thanks to music as a homo digitalis to fetch the channel player. well, i was the only one i was super lucky. music under the swastika starts november 19th on d. w. ah ah, this is d w. news live from burlington high stakes in the us as pulls open for midterm elections. president joe biden says of win for the republicans would threaten democracy. former president, donald trump kids, he's preparing a comeback. also on the program. it stay 3 of the climate change summit in egypt

and pulls the drawing for fossil fuel companies to pay for the damage they have called to the planet. and are they alive or are they dead in ukraine? people are searching for their missing loved ones with wide spread destruction from the war. dna tests are often the only way of establishing the truth. ah amen. cooper's mckinnon. welcome to the program. polls have opened and crucial midterm elections in the us. now the vote will determine if democrats lose control of congress and with that their ability to push ahead with president jo biden's agenda for the next 2 years. republican seems sets do well in the boat of the focusing on the economy and the campaign. but more than half of republican

candidates say they believe the unfounded claim that donald trump one the 2020 election. and this is raising fears among democrats, that the very future of democracy could be at stake in this election. we'll get more from one of our correspondence in washington dc in just a moment, but 1st we're going to have from d w's, william black croft, the mid term elections are called that because they take place in the middle of the president's 4 year term. so joe biden was elected in 2020. which means the midterms are now 2022. they're always an important indicator of how voters feel about the party in power and how they feel about how the united states is doing. who wins the midterms can make or break the rest of a president's time in office. and joe biden is poised to lose his democratic majority, at least in the house of representatives, if not the senator. and here's why all 435 seats in the house are up for reelection . majority is anything over 218 in the senate door,

a 100 seats. democrats have the bare minimum of a majority there. this year, only $35.00 of those seats are being contested and not every race has the same impact on the balance of power. that's because the u. s. is so politically divided . republicans and democrats have a lock on most of the seats. now of course, election day will probably bring surprises and upsets. but analysts think that only 35 of the 435 house seats. and just about 5 of those 35 senate races are what we call toss ups, where the outcome is really unclear. now, democrats have their work cut out for them if they want to hang on to power. why? well, let's look at history. the party that controls the white house, and as the democrats right now, almost always lose seats in the mid terms. that's been a stronger trend of the house, as you can see here, over the decades than the senate. but both sides of congress tend to get

a show lacking, which is what president barack obama describe the massive losses he suffered in the 2010 mid terms. and of course there are a lot of factors that determine the outcome of the midterms. there of course, major events and policies of the party and power, but also voter turnout, which side can get more of their people to the polls and structural advantages this year. republicans in the house just have a better chance of flipping seats and has fewer of their own to defend the situation. the senate is a bit more of a fair fight, but still a challenge for democrats and then the unknowns. how will newly redrawn voting maps for how seats impact the parties chances? what about new voting regulations in some places, due to baseless claims, a voter fraud? and of course, donald trump, he isn't on the ballot, but several of his preferred candidates are and how they and republicans more broadly perform, could signal things to come for 2024 and american democracy be out.

i states and he w correspondence. stephan simons his in washington d. c. a little early and we talked about how early those saying could potentially affect the outcome of this election. they hess, indeed in record numbers actually. and how could this impacted the results and when we get results, that is the really, really interesting question here. and why is that? because florida, for example, they already processing or the right term for this is canvassing, sent in votes, mail in votes. but states like pensylvania and wisconsin, the state laws there for bit this to happen before election day, meaning they start canvassing processing those now mailing valid just today they started about an hour ago to do this in their hundreds and thousands of this. what that means is that results from florida we will, may have to night later today, or early tomorrow morning, pensylvania wisconsin and

a few other states where they just start to count those votes. well, that could take days until we have really an accurate picture of who won what race for when authorial racist, governor or senate or congress. all right, it might take a couple of days. let's take a look at the both the houses of congress, which are currently controlled by the democrats, that republicans really only need a few extra seats to take control. don't they say, tell us how easy it will be for them to do that. one of the houses pretty much it done deal, they need to pick up 5 seats to really are kicked the democrats out of the majority in the house of representatives. that should be absolutely possible for the republicans. they are absolutely hopeful and positive and excited about that perspective. of course. senate a little bit of a different thing. now it is just taking $11.00 seat in the senate for

the republicans to negate the majority, the democrats right now, half. and that's only because of the deciding vote off vice president comalla harris. but it is really not that easy for republicans. it is, it is not considered that easy to really topple this or move are majority in the senate house. yes, everybody expects a significant loss for the democrats in the senate. maybe maybe, and the democrats are very hopeful they can hold on for the senate wise is important because real laws will be decided before they go to the president for the for his signature and to become lost. they have to go to the center. it's not that the house of representatives can make a decision, create a law, and then it goes to the center. then there robber step is if you have the majority in one in the house, but not in the senate, it's getting really difficult. all right, stephan simons. in washington, d. c. thanks so much for that. now the world is watching the u. s. mid terms given

that the outcome could change you as foreign policy, while issues like the economy have been dominating the campaign. the warren ukraine is costing us consumers in many ways, and some are now questioning how much longer the u. s. should support ukraine's fight against russia. russia's war against ukraine is one. the u. s. has not been able to look away from. americans have already sent more than $60000000000.00 worth of assistance into this was a democrat president joe biden has promised to continue to do all it takes to defend ukraine sovereignty. as americans head to the polls in the mid term elections. us congress is expected to turn more republican. and the big question everybody is asking is, what impacts that will have on us assistance to ukraine and other allies? well, the answer depends on who you are. there will be enough support no matter who controls

which house and given president biden still in the white house. so i, i am quite confident that very, very strong support will continue for ukraine. yet one prominent republican stuff is sending a very different signal ahead of the elections. kevin mccarthy is the top republican in the house of representatives. he said he believes americans would no longer be willing to write a blank check to ukraine in the face of a biting recession back home. after all, the soaring prices of gas, food, and housing top, the list of worries for ordinary americans. democrats see that a republican majority in congress could soon make ukraine a domestic bargaining chip. but poll, so more than 2 thirds of american fact, us assistance to ukraine, even if there is

a republican majority in the house and or the senate. i think perhaps the experience of working together are so closely and so confidentially and with so much trust on sanctions might perhaps help to diffuse and 10 who over trade protectionism in general or over the larger question of how to deal with malignant chinese behavior in the trade and technology route. i'm going to say i'm cautiously optimistic on that. warnings that china may try to invade taiwan rather sooner than later could become the next test for the west. on for americas willingness to pay a price for global leadership to the crane now and as war there continues. many people are looking for missing, loved ones, many off here dead. but in some cases,

no bodies have been found leading relative to hope that they may have survived. often. the only way of finding out the truth is a dna test. he w mathias bullying reports now from him. a town recently retaken from russian forces. how they wait to see the investigate is bringing dna and testimony you'd mealer was china and her relative just have questions about herself. he was serving in the ukraine territorial defense force. when the russians came to ease you, she lost content, but didn't dare to ask too much. every one knew the russians were looking for families of ukrainian soldiers yet, but a whole as a younger boy, i hid. i was afraid that someone might tip them off. yeah, we had a lot of my son's military stuff at home. what i was very scared of the other way.

alley now the russians are gone. the world can see what the fighting did to resume at the beginning of the war. and details are emerging from the 6 month of occupation. these include a mass grave. on the outskirts of town. there 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 buy a dna sampling unit. for many, the cheeks swapped off as 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 other to day. genuine idea even of her 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 who had fled to 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 the same. her son said to have died in an air raid. soldiers from his unit all can offer her little hope. mozilla prayer to come off. unfortunately, if you consider where he was when the bomb head, there's no chance he could aspire to the bomba was at 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 that you'd mila has already given investigators a d n a sample, but hasn't heard anything from her relative,

tries to find out more. but there is no news today. we're still on the mike. as long as there's nobody, i still have help. here, chris, oh no, not much. oh, the voice, the soldiers promised the women that they stay in touch issue. that's all anyone can do. t w correspondent, nick conley is in ukraine's capital t of and i asked him earlier about the mass graves discovered in ukraine. so far and how presumably only a fraction of the dead and missing have yet to be 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 there's no real understanding of where the true figures lie and the expectation is that the numbers the confirm numbers will still rise as land mines are basically

dealt with. that's the big issue. lots of forest areas, lots of kind of places 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, you know, when you talk to people in these villages who going back to their houses for the 1st time after the end of the russian occupation, there's just huge uncertainty about these numbers. as for the military cavities, the ukraine officials are keeping very tight wraps on those figures, the not publishing any figures, but independent observers are normally the opinions that the ukrainian army is doing a bit more to try and preserve lives and to kind of fight in a slightly more kind of hijacked way than the russians are forces where we have seen huge losses in recent weeks and russian generals swimming and just forcing newly conscripted often under training under equipped troops at basically the crane lines at the machine guns and lots and lots of death, stone, very shorts. be specified on that was d. w, isn't it? conley and keith. now, small island nation is suffering. the brunt of climate change to say big oil should

pay for mounting damage from droughts, storms and sea level rise. the demand was made by the prime minister of antigua on day 3 of the climate changes summit in egypt. developing nations are also demanding rich countries pay more to help them adapt to a more volatile climate. if all the leaders in this room have joined forces in the fight against global warming, scientists say there would be far fewer climate catastrophes to address at this year's summit. but the situation is perilous. un secretary general and tanaka terrace made that clear. though a blend these fast approaching dipping points that will make climate goals, you reversible, we are on a highway to climate tell with our food still on the accelerator. humans have already heated the planet by roughly 1 point one degrees celsius since the 19th century. largely by burning coal,

oil and gas for energy emissions are still increasing. the last 8 years have been the warmest on record, and the consequences are being felt across the globe. flash flooding in pakistan in september devastated an area the size of britain. the flux killed more than 1500 people and displaced over 30000000. at the other end of the spectrum, extreme drought dried up entire rivers in italy and in east africa, the worst dry spell in 40 years has left 1000000 suffering. countries that contribute the least to the climate crisis, either one 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 upwardly said. i don't suggest this when big bullet is untouchable,

is he just this for the wildly this the tooth brush over lives. the u. n says current climate pledges will lead to global heating of at least 2.5 degrees celsius . a level that would lead to catastrophic climate breakdown. but most nations are falling short of implementing these pledges. scientists say government need to slash emissions by almost half by 2030, to avert the most catastrophic consequences of climate change. meanwhile, there are growing cause for fossil fuel companies, as well as wealthy, more polluting countries to help pay for the mounting damage. historically, wealthy nations have resisted such payments, fearing spiraling liabilities. a handful including germany, have now committed small amount to such funding. we will also support those

countries hit hardest by climate change in a targeted way in dealing with loss and damage. germany is earmarking, a $170000000.00 euros for a so called global shield program and climate risk financing. as well. leader c, compromises many are skeptical that even if new promises are made, they will actually be delivered. speaking of you and climate conference, germany's chance level of shows promise the germany will phase out gas, coal, and oil without any if so butts. and that it would meet its climate targets. his dw correspondent nina has a his traveling with the chancellor about germany's role at a summit. the german chancellor is commended by other leaders for keeping the issue of climate protection firmly on the international agenda also in his position as the current head of the g 7. and it's also being seen positively here at the climate summit in egypt that all our child has brought with him in the suitcase

a couple of concrete measures and initiatives and more money. for example, the global shield initiative and on bureaucratic way to help countries affected by natural disaster events in an, an bureaucratic way. also, germany has announced that it will increase it some it's annual, some of investment into international climate efforts to 6000000000 euros by the year 2025. but and there is a big but germany also has a lot of convincing to do. it isn't doing its homeworks at home, quite as yet. it has been criticized the german government by its own council of experts who say that germany's efforts at home are not enough. all our shows argues that because of russia's actions, germany is having to invest in fossil fuels longer than it wants to. but of course, this is something where he's being, i'd very, very skeptically, by the international community. germany's credibility as a global leader in the fight against climate change is at stake here. so it is

a tightrope walk for the german chancellor, the climate summit in egypt, and many countries around the world, south africa is struggling with the impact of a changing climate. it has suffered a series of severe droughts over the past few years. farmers there are trying to adapt to the new weather patterns as t w's alley increase found out when he visited a farm in the western cape, said a mouton starts the morning in his nursery with a tiresome but important job. spreading throb between the apple trees he is growing a cost effective soil cover to save water and keep the soil moist that mostly up your bill. i'll follow up to saint the save order. we must look for before a better measurements to do safe water and a decently st area of concern yet. so i don't think people, if elijah tow important war to east, the farmer is conserving water wherever 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 bunker, unequal. 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 do it was quite said in most places, way farmers will be like, well, i just gave up. i can do anything. and some family had to move home like that. this is just not going to happen. i have to live. but of course,

there are some beautiful studies out be where farmers, they've managed makeup, they adopt new technologies, they adopt new law. it is, 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 em, wooten don't. he still managed to build a successful nursery business using a savings and strict water conservation measures. despite the challenges that forced many farmers to close shop move on now employees the team of 9 and hoops, as children who are already walk on the farm will continue the business or they must do. you must follow my steps. so yes is from has do that. yeah, yes. so, so, so as to slot of opportunities in every culture business, i think is a cultural nowadays, sir, one of the sectors. so they are really own to produce more job opportunities.

what 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 mustn't. frick as the director of the united nations wealthy program in germany, he's currently at the u. n. climate talks in egypt and when i spoke to him earlier, i asked him why so many people still take water for granted? well became to learn that water is everywhere. but with the changing climate, you see dramatic effect at the home of africa. for example, we freight after the trout 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 a 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 condition. so culture, 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 over greenhouse gas emissions. but the good news is that we can reverse there. we can build agricultural systems in a way that they build up nature capital. we can make land arable again, that was loss to death. and also with animal st. capital reading. it's not necessarily evil. if you have capital free, roaming, for example, in sub sarah africa and you do it in a smart way. it actually in room sort of any comment can be a common solution,

but having thousands of animals in this table to be fed by water grains that is not working. it's really good to, hey, you say that these effects that 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, he does come here with true prices in being in works. when we have 345000000 people were actually food insecure and inflation in 67 countries of the world higher than 15 percent. so obviously need us need to find solutions for more food security, actually 82 countries and that is trying also in chalmers shake, the go see, 8 is more to look into agriculture and in food systems where indeed not only food

security and so on. but the 3rd of the climate solution of the future not in fact, director of the us well to program in germany. thank you so much for your time. thank you. you are watching daily news coming up next in d w. news, asia. climate change has already arrived for many people across asia. it's right on the front doorstep that walks a wealth leaders at $27.00 willing to do that. coming up next sunday daily news, asia with melissa cham. i'm a new kid. mckennan, thanks so much. been with a, with

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