actually feel as if you were there. it's every football is dream to play at the world. a new series follows plays from 6 countries and meet some up and coming stars with hopes of making it to cut off 2020 to everyone doing so back ever since we were kids to where the national team jersey in to work up episode one looks at how the host nation is gearing up to compete at the highest level? the world cup dream cattle on al jazeera spiraling costs dwindling supplies. the shock is being felt around the world with the war in ukraine, triggering gas supply uncertainty. europeans of bracing themselves for an unprecedented winter, al jazeera reports on the human costs of the winter energy crisis. ah,

a major retreat by moscow, russia and forces are withdrawing from the occupied city of her song as ukrainian forces advance. ah, are watching al jazeera life from a headquarters in del time during obligate. also ahead. early results in the u. s. midterm elections show no reg way that's predicted, but republicans are in the lead to take control of the house. facebook's owner meta fires $11000.00 staff worldwide, the latest tech firm to see mass lay offs plus ah, a general strike in grease tear gas and molotov cocktails as protest. her face off with police over the rising cost of living. hello, we begin with breaking news on the war in ukraine. russia's defense minister survey

showing his order, his troops to withdraw from the ukrainian city of her son. it's the only regional capital captured by moscow since the invasion began. we have my val who join us from moscow in a moment, but 1st let's bring in joe hall. he's joining us from keith. so joe, know what are you hearing on the ground about this retreat? well, we'll hear more from the moscow side of things from a violent moment, of course, but in the last hour or so, news filtering through that russia's command, the commodity russian forces here in ukraine, pseudo vicki and recently appointed to that role told the defense minister showing that he recommended to put out from has san because the russians, he said, couldn't properly defend the city or it's residence. show you, the defense minister agreed. and he said that that pull out will begin in the very near future. now, if that news is everything that it purports to be,

it would be a major ukrainian triumph. and indeed it's already been greeted as such here, popularly on social media cause here in the capital key of honking their horns. as the news came through the apparent surrender by russia, all the southern port city of have song, it's a significant port city, 300000 residents. before most of them played it. sit strategically at the mouth of the denique pro river as it flows out into the sea of adults. it was, as you pointed out, there, the 1st regional capital to be occupied by russia in this war back in march. in point of fact, the only regional capital and he came to form a very major part of russia's southern land bridge between the crimean predict peninsula and the russian mainland taking in other places like mario poll, you remember, murray poll from terrible bottom, suffered their back in march, and indeed in the last few weeks it has been, is doubt,

has been cost over russia's continued ability to hold on with signs of a sort of phased or managed. a parent withdrawal of russian forces resources, administrative assets, even civilians onto the east bank of the river. now, i must point out that as a say, if this news is what it reports to be a huge moment for ukraine in this war, but the ukrainian government here in kiev treating it with extreme caution. even skepticism at this point for me as a landscape senior advisor, me carlos portal yak. i beg your pardon. in his response to this news, saying that ukraine does not pay attention to russia's statements, its words and its actions differ. the russian forces remain in hash on he says, indeed, additional russian manpower is being pulled in it. he's too early. he says to talk

of a russian withdrawal and the context for that. a continued warnings within the infrastructure, the russian ukrainian military infrastructure that they may be being lured into some sort of a trap. here the russians evacuating kershawn to allow a ukrainian counter offensive building from the north to come in only to be tumbled from the east bank. so they are taking this news with extreme caution at this moment. ok, thank you so much on reporting from cave. let's not find out how the russians are explaining this and bring him home as well. he's joining us from moscow. so what official word is there from russia on this reported retreat? yes, the official word of course, is very brief. and it is that the russian armies, unable for the moment to defend the city of her son. we know that they have been, are asking civilians to leave that place. that has been going on for several weeks now. but there was no expectation here in russia that this will be followed by an

army withdrawal from wraps on. remember, in the military strategy, army is usually when they are defeated in a, in a spot. they don't announce ahead of time that they are going to withdraw from any area until they have finished that with their own. so, i mean, it's not clear. the picture is not clear for the moment whether that withdrawal has already taken place or it is going to start from the statements here in moscow. it is going to start. but we don't know what is what is happening on the ground, as i said. and the ukrainians, as my colleague jonah said, are taking this, sir. very cautiously, fearing that there might be a trap person is the only capital among those of 4 years or that has been occupied by the russian troops and russia considered that this is not an occupation. they say it is a constitutionally, constitutionally an annexation of a land that belongs to russia. so that is very awkward here. we're going to be seen very awkwardly in the eyes of the ocean public, that this is a russian land,

protected by the constitution that russia has been preparing and are adding to the number of the troops in order to, to defend this land. remember russia so doesn't to control all the region of house on the control on the a part of it, and now they're going to leave more territory. and that then the pro river, if they indeed withdraw will be a kind of natural barrier at, at places it is a one kilometer wide. so they think that they can defend better if they are on the other side of the river. ok, thank you so much. mohammed val reporting from moscow and russian state media says that a top official in one of the annex territories of ukraine has been killed in a car. crash kiros from a saw was appointed by moscow as the deputy governor of ukraine, southern shirts on region. and he gave regular social media updates about the frontline fighting the

the battle for control of us congress has been tighter than predicted that not despite indications from opinion polls many had speculated there would be so called red wave of big gains for the republican party. so far that doesn't appear to be the case. the party isn't the lead for seats in the house of representatives, but by a smaller margin than forecast. so control of the senate sits on a knife edge. both parties have now secured $48.00 seats, the battleground states of arizona and nevada, wisconsin, and georgia are being watched closely. so far, only one senate seat has flipped democrats on federal mon. defeated trump back tv celebrity, dr. my doors in the crucial state of pennsylvania. crossing jordan wraps up the results so far i it was billed as the red wave of 2022 republicans winning control of congress to become president joe biden's biggest

political obstacle. but democrats of won several important races. mark kelley of arizona was re elected to the senate. he'll be joined by pennsylvania's john thurman, who overcame both a stroke and stiff competition from the celebrity. dr. mehmet, ours, i'm proud of what we ran on. health care is a fundamental human right. ah, it's a little bit if you'd all be there for you. the midterms came after months of republicans accusing democrats of plotting to steal the vote. despite fears of potential disruptions at polling stations, nothing significant was reported. the president spent tuesday evening congratulating democrats who won their races, and he urged people still waiting to vote in western states to stay in line. democrats hoped died early, though in florida,

where republicans now control all of the top seats. we will never ever surrender to the woke bob horta as well. oh, our country flounders, due to failed leadership in washington, florida is on the right track. former president donald trump promised he would take credit for any republican victories. and he did just that. no wonder what biden would do right now, but we, one of the candidates trump endorsed, did not thank him during his victory speech. now the people of ohio have given us a job and what we need to do over the next couple of years over the next 6 years for the full, the full length of the senate term, whoever's in the majority, whatever the president looks. we have a very simple job to do it, so go to work every single day and fight for the people of ohio. let's get america back on track. house minority leader kevin mccarthy has long dreamed of taking the

speakers gavel from nancy pelosi but voters may not be ready for that. rosalind jordan al jazeera, let's bring in heidi hide camps. she's a former us senator and director of the university of chicago's institute of politics. she's joining us from new york. welcome to al jazeera, heidi hi cam. so how do you explain that with biden's a low approval ratings as well as all the pain that a voters are feeling? americans are feelings from, from the inflation and the economy the returns haven't had the impact republicans had been hoping for. i think 1st off, you have to evaluate the role that donald trump played not only in picking candidates, but interjecting his chaos into these races. 2020 was a referendum on donald trump. he failed miserably lost the election. he tried to recoup some momentum in the mid terms by making this about him, and the voters overwhelmingly rejected the return to donald trump kind of policies

. i think also important to note that roe v wade and our reproductive rights were on the ballot in ways that i think the pundents missed as they were predicting a red wave. and the republicans were never able to strike a message to women, especially independent women independent men in and maybe some swing democratic voters who would have otherwise voted for the on the economy as it related to freedom. and i think the stories that came after the reversal of roe v wade regarding the difficulties women were facing and getting health care. i think that just resonated, it stuck with people. and given a choice, they said the choice in this election is to vote with democrats who believe in individual liberty. i do expect for of the way, the nature of abortion to be such a motivating factor in this election. are you surprised by no, i'm not surprised. at all i, you know, i was in the senate when the president nominated 3 president,

trump nominated 3 supreme court justices. the last time i was with the president, i walked out and i told the staff, if your court reverses robi wade, you might be a minority party for a long, long time. i think over the years, the republican party has used this as a wedge issue. and really motivated a minority of voters to vote strictly on that issue of abortion. the democrats didn't vote on abortion because we had the constitutional rights. and once that constitutional right was taken away, you saw the reaction in this country, and the reaction was negative to the republican party who have been writing that way for a lot of elections rates. i mean, we obviously wait for the final and confirmed results, but as it stands right now, the republicans could main, could make small gains in the house. so even a small majority in the house for republicans threatened to block the next 2 years

of jo biden's presidency. could it or not it could, but understand this, there is going to be a lot of soul searching and struction in the republican party. and that's going to enable joe biden to continue to advance his agenda through executive order or implementation of the legislation. he already passed last. we have a lame duck coming up and i assume that what we're going to see in the lame duck is further movement towards a pro people agenda. like to wonder which side of this i'm on, but a pro people agenda, which i think will further advance. jo biden's opportunity to put his mark on a policy in america. all right, we'll leave it there. thank you so much for speaking to us from new york. still had on al jazeera italy backs down and allows people from 3 migrant rescue ships to disembark, while a 4th had to france. i'm christmas,

let me outside christy's auction house in new york where people are lining up to get a glimpse that in one of the kind our collection expected to raise more than a 1000000000 dollars ah. with yesterday, down the border in southern keta, next to saudi arabia, 38 degrees artist he cruelties for november. there was a change taking place in the middle east. but as i got this far, to be honest, is cold rares prompting a few showers around. probably level in serious might get a bit further south. and that they're not particularly big is an indication of the change of season, which has reached across iraq in towards iran. they're still shouting that point of view, and here it is in q 8 in saudi arabia. cut out the size of that, it's still warm here. it's still been very warm to you. a temperatures are far too

high for the compare with the average. but they come down in the status, so in that particular took when it's done, we're down by about 15 to 20 degrees in the last couple of days or take you to friday these showers rather than coming south, develop be quite big one standards tools flashed out potential, what is in saudi arabia and crossing q and possibly in southern iraq as well. doe has at 34. it's still possible. be a bit warmer for the sas, not reco values, but just a bit higher than you might expect. this time, the year, the tropical reins, and after still a long way north, i still reaching parts of south sudan. the focus is for the south rwandan down towards dia, congo, to some degree cameras gap on an old man. ah frank assessments. if the united states a program was there to build a nuclear weapon, they would assign to view by informed opinions. i believe that armenia agenda

should have bilateral negotiations. we've been holding it that for many times critical debate is the commonwealth now still something that king charles will take in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on al jazeera lou ah, fellow again, the headlines on al jazeera, russia has ordered its troops to withdraw from pierce on, it's the only regional capital captured by moscow. since the invasion began, the defense minister told troops to retreats from the west bank of the disney pro river. the u. s. house and senate still hang in the balance hours after polls

closed in mid term elections. republicans have declared their confident they'll take control of the house, but several braces are still outstanding. so facebook's parent company matter has announced it will be sucking more than $11000.00 employees. mark zuckerberg says that's about a 13 percent reduction of his workforce. the ceo says he hired more staff during the panoramic, but revenue has slowed down in a statement. he said, i got this wrong and i take responsibility for that company will also extend a hiring freeze technology. journalist and author crystal walker says upper berg has a new vision for meta, but not everyone is pleased about the changes. incredibly unfortunate needs and i think indicates just how much struggle there is for tech companies right now to retain and keep staff at a time when things are really, really tough. for them. obviously matters. layoffs, 11000 people, dwarfs. twitter is low. when you look at the actual proportion of the company,

this is something like 13 percent of the organization. it's almost 90000 people matter employees worldwide. but we, we have indications that you know, some of these cuts will come in recruiting in other different areas. and largely it seems because box, the founder and ceo of matter says, do you see the pandemic and changing priorities? which is a huge shift for this book. obviously big for the tech company in the big sector and world shows the sort of stag nation of sorts with matter. we know that they made their name off the back of social media room. see, lots of us knew the company and its previous guys is facebook. it also instagram and also what's up to key communication tools. the fact that we will use to day out, but really messaging matter. facebook in general has, has kind of been stalling for a while. facebook, the food service and the website hasn't seen that many uses joining it ever since

pretty much the last 5 or 10 years. it's kind of got a reputation. i was being very, very on cool and in it's play smoke. so i suppose trying to find the future for the company. professors and police have fought in greece. the 1000 stage are nationwide strike against the rising cost of living. release fire a tier of asked while the testers, pearl, petrol, bombs and stone. that officer is guarding the parliament building. public schools have been shots, and flights and public transport are facing severe disruption. unions are demanding lower taxes and increased to the minimum wage. johnson rocket says more from athens, the private and public sector workers who demonstrate in central athens on wednesday, asking the government to eliminate consumption and sales taxes on electricity bills, and gas bills, and other forms of energy such as petrol. which at the moment is one of the most highly taxed forms of energy in the country. more than 80 percent of the cost of

petrol at the pump goes directly to the government. and it is one of the most expensive rates of a gasoline in the european union at more than 2 years. a liter shed only by a few northern european countries with 2 or 3 times greece as per capita income. the government is going to have great difficulty lowering those taxes and consumption fees because it depends on that income to keep the budget reasonably balance. if it does away with this, it will have to borrow more from markets at 5 percent, and it's already in great expenditures, subsidizing electricity and gas bills. $13000000000.00 have been committed so far this year alone towards doing that. and there's no help from the european union. the government in athens asked for a european solidarity funds to be set up, but brussel says no, because it doesn't want to subsidize fossil fuels, all slow down europe's transition to renewable clean energy grease. however,

a sufferings the results of these opposing forces, the governments need to build up its budget and european need to transition away from fossil fuels, which are mostly imported at very high cost. because this society went through 8 years of recession and austerity measures which sold the national average income decline by about a 3rd. and these already passed it households budgets, which have also been through the coven lockdown crisis, are now going through the 3rd crisis of the decade. and they are finding it extremely difficult to cope francais. emily's actions are accept. after rome refused to allow several migrant rescue ships to dock for vessels carrying asylum seekers were initially denied permission to come to shore in the past week. summer later allowed the dog down to some bark passengers. it's part of correct down by in these new far right wing government and now one ship is headed to france and then

tony berkeley isn't ketani. i was more on the response from italy's new government . we're hearing that there are divisions within the administration and we have spoken to members of the brothers eventually party the party of ga maloney. they were quite adamant when i spoke to them yesterday that you know in their words, she will walk the line. she will not back down, he'll continue to have his hotline approach. but of course, the other day as we see they haven't promised is a one thing. reality is another. and i think the government has learned a lesson that what it promises is not always what they can keep. and they have got to do a different policy now. because the rescue ships that we have been featuring, going back out as soon as possible, i will still continue to save lives because this will not stop people trying to seek a safer and better life is still going to come from africa. they're still going to put up with the terrible conditions that see especially starting now in the winter and people will drown. and without these rescue ships,

the casualty rate will be higher and higher. so it's important for them to carry on . and the italian government has to face reality, its opponents to say that these people should be allowed in and be give, come given compassion. several people are believed to have been killed after a convoy, a fuel trucks was hit, and serial iranian trucks were carrying gasoline to lebanon when they were hit. that's according to radians, state media, and they say a u. s. thrown carried out the strike, which washington denies. no country has yet claimed responsibility. the convoy of her own 15 trucks was targeted after crossing from iraq. japan says north korea, as far as what appears to be a ballistic missile. it's the latest in a series of launches, bypass gang, that of res, regional tensions. the weapon fell into the sea of japan outside the country is exclusive economic zone. in the democratic republic of congo, at least 9 people have been killed in an attack in the northeastern city of bennie

. a rebel group called the allied democratic forces. as being blamed for the violence on tuesday night, it comes as the government renews its fight against another rebel group. m 23. israel's president is holding talks with party leaders to choose the next prime minister last week general election. put benjamin netanyahu in the top position for the job. his recruit party came in 1st meeting the incumbents. yay or la page. this is israel's 5th general election in nearly 4 years. a united nations independent commission of inquiry is holding public hearings on a legit human rights violations in the palestinian territories. in august, israel outlawed several palestinian rights organizations and raided their officers . rights workers accused is really governments of crimes against humanity. sama bon jovi, reports from geneva in occupied ballast. indian territories scenes like this are common human rights workers say, reporting abuse often means putting your life on the line in

a system that is biased against them. this is beyond occupation and or the medication. this is colonialism and the part, i know this language on this wards are this north of no accepted by all the human rights organizations over the war. this is, i think some of the fear these are very is always they try to show themselves that they are the only democracy in this jungle. you know, in the region the un commission of inquiry on the occupied palestinian territories . and israel is holding public hearings. one of the matters under investigation is the military rate of 7 civil society groups. israel has classified terrorist organizations rights workers say the escalating attacks are an attempt to prevent them from documenting violations. physical torture and psychological torture are still used in a very systematic way and that of that is raleigh interrogation. and in prisons and the arabic, 3 detention in the form of admin sort of detention the health care conditions of

the prisoners and the lack of the proper health treatment. this is why bombing is claiming with the other palestinian organizations that prisoners are facing war crimes and crimes against humanity. some activists said they received death threats and where the dog to smear campaigns. although their officers have reopened the threat of under the read possible arrest or even death lodge been great, he was established last year after israel's 11 deborah budman to gaza. 250 palestinians and 13 israelis were killed. although these hearings do not have any legal implications, but palestinian civil society believes that an investigation by the human rights counsel might be used as evidence if they ever make it to an international court. not surprisingly, israeli was, is missing from head as it alleges, bias from the council and has refused to cooperate with. the israel mission in geneva says, these champ trials, shame, and undermine the human rights council,

which should not be used to convene kangaroo courts. the israeli government is basically acting in the same way as governments that are under human rights investigations routinely act. and that's a great pity i would have expected more from the state of israel, which calls itself a liberal democratic state than shunning, official processes established by the human rights council. despite the opposition from the state of israel for those giving testimonies and witness accounts, hope is all the content too, in their fight for justice. some, a majority of the or at the us in geneva, an earthquake in nepal has killed at least 6 people. the magnitude 6.6 tremor stuck struck early on wednesday morning. houses in the western district of doty collapse and the army has been searching the rubble for survivors. us basketball player britney griner is being transferred to a russian penal colony colony, where she'll be expected to carry out. work. greiner was sentenced to 9 years in prison in august for smuggling and possessing cannabis oil. her lawyer say they

don't know exactly where she's being moved. to a private or collection from microsoft co founder it paul allen is being auctioned off in new york for charity. the collection represent 500 years of our history. christian salumi passmore. it is a private art collection that could rival and museum who's who of artists from sandra bought a chelly to vincent van gogh and george o keith. but it's not just the artist names that are driving the sale. it's a chance to own one of more than 150 works of art from the late microsoft co founder paul g allen. like everything that that painting can and could be in your room. max carter handles 20th and 21st century art for christie's auction house. most collections we tend to see at the very highest level even are tend to be focused on one artist or one period or one file or one medium. this is 500 years of

the greatest works of art, take long time, san vig twice by policies on rate. it is of course, a direct thru line from what phase i'm doing here and 20 years later with the costs on brock we're doing with cubism design. it is widely regarded as the father of modern art. and this is, this is very much why this one piece expected to fetch $120000000.00. allen before he died in 2018, agreed to donate as well to philanthropy. just terrifically inspiring, that one individual could collect your collection engine. beautiful to be able to save in the works include landscapes like birch forest, by gustaf clamps and portraits like this one by lucy on freud. and they spent the last month on display and cities around the world from shanghai to london to los angeles. here in new york, art lovers have been lining up to get a glen.