people, companies and countries, are we thinking everything i'm making may take change in europe revealed this week on d, w. ah, ah, this is the w news coming to live from berlin. caution in ukraine as russian troops retreat from castle russia says its troops are leaving the regional capital, but ukraine says moscow's words can't be trusted also on the program. you as president joe biden praises his party strong showing in tuesday's mid term

elections. but states are still counting votes at which party will take lead in congress remains up in the air plus more than 4 years after the murder of saudi journalists jamal. shoghi is finance tell those plaint fiance tells the w of her determination to keep hold is killers accountable and keep his memory alive. ah hello em, terry martin, good to have you with us. russian troops have started withdrawing from the strategic city of hassan in southern ukraine. cason was the 1st major city to fall after the russian invasion and the only regional capital under russian control. the move is being called a major setback for moscow with some analysts saying it could be

a turning point in the war. kia, however, is urging caution ukrainian troops slowly advance on house on the city has been held by russia since early on in the war. ukrainian president followed me, zalinski has urged caution and these soldiers, a wary of possible traps left behind by the retreating russian army for service, was through me who was step by step, we will reach victory, norma, we will not rush losing people on our way with which the russian troops are scared of the law. they didn't expect so much resistance from our side. and in recent weeks, ukrainian forces have been closing in on hassan and say, they've already re taken several towns in the region. russia has been relocating tens of thousands of residents and the straits of house on a now virtually empty rushes commander in ukraine announced the retreat in

a military briefing on state tv. on wednesday workers, he argued it was no longer possible to keep supplying hassan rewarded more for your book book. when you refer to which in your book, 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 or in a limited area. russia's defense ministry says, troops have already begun moving out of the city. a forced pull out of russian troops from her san would be a significant blow to vladimir putin. only weeks ago, the russian president announced what he called the forever annexation of the house on region, along with 3 others. in a ceremony in moscow. hassan was the 1st major city captured by russia at the start of the war and for a taking it could allow ukraine to win back more last territory and saw than areas

including crimea, which russia illegally seized in 2014 for we can talk to our correspondence mathias, but again in keith and fury were shut out in rigor. you're a, let's begin with you. russia says it's begun withdrawing from cas on. what does this say about russia's military strength in ukraine? well, any troop withdrawal is an admission of weakness as a commander of the russian troops in ukraine's throw beacon. we just saw him in the report justified by seeing that he wanted to save the lives of the soldiers because he saw no chance in defending the russian positions in camps on am. i'd like to point out that the 4 days that russians have been urging the people of your son to leave the city at seems it seems as if the russian military leadership had been planning this withdrawal for days or russia occupied her son in early match. and or

annexed it in later september, along with other occupy territories. beg then, that the kremlin, made an announcement that russia would stay in care to san forever. it was a big propaganda blow. and the fact that the russians are withdrawing their troops just a month after that exception of concern at least says that things are far from successful from the russian point of view on the front lines. but even if this step, martin is reasonable from a military point of view politically. however, this miserable is a disaster for the gram mathias, the ukrainian army said it's been making gains in the past 24 hours, but officials to orbit skeptical about rushes curse on withdraw announcement. why is that? because it sounds to be good to go to the truth. the thing is that russia has announced this for a few has hinted at edu. re, has just elaborated on it,

has evacuated. people has been preparing very visibly this with drawl for many weeks. that's not how russia has been acting before in this war, before when they were under pressure either, and they were liberal, they were liberating areas retreating from areas that they had been occupying. they would either have done so very quickly in an organized manner or chaotic, a li, just retreating like in the heart of region. and so the fear is just that this might be a trap from the russians, that for example, the russians might withdraw from most of the areas, drawing the ukranian army quickly into the city where a few units would wait for them and would engage them in st. battles that might be very costly. that's for example, one scenario that's possible, that's why the ukrainians have said that they would move on very cautiously. if russia does withdraw our to the south, of course, on, across the ne pro river mathias, or if it happens in ukraine,

advances what's likely to happen next in that region. and there will be a river that will be very difficult to cross over the bridges. i destroyed the 2 bridges that were there. the russians will have 40 fight on the left bank of the river and it would be very difficult to get over there. moreover, the city of castle, which sits just on the river, what would most likely be shells? it would be in the line of fire, so this would be advancing further would be very difficult. what ukraine has done so far. what we've seen is that they are looking at the whole front line and they're exploring where the weaknesses are. and that's where they will move in, so we might even not see them crossing the river. we might see them try to come from behind. try to move on. for example, in the upper is your region, which is a little bit more east or at other parts of the front, like we've seen it before. when you create announced it's counter offensive in the

south in the house on region. they didn't really make many gains there, but they force the russian troops to relocate to that area. and then they came in at another end of the front at the heart of region in the north, and were able to take territory quickly there because the russians were weaker in that place. jury, i know you're monitoring a russian media. have you seen any reaction yet? among the russian people to the withdrawal announcement. well, this news didn't come as a surprise because a few days ago the russian media reported that to the russian army my to make an undesirable but probable decision. and a few days ago, instructions for the russian media were created, obviously in the kremlin, reportedly on how to correctly present the withdrawal in the propaganda shows. obviously the media, what advice to say that the military, they're ation in kennesaw, wasn't the most difficult one for the russian army. and that ukraine needs to show

the combat capability of it's what they call it, terrorist units with the aim of asking for a new house from the west. and as for the public perception, it was remarkable that it wasn't president putin who announced to the withdrawal, but a general who took responsibility instead of putin as sir put in can now say it wasn't me at any time, but i can replace general sort of akin with another general at the time. but what putin cannot do is restore russian people's confidence in military success in ukraine. that confidence is likely to be significantly reduced now. okay, i have to leave it there. you are. thank you so much. you're a rash. chateau in rigor earned our correspond mathias ballinger in cube. thank you very much. you both ukraine's president says he wants to start raising funds to buy a fleet of what he called c drones. key if used see drones to attack the russian

black, the black sea fleet at the end of october, and according to the ukraine, the military, they hit 3 russian warships. these images taken at the end of october, captured the 1st attack of its kind. what you're seeing is the view from a ukrainian c drone, speeding towards its target rushes black sea fleet. near the crimean port of savannah to paul, also known as an unmanned surface vehicle. it comes under fire from the russian military. there were reportedly between 6 and 8 nautical drones involved in this assault. what remains unclear is the damage caused to russia's fleet. 3 vessels were reportedly hit according to naval analyst h, i sutton. the small vessel was developed by modifying a jet ski. it has an ala minium hole,

and possibly russian designed fuses that detonate a warhead. it also includes a remote control camera and sends video feedback to ukraine's command and control center. in these images shot earlier in the attack and under the cover of darkness, it's believe the c drone captures shots of moscow's flagship, the admiral mocker, of experts agree that these c, drones are extremely cost effective. they are relatively inexpensive, unmanned, and can cause large amounts of damage. well, for more about drones, let's bring in arthur holland michelle. here he is a researcher on merging military technologies, an author of eyes in the sky, a book about ariel drones. thanks for being with us. now we saw the use of unmanned c drones in that report of beyond just wreaking havoc. can those drones allow

ukraine to seriously damage rushes black sea fleet? you know, i'm not actually convinced that moving forward. it's sort of guaranteed that they will cause serious damage. russia is definitely going to respond to this attack, but that's actually an important point because they will definitely be a nuisance. they have, in a way, opened up a new front, so to speak, that russia now has to defend against russia is going to have to invest precious new resources to protect its fleet from these drones. doing things like setting up barriers, increasing patrols and deploying additional defense weapons. this, of course alone is itself a pretty significant tactical and strategic even effect. even if the drones don't actually end up sinking any, any ships to us about ariel drones, those, the kinds of drones people are more familiar with russia has been deploying so

called kamikaze drones against ukraine with devastating effects. and both are using surveillance, drones. what impact have these drones had on the war? so i think they've had a twofold impact. one is, as you said, that they have caused some pretty significant damage to both sides, either as a result of drones de directly attacking targets or actually very significantly by providing surveillance support for all the weapons. i don't necessarily think this compares to the scale of, of impact and damage from, say, artillery or ground operations. but it has forced both sides, as i mentioned earlier, to have to dedicate really significant and precious resources to counter drone defense. something that military's didn't have to do and in previous was the other impact is i think, narrative and this is really significant. i've talked about this before and on, on the show. drones are impressive that frightening that technologically advanced,

and i mean we're talking about them today because they are very good at generating headlines in addition to actually being effective weapons and both sides of use this aspect of drones to their advantage, to kind of shape the narrative all of the war and, and that i think is gonna be, continue to be a really important effect that they will have on, on the battlefield. they do have the effect of making people feel vulnerable. that is pretty clear. this is drone warfare that we're seeing on a new scale in this conflict. could drones be a game changer in ukraine ward? thank this depends entirely on the number of drones that each side can deploy. but what we've learned from recent events is that any drone operation these days is going to require the site to sacrifice many of the drones that they're using. perhaps even a majority. you know,

we know that ukraine has report of the shot down as many as 70 percent of the kamikaze drones that russia has launched in recent weeks. so if, if russia doesn't have a huge stock pile of drones on standby or the, the capacity to build new drones, they're going to run out very fast. same goes for ukrainian drone attacks. if you need to sacrifice 9 drones for every single drone that's effective. you don't get these drones back, like, you know, other weapon systems. and so i think it could be unsustainable. so there really is that big question mark of how big those stockpiles are, what the manufacturing capacity looks like. or thank you very much for your insights. that was arthur holland, michelle, an expert in drink warfare and surveillance. now let's catch up on small the stories making headlines around the world today. an indonesian plane crash that killed all 62 people on board last year was caused by

the pilots over reliance on the auto pilot system and inadequate training that's according to indonesia, transportation safety bodies, idol report. the taliban have ordered an amused amusement park owners in afghanistan to refuse entry to women. this comes after the country so called morality ministry said there would be restrictions on women being able to access public parks and fun fairs. since taking over afghanistan last year, the taliban have said women should not leave home without a male relative and must cover their faces. vladimir putin will not attend. next week's g 20 summit. summit hosts indonesia invited the russian president despite his invasion of ukraine for minister sergey la ross, will be there instead of that for you now to the u. s. san present, joe biden has welcomed the results of the mid term elections after his party fared better than expected. u. s. media had predicted huge gains for republicans,

but these failed to materialize. however, biden's democrats 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 for democracy. and i think it was a good day for america, or shoot me a little hoarse. our democracy has been tested in recent years, but they're with their vote. so the american people spoken and proved 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'd help see off a predicted republican sir joe wire revelation. ah, incredulous joe mike griffin. better you was.

your congratulations. i'm so hurt on. the democrats make them 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 of 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, who now go into a run off in december agenda 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, a former president donald trump's mood had been buoyant, as he celebrated initial republican successes. he ham pigs many of the names on the

ballots in key states. but in true trump style, he's now described the vote as somewhat disappointing in a message to support his on his own social platform. whilst also hailing a very big victory or the w. william glue croft is part of our team covering these u. s. mid terms join just now. william joe biden. we saw him there. he seemed pretty pleased with the outcome, but should he be given that it's pretty clear, the democrats are going to lose the house of representatives and the senate is still not clear. yeah, exactly. i mean, politicians will spin stories to their liking the best of their ability, but he's not here. he's not totally basis on what he's trying to argue. he's trying to make. i'll give you a couple numbers have been floating around in the last couple days in donald trump's 1st and only mid terms in 2018. his republicans lost 40 seats in the house . 2010 obama's 1st mid terms, lost 63 seats. and bill clinton's 1st mid terms and act 94 last 52 seats. his

democrats, mid terms, historically the winning the party empower the party in the white house, lose huge amounts of seats. george w bush was a bit of an aberration because of 911. he actually gained a few seats. so if, if joe biden only comes off with 5 seats loss or 10 seats loss, historically speaking, that's going to look pretty good for the democrats, especially given everything going on right now, inflation, economic woes, warren, ukraine. all the abortion, for example, that also drove a lot of democrats out to the polls we, we most likely think so joe biden can create this kind of narrow to like, hey, actually we did ok. the question is, all of these historical data do end? does any of that really matter? because you know, history, we're looking at post postwar post cold war. we're in a very different time. now. it's all about putting legislative agenda forward and it's with, if you lose control of one house of congress or both,

that makes it really difficult for the president. india was also leave the republicans. what, what about donald trump? how does he come out of all of this? i think republicans and, and they had said it themselves. i've been watching a lot of fox news. they, they've were saying it themselves that they are there is some soul searching to do in the republican party. is donald trump and the donald trump style of politics the way forward? because a lot of trumps candidates are trumps. preferred candidates and people who have similar, you know, a style of him who, pals, conspiracy theories who don't believe in elections, who don't believe in basic facts. they lost. and republicans more, more conservative or traditional republicans if you want to call them that they want. and there's been a lot of split tickets in republican areas where republican voters might have voted for a republican governors we saw in georgia, but they weren't so hot on more extremist republican candidates at the national level. so republicans have a lot to look at in their own party. if donald trump is really the best thing going forward, because this election, at least as the results currently stand,

say they may, he might not be. the bug counting isn't over yet. william ut help us understand where this is going and when will actually know the final result. i'm one of the final result. well, votes are counted a state, he's the answer right. america is a big country. several times zones. elections in america are run by the counties. they are overseen and certified by the states. so there's not just a one fell swoop one size fits all count. here there's thousands of counties going through their ballot mail and ballots. early ballots in person ballots from a different system. yeah. well different system, different voting booth company's company providing different technical systems. it's extremely complicated. it is slow, it is thorough, and it is decentralized, which was probably the biggest, the biggest fact about why it would be very, very difficult for any of these claims of fraud to be true because it would be so hard, almost impossible to reagan election happening. and thousands of dirt addictions, all across the country. and it looks like it'll be a run off in georgia and we won't know that until december i a,

with all the ways to go. so is it time william blue cross part of our mid terms election team? thank you. well, it's been more than 4 years now, since saudi journalist jamal sh kashodi was murdered in the kingdoms consulate in istanbul, where he went to collect the papers he needed to marry his fiance, turkish national ha t j, a gen g. so the saudi crown, prince mohammed, ben saw mon denied ordering the killing, but later admitted it took place under his watch. well, changes, however, is continuing her campaign for justice. she told d w's julia han that her world collapsed. when she found out what had happened, i try go the big pain in my life in my heart. i hope you will a part of my life, my identity. when i love 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 has she was brutally murdered inside the saudi consulate in a stumble. they want to show him still. i am asking this question most 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

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