an inspiring story about survival sanks to music. fetch the cello play out. well, i was the only one i'm super lucky use under the swastika starts november 19th on d. 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 a win for the republicans with threatened democracy over president donald trump. hence that he's preparing a comeback. also coming up,

or they alive or dead in ukraine. people are searching for the missing loved ones, was wide spreads destruction from the war. dna tests are often the only way of establishing the truth. and it's day 3 of the climate change summit in egypt and calls for our growing per fossil fuel companies to pay for the damage their emissions of calls to the planet. ah. hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. voting 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. republicans seem set to do well in the boat after focusing on the economy of the campaign. more than half of policy,

king 10 of its those say they believe the unfounded claim that donald trump $1.00 to 2020 election. and this is raising fears among democrats, that the very future of democracy could be at stake in this election. earlier, i asked dw correspondence stuff on siemens. what's his stake in these elections for jo biden's presidency? short answer is yes sir. maybe you could come in the 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 of the congress here, then there is no democratic agenda. will bind 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 few months by demonstration is the republicans. i've 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. arizona in the american southwest is among the most hotly contested states in the mid term elections. on the republican side, the candidate for governor carey lake is and outspoken 2020 election is nire. that means she's one of hundreds of republican candidates repeat. former president, donald trump's false assertion that the 2020 election was stolen. neither official investigations nor court challenges have supported their claim. d. w, corresponded in as paul is in arizona. she asked boaters,

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. 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's secretary state has not said whether she would accept her results. but she has said that lake's position is simply disqualifying. but lake supporters disagree. she can do whatever she wants. she's an

american america as a free country. so she can do whatever she's on. republican candidates across arizona have 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 further light on the matter, did abuse, mathias boating. a report now from is young. 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 her

son. 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. yet, but a whole as a yard the river. yeah, i hid it. 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 by yelling. 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 detected the mall 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 near the 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 shelling isn't actually good. i found a doctor from is you who had fled to town. he told me that my father died in the attack little 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 all know, you'd miller has already given investigators a d n. a sample. but hasn't heard anything her 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 cuz oh no, not much. oh, the voice, the soldiers promised the women that they stay in touch. that's all anyone can do. earlier we spoke to d. w, corresponded nick connelly and kim,

i asked him whether there are any reliable estimates on the number of missing people, an unidentified bodies in ukraine. that really is the problem and all the kind of 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 on the russian occupation. first 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 attempted that of their own back without any kind of guarantees or corridors and often disappeared off to that as the question of landmines or other kind of booby traps this real 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 mines be cleared, that's of see 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 publish any figures or to kind of give you credit. so any kind of clear

picture of quite how major this, these losses are catch up on a few other stories making headlines around the world today. swedish prime minister of christus on is in turkey, in a bid to win support for sweden's accession to nato. both sweden and finland applied to join the military alliance after russia's invasion of ukraine. but turkey as yet to support their bids accusing them of harbouring kurdish militants. that anchor considers to be terrorists. the 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. cy microelectronics had been seeking to take over doors and based animals. intelligence agencies have since raised concerns that the move could allow beijing to apply pressure on germany. a french charity ship carrying over $200.00 rescued migrants is heading for france after italy refused to allow it to dawn. the ocean viking is one of several rescue ships engaged in

a stand off with italy's new right wing government. it now intends to seek a safe port in france. an enormous terena source rex skull is expected to sell for over $15000000.00 at a new york auction next month. the well preserved skull was unearthed in the us state of south dakota, a hotspot for t rex bones. the fossil bears marks from a fight that would have happened some 76000000 years ago ripping here right. on day 3 of you in climate summit, in egypt, the words implement action and financing are among those being repeated most often by world leaders. developing nations in particular are demanding urgent action. they're also calling for richer countries to pay their fair share for the damage caused by decades of growth fueled emissions. it might help 27 lead as

a developing nations up leading faction blessing us below and below we are being drawn and quarter cov it decimated our economy even as we are working to rebuild the climate crisis is tearing us apart. limb by limb and they're demanding rich. a countries have done far more to heat up the planet finally agree to make the fossil fuel industry pay for some of the damage. it's cold afternoon in the 1st half of this year, 6 fossil fuel companies and emphasize 6, made more than enough money to cover the costs of major climate damages. in developing countries with nearly $70000000000.00 in profits. it is about time that these companies are made to pay a global carbon carbon tax on the profits as a source of funding for loss or damage. the issue of loss and damage of who should

pay the huge costs involved in mitigating the effects of the climate crisis is high on the summits agenda. the world's poorest countries are already suffering disproportionately from the impacts of climate change. germany's chancellor shalt said his country was committed to helping as he left the talks the so i thought some of that is why germany has also announced that we will contribute to making international climate financing possible. the target is 100000000 euro a year. germany will contribute 6000000000 to this by 2025. and this is then indeed our big contribution to this difficult situation is a feeling log. with 10 days of talks left climate experts are hoping more of the world's richest polluters will commit to paying their their charity. as the cut her world cup approaches, concerns have been raised about the way l g

b t q. tourists will be treated. the country's prime minister has given what he calls a security guarantee for visiting l g b t q football fans. but that assurance came only after the katara, a world cup ambassador called homosexuality, a damage in the mind. in an interview. the comments had provoked outrage here in europe with less than 2 weeks to go before the world cut kicks off in guitar. the nation's world cut ambassador has said l g b t q, tourists will be accepted. but colleagues, selma followed that with this declaration, they have to accept our rules here in islamic law, homosexuality is her arm or forbid this had um, not had a much meter at m. i said um, so he would say for me, labeling kids, but do you think a is hm. because why is hello? i am, let me go when big mifflin lets us had um white because the damage in the mind,

germany's interior minister was quick to respond condemning the comments the, to the since i of course such statements are terrible from that. and that's also the reason why we are working to hopefully improve things in katara theaters for beth l. g, b, t, q rights groups have called on fee for to pressure guitar to decriminalize, same sex relations, and protect the l g b t q community. about 1200000 international visitors are expected to attend the world cup. in guitar. you're watching the w nurse, thanks for being with us. oh, we're natural spectacle in improved world. the return of the spiky yellow with louse will ensure the survival of the entire ecosystem. ah.