companies and countries, li thinking everything, making later changes you have received this week on d. w ah, ah, this is d w. news coming to line from berlin. high stakes in the us as polls open for mid term elections. president joe biden says a win for the republicans would threaten democracy of our president, donald trump, hints he's preparing a comeback. also on the program. it's day 3,

the climate change summit in egypt and calls or growing for fossil fuel companies to pay for the damage they have cause to the planet. and for they alive or dead in ukraine, people are searching for their missing loved ones with widespread destruction from the war. dna tests are often the only way of establishing the truth. ah hello, i'm terry martin. thanks for joining us. boating is underway in crucial mid term elections in the us. the boat will determine if democrats lose control of congress and with it, their ability to push ahead with president jo biden's agenda for the next 2 years. republican seems set to do well in the vote after focusing on the economy in the campaign. but more than half of republican candidates say they believe the

unfounded claim that donald trump won the 2020 election. this is raising peers among democrats, that the very future of democracy could be at stake in the selection for more, let's go straight over to our correspondence stuff and see months in washington doesn't. how is it looking for the 2 sides or republicans expected to make big gains in these elections? thing it's a safe bet to say that they are expected to roll the house, meaning that they have only to pick up 5 seats in the house of representatives and they're expected to manage this and do actually better than just 5 seats in the house. they need to get the majority in the house of representatives. the senate is a little bit of a different thing there. it only needs 11 seat return republican. and then the majority for the democrats is also gone in the senate, but it is

a lot harder for the republicans to do that. at least that's what the latest pulled suggests. so the democrats hope and half maybe a chance to hold on to the senate majority, but the house is probably gone for them and that will have consequences, no doubt. so i want to ask you about the consequences because we know that these elections, as you say, will decide who controls the house and senate, the governorships of important states or up for grabs as well. but what's at stake for jo biden's presidency? stephan short answer is yes sir, of maybe becoming a lame duck president. the ne, there's nothing he could possibly do or bring through without excessively working with the other side, with the republicans in the house and the senate. if the republicans take both chambers off their congress here, then there is no democratic agenda or biden agenda going through the institutions relatively easy anymore. that is definitely the history. and that would mean that

has of course, impact internationally. that means money. 8 deliveries for ukraine. democrats are spending very generously in the last 2 months by demonstration is the republicans of indicated that they wanna tone this back a little bit. so this could change. and of course, there's many, many other areas he in the united states, internally where republicans are ready to turn back the clock, so to speak, on measures the biden administration pushed in the last 2 years. now these are, these elections are happening today, but it's gonna take a while understand till he really know what the outcome is when. when will we get the results of these elections? to good question. we're hoping for later today, right tonight, but it's very unlikely. and his wife, florida, for example, has counted the mailing balance. they received hundreds of thousands of them for

the last few days already. but states like pennsylvania and wisconsin, where they are really, really big centered raises happening. they're going to theresa's happening there. they could not start to do state laws counting or canvassing those mail in ballads until this morning here local time 7 am. so that's a few hours they have to really pick up the speed and it takes time to count ballots, right? even if it's electronically. so to morrow or in many cases, maybe even in a few days we will have really official results. 7, thank you very much for now. our correspond, stephane siemens are in the u. s. capital. while the world is watching the us mid terms aware that there result could impact us foreign policy or issues like the economy have been dominating the campaign. the war in ukraine is stefan mentioned is costing us consumers in many ways. and some are questioning how

much longer the u. s. should support ukraine 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 touch more republican. and the big question everybody is asking is what impact 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,

it's sending a very different signal ahead of the elections. kevin mccarthy is the top republican in the house of representatives. he says 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 americans back 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

send her 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. and for americans willingness to pay a price for global leadership. and we can discuss this further with pseudo david wilts. she's a director of the berlin office of the german marshall fund. that's a non partisan public policy. think tank thanks for being with the pseudo will start with a question being asked by many people here in europe right now. do you think that americans position regarding and brushes more and ukraine will change if republicans when control of one or both houses of congress?

so terry, i'll give you a new, honest answer to your question. i think there's overwhelming bipartisan support for ukraine in washington at the moment. and in fact, the friction is actually between the white house and congress. ah, behind closed doors, many, many members of congress, republicans and democrats, but mostly republicans are asked actually asking president, bind to do more. what will change, of course. and this actually aligns with growing republican voter sentiment. is that the u. s. doesn't want to just do it alone. i think republicans, if they take the majority in the house and even in the senate, they will be more scrutiny as kevin mccarthy, who's poised to perhaps be the next speaker of the house. said there won't be any blank checks for ukraine, but they're in expect european partners to set up some work for ukraine. senator tom houghton, already said from arkansas republican. that of course, the u. s. has to support ukraine because it has the sophisticated military weapons

that ukraine needs, but he wants to do more. okay. um the midterm is of course are being closely watched around the world, not least in moscow and beijing. do these electrons have the potential to shape u. s. foreign policy towards russia and china? most certainly, i think that, you know, i think the republicans take the house, which is usually normal in a mid term election that the congress switches to a different party. then the party that's in the white house, then of course it will be iraq is 2 years of investigations and $100.00 buying the canister withdrawal. and perhaps even articles of impeachment and countries like russia and china that are using this information to so discord within the united states will certainly use this as an opportunity to divide americans even more in a very polarized atmosphere in the run up to 2024 and in the world is watching

the state of democracy in the united states right now. so the state of democracy is at stake as it were. what about you? us relations will transatlantic relations and this is your bread and butter. will transatlantic relations be effected? if for example, the house and senate flip and bind becomes a lame duck. as i mentioned before, i think there is overwhelming bipartisan support for ukraine, and also for nato, is a very popular institution, for democrats and republicans alike. and i think there was incredible between the united states in europe with rushes war against ukraine. and i don't see that faltering immediately. but there is of course friction on the horizon specifically with, you know, germany and europe relations with china. there's also rowing hard line

cooperation. you drive across and republicans on the u. s. for china and also that the europeans also need to do more in their own backyard, and that military funding is necessary. so i think that there's frictions there, and also with bindings inflation. reduction act. there have also been of course disadvantages for europe because by the policy of promoting the middle class is going to her european companies involved in the electric vehicle industry. sort of thank you very much. that was sort of david will, the director of the berlin office, the german marshall fund. good to see let's take a look at some of the other stores making headlines around the world state. the french catholic church says 11 bishops and former bishops have been accused of sexual violence or failing to report abuse cases. among them is john pierre caught one of the countries highest ranking cardinals. on monday he confessed to abusing

a young girl 35 years ago. he will face prosecution or a church tribunal. a bulgarian police officer has been shot dead at the border with turkey by an unknown gunman, or gary as interior minister says, shots were fired from turkish territory and the turkish authorities. a pledge to investigate bulgaria has seen a spike in attempted border crossings this year by migrants entering europe from the middle east. mexican authorities have seized well over a ton of what they believe is cocaine found floating in the pacific ocean. it's the latest discovery in the military's anti drug operations and comes days after mexico's navy seized a ton of cocaine from 2 boats. surveillance footage show suspects, attempting to discard the drugs as a call. 27 climate conference gets underway in egypt. a growing number of countries are calling for the largest polluters to fund more efforts to aid and protect

nations, already suffering from a warmer planet. like many countries, south africa has suffered a series of severe droughts over the past few years. farmers are trying to adapt to the new weather patterns as dw, as adrian creek found out when he visited a farm in the western cape, fed and mouton thought the morning in his new 3 with a tiresome but important job. spreading throb between the apple trees, he is growing a cost effective soil covered to save water and keep the soil moist. but mostly uh, we open up a lot or 2 saints the save 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 east, 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 do it was quite said in most places, way farmers will be like, well, i just gave up. i can do anything in some family to move home like this is just not going to happen. i have to leave. but of course, there are some beautiful studies out the where farmers, they've managed, they cook,

they, i dump new technologies the, i don't 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 m 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 employ as a team of 9 and hoops. as children who already walk on the farm will continue the business. they are, 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 the cultural business, i think is a culture of nowadays, or 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 spring in martin's dental. here he's a climate scientist with the danish meteorological institute. he joins us from copenhagen. welcome to the program. i wanted to ask you about some new e u data released today. martin, it shows that her last month was europe's hardest october on record and globally look past 8 years. have been the warmest ever recorded. what is all this tell you about the state of the planet. so this is telling me it's not astonished that this is happening. climate models have been keeping, telling us for years. if you can expect that it gets warmer. well, or, or rather that's a hot events that will be more often than code events that also may exist once in a bio. and it gets a dryer in dry regions beforehand and it was and, but we can,

so, you know, it's explained what we have seen in south africa as an example. so what we're seeing in europe very long periods that actually comes only 4 years after another very warm period of record hot summer in 2018. so this is entirely along the lines what you would expect from fund months. ok as a climate model seem to be getting this right up. according to the un current climate pledges that the world is made. world leaders may they put the world on track to be close to 3 degrees celsius warmer by the end of the century. how would that impact our lives? now these 3 degrees centigrade are entirely possible if you keep going on as we did when the moment. so what, what would mean? it would be an ice fi arctic, which would, of course, employer heavy talk losses for many animals. might even mean that's a number for us in the arctic may call us some places setting freak we gases,

which are below for lots of powerful at the moment. so increasing the amount of greenhouse gases and get monsieur, he would have more stream trouts. you would have less precipitation in dry regions, more precipitation in wet regions, and we would have more more extreme extreme rainfall simply because the warm air can hold more water away by the code. he would also have more heat waves. also more flooding like last year in germany for example, we would have a drastic increase in ot nights and its ops. also bird also was a combination of heat and humidity. hard to sense situations for example, for working outside animal. in principle, the chance of the risk of sexual see of having a major he'd say for example, would something like maybe 6 or 8 for larger than it's present. well,

with the world right now is still talking about 1.5 degrees celsius, but it's no, we're nowhere near the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees celsius by the end of the century. do you, do you think that goal is still worth holding onto? so i should 1st say if the nation's implement everything they have promised so far, then would still end a warming on the order of maybe 2 and a half or 3 degrees. so much more that needs to be done than has been promised so far. i still think, theoretically, the 1.5 degree, the aim is to possible it will be very hard to reach, but i don't think it is a good idea if he say all the countries anyway. because that would give the wrong scion to conferences like this one, named that it doesn't mitten this, it would be fatal. so be very hard to read about and a half decrease, but still it's not entirely impossible. complacency would be fatal for very clear

statement there from martin stand out with the danish meteorological institute. thanks for being with us. thank you. well, as the warden, ukraine continues, many people are looking for missing loved ones. some are fear dead, but in a number of cases no bodies have been found leaving relatives hoping they may still be alive. sometimes a dna test can shed light on the matter. dw mathias putting a reports. now from is you a town recently retaken from russian forces? how they wait to see the investigate is bringing dna and testament 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 contact, but didn't dare to ask too much. every one knew the russians were looking for

families of ukrainian soldiers. i put a hole as a younger boy, i hid. i was afraid that someone might tip them off yet we had a lot of my son's military stuff at home, but i was very scared of the other way. ali 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 move 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 other to day genuine idea, yvonne 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 isn't actually good. i found a doctor from is you had flint, 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. now she's looking for his body. you'd meal, if he is, she is doing the same. her son said to have died in an air raid soldiers from his unit all can offer her little ho. madeline 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 that the emotions in the mouth, but they never found his body. and so don't know for certain what happened. the

soldiers i here to testify, what you all know that you'd mila has already given investigators a dna sample, but hasn't heard anything from her relative, tries to find out more. but there's no news today. we're still on the my as long as there's no body, i still have hope. you're good. oh no, not much. oh, the voice, the soldiers promised the women that they stay in touch. that's all anyone can do. now hollywood director roland emmerich made his name with apocalyptic films such as finance day and the day after to morrow. but now the master of disaster has put his producing power behind an operatic fantasy film for young people,

inspired by mo charged magic flute it premier at last night in munich. i newman, did he musically. it looks as if they have just stepped out of hogwarts. but the heroes here aren't want to be wizards, rather than musicians taking on the world of mozart's magic fling, shall lordy sante man, ha ha. this new film in spot by mozart's well known opera, has all the visual language of a harry potter epic. and his jam packed with fantasy film affects no surprise perhaps when german born hollywood director roland emmerich is the produce of behind it. i cannot meet of it fell for that a, you know, like idea. and her said let's do this. classical fra is set in a fantasy realm with a framing story of a young ambitious musician who finds himself travelling between parallel worlds of snakes, magic and mozart, and school work,

music practice and navigating friendships. although the story is a visual feast, it's real strength, unsurprisingly, is in the music, which some have said has ready sounded so good with all the bells and whistles of state of the art cinema. in their food. good thing, i mean, it's just, it's loose. this hi, uh huh. oh good thing. and according to the actors, the film might just broaden mozart's appeal for a new audience and inspire them to enjoy opera wrapped. sometimes there's a, a bit of a sort of taboo about offer that it's all the other classes and it's of people who own oprah, reverend man, most i was writing this stuff for everyone you did. that was what he was trying to do. and this is hopefully, well, this film can do and bring, make young, you know, even make young kids like understand this incredible music is genius is incredible

. then after its premier in munich, germany last night, it looks set to do just that. and although it is only initially being released in germany and austria, perhaps it can work it's mozart magic on the rest of the world. after that, we steep very open is the 50. you're watching d, w. there's from berlin coming up. next, it's kick off the latest bonus league highlights. i'm terry martin. course you can find all the latest news information on our website as t w dot com. thanks for watching. with with

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