make up your own mind. ah w. made for mines. no . ah ah, this is dw news coming to live from berlin. control of the united states congress hangs in the balance as mid term election results. come in. 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 uncalled in the battle for the senate democrats for a major, big 3 in pennsylvania, john betterment flips the hotly contested seat. but his neck and neck for overall

control of the set it with 4 seats still up for grabs will take you live to washington. also in the program egypt human rights record in focus as it hosts they call 27 climate solid pressures mounting on cairo to release back to this other uh bill fatah who's on hunger strike in an egyptian prison. 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're doing better than poles 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 countries course for the next 2 years. let's take a closer look at the latest numbers. at the moment, republican have the lead in the race for the house of representatives. the u. s. voters have been choosing lawmakers for the entire house. so for 172, out of the 435 seats have gone to the democrats and 199 to the republicans. now let's have a 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. now, the democrats right at this point with 48 seats so far, also 48 seats for the republicans with vice president, pamela harris, able to cast tie, breaking boats. the republicans would need 51 for a majority for seats are still open, arizona, georgia, nevada, and wisconsin. but some of the margins are razor thin and it's still too early to draw any conclusions. well, it's cross straight over to our correspondence,

stefan siemens, who's standing by force in washington summit. let's start with what's happening in the house. republicans gaining ground there, but no sweeping wave that they had hope for. how do you see thing shaping up there? everything but a big tidal wave as they had expected. it may be a trick, owens barely getting your nice wet um, but nevertheless they are in the lead. and it is expected that republicans are my li, optimistic, that they will take the house. and it's as of now, looks like that this will be the case. the democrats will hold seats in the house. they will not lose as much as they are, as many as they feared they would. um, but the republicans will take the house and this will, of course, complicate matters for the biden white house. at least this will complicates matters for the buy in white house and a democratic or progressive agenda and for the next 2 years of his presidency. okay,

so that's the house. let's look at the senate. so several key races there have yet to be decided. they're still too close to call. does it look like the democrats could retain their control of the senate? chances are that they will be able to do this surprisingly and, and really this was a surprise. many polls had suggested otherwise. the democrats so far holding on in arizona for the gubernatorial race governor, as well as for the senate seat, their number one, number 2 ga ga, will go as it looks like as of now go to a run off on december 6. if the democrats hold this hold, arizona as well as georgia, it will be absolutely almost impossible for the republicans to really turn the tide in the senate. and that is good for the democrats. however,

democrats and democrats in the senate and republicans owing the of the house, it will make things complicated. having said that, the democrats pulled off a major surprise with their when senate seat, when in pennsylvania, 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 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 descent.

well, the democrats, they're obviously thrilled about their big win in pennsylvania. stuff on should all this give the democrats more reason to be confident as they looked towards the next big elections, the presidential elections and 2024. i think. yes and no. yes. because of course, the democrats really expected this to be a slaughter yesterday, and it turns out it looks like it, it's not as bad as they had expected. so that's the good thing. the bad thing is, or the, the caution here is, you know, a presidential election is fall way 2 years or in between now and the presidential election is a long, long time for politics and in politics. he, in the united states and probably everywhere else. but of course, the next 2 years will be for the democrats much hotter if they lose the house,

as we say, the house of representatives. it will be much harder to govern for and for biden, joe biden, president, to get his agenda through, even if they keep the senate. so this will be interesting and this will be at least some kind of partisan political warfare, which is going to play out here and between the white house and congress here. stuff. and thank you very much for now. our correspondence stuff on siemens there in washington. so what are the results of the u. s. mid terms mean for the rest of the world here discussed that is the that we use treatment. national editor, richard walker. richard talked to us about the implications of these elections for the war in ukraine. the u. s. is one of ukraine's biggest factors, both military, militarily and financially, or will that change of republicans take control of just one of the houses of co? yeah, that's right terry. and this be

a lot of concern about this particular ukraine, but also in europe as a whole. of what might change if there is a really significant sort of shift in the balance of power within washington because you're right, the u. s. has been the biggest single supporter of the ukrainians during this war. so far, 40 plus $1000000000.00 of, of funding is gone to military funding and other kinds of funding and to get that money, joe biden has to go to congress and get congressional approval for that. now that bunch of money is pretty much spent now is that the can looking ahead to ok, can they provide more money in the, in the year ahead? they're going to need a congressional support for that. the republican party, however, which looks like it's only going to win the has the representatives could even take control of the senate and it's divided on this issue. so you have the kind of traditional defense hawks who be the hallmark of the republican foreign policy, at least the reagan era. they are very much, you know, supportive of ukraine, but the kind of trump is populous wing of the party is pretty isolationist. you

have people saying things like we don't want to give another penny to ukraine or one person saying, one person who will be in the senate. i don't really care what happens in ukraine. so there's a lot of concern about what that means. now kevin mccarthy, the man, he's probably going to be the speech of the house of representatives for emerge to the center of this new kind of power structure. now in congress. he said that there should be no blank check for ukraine, but he's been trying to tone that down a little bit recently. i think the bottom line is that this republican pull 6, the divisions that we see within the party will become a factor, a complicating factor for the biden ministration going forward in terms of supporting ukraine. and of course, from the crating point of view, that isn't going to be very good news. these elections are also being closely watched in moscow. of course, we've heard from the kremlin spokesman today, dmitri past call saying that these, here's a quote from he says, these elections cannot change anything essential relations are still or,

and will remain bad. do you see these elections having any influence, richard on german, russian relations. us russian relations worth it but, but yeah, i mean in a sense he's right because relations are extremely bad if and i think that that's a real under statement. i think from the point of view of the russians, you know, they want to see america divided. it's easier for them to deal with a divided united states so. so the fact that the republicans are at least going to take over the house of representatives. i think that would please about that. anything that might potentially water down american support for a ukraine is something that plays to russia's advantage. but still, we're not seeing, it seems the, the real massive wave that some had forecast here, as we've been hearing from, from a correspondence over in the u. s. the trump faction of the republican party does not seem to be strengthened for it. so from that point of view, the russians might be somewhat disappointed. let's talk about to americans. other

foreign policy had a car, if you will, china. do you see any shift in u. s. b u. s. position on china as a result of this lecture? yeah, well, is this in contrast to russia on china? the republicans to the democrats is often said that is pretty much the only sort of bipartisan issue and u. s. policies right now is being tough on china. this goes back to trump. he was launched the trade war against china, but biden is really kind of picked up on this whole. his line is pretty much senses across the political spectrum that the u. s. needs to be tough on china that china's rise is a threat potentially to, to us interest. so if you have a different dynamic within this new congress of the 2 sides more trying to sort out bid each other for a peer in appearing tougher rather than potentially watering things down. as with the case with russia and many country looked countries look to the u. s. for leadership in dealing with climate change, the dressing, the global warming,

we've seen changes between the trump administration, the bottom ministration with respect, climate change. do you think these elections that we're seeing right now the mid term elections will have an impact on american policy towards dealing with competing yet? well, the bible ministration, of course, in the months leading up to the mid term elections. one of that they had a series of kind of legislative wins managing to get legislation through congress and part of it with litigation call the inflation reduction act, which is actually more about climate than it is necessarily about monterey centers for green. yeah, so and that is being seen is quite a game changer in terms of structuring incentives within the u. s. economy to favor, greener solutions. i think outside of service will be very glad that he got that done before this new congress came. because some legislation like that really would not get through a divided congress. the republicans are much less interested in climate change. the democrats, you see that in all the opinion polling there is some size. the republicans want to

kind of put their stamp on a new kind of part of climate change policy. kevin mccarthy, we just spoke about there has been talking about coming up with a new approach. but this is likely to be in terms of doubling down on certain fossil fuels, for example, liquefied national, natural gas selling that is a clean, kind of alternative compared to oil. so not necessarily the kind of policies the international observers concerned about climate change are going to be looking for, but they will at least be please the bike and got that legislation through before this new congress came in, richard walker or chief international editor. thank you so much sketch up on some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. while makers defending lawyers rather depending the us basketball player. brittany greiner, who's detained in russia, says she's 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 sentenced in august to 9 years in jail. meta,

the company that owns facebook says it's laying off $11000.00 people about 13 percent of its workforce and a letter to employees. c. e. o. mark soccer berg took the blame, saying his decision to hire rapidly during the pandemic was based on a projection of rapid growth in the firm has instead suffered hauling revenues. activists hung a banner on top of berlin's brand of our gate this morning to protest, the lack of action on the climate emergency caused by the ongoing burning of fossil fuels. the sign read, we wish for survival. for all it's part of a series of demonstrations by the environmental protest group, last generation. now, how wary should western governments be when it comes to doing business with china? well, the german government and else day it has blocked the sale of a micro chip factory to

a chinese own firm. due to security concerns. economy minister robert havoc said investments for abroad were welcome and china should remain a strong partner, tre, trading partner. but he warned against corporations that could allow beijing to exert influence especially in critical sectors. elmer's adornment based company develops and produces microchips and semiconductors for the auto industry. their integrated circuits control, car safety systems. for example. a chinese company wanted to buy the factory through a swedish subsidiary that the german government said no, citing a potential threat to security via zoom. we see a deliberate strategic approach in the area of semiconductors and marker chips, manufacturing to exert influence. voice both for intelligence gathering knowledge extraction as well as for production control song. also on the screen. 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. battleships and loosen that concern is shared by the center, right? christian democrats, emerson, in dodge, we must better protect germany's critical infrastructure and sense attack technologies, which are interconnected against influence from countries such as the people's republic of china and others who could then take on the strategic position against our interests. that's why this is the right decision. i don't wish the debate of a china's influence in germany continues. the government agreed to a chinese takeover of the terminal at the port of hamburg in october, in spite of political resistance now to egypt for human rights violations. have been overshadowing events at the call 27 climate summit. protesters have come out in force and supportive jailed. british egyptian activist ela bell plata, the pro democracy activist has spent many years in prison. for months he's been on

hunger strike. and since the summer opened, he's refused water with rights groups and abdel fontose family expressing growing fears for his health. international pressure for his release is mounting. this is ella abdel fata, 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 him live with his love love it. i am the way it would be this coming, especially funny 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 human rights situation in the country becomes a global set priority, and he's, you know, in and he's, and he is clearly at the halt 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 soon ok has said he'll raise the activists case with egyptian president abdel fata, i'll cc at cop 27. bella abdel fatter supporters have stressed. the urgency of releasing him as his hunger strike increasingly endangers his life. are bought out. i'm joined by dw reporter i. abraham has been following this very closely. good to see you again. now we heard there in a report from the head of amnesty international agnes, i just called her mom. she mentioned also earlier that 3 days ago, she said that that up hottest 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 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. so 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 drawing egyptian officials the kind of attention that they wanted when they, you know, coasted this, this climate conference. i mean, let me just paint a picture about where this is happening. this is happening and sign i as as 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 4 generations as the city of peace. and now you have sha mr. is also been terrorist attacks there. absolutely, but it certainly is the town or the city where the government writes to put, tries to put in its best place. and now you have this, the sister of this very, very prominent activist coming to the conference and basically making a connection between the rates of her brother and climate justice. yesterday she had a press conference journalists 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 i let. and also with ursula funder lined the president of the european commission. i a thank you very much. our correspondent, our reporter, i had a brief aah. of a ball world cup kicks off and cut her later this month. but serious questions remain about the gulf states, treatment of gay and lesbian. visitors fuel has been added to the fire by troubling comments made by the cook, tarry, world cup and bastard, or to a german public broadcaster. with less than 2 weeks ago,

before the world cut kicks off in katara, the nation's world cup ambassador has said l g b t q, tourists will be accepted. but colleagues, selma followed that with this declaration. they have to accept our rules here in islamic law. homosexuality is her arm or forbid this had um not had a much meter at m yet. um, so he would say for me, way of doing it, but do you think a is hm. because why is hello? i am not a big one. big newsline lets us had am. why? because the damage in the mind, germany's interior minister was quick to respond condemning the comments that truly since i choice, of course the statements are terrible. and that's also the reason why we are working to improve things from that perspective inc. and tar for best, l g, b, t q rides, groups have called on fee 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 qatar. well, in mid week, earnestly action dockman traveled to voss or with the chance to get within striking distance of table leaders by a munich. but the home side who were honored to game winning streak had other ideas and their gables for grands reason to celebrate with a to kneel victory. despite dorman dominating their most recent fixtures against most burg, with a handful of victories, the wolves refused to allow history to repeat itself, and then put the home side ahead on the 5 minute, mark. don't wonder unable to deal with max. he owns corner vander then headed it in from close range after a pull start, lewisburg of not lost since mid september,

substitute lucas micha secured a 3rd straight victory for the wolves in the 90th minute to know the final score and symbol. that chance to pick up points when needed most. once again, a spur, the seemingly found the group on the nico cova also on tuesday league leaders by a munich strengthen their hold it on the top spot with an overpowering $61.00 win against breyman, 3 a by ins, goals came courtesy of sash snobbery. this was his 1st at the 22 minute ark. a blocked shot fell right to can operate who beautifully curled it into the far corner. you're watching d. w. news coming to you from berlin. a reminder of our top story in the us control of congress has yet to be decided as mid term election results. come in,

republicans have the lead in the race for the house, but democrats are doing better than the polls predicted. in a major victory democrat, john fedor meant has won the senate race and pennsylvania with the overall battle for control of the senate. currently, neck and neck. coming up next to made in germany looks clever options for energy storage in the future. i'm terry martin. thanks for with with

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