this is d. w. news live from berlin and they are being called the most important midterm elections in a generation after fierce campaigning voters begin to cast their ballots we will tell you what is at stake and why the poll matters not just in the united states but also in europe. also coming up the nazi concentration camp should hold was a place some shore harbor and there's the trial of one of its suspected guards begins in germany a camp survivor tells d.w. why it is so important to keep talking about the past and. concrete

citizenship of secrets to its newborns on the big one of the. indian doctors sound the alarm over dangerous levels of pollution in delhi with the fireworks of the day while the festival about to make the situation worse we look at india's struggle to clean up its act plus in football the champions league is back with dortmund seeking early progression for the knockout stage and they visit atletico madrid later knowing that a win will keep them on course for a return to the same stadium in june as final. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program and the united states polls are opening in the most crucial midterm elections in decades president trump is calling the vote.

a referendum on his agenda democrats are hoping that a good result for them would force the president to rein in his policies survey suggests that the republicans will keep control of the senate and that democrats could take back the house of representatives but the battle promises to be close. pools have opened in the u.s. midterm elections. and early indications suggest it will be a record year for turn over. there and it's all because of dismay he's divisive and he's energizing for those that love him and those that don't. the election is widely 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 vote. the president's republican party is touting a booming economy in the united states. and republicans are accusing democrats of being weak on migration. democrats are inviting caravan after caravan of illegal aliens to pour into our country overwhelming his schools yard spittles and your communities. the democrats not so secret weapon former president barack obama he's been on the campaign trail taking aim at the president's often abrasive personality. the character of this country's on the bill 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. there are likely to be swings on both sides across america in deeply conservative texas surprisingly strong showing for democrat data well roark seeking the election to the senate. doesn't matter to you just a few weeks ago democrats vote fairly sure of recapturing both the senate and the house but polls suggest the race is still wide open. 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. 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 and 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 the 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 and 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 growth and for the u.s. if this close to induce. next time just this behavior is kind of scary especially for turkey we don't have very good relations right now so i hope to get that is soon i think the good thing is that the u.s. has become more said. about going the meeting that the economy is going to you know sort of bring back jobs and they're doing it for themselves which is not bad i would say because india was also close economy back before ninety one so we were you know we all everybody has these fears that our jobs might get it and so it's a pledge to me yet i would say. 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 when you see. 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 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 see what makes out of the situation because it could be that blocked congress forces who brings in the 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 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 he wants to be seen as somebody who's tough on trade who close the borders and forces companies to come back in and i

think if if he. is left in the face with a clear democratic win. he might. reconsider that actually he might he might he might be might play to the seed necessary to play to the to the middle ground to get 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 they would of course. force him to. to open up some of the secrets that surrounding his presidency they would use the gate of power the subpoena opposed to the house of representatives. with that they might actually look especially into the u.s. russian affairs they might force him to come up with his 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's the foreign policy of the president must be more reliable info seeable. i 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 we will bring you all the results and what it means for europe and beyond on these elections you can follow us on twitter for the latest updates. but first let's get a quick check of some other stories making news around the world a video purportedly showing some of around eighty school children kidnapped from the city in the western a who is speaking part of camera. has blurred their faces to protect their identity the captors say that they will only release students if they are allowed to set up their own breakaway state. secretary of state my pump

aoe has said that the u.s. will relentlessly pursue iran this after president trump ordered renewed sanctions . the country washington wants tehran to end its ballistic missile program and abandon regional conflicts iranian president hassan rouhani says that tehran will defy american demands. around twenty palestinians have been injured by israeli forces while trying to break the decades long maritime blockade of the gaza strip israeli military fired tear gas and live ammunition of protesters nearly forty fishing boats were forced to return to shore. and ninety four year old former concentration camp guard has gone on trial in germany the man is charged with involvement in hundreds of murders at the nazi camp of stockholm prosecutors say that the defendant didn't take part in the specific killing but that he knew inmates were being murdered at the camp during world war two the man was

a guard that should hold concentration camp near what was known as the city density now gadon sq in poland. a correspondent on a call attended the first day of the trial and once she joins us now on what exactly is the former guard accused of. what he is accused of complicity in the murder of several hundred people from ninety eight forty two to nine hundred forty four you know it is important to mention that there is no specific evidence linking him to any specific crime but the prosecutors argued bad as the guards at that camp he was a crucial part of the whole cam system the suspect himself he admits that he served as a guard during that time but he says that he did not participate in any of the killings and furthermore he says that he didn't even know what was going on in the

camp he didn't know about the murders the prosecutors however they don't really buy that argument they say that being a guard standing on a watch how a for example it was impossible not to see. you know what was going on especially taking into consideration that the campus self was rather small and now he is facing the court he is ninety four years old explain to us why they chose to bring him to trial now. well for a long time german authorities so focused on finding and prosecuting the had mass just a few will of these crimes that changed a bit in two thousand and eleven when a german court finally decided that it's not necessary to have specific evidence linking a suspect choose specific crime but that being a guard to in one of those camps is enough to be convicted and since then german authorities have also focused on finding those people who might not have played

a major role in these crimes but who have helped to keep the whole system running. and interestingly his people tried in a juvenile court why is that. yeah that is because at the time of those alleged crimes he was under the age of twenty one nowadays as we heard he is ninety four and dead also affects the trial for example the hearings can last a maximum of two hours per day due to the poor health conditions of the suspect today he entered the courtroom in a wheelchair and it was obvious that he had a hard time understanding and talking to the judge but the judge has decided that he is mentally mentally and physically fit enough to undergo this trial now unlike camps such as auschwitz for example or involves. is a very well known tell us a little bit more about the specific camp. yeah it was

a german concentration camp near the polish town of good and from nine hundred thirty nine to nine hundred forty five and an estimated sixty seven. and up to sixty five thousand people died there a lot of them died in the gas chambers but they were also shot some of them died because they had to work during winter time outside without any clothes and one of the lawyers today in court he read a statement by one of the eyewitnesses she described the situation in the camps she said there was no food there was no sanitation and death was a daily companion to her and yes you are right this campus not very well known not even among germans and i think this is why so many witnesses so many survivors are so keen on having this trial because it is their chance maybe their last chance to get the atrocities that happened in the scam to get them acknowledged publicly on your call standing by in munster as this trial gets underway thank you anya.

some one hundred ten thousand people were in prison and stood hold more than sixty five thousand were either killed or died of hunger or other diseases there one survivor dora roth has made it her mission to tell her story now living in israel she spoke with cramer about why it is important to keep talking about her experiences there sometimes it is difficult to tell her story since as a child she spent several years in the statoil of concentration camp her parents and sister were killed in the holy ghost born in poland doris how many fled the jewish ghetto and was so to lithuania from the door of those two poor to this to a concentration camp you don't think i can only you what happened in the in the years since that i will never forget the feel good that i was hungry and.

i will never forget this. and my mother died from hunger because the little piece of bread that she got she gave to me it is estimated that over sixty thousand people were murders institute of gassed executed or killed by extreme labor conditions and frequent epidemics. remembers both the fear and the daily violence off the nazis what they did it it's not he was not human you dancer or a child in their heart can of water the learned you have 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 version got married and raised

a family since then she has made it her mission to talk to children about her experience. syncs which they were germans put on our shoulders. it's incredible therefore i sing that whoever knows it and when it all ever knows how to share it with others i think they should 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 their memory alive. when our people across india are preparing to celebrate the valley or the festival of lights it's turned into a time of protests. in delhi where there are demonstrators who are worried over dangerous air quality in india's capital current pollution levels measure more than

thirty five times the world health organization's safe limit and the approach of the volley has brought more concern traditionally people set off fireworks which could dirty the air even more. of reports. in most indian homes this is one of the volatile right. but the pollution spiking in the studio dead questioning each old tradition. the last time the kentucky family from the beaches of bondi before it wasn't that difficult now the festival season meet the end of outdoor activity for the con the aussies and i she's booked through. their mother pub being dropped by a caucus on the run. now as a down the no cooking there she thinks it's time to change this is a festival of lights it's almost as to a crowd goes nowhere you know over the years that you feel but i did not miss it

one minute or one second because it's a matter of my own truth it's a matter of my one hell of you know this is there is no compromise on the. already the goods have missed to shoot on in the us but back to sessions and he stops the quantity the situation has become so dire that this but these doctors have declared a public health emergency. this is becoming a full minister in their complaints of respite trip problems to talk everything down doctors say the elderly and the young are the worst affected. by the movement north. dr other than a long as long campaigned for the right to be born there in the capital over thirty years he says he has seen lungs and benito interim a healthy thing to black a brave but be breeding in the city of delhi including you and me are smoking twenty cigarettes and unfortunately that includes newborns 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 represents a very acute and very high heat and very toxic level i colored the lowest hanging fruit as far as the deck defining a cause of pollution is concerned. even in just supreme court has weighed in on the issue of do years ago if dempo generally banned the sale of firecrackers this year it tightened these limitations further but not everyone is happy with the ban traders are angry deceive the destruction the hurting business and destroying the festive environment delis mean firecracker market usually wrong with crowds that this time of the. quiet the field court ought to have shut down the thing they're

not selling environment friendly fire but shopkeepers say these do not exist. on the streets of bendy precedents have mixed views. if we can bust crackers in the whole world on january first and it doesn't pollute so much what harm is being done by one day of the body in india i feel it's my personal responsibility to give a green in my human to my kids and the generations to come so i would like them to read without wearing the mask 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 brings families together on the other side it does on the environment. some are beginning to acknowledge that the valley is about more than firecracker it's a deal of light a deal of celebration and a deal of to get to. and the more who feel this way the easier than me bring. in sports champions league football returns tonight and dortmund they're going to say

the pace setters have already had a scare before their clash with a tacoma draw and their plane was forced to abort landing in mentor and just as it was about to touch down but the team are safe and they are now going in search of early qualification for the knockout stages. it was all smiles at the airport before dortmund boarded their flight to madrid the aborted landing which followed was hardly the perfect preparation for a big game dortmunder in such good form there on the brink of the champions league last sixteen with two games to spare a handsome home win over of let it go in october underlined their speedy revival under coach lucy. but he is staying as cautious as ever. and there would for we have got to prepare really well at they might have lost against us for neil but that game is gone now it was just one match. we know all about at lefty co they

have been one of the best teams in europe for seven or eight years with the munch of the new to even. fiver is right about their collective goes champions league pedigree they've reached two finals in the last five years but dortmund's red hot streak as the spaniards worried. they're playing very well they are producing spectacular football and it's clear that if they keep up this level they have a big chance of winning the bundesliga title not only on the bundesliga is not the only trophy on dortmund's minds they are well aware that this season's champions league final is also welcomed let it go stadium a repeat visit is the aim. well facebook has blocked one hundred fifteen accounts ahead of the midterm elections in the united states and has that story as well as the social network said law enforcement agencies notified it of suspicious activity

saying they believe the accounts may be linked to foreign entities social network then blocked eighty five accounts on his photo sharing network instagram and thirty on facebook instagram accounts were in english while the pages on facebook were in french and russian that aim was to influence the political debate and interfere in the u.s. mid-term elections today that's what authorities say it. the biggest technology conference in the world kicks off in lisbon on tuesday this year's web summit is taking place as governments and companies around the world are discovering the darker side of the world wide web web security the role of social media platforms are among the many issues being discussed in lisbon the event has drawn about sixty thousand people this year is playing a key role in transforming the portuguese capital into a key european tech. and we stand the tech world online retailer amazon could decide to split its new second headquarters between two locations with fifty

thousand new jobs could be problems finding enough talent in one area the company said page q two as it's known could know know how to sites with twenty five thousand workers each no locations are confirmed yet but there's so much at stake the competition is high the company with the applications down to a shortlist new york city is one of the key contenders along with crystal city of virginia which is based in seattle washington refused to comment on our plate is expected soon. it began with a rebirth of the vinyl record followed by other products like a coffee makers or polaroid cameras around the world things away almost extinct and high demand consumers increasingly want uncomplicated things in an increasingly complex world retro has become a mass phenomenon and a good business. the instant camera. we had

a mid century funicello. notebooks with threats to ching products from the past in demand today. this company is located near hamburg sales have grown by twenty five percent in the last five years. yes keep up the. digitization hasn't come abilities than on digital and on the contrary there's a strength and awareness of non digital behavior in the age of digitization side are they going to get out easy on monday people write more consciously they sit down and write a letter consciously or notes in a notebook that's why he's a new teacher who was in the team sport even large companies like b.m.w. have jumped on the vintage bandwagon with sixty's and seventy's style motorcycles every tenth b.m.w. motorcycle sold as a retro model. almost as expensive as the my to cycles and extremely in demand furniture made in the mid twentieth century this cycle cost ten thousand euros is

in the dawsons at hugo's it's a young one on the senator from the sixty's and seventy's was built differently much better in quality and it was glued an assembled differently the furniture was built for eternity. even a country called. linda marshall likes to buy retro climates she loves fashion from the twenty's what fascinates her about an era she never experienced herself. i may have to. me this has a lot to do with enjoyment the enjoyment of design music don't want to be for a from the time back. despite their style preferences the retro fans still say they feel happy in the present. but said cheer up today the watching news from berlin this morning is coming up the top of the off the bat.

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