the, the, you're watching the news going to live from berlin election day in the following stations are open and foreign minister wishes to knock on his conservatives are facing a heavy defeats. after 14 years, voters are expected to deliver a change of government. also coming up on the sho, joe biden violence to stay in the race for the white house. the us president tries to reassure top democrats, but it's for re election. his age deny he's even considering pulling out also coming up on our show tensions continue on the streets of kenya after weeks of

protests against the presidents. we will get the latest from, i wrote the, i'm quite richardson. welcome to the show. holes of opens in the u. k. is a general election, the opposition labor party is the over whelming favorite to win and, and 14 years of conservative rule from ministers. she's still not quite a surprised call for early elections of decisions that is now projected to backfire . recent polls show voters are deeply dissatisfied with his government. and heres farmers center left the labor party is on course for a massive victory. the cost of living and the state of the health care system are among the key issues for voters still so not because hoping that he can sway undecided voters the whole thing on

a brave face. prime minister risha, so not lee, didn't he send to? right? the conservative party in the political fight that he himself cold war and is likely to lose many people. they want to say the result of this election is a full grown confusion. the all i believe in my bones that it is no, i think you do to we do not surrender to labor. we will fight for every vote. we will fight for all values and we will fight for our vision of person. but this time, it seems that this vision is all to stick with what the british people want of to 14 years. and paula, the conservative so know, facing a mess of defeat is thomas sent to leslie. the party is now 20 points ahead in the polls and isn't close for victory changed labor policies. they box it up, moving forward to a guy with a lady picked up, but that is what we're fighting for. let's continue that fight. if you will change

your half to vote for it. and this change is what the british population seems to want service to indicate both has a most consent fall, the cost of living as trained health care system and migration, which has increased in recent years. and this last issue placed into the hands of nigel thrush. and he's on to me, gratian reform you keep party the party has soonest, search and support. and while it's not likely to get the significant number of seats in parliament, it goes to change regions political landscape. but whoever gets to for the next bridge, the government will have to prove to the british public the this time they made the right choice. worth remembering that prime minister richardson, i called the selection just a month and a half ago. now fulls are showing that his tories are 20 points behind labor. i see

that these correspondent brokerage math. if that was a mistake. so many people have said that this was a big mistake because indian prime minister wishes to not creative voices you could have called the election as late as the the end of this year. however, inflation is just coming down from this for 41. yeah. hi. so he will have hope that this would insect and little bit of a momentum in this campaign. and that this would narrow the gas and the polls. but this hasn't happened. but to be fair. there was really for long periods of time reducing that was behind the position they before the end to actually narrow this gap would if it would have taken a lot. so it wouldn't been a long shot in any case, but it's, it seems at this point that he hasn't succeeded and, and soothing the bridge boxes and timing things around. and do you, by all accounts, it seems very likely that cure storm or will be the next prime minister. can you tell us a little bit more about the labor leader?

i was trying in the last weeks to engage people on the street. so i was trying to describe queues. thelma, as anita and it really was very easy. a lot of people said well that just as bad as he chose, the other people described him as, as, as castle maybe some 2 times even as boring. so there were not that many people are really, really and sues. yes. think about him. however, he is leading in the polls. he has a working class background. this is something that he mentioned very often here in britain that's do quite important where people come from to every opportunity you mentioned is that his dad was a tool make us so that he basically has a connection to, to people who know what it is to do to fight for a living and he wasn't bored with a silver spoon in his body. that's also the contrast. who is used to next is one of the wealthiest people in the country. he's trying to time as well. it's like me boring image around by saying, i'm not the mine who's making big promises. i'm not coming with like

a master plan. i'm not here to the, the did for a sat, just direct to the i'm the candidates for the to be the next prime into. so he's trying to, to, to, to tanner's slightly, well, not, not, not super charming image ryan, to his advantage and very good as people go to vote at that point station behind you. what are the issues at the front of their minds? what are the biggest challenges for britain's next governments? you've already mentioned that really the biggest concerns of ages is the cost of living. we have had the economy that has really stuck nighted since the financial crisis, and that has consequences. there are move free things. the library is what was being ups of c, susan. lots of people have to make choices. people become poor, they have to make choices. and the last winter between heating the homes and eating

. and it's not just people who are very poor, but also people in the middle classes. some people have to have to work 2 jobs i speak to very to is in south london about that concern. so let's have a listen. what they had to say behind london's glittering facade, there was a lot of hidden hardship, poor and rich live side by side. greenwich is located in south london and is one of the poor is communities in england, many a fee of that, the surroundings, the entire country are in this state of crisis. i'm a single mom and i was 2 jobs. and i'm just trying to pay nursery fees as well as school fees and then keep them private ran like everything is so expensive, staple. i worry them the counting the pennies on the it's very hard so everyone know people spend so much time and effort trying to pay rent and things

to live that they actually keep quite often lose sights of their, their real goes and where they really wants to be during the job which is avoiding the prices for food energy and drug have increased dramatically what income is has not. but it's not just those on the bread line to the feeding. the pinch with inflation just coming down from a 41 year high. britain's cost of living crisis is also hitting the middle process . many people are now dependent on food, but families with children often especially vulnerable. we seen a really c buys in the number of people being forced to turn to see things just to survive. so over the last 5 years, the number of emergency food pulses we provided has nearly doubled last year. it was a reco 3100000 emergency food parcels. so that's an incredibly worrying runs in the number of people who just haven't gotten enough money to afford the essentials.

poverty can affect everyone. that's what valmont key wants to draw attention to. also, husband died the freelance management consulting last or apartment and became dependent on food. thanks so much in the middle. the cost is hidden and that will be an awful lot of people struggling today. so who like myself going to ask for help? it's just almost like the worst possible thing that you do. it's about what it does to you sort of emotionally and psychologically. but because it's very scary, it's a very scary and shameful place to be. many here feel abandoned by politicians. i think they live in a different well they don't see what's going on on to nice. they hear it but not see it. they hear it, but then no, no quotes like, i think they get their lunch in the, in the house of uh, of uh,

when palliser voice moves, i think they have plenty of expenses that they can same. i don't see the advocates, the people in greenwich, the left alone with that every day problems. hardly anyone here seems to have any hope that the upcoming election would change anything for good. thank you for reporting there. let's see how these concerns play out today. when can we expect 1st results? and what would you say analysts are watching out for the yeah, the 1st result of holding stations, they close at 10 o'clock all across the country. and this is when we will have the fast estimates. they're usually pretty accurate. and then we would have to watch overnight. so by the next morning, early next morning, then we will most let you know who the next for just 5 minutes through is there get most for us in london. thank you so much for recording. united states now where the white house says the president joe biden is not

reconsidering his decision to run for another term in office by the now under increasing pressure to step aside after his poor performance and a head to head debate with donald trump. last week. more top democrats have begun to openly express their concerns about biden's ability to do the job. following a series of public symbols in recent months, says white house folks 1st and careens on here, responding to a new york times report. the suggested by them was way enough whether to continue his run. and what i can say is the president is moving forward. he's moving forward is being president. he's moving forward with his campaign as his campaign has been very, very clear about that. that's what i can, that's what i can speak to, and that's what i can say. and that is the president's focus, the presence focuses. how does he continue to do that work? and anything else that we're hearing or that's being reported is absolutely false.

earlier dw spoke with rachel versa, with the atlanta counseling washington, we asked her how is united states allies feel about the possibility of fight and dropping out of the race? look, i think anyone who watched that debate on thursday, certain way, america's allies were probably a little bit nervous. but the fact is that biden, as he has said before, he tells the truth, he didn't tell it well last week. but nonetheless, he, he did, he did tell the truth, and that is one thing that i think set him apart from donald trump. his, his debate was sort of spewed with, with wise and false hoods. and um, you know, it's, it's sort of a difficult sell to allies across the pond that the, you know, trump presidency would be good for them. i think it's clear that it wouldn't. the good news is that we have the 75th anniversary nato summit coming up next week. here in washington, it's going to be a massive stage of $32.00 leaders from nato countries. i think 37 world leaders and

all so bite and really has a chance, i think, to show the world the, the president that he is and a sort of ally concerns from, from people in, in europe that might be nervous at this point in time. such as rachel preserves air from the atlantic council in washington during 10. yeah. young people have been taking so the streets again this week. many have vowed to continue until president william brutal resigns. they were angry about the government's response to last week's protests. according to kenya, human rights commission, 39 demonstrators, were killed in more than 360 injured in a recent interview present. rudo defended the work of the police and said they did nothing wrong. not seem to have made protesters even more determined. as mario without no reports from nairobi, it started off as an exciting day for david monkey. he arrived early at last week's

protest, and only with a water bottle. the face, my mood was cheerful. he says, i don't what's. why was taking sofas with the police? i'm challenging piece, but then the minute change. we don't want to work on the some next to meet with shots people stotts. i'm sure if you get to the ground, i started running, then i had to bug and i was hit. the bullet went right through his neck. now in the hospital, he's waiting for a 2nd operation. david, one of the accounts themselves lucky, protest and next to him was shot in the head and later died. he doesn't regret taking part in the protest. he says he's fed up with the government because of his corruption and nepotism. i didn't, you didn't, and you have lots of problems with education system is broken. it's not what you know, but to, you know, look at me, i graduated from university and now i'd be reduced to driving taxis and the police still harassed of me. he graduated with the geography degree 3 years ago,

but hasn't been able to find a job. it's a fade shared by many 67 percent of 10 years young people are unemployed. he did temporary work until his mother took out a loan to buy him a motorbike. so he could work as a motor tax driver, a, someone can somebody be mind we just have to survive in this life? so even if you follow the rules from find them you still sofa. pardon? so didn't really, really hold them to me on the 19 year old, able to him come out, attended the same demo as david, but he never returned home. his mother says he was about to start college and was known for standing up for the less privileged. i haven't updated emails to fight for people's roy's enough when he couldn't stand seeing people being depressed today. yes. then people him come out, his family wanted to hold a remember and ceremony for him and other kids vote as does the force of change, the location, police quote and of the area of the in the morning feeling protest outside the

hospital. this group of young people are also at risk of being disposed by the police. they spontaneously mobilized a crowd of social media in support of the injured protest. is that here at the mid july, the 10th some of our fellow youth ways. and we had didn't know enough blood, so we have come to have purchased has changed for being about the cost of living prices and against the tax bill to demanding justice and accountability for those killed. doing. last week's deadly demonstrations. the protest as one president william brutal to resign. not yet. and it's uh, even those of us that yeah, that would be more to come on be, must remove not to go from about the inside the hospital. david monkey is concerned about how he'll support his family if he can't work, but liked the boat as he remains to time. don't do that and you know, to ride

a motorbike, you need your legs. i'll just have to deal with it. i will get back to the bottom, i will get back to to i asked dw correspondence seal as my ring got, why we are still seeing demonstrations continue despite the withdrawal of the controversial tax hikes, though, for the demonstrations have continued because people feel that they needs to see much more than just the dropping of the control viceroy financing deal that had brought people initially to the streets. so this week people have been talking about the president needing to do the pharmacy and his government. people have also been talking about the president actually kitchen office yesterday during a discussion in ken as a send that to assembly some of the centers of watch and you see the government's needs on hold on hold and they need a fresh start. so most of what people have been pushing for this week is that not

fresh starts, they feel everything that has been happening. the government corruption, mismanage rental probably funds and some, as i know, the cases needs to be dealt with head going and they feel that they do not have confidence with this governments to deal with the issues that they are raising at the moment. that's sort of the fresh start that they're demanding. have we seen retails government take any other measures to try to address these concerns or so when president fruits or talked to people last week, he said that i to government will be taking on some austerity. me says, now that salaries immunization commission in the country, how does it add new salaries for members of parliament? uh, members of that, the cabinet and members of the exec i team. and yesterday, as a result of public pressure, the salaries and a new motorcycle nissan. actually has to add because that's the idea guys that's

northeast and save that. they will not be doing salary. so they're probably coffee size as yet. they do the chevy was supposed to employ an 11 court of appeals. i just bought to, they said we have to wait until the countries economics are in the right place for them to be able to employ of a new judges. so a few uh, government organizations and government led institutions taking the lead. but people feel these needs to see so much more than just that are tardy. cuz then that then just because it's not jesus, they need to see people who are being mismanagement, mismanaging public funds, fiat and that's, i think we'll be village must test for william, brutal on the way that he's serious with those situations. or it was just another day where he talks to the public and stronger than ever, usually met on the sidelines of the to day shanghai cooperation organization summit . and because i capital s donna parkers. president wretch of ty, effort, one told mr. fulton that on for us could help of both sides reach

a sales piece in the war and ukraine. russia's war on ukraine has raged for well over 2 years. the cost to both sides has been immense. but one of the possible spoils of victory could also be what's in the soil. ukraine has huge deposits of whiskey, a key mineral for rapidly expanding fields like electric car batteries. a fighting near the ukrainian village of co to hobo earlier this year. above the ground towns that have seen dozens of tank battles since the war began. what you don't see is the hundreds of millions of dollars of lift the, the geologist say it's likely underground. ukraine has significant deposits of natural resources that could make rushes war, financial aid pay off, in addition to lithium and there are significant oil, gas, metal, oars, rivers, and precious metals buried beneath the soil,

potentially worth more than 20 trillion dollars. lithium is a key material for the future of electric cars and many smart technologies. ukraine's deposits are located in the cure, 400 and don't. yet regents care of a lot is still under ukrainian control, while much of done yet is occupied by russia. before the war, the european union, the headed cy on ukraine's deposits especially of lithium and currently enforced almost all of the mineral from china. in 2021, the u and ukraine agreed to a strategic partnership for raw materials. there is a norm, us potential because security tacoma federal essential for the kind of an icing of all right, going on. these can be found in abundance in ukraine. according to the us to warn ukraine has cost russia well over a trillion dollars in economic losses, as well as hundreds of billions and expenses on the war itself. but the trillions hiding under ukraine's fields and factories which far away that in

a war this had such a mass of human cost. i'd like to welcome olivia lazar a fellow at carnegie europe, an expert on geo politics for more on this issue. so conventional wisdom in the west is that the driving force behind rushes invasion of ukraine was put into the vision of establishing a new russian empire. but you, you've also argue that this is about access to critical raw materials. could you tell us a little bit more? yes, good morning, and thanks for having me. russia has essentially a bunch of different names. one of them is obviously to recover control over ukraine. pulse of the ukraine attraction lies in the strategic materials that the world is now fully interested in for green transitions, but also also for the digital and defense transitions. especially i was looking to have access to a number of critical raw materials grades that would need regarding defense,

but also in terms of sustaining is partnership with china. is also vastly interested in making sure that the european union essentially fails and the promise of its green deal. and particularly in its comment, little which requires the european union to de carbonized by at least 55 percent by 2013 as 3 for the carbon neutral by 2015. if it fails to do so, has democratic consequences that will have reparations, in terms of democratic fabrics coming undone within the european union. so you're saying that part of russia is calculation is the use goals. we've heard the eaves long hopes that ukrainian resources would help them become less dependent on countries like china. is that, is that what you think russia's calculation is? and is that then also part of the incentive for the u back in ukraine? you has, as you mentioned in yours, that of catch you before it had struck a strategic partnership based on raw materials with ukraine in july 2021 to ensure

the 6 months before the war. and the innovation is the relationship between the you and ukraine regarding the future pipeline football materials, pre dates, the board. so there is no question essentially that it is part of the reasons that you wants to sustain. it's important to print, but it goes much further than this. you has understood essentially that there is something us at stake regarding the rule of law regarding democrats like fabrics regarding essentially the future security of europe as a whole, not just ukraine. but if we look at the larger picture, the reason why i argued that russia is particularly interested in ukrainian resources regarding political, raw materials, is that russia is actually active. not just a new crane, but a number of different yet there's x by other means via does information by a political influencing by industrial influencing as well to try and make sure that it essentially becomes a g u economic power broker for o, energy and industrial,

and critical supply chains, including food for that matter, and potentially pools in the future, which will define essentially the future of security, not just from an industrial and economic perspective, but security in an age where there is essentially a number of common disruptions coming our way. so russia has very strong purview regarding the long term game, and that's where we need to understand ukraine as part of a larger chess game and part of a larger sort of arsenal of war that russia is waging against europe against ukraine and porcelain supremacy in the future, just saying russia with a much bigger vision of its position to politically long term, but i put this into perspective for us this lithium and ukraine in a more short term perspective. if it ends off and rushes hands. what would that mean for energy? for efforts toward a green energy transition, just briefly, if you could it's

a very the let you know that the markets a very dynamic. so at the moment, for example, we know is that there is a new project that has been released in served. yeah, that will increase the find a place. yeah, i'm so sorry. i'm so sorry. have to jump in. we're out of time. thank you so much for joining us on dw, and that is our show. thank you so much. i as the

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