our mission, ah, to analyze the fight for market dominance. east this is west indian head with the w business beyond ah ah, this is dw news coming to you live from berlin, control of the united states congress, things in the ballot says midterm election results comment. republicans take the

lead in the race for the house, but their hope for red wave fails to materialize. jo biden's democrats perform better than expected, with many competitive races still unfold. and in the battle for the senate democrats score major victory in pennsylvania, john ferryman flips the hotly contested seat. but it's neck and neck for overall control with poor seat still up for grabs. will take you live to washington. ah. hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. in the united states, mid term election results are pointing to a surprisingly strong, showing for jo, biden's democrats. they are doing better than polls predicted with early indications suggesting they're managing to fend off sweeping republican gains. but 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. take a closer look at the latest numbers at the moment. republicans have the lead in the race port, the house of representatives, us voters, have been choosing lawmakers for the entire house. so for 172, out of the 435 seats had gone to the democrats and 199 to the republicans. now let's have a close look at the senate starting 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 with 48 seats. so 4, also $48.00 seats. for the republicans with vice president, couple of harris able to cast tie, breaking boats. the republicans would need $51.00 for a majority. well, 4 seats are still open. arizona, georgia, nevada, and wisconsin. but some of the margins are razor, razor thin,

and it's still too early to draw any conclusions. more filarious, very latest. let's bring in our correspondence upon siemens in washington. these see such f a republicans gaining ground probably taking the house, but there's no red wave or as the summer had been hoping in the republican side. now, many of the races are still too close to call. how do you see thing shaping up? absolutely right, terry, the republican way, sir. well, was maybe a trickle. he didn't even get denise wet as of now and as you pointed out there, so many races, still undecided too close to call. i would say the house, it is fairly, fairly fair to assume that the house will be in republican, has that the republicans will get the majority in the house. i remember they just had to flip fife seats there or gain 5 seats, and they have it. so this is going to happen in the senate. absolutely a very,

very different picture. and surprisingly in states of arizona and georgia, and there is ana, a gubernatorial race, as well as senate race. the democrats are holding on as of now. and in georgia will probably have a run off between the republican and the democrat contender on december 6th. what about the senate of hunters? it looked like the democrats will be able to hold onto it. yeah, absolutely right, that is so that's really the big surprise because hm. well, or not, you know, and maybe a little bit of trivia the minority leader in, in the senate had warned that it is about the quality of the candidates for senate . right. and there are now many who say laguna, he absolutely was right because he is the problem and there's where the elephant is in the. ready room many candidates who ran on the republican side for senate were trump picks, they were endorsed by trump, they endorse donald trump and everything he stands for. and those trump ian senate

candidates on the republic if i didn't perform too well, a good example where this went totally wrong for the republicans is pennsylvania, where the democrat one john ferryman will become the next senator. we have a report awe relief after a hard fought and treacherous battle to the topic of the 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 us senator from pennsylvania. oh, medical expense. during the campaign against his multi millionaire republican opponent t. v personality. dr. mehmet, as ferryman, 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 minimum wage in the union with him . 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 deemed fundamental rights for us. citizens may be challenged if republicans take overall control of the st. sir, democrats obviously thrilled about their success in pennsylvania, in that tight racer should their performance stuff on in these elections. put wind

in their sales, wind in the sales, and the democrats looking at the next big electrons and 2024. that is a 1000000 dollar question and you know what? i wish i would have a simple answer to this. but i don't surprised um because mid term elections are really fundamentally different from presidential elections and in this case, you know, 2 years till 2024. that's a lifetime in politics, in american politics, for sure. but i assume everywhere on the world, however, it also depends on who will be actually the candidate for the presidential race on the public inside will be donald trump, who already said he has a beak announcement coming on november 15th, and who will oppose him. joe biden running again. so there's a lot of dynamic involved in this when it comes to who's going to be the candidate for the respective parties. right. and it's 2 years away, a lot can happen politically. and people in the united states voters in the united states, they distinct, they make a difference. they aware of

a difference. presidential election and midterm elections. 7, thank you so much. are correspond stuff and siemens there in washington. so what did the results of the u. s. mid terms mean for the rest of the world. here to discuss, this is the w as chief international editor, richard walker. richard, let's start with the war in ukraine. that's obviously on everyone's mind here in europe or the u. s. is one of the biggest supporters of the government in ukraine, both financially and militarily, or will that change if republicans gain control of the house? yeah, i mean, definitely a big question on, on many people's minds in ukraine, but also here in europe and, and it's true terry me just to give you a heads. the scale of the support is come from the united states for the ukrainians . 40 plus $1000000000.00 of, of support has been pouring. and during the course of this year, joe biden had to go to congress to get that money approved. that money is pretty

much spent now, so what's gonna happen next? and this has been really kind of bursting out of the limelight because the republican party, who now it looks very much like a go to control at least the house of representatives. there's a division in the party about what to do about ukraine. and, you know, the republicans traditionally, especially since reagan, you know, the party of kind of defense hawks. you know, that, you know, a party that you would expect to want to stand up to russia. but of course, donald trump had a, an unusual relationship with vladimir putin. and the kind of trompe and wing of the party has been saying things that are causing a lot of jangling nerves and ukraine, for instance, mardrey taylor green. i think she's well known as kind of a truck trump here than trump in the in the house of representatives. she said, just recently, if the republicans take over there won't be no, there'll be not another penny for ukraine. j. t events who's coming into the senate in ohio. he said he didn't really care what happens in ukraine. so this is cause love concern or kevin mccarthy. he's going to be the, the guys probably going to be the speaker of the house now. and the new system,

he also said that there will be no blank check for ukraine going forward. now he since been trans of tone that down a little bit. but i think that the very least, republican politics is going to become a factor in this equation for the united states, for the u. s. ministration in think about how to get continue funding the ukrainians. that these divisions in the republican party and how they play out, how it plays out with donald trump, you know, coming up to the primaries, you know, next year he's going to throw in his hat into the ring to, to try to become president. that's going to become a factor that will, at the very least complicate matters. now, all of these statements that you just reference there, about politicians, particularly in the republican party, they're being listened to very carefully in, in moscow. right. and so what's a good idea of what credit the criminal is making of this? i've just got a statement here coming from the kremlin today, criminal spokesman, dimitri pest call saying these elections cannot change anything essential relations

or still or, and will remain bad. so richard, no, no change or dissipated in russian american relations. i mean, to an extent he's right, as an understatement, relations between the u. s. and russia, a really bad at the moment. of course. yeah, i mean, if you kind of go through the people we were just talking about, of course, you know, it, it would be quite pretty nice for russia if you know, people like marjorie taylor green people like j defense of the people who've said things which could be interpreted as rather more rob, unsympathetic to ukraine, potentially sympathetic to the russian side of the, in the conflicts that, that would have caused play to rush his favorite. so the fact that what we're looking at here does not appear to be, you know, a sort of a republican wave that the trump being of the republican party is if anything we can coming out of this, that many of the candidates that trump endorse, did not do so well that, that i think that will probably be causing

a bit of disappointment and rush because, you know what plays best from the russian point of view is a divided united states and usa still, it's extremely divided, but it's not perhaps quite as, as catastrophic level of division as we might have been, is made to going into today. oh, so the russians are watching this, the chinese as well, of course. so that's america's other big foreign policy headache as it were. republicans have slightly, i don't know, do they, are they still on the same page with the democrats when it comes to policy towards china or can we anticipate some changes with the, with the u. s. attitude towards china? yeah, well, so far, you know, china has, is, is a bit of a different case from, from russia in american politics in this office said that, you know, being tough on china is pretty much the only thing where you can get really bipartisan agreement at the moment that both parties are pretty much settled on a policy that a very antagonistic towards china is partly dates back to,

to donald trump. of course, to the open this trade war against sign that he really kind of like took on the chinese very aggressively after initially trying to reach out to see jim pink. the chinese president biden has really picked that up and almost run even further with it, with a series of measures which are really, you know, taking the contract confrontation to china pretty seriously. so if anything, this, this new congress, if anything, is more likely to see the 2 sides trying to out bid each other in terms of toughness on china, rather than in the case of russia where there was some concern that it might war to us policy down richard, thank you so much shar, chief international editor richard walker. let's catch up on some other stories making headlines around the world today. lawyers, depending the us basketball player, brittany groaner who is detained in russia, says she's being transferred to a penal colony. the 2 time olympic gold medalist was rested in february for possession of

a small quantity of cannabis oil and sentenced in august to 9 years in jail matter . the company that owns facebook says it's laying off $11000.00 people about 13 percent of its workforce in a letter to employee c. e o. mark zuckerberg 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 failing revenues. now, how wary should western governments be when it comes to doing business with china? the german government announced today that it has blocked the sale of a micro chip factory to a chinese own farm due to security concerns. economy minister, robert ha, back said investments were a investments from abroad. were welcome and china should remain trading partner. but he warned against co operations that could allow beijing to exert influence, especially in critical sectors. homeless adornment based company develops and

produces microchips and semiconductors for the auto industry. they're integrated circus control, car safety systems. for example. a chinese company wanted to buy the factory through a swedish subsidiary, but the german government said no, citing a potential threat to security via zene. we see a deliberate strategic approach in the area of semiconductors and microchips manufacturing to exert influence. voice both for intelligence gathering knowledge extraction as well as for production control song, oh, certain on this being. that's why it's important to look at the whole picture and the whole picture means we need to better protect critical infrastructure in various manufacturing areas, vessel ships and loosen. that concern is shared by the center, right? christian democrats, which it mustn't indulge long, we must better protect germany's critical infrastructure and sensitive technologies which belong together against influence from countries such as the people's republic of china and others who then take on

a strategic position against our interests. and that's why this is the right decision. so this being asked is an inch. i don't wish the debate of a china's influence in germany continues. the government agreed to a chinese takeover of a terminal at the port of hamburg in october. in spite of political resistance, human rights are one of the topics on the agenda today at the comp 27 climate summit in egypt shall shake. protesters have come out in force and supportive jailed, british egyptian activist, ala uh, bill fata, he's been on hunger strike for months since the summit opened. he's also been refusing water with rights groups and his family, expressing growing fears for his health. international pressure is mounting for his release. this is ella abdel fattah. the british egyptian activist is currently imprisoned in egypt. in a desperate bid for freedom. he's been on hunger strike since april and to coincide

with cop $27.00, he's taken it to a more dangerous level. his family are gravely concerned on his do my best try and said let them live with him. today. his love love. i live. i am the way it would be this coming, especially fun in rights group, say abdel fata is one of more than $60000.00 political prisoners in egypt. he spent most of the past decade behind bars 1st being sentenced for protesting against a ban on unauthorized demonstrations. and later, allegedly being detained by security forces in response to protests against government corruption. as world leaders gather in egypt for cop 27,

a law dell sat as detention has been condemned by human rights activists. charlie, nancy via human rights situation in the country have become so global that priority and diesel and he's andy squarely and the house of 27 agenda. in other words, yes, it's about climate justice. but you cannot den climate justice anywhere in the world, including in egypt. if you don't have human rights protection. british prime minister richie sooner has said he'll raise the activists case with egyptian president abdel fata assisi at cop $27.00. allah abdel fatter supporters of stress, the urgency of releasing him as his hunger strike increasingly endangers his life.

brought out, i'm joined by d. w reporter i abraham, who's been following this very closely. good to see you again. now we heard there in that report from the head of amnesty international agnes, i was color mom, she mentioned also earlier that 3 days ago, she said that that upped up hot us life is on the line that he only has about 3 days to be saved that was 3 days ago. what can you tell us about his condition? there's absolutely no news about what's going on with him. we know that his mother is outside of the prison. in cairo, she would go and deliver letters to him, but today they said, for the 1st time the, the authorities at the prison refused to take the letter. one can only speculate about his state. i mean, the egyptian president has said that they will insure his health. so his, his family is rightfully asking, is he being force fed? is he being tortured? is he already possibly dead? what is his condition? we have no news. and as the family has repeatedly said, the only people that can really give answers to this as are the egyptian

authorities, and so far they have been silent. all of this is happening, of course, when tens of thousands of delegates are in egypt attending the climate conference or upto photos, hunger strike is put a spotlight on human rights violations in egypt during this conference. how much attention is it drawing at the conference? oh, certainly not drying. egyptian officials the kind of attention that they wanted when they, you know, hosted this this climate conference. i mean, let me just paint a picture about where this is happening. this is happening and sign i this is far away from the capital. it's a beautiful, picturesque resort town, historically has been used by presidents as a place to showcase, you know, the regime conferences summit's. it's been done by the egyptian government for at 4 generations as the city of peace. and now you will have sha mr. has also been terrorist attacks there. absolutely, but it certainly is the town or the city where the government writes to put,

tries to put on its best base. and now you have this, the sister of this very, very prominent activist coming to the conference and basically making the connection between the rights of her brother and climate justice. yesterday she had a press conference journalist there noted that it was one of the best attended events of the conference so far. there was a very, a hugely report incident in which a parliamentary and tried, tried to interrupt her and was escorted outside of the press conference by un security. he was screaming this isn't egypt, you can't touch me. he was escorted out of the secretary general of amnesty international, who we just saw, pointed that what that parliamentarian did just gives us a small glimpse of the kind of conditions that human rights defenders have to endure in egypt. so it's certainly not bringing in the attention that at that they want. now we have, you know, i let friends and allies meeting with chancellor schultz for example. and now he

has personally called for the release of allah and also with ursula on the line. the president of the european commission, i thank you very much. our correspondent, our reporter, i had a brief ah, now some sports on tuesday. league leaders by an munich strengthen their hold on the top spot with an overpowering 61 win against bremen. despite dorman dominating their most recent fixtures against those berg with a handful of victories, the wolves refused to allow history to repeat itself. van de van put the home side ahead on the 5 minute mar. don't wonder unable to deal with maxie awnings corner and a van headed it in from close range. after a full start, lewisburg not lost since mid september. substitute lucas micha secured

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and stood god, we're down. how to berlin on wednesday? clone take on labor cushion. lipsy face fryeburg. when you own berlin battle augsburg, frankfort, lock horns with hoffen. hymen shaka, meat mines, hollywood, director roland emmerich made his name with apocalyptic film such as independence day and the day after to morrow. but now the master of disaster is put his producing power behind an operatic fantasy film for young people. inspired by mozart's magic flute, they premiere 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 fling, jo, lordy sante 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 is 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 idea. 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 ready sounded so good with all the bells and whistles of state of the arts cinema. i dare food. thank not beaten east just dietz lewis despite huh. 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 a sort of taboo about offer that it's all the over classes and these are people who aren't operas. reverend man, most i was writing this stuff for everyone. he didn't, that was what he was trying to do. and this is hopefully what this film can do and bring, make young, you know, even make young. it's like understand this incredible music is genius is incredible . laughter. it's premier in munich, germany last night. it looks to do just that. ah. 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 week. that's the, you're watching the w news from berlin. just reminder of our top story, this, our in the us control of congress is yet to be decided at mid term election results

. 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 betterment as one in the senate race and pennsylvania with the overall battle for control of the senate. currently neck and neck. coming up next it's news asia with melissa chen. i'm terry martin. thanks for watching with with

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