this is happening some migraines on the african continent, news west housing, community docs. november 9th. the. this is the, the news live from berlin, donald trump and campbell, a harris. go on a battle ground state bullets with less than 3 days to go until the us election. harris and trump make their final pitches to undecided voters in crucial swing states plus decision time. in moldova, people head to the polls for a 2nd round of presidential elections. the vote is seen as a choice between a future in europe or a return to russian influence the

. i'm the list of chan, thanks for joining us. we started in the us where the race for the white house has entered the home stretch and the last weekend before tuesdays presidential election, the 2 candidates had been criss crossing the country, making their last appeal to voters. they are focusing on swing states that will determine who will become the 47th president of the united states in georgia as capital atlanta democratic candidate. commer harris repeated her pledge to be a president for all americans. she later attended a rally in north carolina where former president donald trump, is also campaigning. he has promised to crack down on migration and cut taxes to useful. let's take a listen. it will come on harris and donald trump told voters. and we have an opportunity in this the election to turn the page on on the oh,

of donald trump, trying to keep us divided and afraid of each other. we're done with that. i have done today with the message of hope for all americans. with your vote on tuesday, i will end inflation. i will stop the invasion of massive numbers of criminals that have come into the and i will bring back the american dream. we don't have the american dream. we had a, we had it, you know, we also had the energy independence 4 years ago. this is all you need, you know, campbell of broke and she broke it, we will fix it. i will fix it. it'll be fixed, very dw has been looking at what people around the world think about the us election and what the vote means for them. this time the focus is on europe, dw, as brussels bureau chief, alexandra phenomena has more on what's at stake. the the for the next it will

coming off. however, the sports closer ties with you. and if she loses, how disruptive the 2nd, still not from president cd. you opinions do not get a choice in this election, but they will have to bear the consequences. the united states is the most important part of the for us in the european union. we face a group on challenges and beat a migration on cry. mark change cried make change on your security. april 1st you'll see in brussels could elect and you as president, they would certainly choose come a law harris. she promises continue. it's she would buys and zip codes, and those security ends treat even though many to tell us the do not really know exactly what kind of foreign policy comcast harris has. but if don't know, trump is back in the white house along with keep america 1st approach. it's more than ever the case of europe on its own. the u commission has even set up

a special unit known as to trump task force to prepare for the fall out of the election during his 1st term, trump in post levies on steel and aluminum from europe. now he's promising to introduce tenants on hold for an important product because you will have the others were received at home and sign and go see something like that and move on to that box. i think it's a warranty and here's another song. the x rays almost europe, and believe that come all i have is understands that's terrorist with 1st and foremost heard one u. s. consumers. they also view her as a strong support help ukraine and it's nato and, and leader determined to defense democratic values. it would be a big win for also the joining democratic forces really european union and with the united states, drums fuss the nation with also material leaders as seen by many europeans as

a threat to democracy. and he's a position to support team q. crane is a source of worry for many on the continental. well, you've heard of military intelligence. so sharing, where are you going? are these who have actually seen it uh, implications for the war effort of migrating forces. died and always violent movements on washing. sorry, uh, 0. long as the law. uh, shipment is uh, uh, something like this. even though trump is not likely to pull out of need to his repeated questioning of whether he would defense nato allies has already undermined the alliance experts say it's need to headquarters. they're also getting ready for any scenario to what didn't you need to achieve. might clue to making clear. he can work with harris as well as with trump being thanks to him,

we pushed up to the defense spending, but also what he set on china is now very much taken on board. so i think by many of us, your opinions understand they will have to invest more in their own defense, regardless of who in steve selection, but would come along harris many here believe europe would have an ally in the white house. mark over house is an expert on transatlantic relations at the german institute for international security affairs. i asked him what a 2nd, trumpet presidency could mean for europe, security as well. uh. the 2nd trunk, trump presidency, will definitely be a situation where conflicts and other transatlantic relationship would become much more acute as compared to what we saw under the vine presidency. that's for sure. but i think we must not delude ourselves also. i mean, regardless of who becomes president, the united states looks at the world

a very differently than we, in germany and, and many other european countries of the united states continues to see itself as a global power facing global security threats. so china tensions in the end, a pacific, the growing throughout from north korea, all these are that are seen as the great as long term challenges in the united states and not necessarily ukraine in europe. now european politicians have long pledge to improve the integration of their defense and form policies to prepare for the prospect of a us pullback, regardless of who wins the us presidency. why haven't they made more progress as well to start on a positive note, i think your opinions have made some progress on, on security and defense. i mean defense and military matters has become an integral part of policy making also in the european union. for 2024, for the year 202490 was estimating that you know,

europe and nato allies collectively for the 1st time will need their targets off of spending 2 percent of their g. d. p on defense. but there's still a lot to do. i mean, collective defense is still basically outsourced tomato, where dependencies on the united states are very acute and not sustainable in the long term. and we still don't have a common for an, a calling european foreign policy. we still have, you know, 27 independent national foreign policies. and that's a problem. i think how high is the risk of trump pulling out of nato. and depending on who you talk to, some people think he won't actually do it. and also in terms of trump, a band and in ukraine, i mean what, what sure is that prenatal and for ukraine, the re election of donald trump would be a much more difficult scenario as compared to the harris scenario. i personally

find it also very unlikely. that's trump what to pull the united states out of nato, because in the end, he's not, he's not an isolationist, but the problem is with trump, that's his security policies are highly contradictory. i mean, he lanes the suppose the weakness of the by and administration of, for russia's attack on, on ukraine is constantly talking also about piece to string. but at the same time, he's fueling few years of world war 3 all the time. and trump also wants to keep us troops out of international conflicts in my view. that is a contradiction as does europe risk complacency if harris is elected? yes, it does, it does risk complacency. um, i see this risk, i mean, um the united states is still one of your oldest most important foreign policy partners. but america has, has really changed significantly in recent years, and it has become increasingly over scratched by its global security alliances of

the united states has become much more protection as an economic terms and americans, democracies also under pressure. and all of this means the transatlantic relations will have to be re calibrated no matter what happens on november 5th and who in the us presidential elections? marco over house, thank you so much for joining us. my pleasure. thank you. folders in moldova are heading to the polls and mid allegations of russian meddling relations between moldova, a former soviet republic. and moscow are a major issue in sundays. presidential run off pro european president. my assign do has distance to molto, but from russia since it's invasion of ukraine. her opponent, former prosecutor general alexander, still at no gloves is promising closer economic ties with russia. moscow denies

accusations made by the you and others that it is trying to undermine the election . earlier i spoke to journalist marie that garrett nicholas grew in case you know, i asked her for more allegations or for more on the allegations of russian election interference as well. there are multiple allegations, but what prosecutors police and investigative journalists have found out so far is a wide scale electro, a corruption scheme, burkett's, orchestrated by a mold of an oligarchy. isla, i'm sure who is based in russia. that's over 38000000 euros, channelled through russian banks to work towards move up with up to 300000 votes. being bought ahead of the referendum and ahead of the 1st round presidential elections. according to most of in the thirty's, russia and 11 shore denied any legal ground doing. but even ahead of this 2nd round of presidential elections. there are reasons to think that the interference is

ongoing. for instance, we have the russian, but buses that have allegedly crossed into mail do about transporting voters for free so that they can vote in the selection. there's also been widespread. this information campaigns aimed at scaring voters and this type of lives in the country . and while the final numbers of, of, of the electoral corruptions team are on clear, the fact that citizens have been paid to campaign and vote against my us, i'm do is widely documented something that the president has called and attacked on the country. and what is at stake here, formal delva in terms of the outcome of the elections as well. the stakes are quite high, especially on the do political level even though the referendum on mold of as you accession has passed by a very, in margin 2 weeks ago. and actually negotiations to join that you have already started with brussels, while the future president will play a role and confirming most of us do

a political role in the region. my us and who has made you integration, the main topic of her mandate. she's been also very vocal against russia's invasion of ukraine. alexander's plan of the, on the other hand, describes himself as a neutral candidate, one thing good relations with europe. but also with russia and his boycott the referendum. and his being backed by the socialist party, which is a traditionally pro russian party. so there are lots of people abroad, closely monitoring the selection as it might determine if the country will continue its uh, its move westward, or whether it's will resume its relations with moscow. and with these voting abnormalities, i mean, 2 weeks ago, sunday 142 percent of the votes. how likely is it for her to now secure the 50 percent she needs as well. the 2nd round of presidential election is likely to be an extremely tied race. just as the e referendum a 2 weeks ago occurring president my us time to did reach

a comfortable majority in the 1st round. but many of the mind candidates who didn't make it to the 2nd round and are very opposed to the current government and therefore called to vote against my assigned to. in the 1st round that there were approximately 250000 votes. difference between send 2 and 3, i know little about us. many people also chose other candidates. there are 200000 people voted for candidates, were seen as a pro russian, and therefore very hostile to my son, to another 200000 devoted firms and not to set the she rides the 3rd and the 1st job. and he's decided to look back either side of the boards, 3 and the room. alex understand. no one has tried to convince undecided voters, those were disappointed by the economic situation of the country or by the slow fight against corruption. my ass, i'm doing the or the have hopes that the diaspora will be as mobilize that as it was 2 weeks ago, because this is the vote that managed to tip the balance in favor of the referendum journalist to maria. guess let's go in session now. thank you so much for joining

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