ah ah ah, this is the w news coming to you live from berlin. high stakes in the us with voters casting ballots in mid term elections. president joe biden says a win for the republicans with threatened democracy, former president, dull troll. hence that he is preparing a comeback also on the program. it's day 3 of the climate change summit in egypt.

and colds are growing for fossil fuel companies to pay for the damage their products of calls to the planet. and to fall 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. good to have you with 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. publican seemed set to do well in the boat after focusing on the economy in the campaign. more than half of repub can candidates st. they believe the unfounded

claim that donald trump won the 2020 election. this is raising fears among democrats, that the very future of democracy could be at stake in the selection. earlier i asked you to be correspond stuff on siemens. how the republicans are expected to perform in these elections. thing is 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 are 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 to turn 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 this 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, and 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 few 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? step up. good question. we're hoping for later today, right tonight, but it's very unlikely. and he is why florida, for example, has counted the mailing ballads. 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 then gubernatorial race is happening there. they could not start due to 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 tomorrow or in many cases, maybe even in a few days we will half really official results. 7, thank you very much for now. our correspond, stephane siemens are in the u. s. capital world is watching us mid terms aware that the outcome could well impact u. s. foreign policy issues like the economy and abortion have dominated the campaign. the war in ukraine is a concern for american voters as well. and some are questioning how much longer the u. s should support ukraine's fight against russia financially. 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 democratic 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, 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 so closely and so confidentially and with so much trust on sanctions might perhaps help if you lose tendrils of a 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 america's willingness to pay a price for global leadership. as the warrant ukraine continues. many people are looking for missing, loved ones, sohmer feared dead. but in a number of cases, no bodies have been found, leaving relatives hoping they may still be alive. sometimes the dna test can shed light on the matter, the w mathias billing a reports. now from is u. m. a town recently retaken from russian forces. how they wait to see the investigators bringing dna and testament

who'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. everyone knew the russians were looking for families of ukrainian soldiers. here put a hole 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, but i was very scared of the other way. others 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 months of occupation. these include a mass grave. on the outskirts of town, 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 mall by a dna sampling unit. for many, the cheeks swap of 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, 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. is actually correct. 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 . 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 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 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 are here to testify, what you'll notice, but 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, those the soldiers promised the women that they stay in touch issue. that's all anyone can do. more of

a spring in dw is nick connelly and cheer nick. many mass graves have been discovered in ukraine and many people are still missing. are there any reliable estimates out there on numbers of missing people? an unidentified bonnie's not really is the problem and all the car estimates out there, they're all fairly, fairly different. if you look at the detail, no really conclusive lists anywhere. and when you go to places that have recently been liberated for months under rusnick patient, 1st thing people will tell you is that they expect more bodies to be found. that there are lots of people who are unaccounted for, who often tried to get to ukrainian held territory while the russian troops were rolling in and often basically attempted that of their own back without any kind of guarantees or corridors. and often disappeared after that. there's the question of landmines or other kind of booby traps for israel. fear about going to forests and kind of bits of out of the way areas, the country's i to look for these bodies. and until those might be clear that's not

happening. so there's a refuse problem coming here, and i think also for kind of morale reasons, the government here is not in a hurry to kind of publish any figures or to kind of give you a site, any kind of clear picture of quite how major this, these losses are now, ukraine is accusing russia of looting empty homes in the southern city of hassan and occupying them with 3rd troops in civilian clothes to prepare for street fighting. both sides are predicting that chess on will be one of the war's most significant battles, neck. what makes it so important? well, it's russia's only stronghold on the west side of the new per river. bessie allows russia to threaten all of ukraine's black see ports by with kind of rocket systems or even, you know, long distance artillery. and so in that sense it's very important. it basically threatens also kind of crucial industrial centers like kirk relief, her personal, ask his home town on a 1000000 miles away. and it had seen for a long time. this was a very, very exposed and busy,

difficult to defend part of the country for russia, given that basically ukraine has spent the past few months attacking the bridges, attacking all the logistics, bringing supplies to those russian troops. there at a time time again, have seen russian pontoon british destroyed by russia by ukrainian attacks. but they are holding out. we're hearing that some of russia's most capable and best equip troops are still holding out there and not services, patient in expectation here that basically russia wants to, your ukraine indicates on to pretend that they've left and then to, you know, basic, fight it out on the street certainly the civilians left there are very worried or be able to talk. some of them are by messenger recent days and they are staying firmly put at home basically unable to really gauge how dangerous situations around them, expecting worse days to come before things improve. we're hearing nick that russia is experiencing heavy losses in donnette and elsewhere. what can you tell us about that? where we've seen lots of anger on russian social media or from families of people who been recently mobilized and sent the front lines often with barely any training

and even less in the way of proper equipment. let alone winter clothes and tales of people being sent to basically dig trenches with 3 or 4 spades between dozens of men. and a sense that really, that the losses are mounting. that these are lost on 2 different scale to what we've seen are when ukrainian army fights the professional russian army and the expectation of from experts. alice is that it is basically russia buying itself time at the cost of huge loss of life by basically throwing these people without any train the front lines to kind of keep the ukraine's. is it a whole different lines while they train up more people properly full, maybe and you advanced next spring? tiffany: a very difficult situation and expectation among any experts, people here in ukraine that eventually that is going to start affecting public opinion. russia that these endless funerals all across russia, people often very young, with basically no corporation will stop turning the time in terms of public opinion in russia. nick, thank you very much. sharpe correspondent, nick connelly. they're in keith sketch up on smaller stories,

making headlines around the world today. swedish prime minister of christus on is in turkey, and a bid to win support for sweden succession to nato of sweden and norway applied sweden and finland that is applied to join the military alliance after russia's invasion of ukraine. but turkey has yet to support their bids accusing them of harbouring kurdish militants. the banker considers to be terrorists. german government looked set to block the sale of a micro chip factory to a chinese own firm due to security concerns. a subsidiary of chinese companies psy . microelectronics had been seeking to take over, dorman, based, elmo's intelligence agencies have since raised concerns that the move could allow beijing to apply pressure on germany. 89 asylum seekers rescued from the mediterranean had been allowed to disembark in italy. hundreds more, remained trapped on board 3 other humanitarian ships. after being denied entry into

the country. italy's new right wing government has hardened the country stance on migration since it took our last month. as the cope with a, with a call 27 climate conference 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 been hit by a series of severe droughts in recent years. farmers are trying to adapt to the new weather patterns as dw adrian creek found out. when he visited a farm in the western cape, fed him, 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 cover to save water and keep the soil moist. but mostly, uh, we open up a lot of to st. the seawater. we must look for before better measurements to move

to safe water and a decently shit area of concern yet. so i don't think people, eliza toe 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 plants needs. but mountains, 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. he still remembers the massive drought between 20152018. the destroyed crops and killed animals most dams in the region. rent dry, gone, 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 i 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 live. but of course, there are some beautiful studies out, be with farmers. they managed makeup, 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'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, mouton 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. has 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. earlier i spoke with martin standard, a climate scientist with the danish meteorological institute in copenhagen. i asked him about new you data released today showing that last month was europe's hottest october on record. and with the past 8 years, having been the warmest ever, i asked him what this tells us about the state of the planet. so this is telling me is 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, it well or, or rather that's a events that will be more often than code events that also may exist once in a while and it gets 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 have seen get in europe very warm 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. okay, so 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 with them

on. so what, what would mean it would be an ice, the arctic, which would, of course, employer heavy losses for many animals might even mean that's a number for us in the arctic may call us some places setting freak. we know gases which are below for lots of folks at the moment. so increasing the amount of greenhouse gases and get monsieur 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 wipers than code. it would also have more heat waves. also more flooding like last year in germany for example, we would have addressed an increase in ot nights and ins. ups of the world also was a combination of heat and g. g. hard to sense situations for example,

for working outside animal. in principle, the chance of the risk of sexual c of having a major he'd say for example, would something like maybe 6 or 8 for larger than it's present. well, when 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 on to so i should 1st say if the nation's implement everything they have from 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,

we can't reach it anyway. because that would give the wrong scion to conferences like this one named this. it doesn't mitten this 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 a clear statement there from martin stand out with the danish media. logical institute, thanks for being with us. thank you. now, hollywood, director of roland emmerich made his name with apocalyptic films such as independence 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 todd's magic flute. it premiered last night in munich. i newman did him, was it, 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, jo, laurie,

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 mother 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 rarely sounded so good with all the bells and whistles of state of the art cinema. ah,

ah. oh, good saying not beaten, it's just, it's los despite 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 these are people who own oprah, reverend man, most i was writing this stuff for everyone. he didn't, 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. genius is incredible laughter. it's premier in munich, germany last night. it looks to do just that. ah. 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,

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