this is d.w. news live from girl lane in the united states a divided congress as democrats capture control of the u.s. house of representatives the president donald trump calls the midterm election 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 make significant gains in the senate and beat back challenges from democrats and the state's governor races so what will the results mean for the second half of the

trump presidency also coming up relief for families in cameroon dozens of children who were kidnapped and held hostage have been freed by their captors we'll have the latest from our correspondent. i'm sara kelley welcome to the program the days of republican control of the u.s. federal government are over in the first nationwide vote since president trump selection two years ago democrats have taken back the house of representatives but it's not quite the blue wave that they had hoped for republicans have actually expanded their majority in the senate and also defeated strong democratic challengers in some of the important state governor races so mixed results in a polarized nation what could it actually need for governing first let's have a closer look. at the numbers because here's how things stand right now in the

house of representatives two hundred eighteen seats are needed to take control and as you can see here democrats have already surpassed that goal with some races yet to be called meantime here is how it's looking in the senate the lighter shading that you're seeing here it's representing the seats that were not up for election and on top of the night's results republicans now at fifty one seats which means that they have defended their majority there. so tuesday's voting it was characterized by high turnout in districts across the country it was billed as the most important midterm election in a generation with both sides democrats and republicans energized to cast their ballots in support of their candidates let's have a look. it may not have been a blue we've but democrats have sent a message to washington. when nafta win in metropolitan and suburban america has

left the party in control of the house of representatives. jubilant democrat leaders said they will rein in the polarizing president. arrives here it's morrow will be a new day in america i really was a nervous feeling you know the power to win was. is already there are democrats and republicans it's of their restoring the constitution's checks and balances to the champions i was. was but it didn't all go to democrats way from tennessee to texas republicans won increasing their control of the senate was one time presidential hopeful ted cruz was among those fending off challenges. to less taxes was

the president hilda results in a tweet calling them a tremendous success. and then there is the changing face of u.s. politics the record number of women elected twenty one year old alexandria. becomes the youngest woman ever sent to congress dave holland in new mexico was one of two units of americans to win election show reste david a lesbian was the other. first movement of the meanwhile to move woman rasheeda to lead and omar broke the mold in their campaigns. for the first time the courage to represent i stayed in congress. the first. limited to very good sound business. the first to refugee everything i like to congress. the bigger

picture do is a fresh gridlock in washington music to the ears of democrats maybe but a headache for trump. so let's get some more analysis on this now we are joined by irwin collyer professor of economics ad bard college so as we're seeing there you know it's a bit of a mixed bag both sides though are selling this midterm election as a success so let's really gerald's out into it because we have a divided congress now some might say we have a divided nation we have a check on the president as well what is all of this going to mean for governing over the next two years while this is a lot to handle let's kind of take it apart from the very beginning both sides are going to spin but the fact that the republicans have the control of both the house and senate. and they don't now is a huge change in the possibilities for the trump administration to coordinate

anything at all as far as legislation so this puts the democrats in a position of actually being a check and it's not just the legislation the fact of it now congressional committees will be chaired by democrats there will be no topic with respect for instance to donald trump's possible collusion with foreign governments whether saudi or russian for electoral purposes corruption in the family trump or the trump organization all of this becomes fair game he's going to have a check he's also got to have someone to blame though we have to say i'm back could perhaps have implications for twenty twenty and we'll get to that just a second but first i want to ask you because if we look back for a second to the twenty sixteen election we're seeing some trends that have begun emerging one of them is the following the democrats generally speaking there outperforming republicans overall in the polls right when we look at them it hasn't

necessarily though been reflected in the number of of seats the number of offices that they're getting we saw this especially in the senate so what's at play here are when and what does this likely to mean for the next election the big one that's coming up in twenty twenty where you know politics prize possession the presidency will be up for grabs. united states because of its constitution has this decision two senators per state and what we've seen is there's an enormous urban rural divide so the rural parts of the united states are disproportionately represented in the united states senate this is a structural issue this will not go away through demographic changes the only thing that could change that would be in fact constitutional change which is just something that beyond the horizon that i see so that's one part the other part the

gerrymandering of congressional districts which concentrates democratic voters into particular regions so they do less damage to the republican majorities this is something that's not given forever democratic majorities in state legislatures. democratic governors in the states will make a difference for possible gerrymandering in the future and as far as governorships . the democrats have done very well last night as far as running and flipping government governors now they're still behind. being where their popular vote would indicate they should be but this combination of gerrymandering and two senators per state these are real structural issues that will not go away by twenty twenty they will have to get on that for sure in the meantime though we have to talk about one area in which they did well wow talk about women in flipping though some of the

majority of those seats in the house of representatives that the democrats over took in fact i understand for the first time in history there will be one hundred women in the house next year what's at play here would you say what does this say about that the shifting atmosphere in the country and also just the general mood right now what's interesting i think is the fact when we start seeing women getting into politics on the retail level here. that these are people coming from outside the establishment a lot of people who did not think of getting active in other than. going door to door voter registration league of women voters now we are finding people women also muslim women taking that next leap forward which is running for elective office this is something i think in many ways it's the logical reaction to

the xenophobia massage any represented by donald trump he's probably inspired more young women to run for political office than any democrat i could name so a lot of work to do we know that they only have about a quarter of the seats and then have no there was certainly not a representative and also an area where we're not really seeing represented. and that is when it comes to changing demographics in the country because those are really shifting quite rapidly especially when we look at race and let me look on age lines why is that not translating into elected office i wouldn't be surprised if the fact is you know how the distribution of wealth looks in the united states it is quite clear that depending on your ethnic group your race where you fall in the distribution of income life chances educational opportunities these are the differences so the people that we have seen running are disproportionately from the

other from the establishment when just briefly thirty seconds what does this mean for times america first policy ok for america in the world i think what's so important for the rest of the world is trying to figure out is trump a deviation from an american norm or is this a structural change in the trend of american politics i think this indicates it's more likely the trump is the exception and not the new rule and that will make differences for the way european and other international partners react to the united states or when collyer from bard college putting this election into perspective for us thanks so much for. meantime let's turn now to florida where over one million people have just regained at the right to vote their civil rights activists in the state have been celebrating their victory after the passing of amendment four which restores the voting rights to felons who have completed their sentences six million people nationwide are unable to vote because of criminal records and florida has the largest number of citizens it's.

our social media editor and jared reed is here with us in the studio to tell us a little bit more about the reactions that we're seeing to this land mark result so walk us through what amendment four really is here terry so this is a measure that these activists have been fighting for for years and as you said it gives back virgin rights to just under ten percent of florida's versing age population those people who have served what's called felony sentence and so basically prison time it doesn't apply to murderers and to six offenders but it applies to a wide range of people who might have been convicted of say traffic crimes and known violent offenses and those people who have won back the right to version overnight they've been celebrating people like sunshine is to serve time in prison he rides this is historic the greatest voting expansion since the twenty sixth amendment and the greatest in any state florida has gone from the later in

disenfranchisement to the leda in enfranchise and and you know this actually also affects drag queens would you believe this is latrice royale he was on repose drag race she rides thank you florida you did it amendment for passes i will get my right to vote back to china is going to come of course not everybody supported the china a group called the florida rights coalition they argued that doing this not considered a done to the victims and also the behavior of felons posed prison it's happened it's. don and it's it is a big day for men it's so interesting as you mention that it happened in florida i think we can call it a difficult time so much of this is of course you know the one that decided the bush v gore presidential election it was so highly contested this is certainly going to have an impact going forward in future elections right right because florida is notorious for giving these really tied election mansions and suddenly

now in twenty twenty one point four million people will be will be able to vote so that's that's huge and it's also important for certain demographics like poor demographics and black voters those who were just proportionately affected by these laws suddenly now they will get the right to vote back and it's going to be really interesting to see how this plays out in two years' time our social media editor jared reed thank you so much. well now let's get a quick check of some other stories that have been making news around the world the florida man accused of mailing bombs to prominent democrats and other critics of donald trump has appeared in a new york court to face criminal charges since our soil was denied bail and faces up to forty eight years in jail if convicted and acclaimed russian director has appeared in a moscow court on embezzlement charges the forty nine year old is accused of misusing more than two million dollars of state funding for a theater project his supporters say that he is the target of

a crackdown on artistic independence under president vladimir putin. and the united nations says that dozens of children at a hospital in yemen could die as fighting closes in on the port city of ho data the hospital is only functioning is the only functioning one in the area and is treating children with severe malnutrition the war in yemen has already produced the world's worst humanitarian crisis. in cameroon seventy nine boarding school students who were taken hostage by separatists have been released reports say that the kidnappers are still holding three adults taken from the school the children aged between eleven and seventeen were seized early on monday morning in bomb ndaa the capital of the northwest region no single group has said that it carried out the kidnapping but separatist militias have been calling for a school boycott for more on that let's bring in correspondent adrienne crease who

has the latest from lagos so the students they have been released as we've just heard give us an update. or both the church and the authorities confirmed that they were released that they were brought back by unidentified gunman to one of the church premises in the bomb and remember the church was running this school and we learnt that the kids are of course terrified and right now a team of the local governor is talking to them the governor is scheduled to address the press later today but we do not have any information on the circumstances of their release as of now how about who's behind the kidnapping and john. well separatists have been threatening schools and children and parents who wanted to send their kids to school for the past two years so it is likely that they're behind it but there's also about ten separatist groups that are active in the region and none of them has

declared any responsibility for what has happened in fact many of them have condemned the actions of a lot of speculation is currently going on in cameroon some even think the government could be behind it saying they could justify the force and violence they used against separatist in the region with these kidnappings remember the military of cameroon has been heavily criticized in the past months for their human rights abuses but this is all speculation it is very difficult to get information from this region i was there last month during the elections with that was one of the reallocations where you get a permit to go there right now this is impossible for international journalist and bloke a journalist can't report freely under very repressive regime of president paul b. who's been running the country for thirty six years and it's not the first time that pupils have been abducted so why are the separatists specifically targeting schools. so most of the schools in this region have been closed for two years now and this has two reasons the separatists are calling for school

boycotts because one they want to get the government on the negotiation table and two they say they don't want the kids to go through the french speaking a francophone school system and this led to a situation whereby most of the kids in the entire region haven't been to school for two years. the president paul b. a nugget rated on tuesday for the seventh term what does this mean for the conflict in cameron's english speaking region out around. during his inauguration speech he said that he was pushing for a process of decentralization which is one of the key demands of the people of the on your phone area however most people do not believe most people don't believe that this man who has done much for the entire region and thirty six years in power will change now and really push change forward adrienne christian leg thank you so much.

football and in the champions league last night dortmund suffered their first defeat in all competitions this season athletico madrid were fuelled by their home crowd and defeated the german club to now. all new yes opened the scoring in the thirty third minute giving athletico a need going into the break the second goal came from a political captain anton this month late in the match. the two clubs are now level on points at the top of group a here is dortmund captain marco rice explained what went wrong. i think the way the game panned out was quite pitiful rosy sure at the end of the ninety minutes you have to say they had the better chances and scored their goals so they deserved to win but the way we conceded the goals was completely unnecessary we controlled the game relatively well in the first twenty to twenty five minutes. byron munich can secure their place in the last sixteen of

the champions league when they host a greek side. later on wednesday but the german champions are in a bit of a slump with the pressure mounting on their coach. he needs a win in europe ahead of a big weekend showdown with dortmund. he's accused of not having a plan b. when the going gets tough nico kovacs knows his job is on the line. the problems aren't as pronounced in the champions league at least not yet by and have yet to lose a game but they also have yet to convince for the first in this year. the physical work we put in is not always rewarded in the way we'd like for it is a coach or is a player you have to try to stay positive of course i can say this was a good or that wasn't good but believe me that worms increased my players confidence for minutes. neither will conceding a late goal in the eighty ninth minute to be exact against fry book in the been

listening on saturday that's more points dropped. there's even talk of a rebellion inside the buy and camp some of the senior players unhappy with their reduced playing time others are cutting the coach some slack. yes indeedy over the phone we're the ones on the pitch we're responsible when i see a match like against freiburg where we were ahead in the seventy fifth minute you shouldn't give that results away and that's nothing to do with the coach just players who are on the pitch. even if the play as i call it it's the coach that always pays the price in football. from the football pitch now to the trade front yard alfre says here thank you. and boeing have called for an end to the u.s. china trade dispute executives of the world's largest plane makers made the announcement at an air show in china the country has become

a key hunting ground for aircraft manufacturers looking to expand their business because of the surge in air travel that the two companies are worried that the ongoing trade conflict could derail orders from china passenger aircraft one of china's biggest imports from both the u.s. and europe conflict could push beijing to look for alternative options quick check on the markets let's bring in conor booze not the frankfurt stock exchange going to have the mid-term elections in the u.s. change them. well of course they have changed a great deal i mean given that the democratic party has taken over the majority in the house of course now people here on the markets are discussing have those midterm elections changed something you know in terms of the trade disputes between for example america and china and i have to say many people here are not very hopeful that this conflict between the u.s.

and china will deescalate. it's even imaginable and quite possible that in order to keep his constituents constituency faithful donald trump might even increase the hostile rhetoric against china in terms of the americans and europe there is hope here on the markets that the tone will become a little bit more conciliatory. do you think the. relations between china and the u.s. will be influenced. well yes of course they will be influenced and you know i can tell you that not many people here are hopeful that they will be very influenced positive influence very positively it has to be said the democratic party also want to desperately to make sure in the run up of this election that they too want to protect american jobs so at least parts of the democratic party

are not completely hostile or opposed against protectionist policies so that that is at least one reason why many people in the markets believe that the conflict between the u.s. and china will not you know the escalate a great deal in the time to come on in front with their thank you very much. ear members they are divided on a proposal to place a three percent tax on big internet companies like google and facebook scandinavian countries and ireland fear the measure would make them less attractive to tech firms while others fear washington might retaliate still others want to push through a measure by the end of the year italy has said it will simply go ahead with its own digital tax if there is no e.u. agreement. to digital tax as a fraught issue in europe for taxing high tech firms like google facebook and amazon could help governments raise money some countries fear they could lose out

especially if washington retaliate. of course there will be a reaction from united states which kind of reaction i do not know and of course we should decide for ourselves but we sure do think early on whether it is a good idea or not denmark says u.s. retaliation could potentially offset the benefits of a tax ireland fears it could become less competitive the irish capital dublin is home to the european headquarters of several u.s. tech firms in germany the eel's biggest market is hoping for a broad agreement between each state's by summer twenty twenty france on the other hand it's a term and to push through a proposal for an evil white tax this year. when there is a will varies the way. and there is a we've come from time for many countries to have your ducks. direct t.v. by the end of shows and feature but all e.u.

countries have to agree before a law can be adopted and things don't look promising that's why italy is putting pressure on brussels rome has said it will impose its own national digital tax if there's no e.u. consensus. german comic a b.m.w. posted a twenty four percent decline in earnings to one point four billion dollars in the third quarter. the extra cost of implementing. the company. cars and. that's all. the top stories we're following for you. as.

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