it's likely elections officials will need days to confirm results in several key states such as georgia, pennsylvania, nevada, and ohio. rosalind jordan al jazeera. yeah. okay. one of the races, just called as in pennsylvania, democrat, john veterans defeated republican mehmet owes the celebrity tv, doctor vitamin so to stroke and made just days before the primary. let's go live together. alexander, whose life was in pittsburgh in pennsylvania at this is a big deal, isn't it? gabriel? it's huge. democrats are celebrating at this hour on this major victory in this senate race. this is the 1st i flipped state in this

election in this mid term in this senate race. that means it's either the democrats or the republicans. this is a 1st time tonight that either of the 2 parties has been able to flip. one was previously republican. now as democrat, this was a hard fought campaign, it was very close, and no one could really predict how this was going to go. but now with this race being called for john fatter men, this puts the democrats in the control or in the driver's seat, if you will, to potentially remain in control of the u. s. senate it's not there yet, but this is a big step in that direction for the democrats. this was a very hard fight campaign. as i mentioned, john fedor, men a the lieutenant governor. ah, he had a stroke just 6 months ago and he almost lost his life. he almost died from it. he was taken off the campaign trail for many months while he recovered to regain his

health. and he had a big lead in the summer, but that was so whittled down in the last several weeks. and the pulls indicated that this was a dead heat with both candidates tied at 46 per cent. and it appeared that his opponent, the republican trump backed celebrity dr. met oz was actually had a lot of the momentum in the last couple weeks of this campaign. and so the fact that fedor men was able to pull this out and secure this senate seat for the democrats is a huge, huge victory. a for the democrats, and not only this senate seat, the democrats also won the governor ship here in this state as well. so while there certainly was not a red wave of republican red wave throughout the country on this evening or. ready did well in florida here in pennsylvania it's almost like

a small blue. ready wave in one sense because this was certainly a very, very good night for democrats here in the state of pennsylvania. came out allison to talking to some pittsburgh in pennsylvania, gave, thank you very much. indeed. we're going to take a closer look at where things stand overall. now republicans are projected winners in all these senate races, the ones martin, red, north carolina and florida. of course, the 2 big swing states that have both gone republican democrats at the projected one, as in all those blue states, you can see there, plenty of them were pretty predictable. and that includes oregon, new york, illinois, connecticut, maryland, vermont. there everything in yellow you can see is still being contested. those are the crucial swing states, which we're still going to be watching. and of course the results. but those are going to be coming in any time between the next few hours could be another few days . for more on this, we're going to go to the white house. we're going to bring in a my cana might v i house minority leader, kevin mccarthy who's speaking

a moment ago and he said we are going to take back the house. that may be true, but he's not going to be doing it by nearly as much as they had hoped. indeed, yes. well, that house minority leader may be struggling to maintain control of the house, given the fact that even if the republicans do take control of the house, which is not confirmed at the moment, he is likely to be faced with an exceedingly clever majority in the house this has defying all prediction leading into the race. now, the white house behind me, the lights went out a few minutes ago, but president biden was up until well after midnight, making phone calls to the democrats, sued one i. the senatorial governor real. busy or house races, and he tweeted a picture of himself smiling as he spoke to one of the because on the night and certainly president biden has reason to smile given the prediction before the

selection in the senate race. for example, with that stunning victory in pennsylvania. the republicans will have to win one of rezoning, nevada, or georgia in order to gain control of the senate. georgia appears likely to go to a runoff election on december 6, so we may not know who controls the senate until then. the house races have be much closer than predicted, although the republicans appear to have an edge and getting control of the house. but for president bite, and this is a signature moment because just to put this in a context, previous democratic presidents got absolutely hammered in mid term elections. bo clinton, for example, last the, the for house seats in 1994 at president obama loft, 63 house seats in 2010. president biden is looking nice. nothing like those kind of numbers. so he is going to be calling on his party to continue to support him and

also to justify his leadership of the party over the past 2 years, which sometimes has come into question. so a smiling incident as he tweeted himself out from sitting in the white house behind here. so he has got every reason to feel satisfied with the way the results have gone at present. and just to mention what happened against the democratic leaders in previous mid term elections, both bill clinton and veronica bama went on to get reelection despite getting the massive mid term defeat. so perhaps president biden at the stage as reason to smile . he may well be small, we might, but as we both know, that doesn't necessarily mean that the next couple of years for the bio ministration are going to be easy. there is a possibility they might just might just be less difficult. yes, that's exactly very good way to put a new republican control of the house will put

a massive bray con president biden's agenda. should the republicans get control of the senate? that would be even more serious in terms of president biden attempting to complete what he stated his administration wants to do. so yes, it would have a massive impact on his a bullet to be able to get through what he once in the 2 years remaining in his particular presidency. so yes, that is the reality. but at the same time, he will be taking with him have side of this without those significant republican victories that were predicted by the polls and by the republicans themselves. he may be taking out a new energy within the party. certainly by holding off a republican red way vessels were, he is solidifying the nature of his leadership of the party. and this is something that would be very important in the next 2 years of his presidency. mike, thank you very much. really, that's my kind of talking to us from the white house. well,

republicans have dominated in florida. one dissenters has been reelected as governor, feeling speculation. he could run for the presidency in 2024 while marco rubio has secured another term in the senate. the people in this country are going to vote for the people to fight for people like them. they're going to vote for people that are going to fight for people that care about being safe. they don't want drug coming across our border that don't want illegal immigration running rampant into our country that don't want to have to pay $4.00 for gasoline that don't want to have to pay 22 percent more than they used to for their groceries. so when you see the results across this country tonight, that's what it's all about. the people who make this country great have been forgotten and have been left behind. and what i'm most proud of is that this community, miami date and the state florida. a diverse state, you find people in the state from everywhere. you find people say on every back. wow. and they enjoy this incredible new movement that isn't just going to change the country. it's going to change the republican party after tonight the republican

party will never be the same. and that's a great thing for america. i agree. think we're going to bring in roswell golden taipei, he's a political risk analyst and he's a former asia j republicans abroad. vega to have you with us, sir. on al jazeera, we've just seen john ferryman, democrat, kickout, and metals, the celebrity tv doctor, who was boosted by donald trump. the other going to be questions. do you think within the republican camp of whether or not donald trump's endorsements are the guarantee of success that they had previously appeared to be on a people going to start questioning whether or not they might actually be a hindrance? i'll definitely be some people who make that point, but it's probably going to be going against the majority view within republican elected politicians and the republican voter because we know that a former president, trump is enormously popular with what people like to call the base. and then the

fact is, there were trump indoors candidates who were a lactic. so trump is probably not going to be the one who takes the blame for republican disappointment today. and if anything, he'll say that i help put some people across the line. and we know that president trump is very good at messaging. let's look at the situation in the house. and it looks pretty likely that the, the republicans are gonna have a majority there. it's not going to be nearly as big as obviously they had hoped for. where does that leave the speaker of the house? kevin mccarthy? if it, when he takes over, if he has such a small majority, how much does that expose them if you like to be some supporters like marjorie taylor green for example. and people who stroke, you know, like the election denies people who and strongly follow the, the trump esau's who might actually end up driving a lot of the republican agenda within the house. well 1st he needs to be

selected speaker by his republican colleagues, assuming the republicans do have the majority in the house. there could be a challenger in the challenger would have very good reasons to challenge my part of the insight. we didn't have the resoundingly victory. we didn't pick up the several dozen or 3040 seats or some of the more optimistic talk that occurred in recent months. and they might have a basis to challenge and or he might withdraw very unlikely that he would. first he's got to get elected speaker and then correct, he's gonna have to manage the expectations of a very conservative caucus of republican house members. and there are different priorities but, but ultimately, if the democrats keep control the senate and they control the white house, there's not gonna be a lot of legislative going on show the way mccarthy plays. that is probably to agree to all sorts of investigations and oversight of the bided in ministration. and that's something that republicans do have a consensus about doing. they said they're going to do that. they have the majority

and they're going to proceed with doing that and try and do better in 2024 based on that kind of political battling with the, with the body administration. as i mentioned you with the agency republicans abroad . how do you think these elections are being viewed from asia, and particularly, of course, if there's a possibility that not only the house goes to republicans, but the sentence as well, that's a struggle for government. they have to deal with the president and his, his administration, whether that's directly with the white house or state department defense department commerce department. but they do have to engage with congress as well. and one thing for sir, is a house republican majority is going to take a lot of action with regard to china. her, they'll take a lot of hearings. they're going to propose legislation because they've accused the buying and ministration of being soft on china. so other countries in the region here, whether that's japan, korea, taiwan,

beyond countries. so they'll have to decide how to, how do they strike that balance between being friendly with the new majority in the house, and maintaining a positive relationship with the current government, which is still the biden administration. they have experience with that because there's been divided government in united states before, so that's not new, but in a ever more partisan environment. and with that partisanship, including foreign policy, not just domestic policy issues. it certainly is a struggle for foreign governments. how did a strike that balance really interesting to get your thoughts and this was fangled, we appreciate you being with us and al jazeera, so thank you very much indeed. thank you. okay, all eyes, of course, are still in races that have yet to be decided. those decisions become, as i said before, in the next few hours, or in the next few days as look at georgia 1st, georgia senate race is too close to call has been described as a must win, raced by repub, republicans if they want to gain control. now it looks like it might be heading for

a run off voted was between the democratic senator, the incumbent. rafael warnock, who's a pastor at abbey's a church and hassle walker, who's the republican candidate, and is a former american football star. interestingly, just a few hours ago, how shall walker's organizers were encouraging people to go home because they really believed that there was no chance that that was going to be any sort of result coming in. certainly in the next few hours or so. let's go on to arizona senate and we're looking at it. well, it seems to be good news for democrats here. the, the incumbent mock cali is a retard astronaut. is a u. s. navy captain, he's up against the republican blake masters. now he denies that there was any that, that said joe biden, one the, the last presidential election. interestingly, it is a board of state and this was republican john mccain. seton is often a trump full but inflation, economy, immigration, all key issues. and those and latino voters could play

a decisive role in who gets that seat. now let's speak to. she hubbard tansy in capitol hill. we've seen a lot of shifts and movement over the last few hours, and she had talk us through what the significance 1st of all of se, georgia and our zona are and what the, the key elements are for you. ro, i think you might have to repeat that question. i lost my audio just as you began to launch into what i'm sure was amazing question. well, i'm glad you thought it was amazing. even though you didn't hear it. let me ask it again that we're talking about georgia. we're talking about arizona. we're talking about the key states that we're still waiting for results for. and just briefly give us an idea of why these are so important and just talk us through what key elements are going to be for you across the board in georgia or zone in nevada. now as well as mike, as mike mentioned, and i think we're still trying to come to grips as to how on earth the democrats have managed this is mike also was mentioning, you know,

even when the economy isn't that 40 percent 40 year highs of inflation, even when the president doesn't have such pulling favorability ratings, presidents are punished in the mid term elections. and yet somehow, the bye didn't ministration either democrats or in congress seem to pull this up even if they lose, even if they do lose control of the house. this will be seen as a victory of sorts for them. so we have to look at what were the issues them, but we're, we're pulling them out of what seemed like a whole that just history itself. you cannot get out of this. and i think the by didn't ministration was very clear about going off to, you know, trying to democracy, but also abortion. this is the ruling that occurred in the summer time. and that's when we saw the polls shift. and then the biden ministration stuck to restore the advertising on abortion. and it was clear that that could mid terms are about getting turned out out to getting your base or getting young people are getting

swing voters of suburban white women, people who may not have the tool. because funny because i said disillusion. look at my paper, both ratings. they're not going to come out. but when you are trying to get them out by that shocking them and hunger voices must be heard. and there is a lot of evidence now. perhaps this did come. this did pay off for the bite and misery, even though there was criticism, but you got to talk about the economy more. you gotta do all this stuff for the abortion issue. certainly, perhaps the extremism issue we're making real, real differences. for example, in pennsylvania. this is the reason why i'm getting old as we go to see why, how fat him and pull this out. but we know that certainly in arizona, abortion is a, is a major issue in part because the republican can was, had a very hard line on abortion. such a hard line. in fact, that he had to scrub elements of his website out because he suddenly realized wait a 2nd, i'm going to lose suburban women. i'm going to start losing swing basis. so there's

a sense that i resume abortion may once again be a way that the democrats them against get through, that they get their base out because people are so shocked and angered by the supreme court decision on by republican overreach, potentially, on abortion at nevada, has its own wedge dynamics because it was a state that was particularly hard hit by covered by the lock downs to another disillusionment with all that can all make matters. and is that last latino boat, which is actually interesting be, may not be which may be moving increasingly towards the republicans in part because it's often said the democrats are just simply doing enough with out outreach. and then that leaves georgia. and again, that's where abortion, once again, i'm not that idea of extreme is and how about the idea of trump? maybe once again on the ballot, herschel walker, i'm picked by trump amount, who says he's completely against abortion. but then several women emerged from the woodwork to say, wait a 2nd, he paid for our oceans. this man as a hypocrite,

sense of outrage. there was a sense perhaps, could have been fed into a box, young people amongst suburban white women. and some of these areas where we're waiting for that for the votes. so does that sense them? that yeah, abortion, rage of extremism about democracy at study. these are issues that are panel for the democrats and they might, might, i might get them through through the senate, especially now that they have a cushion with pennsylvania that picked up a republic picked up from the republicans in pennsylvania. she had, thank you very much. indeed you have a chance to talking to us from capitol hill. are in democratic republic of congo. at least 9 people have been killed in an attack on the northeast in the city of bennie. a rebel group called the allied democratic forces is being blamed for the violence of tuesday night in venting. it comes as the government renews its fight against another rebel group,

and $23.00 malcolm labs joining me from a common goal now for those who have been forced out of their homes because of the fighting mach them. i want to talk, talk about this attack. first of all, what more do we know about this latest one? so the adf attacked last night at a town, a cabal shows about 200 kilometers to the north of here. they torched, at least 2 trucks. they talked the hospital looted medicines and kid, not the doctor. now the adf originates from neighboring you gotten there in the 1990s, but fairly plenty. they've been hiding out in the forest to beast in congo. and for about the last 10 years, they stepped up their target. think of civilians, they are responsible for numerous massacres. the colonies armies failed to contain it. you got his army entered that part of eastern congo a year ago. they will say fail to contain it. right group say to violence in the area. got worse since then. and now an east african regional force is meant to

be coming to help canyon troops are in the process of deploying hey to goma. but a lot of people here in the city of east, in congo, having had foreign forces, president and foreign meddling for about 25 years as a skeptical that yet more foreign forces get a help in spite the fact that the activities of all of these are groups, anything calling being grabbing in recent yes. model we can see the count behind. you talk us through what is happening there in the the stories that you're hearing from people who are there we can take a look around, tens of thousands of people variety just in the last couple of weeks following advances by the and $23.00 rebel group which is why d on the 3rd to be a proxy of neighboring rwanda. we just about 2 kilometers from the border with rwanda or they ruined the denies it. and 23 was defeated by the congress army 9 years ago. but they researched about

a year ago and they've made substantial advantage just in the last 2 weeks. and then the last 2 days, congo is army, started pushing back with air strikes, we seen and heard the fight, the jets and attack helicopters, taking off from the airport in goma. we've heard from targets to the north that they've been dropping bombs on those and 23 bases corners. army says it's essentially fighting rwanda waiting to find out if this new counselor offensive has been effective. malcolm. thank you very much. mark web talking to us from goma you as basketball, player berkeley griner is being transferred to a russian penal connolly. griner was sentenced to 9 years in prison in smuggling and possessing cannabis oil. now lawyers say they don't know where she's being moved to. the cup 27 talks in egypt have been dominated by cause for wealthy nations to help developing countries withstand climate change. a 12 year old pledge

made it called 15 to provide $100000000000.00 a year by 20. 20 still hasn't been met. natural disasters have taken thousands of lives this year and cost billions of dollars. ukrainian, president flooding the landscape, told the cop 27 climate summit. the bushes invasion of his country is harming global climate efforts to work towards a common goal. russian war has brought about an energy crisis then as force dozens of congress to resume coal fired power generation in order to lower energy prices for their people. the russian war destroyed 5000000 acres of forest. any trend in less than 6 months. not every country in the world has such an area of forest that we're born in ukraine by russian shalon. ukrainians are preparing for a tough winter as russia targets the countries energy facilities. president landscape says 4 and

a half 1000000 people are without electricity. are surveying travel to central ukraine to see how people are coping the war has taken a new turn in the last month. russia has been targeting ukraine's energy facilities . a 3rd have been damaged so far. ah, there are plant electricity blackouts taking place across the country. in the city of treasury, they're getting ready for the cold weather. the industrial city was hit by a drone, according to authorities. it's caused considerable damage to the energy facility. you rocher. i would assume they say they have set up 300 heating points around the city or on a budget was sure as young produce the russians continue to lunch terrorist attacks . so we must be prepared for the worse than usual. we're not trying to make a 5 star hotel in this place is made to survive them. there are blankets for food and baby cripps. this bunker can house hundreds of people,

those nasty eliza is middle school at piano left, the don best region in the east of the russia invaded. now the family faces a harsh winter. what's the spine? you see, we have everything here, sleeping bags and blankets, a warm place for the worst scenarios. i think we won't phrase, ah, this city has become home to internally displaced people, but quivery has been targeted by russian forces. the prospect of leaving again is a very real one. ah, in another part of the city, a soviet era nuclear bunker is being used to show a football mansion authorities here say they feel it's important to provide entertainment. watching the football match in a nuclear bunker may not be normal, but it's a chance for them to come together. oh, i like the atmosphere here. i'm cheer for my football team and i believe we went over the world. it would do better to watch it in a stadium. but do you hear that? what do you have because of the situation in the country green?

ah, and just for a moment, they forget the war outside and have something to cheer about. i said, bake. i visitor who very b. u. s. has confirmed one of its citizens has been killed in iraq. stevens royal was shot dead on monday evening in baghdad. it worked for an international agency. no group has admitted responsibility. more than 1000 people have been indicted in iran, as the judiciary threatened to crack down on any one who commits crimes during a wave of anti government protests. the authorities appear to have deployed mounted police and the capital to prevent demonstrations while students are trans. sharif university of been seen seen in protest. the unrest began after the death of 22 year old masa harmony in the custody of iran's morality in september. ah.