thank you. may europe revealed this week on d. w. ah, this is the news line from berlin, a setback from russia in its war in the ukraine. moscow confirm 6 troops withdrawing from the key city of hassle. so what does this mean for the future of the conflict? also on the program, u. s. president joe biden praises his party strong showing in tuesday's mid term elections. but with votes still being counted in some races,

it's still unclear who will be calling the shots in congress. ah, i'm feel gale. welcome to the program. russia has ordered its troops to withdraw from the strategically important city of cas song in southern new credit. i hear some was the 1st major city to fall after the russian invasion was the only regional capital under brushing control moves being called a major setback for moscow with some analysts say it could be a turning point in the war. keith, however, is urging caution. but the good news 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 where they are more difficult when you are further to 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 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 hearse and region, along with 3 others in a big ceremony in moscow. on the streets of tea,

if some had their doubts about a russian retreat. and when is this is 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 feeling i could buy the country's president woodrow merrill with jeremy does not give us gifts only does not make gestures of goodwill. lease, we fight for it all. we will move very carefully without emotion that without unnecessary risk, to liberate all our land and minimize our losses, yet namely, recapturing her son could allow ukraine to win back more lost territory in southern areas, including crimea, which russia i legally ceased in 2014. a senior

visiting research fellow in the department of war studies at king's college in london. i asked him, your 1st russian announcement is to be believed. we do believe the announcements. you wouldn't announce it on television at nation state level. and actually we've seen over the last month or so with all 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 up a 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 has been going 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, in the khaki region,

her son 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 it quiet. me. that's a very good question. i suspect is quite interesting that the 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 over 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 we're russia, withdraw south on across for the pro river. you craig move forwards and then what tries to press on with a momentum behind it, while 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 crane. i think grade 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 trap things and left, stay behind parties all the rest of it. but you can 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 in the saw from the ukrainians in another area. thank you for that very clear. mike martin from the department of war started at kings college, london. and keep what i got now at all. stories making headlines around the world laudermill posting will not attend. next week's g 20 summit, summit host indonesia invite to the russian president despite his invasion of ukraine, foreign minister. so gay love ronald, that instead, i can show the same way i can. nicole has made landfall in the u. s. lashing the state of florida with heavy with high winds and heavy rain authorities in several counties along states, east coast of issues, mandatory evacuation orders bicola hit the bahamas earlier as a tropical storm where it caused flooding and power cuts to tell about how ordered

amusement parks amusement park owners in afghanistan to refuse entry to women, and it goes after the country so called morality ministry said they would be restrictions on women's access to public parks on funds. since taking over afghanistan last year to tell about of said women should not leave home without a male relative and must cover their faces. the united states were democrats did much better than expected in tuesday's mid term elections. with a few key contests, still undecided, it's unclear who will control congress. the president biden has praised his party strong, showing, saying that forecasts of a wiper by republicans had failed to materialize. well, we had no lecture 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 improve once again that democracy is who we are. while the press in the finance are predicting a giant red wave, it didn't happen. and i know you were somewhat missed by my my obsession optimism. but i feel good through the whole process. i thought we were going to do fine. well, any seat last is painful. some good democrats didn't window last night. democrats hello, strong move. so was just really a good day for the democrats. i asked our correspondence in washington, mikayla cooper or 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 elections. so it really wasn't that bad. was it a victory for joe biden? 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 sub together. 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 a lot of debates 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

. some results are still outstanding and we're pretty much on the knife edge at the moment. when are we likely to find out who controls compress? 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 c, 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 we 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. mikaela mikaela cutler in washington.

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