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world. i'm laila harrak. i want to get to our lead story. hundreds of thousands of votes are still being counted in arizona and nevada but control of the senate dramatically shifted in the democrats' favor. cnn now projects that arizona's democratic incumbent senator mark kelly will win against republican blake masters. mr. masters had the backing of donald trump but there was little enthusiasm for him among old guard republicans like mitch mcconnell. and new vote totals are being released daily. and arizona still has several thousand yet to process. and the next shoe to drop could be nevada where adam laxalt has seen his lead erap vaporate to about 800 votes head of cortez masto. with races so tight, including for arizona governor, some

republican candidates have complained about the slow pace of the vote counting. even hinting at nefarious motives. bond election officials say state law dictates how quickly the process goes. >> we're not purposely holding it back. we're doing everything we can to move about ale lots forward as quickly as we can, but the statutory deadlines that we have in place, i can't doale lots fo quickly as we can, but the statutory deadlines that we have in place, i can't do -- i can't finish until saturday even if i wanted to. honest we have the cure deadline. i have to give for those voters an opportunity to get their ballot cured. >> and mr. kelly's projected win in arizona makes the democrats and republicans tied at 49 senate seats a piece. and one more win for democrats either in nevada or georgia's runoff could give them control of the upper chamber. democrats continue to pick up

house seats, but there the math is against them. republicans only need seven more seats to control the house which they are widely expected to do. cnn's gary tuchman is in las vegas with the latest on the nevada race. but we begin with kyung lah in phoenix. >> reporter: the vote count here in maricopa county is still continuing, but cnn is now projecting that senator mark kelly, the democratic incumbent, will defeat a challenge from republican blake masters. the vote count here is 82% complete as workers here, you can see, are still going through the ballots. about 265,000 to 275,000 votes still remain to be counted. the masters campaign had hoped that this latest vote result would be the turnaround, clearing a path, a possible path to victory where he could catch up and overtake the democratic senator. that simply did not materialize.

senator kelly released a statement after multiple news organizations projected that he would indeed win saying, quote, i'm humbled by the trust our state has placed in me to continue this work and we're also getting reaction from republicans here in the state of arizona, the party here increasingly has seen a divide between the moderate mccain republicans and the trump wing. republican analyst and operative garrett morrison said arizona is a tariff state but not a trump state and voters keep telling us that. kyung lah, cnn, phoenix. >> reporter: u.s. senate race in nevada is so close. mail ballots still need to be counted. where reno is located, there are with 11,000 ballots still to be counted.

and douglas county in western nevada, population 50,000, and it is very republican, that county hasn't elected a president -- a democratic president since before world war ii. they have about 2,000 ballots outstanding. but this is the big prize, this building behind me, this is the clark county election department, clark county is where las vegas is. about three quarters nevadians live in this county. there are still 23,000 mail in ballots to count. and an additional 15,000 ballots are provisional ballots or ballots that need to be cured. what that means, some people don't put their signature on the ballot. as long as they do, it then gets counted. so that is a total of 38,000 more ballots. so still a lot of counting do in this race that is very tight. gary tuchman, cnn, las vegas. and political analyst josh rogin is joining us now from washington, a columnist for the

"washington post." so good to see you, josh. you are also the author of "chaos under heaven." the eyes are on the state nevada where vote counting continues. control of the senate could come down to what happens there. what does that tell you about the balance of power? >> what it tells us is if nevada does go democratic, and the deadline for the counting ballots is tuesday, then what we'll have is a few weeks of tens of millions of dollars being spent on the deciding race in that case, the runoff between warnock and walker in georgia, and being essentially rendered meaningless. if republicans win, then that georgia runoff will determine control of the senate one way or the other and that will become the defining political race for the next two years.

so i think between now and tuesday there will be a lot of nervous people on both sides of the aisle. but if democrats prevail, it means that democrats will keep the senate. republicans are likely to take over the house. and then we'll have split government can which will lead to policy paralysis as the 2024 campaign kicks into high gear. >> what is the biggest story line coming out of the midterms for you. >> there are two. of course first that the red wave did not materialize, that republicans underperformed expectations, and that is causing an internal fight inside the gop on the senate side between the leadership led by minority leader mitch mcconnell and rick scott. and the second narrative of course is that the new battle between ron desantis the governor of florida who won

overwhelmingly and donald trump who is being blamed for most of the republican losses rightly or wrongly. and we've seen trump come out against desantis in the recent days and that is a dynamic that is tearing the republican party apart from the inside. and that will only get worse as both of those republicans gear up for possible presidential run. >> talk to us more about the rivalry that is emerging right now between desantis and mr. trump. how do you see this playing out? >> just before the midterm election, it seemed as if desantis would back off and perhaps delay his presidential ambitions and allow donald trump to take one more crack at running for president. but in the wake of the polls, it is clear that ron desantis o overpeover perf performed. and that has given donors and also a lot of the leadership a

lot of confidence that kansas city oron desantis is their better chance to win back the presidency. and donald trump responded to potentially announce his run as early as tuesday. and when that happens, all republicans will be forced to choose sides. and all the fence sitting will end. and we have elise stefanik leadership member from new york declaring she is in favor of donald trump even before he announced. and that puts a lot of republicans in an uncomfortable position, especially kevin mccarthy from california. and he has got two bad options and he has to choose one of them. he will have to pick a side probably before he runs for speaker. so what we'll see is a civil war inside the republican party and it seems inevitable now -- both can't win. one will win and one will lose. >> and outcome of the midterms

are consequential on a local and state and federal level. and international ramifications. you argue that potential republican control of congress, and it looks like it is going that way, could have a massive impact on u.s. support for ukraine. can you elaborate on that? >> that's right, i reported in the "washington post" this week that there is an internal debate among gs republicans especially in the house over whether or not to continue robust funding to aid ukraine both militarily and economically in the new congress. and there are some on the far right who want to cut off all u.s. aid to ukraine completely. there are many in the republican party who want to continue the military aid but cut the economic aid. and talking to ukrainian officials, they tell me that that would be disastrous because if the ukrainian economy collapses, the military won't be able to fight. so the internal dynamics inside the republican party could have an effect on the ukrainian ability to prevail in their

struggle against the russian invasion. there are many republicans who are internally arguing that we must continue to support ukraine especially as winter compan com they gear up for another fighting season next spring and summer. but donald trump and some of his allies have been undermining gop support for:00 fo ukraine for q some time and i don't know which way it will come out and neither do the people on capitol hill. >> josh, thank you so much for joining us. and u.s. president biden is meeting with world leaders in cam body can i can't as they gather for the asean summit. and we'll have a live report for you from phnom penh after the break. plus -- [ chanting and singing ] >> jubilation in kherson one day

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a city that president putin said would be russia's forever. now firmly in ukrainian hands. and its residents couldn't be happier about it. [ chanting ] >> people in the city of kherson welcomed ukrainian troops friday following months of russian occupation hours earlier. moscow announced it had pulled out from the west bank of the dnipro river, conceding 40% of the kherson region to ukrainians including the city itself. ukrainian troops also swept through other towns in the area holding up their flag to mark the end of russia's occupation. and they displayed ammunition and other military gear that russians left behind. and that contradicts russia claim that is they took all their equipment with them. and ukraine also says russian troops destroyed critical

infrastructure on their way out including bridges like this one on dam northeast of kherson. president zelenskyy said ukrainians persevered because they always knew the russians would be driven out. >> translator: people of kherson waited. they were rate to pin their hopes on ukraine. and ukraine always returns its own. i'm glad to see those people despite all dangers repression and suffering inflicted by okay fires held on to ukrainian flags. believed in ukraine. >> we want to take you straight to kherson where residents are euphoric after the russian troops finally pulled out. and nic robertson is the only international reporter currently in the city center and he joins us now live. nic. >> reporter: yeah, you are joining us here in the central square of kherson. our cameraman is up on a perch

in front of me so he can give us a good view of the whole seen. people are out. there is a real sense of euphoria here. every time ukrainian troops come by, a big cheer goes up from the crowd. an remember it has only been in the past 48 hours that the russians who had been here for eight months left. and at the beginning of the war people gathered in the square to try to oppose the russian occupation. people were taken away, people were beaten, people disappeared. and i'm joined here by a couple of gentlemen, by igor and victor. and we'll talk to them a little bit about what they have experienced here. igor, tell me how has it been living under the russian occupation and how is it today? >> today feels very amazing. i've been waiting eight months,

eight months sitting in my home doing nothing. i don't study, i don't have anywhere to go, nothing to do, just sitting here. a enand when you look out the window and see them walks past fully armed. and now people feel free. enand window and see them walks past fully armed. and now people feel free.enand window and see them walks past fully armed. and now people feel free.nand w window and see them walks past fully armed. and now people feel free. and w window and see them walks past fully armed. and now people feel free.and whw and see them walks past fully armed. and now people feel free. feels amazing. >> describe that moment when you realized the russians were gone? >> it was yesterday. and it was my friend, we were out and seeing the ukrainian flag and we were like what the hell is this. and we see the flags, people cheering. next morning we wake up and see ukrainian forces and we are like why don't we go to center, we get here, people are cheering, we are cheering. basically big emotions. very happy. >> and victor, how do you feel? >> my name is victor, i'm very, very happy and i want to say

great sense and thank you for great britain for your help and friendship. >> and what with are your thoughts when you realized russians had gone? how did you feel when you realize the russians had gone? >> from first day of march until yesterday, of course all suffer. and from yesterday, yesterday and today, i'm very, very happy. i'm full of happiness. >> and tell me about that time for you with the russian troops here, how was it for you? we don't know about your experiences here. >> with resisted. we feel very, very bad. very bad. we big suffer. and all this time, we hope for this day, we waited for this moment eight months and ten days. >> and what do you want now to

happen? >> i want to be peace everywhere. no war. [ inaudible ] ukraine always and forever. >> victor, thank you very much. >> and one more time great thanks to great britain. >> and igor, what do you want the government to do, how do you -- part of the country is still occupied. what would you like to see? >> just get away from my land, leave peacefully. i don't want hearing bombs over my head and seeing russians. because when you see them, you are full of fear, you are scary and nothing more. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: i think it will be a day here of many emotions for people, it is that sense of freedom that this is a city

without electricity, without water, tv stations just down the street from here, that was blown up by the russians before they left. the dam up the river here has been damaged, that will be a big worry because if the dam breaks, that could bring about flooding in this area. but i think that for today most people here really want to savor the moment. and it is hard to put into words the feeling, a feeling as deep as going from fear to the absence of fear. in a matter of hours. and that is what people here are experiencing, it is being here together on the streets, being able to wave their own flag, being able to feel free. enjoy themselves and look forward to a little stability. and also of course a lot of concern. the russians have only pulled back just across the river, just a few kilometers from here and it is still not clear what their intentions are. they talk about taking out all

the military equipment and they are across the river. and so a city and moment of a great happiness and uhe information can i can't, but there is a sense here of courkn next . >> nic, thank you so much. and with a full agenda and plans to boost the strength of indo-pacific relations, president biden met with cambodia's prime minister. and while in phnom penh, he will also immediate with south korea's president and next week with xi jinping oat the g-20 summit in indonesia.

and senior international correspondent will ripley is there for you in phnom penh and he is joining us live. fraur first of all, what are we expecting to come out of the asean summit? >> reporter: and we're waiting to hear president biden speak possibly any minute now, so that could happen during this report. we'll see. and we expect nothing in terms of major kmomentous announcemens to come out of this or the g-20. but we are expecting president biden to reaffirm his key messages that he is bringing from the united states to allies here in asia, one of those a theme that got him support during the midterm elections which is this fight to defend democracy. president biden spoke repeatedly about it in the u.s. and it is a message that he brings here as well at a time that the u.s. is vying for international support

with china and with china's substantial investments in countries like cambodia where you can walk around this city and others and see chinese owned operations, businesses, and infrastructure investments some just announced recently on the heels of the prime minister of cambodia's meeting yesterday with the chinese premier. president biden will be -- he is speaking right now. let's listen. >> i hlook forward to building even more progress that we've already made. i thank com cambodia for hosting all of us and want to recognize all the work indonesia has done this year. mr. president, thank you very much.the work indonesia has dons year. mr. president, thank you very much. and as coordinator for the

united states. and in fact this is as i said my third trip, third summit, second in person. and it is a testament to the importance the united states places in the relationship with asean. and our commitment to asean's neutrality. asean is the heart of my indo-pacific strategy and we continue to strengthen our commitment to work in lock step with an empowered unified asean. today we take another critical step beginning a new era in our cooperation with the launch of the u.s. asean comprehensive strategic partnership. together we'll tackle the biggest issues of our time from climate to health security, defend against the significance threats of rural based order, and threats to the rule of law. and to build an indo-pacific

that is free and open, stable and prosperous, resilient and secure. and we're putting real resources behind our approach, not just rhetoric. over the last year, my administration has announced more than $250 million in new initiatives with asean. and for 2023, i requested $850 million in assistance for southeast asia. we're continuing to build on that progress following through on our commitments and launching concrete new initiatives that further strengthen asean and increase connectivity across southeast asia. through our new u.s./asean electric vehicle initiative, we'll work together to develop an integrated electric vehicle ecosystem in the southeast asia. and enabling the region to pursue clean energy economic

development and him a vicious emissions reductions targets. similarly, we're launching a u.s. asean platform for infrastructure and connectivity to bring the benefits of the partnership for global infrastructure and investment to the asean countries. we'll doechbl projects together based on a need you identify to create sustainable high standard infrastructure that supports the people of the region. we'll bid the better future that we all say that we want to see. for all people in our countries. so i look forward to continuing our work together with the asean and with each one of you.

to deepen peace and prosperity throughout the region to resolve challenges from the south china sea to miramar and to find innovative new solutions to share challenges. thank you again for the 45 years of partnership between asean and the united states. and for all that we can accomplish together. thank you. >> and that was the u.s. president joe biden there addressing delegates at the asean summit. let's bring back our senior international correspondent will ripley who is in phnom penh for you. and what jumped out is him stressing the importance of asean for his indo-pacific policy. how receptive do you think the leaders are to his message?

>> reporter: this is a critical time for the united states because there is increasing pressure from an affluent authoritarian china which now has a leader xi jinping with an unprecedented third term and what some might argue an echo chamber of yemen allowing him to basically move forward with any initiative that he deems important. and china has a considerable amount of influence in this region because of their diplomacy and their economic diplomacy as some have called it including substantial investments in smaller countries like cambodia where they just announced billions of dollars in new chinese investments. and you can walk around and see that infrastructure, those chinese owned businesses pretty much everywhere here in phnom penh. and then you have the china military influence with dozens more warships than the united states. so really the u.s. supremacy in the indo-pacific is being

challenged for the first time in more than 70 years. and you heard president biden mention the south china sea. and myanmar as well. he will also talk about north korea. but really it is the china influence that will be top of the agenda. he wants to know what key u.s. allies are hoping what will come out of that meeting. not any concrete deliverables expected, but certainly a time for a face-to-face interaction between the two leaders of the two biggest millest militaries the world when they very much need to talk. >> will ripley, thank you so much.world when they very much to talk. >> will ripley, thank you so much.hen they very much need to talk. >> will ripley, thank you so much. >> for more analysis, we're joined by aaron connelly, a senior fellow for southeast asian asian politics. he is joins us from oslo. sir, thank you so much for

joining us. i don't know if you had the opportunity to listen to mr. biden's opening address at the asean there just moments as go. i'd like uyou to characterize fr us how southeast asian nations view the u.s./china competition in the region. >> i think this will be a really difficult meeting for president biden because the views are so far apart. the united states views china's aggressive actions as you heard will ripley describe as the main threat to security in the region. and southeast asian countries see u.s./china tension as the main problem. they don't we'll care who is responsible, they just want to stop. so they have been asking the united states to try to recuse tensions in the taiwan strait, south china sea. and so there is a fundamental divergence of threat perspectives and viewpoints

between president biden and southeast asian leaders. >> and i'm hope that you can you can talk more about that. u.s. sees the region as problematic. how is china viewed? >> traditionally southeast asian leaders have viewed china as a soirs of prosperity. as china rose over the last 30 years, southeast asian leaders benefited enormous willly, but of that was the globalization going on at the same time and the integration of u.s./chinese supply chains. and what we're seeing now with the sanctions on semiconductor manufacturers, the trade war that the trump administration waged against china, we're seeing a kind of deglobalization between the u.s. and china and that is really affects southeast asian economies. of course they are worried about the prospect of war over taiwan as well. so those are their primary

concerns. >> what is the u.s. standing in the region overall, what will southeast asian leaders want to see from the biden administration? >> i think that they will be asking for a few things. they want that reduction in tensions but they also want the united states to reengage in trade diplomacy. largest trading partner is china and any want the united states to get back in that game and president trump took the united states out of the transpacific partnership three days in to his administration. and they had hoped that the biden administration might reengage and offer market access. but instead they have offered what is known as the indo-pacific economic framework talks, and the biden administration has said that additional access to the u.s. market is off the table. so the united states is part 35i9 management talks asking southeast asian countries to adjust regulatory standards on things like data, but not

offering anything in return. and so it is a kind of nonstarter. they have been very polite about it, but not exactly what they have asked for. >> and interestingly in mr. biden's very short address moments ago, he rfeferenced the war in ukraine. does that resonate at all with leaders who are there? >> ten members of asean that are there, really nine because myanmar has been excluded from the meeting as a result of the could yoo-coo data that took ple coup d'etat. and so you also have a number of countries with very close relationships with russia. so not a lot of sympathetic

feeling. and there is more sympathy for russia which was invite to the meeting but president putin chose not to attend. sergey lavrov is there in his place. >> and is no terms of deliverables, what will come out of this meet something. >> not very much because again there is a bit of divergence of perspective. you heard president biden announce that asean and the united states will elevate their partnership to what is known as a agree then receive extrstrate partnership. and asean say that they grant the united states this elevation in partnership status because they didn't want to seem unbalanced. but they believe the united states should have done more to earn it as china did, that they should engage more on trade for instance and that they haven't done that. >> aaron connelly, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you.

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welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm laila harrak and this is cnn newsroom. democrats are claiming a key victory in the fight to control the u.s. senate. cnn projects that mark kelly will retain his seat in arizona. and democrats are also hoping to win a re-election in nevada where their candidate is currently in a tight race.

if they can claim that contest, they would have 50 seat, enough to control the senate since the democratic vice president holds the tie breaking vote. and meantime in the house democrats have also picked up a few more seats, but republicans only need seven more to control that chamber. and kevin mccarthy is facing tur hurdles. if his party takes the house with a slim majority, he may not have enough votes to secure the job because hardliners are withholding their support until some of their demands are met. some say that he will need to adopt mfar right policies of former president donald trump. >> i do think that the kevin mccarthy needs if he want as chance of being speaker has to be supporting president trump. i thought what elise stefanik did yesterday was smart and it will be a maga centric caucus for the republicans in the house

and even for the senate. we need leadership to match. >> and he needs 218 votes to become speaker and right now no one in the party has that kind of support. donald trump has sued the house select committee investigating the january 6 attack on the capitol in 2021. he is challenging their subpoena for his documents and testimony saying he should be immune from testifying about his time as president. he is also challenging the committee's legitimacy which multiple courts have upheld. his attorneys argue that the request for testimony and documents from president trump is an unwarranted intrusion upon the institution of the presidency. because there are other sources of the requested information, the subpoena is invalid. and a spokesperson from the committee declined to comment. we'll be right back.

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optimism is making a comeback on wall street after this week's encouraging report showing inflation cooling. and investors are hoping it means the federal reserve may opt for smaller interest rate hikes going forward. and we'lat the closing beg frid dow up about a then enth of a% this was the best week for s&p since june and for the nasdaq since march. twitter could be facing legal trouble just weeks after elon musk took it over, and he warned that the platform could go bankrupt. and experts say it may have violated its concept agreement with the federal trade commission and that could result in legal and financial penalties. and brian fung reports, just one

more issue hitting twitter since musk assumed control. >> reporter: chaos continues. elon musk has owned twitter for two weeks and the future has never seemed so in doubt. twitter has seen an exodus of top level executives, alienated powerful advertiser, blown up key aspects of its product and then launched and unlaunched other features designed to compensate for those choices completely. also in those early days, twitter has battled a wave of fake verified accounts posing as donald trump, rudy giuliani, lebron james, nintendo and others. and imposters had even forced eli lilly the pharmaceutical company to apologize for misinformation spread under parity accounts it didn't create. in response, twitter has temporarily stopped taking signups for twitter blue, the new paid subscription service it launched just days ago offering a verified blue check mark for anyone who pays $8 a month no questions asked.

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often ineven in the shadow water war, life has bright moments in ukraine. and some museums and theaters are open. and, yes, even kyiv circus. >> reporter: the show must go on. and they pour into downtown kyiv. this is their halloween show extended by popular demand. everyone says coming here is like a breath of fresh air.

relief during the wartime atmosphere. amid sirens and dashes to the basement, rehearsal is difficult but each performance so rewarding. >> we give, we build energy. energy for audience, audience give for us, for artists energy also. now this hard time, people sit just at home, nothing to do, nothing -- have work, you know like this. but here, they have a smile. >> reporter: and natalia started as an aerial acrobat and now assistant director. she tells us coming here is like therapy for even the most hardened vets. this psychologist came too she says and told us the circus takes men back to their childhood and it becomes much

easier to work with them. men came back from the war with wounded souls, she says. and after the show some have tears in their eyes. the razz the dazzle performance for an almost full house takes everyone from their drudgery and fears for at least this one hour. and it keeps the fantasy alive. our circus is super, our artists are incredible, she says. we're so thrilled, we even took the day off to come here with the kids. and katerina says her daughter eva becomes transported. >> she loves everything. when she's at the circus, she love everything. >> reporter: and to the that i sars why it is even happening in the midst of war, a spokesperson has a ready response.

>> usually when you explain that it is really good for the economy of the country and that it is good for emotions of everyone, literally and civilians and army because they both come here. and they are like okay, that makes sense. >> reporter: much needed escape to a place that feels human again. christiane amanpour, cnn, kyiv. and before we go, one of the most celebrated artists of our time is showing graffiti resistance against vladimir putin. the artist known as banksy painted this image of a gymnast bouncing on a destroyed rubble. and seemingly confirming speculation that he is in the war-torn country. and i'm laila harrak.

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