ah ah ah ah, ah, this is d w. news live from berlin. tonight, a possible turn in rushes. invasion of ukraine. russian troops ordered to withdraw from the city of hare saw rushes. defense minister confirming the poll back, saying that his soldiers lines must take priority. this is looking like a major blow to vladimir putin is war. also coming up denied control of the united states congress hanging in the balance as mid term election results continue to

come in. republicans will likely regain control of the house of representatives, but this is not turning out to be the dreaded mid term defeat for the democrats and in the battle for the u. s. senate democrats of scored a major victory in pennsylvania. john feather mit flipping the hotly contested seed, but its neck and neck for overall control with 4 seats still up for grabs. we'll go live to wash. and egypt, human rights record in focus as it host, the cop 27 climates of pressure is mounting on high road to release activists ala dale fata, who's on a hunger strike inside an egyptian prison. ah hybrid. gov is good to have you with us. russia has ordered its troops to withdraw

from the western bank of the, than the pro river near the city of hare song. the move could mark a major turning point in the war. a russians defense minister ordered the retreat. after weeks of ukrainian gains in the area, russian commanders are saying that it is no longer possible to deliver supplies to the city that troops will pull back to defend the eastern side of the river. now, here san is the largest city captured by brush of since the invasion began back in february. and the withdrawal would mark a major setback for the kremlin. i want to listen now to the statement that was made earlier by russia's commander of troops in ukraine. general sergey sort of akin reporting to russia's defense minister, personally thought of it if i don't hear from you after a comprehensive assessment of the situation. but i looked at as proposed to occupy

the defense along the eastern bank of the denise pro river. i understand that this is a very uneasy decision. at the same time, we will save the lives of our servicemen. and the combat capability of our troops is still wasteful. focus, group, iraq, you're worse and more now we want to get our corresponding economy. he is standing by in keith nick, what do you make of this announcement this russian withdrawal can it be believed? well, certainly there are lots of voices in care of who say this definitely cannot be believed. they see this as a provocation in attempts to lou or in ukrainian troops to hassan and then kind of forced them into kind of st. battles of the kind we saw in mary apple. we've heard from top ukranian intelligence officials who say that some of russia's best, equipped and best trained soldiers are still in harrison city. that some of them it's believed changed in civilian clothes, more difficult to identify them. and they certainly said they haven't seen any

evidence of the russian military pulling back we have seen in recent days, checkpoints disappearing, police disappearing. russian flags being taken off and missed ship buildings. but no conclusive proof so far that the russian military has left kind of solid. so there's a lot of cautious kind of questioning here as to whether this is really something that you can can take advantage of, or whether it really is going to be still a few weeks. and some very difficult matter before you crane troops. finally, to cousin a very near connelly in keep the latest on this breaking news coming out of ukraine . thank you. next, we want to take the story now to mike martin. he is a former british army officer and a senior visiting research fellow with the department of war studies at kings college london. mike, it's good to have you on the program. let me ask you it. do you think it's possible that what we're seeing here is a russian trap? it might be perceived as a trap, but there are some simple facts. this was

a region that russia annexed about 6 weeks ago. and supposedly this is part of russia, and now we're seeing the commander of russian forces announcing withdrawal. so i'm sure there will be traps and stay behind policies and all the rest of it. but the simple fact saw the large body of russian troops has been the only large body of russian ships. i should say, that is crossed the river. the pros on the west, franklin in the pro is now withdrawing, and that's a significant victory fee. and talk to us about why harrison is so strategically important. so has almost taken in the very early days of the war. and it's the only major city that russia has ever controlled throughout this conflict. and it's the revenue through it, cuts across ukraine, it cuts it into it runs from crimea all way up to key, and so on is the only city on the western side of that river. and so if russia

continued to control that city, they would have a spring board for 3rd millage activities in that whole bit of ukraine to the west of the neat pro and the pro wide times it's 5 miles wide. so it's a significant defensive barrier with russian withdrawing from that side of the river. that means that ukraine has a very, very solid, that defensive line that it can use. and i know it's, it's hard to estimate numbers, particularly in this conflict. but what would you say, how many russian troops are we talking about in your song? i again, with huge caveats. yeah. potentially 10 or $15000.00 russian soldiers in on the west bank of the ne, per in what strategic step might the russian military be planning. next, i'd actually like to turn that question round. sure. i may. yeah. because

momentum's really important in war and you're asking me what the russians are doing, but actually it's the ukrainian that's a forcing the russians to respond to them. so the reason the russians are pulling out is because the ukrainians have been cutting their supply lines. they blew up the coach bridge. they've knocked out rail lines and so those as that russian come on to said we can't supply our chips anymore. so i think the actual question is, what is it the ukrainians are going to do? and i think there's potentially time for one more move between crist, between now and when it gets really difficult to move during the winter. and i suspect that they will try and cut through to the black sea, thus cutting the russian forces into. so you've got a pocket in the east and the dumbass and a point in the south in crimea. i mean, what you're talking about here is a significant blow to russian forces also to know this war being pushed by vladimir, who do you think you can come to that,

that they can go all the way? as far as you're saying by, by christmas, by the end of the year, well if they haven't got the troops, the ukrainians have the troops to, to have one last offensive the for christmas before the end of the year. and of course, we don't know that very, very, very secretive about, about like a abilities. obvious reasons, then that will inevitably be part of the spring offensive. so i think things are going to slow down a lot over the winter, and then we'll be into the spring and both sides will be looking to kick off again . and that will be well, one of the main things i think crane is trying to cheat. we will definitely be talking again sooner rather than later. i'm sure mike martin with the department of course, studies at kings college london. mike, as always, thank you. thank you very much. so in the united states, midterm election results are pointing to a surprisingly strong, showing for president biden's. democrats. are doing better than polls predicted,

with early indications, suggesting that they're managing to fend off sweeping republican gains in congress . but there are still many races to call in the battle for both houses of congress, which will of course, set the country's course for the next 2 years. the 2nd closure look now at the latest numbers at the moment. republicans have the lead in the race for the house of representatives, us voters, they've been choosing lawmakers for the entire house so far. a 176 out of the 435 seats have gone to the democrats, 203, have gone to republicans say closer look. now at the u. s. senate, we know there's a 100 total seats there, starting with the seats that are not up for grabs in this election. if you add in those newly decided seats, you can see the republicans slightly ahead. with $49.00 seats, the democrats with $48.00 seats so far, and of course,

with vice president come alive, harris able to cast the tie, breaking vote. the republicans would need $51.00 to have a majority. 3 seat are still undecided. arizona, the state of georgia, as well as nevada, but some of the margins a razor thin, is still too early to draw any conclusions. all right, let's go to soon as he was gone and now she is following events for us there on capitol hill. same, it's good to caesar. so start us off here. where are we right now? i mean, it, it looks like republicans are going to gain control, slide control of the house as things stand right now. that's brett wright, brenda, how things look right now. and the prevailing narrative here in washington, today's that, that red wave that had been predicted really didn't materialize. that something we're hearing from republicans themselves, that they are disappointed with the outcome of these mid term elections. they had

expected more, you know, there are some key competitive races. house of representatives, races across the country were democrats managed to send off stiff challenges from their republican kent contenders. i'll just give you the example of virginia we're to embattled democrats managed to hold on to their seats, really giving the democrats momentum through the night. and brent, i think it's a port to say that the polls had indicated there would be this red wave. the pulls, i was also refer you were yesterday in our reporting, they didn't seem to really reflect what was actually driving voters. it seems like abortion was really a driving factor. so was democracy being on the ballot? that being said, you know, the president to day we're really getting the sense of relief here in washington from the white house. the white house saying they feel vindicated, that president biden's messaging his appeals to voters to go out and cast their ballots to protect reproductive rights. to protect democracy that, that worked. i don't know that that's entirely fair because the candidates who actually won their races, they performed far better than the president himself. so there is a little bit of a dissidence there. but

a certainly the house of representatives looks like it will end up in republican hands, but not in the margin that we had expected. brent and that is good news for the democrats and for president biden. today, in what about the senate know that of course, could actually be the, the happy ending for the democrats who couldn't yes, that is exactly as we expected. coming down to the wire. you mention it already, these razor thin races. right now we're still waiting for the races in nevada and arizona to be called us are still too close to call. but we seen these other races and very, very close results. so some of the state of wisconsin where the republican ron johnson, one there at the state of georgia, is going to go to a run off and that's going to be decisive. brent, you'll remember some of our viewers might remember that 2 years ago the state of georgia also went to run off and that result ended up handing the majority to the democrats there. so we're going to be watching very closely what will happen in a on december 6th, in georgia, but the race everyone is talking about here today is the race in pennsylvania. such

a bitterly contested state. millions of dollars. a flew into a flow, it flowed into the ads there to, to how both candidates. and what we saw is that the democrat john veteran came out on top. take a look at what happened with 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 were going to turn these red counties blue. well, we did well, we needed to do and we had that conversation across every one of those counties internally. that's why all be the next. you are a senator from here. oh, to go exploring the campaign against his multi millionaire republican opponent t. v personality. doctor mehmet, as federal been focused on the liberal values that many democrats of cool 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 good said moon that it should all be there for you. would you ever hear? but the democrats wish to protect what they deemed fundamental rights for us. citizens may be challenged if republicans take overall control of descent to simulate. let's take is now this looks like in the an unexpected win for the

democrats. can we push that to the year 2024. what will this mean? what could this mean for the presidential election? well, i think a brent the question there is really to look at the republican side of things. and if you look at the take away from the midterm elections is that the candidates that were hand picked essentially by donald trump, didn't perform as well as he would have hoped. look at dr. aust, we saw on that report there are dog mastery ana who was running for governor in pennsylvania and lost that race. and that has to be a troubling sign for republican officials because the former president has made no secret that he wants to run for office again in 2024. in fact, he is announced that he's going to make a big announcement. next tuesday, we're expecting that to be that he's running again in 2024. and if republican officials want to tell him not to what they might not be able to stand up to him, because president trump still holds such

a sway over the base of the party. on the other hand, you have governor rhonda santas, a florida who absolutely demolished his opposition, they're a ran away with that race in florida. cemented his place as an extremely popular conservative. and so this is going to be really interesting to watch brent in the coming weeks and months and in the next 2 years, really, how these 2 men navigate their popularity and their ability to appeal to the base of the republican party. those going to be the 2 to watch for sure. you. this is a very good point to donald trump, reportedly even threatening to santas yesterday. if you don't decide to run for the white house, somebody who has gone in washington. so me. thank with me here at the big table now is our chief international editor richard walker. the world of course, following these mid term elections more than ever before, richard and rightly so on this day after the election, kind of talk us through what we know where we are. yeah, well i mean, i think we had the, the word relief referred to in the bike administration that,

and i think, you know, looking at it from european capitals, i think a lot of officials in european governments are also going to be pretty relieved by what it what seems to have happened, you know, there was a genuine fear and this kind of based on experience with mid term elections, which all from bring around a pretty big setback for, for a party that's in the white house. the biden may have gotten away with, you know, only losing control of the house by relatively narrow margin and potentially even keeping control of the senate. i think this will be seen as, as, as a significant positive european governments who really, i mean by the complete kind of disorientation that was, that was created during the trump is where europeans sort of thought, what kind of relationship do we have with united states anymore. but of course, it's not over yet as we've been hearing. you know, the fact that the, you know,

it could be a, the run off in georgia in december that, that is decisive here. so that the story is not over yet, but quite a bit of relief. biden has been a boon for europe, particularly in the crisis the war in ukraine with us funding us weapons. we know that republicans have signal some have signal that they have control of congress, that there may be no more blank checks for. yeah. yeah, i mean to, and this has been a concern also, obviously for the credit, but also in europe. interesting in the republicans quite divided, you have the kind of the trump wing of the populace that the isolation is tendency, is pretty strong. the trump had his, his kind of slightly unusual relationship with lighting may putin. and yet the messages was coming were coming out from some of the sort of trump style candidates that you know, even they might pull the plug on funding altogether. and kevin mccarthy is like to

be the leader of the house. he was the one using that expression. no blank checks. yeah. he's sort of tried to moderate that a little bit since then. but i think what will be of some concern for the training is that it now basically, funding for support for ukraine will now increasingly get tied up in us politics. these divisions, the republican party frictions of the between the republicans and democrats, you know, the fact that even in the best of times, we saw what happened on the a bomb administration with the republican controlled congress. you know, trying to block, raising the debt ceiling so that, you know, you have government shut down, you know, if to put you train gets tied up in all of this kind of political drama. that's going to be worry if you, you know, we've talked about this numerous times in the past couple of years. there has been this question from washington. can concerning nato, for example, the question's been posed is, germany is still

a reliable partner. now let's turn the tables here looking at this election. if berlin looks at the u. s. as itself is the united states, still a reliable partner in terms of democracy, rule of law, what's the answer? yeah, well, i mean, i think there'll be some comfort taken from, from this not being from that perspective, a worst case scenario. but, but really, i mean that, that kind of shock to the system has already happened. you know, it had through the, from is the story of the capital was really the pinnacle of it. you know, sort of beginning to realize, wow, let united states is politically unstable. and a very senior official who i was talking to recently, you know, did raise a, you know, what happens if the wrong guy went into yes. yeah. now this person was thinking about trump, trump looks of it. we could coming out of this. but as we've been hearing, ron de santis, the governor of florida comes out of this looking very strong. so i think one takeaways definitely going to be from this,

a lot of european governments really going to start taking a closer look at run the scientists and thinking about ok, what happens if he becomes president next time? what does that mean for a relationship with them? very good point, richard walker's always. richard. it's good to have your analysis. thank you. are going to go to egypt now where human rights violations. they have been overshadowing events at the cop $27.00 climate summit. protesters come out in force in support of the jo, british egyptian activists, ala a bill for the, for democracy. activists has spent many years in prison for months now, he's been on a hunger strike. and since the summit opened, he has refused to even drink water. now with human rights groups and of the potters family expression growing fears for his health, international pressure for his release. it's melting. 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 comp $27.00, he's taken it to a more dangerous level. his family are gravely concerned. i'm here to do my best try and said let him live with love about it. i am the way it would need is coming with rights group say abdel santa 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. tony nel cynthia human rights situation in the country and becomes a global set priority. and he looked in and he's andy squarely at the halt. of 27 agenda. i know there was yes, it's about climate justice. but you cannot the climate justice anyway in the world, including in egypt. if you don't have human rights protection. british prime minister ritchie soon ack has said he'll raise the activists case with egyptian president abdel fata assisi at cop 27 ally abdel fatter supporters have stressed. the urgency of releasing him as his hunger strike increasingly endangers his life.

while i'm joined now by wholesome, by god, he joins me from charbonneau shake. he is the executive director of the egyptian initiative for personal rights in the past. he himself has been banned from travelling. his assets have been frozen by the authorities due to his own activism . mister bug out his good abbey with us, based on your experience, what would you say are the chances that abdel fata will be released in allowed to leave the country? that is, unfortunately, the only question that no one can answer right now except for president c. c, who has the power to save his life city. and this is very critical matter, and the injustice that thought out there has been subjected to for most of the last decade and prosecuted for having shared facebook post

about prisoner abuse. he was charged with spreading false information. he was thrive before an emergency. the security court that does not allow any right p against that for sentences. and one handed a 5 year prison sentence because of this one facebook post after at grossly unfair trial. once in prison, he was denied most of the basic rights of prisoners enshrined in egypt. own prison laws, of course, or criminal complaints and attempts by him by his family might his legal defense team in order to remedy these injustices have fallen on deaf ears, which has led him to this. um, you know, situation of hopelessness where he has decide to stop eating completely and then stop drinking water. once the $27.00 summit start with mr. berg, i've got less than

a minute. i want to ask you the fact that we've got this climate summit taking place at egypt, do you think that's going to work in photos? best interests right now he, where i'm in, the situation is so desperate that we are trying everything we can. so $27.00 is of course at major opportunity for us to have a global spotlight on egypt to highlight the human rights crisis in the country and to call on word leaders and international civil society to show sort of entity. not just without it but to the thousands of political prisoners about eric. yes, and as you say, he is not an exception. he is one of many human rights activists, osama budget. we appreciate you taking the time to talk with us today. thank you. and here's a reminder at the top story, we're following this, our rushes, the defense minister announcing a withdrawal of russian troops from the southern ukrainian city of harrison and

surrounding areas. the move marking one of russia's most significant retreat. it could be a potential turning point in the world. you want to dw news, i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news followed by the day i hope to see you then conflict zone with tim sebastian is up next with

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