ah ah ah, this is dw news coming to live from berlin. control of the united states congress hangs in the balance, says mid term election results comment. republicans take the lead in the race for the house, but their hope to poor red wave fails to materialize turbines. democrats perform better than expected with many competitive braces, still uncalled in the battle for the senate democrats score a major victory in pennsylvania. john fedor, mon flips the hotly contested seats,

but its neck and neck for overall control. with forces still up for grabs will take you live to washington and russia, orders its troops to withdraw from the area west of the negro river. the pullout comes after ukraine intensified its attacks near cows on could the move market turning point in the war. 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 country's course for the next 2 years. stay close to look at the

latest numbers at the moment. republicans have the lead in the race for the house of representatives. us boaters have been choosing law makers for the entire house. so for 174 out of the 435 seats have gone to the democrats and 199 of republicans. now let's have a closer look at the senate, starting with the seats that are not upper 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 far, also 48 for the republicans with vice president, commonly harris able to cast high 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 in it's still too early to call it, to draw any conclusions which cross straight over to our correspondence stuff on

siemens who's been following these elections from the beginning. so let's start with what's happening in the house. republicans gaining ground there, but no sweeping victories for them across the board. how are things shaping up urgent so that that was not a tidal wave whatsoever. and more of a trickle barely got your knees wet so to speak. but anyway, you're absolutely right. the republicans have it in the house of representatives. they have elite and they have expected to get this leads now not as much and as a powerful, as they thought it will be, but they're in the lead. the democrats will, it looks like it at least this, at this point in time, lose the house, however, they have been some really astonishing races and wins even for the democrats in ret states and the denver and, and the republicans did not have that in the books for sure, so yet there was no title wafer in taken the house back by the republicans and um,

even if they take it, which will have of course, consequences from politics in the united states. um they will not take a huge majority in the house. okay, so thats the house. what about the senate sir? several key races. they're still too close to call. are any indication of how that's going to go for the democrats? well, also better than expected. let's say arizona, arizona was always a very, very tied race. republicans were really hopeful to sweep that state, take it basically back up after donald trump lost it to biden in 2020 with a senate and a gubernatorial race, a governor race both to win. but what happened is, as of now, is that the democrats are actually holding on to those governor seat as well as the senate seat. and that's critical for them in the senate, right. take ga,

there. it comes to a run off. it looks like on december 6th, between the republican candidate and the democratic candidate, and it long look, that is that the democratic candidate in this state has a lot of problems. now, let's see how this will work out. we might have to work till december a wait till december 6 to figure this out. but the big surprise pennsylvania you man, you mentioned it. and this is where this guy came in. he took a senate seat for the democrats, expect it guess all expectations ah relief after a hard fought and treacherous battle to the top. pennsylvania's 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 us senator from pennsylvania ah medical expense during the campaign against his multi millionaire republican opponent tv personality. dr. mehmet, as ferryman, focused on the liberal values that many democrats have called 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 our minimum wage in the union with him here is a fundamental human really. it said, move if you know,

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 democrats obviously thrilled about their big when they're in pennsylvania. stuff on should all of this that seems to be giving democrats momentum, should this give them more confidence as they look ahead to the 2024 elections when the presidential election will happen as well? that's a $1000000.00 question here, but and it's a yes and no question. can there be hopeful that they have staff faced on staved off this really assault by the republicans? they had planned to launch with the midterm elections? yes. because it shows that, you know, the american voters may me, we're a little bit more sophisticated in his decision making at mid term elections as

a lot of posters, for example, thought and love experts may be 2. but it also, of course, depends on if the republicans take the house, but the democrats keep the senate, let's just say that's the way no matter what it will make governing for the democrats, for the biden white house, much more difficult it one way to go is hardcore political partisan warfare here between the parties, right, bickering and no compromising. but the other opportunity is may be compromise for it. and to what's 24th, 2024. then it also depends on who's going to run for the republicans in the presidential election in 2 years and for the democrats will biden run again. will donald trump announce on the 15th of november that he will try to run again? you know, all of this has impact on domestic policies, but also international policies, keywords, ukraine, climate change is cetera and the u. s. exposure in those fields, internationally,

stuff on thank you very much. are correspond in washington stephens a month so what are the results of the u. s. midterms mean for the rest of the world here discussed that is b w's, chief international editor, richard walker. richard, talk to us about the implications of these elections for the war. in ukraine, the u. s. is one of ukraine's biggest factor is both military, militarily and financially, or will that change of republicans take control of just one of the houses of co? yeah. that, that, 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 go to congress and get congressional approval for that. now that bunch of money is pretty much spent now is that they can looking ahead to take, can 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 certainly 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 in 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 speaker 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 repub and policy, the divisions that we see within the party will become a factor complicating factor for the biden ministration going forward in terms of supporting you train. 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. or do you see these elections having any influence, richard on german, russian relations, us russian relations or is it but yeah, i mean, in a sense he's right cause you relations are extremely bad if anything that, 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 they'll be pleased about that. anything that might potentially water down american support for ukraine is something that plays to, 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 americas 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 us politics right now as being tough on china. this goes back

to trump. he was, you know, launched the trade war against china, but biden is really kind of picked up on this. this hawkish line is pretty much consensus across the political spectrum that the u. s. needs to be tough on china that china's rise is the 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 us for leadership in dealing with climate change, the dressing, the global warming, we've seen changes between the trumpet, ministration, the by the 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 content? yeah, well the bible ministration, of course, in the months leading up to these 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 called 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 in 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 are some size, the republicans want to kind of put their stamp on a new kind of a 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 buyer and got that legislation through before this new congress came and richard walker or chief international editor. thank you . so much now to ukraine and russia has ordered its troops to withdraw from the western bank of the deep road river. near cas han, russian defense minister, sir gay, shy, gu, ordered the retreat. after weeks of ukrainian gains in the area, russian commander say it is no longer possible to deliver supplies to the city. and it says the troops will pull back to defend the eastern side of the river. hassan is the largest city captured by russia since the war began, and the withdraw would mark a major setback for the kremlin. more were joined by our correspondent, nick conley. innkeeper, nick, what do you make up this russian announcement?

can it be believed? i mean, this is certainly a big deal if it turns out to be true. there's also a lot of skepticism here in key of fears of a trap, an attempt to somehow get the ukranian forces to bessie head into head so on. and then face series resistance. there have been talk in recent days of very high level, very highly trained. well, results russian troops being had san at changing in civilian clothes and basically waiting for the ukrainians to come in. but it does seem like the ukranian tactic of consistent attacks on the infrastructure on the bridges on all the kind of pontoon bridges all the attempts to bring in supplies for that russian garrison that has now finally achieved something. it has become basically impossible for the russians to resupply their troops west of new per river, which is a very, very wide river, its widest point. then basically at the dividing line between those was rushed troops there and there kind of an hinterland and all the supplies. so certainly of course, doctors and hankey have bought a lot of suspicion and a lot of fear of

a trap. if this withdrawal is actually happening, nick, what does it tell us about where this war might be heading? well this of z was the part of ukraine that all observes be looking at since the summer in the summer we were told that the ukrainians would head for that song and that that would be their priority. they ended up coming differently back then. it was more kind of diversion tactics similarly from the ukrainian side. but it does show that these ukraine tactics all working that ukraine's patients at depriving russian troops of their supplies is working. even though it may be, doesn't bring success as quickly as lots people here in kia would want. and it also shows that russia is basically not able to do anything is liable to respond to the strategy that it isn't able to suddenly, you know, kind of deal with these as a school hurdles in the way of on thought it would, that it is overstretched. and it may be a bit off more that can chew. i think the symbolism is really difficult to kind of overstate here. this is the only regional capital that russia has picked up in this

entire war. it is the 1st major city that it picked up back in early march, and it's can be very difficult, especially after the annexation of to russia claimed can san was now part of russia for the russian ship to explain this to me. russians, as you say, they're still quite a bit of suspicion. we have to see if the withdrawal is actually happening. but again, if it is happening, what does this mean for russian president vladimir putin? well, it's very, very kind of painful blow. we've already seen him trying to spread the blame. he made one of his top generals of the top general in charge of the ukrainian war. so it sort of, you can come out and go to bases suggested to the leadership. then it was a survey showing the defense minister who now came up with this order. so basically this is all about making sure the optics that all the kind of bad news comes comes out of other people's mouths and not out of that in the future mouth. similarly with mobilization, that is all being delegated to the regions and regional governors are having to

kind of take the unpopular decisions and ask people to send their sons to the front lines here in ukraine and getting the future. and you kind of drops in when you're there's something good to report a success and bessie trying to kind of disconnect his brand from this war. and you kind of see, he seemed, he thought was going to be a big success. an easy when it's something that would stabilize his regime, him trying as much to can to basically put as much distance between himself and all this kind of endless bad news coming out of ukraine. nick, thanks again. our correspondent nick connelly in keel now to egypt, where human rights violations have been overshadowing event sat, the cop $27.00 climate summit. protesters have come out in force and supportive jailed british egyptian activists. ella, of the father, the pro democracy activist, has spent many years in prison. 4 months he's been on hunger strike. and since the summit opened, he's refused water with rights groups and of the father's 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. 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 him today. his love love it. anyway with on when needed coming. especially funny rights group, say abdel fata is one of more than 60000 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 can become so global that priority and he's, you know, and he's, and he is clearly at the heart of 27 agenda. in other words, yes, it's about climate justice. but you cannot the 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 of stress. the urgency of releasing him as his hunger strike increasingly endangers his life. are bought out. i'm joined by adobe 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 and 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, a abdullah 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, coasted 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, summits. it's been done by the egyptian government for 4 generations as the city of peace. and now you will 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 a, you know, i, let's friends and allies meeting with chancellor schultz for example. and now he has personally called for the release of outlet. and also with ursula funder lined the president of the european commission. i thank you very much. our correspondent, our reporter, i. e brief ah football now and in mid week, honestly, action dorman, traveled to ball sport to get a chance to get within striking distance. alease of table leaders by a munich, but i'm side who were on a 2 game winning streak had other ideas. and that gable sport vans reason to celebrate with a, to neil victory. despite dorman dominating their most recent fix his against most berg with a handful of victories, the wolves refused to allow history to repeat itself. van de van put the home side

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