this is deja vu news live from berlin democrats capture control of the u.s. house of representatives but president from calls the midterms a tremendous success after a strong showing by republicans and. democrats are celebrating their triumph in the house with a record number of women winning seats in congress but the republicans making gains in the senate and beating back strong challenges from democrats in key states governor races so what will the results mean for the second half of the trump presidency while some analysis from washington and from here in berlin. and in

other news dozens of children kidnapped in cameroon have been freed by their captors we'll get the latest details from our correspondent. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us well both democrats and republicans are claiming bragging rights after the u.s. midterm elections with the results pointing to a very mixed picture in the first nationwide vote since president trump's victory two years ago democrats have taken control of the house of representatives but republicans have actually expanded their majority in the senate and also defeated strong democrat challengers in some of the important state governor races let's give you a look now at some of the numbers in the house of representatives two hundred eighteen seats are needed to take control as you can see here democrats have already surpassed that goal with some races yet to be called. and here's how the

senate is shaping up the lighter shading there representing the seats that were not up for election on top of that the night's results republicans now at fifty one seats officially which means they have defended their majority in the senate all too says voting was characterized by very high turnouts in districts across the country it was billed as the most important midterm elections in a generation with both sides democrats and reports of sent a message to washington was a win after win in metropolitan and suburban america has left the party on the verge of winning control of the house of representatives jubilant democrat leaders said they will remain in the polarizing president. arrives here tomorrow it will be a new day in america was it will. remember this feeling you know the power to win the iraq. today

is rid of their chemical suits and republicans it's of their restoring the constitution's checks and balances to the champions i was it was was. was but it didn't all go to democrats way from tennessee to texas republicans won increasing their control of the senate the one time presidential hopeful ted cruz was among those fending off challenges. taxes will allow the president held the results in a tweet calling them a tremendous success but the story of this vote is of the changing face of u.s. politics a record number of women elected. and there met he'll hand or mar who is breaking the mold in minneapolis. the first woman to come to memphis and i stayed

in congress the. the first. limb into our kids. the first semester and she every i like to tell congress. the bigger picture though is oh fresh grad law can washington music to the ears of democrats maybe but a headache for trump it wasn't quite the tsunami they had hoped for but a blue wave of sorts has hit washington d.c. for the first time in eight years democrats have managed to regain control of the house of representatives gathering actually even more seats than they needed to get a majority it will also be the most diverse house of representatives ever with more than one hundred women poised to take office what this means now is the democrats

can act as a check on the power of the republicans and donald trump they'll have the ability to issue subpoenas call for investigations and stymie legislation on the other side the republicans manage to not only hold onto their majority in the senate but actually gain seats securing their power they're a divided congress for a divided country. let's get some international perspective now on the results for that i'm joined by nicole remembered from the german council on foreign relations good morning thanks so much for being with us what are some of your initial reactions to these results where the picture is very mixed if you look at the success of the democrats the democrats retaking the house it's a big positive sign that the democrats provided seem to provide the right answers to very complex questions and that many of the issues which were. on the agenda of the of the trump team didn't really succeed.

and on the ballot and therefore it's it's interesting that the democrats and a lot of the media in germany sees it as a big success for the democrats on the other hand. it is very obvious that succeeded with the republican party and could secure the support in the senate which is of course the extremely. high success for him so it's a mix because it's a it's a mixed picture isn't it that this kind of a census that's emerging right now what about the european perspective on how the president now will be able to move forward with his america first agenda something it's deeply opposed here in the you for example my my idea is that he will not stop his america first and our difference in areas we can envision one is that he will hold on a vote even harder to deal with he's going to push for the protection of national

interests and not treat our across party lines to the democrats to find solutions for certain issues but the european certainly need look at what's going on and they also see that there's a strengthening off the democrats and certain topics but it's really not fundamentally in my view changed the way kerry to. carried out his policies so far what about this administration's competitors and adversaries in capitals like tehran beijing moscow are they going to be looking at the democrat success in the house as a weakening of the president and feel emboldened to challenge america and the trump political agenda when the election of course sends science internationally but of course it's more important to the national. basically to to what's happening in the united states and it shows again a country which is deeply divided and that there are issues that will linger on in

the next month that might not be evil to saw saw the enemies of the united states might think that the president would be so preoccupied with this internal issues in the united states that he would spend even nest time in really finding good solutions for complex global questions is. it clear that some people would take advantage of this. and others might say was things continue as they were what do you think the results mean for german u.s. elections or. germany u.s. relations rather is this an opportunity for germany to improve relations with the united states that have of course suffered under this administration where germany experienced very tough time was president and wasn't used to the kind of communication between the white house and berlin and then in the past years on

the other hand germany has such a large number of institutions that support the transatlantic relationship and they continue to strengthen the relationship with the u.s. . so there are some positive signs that the democrats regained strength because the partnership with the democrats is traditionally very strong in germany again president is still the president and he sets the tone nicolle redbird from the german council on foreign relations thanks very much thank you. and wow of much more on what the midterms mean for the u.s. and the rest of the world throughout the day time now for a look at some of the other stories making that is the florida man accused of mailing bombs a prominent democrats and other critics of the president as appeared in a new york court to face criminal charges says our sale has been denied bally faces up to forty years in prison if convicted. authorities in peru say

a former head of the national police force is under arrest accused of involvement in a baby trafficking ring the police chief is among fifteen others suspected of selling babies and children taken from poor women don't call just in the pediatrician also detained in early morning rates. united nations says dozens of children at a hospital in yemen could dies fighting closes in on the port of who died aust was the only functioning one new jarod's treating children with severe tradition where yemen has already produced the worst humanitarian crisis the world as seen in the modern era and cameron seventy eight children and driver who were taken hostage by separatists have been released reports say the kidnappers are still holding the school's principal and one teacher they were seized early monday morning in the mendota capital of the northwest region no single group has said it carried out the kidnappings but separatist militias have been calling for

a school boycott. differ on this let's bring indeed of your correspondent even increase in lagos age and the children have been released now can you give us an update. well both the church and the government confirmed their release according to them the kids were brought back in the night by and the fire and then defied gunmen to the school premises premise the school it was run by the church we however don't have any information on the circumstances of the release there where rumors going on that the church might have paid a ransom but the church the nice that as we are speaking we learned that the team of the governor is currently talking to the kids and later on the governor of the region will also address the press ok now this is not the first time the students have been kidnapped at school why are separatists targeting specifically schools. so most schools in this region have been close for more than two years now after

the whole crisis escalated the separatists are pushing parents and kids not to go to school to boycott them in order to put pressure on the governments to end the crisis and get the government on the negotiation table they also argue that they don't want the kids to go through the french speaking school system now it looks quite obvious to say well the reason why they kidnapped those children was to put pressure on the remaining open schools to close down but none of the groups as you have said before and has taken any responsibility for what has happened there's about ten separatist groups active in this region many of them have actually condemned what happened and this is why a lot of speculation is still going on in cameroon who is really behind this and there's a number of people who argue that it could be also the government who is behind this kidnapping so that was behind this kidnapping saying they could use it to argue to use more force against the separatists in their war against those people

in the region but this is however only speculation right now we can't really say what really happened because you can't just travel to this region as an independent journalist i was there during the elections last month it was one of the rare occasions but going there right now is impossible because you won't get a permit and local journalists are not allowed to report freely under this regime age increase reporting for us live from lagos thanks very much we have some football now in the champions league last night and suffered their first defeat the season and let it go a dread fueled by their own crowd defeated the german side. so will need as opening the scoring the thirty third minute giving athletico a lead going into the break the second goal coming from a lot of those captain and late in the match dorman's off and couldn't find a way through it let it go reproducing four shots. to two clubs are level on points at the top of the. get your reminder now of our top stories at this hour

democrats are celebrating after winning back control of the u.s. house of representatives in the midterm elections the republicans increasing their majority in the senate they also defeated democrats in a number of very closely watched governor's races doesn't trump was hailed the first nationwide vote since his electoral victory two years ago as a tremendous success. don't forget you can always get news on the go to do that don't download our app from google play or from the apple store that gives you access to the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications or breaking news and you can also use that app to send us photos and videos. this is the w. news live from berlin i'm brian thomas for the entire team here thanks so much for joining us we'll see you again next hour.

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