pressure from the street and successful opposition is on the rise beds off with menchie's doff november 25th one d w ah ah, this is dw news alive from berlin. ukraine watches with caution, as russia signals of withdrawal from the city of hassan. russia says its troops are retreating from the regional capital, but ukraine says moscow can't be trusted. also coming up on the show. tuesday was a good day for merck. good day for democracy. there was

a strong note for democrats. joe biden praises the results of us mid term election launch with his party. the democrats fared better than expected drug. ah. hello, i'm clear, richardson, thanks much for joining us. ukraine says it's force as have retaken $41.00 settlements in the harrison region which russia illegally annexed in september. he remains cautious after moscow announced the retreat of its troops from the strategic city of harrison, and has yet to confirm whether it is true ought a pull out, would mark one of russia's worst setbacks in the war. little sofa moving closer to the city of her son, look like that. you, cranium flat is flying again in dozens of small towns around the regional capital

over instantly her rifka about 50 kilometers north of her son. people gather to thank soldiers as they enter the city. but not everyone here shares their sense of euphoria. isn't it still very, very scary when you drive through the region, you see how many villages have been bombed, that her so much destruction of our school is destroyed, that is not a single window with ly. all the buildings are shattered. we all know there's wood . for the 1st time since moscow launched its invasion in february, guns have fallen silent in this village, close to the front line. this man who has been living on humanitarian aid for months, has only just heard of the liberation of neighboring cni horrific. we knew the only way below referrals signal. there's no food all or nothing. there. i was free people who were there right now. told me they have no food. oh nothing. what we'll

do. we have to bring them food. goes just a little wally. been seen those who have survived the shelling or wondering how they will make it through the winter. with oh, we've had no water supply since the end of february. they are bringing us drinking water to a school. we can bring water from a nearby well with our tractor, but it's not really drinkable here. the 2 sides keep volleying rockets at each other. so no hurting. yesterday i was removing leaves and right behind this building. it was terrible. the battle went on with machine guns. for weeks, ukrainian forces have been advancing on her son. it's loss would leave russia with few territorial gains since the beginning of the war. earlier, our correspondent matters billing. i gave us an update on why ukraine remains wary of russia's announcement. it's a bit unusual to announce

a withdraw days in advance, and russia has even before hinted at that. so that something that makes the military year suspicious, the plot could very well be to draw the ukrainians into the city of harris on weight there with quite a few units heavily armed and engage the ukrainians and costly street fights or to have major buildings mind to a blow up or parts of the city as the ukrainians enter their many variance. but to this announcement seems a little bit suspicious to people here to the military. and that's why the ukrainians are saying they're moving on very cautiously. they're very well aware that this might be something different from what it looks like. that's going to be us now where presidential biden has welcomed the results of the mid term elections after his party fared better than expected. u. s. media had predicted huge against

for republicans, but those gains fail to materialize. biden's democrats and do look sad to lose control of the house of representatives. but the senate remains on a knife edge. former president donald trump also claimed a victory for republicans despite the weaker than expected results. here's president biden speaking a short while ago to party activists. thank you. no, i really mean it. thank you for fighting like the devil to make sure that we have a free and fair election and you know all those elections and are so far at best to my knowledge. none of them has not said that when they lost that should we lost. that's a big deal nor i really mean it. you know, tuesday was a good day for america. a good day for democracy. i was a strong knight for democrats. for more on that story asked he w, washington correspondent soon nissan was gonna what those election results will

mean for the rest of the crafts. that's right. in the democrats and president biden, you could say probably benefit of the most from these elections, even if they do end up losing the house of representatives. i mean, in that speech we heard president biden driving home that message once again, and that he says, democrats beat the odds in large part because he believes americans overwhelmingly support his agenda and his message. and so he pointed to the fact that independence, so these are voters who are not registered as democrats or republicans, that they are the majority of independence voted for a for democrats, that women and young people showed up in force for the democrats. i mean, you have to say it wasn't all bad for the republicans. they did have some bright spots. they were able to win that big senate race in ohio. they also, once a big congressional seats in new york and some governors races, you know, republicans themselves are voicing disappointment because they had expected to do much better. so on a whole, i think that's why we're seeing so much optimism from democrats and from president

biden in the aftermath of these mid term elections. so looking ahead at what do these mid terms mean for the next presidential election in 2024? well, for the republican republicans rather mean some trouble for donald trump, so we're seeing right wing media like fox news, for example, raising questions about the former president's influence on the party. it was some of the candidates that president trump, the former president himself, hand picked that didn't fair so well for the republicans. he's not very happy about this criticism. as you can imagine, he's blaming the republican party, republican officials, for making bad choices. and at the same time, his rival rhonda santa's who's the governor of florida, he's getting praised to the skies for winning his re election so strongly. so handily. so even though we are expecting trump to announce that he's running for 2024, there is a lot of pressure on him right now to rethink and ask for the democrats president vine was asked about this. he said he is intending to run. he has to consult his

family, his party advisors, and he's going to come to a decision early next year. there are some headwinds for president biden, he's turning 80 this month. he's still not a particularly popular president. so those might be some factors that affect his decision, but as of now he says he's expecting to be going forward. so we could possibly see a rematch of the 2020 election and we still don't have the final results from these midterms. can you tell us where votes are still being counted? yes, some house races are still being counted too close to call and crucially to senate races. in swing states, a nevada is still going through tens of thousands of ballots, and the same is true and arizona. both of these states are crucial in deciding who has control of the senate. and then know we all get to watch ga, become again the epicenter of the election frenzy in a month when the 2 senate candidate their face off in a run off. so at the very latest by early december, clear, we should have a much clearer picture. okay, has t w's assume he's almost gone to thank you as always for your reporting. and we can

bring you up to speed. now with some other world news headlines, a police officer has died and a nother has been injured and a knife attack in brussels. the suspected attacker was shot after the stopping and taken to hospital belgian anti terrorism. prosecutors have taken over the investigation and hurricane nicole has made landfall in the united states lashing the state of florida with high winds and heavy rain authorities. and several counties have issued mandatory evacuation orders. the system has been downgraded to a tropical storm, but authorities warned it could damage buildings along florida's coast as it moves inland. and now to a diplomatic conflated developing in europe over migrants rescued from the mediterranean sea for days, italy has refused to allow people to disembark from several rescue ships off the italian coast. one of those ships the ocean viking had passengers who had been at

sea for weeks. france agreed to take in the 230 people, but not without harshly criticising italy's new right. when government over its refusal to do so. it's been an odyssey of hardship for the passengers of the ocean . viking over $200.00 migrants, including $57.00 children, rescued from mediterranean waters and brought to europe's doorstep by the charity s o. s military money. for days they waited off the coast of italy for permission to dock permission that never came. finally, france agreed to let them dock in the military port of 2 long. in the meantime, french maritime authorities evacuated passengers and crew with health issues via helicopter italy recently granted access to 3 other ships carrying migrants roam, said a 4th vessel would be too much. but france had harsh words for italy,

innovators, italy, the new italian authorities have made the incomprehensible choice to not respond to multiple calls for assistance addressed by the ship over the past days. even if it was an uncontested lee in italy's search and rescue zone as one dealership, there is no doubt. however, in terms of international law and maritime law, y'all did that. it was italy's duty to immediately designate a port did to welcome this photo. sue parker. yes, about to while tensions between european nations over immigration are common. the outspoken response from paris is unusual and it hasn't stopped at mere words. france is pulling out of a deal to take on over 3000 asylum seekers from italy and has vowed to beef up at security on the italian border. as for the over 200 migrants aboard the ocean viking, they will stay in europe some in france. others and germany and await asylum processing

. i've gone a son's taliban rulers have imposed yet another restriction on when this time banning them from gyms and parks since seizing power in august of last year. the taliban have introduced a set of laws that are slowly erasing women from public life. hundreds of visitors used to flock to this park every day. but a recent decision by the taliban to ban women from this space has put an end to the family fun. i will to day my grand child was crying and asking me to take her to the city park, but they didn't let us in. now she is so disappointed and we're just going back home. and i mean that when this place opened up in cowboy 8 years ago, it was hailed as a milestone. the country's 1st ever amusement park offered a rear in her team, an option to families, to taller bonds latest been has upset many women who say that day to should have

the right to entertainment. because it's not fair to close the parks for women, because men and women both need entertainment as well. that if the women stay at home and do the chores course, they will get depressed. they must visit a park once a week. the an entertainment is ever citizens, right. the act, both men and women, smart, dishonest, amusement park operators are finding out the hard way without women. there's nobody to take children here to go on these rights. them or study on that we've been. we've lost 90 percent of a customer early to let our most of the income was from the families. every family is living in a small house like a prisoner, the used to visit the park at least once a week. and another thing is that if we cannot have income, we cannot meet our expenses. up on we have around $250.00 people working here with us and electricity tax and salary sky. we can't cover our expenses any more on. we

don't have any other option. obama to close the park on the top on see the ban was introduced because of a failure to adhere to gender segregation rules at parks while the scope of the crackdown is still not clear. it's yet another setback for, for women's rights. sports news now and germany have announced their final 26 man squad for the upcoming world cup in could talk. morrow. good said germany 0 from their victory on the 2014 world cup, made an unexpected return to the squad. after a 5 year hiatus raymond's nicholas fuko received his 1st ever invitation to the national team. and another surprise was the inclusion of 17 year old. you super mckoko from bo risha, dormant, and germany kick off their campaign against japan on november 23rd. just before we go, a reminder of our top story. ukrainian military's as a can't confirm with a russian forces are retreating from the southern city. her son, moscow announced

a pull back on wednesday. if you cranium force has regained control of harris on it will represent a major setback or proteins innovation. as it is, update office our i'm clear, richardson and or lynn for me in the whole team working behind the scenes. thanks much for watching thing. oh, we're natural spectacle improves the world. the return of the spiky eulu klaus will ensure the survival a system ah, one of the many success story.