ah, ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, control of the united states congress hangs in the balance, is midterm election results come in. republicans take the lead and the race for the house, but that hoped for red wave sales to materialize. jo biden's, democrats performed better than expected with many competitive races,

still uncalled in the battle for the senate democrats school, a major victory in pennsylvania. john fassman flips the hotly contested seats, but it is neck and neck for overall control. with 4 feet still up for grabs, we will take you live to washington, and will have news from the welding bundis league of football wolf, but continued that recent winning ways on tuesday with a to nell win against dalton highland highlights coming up. ah, i man your cheapest mckennan, thanks for being with us. in the united states, mid term election results are pointing to a surprisingly strong showing for jo biden's democrats. now, they are doing better than polls predicted early indications suggesting their

managing to send off sweeping republican gains for there are still many races to call in the battle for both houses, 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 republicans have the lead in the race for the house of representatives. us voters have been choosing law makers for the entire house, so far. $172.00, out of the $435.00 seats have gone to the democrats, $199.00, have gone to the republicans. so let's take a closer look at the senate now and start with the seats that are not up for grabs . in this elect election, now 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,

for seats are still open as 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 going to go straight to our correspondence in washington, d. c. stephan simons. hi stephan now and for particularly tight senate races. we just mentioned them there, arizona, georgia, nevada, and wisconsin. the results are too close to call. do we have any sense of what might happen there? no, that's why it's too close to call. so we all have to practice little bit of patient, but to focus on tuesdays out of those for let's say, arizona, surprisingly, as you pointed out, governor's race, as well as senate raise. the democrats are in the lead right now, and that was really not expect it. um, to the contrary, the republican sir made arizona a really, really, really big effort in a big, big,

big, important state for them to win for now, as of now. and that's the caveat, this can change, there still votes to be counted and this count will be picked up later in the day in arizona. and then we will see maybe to night, maybe to morrow, maybe 2 days after that. what the result there is but that the democrats are holding and leading at the moment for both position senate as well as the governorship going tutorial. race is a surprise. georgia. this will be going likely very likely into a run off on december 6th, because the both contenders, the republican herschel walker, as well as roughly not a one are from the democrats, have not as of now reached 50 percent plus one. and this is what you need in georgia to win the election. you have to reach 50 percent plus one that's not happening. so run off until the end at december 6. and that means for us to wait

for result possibly until december a case. and we still need to have some patients there that generally a strong day showing from the democrats. what struck he noticed is the results at rolled in exactly that, that the democrats arm, she had a stronger showing than we all expected that the any paul had suggest that the republicans are, you know, at the beginning of the year there was talk about the republican the that the read tsunami, then it became waif. then after the air ro versus rate decision of the supreme court, it became a republican trickle. now it was back to a wave. and now what it is, i don't know, we will find out, but it's not the way everybody expected. why that has even something to do with donald trump. and i think that is most most because he didn't bring really his senate candidates through as was expected. the people he endorse, and i think the best show of that is pennsylvania. that's

a supreme case for where donald trump and his case and his candidate for the senate failed. all right, and we've got a report about that when in pennsylvania. so let's take a look at that right now. 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. oh, medical exp, during the campaign against his multi millionaire republican opponent t. v personality doctor met ours ferryman, focused on the liberal values that many democrats of call to protect among them

free healthcare, 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 predicting a woman's right to choose, ah, raising our money in the union with me. here is a fundamental human really. it said moon that it should all be there for you when you over here, but the democrats wish to protect what they deem fundamental rights for us. citizens may be challenged if republicans take overall control of descent. so a big win for the democrats in pennsylvania. and stephanie do wins like this?

like we've just seen in pennsylvania, give democrats potentially something to be hopeful about. looking ahead to the 2024 electron hopeful, maybe i know it's really hard to say this is a long way out in politics as passivity in america, but i mean probably everywhere else to 2 years is a lifetime. anything can happen. and then 24. you know, well, we're gonna wait for president donald trump has announced that he will come with a big announcement on november 15th. so let's see what this announcement is. let's just say for a 2nd. it is that he is going to be running again. and there will be a primary in the republican party or not, and he will be the candidate. so who will be the cabbage on the democratic part? it was, it will joe biden run against? those are all open questions which could and will determine how voters will swing to was the presidential election. and again, a presidential election is very different, very different from

a mid term elections as we had it now. so bottom line is, i don't know, i don't think anybody knows what's going to happen. and if democrats or republicans should or could more hope be more hopeful for 2024, we will certainly be watching a closely and out 8 ebony correspondence, stephan simons in washington, dc thinking and then william john croft is passive. our team here in bel income. thank. he's a u. s. a mid terms. said william in a nutshell, what is this election gonna 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 a 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 the 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 while all those issues, what was the main god? 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 at bad,

a lot of americans are afraid and having trouble paying for their food, paying for their gas, seeing things not going a 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 midterms 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 a tech 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 to mock so 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 of elections. 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. but 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, the takeaways for the next election or focus 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, that 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, you know, historically under represented and historically marginalized group. but at 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. now for the international perspective on the u. s. mid terms, i spoke to my dad who go, she's a senior policy fellow at the european council on foreign relations. and i started by asking her if washington support for ukraine will 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 and its european allies, to massively step up with a financial commitments that would, you know, this is a bipartisan trend and that would happen under the, by the administration and, and dance 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 of the cult 27 climate. some it said that whatever the outcome of the mid terms, it will not destruct disrupt the u. s. climate plan. do you think that that is true for now? yes. and because especially if we end up with one chamber controlled by the republicans, i mean, the republicans are not looking favorably add 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 their ideological preferences, but where they see a big problem is that china is deep integration into the supply chains

on all of the products on renewable energy as highly problematic. so, you know, they're definitely inclined to push on kind of a 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 loss of funding in the existing legislation most recently through the inflation reduction bill so. so the question is, what future funding will be needed? and honda will great hall publicans are going to be able to effect that for budgetary control, might have all the foreign policy analysts. thank so much for your really

interesting analysis. pleasure, and thank you for having me. okay, let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. lawyers defending us basketball player. brittany greiner, who's detained in russia, says that she is now being transferred to a penal colony. the 2 time olympic gold medalist was arrested in february for possession of a small quantity of cannabis oil and was sentenced in august to 9 years in jail. in channel shape egypt activists demanded the release of egyptian activist, ala abdel for tom. he is serving a 5 year sentence for spreading news of police brutality on social media since the cop $27.00 unit you, any time it talks opened, he has escalated his month, long hunger strike and his family has worn that he may not survive. it may so the company that owns facebook says it is laying off $11000.00 people.

that's about 13 percent of its workforce in a letter to employees, c. e o. mark zuckerberg took the blame, saying that his decision to hire rapidly during the pandemic was based on a projection of rapid growth. the firm has instead suffered falling revenues. germany's government has blocked the sale of a microchip maker to a chinese owned firm. due to security concerns, a subsidiary of the chinese companies. cy, microelectronics had been seeking to take over l. moss, a manufacturer based endorsement in mid week bundis legal action, dockman de traveled to wolf's berg 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, ne, gave will spurred fans reason to celebrate with a to nil victory. ah,

despite dorman dominating their most recent fixtures against most berg with a handful of victories, the wolves refused to allow history to repeat itself. van the van, put the home side ahead on the 5 minute mark. don't wonder unable to deal with maxine owns corner is under van headed it in from close range to report. 1 lewisburg not lost since mid september, substitute lucas micha secured a 3rd straight victory for the wolves in the 90th minute. no, the final scheme and symbol their chance to picket points when the needed most once again, horsberg as seemingly found the group will the nickel covert. also on tuesday, league leaders by and munich strengthened their hold on the top spot with an

overpowering 6 to one. when against breyman, now, 3 of by ins, goals came courtesy of surged robbery. this was his 1st at the 22 minute mark. a block shot fell right to can i bri, who beautifully curled it into the far corner. and now we can take a look at all the been to seek result so far, unmatched a 14, or those winds from wolf's berg and buy an for home beat. glad bah! and she got down her to berlin on wednesday. clone. take on labor, cousin life sage face fryeburg. when you're on berlin, battle oaks, pork frankfurt lock horns with hoffman heim and shook her meat mites. now the hollywood direct, sir roland emmerich made his name with apocalyptic film such as independence day and the day after to morrow. but now the master of disaster has put his producing power behind an operatic fantasy film. the young people,

inspired by mozart's magic flute a premier last night in munich. i newman did him, was it, 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 flew our lord. it's on day, 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 his jam packed with fantasy film affects no surprise perhaps when german born hollywood director roland emmerich is the produce of behind it. i cannot immediately fell for that a, you know, like i dear. and her mother 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. i feel good thing. i mean, it's just, it's los despite now. 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 earth room to bu about opera, that it's all the other classes. and these are people who own oprah, reverend my most, i was writing this stuff for everyone who 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 a young kids like understands incredible music genius,

incredible 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 very open. this is a quick reminder of our top story today in the u. s. control of congress is yet to be decided as mid term election results and come in, republicans have the lead in the race for the house. but democrats are doing better than poles predicted in a major victory democrat, john fest him and has won in the senate race in pennsylvania. the overall battle, the control of the senate currently is still mackinac. it watching daily news coming up next on d. w. use asia, the war and ukraine from india to rethink its ties with russia, but access to oil makes it

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