ah, many success stories rational, biodiversity st, whom starts november 18th o d, w ah ah, ah, this is dw news live from berlin, a setback for russia in its war and ukraine. moscow confirmed its troops all withdrawing from the key city of her son. so what does this mean for the future of the conflict? also coming up u. s. president joe biden praises his party's strong, showing and choose days mid term elections,

but with votes still being counted in some braces, it is still unclear, will be calling the shots in congress. ah, i manuscripts mckinnon. welcome to the program. russia has ordered its troops to withdraw from the strategic city of her son in southern ukraine. now, her son was the 1st major city to fall off to the russian invasion and the only regional capital under russian control. the move is 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 arrive 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 her son region,

along with 3 others in a big ceremony in moscow. on the streets of key, if some had their doubts about a russian retreat. when is this is i think this is russia planning something? yes. in india. i can't really believe it. well, 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. little little with jeremy does not give us gifts away . does not make gestures of good. will we fight for it all? tomorrow we will move very carefully was without emotion naval without unnecessary risk. as we need to liberate all our land and minimize our losses. yet main lynch re capturing her son could allow ukraine to wind back more last territory in southern areas, including crimea, which russia i legally ceased in 2014. and from all we can bring a correspondent,

nick conley, who is in keith nick, and we've seen his russian announcement on national t v, announcing the withdrawal from her son. but president putin was nowhere to be seen . was he, i mean, wet? where was he and should we believe what was being said anyhow, anyhow? well certainly this is typical puts in whenever this bad news to present to the russian people he is nowhere to be seen. and we don't know where exactly he spent the last few days. he's also very cagey about his security, but we have seen basically the kind of political responsibility for this move being delegated. firstly, to defense minister said geisha go and also to a general sort of, he can the man in charge of the war hearing ukraine. and it kind of was even clear, couple weeks ago that sort of, he can one of many people to be in charge operation has been kind of huge rotation . lots of generals being fired, that he was being kind of built up and prepared and kind of introduce the russian

public as someone with authority to then bear the kind of political responsibility of this basically unavoidable move. and as for you know, how it's actually playing out and whether it should be believed. obviously there's lots of red flags there in the past when russia has withdrawn for bits of ukraine, it hasn't been committed to doing so. it's maybe called it a good. well, j could will gesture after the fact after they've pulled out, but never have we seen this kind of announcement is kind of a admission of failure by the rational torches. and also the rhetoric about saving russian soldier lives doesn't really fit with the behavior we've seen in recent weeks of them throwing unprepared newly mobilized people without equipment and without training at the front lines. huge losses. so all of that made people hearing kia, very suspicious, wondering whether this is attract, trying to your ukrainian troops into had song with it. still, russian soldiers on the ground potentially ready to provide you, street to street can hand to hand fighting. so locked question marks. but definitely assigned that russia is on the retreat. so if we do take this,

the at face value, if it is an admission of defeat, what does this tell us about the state of the russian army right now where this war might be heading? where destiny shows that the ukrainian strategy of basically avoiding direct confrontation with the russians. avoiding kind of sending people at the russian front lines of the russian trenches is working. instead, ukraine has basically done its best to starve the russian garrison. the russian forces in cats on west of the new pro river of resources that food in winter uniforms, but also artillery munitions. they're really having to account for their shells. and really think about when they replied ukrainian fire and they've been doing this through grants. we do this methodically for weeks and months now at actually quite some cost internally in terms of your public opinion. people here in ukraine have been pushing for faster advances have been kind of impatient to see more progress there. but ukraine has just been methodically destroying those russian supply lines

. and now we're seeing the russians coming out saying they're basically unable to provide enough resources to their soldiers instead of song. and it also shows that rushes, now like looking to kind of hunker down, they've got a perspective of taking more you grand tertiary for the advances that basically off the table. for now. they're just trying to hold on to what they already have at the smallest possible cost. net. thanks so much for that analysis. that's nick connelly, reporting from keith and here are some of the other store is making headlines around the world. vladimir putin will not attend next week's g 20 summit summit hosts indonesia invite of the russian president despite his invasion of ukraine. the foreign minister, so gay lover of will be there instead. hm. you repeat the hurricane. nicole has made landfall in the united states lashing the state of florida with heavy winds and, and rain authorities and several counties along the states. east coast have issued a mandatory evacuation orders. the hurricane earlier hit the bahamas as

a tropical storm, where it caused flooding and power cuts. the taliban of ordered amusement park owners in afghanistan to refuse entry to women. at his comes off to the country so called morales, he ministry said there would be restrictions on women being able to access public parks and fun says, since taking over afghanistan last year, the taliban have said women should not leave home without a male relative. and that they must cover their faces. a u. s. president joe biden has welcomed the results of the mid term elections after his party fed better than expected. u. s. media had predicted huge games for republicans, but these failed to materialize. however, biden's democrats do look set to lose control of the house of representatives. the battle for the upper chamber. the senate is also on a knife edge with 3 states still left to declare. there was

a spring in the step of the u. s. president, as he faced reporters at the white house, the way to pre election fears perhaps lifted from his shoulders after better than expected midterm results. it was a good day or 2 for democracy. it was a good day for merck. we've been a little hoarse. our democracy has been tested in recent years, but with their vote. so the american people spoken to once again that democracies who we are. this was a big task for j biden, who couldn't hide his glee when congratulating democrats who helped c offer predicted republican sir j o y rivers. in graduate, you're like oh, there's only one. congratulations on so long. the democrats may, i am better than even the president expected. who with vote still being counted, there is still much to play for what happens here in nevada could be pivotal to who

wins. control at the senate is one of 3 states that could swing the us up a house back into a publican, hands, patients. now the watch word here with hundreds of staff working to process pallets another is georgia where the race between democratic incumbent, rafael warnock, and republican challenger, herschel walker, will now go into a run off in december. at the end of day, everyone wants to know that we have honest and fair elections, and we do. i asked the voters to come out and vote one last time. just a few days ago, former president donald trump's mood had been buoyant, as he celebrated initial republican successes. he ham pigs many of the names on the ballot in key states. but in true trump style, he's now described the vote as somewhat disappointing in a message to supporters on his own social platform. while also hailing a very big victory we can get more from our washington correspondent mckay alexis

now. mckayla joe biden. clearly pleased with the outcome. was it really a good day for the democrats, though? well, overall, it wasn't, but it wasn't as bad as expected. i guess success always is what you get against the initial expectation. and there was lots of talk about a red wave. well, that simply didn't materialize, and the republicans fancied themselves of expecting a red tsunami. so in do, binds democrats held up much better than all the pollsters predicted. and then that many of themselves actually believed. and this is against a backdrop of an almost political tradition that the party of whoever is president usually doesn't do particularly well in mid term elections. there was a very high turn out that you favors the democrats. so this is

a highly politicized country, certainly. and by mid term terms and do biden his party, i would like to stress pulled this off against a backdrop of fairly low approval ratings of their president and 3 quarters of the country saying that the us isn't going in the right direction. so figure that over all the democrats held up a sweeping success looks different, and trump failed to meet all expectations. which brings me nicely on to the next question. where did the mid terms leave the republicans now? and what about trump? i mean, is the republican party starting to question his leadership? the short answer is yes. clearly the gloves are off or we're seeing mike pence or the former vice president now come up publicly with estatements talking about his last days is in office and talking about the president after he told him that he

didn't have the power to overturn votes to the present bessie telling him to do so . this is very interesting because mike pence, too, had followed the rhetoric of doubting elections, doubting the results throughout this campaign, and appears that the gloves are off. the republicans are launching something that one could at this moment describe as soul searching where they went wrong. donald trump, a box candidates didn't do as was expected, and the big new shining star is wrong. de santis who is released with a surprising the large margin. one in florida is managed to capture the all important latino vote a group. and he himself is speaking of a new political era. so it's very interesting timing that trump still looks set on declaring this coming tuesday that he wants to run again as president. but

a lot can happen in a few hours in us politics. media electric now reporting from washington dc. thanks so much for that. and here's a quick reminder of our top stories today. and what is being called a major sent back for moscow. russia has ordered its troops to withdrawal from the strategic self and ukrainian city of hassan, defense minister psycho sugars, said russia was no longer able to keep the city supplied, and that it wanted to save the lives of its soldiers. and u. s. president joe biden has praised his parties best of the unexpected results in tuesday's mid term elections. bucks with a number of contests, still undecided. it is unclear who will control congress and whether the democrats will be able to advance that political agenda over the next 2 years.

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