[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin high stakes, and the u. s. is millions prepared to vote in mid term elections. president joe biden says a win for the republicans would threaten to not democracy,

former president donald trump, hence he's preparing for a comeback. also coming up, it's day 3 of the climate change summit in egypt and cools a growing for fossil fuel companies to pay for the damage they have caused to the planet. and all they alive, or are they dead searching for missing loved ones in ukraine. how dna tests are often the only way of establishing the truth. ah, my manuscripts mckinnon. thanks very much for joining us. people in the united states, although saying in crucial mid term elections today, voters will determine the majorities in the u. s. congress. republicans contend they are better place to address people's concerns over the economy. democrats say if the republicans do well as is expected,

that policies will have an adverse effect on the country. and more than half of the republican candidates have echoed unfounded claims by donald trump. that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent, but as dw mikaela kirchner reports now, many believe the future of democracy is also at stake in this election. this is the home of democracy in the us, the capital building, where men and women represent what the constitution referred to as we the people democracy in the united states is under attack. both democrats and republicans see it and both say they are the ones defending the danger to democracy comes from the radical left, not from the right. not i will not stand by watch the most fundamental freedom in this country,

the freedom to vote and have your vote counted. be taken from you post a 3rd of americans no longer feel confident that that vote is being counted properly. that in itself a success for donald trump is still claim that he and not to bide one the 2020 election in the mid term elections, trump only through his political weight behind candidates. to echo his big steel narrative carry. we'll start with you. you've called joe biden, an illegitimate present was that meet, he lost the election and he should be in the white house. we had a corrupt election lake has already made it clear that she will only accept an election result that sees hub, becoming governor of the swing state of our zone. and she's not alone. 27 states will have republican election did not, is on the ballot. among them, 6 swing states that so massive pressure from the trunk come of the 2020 result.

pennsylvania is one of them. here poll workers faced protests and threats from demonstrators calling to stop the count. now they feel the next attack on us democracy. it really cuts right into the heart of the foundation of the country . the biggest stress test yet will be the upcoming presidential elections in 2024 in a world increasingly tipping towards will talk chrissy. whether american democracy remains strong, will have an impact on everybody's chances around the world to live in a land of the free and to day will determine how the biden administration's next 2 years will play allison for more analysis we're joined now by le should a u s. policy analyst who joins us from pennsylvania is, can we start with the main issues dominating this election? tell us what they are. absolutely,

you're going to hear it from both sides. the economy is front and center. now, that means different things for republicans and democrats. you're going to see republicans talking about the price they pay for gas, the gas pump. here in pennsylvania, the senate candidate eyes student front of the price isn't the gas pump on the left in democrats, you're going to see things like fear wages, unionizing. so the economy is front and center kind of playing a 2nd role, is that election denying as they, as they already talked about, that they are all slated to you very well, which is concerning as far as the integrity of american elections going forward. and finally, i would say there's kind of a backdrop in what will this election mean for 2024. and i think voters are going to the holes thinking with that in mind. so explain to us why these mid terms a so crucial not only for the us, but also for the rest of the world. this is

a real tipping point and it can be seen as a referendum on president biden's presidency. so far, i understand the american electoral system, if you have a split government between the president senate and the house, it can mean that actions can be taken. there's a lot of stalemate that happens. this could have implications on the world as well . one of the issues that kind of constant forefront is ukraine and providing, continuing to provide aid her ukraine, other things as we have already heard, tackling climate change, as well as american approach to democracy in the economy. absolutely are really what's at stake in this election. now the former president, donald trump said a very high profile in this campaign, and he has given a not so subtle hint about running again in 2 years time in 2024. let's take

a quick listen. it's a country saving lecture, specifically including the election of all the people that i'm going to do. i'm going to be making a very big announcement on tuesday, november 15, at borrow in palm beach. making a very big announcement list. tell us how do you see the results of these mid terms shaping the 2020 full presidential rice? yes, you look at both sides the aisle. there's a ton of questions from democrats. what does it mean for, for bye, and i think there could be a real referendum. do we keep the senate? do we keep the house that'll really influence? what biden decides to do? that's what his team is talking about. on the right, we have trucks who not only is supporting, as i've already been mentioned, these election deniers of which there are many, many on the ballot. but in addition,

he's already signaled he's looking to 2024 here in pennsylvania. he came out to rally for republican candidate, but at the same time took a swing at a very popular governor in florida and republican, which he thought was like an odd thing to do right before the mid terms. but as trump is said, he's ready to ride and he's ready to come out swinging in. so i think both sides are looking at this is literally the starting block to europe for 2 years. now. let's show k u s. policy analysts. thanks so much. thank you. ok, let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines. the u. s. secretary of state antony blinkin has praised armenia and as a bygone for taking steps forward towards lasting peace. washington has been mediating between the 2 neighbors who have clashed repeatedly over control of the nicole in a car about region. the talk came just hours after

a fresh shoot house along that border. mexican authorities have seized well over a ton of what they believe is, okay. cocaine found floating in the pacific ocean. it's the latest discovery in the military's anti drug operations. and comes days off to mexico's navy seized a ton of cocaine from 2 boats. surveillance footage shows suspects, attempting to discard the drugs. the french catholic church says 11 bishops and full of bishops, have been accused of sexual violence or failing to report abuse cases among them israel pierre, the car, one of the countries highest ranking cardinals. on monday he confessed to abusing a young girl 35 years ago. he will face prosecution or al church tribunal if you want to pursue as the war in ukraine continues, many people are looking for missing, loved ones, many affair dead. but in some cases, no bodies have yet been found, leading relatives to hope that they may have survived often the only way of finding

out the truth is a dna test. d, w is mad, he has building a reports now from is him a town recently re taken from russian forces home go. they wait to see the investigators bringing dna and testimony who'd mealer was china and her relative just have questions about her. so he was serving in the ukraine tutorial, defense force. when the russians came to his room, she lost counter but didn't dare to ask too much. every one knew the russians were looking for families of ukrainian soldiers. you're put a whole as a younger boy i head, i was afraid that someone might tip them off. we had a lot of my son's military stuff at home. what i was very scared of the other by yelling. now the russians are gone. the world can see what the fighting did to

resume the beginning of the war. and details are emerging from the 6th month of occupation. these include a mass grave on the outskirts of tone. their investigators found the bodies of civilians as well as ukrainian soldiers, some with their hands tied behind their backs. more than $400.00 bodies were found here, it's the biggest mass grave detected. the more by a dna sampling unit. for many, the cheeks swap of has the only hope for clarity. many of the bodies in the mass graves were in such bad condition. that immediate identification wasn't possible the more the other to day. genuine idea even of a will give a sample. she fled with a child just before the russians arrived, leaving her father in hospital like late as she heard the hospital was, shell is actually good. i found a doctor from is you had flight the town. he told me that my father died in the

attack and it had not been possible to save him. he died there and was left behind below. now she's looking for his body. you'd meal, if he is, she's doing this say her son said to have died in an arid. so just from his unit, all can offer her little hope mozilla prayer tacoma. unfortunately, if you consider where he was, when the bomb hid, there's no chance he could aspire to the bumble. was it the emotions in the mouth, but they never found his body. and so don't know for certain what happened. the soldiers are here to testify. what you will notice though you'd mila, has already given investigators a d n a sample, but hasn't heard anything relative, tries to find out more, but there is no news today. we're still on the mine. as long as there's nobody,

i still have help here, chris. oh no, not much. oh, those the soldiers promised the women that they stay in touch, if that's all anyone can do. and we can talk now till i dw correspondent in keith's neck. conley and nick, it's, it's unimaginable what the, the relatives of the missing are going through, and also such difficult work demanded of the recovery teams. several mass graves have been discovered so far in ukraine, but presumably only a fraction of the dead and missing. and ukraine have been identified that's definitely the case and there are no really kind of conclusive numbers on how many people are still on accounted for them. all. the databases are pretty different to one of those, no real understanding of where the true figures lie and the expectation is that the

numbers the confirm numbers will still rise as landmines are basically dealt with. that's the big issue. lots of forest areas, lots of kind of places are that people took to trying to flee from the fighting, trying to get to ukraine hill territory. they are still out of bounds and too dangerous to check. so there's your, when you talk to people in these villages who coming back to their houses for the 1st time after the, at the end of the russian occupation, there's just huge uncertainty about these numbers. as for the military casualties, the ukrainian officials are keeping very tight wraps on those figures. they're not publishing and it figures butts. independent observers are normally the opinions that the ukranian army is doing a bit more to try and preserve lives and to kind of fight in a slightly more kind of high tech way than the russians of forces where we have seen huge losses in recent weeks. and russian generals seeming just forcing newly unscripted, often under training, under equipped troops at basically the grain lines at the machine guns and lots and lots of death, stone, very short pieces based on if we can stay with the fi thing right now, the ukraine is accusing rougher of looting, empty, hones in the city of hassan,

and occupying them with troops in civilian clothes, to prepare for street fighting. both sides, protecting her thumb will be one of the was most important battle. can you, can you tell us why that is? well, it's a kind of crucial stronghold for russia right now. it's the only section of your transfer to west the pro river that russia controls. it basically puts all of ukraine's black sea coast within range of missiles. it puts them under threats that definitely a sense there that you know, if you cranes able to push russian troops out of san, than that will really basically the pressure off at us. all those ports are so crucial for getting ukraine's export. all those food exports out and basically giving you crane access to, to the world season for deliveries into those ports. it's also kind of been lots of speculation that on the one hand, the russians been pulling out there and mischief are kind of units pulling them back often towards alex crimea. but leaving those soldiers behind, there's very different ring accounts. when you talk to people who still on the ground, they say that they've seen russian police disappear,

the russian flags come down, but they're still seeing a lot of armed people out of army units. and there's just basic kind of terror and kind of lack of understanding what's going on. and here they, they tell you, even if the russians do withdraw to your side of the river, they are convinced that there's going to be a lot of our to re fi. they're going to be attacked from russian units just over the river. so even if it comes on is taken back by a grain forces, mostly with arithmetic, that will be the end of it. next, thanks so much for that. that's the devil, isn't it? connelly reporting from keith. now small island nation, suffering the brunt of climate change, say big oil should pay for mounting damage from ocean storms and sea level rise. and those comments were made by the prime minister of antigua and day 3 of the climate change summit. that's happening right now in egypt. developing nations are also demanding rich countries pay more money to help them adapt to climate change. if all the leaders in this room had joined forces in the fight against global

warming, saying to say there would be far fewer climate catastrophes to address at this year's summit. but the situation is serious. you and secretary general antonia guiterres made that clear. oh glen, at these foster bulging peeping warns that will make glamorous gales you reversible . we are on the highway to climb hotel without food still on the accelerator. gutierrez is referring to the you and world mature. a logical organizations report that the last 8 years have been the warmest on record. flash flooding in pakistan in september devastated an area the size of britain. the floods killed more than 1500 people and left millions homeless. at the other end of the spectrum, extreme drought dried up, entire rivers in italy, and in so malia the worst dry spell and 40 years left 1000000 suffering. countries

that contribute the least to the climate crisis are the ones suffering the most from its consequences. so the summit is appealing for solidarity. i don't believe it is justice to the young generation. when our re risen legs up, wouldn't you did. i don't suggest this when big bullet is an untouchable. is he justice for the wild need is to choose brush reeds over lives. if nothing changes, the temperature of the earth's atmosphere could rise by $2.00 to $2.00 degrees celsius compared to pre industrial times. scientists say the paris climate accords aim of limiting global warming to $1.00 degrees is currently unattainable. they predict this will result in more and more frequent, extreme weather events to help climate vulnerable countries deal with the damages. german chancellor, all of shoulds said his country will provide financial assistance with the old. so

suppose those countries hit hardest by climate change in a targeted way in dealing with loss and damage for these until the claim of his for this shield and climate risk funding. germany makes available 170000000 euros. as world leaders see compromises over the next 2 weeks in a junction city of sharma, share. many are skeptical that the promises made in this room what actually be delivered. and like many countries around the world, south africa is struggling with the impacts of the changing climate. it suffered a series of severe droughts in the past. he is farmers, there are trying to adapt to the new where the patterns did abuse at vancleve. she visited a farm in the western cape head and move on thought the morning in his nursery with a tiresome but important job spreading fraud between the apple trees. he is growing a cost effective soil cover to save water and keep the soil moist but mostly, uh,

we open up a lot or 2 sites the same order we must look for before a better measurements to move to safe water and a decently shit area of concern yet, so i don't think people, if elijah, tow important war to ease the farmer is conserving water where ever he can, he has also invested in a drip water irrigation system. now instead of spraying huge amounts of water, he can irrigate more efficiently based on the plans needs. but morton's business still needs a lot of water. he plans thousands of trees every year, mainly apples and peers. then he sells them to commercial farmers. despite all his efforts and the farms dam that collects water from a mountain stream currently being full, he is concerns. so far this year there has been much less rain than last is there remembers the massive drought between 20152018 that destroyed crops and killed

animals. most dams in the region. red dry, been gone, ignored. there has been researching droughts in southern africa for 10 years, where the patterns have become less predictable. she says, and it has been raining less doing it was quite said in most places where farmers will be like, well, i just gave up. i can do anything. and some family to move home like that. this is just not going to happen. i have to leave. but of course, there are some beautiful studies out be where farmers, they've managed, they called they adopt new technologies. they adopt new varieties and they work with commercial farmers who i'm entering them and is successful. big commercial farmers often have access to finance and technology to implement water saving measures. smaller farmers like at a mutant don'ts. he still managed to build a successful nursery business using his savings and strict water conservation measures. despite the challenges that forced many farmers to close shop, mouton now employ as

a team of 9 and hoops. as children who already walk on the farm will continue the business or they must do. you must follow my steps. so yes, it's from has do that. yeah, yes so, so, so as to slot of opportunities in every culture business, i think is a cultural nowadays. so one of the sectors, so they are really own to produce more job opportunities move on now wants to start his own epl and p a production and continued to find new ways to make use of scars, water resources. and joining me now from the cup 27 climate summit in egypt is martin flick director of the united nations world food program in germany. welcome to d. w. we just saw in that report the devastating effects that droughts are having. why are so many people still taking water for granted? well, we came to learn that water is everywhere,

but with the changing climate is each dramatic effect at the home of africa. for example, we freight after the we was traveled in full d k. that 22000000 people, i'm a huge risk of hunger and so water has been deep. the effect is not only by climate change, but also by inappropriate agricultural strategies by you for station by removing plan that has led to have operational water. and we need to understand that agriculture is the key to balancing the water cycle, particular area, and the climate change conditions. so agriculture, capital, breeding, transportation, these are all driving global warming. so how can our food production systems be made more sustainable and fast? absolutely, if you look at food as they contribute close to 40 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions. but the good news is that we can reverse there,

began bill agricultural systems in a way that they build up nature capital. we can make land arable again. that was last to death and also with animal st. cattle breathing. it's not necessarily evil if you will have capital free roaming, for example, in africa. and you do it in a smart way. it actually ru soil of any comment can be a common solution, but having thousands of animals in the stable to be fed by him or to the grains that is not working is really good to, hey, you say that these affects what we're seeing all reversible, but do you get any sense from the climate talks that countries but leaders already to make potentially very unpopular decisions to for, for change and in what we consume and how we consume well leaders come here with, oh,

food prices. in being in full swing. we have 345000000 people who are acutely food insecure and food inflation is in 67 countries of the world, higher than 15 percent. so obviously need us need to find solutions for more food security in actually $82.00 countries and that is driving also in char mode shake. negotiate has more to look into agriculture and in food systems, where in the not only food security depends on what it would search of the climate solution of the huge martin, frank, director of the u. n. world food program in germany. thank you so much for your time. thank you. now, if you are in north america, east asia, all the pacific regions and the weather, the net, you will not want to miss the moon's disappearing act overnight. the earth, moon, and sun are lining in a total lunar eclipse, and there won't be another one for another 3 years now in this spectacle,

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