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still uncalled in the battle for the senate democrats school, a major victory in pennsylvania. john specimen flips the fought me contested seat that it is, neck and neck. overall control with full seats still up for grabs. we will take you life to washington class small coals from the l g b t q, community to boycott b 2022 world cup africa tarry world cup. ambassador tells a reporter that homosexuality is caused by mental illness. and in bundis league of football, wolves book continue their recent winning ways on tuesday with a to know when against stokeland. ah, i manuscripts, mccann, and welcome to the program. in the i did states,

mid term election results are pointing to a surprisingly strong showing for jo biden's democrats. now they are doing better than poles predicted with early indications, suggesting that they are managing to fend of sweeping republican gains. but there are still many races to call in the battle for those houses, which will set the countries course for the next 2 years. we're going to take a closer look at the latest numbers now at the moment republicans have the lead in the race for the house of representatives. us voters have been choosing law makers for the entire house now so far. $172.00 out of the $435.00 seats have gone to the democrats. $199.00 have gone to the republicans. if we take a closer look at the senate, will start with the seats that are not up for grabs in the selection. but if you add in those newly decided seats, you can see a tie right now. the democrats with $48.00 seats so far,

also $48.00 seats for the republicans. now with vice president carmella harris able to cast tie breaking votes. the republicans would need 51 for a majority, their 4 seats are still open. that's arizona, georgia, nevada, and wisconsin. but some of the margins are raise a thin and it is still too early to draw any conclusions. and we're gonna go straight to our correspondence in washington, d. c stefan simons. hi stephan. now we were just saying there for particularly tight races. still going on. we've got arizona, georgia, nevada, and wisconsin. there's a senate races too close to call. is there any sense of what we might see happen? there will be patient. we have to be patient too close to call means in arizona for example, that the voting is gonna do not the voting with the counting of the votes is the

canvassing of the votes is continuing later today and the critical county, the america, a county said, look we're, we're done for the day that was yesterday and now they're going to pick it up again . and then they take this we time and count the votes. this is, this is an election. you count the balls, you'll be patient, same, it was constant, same the other states you measure. but let me point out one specific case and that's georgia. there is herschel, the republican versus a one on the democrat senator race, and they are so close to call that they will. and that is specifically for georgia . they will probably very likely need to go into a run off on december 6th because in georgia you have to win 50 percent plus one vote. if none of the candidates both do not get this, then they will have to going to run off a race to december 6th. that means we can actually wait another month for a result on who is taking the senate or who's keeping the senate. okay, we have to be patient now many predicted a republican, a red wave,

and we have had an unexpectedly strong sharing by the democrats. what has struck you most as the as the results role in pennsylvania? why? because there was a very in america in the united states, very prominent candidate on the republican side doc, the men oss who was endorsed by donald trump and he was had it rough start against john feldman. the democrat, also lying for seat in the senate, but fed, amen always on top of that and then it crumbled a little bit for him because he hadn't health issue couldn't really campaign. i'm because a heart attack a few months before. so his campaign went basically on social media, while mid os, you know, did all the, the dates and the running around and convincing voters. now, the surprise here is that, and we'll see this in the piece. now, ferryman held on to his seat or basically won the senate seat

ah relief after a hard fought and treacherous battle to the top. pennsylvania man of the people did what republicans feared most. i never expected that we're going to turn these red counties blue where we did what we needed to do and we had that conversation across every one of those counties internally. that's why i'll be the next. you are senator from pennsylvania. ha ha. the gall expiring to campaign against his multi millionaire republican opponent tv personality dr. mehmet, as sediment focused on the liberal values that many democrats of call to protect among them free health care, which he's championed. it's also a personal mission for him. after suffering a stroke earlier this year, health challenge,

i'm proud of it. we ran on protecting a woman's right to choose, ah, raising a mutiny. leaning with hill hill is a fundamental human really. it said moon that it should all be there for you. would you ever hear but the democrats wish to protect what they deemed fundamental rights for us citizens may be challenged if republicans take overall control of descent. so a really important win for the democrats that in pennsylvania, especially fun and republicans are leading in the race for the house. so tell us, what would a republican controlled house mean for politics going forward?

best case scenario compromise between the democratic health, if it's going to be held by the democrats senate and the white house and a republican controlled house in this is a democracy. basically you compromise, you meet somewhere in the middle, worst case scenario is non partisan political warfare. i remember the name is supposedly new speaker of the house. mccarthy said that he's not actually excluding. impeaching president trump, he didn't say for what, but you see, a democrats were afraid that the republicans roll out a if they win or the house, or both the senate a investigation and ever launch against democrats, for whatever reason. right. a. but let's talk about the elephant in the room for one. just 2nd, donald trump, donald trump has a problem. and the republicans have a problem because the senate candidates off the republicans were almost all of them

. trump affiliated and trump picked and endorsed and they did not perform in the house. that's a different thing. but in the senate it looks like they did not perform, which is or would be good for the democrats from their perspective. all right, well, had to leave that either lease, stephan finance in washington dc thinking and then william john croft is part of our team here in bel income. thank. he's a u. s. a mid terms, said william in a nutshell, what is this selection going to come down to? it's going to come down to and it has come down to, we just don't know the exact details yet. the exact issues that drove people to the polls. and it comes down to the margins right. landslide victory is, are not a thing in america anymore. they haven't been for very long time. this might not make very satisfying victories for some of the candidates to know that you've only one, maybe 50 point one percent of the vote just squeaked by victories in the margins. it comes down to these few thousands of votes in various counties,

even down to towns. we used to talk about swing states. now we talk about swing towns, swing counties, swing blocks, a really is that kind of st. by st. battle almost for some of these, especially some these very tight a toss up races or even some races that might flip mostly possibly to republican. a few have flip back to democrat, and that's where these candidates are really struggling because you know, your base is gonna come out of your republican, your republican base. going to come out, you're a democrat in our democratic, based in a come out are going to hope to. anyway, it's trying to convince these people who aren't so sure who don't quite know what, who's identify with with which party they identify with. if the parties even stand for them at all, that's with these elections are coming down to and you did, you mentioned the issues, but what are those issues? what was the main guy of course, inflation more broadly speaking, the economy, which actually is still doing, at least on paper. ok, unemployment is down. actually. it's making economists nervous how low it is, which is a strange thing to think about. but still is a lot of existential dread,

even if the economy on paper is not looking that bad. a lot of americans are afraid and having trouble paying for their food, paying for their das, seeing things not going to great direction, crime has risen. you can attribute lots of reasons for that. um, but when you're the party in power, the buck stops with you. and republicans and conservatives are do make an effective case not only in this mid terms, but in previous elections about the of the day your of crime and making streets safe in town safe, so to speak. those are some of the big issues, of course, abortion earlier in the summer we saw got basically thrown out in america as a constitutional protection for women. these are the things that are the big issues, how much they matter to what extent, who they matter to in which places in the country. that's what's gonna decide the selection very polarized. of course, now we have been hearing an awful lot about those of fraud as we did after the 2020 election and many republicans of actually won in these mid term say they believe what donald trump said that the 2020 election was rigged. now we're going to take

a quick listen to a republican at carry lake, who is right now in a tight race for arizona. governor. we have a big day to day and don't let those cheaters and crooks think anything different. don't let them know. don't let them who doubt in you we have a movement. we have a movement and we know it. did you feel it? did you feel that movement? don't believe those cheaters and croaks. she's saying that how much of a. busy role will be issue of the of election attack integrity play in these new terms. and in fact, in elections going full it, it's of course, a big deal. i mean, it's a, it's a corner center democracy that you can run elections and you can have a peaceful transfer of power. the question is, how much is this still gonna stick with republicans? and as i mentioned, those, those kind of in between voters who aren't core democratic or cor republican voters, is that gonna excite them? are they leaning towards that republican line of, of that,

that lie really that the vote is, is, is rig or they scared by that lie by that lie? and by that line of reasoning, or lack of reason, i should say, that's what's going to affect these kinds that will actions. and one thing i think that's very important, we just heard from stuff on earlier about maybe the trump, canada, that trump kind of thinking is not doing so well for republicans, is that it might have worked before january 6th. it might have worked before 2020, when there was a lot of talk in a lot of bluster but january 6, which i think we're all still unpacking what exactly happened that day and what the ramifications are scared. a lot of americans and, and we've seen now what we're, what happens when democracy in america really gets called into question that might be too scary for some american voters, enough american voters, they wait a minute. i might not be a big fan of the democrats, but i really don't like where there were a lot of these republicans are going. i really don't like we're donald trump is pushing the party that can have a very decisive impact for both parties, really that they need to think very hard about their strategies going into 2024.

when i was just gonna ask you, let's look ahead to 2020 full. if the republicans do under perform the way it's looking right now, what are the takeaways for the next election or public is really have to ask themselves is donald trump or, or donald trump? light candidates are, is that the winning ticket? yes, you can fire up your base, but they are already on your side. is this the winning strategy for getting those people in the middle, middle, and i don't mean middle politically that there's naturally centrists. but people who are undecided, people that may change their vote back and forth. people that don't feel like the parties are representing them either party is that the winning strategy and the democrats at democrats have decide who do they stand for? they used to be the party of the working class, white voter unions, for example. they've long since moved away from them. they've moved into an urban diverse environment representing a lot of these kinds of your historically under represented historically marginalized group. but the same time they're marginalizing a lot of other people that you can't ignore if you want to win elections as a very complex environment. that really is almost too complex for

a 2 party system to kind of, you know, build coalitions and win elections on. and that's partly why we're seeing so much to, to visit the division in the country because of the politics just doesn't reflect the diversity of america. he w, william blue cross. thanks so much. so we're going to take a look now about what the results of the u. s. mid terms mean for the rest of the world. and here to discuss this is might a good a senior policy fellow at the european council on foreign relations. welcome to d. w. i'd like to start with the war in ukraine or the u. s. is one of the biggest supporters of the government and keith, both militarily and financially will that change with a republican dominated house of representatives as well? yes, certainly the immediate impact to will be if anything, through the control of the budget on which both chambers need to approve the

funding bills, the house by a simple majority. so there will certainly be more scrutiny of ukraine aid and europeans will be pressured to do more. we have a new maga, wave of incoming republicans to the house that are going to set the tone. and any new funding for ukraine will require a major political battle between the administration and congress. and so i think the question is, i'm not so much is the level of age going to draw? because if you look at the current figures, $54000000000.00 and total aid for ukraine 2022. there i popping or ready. and under any circumstances, not even under a democrat controlled congress. could we see a rule over of that level into the next year. so they're certainly going to decrease. i think the question here, if we, you know,

if we do end up with the republican controlled house is how exactly republicans are going to decide to use their budget to re leverage over ukraine to negotiate on funding for other domestic issues. and how that is going to impact kind of the entire envelope for ukraine. ok, and just to clarify, when you say the europeans will have to step up, you mean that they will then have to pay more? absolutely. i mean, if you compare the u. s. will exert much greater pressure on its european allies, to massively step up with a financial commitment that would, you know, this is a bipartisan trend and that would happen under the, by the administration and a democrat congress as well. but it will definitely, you know, become a bit more aggressive and louder with republicans controlling the house. and also with some of the new voices coming in to senate, such as g d vans, the incoming senator from ohio who is replacing at, you know, rob portman,

that was a champion, really of congressional support for ukraine. and, you know, j. d events is a big skeptic about the ukraine aid, similarly to eric schmidt, who is an incoming senator of missouri. so we will have greater pressure on europeans if you just look at kind of the combined contribution of 27, e u member states and u. k. together compared to the u. s. contribution alone. it's you know, roughly above the half of the u. s. contribution. and so i'd like to decide i'd love to talk about climate as well in a time. is a little limited. so can we just talk about jo biden's climate agenda, which is obviously a huge deal. the us delegation at the top 27 climate some it said that whatever the outcome of the mid terms, it will not destroy disrupt the u. s. climate plan. do you think that that is true

for no? yes. and because especially if we end up with one chamber controlled by the republicans, i mean the republicans are not looking favorably to jo biden's climate agenda. there are huge skeptics generally of climate change, but also see the environmental agenda as normally kind of unproductive and i'm not in line with already logical preferences, but where they see a big problem is that china is deep integration into the supply chains on all of the products, but on renewable energy as highly problematic. so, you know, they're definitely inclined to push on kind of as scaling up to fossil fuel production and nuclear energy. at this point of time, they will not be able to do much except again on funding. the participation in the paris climate accords is secured for an executive order, but on funding, you know,

they could push again on the envelope. i think the question is how much that by the administration has already anticipated this and secured lots of funding in the existing legislation most recently through the inflation reduction bill. and so the question is, what future funding will be needed and home there will great how publicans are going to be able to effect that for budgetary control. might have all the foreign policy analysts. thank so much for you. will really interesting analysis. pleasure and thank you for having me. okay, we're going to take a look at some of the other stories making headlines. now, messer, the company that owns facebook says it is laying off $11000.00 people. now that is about 13 percent of its workforce in a letter to employees, a ceo marks look bug took the blame, saying his decision to hire rapidly during the pandemic was based on a projection of rapid growth. the firm has instead suffered falling revenues.

lawyers defending the u. s. basketball player, brittany greiner, who is detained in russia. so she is now being transferred to a penal colony. the 2 time olympic gold medalist was arrested in february the possession of a small quantity of cannabis oil and sentenced in august to 9 years in jail. and go to japan and south korea say that north korea has fired a ballistic missile off it's east coast. pyongyang has carried out a series of missile tests in recent weeks, amid heightened tension in the korean peninsula. and germany is government who blocked the sale of a microchip maker to a chinese owned firm due to security concerns. a subsidiary of the chinese companies side micro electronics had been seeking to take over almost about some manufacturer based in dalton and

and workers and grace have begun a day long nationwide strike to protest the shop. rise in the cost of living. the walkout has brought public services and transport to a halt, and g related price hikes have sent inflation and grace to its highest level in 3 decades. now the football world cup kicks off in guitar later this month. that serious questions remain about the gulf states, treatment of gay and lesbian. visitors fuel has now been added to the fire by troubling comments made by the could tarry world cup ambassador to a german public broadcaster. with less than 2 weeks to go before the world cut kicks off in guitar. the nations will cut ambassador has said l g b t q, tourists will be accepted. but colleen, so mom followed that with this declaration. they have to accept our rules here

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