in the report on the inside, our correspondence is on the ground and reporting from across the continent and all the frames doesn't matter to you. tito, who's africa every friday, only w ah ah, this is d w. news coming to live from berlin. high stakes in the us with voters casting ballots in mid term elections. president joe biden says how, when, for the republicans would threaten democracy? former president, donald trump, hints that he's preparing a comeback. also coming up all the alive or dead, can ukraine,

people are searching for their missing loved ones with widespread destruction problem the war dna tests are often the only way of establishing the truth. and it's day 3. the climate change. somebody in egypt and calls are growing for fossil fuel companies to pay for the damage their emissions of calls to the plant. ah. hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. voting is underway in crucial mid term elections in the us. the vote will determine if democrats lose control of congress and with it, their ability to push ahead with president joe biden agenda for the next 2 years. republicans seem set to do well on the boat after focusing on the economy and the campaign. more than half of republican candidates,

if they believed the unfounded claim that donald trump won the 2020 presidential election. this is raising fears among democrats, that the very future of democracy could be at stake in this election. earlier i asked he w, corresponded stuff on siemens. what's at stake in his elections? poor joe biden's presidency. short answer is yes sir. maybe you could come in the lane, dark 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 are 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. i've indicated that they wanna turn 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. while the southwestern us state of arizona is among most hotly contested races in the mid term elections, on the republican side, the candidate for governor carry lake is an outspoken 2020 election denying this means. she's one of hundreds of republican candidates repeat, former president donald trump's false claim that the 2020 election was stolen. neither official. it neither official investigations nor court challenges have supported his claim. d. w, corresponded in as paul is in arizona. she asked voters,

they're how they feel about the much anticipated mid terms. arizona is known for cacti cowboys and stunning landscapes. but in these mid terms, the state way out west has become ground 0 for fundamental question. will you as democracy survive? carrie lake could very well become arizona's next governor. she endorses the lie that the 2020 election was stolen from donald trump. with the former long time news anchor has already repeatedly stated, she will only accept the outcome of this election if she wins. this is why her democratic rival, katy hobbs, arizona, secretary state has not said whether she would accept the results. but she has said that lakes position is simply disqualifying, but lake supporters disagree. she can do whatever she wants. she's an american america is

a free country. so she can do whatever she's on. republican candidates across arizona half subscribed to carry lakes beliefs. and if republican candidates refused to accept a defeat here, arizona could end up in a constitutional crisis. democracy feels fragile here locally and nationally. now to ukraine, where the war is continuing and many people are looking for missing loved ones, some are feared 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 mateus, putting a report now from assume a town recently retaken by ukrainian 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. if we had a lot of my son's military stuff at home, but 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 6th 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 detective, 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 more the of the 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. later she heard the hospital was shelling isn't actually correct. i found a doctor from is you 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 arid. so just from his unit,

all can offer her little hope mozilla prayer of homo. unfortunately, if you consider where he was when the bomb head, there's no chance he could aspire to. the obama 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 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. earlier we spoke to dw, corresponded nick connelly and kip. i asked him whether there are any reliable

estimates on the numbers of missing people in unidentified bodies in ukraine. that 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 try to get to ukrainian held territory while the russian troops are rolling in and often basically attempt to that of their own back without any kind of guarantees or corridors. and often disappeared after that. there's the question of landmines, our other kind of booby traps villarreal fear about going to forests and kind of bits of out of the way areas the countryside to look for these bodies. and until those might be clear that's not happening. there's a huge problem coming here, and i think also for kind of morale reasons, the government here is not in a hurry to kind of publish and figures or to kind of give you grace psyche any kind

of clear picture of quite how major this, these losses are they 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? where it's russia's only strong hold on the west side of the new per river basically allows russia to threaten all of ukraine's black see ports by with kind of rocket systems or even, you know, long distance artillery answer in that sense. it's very important. it basically threatens also kind of crucial industrial centers like really her personal ask his home town on a 1000000 miles away and it had seemed 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 are times i'm again of 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 also for suspicion and expectation here that basically russia wants to, your ukraine indicates on to pretend that they've left and then to 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 message in 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 though 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 this is basically russia buying itself time at the cost of huge loss of life by basically throwing these people with that in train. the front lines to kind of keep the ukrainians busy to hold the front lines while they train up more people properly for may be. and you advance next spring. tiffany: a very difficult situation and expectation, mechanical experts, people hearing credit, eventually that is going to start affecting public opinion. russia that these endless funerals all across russia, people often very young, with basically no preparation will start turning the tide in terms of public opinion in russia. nick, thank you very much. sharp corresponded nick connelly there in keith hollywood, director roland emmerich made his name with apocalyptic film such as independence day in the day after to morrow. but now,

master of disaster has put his producing power behind an operatic fantasy film for young people. inspired by mozart's magic flute, it premiered last night in music. i. newman did him was e t. 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 lot, it's on a 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 is 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 rarely 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 over is a need for people who aren't upright. 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 museum. genius is incredible. then laughter. it's 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 wish deep, very open is the 5th leave. you're watching d. w. there is from our lead up next as news asia with melissa chan. i'm terry martin. thanks for watching. hello guys. this is the 77 percent. the platform for africa. you to be beat issues and share ideas. you know, on these channels. we're not afraid.