survival, thanks to music at home and easily sense the channels play out. well, i was the only money i was super lucky. music under the swastika starts november 19th on t w ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. you, as president biden said to address the country as mid term election results show that his party did better than expected control of the united states. congress still hanging in the balance, however, but republicans will likely regain control of the house of representatives. we will

bring you biden's speech live as it happens. ah, i bring gov is good to have you with this on this wednesday in the united states, mid term election results are pointing to a surprisingly strong showing for president biden's democrats biden is said to give a speech in the next few minutes his party doing better than the poles had predicted before the election, but there are still many races to call in the battle for both houses of congress. and we know the results there will set the countries course for the next 2 years. at the moment, republicans have believed in the race for the house of representatives. us voters have been choosing lawmakers for the entire house. so far we know a $177.00. out of the 435 needs have gone to the democrats,

206, have gone to the republicans. let's have a closer look now at the u. s. senate starting with the seats that are not up for grabs. in this election, there's a total of a 100 and if you add in those newly decided seats, you can see the republicans slightly ahead. with 49 seats, the democrats with 48 seats so far, and with vice president comalla harris able to cast the tie, breaking vote, the vice president. of course, president of the senate. the republicans would need at $5151.00 to have a solid majority. 3 seats are still open, the states of arizona, georgia and nevada, but some of the margins razor thin, it could be weeks before. we have final results. artless going out of my colleagues who miss him was gone. she standing by there on capitol hill. to me,

it's been quite a day here. what just watching the numbers come in in what and seeing how things are playing out republicans. they have gained ground, but the results are nowhere near what was expected to be the. how do you see things developing as these last results come in? yes, that's exactly right. essentially, republicans for all intensive, purposeless, looks like it will. they will win the house of representatives. but the real story to day, the prevailing narrative is the fact that the republicans did not win with the margin of victory that they expected. there was this talk of this red su nami, this red wave that would sweep over congress, that the republicans would win the house of representatives in a resounding fashion and then take the, the senate perhaps as well. that's not what we saw actually materialize. there were some key competitive races in the house of representatives that the democrats, quite frankly, were really worried about leading into election day on election day democrats. man,

a managed to, to hell i hang on to some of those seats. some of those really crucial seats, for example, in the state of virginia, there were 2 democratic candidates there who held on to their seats, despite very stiff challenges from their republican opponents. and that gave the democrats a lot of momentum yesterday already. now i think it's important to pull out a put to point out, rather brent, that we always look at the polls heading into these elections. and here again, the pulls were not entirely accurate. we had expected this red wave. as i said, the polls actually didn't bear off the fact that there was a big turn out also for democratic voters, the democrats managed to energize their base to get a lot of young voters in particular out to vote a lot of female voters. and that help the democrats dave, off of that red wave, that red su nami. now i think it's important to note as well as we're waiting for president fighting to speak with a really is a palpable sense of relief in washington to day, really emanating from the white house. and that is because democrats had expected

a far worse ferrying in these midterm elections and they're quite pleased with the results. the fact that if the republicans do take the house of representatives as we expect, that it's going to be a smaller margin that they can't dominate as they had expected to do. and right now the senate, as you said, is still up for grabs. so in the senate there are 2 races that we're still waiting to see call that's nevada and arizona to co, to call at this point the state of georgia that you just mentioned, that is going to go to a run off on december 6th. that is important because we saw run off in georgia in the last election and that run off handed of the senate, the power, the majority of the senate, rather that razor thin majority to the democrats. so this really could be crucial and i just want to point out one more senate race brent and that is pennsylvania because that is short. the story everyone is talking about here to date, the fact that the democrat john ferman some reviewers might have seen these images of him. he's really quite a character. you know, he doesn't exactly look like a senator. he walks around with a hoodie and, and shorts and sneakers. he managed to win over dr. oz, who was

a t v personality. i mean, i grew up watching him defending medical advice on oprah centrally, and he built a fortune pumped a lot of his own money into this race. he lost, even though he was a candidate picked by donald trump, essentially. and so that's a race that democrats feel really good about because pennsylvania is such an important satan. him and battles stay critical and a lot of money went into winning that state. so that's where things stand right now . we're looking to see how those races in nevada and arizona play out, but all and all democrats are pretty happy with the result. and i can imagine today is a good day to be a speech writer for president biden. this speech that he's about to give these comments. this certainly is not in the speech that just 24 hours ago he was expecting to give to day. would you agree? certainly not. that is definitely the case. you know, it's interesting to say a brent that we didn't actually see president biden, really on the campaign trail, you would expect to see the president, the party,

the democratic for the democratic party on the road. campaigning with candidates, he really steered clear of some of those really competitive races in states like arizona in states like nevada. it's because he remains a deeply unpopular president. remember his popularity ratings going into this election hovering around 45 per cent. not very good. and so there was an expectation that president biden wouldn't say anything on election day as he did not. he did call some of the winners in some of those key states that i was mentioning on places like new hampshire, places like massachusetts, where we saw some big democrat winds. but besides that, he didn't say very much because there was a sense at the white house wanted to keep out of these mid terms and not affect how democratic candidates did. today. we are hearing that the white house feels vindicated. they have the sense that president biden going out, delivering that message to voters, please vote to protect reproductive rights to protect democracy that, that worked. now i mentioned this previously. i don't know that that's really that

true because if you look at the candidates and some of the numbers that we're starting to see trickling in the candidates actually out perform the president. meaning the president still remains unpopular, but the candidates were very popular like john federal and pennsylvania still. i think that's what we're going to see from from president biden. this message of indication that the white house is on the right path, and certainly a sense of relief for president biden to not face a completely republican controlled congress just yet. but we have to really see how those last senate race is play out, because it could still turn in the favor of republicans. and we just want to remind our viewers to assume you were keep your eye on with that room where the president is expected to speak any moment nel, and soon as he comes out, we're going to go live to bed. um, what about 2024 of there was talk that if there there had been district suite by republicans in the mid terms we would have seen maybe as early as this week or beginning of next week. donald trump declaring his candidacy for the white house.

the yet again, and we be talking about a biden trump competition in 2024 instead. so certain now a lot of questions being asked about that to day, brent? i mean, you could say that these mid terms might have been a reckoning of sorts for donald trump, although we're not sure if that message has trickle down through to him yet. i mean, a lot of republican observers here commentators here today saying this is going to be a big problem. some of the candidates, many of the candidates were hand picked by donald trump, didn't perform particularly well. you could say that might be because the candidates themselves were not that strong. but there is the sense that donald trump has been a drag a bit on these candidates on republican candidates says that his brand of maga, republicanism so hard, right? conservatism hasn't really boosted the party that more democratic voters were energized to vote against that brand of republicanism, and that more moderate voters were turned off by it. don't forget, brent, that donald trump is still being investigated and at least 4 cases. that's right at

the moment and so all of that has been a drag on his own popularity and he seen as a possibly not the strongest candidate that republicans could put forward. so republicans now asking themselves commentators here saying, what do we do president trump does indeed look like he's going to announce next week. you mentioned a tuesday possibly that he wants to run again and 2024. if he's not the best fit for the party, how did they go about that? because he still deeply popular and still many republican candidates might be too afraid to stand up to the former president. yeah, yeah, that's true. we'll see what mr. do. sanchez governor, florida has to say about virt sumi standby, we're watching here. it looked like the doors were open for the president, but i don't think that's gonna happen. but we're going to come back to you. we are going to move on to me from has gone to there on capitol hill. thank all right, let's have a look now and how the day is unfolded so far. and what is still to come with the

midterm election results with control of congress hanging in the balance, americans work up to a very mixed picture. in pennsylvania, it was the democrats who emerged victorious, winning the open senate seat. jim, them we hold the line and they triumphed in wisconsin's closely fort, govern his race. some people guard barring or you know, i was godson as it turns out. boring wins. but it was the republicans who romped home in florida with ultra conservative governor rhonda santas winning decisively only one alexia. we have re written the political now, but with vote counting still underway in key states that political map isn't

looking as good for republicans. as many analysts predicted. we went in expecting a, a big knife for republicans giving a given the unpopularity of biden. the fact that in mid term elections through out party tends to do well, inflation of courses is still pretty high in on a lot of voters minds. and the big night did not really tan out on republicans, especially trump, back republicans struggled in about one key issue that appears to have helped boost the democrats at the polls. is abortion rights. currently, nearly as a woman, i'm protecting reproductive rates and all forms in the state and federally is the most important thing that's been driving me and a lot of my friends and i think has really pushed a lot of us to get friends. maybe wouldn't have voted or get people to kind of look into who they're voting for, why they're voting for them. while counting continues in key battleground states.

like here in arizona, with control of congress still unclear for now at least it seems, the democrats had performed better than some expected them to are now to the war in ukraine. russia claims that it has ordered it streams to withdraw from the western bank of the to the pro river near the city of here saw in ukraine. the move could mark a major turning point in this war. the announcement by the russian defense minister ca, sure group comes after weeks of ukrainian gains in the area. russian commanders say that it is no longer possible to deliver supplies to the city and that troops will pull back to defend the eastern side of the river. as you see right there, now, here, so it is the largest city captured by russia since the invasion began back in february . the withdrawal would mark a major setback for the cramp. as listen now to

a statement that was made earlier by russia's commander of troops in ukraine, general sergey showed all the heat reporting to the russian defense minister. boseman thought of it just only after a comprehensive assessment of the situation. we propose that defensive lines be established along the eastern bank of the denise pro river. i understand that this is a very difficult decision. nipple sorta said at the same time, we will save the lives of our service men, and that combat capability of our troops. if philip, wasteful focus group. busy if there was a corresponding the connelly, he is in keith and i asked him whether this move announced by russia, whether or not we can trust it, whether we can believe it was 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 had a song 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 brush is best equipped and best trained soldiers are still in harrison city that some of them it's believed it 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 cancelling. 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 gonna be still a few weeks. and some very difficult matter before you crane troops. finally, to cousin of area near connelly in keep with the latest on this breaking news coming out of ukraine. thank you. next, i also spoke to mike martin, he is a former british army officer and a senior visiting research fellow at the department of war st.