ah ah ah ah, this is dw news coming to you live from berlin high stakes in the us with boaters casting ballads in mid term elections. president joe biden says a win for the republicans with threatened democracy, former president, donald trump, hints he is preparing a come back. also coming up all day 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 and stay. 3 of the climate change summit in egypt and calls are growing for fossil fuel companies to pay for the damage their emissions of calls to the planet. plus concern grows about copper hosting. the 2022 world cup. despite promising security for l g. b, t q, tourists, atari world, cup and faster tells german tv that homosexuality is caused by damage in the mind. ah hello, i'm terry martin. thanks for joining us. boating is under way 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 and about after focusing on the economy and the campaign. more than half of republican candidates say they believe the unfounded claim that donald trump won the 2020 election. and this is raising fears among democrats, that the very future of democracy could be at stake in the selection earlier . asti, w correspondence, stephens, siemens. what's at stake in these elections for jo biden's presidency. short answer is yes sir. of maybe to come on 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 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. i've indicated that they want to 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 world is watching the u. s. mid terms aware that the outcome could well impact us foreign policy, while issues like the economy and abortion had 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 continue financing,

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 democratic president, joe biden has promised to continue to do all it takes to defend ukraine sovereignty as americans head to the polls in these mid term election, us congress is expected to turn 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, democrat fee 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 if you lose

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. and for americans willingness to pay a price for global leadership pseudo david will, who's a director in the berlin office of the german marshall phone of the united states. that's a non partisan public policy. think tech. i asked her earlier if the u. s. position on ukraine could change depending on the outcome of these elections. think there's overwhelming bipartisanship or for ukraine in washington at the moment. and in fact, the friction is actually between the white house and congress. behind closed doors

. i mean, many members of congress, republicans and democrats, but mostly republicans are ash actually acting. president bind to do more. what will change, of course, and this actually aligned with growing republican voters. is that the us doesn't want to just do it alone. i think republicans that they take the majority in the house and even in the senate, they will be more scrutiny as kevin mccarthy, who ways to perhaps be the next speaker of the house that there won't be any blank checks for ukraine, but they're gonna affect your appeal partners to step up to work for ukraine. sen. tom cotton already said from arkansas republican, that of course, the u. s. has the support ukraine, because it has the sophisticated military weapons that ukraine needs, but he'd want your to do more. ok. the mid term, of course, are being closely watched around the world, not least in moscow and beijing. do these elections 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 as 2 years of investigation or by 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 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. nato is a very popular institution, for democrats and republicans alike. and i think there was incredible confusion between the united states and europe with russia's 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, the driver crashing republicans on the u. s. dance toward 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 friction there and also with bindings inflation

reduction act. there have also been of course disadvantages for europe because by this 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 fun. good to see. let's catch up on some other stories where he headlines around the world today. twenty's prime minister, oath christus on has traveled to turkey and a bid to win support for sweden succession to nato. but sweden and finland 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 anchor considers to be terrorists. 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, or the cob, one of the countries highest ranking cardinals. on monday,

he confessed to abusing a young girl 35 years ago, will face prosecution or a church tribunal. a french charity ship carrying over $200.00 rescued migrants as heading for france after italy refused to allow it to dock the ocean. viking is one of several rescue ships engaged with us to in a stand off with italy's new right wing government now intends to seek safe port in france. as the war in ukraine continues, many people are looking for mist, loved ones, missing loved ones, or some are fear dead. but in the number of cases though, no bodies have been found, leaving relatives hoping they may still be alive. sometimes the dna test can shed light on the matter dw mathias butting, her reports now from is you a town recently retaken by ukrainian 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 tutorial, 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 yet, but a whole is younger if we don't, i head. i was afraid that someone might tip them off. if we had a lot of my son's military stuff at home, what i was very scared of everybody else. 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 tone. 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 detective. 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 even 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 guardian. i found a doctor from is you had flight the town. he told me that my father died in the attack. little and it had not been possible to save him because he died there and was left behind. now she's looking for his body nude 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. unfortunately, if you consider where he was, when the bomb hid, there's no chance he could aspire to the bumble. was it 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 who'd mealer has already given investigators a dna sample but hasn't heard anything her relative tries to find out more, but there's no news to day. 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. earlier we spoke to did our b of correspondence. conley and keith. i asked him whether there are any reliable estimates on the number of missing people and i 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 from 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 rolling in and often basically attempted that of their own back without any kind of guarantees or corridors. and often disappeared after that, as 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 of see not happenings.

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 get to publish and figures or to kind of give you grace site. any kind of clear picture of quite how major this these losses are. there 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, and bessie 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 equipped troops are still holding out there. and lots of suspicion and expectation here that basically russia wants to lure 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 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 the, the losses are mounting. that these allison totally 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 maybe than you advance next spring. tiffany: a very difficult situation and expectation among any experts, people hearing grand that eventually that is going to start affecting public opinion. russia that these are endless funerals or cross russia, people often very young with basically no preparation will start turning the tie in terms of public opinion in russia. nick, thank you very much. sharp. corresponded nick connelly there in keith on day 3 of the you and climate summit in each of 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,

fuel emissions. yes, my help. 27 leaders are developing nations are pleading for action. precedent us below and below we are being drawn and quarter cove. 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 cobb 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. listen, 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 actually log in. with 10 days of talks left climate experts, a hoping more of the world's richest polluters will commit to paying their their

shaft. earlier i spoke that martin stendhal a climate scientists with the danish meteorological institute in copenhagen. i asked him about new you data released today showing that last month was the europe's hottest october on record for 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 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 what we can. so, you know, it's explained what we have seen in south africa as an example. so what we have seen europe very warm periods that actually comes only 4 years after another very

warm period of the record hot summer in 2018. so this is entirely along the lines what you would expect from 5 months. okay, so climate model seem to be getting this right. 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, you 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. it would also have more heat waves. also more flooding like last year in germany for example, you would have a drastic increase in ot nights and it's ups also, but also in the 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 sales 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 meteorological institute. thanks for being with us. thank you. as the cut her world

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