thank you, may i you have revealed this week on d, w. ah, this is d w news. why from berlin? both u. s. political party 0 in on the state. that could decide a crucial election. president's passion, president campaign in pennsylvania, the outcome will shape the 2nd half of democrat joe biden's term. his predecessor, donald trump, predicts a republican landslide. iran admits to sending drones to russia,

but says that they were sold before the war and ukraine began. and the un climate conference gets underway in egypt. we'll see why expert shade this decade is the last chance to limit the destruction caused by global warming. ah and a warm welcome to our viewers around the world. i'm michael ok. with the us mid term elections just a few days away, candidates are getting some big name support 3 presidents, past and present, or hitting the campaign trail and pennsylvania, a crucial swing state which could determine which party controls congress in philadelphia, president joe biden appeared with his old boss, barack obama, to endorse the democratic nominees for governor and senate biden,

called the upcoming mid terms the election of a lifetime. the outcomes are going to shape our country for decades. the gum and the power to shape that outcome is in your hands. 2 years ago, 2 years ago use that power to make donald trump not only a former president, what you made him, a defeated president obama told the crowd that abortion rights, social, security, and democracy itself are at risk. if republican sees congressional majorities next week fundamental right on the bow, true and facts, and logic and reason. and they said these in 3 am a ballot. the man were 3rd, 3rd through them about the 3rd. pensylvania is one of a handful of battleground states. wet ballots will decide who controls congress,

state legislators, governors offices, and the future direction of the nation. at a rival pennsylvania rally. donald trump laid out a very different vision of america to hundreds of waiting support. us the former president touched on the usual topics, border security, u. s. jobs and the economy. under vidallo c schumer and the radical democrat congress, your commonwealth is being totally destroyed. our country has been destroyed biden and the far left lunatics are waging war on pennsylvania energy, crushing pennsylvania jobs, gutting, pennsylvania communities, and strangling pennsylvania families with soaring prices. like you've never seen before. all with the elections just days away, voters face

a fateful choice. along the united nations is urging elan marsh to ensure human rights are central to twitters management. investors shut off a flurry of changes at the platform after buying it last week. in an open letter to mask un human rights, chief volker turk says like all companies, twitter needs to understand the harms associated with its platform and take steps to address them. respect for our shared human rights should shed the guardrails for the platforms use and evolution mosque has ordered the firing of half with twitter stat, experts or warning. the lay offs could cause a spike in dis, information across social media. i spoke earlier with menu cornet, a software engineer who is one of the people who was shocked by twitter. he told us he's taking legal action against the firing and express concern about how the mass

lay offs might affect the platform. so i think the constant moderation might take a hit. you might start teens and glitches more than the 4 bugs here. and there. i've also heard some rumors, but these are rumors that some of the laid off employees were starting to be called back. because i guess people inside the company were starting to realize that they may have been a bit too far gone a bit too far with the layout. so it's hard to tell exactly what will happen. i fully trust colleagues are still there that they'll be doing a good job and doing their best. but i do think there will be a bit more fidel funds from now on. yes. again, software engineer and former twitter employee men of cornet. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. italy has allowed a rescue ship carrying migrants and refugees to dock in sicily. children were

reportedly allowed to disembark. more than a 1000 people are still stuck on other rescue ships off. it'll east coast the new far right government has set a harder line on handling such ships, operated by n g o. po francis has met with the king of bahrain during a tour to promote interfaith dialogue across the gulf. it's the 1st time a sitting pope has visited the muslim majority country. at a speech during his visit, the pontiff told leaders that religion must never be used to justify violence. police or fire tear gas at pro transfers improves capital. demonstrators were marching through lima, calling for president pedro castillo to resign. his facing 6 investigations and a complaint from the attorney general. lou accuses him of heading a criminal group. castillo denies the allegations april there. at least 9 people

have suffered gunshot wounds outside a bar. the u. s. city of philadelphia police a multiple gunman fired into the crowd from the car park outside the building. 2 people are in critical condition to the war in ukraine. now ukrainian president, the lottery zalinski says iran was lying when it said it sold drones to russia only before the invasion of ukraine. moscow says it's been using only russian made drones in the conflict with accusations right, that iran is supplying russia with drones in its war with ukraine. iran's foreign minister offered his most detailed remarks to date at a defense meeting, inter run or your wheelchair. by thea, regarding the outcry started by some western countries, we're saying the islamic republic of the wrong has provided russia with missiles and drones to help with the war and ukraine. the missile part is completely false,

back to the drone part is true. well, we gave a limited number of drones to russia months before the ukraine war, last more hook up less angle crank directly on it. not true, says ukraine's president, who claims that his troops are shooting down 10 iranian made drones daily. and that the supplies are ongoing. vladimir zalinski issue this morning to tehran. he actually what i mean if iran continues line above the obvious, it means that the world will make even more efforts to investigate the terrorist cooperation between the russian and iranian regimes. and what rushes pain iran for such cooperation. again, these terrorists are their accomplices, can not remain unpunished in the modern world. zillow, ships and nipple car. there has been a surge of drone attacks in ukraine and recent weeks targeting energy and severely and infrastructure. western countries have imposed sanctions on a ran over

a legit sales of the weapons to russia. moscow claims that the drones it uses in combat are russian made. and not ever rainy in origin. around foreign minister says that if there is proof that that's not the case to ran will not remain indifferent . so how big a difference are these drones making in the gremlins war on ukraine? i put that question to d. w. russia analyst konstantin. edgar. megan, do make a difference of these drones are cheap. some estimates go as low as $10000.00 for peace. they're relatively small. the wingspan is 2 and a half meters. imagine you can basically assemble it in your living room so big and they seem to be effective, especially against um, static targets and rushes definitely been using them to deplete ukrainian high tech

weaponry on the one hand or the other hand definitely to attack the civilian infrastructure and this is, i think, what is very important because now with the crown and aims being always vague, but now being a basically what can be achieved are it seems that moscow is betting on such destruction of ukrainian civilian infrastructure, especially energy infrastructure that ukraine super piece and i think that are in this respect, iranian drones are, are quite an effective, are quite an effective weapon. according to the washington post, the u. s. has been privately encouraging ukraine to signal an openness to negotiate with russia as the paper put it. do you see any chance they putin is interested in negotiations? well, put in his always interested in negotiations on his own conditions. and if washington

indeed tries to encourage her, the government of law demons zalinski to, ah, to, to, to open some kind of channel to moscow. then i actually also believe it too because ah, it seems that the u. s. administration, which is really committed to supporting your grain is starting to understand that are basically the destruction of our ukranian, civilian infrastructure and possible humanitarian consequences of, of this russian action. a good way, very heavily on washington support for ukraine, and especially that is especially important in view of the of can, the mid term elections are where quite a few isolationist republicans may start criticizing, or actually questioning or the, or the white house as policy. so i do believe that there is a possibility that the u. s. is privately urging zalinski to start talking to put

in and be in such circumstances. put and will seed is ukraine's weakness. and we'll try to take advantage of that. russia analyst, konstantin, air, god, many thanks. thank you. the world climate conference camp $27.00 has kicked off in egypt in a year of global crises, whether disasters, food shortages and the warn ukraine underscore the urgency facing the delegates from nearly $200.00 countries. but there is increasing downstairs, previous commitments to limit the effects of climate change can ever be met. one of construction work has been done. the tourist hotspot of sham and shake is all spruced up for the world climate conference for head of states and governments. however, the negotiations on global climate protection will be anything but at beach vacation . they must make progress in tackling the climate crisis. shit was always about anticipating

a problem and preparing for it. now the problem is on us. the consequences of climate change can no longer be ignored. plots and pakistan and september deluged an area of the size of great britain. at least 1400 people died. 2000000 people lost their homes. trots like the one in italy caused entire rivers to dry up heat waves worldwide also claimed thousands of lives in 2022. we now have a climate change element to all these disaster. there's law 0, climate change disaster left anymore. like girl, i said, december 2015, the parents climate agreement is adopted. more than 190 countries agreed to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees compared to pre industrial times. but this is now a long way off. current pledges would lead to a temperature rise of $2.00 degrees celsius by the end of the century. this

decade is the critical decade for climate action because the extent to which the manage to reduce our emissions is going to actually determine ah, the, the state of the cabinets that's will have until the end of the century. 80 percent of climate damaging emissions are caused by the 20 leading economic nations, including the u. s. japan, the you and china. in addition to discussions over further drastic reductions and emissions, the main issue at the climate conference will be money. rich nations promised to pay $100000000000.00 annually to developing countries for sustainable development and adoption by 2020. that goal has still never been reached. this is what i'm taking place in the african continent, and it's going to be really important to also reassured, developing countries that there isn't novel solidarity efforts. because a lot of developing countries are facing the worst of the impacts of climate change

and don't have the resources to face them more than ever. the geopolitical situation is influencing the conference corona, the energy crisis, and the russian war of aggression. putting a strain on the economy in state budgets, the beach is just the backdrop. this years world climate conference in africa is likely to be another tough struggle for the future of the planet. this is g. w. news lie from berlin, reporters up next with a look at migrant workers building football stadiums for the cotton world cup. a michael. okay. my colleague, pablo felice will be here at the top of the hour with more news. her. i'm just kinda, i think that hard and in the end is a me, you are not a lot of to you and more we will send you back. are you familiar with this.