ah ah ah this is the w news life from berlin, a setback for russia and its war in the ukraine. moscow confirms its troops withdrawing from the key city of hast song. so what does this mean for the future of the conflict? also on the program us president joe biden price is his party strong showing in tuesday's mid term elections. but with the vote still being counted in some races,

it's still unclear who'll be calling the shots in congress. or in 4 years after the saudi journalist jamarcus show j, his fiance tells d. w of her determination to keep his memory alive and to hold his killers to account south africa, breaks new ground for a ground station to help nasa missions to the moon. and bill ah, i'm sure gail, welcome to the program. russia has ordered its troops to withdraw from the strategic city of half inch southern you cry as songs the 1st major city to fall after the russian invasion, and was the only regional capital underbrush and control what was being called a major sat back for moscow with some analysts say it could be

a turning point in the war. keith, however, is urging caution. attacker, your new rushes commander in ukraine announces a retreat in a military briefing on state tv, arguing it is no longer possible to keep supplying the city. were there more to give her back when you arrive at ocean nibble? this is a very difficult decision, but we will be saving the lives of our service men and the combat capability of our troops, which is necessary to stay on the right bank in a limited area. russian troops swept across southern ukraine from annex crimea at the start of the war. seizing her son in early march. ah, in recent weeks, ukrainian forces have been closing in the city. and russia has been relocating tens of thousands of its residents the streets of her son are now virtually empty or ukrainian take over of the

city would be seen as a significant blow to russian president vladimir putin. only weeks ago, he announced what he called the forever annexation of the her son region, along with 3 others in a big ceremony in moscow. on the street of keir, some had their doubts about a russian retreat. and when is the, it's a, i think this is russia planning something? yes. an idea. i can't really believe it. why would they gather 40000 soldiers there in the 1st place? i think they are preparing something for the ukranian army at me. a ceiling. i could buy the country's president water metal with jeremy does not give us gifts. does not make gestures of good. will we fight for it all? the more we will move very carefully without emotion, without unnecessary risk,

to liberate all our land and minimize our losses, yet namely, recapturing her son could allow you crane to win back more last territory in southern areas, including crimea, which russia i legally ceased in 2014 like military, there's a fellow of kings college london in the department of war studies. i asked him if this russian announcement is to be believed. we do believe the announcement. you wouldn't announce it on television at nation state level. and actually we've seen over the last month or so on withdrawal of russian forces. they've been blowing up some minor bridges to help them in the retreat. and they've also reinforced over the other side of the river. they've set very big defense line. so we can definitely believe this, right, i'm, so what does it tell us about the way this war is going for? russia?

is a nother over the last 6 months, really, the tide is being out for the russians. the high water mark was really the beginning of april, where russia, you remember control territory north of keys up in the northeast and the khaki region hassan in the south. now all of those 3 regions have been liberated or are shortly liberated by ukraine. and so really the amount of territory controlled by ukraine, if we take that as a metric of success, has gone up and up and up, and the amount control by russia has gone down and down and down. why make this announcement on national television? why not? if you're going to withdraw, just withdraw and keep quiet. i mean, that's a very good question. i suspect is quite interesting that president putin wasn't in the announcement. and so i suspect that because it's inevitable, russia had to withdraw. and as i said, we've been,

we've been seeing this happen either the last 6 weeks or 2 months the getting the military to announce in this kind of slightly weird briefing from the senior general to the defense minister, i think is a way of making clear who's responsible for the retreat and, and president putin wants it to be care that it's, it's not him. so what happens next and what russia withdraw south from on across 3rd in the pro river. you craig move forwards and then what? and try to press on with the momentum behind it. well, russia does what i think we've got one more play before before winter sets in. and once, when does that, then everything is going to slow down. it becomes much more difficult to fight in some way, like in crane. i think ukraine has 2 options. really one is to press forward as you say, and take this particular piece of land on the right bank of the river. it will do

that very, very slowly. and very, very carefully, because inevitably, russia will be trapped things and left, stay behind parties and the rest of it. but you credit also has another option. it rushes pulled out of this area. why not strike in another area of the country? and we've seen this actually consistently from ukraine. they offer up an assault in one area and then they drive through an attack in another area. so i wouldn't be surprised if over the next 2 weeks or certainly before christmas we see an assault from the ukrainians. in another area. thank you for that. very clear. mike martin from the department of war studies at kings college london. thank you. and we can get more for correspondent nick connelly in cave. welcome, nick. so we have this russian national tv announcement while we ukrainian the president urges caution. what's your take? ms. stephanie, very strange. as you mentioned, there this announcement on tv,

especially if you compare it to russia's other withdrawals earlier in the year, where often enough it was denied until basically was too obvious for every one. and then it was branded a good, well, good will gesture or tactical retreat to find better, more easily defendable lines. and so this is definitely a break in strategy also to talk about wanting to save russian solves lives wanting to kind of protect their own resources in their own manpower. that is also not something that really gels with what rush has been doing elsewhere, where we've seen, especially freshly mobilized people being basically thrown at the front lines with very little preparation equipment. and a huge loss is there. so this'll literally stack up, and that's all kind of led to this huge kind of sense of disbelief here and key of and the kind of fear that this is a trap for ukrainian forces. i think broadly, russia is going to leave that west bank of deeper river. it's just too exposed. it's too difficult to defend. it's too difficult to supply the ukranian tactic of destroying the bridges destroying the pontoon bridges,

making it basically impossible for russia to bring in enough ammunition and enough food for their garrison there that is working. but i think there might be some surprises on the way and there might be, as the ukrainian secret services have said, some can't shoot me. russian special forces still active at us on 2 men potentially drawer in the ukrainians. it's some kind of st battles. and yeah, definitely no clear pathway. yeah. as to when you're training force, it will be infected unsecurely. right. so with those fears of a track, what do you think is likely to be the ukrainian approach to re taking this region? i think definitely it's gonna take longer than lots people lease and key of would like to see that's been kind of a part of the, the kind of narrative here inside ukraine for a long time pressure from the public to make foster gains to push the russians back faster, but yet the ukrainian military command has been very resist to that and has consistently kind of put a damper on those expectations and said that it's about basically fighting in

a clever way without direct confrontations. kind of frontal attacks on the russian lines coming in from the sides, depriving them of resources and basically making sure the russians leave themselves rather than at you know, risking a direct kind of a battle of soldiers having to kind of storm the russian trenches. kind of 1st world war cell settings can take a good amount of time, but definitely looks like the period of russian control of a could song russian flags over the government buildings in fact, so on which was the 1st major gain the russia made in this war. the most significant gain, it was the only regional capital that russia has taken during this war. that is now definitely numbered. and what is a word from withdrawal? i like me to mean for people left in that region whether firstly, there are thousands, not hundreds of thousands believed of people from that region who have left to have been, as russian say, evacuated as the ukraine's would say,

deported to russian hill. tertiary, on the other bank of the new pro river some to russian annex crimea. so there's a big issue there of blocks. the locals basically having no option of getting to ukrainian control territory and being put under pressure to go and leave their homes. so how these people ever going to get home, how they're gonna kind of reconnect with their families and friends. that is a major issue. but even if ukrainian troops are able to get into have san, without too much of a kind of city battle, they're still the kind of scenario of russian forces on the other bank of the river shelling verizon. because this is a very wide river, but it still definitely within range of russian artillery and a one local we spoke to basically over the last few months he, he was saying his major kind of fear is just basically mario pulse. i'll kind of shelling of homes if it's on, even if ukrainian troops are back there because the russians are still going to be close by. i thank you for that. nick, nick connelly in came the united states read. democrats did much better than expected in tuesday's mid term elections with a few key contests,

still undecided. it's still unclear who controlled congress. but president biden praised his party strong showing, saying that forecasts of a wipe out by republicans had failed to materialize. well, we had an election yesterday and it was a good day, i think for democracy. and i think it was a good day for america. shoot me a little hoarse. our democracy has been tested in recent years, but with their vote. so the american people spoken and prove once again that democracy is who we are. while the press in the pundents are predicting a giant red wave, it didn't happen. and i know you were somewhat miffed by my, my obsession optimism. but i feel good during the whole process. i thought we're going to do fine while any seat last is painful. some good democrats didn't. when

the last night, democrats had a strong name. well, aster washington correspondent mckayla could know whether this really was a good day for the democrats, as the president suggested. well, what's a good day? you know, if your expectations are exceeded, i guess it is. and that's what happened for the democrats. they really were dreading this. traditionally here in the us, i can say a politics usually serve the party of a sitting president a defeat at midterm election. so it really wasn't that bad. was it a victory for joe biden? yeah, that's another question. if you have 3 quarters of the country saying that it's going in the wrong direction, his popularity ratings also not particularly high. so he's held the shop together. or was it the strength of the democrats or the weakness of the republicans? and that's the hot debate here right now with everybody pointing towards trump,

who the republicans feel lost it for them pretty much across the board, a missed opportunity after lot of debate of a quality of candidates as well. but of course, a sigh of relief. that's also what dos biden's spoke of. and he too said that generally is plan was to run again, but that decision would still be taken. so this will be left to a lot of party committees on both sides of the aisle to discuss what the cause was . that some results are still outstanding and we're pretty much on a knife edge at the moment. what are we likely to find out who controls contract? i don't have any results for you either. we know that in arizona that is highly contended in both races. their governor and the senatorial the seed, and we expect county to continue all weight into friday even. and what it may come down to is what we already know will be

a re run in georgia over the senate race there. that's expected. on the 6th of december. and so if you really don't see any result this week, it might well have to wait for another month or all of us to find out who controls the senate. and other results are still trickling in, but no clear way to go as yet. okay. but one of the big winners in this these midterms is flawed as republican governor rhonda sanchez who's thought to be considering a run for the presidency. we'll take a look at your report. mckayla may come back to morning ladies and gentlemen. this is your governor speaking on the service is the top gun of florida republicans. but his main aim to become the next republican candidate for president to do that, to liking, have to take on the man who championed him. donald trump takes credit for this santa selection to governor in 2018. now their rivals, america's come back,

begins this november, and it recently, trump gave him a derogatory nickname, calling him ron de sanctimonious. that was just after the former president strongly hinted he wants to run again for the republicans. and now in order to make our country successful and safe and glorious, i will very, very, very probably do it again. okay. that would be a blow to desantis own ambitions. in florida. he was well pillar for keeping schools open during the pandemic, and that some called him the trump with brains. and he seen as offering a more constructive take on the america fast doctrine. and my view is, is, you know, obviously free enterprise is the best economic system. ah, but that is a means to an end. it's means to having a good feeling, wife, in

a prosperous society, polls put rhonda sand his way ahead of all other potential republican presidential candidates. apart from trump, he'd likely have to put his biggest ambitions on ice for a while. if the former president does decide to run again in 2024. so we had a customer where do these mid terms, leave the republican contest for the presidency in 2024? well, it's leave them a need for a fresh poll because this was a defeat for donald trump. particular donald trump's election, deny candidates in these midterm elections. and ron de santis, he won by almost 20 percent ahead of his rival. he won big with the hugely important latino community, which is quite something in itself for the republicans and his support

hearing. they said all 2 more years, 2 more years, one dissented. so they certainly want to see him as the next candidate for president. donald trump is expected to declare his candidacy on the 15th next week, and there was even talk that he may delay it. but all there's a lot of trump criticism within the republican party. so if there is a, whatever was a momentum for the republicans to discuss openly whether to rid themselves of trump, this could well be the moment because there is a very powerful alternative, powerful at the ballot box as terms have as hand right now. and that's rhonda centers. mikaela mikaela cutler in washington has been more than 4 years since saturday. germ of sir car, kamala kashodi, jamal cashandra was murdered in the kingdoms consulate, and i stumble where he went to collect papers. he needed to marry his fiance,

turkish national, a t judge angus of saudi crown. prince muhammad been selma denies ordering the killing, but later admitted that it took place under his watch. was generous, however, is continuing her campaign for justice and she told dw celia harm at her work collapse when she found out what had happened. i try go the big pain in my life in my heart. and i hope you will a part of my life, my identity when i lost him in this way. it changed my life completely. on the 2nd of october 2018. her teacher genius, his fiancee, the saudi dissident. her mom, her shulty, was brutally murdered inside the saudi consulate in eastern boys.

they want to show him, still, i'm asking this question, was his body. what happened to his body? from that day on to now i'm fighting. i'm fighting for justice for jamal. i had teacher had wanted to start a new life with her husband to be instead, she grieved aah! and made a decision. then i told, i can't say it is time to and from that day i think my life changed. and i put myself on the basic age speaking up and saying, the truce, my power is my worse me the can put a bit of there, but i'll be to the teacher started to travel the world. she testified in front of the u. s. congress, the european parliament,

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defender had teachy, jenkins has found a new purpose in her life. speaking for those who are silenced, listening to those who are not heard, please speak up. why do we need to our future is or humanity more democracy on human rights? not give up. just why much it's been a good week for space enthusiasts in africa and barbara and uganda lords, their 1st satellites aboard a nasa rocket and south africa held a groundbreaking ceremony for an africa deep space ground station. its purpose is to help nasa track missions for the moon and beyond. i correspondent, as you increase was at the ceremony in the village of matches on time. about 3

hours from cape town. i knew it sometimes feels like the clock stopped ticking here a long time ago. my cheese fontaine was built around a railway station and it still is the re arrival of a train that brings a bit of life to the sleepy village. the foil and residence mainly make a living of travellers who stop here on their journey from cape town to johannesburg. but this could change because scientists say that this is one of the best places on earth to communicate with the heavens. clear skies and practically no rain for the conditions just outside the village and the carew desert are ideal . it's it's time for africa to to be counted when we're talking about the global, the global space market. today we're breaking ground our for building a ground station that will allow us to be able to track and talk to satellites that go to the moon and out of space to add the planets. the project is the partnership between south africa, national space agency and the u. s. space agency,

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