or the fear of violence translate into action and what the thief midterms mean for the next presidential race in 2024. let us bring the back story across all platforms this week on d, w ah, ah, ah, this is dw news live from berlin us mid term elections deliver surprisingly strong results. for jo, biden's democrats and a major victory, john fassman flips the republican senate seat in the battle ground that the state of pennsylvania, but with many racial races still to call control of congress,

hangs in the balance. and it could all come down to a handful of votes in several t states. we will take you live to washington. ah, i man, you keep his mckinnon. welcome to the program. in the united states, results are rolling in from crucial midterm elections. now, early indications suggest joe biden's, democrats are performing surprisingly well compared to initial expectations, they're managing to fend off a so called red wave of republican victories. but there are still many races to cool in the battle for congress, which will set the country's course for the next 2 years. so we're going to take a closer look at the latest numbers now at the moment it looks like the republicans are going to take the house of representatives. here as voters have been choosing

lawmakers for the entire house now so far, 172 out of the 435 seats have gone to the democrats, and 199. have gone to the republicans. now let's take a closer look at the senate, and let's start with the seats that are not up for grabs in the selection. if you add in those newly decided seats, you can see a tie right now. the democrats was 48 seats so far, also 48 seats for the republicans, and with vice president, pamela harris, able to cast tie breaking votes. the republicans would need $51.00 for a majority. for seats are still open as arizona, georgia, nevada, and wisconsin. but some of the margins are razor thin and it is still too early to draw any conclusions. and we're going to bring in now d, w correspondent, mikaela curse not from washington, dc. hi mikaela. as i said,

a somewhat unexpectedly strong showing for the democrats what struck you most of the results role in or 1st of all, that there is no shoot red wave really to speak of. if anything, we are seeing what is seen as a fixture at the historical fiction, us politics, that there is traditionally almost a setback for the party who the president belongs to in these midterm elections. and most spectacularly we saw actually of the democrats score, a decisive senate victory with don ferryman winning in pennsylvania, a vital senate race against dr. oz. as he's known me mate oz, a well known tv doctor here in the united states,

john pheasant winning despite the fact that he suffered a stroke early on in the campaign and looked really doubtful whether he is indeed fully fit to serve in a tv debate. he had with minute off, so that is a spectacular victory. and many democrats drew hope from that. now we're still seeing many open races, but we've also seen, based on the figures you just cited in the, in the leader of the minority leader mccarthy. declare that there will now be a majority in the house, although it is a lot slimmer than believe. so it's a setback for the democrats, but also a setback for the republican expectation that they would have a broad majority. who could then form quite significant resistance to jo biden's plans to actually implement what he's been pushing through a which is large spending on climate change on renew. was that something the

republicans vowed to press back to repeal, and that no longer looks so easy for them, but a governing will also become more difficult for joe biden. if we could just go back to talking about the senate, some really tight race is still going on in arizona, georgia, nevada, and wisconsin. the results are still close to close to call. do we have any sense of what might happen there? well, the current counting is going on, we know that a large proportion of people decided to vote early where they could and that counting could take up to several days. so we're probably going to be none the wiser. over the next couple of hours, the big choir question mark is whether it could all come down to georgia where it's looking pretty much certain that there will have to be a run off between the 2 contenders. there her so walker and for her warnock

that may well be a decisive race if the picture remain so unclear. so we might not even know until early december, that's when that run off would be scheduled or who will actually have a majority in the senate. and nobody really wants that to drag on for that long. but that's how tight these races are. and that's how i moderate that red wave is that has been widely predicted. ok, so just a moderate to red wave, but is there still the sense as i believe there is that the republicans will take the house? and if they do, can you tell us what that would mean for us politics going forward? what at the very least, if they take the house and that look certain now, and that will make it a lot more difficult for joe biden to actually get bills through to launch major new projects. and we've also seen the republicans pledge to launch investigations

committees investigate in afghanistan. the corona responds for instance. but what we won't see if the senate remains in the hands of the democrats is across the board resistance to joe biden. and potential impeachment, that's also, that was something the republicans have vowed, so there's still a lot a to hope for on both sides are willing to, on the one st hand pushed through the biden agenda on the other hand, block everything, repeal any a thing he did hello, thank you. those dw correspondent mikaela kutner reporting from washington dc and william garrett, blue croft, his passive, our team here in berlin covering these us mid terms. and william, tell us, what's this electron lots of tie races?

we're saying, hey, we're just not sure what is this election gonna come down? take so many things right. there were so many important issues at american voters, a said are big, big for them or drive them out to the polls. or conversely, keeping them home, not making them interested or being unenthusiastic about things you have as we been talking about elections, an economy and inflation, the gas prices, abortion, or lack thereof. matt, in incredible horrible gun shootings, a school shootings that have happened this year. and of course, donald trump looming in the background. questions of democracy. we have to wait to see how all the shakes out, what drove voters to the polls and on what side and for what issues could be a collection of things. we have to remember that things are so tight in the united states. we don't need a red wave, right? it, we're talking about a few seats here. the republicans have to flip. there is a question we can talk theoretically or academically, why republicans not doing better, given all of the things in their favor this year. but ultimately they don't have to

do that great to have a pretty substantial change as we just heard from the sheil. if they take the house, they will be in put power there. if they take the senate, which we can talk about, they would be a big obstacle to, to joe by than the democrat. so they don't need to tweak a lot for their to be an otherwise be outcome. okay. say, i mean, huge panera's ation as we've been seeing and, and the potential for a really divided government. what, what does that mean? i mean, there are good outcomes. there are bad outcomes. divide a government on the, on the positive side means more checks and balances. means them if the party empower, uses it's a power responsibly, it could mean wise investigations, responsible investigations, a check on, on the presidential power, not to assigning notches voting for things of the president wants. so there are pos of outcomes to divide a government without all question of how responsible does the party in power wield fat power. that can also be which hans, there can be, as we return from michelle,

all kinds of just gridlock and, and blocking the president. as we heard back when a brock obama was president, the republican party based that our number one job is to make rock obama a one term president. that was their only goal. not about getting things done, which of course they got punished for his voters, then said, hey, we put you in power to get stuff done and you're not. so we can always back. fire said there are definitely positive and negative outcomes to a divided government in an ideal sense. it's a check and balance, which is what you want in a democracy. at these new terms are of the see being, watch very closely from abroad. what's l? how will all of this effect u. s. foreign policy going forward? yeah, i think very similar to that. the question of how does divide a government work has its implications in foreign policy as well? if we just take one example, one big example, ukraine, of course, there is bipartisan support for ukraine. a foreign policy analysts have been telling me, they're not to worry that anything huge will change. what could change is the details, right? so maybe joe biden was a $100000000.00 more in weapons, and republicans in congress was 8 known in us could be $60000000.00. things like

that, the kind of details, the overall big foreign policy positions. because there is bipartisan support on ukraine. there is bipartisan support on china. there is bipartisan support on things like high tech and making sure it's in the hands of the united states and allies and not china. that is mostly going to say probably stay the same a if the house goes republican. the senate is even less clear right now. but the details of the devil's in the details of how difficult joe biden, and his democrats in then, in that case, in the minority, will have in getting their details, the details of the policy, the details of the legislation. that's where it's going to come down to being difficult. are going to be watching closely. william ca. thanks so much. okay, we're going to take a look now. some of the other stories making headlines around the world. lawyers defending the u. s. a basketball player. brittany greiner. who is detained in russia says she is being transferred to

a penal colony. a to time olympic gold medalist was arrested in february for possession of a small quantity of cannabis oil and sentenced 2 in august to 9 years in jail. or japan and south korea say north korea has fired a ballistic missile off its east coast. chung young has carried out a series of missile tests in recent weeks and made height and tension in the korean peninsula. the german government looked set to block the sale of a micro chip factory to a chinese own firm, uses security concerns, a subsidiary of a chinese company. sy microelectronics had been seeking to take over l mos intelligence agencies have set the sale, could allow beijing to apply pressure on germany. and the people well, cough kicks off and guitar later this month. but serious questions remain about the gulf states, treatment of gay and lesbian. visitors, and that's after troubling comments by the could tarry world cup ambassador made to

a german public broadcaster with less than 2 weeks to go before the world cook kicks off in katara, the nations will cook. ambassador has said l g b t q, tourists will be accepted. but colleagues, omar followed that with this declaration, they have to accept our rules here in islamic law. homosexuality is her arm or forbid this hub on you know, how much readers, adam? yeah. adam. so he would say for me, what are you doing to what do you think is harder? because what is um i am not a big one, big newsline what was had on why? because the damage in the mind, germany's interior minister was quick to respond condemning the comments to lee. since i saw it, of course, the statements are terrible. and that's also the reason why we are working to improve things from that perspective is katara for this l g b t q rights groups have called on fi 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 . football now and in mid week under see gotch and don't lunch, travels to wal spoke with the chance to get within striking distance of table leaders by and munich. but the home side, who were on a 2 game winning streak, had other ideas and they gave all spoke fans reasons to celebrate the tenelle victory. oh, despite dorman dominating the most recent fixtures against wolf spur with a handful of victories, the walls refused to allow history to repeat itself. mickey vod to re put the home, sy the head, only at the 5 minute mark. dorman, were unable to deal with matt seattle's corner in band of in headed home from close range since mid september,

wolf's work have yet to lose in substitute lucas and met j secured a 3rd straight victory for the wolves in the 90 minute, making the final score to new, dorman fumble their chance to pick up points when they are most needed. once again, while wolf's work has seemingly found there grew underneath, go co watch and you're up to date coming up next. chris kolber as your business news, i'm and your campus me can and i'll be back at the top of the hour. is more international headlines. thanks for watching. again to get all the harvesters are immigrants, dolock estate, everything you enjoy eating at home with your family was harvested by people who are being exploited when it's done.