one team. not gone do w.'s november focus. this is d w news live from berlin and they are being called the most important bin turmel lections in a generation and the most fiercely contested president trump has made his final appeal to voters telling them that tuesday's poll will determine the fate of his agenda. there's only one way to stop the democrat led a solo automatic assault routine you have to vote republican tomorrow.

for the democrats former president obama also says there is more at stake than ever before. to do this country's who is on the phone. with early voting already underway we'll explain why these elections matter not just in the united states but also here in europe also coming up fears grow for the safety of some eighty students and teachers kidnapped by armed separatists in cameroon the hostage takers say they will not be released until their demands are met plus the nazi concentration camp cult was a place of pure heart and as one of this expected guards goes on trial in germany today at camp survivor tells t w why this is so important to keep talking about the past.

i'm sara kelly welcome to the program americans are voting in one of the most crucial midterm elections in decades today the first polls open in roughly an hour president trump is calling the ballot a referendum on his agenda democrats are hoping that a good result for them would force the president to rein in his policies the battle promises to be close. early voting has begun for the u.s. midterm elections and early polling suggests it will be a record year for turnout. and it's all because of this man he's divisive and he's energizing for those that love him and for those that don't this election is won't be being seen as a referendum on the man everyone can't look away from if he doesn't say so himself . i mean who ever even heard of mid term they don't even know what it is i've had

a lot of people say i don't know what big term is but now i'm watching every single minute and i'm going out to vote but the key is you have to go out to vote because in a sense i am on the ticket you got to go out to. republicans our town seeing a booming economy. and accusing democrats of being weak on migration democrats are inviting caravan to have to caravan of illegal aliens to pour into our country overwhelming the school your hospital and your communities. u.s. networks have withdrawn this trump ad about a mexican migrant convicted of murdering two police offices it originally claimed democrats allowed him into the country and c.n.n. called it racist. the democrats' not so secret weapon former president barack obama has been on the campaign trail taking aim at the president's often

abrasive personality. the character this country's on the bell who we are is on the ballot. what kind of. what kind of politics we expect is on the ballot how we conduct ourselves in public life is on the ballot how we treat other people is on the ballot. so there are likely to be swings to both sides across america in deeply conservative texas a surprisingly strong showing for democrats. seeking election to the senate. just a few weeks ago democrats felt fairly sure of recapturing both the senate and the house but poll suggests the race is now wide open here. and with me here in the studio is having break ahead of the transatlantic relations program at the german council on foreign relations welcome good morning. this is being called the most

important midterm election in generations in the united states walk us through what's at stake trying to trump says so himself because he feels that this is a lot about his presidency his style. this is about the framework conditions of his presidency in the future if the democrats win the house of representatives which is plausible and likely they can block all his legislative agenda he cannot bring through anything he wants with health care of the projects that he has he might win them over for infrastructure program but he has to also win over the conservatives for raising the money for it so it's going to be very very difficult for him to do something domestically and he will probably go on raising this internal civil war that that he's using to improve his position and it's interesting that these elections they're getting a lot more attention than usual especially internationally here in europe perhaps

people looking at it's a gauge to see if it might impact foreign relations going forward we actually had the opportunity to gauge some opinions on the streets i'd just like to play those briefly and then get your reaction there after your is getting pretty persuasion just. in the world and i think. i don't have so many hopes i just think. it could be good for the world and for the u.s. if it's close to loose the next time. yes this behavior is kind of scary especially for turkey we don't have very good relations right now so i hope to get that his soon since i think the good thing is that the u.s. has become more. about going to me being that the economy is going down and they need to you know sort of bring back jobs and they're doing it for themselves which is not bad i would say is india was also close economy back before ninety one so we were you know we are everybody has these jobs might get to be good and so it's a pledge to me yet i would say if anything the current u.s.

president donald trump doesn't have any influence on the state of u.s. russian relations his personal relationship towards russia can change anything at all. so some mixed reviews there quite interestingly let's look a little bit more at those international relations because you know trump calls his foreign policy and anti globalist agenda and i'm wondering what concerns you more as somebody who's an expert in this field a possible shift in power perhaps going to the democrats in congress or a continuation of the status quo. it's very hard to forsee what trump makes out of the situation because it could be that the block congress forces him brings him in a position where he sees it necessary to to raise conflicts elsewhere outside of america to to stand up as a strong leader to stand up to somebody who is who is tough on north korea or iran he's already doing that because he promised that in his in his they complain but. i

think if he had strong support with votes for republicans he would go on with his anti globalist agenda he would also be. seen as or he wants to be seen as somebody who's who's who's tough on trade who closes the borders and forces companies to come back in and i think if if he. is left in the face with it with a clear democratic win. he might reconsider that actually he might he might he might he might play to that of the seat necessary to play to the middle ground to the to the people in the center of the electorate for them for the two thousand and twenty elections over his presidency just briefly before we go what do you think that the democrats specifically would bring to the table. i think the they would of course. force him to. open up some of the secrets that surrounding his presidency they would use the gauge of power the subpoena posed to

the house of representatives. with that they might actually look especially into the u.s. russian fears they might. force them to come up with. conflicts of interest and they will demand not necessarily free trade because this is not the democratic agenda but they will be able to mom the foreign policy of the president must be more reliable and full so you will. want to thank you so much having rick as we mentioned head of the transatlantic relations program at the german council on foreign relations with that view of how these midterm elections in the united states could impact foreign policy internationally we appreciate it. and here on d.w. we have extensive coverage of the midterms throughout the day bringing you all the results and various perspectives from around the globe you can follow us for updates on our web site www dot com and also on social media. but in the meantime

let's get a check of some other stories making news around the world u.s. secretary of state might pump aoe has said that the united states of over let's sleep purse to iran this after president trump ordered renewed sanctions on the country washington wants tehran to end its list of missed program and abandon regional conflicts iranian president hassan rouhani says that tehran will defy american demands. in peru a truck crashed head on into a passenger bus on monday local media reporting saying that at least eighteen people are dead among them twelve women and children the bus had been travelling along a highway near lake titicaca. you're watching news still to come on the program the nazis killed more than sixty thousand people and don't hold concentration camps as one of the camp guards goes on trial here in germany we need a woman who has survived its horrors. but first to cameroon where

a separatist gunmen has kidnapped or rather separatist gunmen have kidnapped seventy nine students and three staff members at a school separatist in the anglo phone region are fighting an armed campaign for independence from the majority french speaking country the kidnappers say that the students will only be freed after they achieve a new state. this footage purportedly shows the dozens of students kidnapped it was released by the perpetrators. those. who lost money media on the loose. and. one member of the separatist group who is filming the boys also appears on camera before turning it back to the children. telling them they will be going to school there are no. was still. good to school yet

the kidnapped students are from them and in the western english speaking part of cameroon separatist groups like the boys are waging an armed struggle for independence in the majority french speaking country groups have longed to destabilize the region and have attacked and killed teachers for disobeying orders to keep schools closed. the armed separatists broke into the school building before dawn and abducted the children from their dormitories as well as three stuff members of. the local governor came to the school to meet with some of the parents assuring them their children would be brought back home. despite what happened she. states government we're no sir and. didn't get. to the next. student the people in the book to

write about the classrooms. but the security men that have got. the incident deepens the atmosphere of fear and is likely to lead to more students staying at home in the future. for more let's bring in our correspondent on to encrease who is standing by in nigeria he just came back from cameroon and i try to do we have any more news about the possible whereabouts of these kidnapped children . at the moment unfortunately in knots although according to the school authorities they have met the demands of the abductors to close down the schools we're still not sure where the kids are and extensive search mission has started by the authorities nonetheless what we do know however is what actually happens in the night between sunday and monday a couple of men showed up at the school this is what some eyewitnesses some kids

who managed to escape told us they managed to get access to one of the dormitories rounded up the people there the children their beds up some of them and before taking them to the bush they also tried to get access to more rooms to more dormitories where the boys and girls were hiding fortunately they did not manage that otherwise it was it would have been likely that more of the kids would have been missing by now. wow so tell us one bit more about this group because i mean these are separatists here they are engler phone we understand they kidnapped fellow angle phone children why would they do that. so most of the schools in the entire region have been closing for more than two years now because of the pressure of separatist groups who told parents and children to boycott it because they don't want the children to go through the francophone education system but the obvious answer would be basically to say well they keep those kids to a show of

a school that they have to close as well nonetheless none of the separatist groups in the region and there's about ten of them have declared responsibility of the boys that we've had before is the term that is use false separatist it doesn't describe any specific group and that is the reason why there's a lot of speculation going on in cameroon now and some people even blame the government they argue they could be. behind it to justify more force more violence not only against separatist but also against civilians what we've been seeing in the past month and what the authorities and the government has been criticized heavily for but this is up until now this is pure speculation we're not sure if this is true or not it is very difficult to find out the truth because you can't just go to this area of cameroon you have a very restrictive government international observers and journalists can't just access the region and so the search now for those seventy nine students and these three staff members who were kidnapped continues chris bring us up to date thank you. well here in germany

a ninety four year old former concentration camp guard is going on trial today he is charged with involvement in hundreds of murders in this should hold concentration camp prosecutors say that the defendant knew that inmates were being murdered there and must be held accountable one survivor of the campaign has made it her mission to speak her story and she talked with time you kramer from t w sometimes it is difficult to tell her story would since as a child she spent several years in this detail of concentration camp her parents and her sister were killed in the holocaust born in poland doris family fled the jewish ghetto in warsaw to lithuania from their durables deported to the studio of concentration camp you don't think i can only tell you what happened in the in the years sings that i will never forget i will never forget that i was hungry then.

i will never forget. and my mother from hunger because the little piece of bread that she gave to me. it is estimated that over sixty thousand people were murdered institute of gassed executed or killed spoke stream labor conditions and frequent put them in. remembers both the fear and the daily violence off the nazis what they did it it's not he was not human you dance it all child into a halt can of water. you're done to make a child. pick up a twenty killer cement which i had to pick up and i couldn't so i was beaten up only daughter and her brothers survived the

holocaust in is where she got married and raised a family since then she has made it her mission to talk to children about her experience. seeing sewage as they were the germans put on our shoulders. it's incredible therefore i seeing that whoever knows it and when it or ever knows how to share it with us i think they should do it because our need that way we can prevent another holocaust it is important for her she says to speak out for the many other children who didn't survive to keep them memory alive. meantime people in india are celebrating diwali or the festival of lights but in delhi it's turned into a time of protests there are demonstrations there are demonstrators there they are worried over dangerous air quality in india's capital current pollution levels

measure more than thirty five times the world health organization a safe limit and the approach of the festival of lights has brought more concern traditionally people set off fireworks which dirty the air even more than we should just well reports. in most indian homes this is what devalued the right. but when you should spiking in a city you are dead some are questioning the age old tradition. the last time the kentucky family celebrated their body that wasn't that difficult now the best of the season meet the end of outdoor activity for the cons heidi just shows us nice and i she's better off going to. their mother pub being dropped by a caucus on the one that's now as a town big enough working there she thinks it's time to change this is

a festival of lights it's almost as tall a crowd goes nowhere you know over the years that you feel but i do not miss it one minute or one second because it's a matter of my own children it's a matter of my one held you know this is there is no compromise on that. already the goods have missed to shoot on in the us but back to sessions and he stops. the situation has become so dire that this that these doctors have declared a public health emergency. this is becoming a familiar scene and complaints of respiratory problems shoot up every day and our doctors say the elderly and the young are the worst affected by the government nor the. doctor other than a long sojourn of has long campaigned for the right to people who live there in the capital over thirty years he says he has seen lungs in delhi don't trim a healthy thing to black everybody breathing in the city of delhi including you and me are smoking twenty cigarettes and unfortunately that includes of

a newborn's we are a country who presents a pack of cigarettes to its newborns on the day one of their life and firecrackers he says only act to the problem as opposed to the pollution coming from those sources crack good the president's a very cute and very high heat and very toxic level i call it the lowest hanging fruit and spot is addictive finding a cause of pollution is concerned. even in just supreme court has weighed in on the issue two years ago it deputed really banned the seat of firecrackers it's it tightened these limitations for them but not everyone is happy with the ban traders are angry deceive the destructions of hurting business and destroying the festive environment dead even mean firecracker market usually wrong with crowds at this time of the year you can't really quiet the field hard on the high five down the

thing they're not selling environment friendly fire but shopkeepers say these do not exist. on the streets of dead presidents have mixed feelings. if you can bust crackers in the hole in the wood on john refocused on a doesn't produce so much what harm is being done by one do of the body in india i feel it's my place to responsibility to give a green in my human to my kids and the generations to come so i would like them to read without reading the mosque all throughout and that's what constantly i've been telling my kids that you know have a dream devoutly i believe it's important because also because that some of it brings families together on the other side it does on the environment. some are beginning to acknowledge the vivaldi's about more than find a crack of a deal of light a deal of celebration and a deal of to get to. and the more who feel this way the easy and.

the champions league football returns tonight i'm going to slink up pacesetters piracy of dartmouth have already had a scare before their clash at that act at letty coleman jarrett excuse me their plane was forced to abort landing in madrid just as it was about to touchdown but the team are safe and will head to at that because cavernous stadium tonight looking for the win that will guarantee their early passage to the knockout stages dortmund have three group when's from three already. says here and facebook has blocked one hundred and fifty accounts ahead of the midterm elections in the united states tell us more as far as are the company actually said that law enforcement notified his own suspicions of timothy's saying they believed the accounts may be linked to foreign entities the social network then blocked eighty five accounts on its photo sharing network instagram of thirty on facebook

the instagram accounts were in english while the pages on facebook were in french and russian the aim was to influence the political debate and interfere in the u.s. mid-term elections today authorities said. japanese carmaker to go to sea in a boost in sales to china and europe third quarter operating profit surged by eleven percent prompting the companies or raise this year's forecast sales of the world's largest car market china have grown substantially by twenty percent and in europe and in the five percent cost cutting measures also help the company to achieve a worldwide increase in sales despite a slight dip in the u.s. . interesting times of the world economy but good news for the german economy call of booze and standing by a friend for stalking strangers tell us more. we ask factory orders here in germany are doing surprisingly well and like to works and listen

economists had predicted german manufacturer has managed to post more factory orders during the month of september compared to the same month last year and that's adding to an increase of two point five percent of factory orders in august which means that the better factoring sector here in germany is holding itself surprisingly well despite all the worries about world trade higher demand higher domestic demand high demand from germany is the reason for the good numbers and higher demand from countries of the eurozone. looking across the atlantic apple surprised continues its downswing what's going on there. well the slide of apple shares started on friday after apple came out with a relatively soft outlook on the upcoming holiday sales and apple announced that it would stop coming out and publishing with the numbers of sales for its hand

sets which of course sort of triggered concerns that i phone peak would be here the idea that apple might not be able to maintain the high sales of its i phone all this was sort of accelerated aggravated by reports that apple told two of its assemblers foxconn and peg are trying to hold plans for additional production lives the market value of apple as a consequence has slid from above one trillion us dollars to below nine hundred fifty billion and also the shares of many apple suppliers and apple resellers hit hard also here in germany. in frankfurt thank you. for saying the tech world online retailer amazon could decide to split up its new second headquarters between two locations with fifty thousand new jobs could be problems finding enough talent in one area the company says h.q.

to as it's called could now have two sites with twenty five thousand workers each now locations are confirmed but with the so much at stake the competition is high the company whittled the applications down to shortlist new york city is one of the key contenders along with crystal city in virginia a muslim is based in seattle washington has refused to comment but an update is expected soon. and that's all your business here's a reminder of the top stories we're following for you here g.w. americans are voting in one of the most crucial midterm elections in decades today some thirty six million people have already cast their ballots in early voting trump says the poll is a referendum on his president's. message to update you watching the news from berlin there's more news coming up at the top of the hour in the meantime today on a website that's w dot com thanks for watching. me

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