president biden hale, the u. s. mid term vote as a good day for democracy, but it's still unclear who will control congress. ah, no, this is al jazeera mind from doha for the battle also ahead. russia says it's ordered its troops to withdraw from the ukrainian city of care song about keith cautions. it may be a set up. facebook's parent company is laying off more than 11000 people in the most significant job, caught in its history and a brewing diplomatic route between france and it's the over who should take in hundreds of asylum seekers stuck on a rescue ship. ah, yes, present, joe biden has called the midterm elections a good day for democracy. this comes as poll results defy a projected so called red wave biden says he's willing to work with the republicans as control of congress hangs in the balance. and republican victories are of a smaller margin than predicted, but they are likely to control the house of representatives. while the press in the pundents are predicting a giant red wave, it didn't happen. and i know you were somewhat miffed by my my obsession optimism. but i felt good during the whole process, i thought were going to do fine while any seat last is painful. some good democrats didn't. when the last night, democrats had a strong name. and we lost fewer seats in house representatives than the democratic president. first, mid term election, the last 40 years. and we had the best make terms for governors since 1986. and another thing that we know is that voters spoke clearly about their concerns. about rating cost, the rising cost that there, and then the need to get information down. while i look at the latest figures, the republican party is in the lead for seats in the house of representatives, but by a small margin and forecasts. the senate is still a toss up. the republicans currently have 49 feet and the democrats, $48.00, all eyes on the battleground, states of ara zona and nevada. georgia will hold a run off in december. i live to my canada at the white house for as my present bind earlier a beat, but also mesh it. yes, indeed. president biden welcoming the results of the selection. despite the fact that the results syndicate, the democratic party might lose control of the house. but at the same time, he welcome the fact that there was such a major turn out. and he welcome the fact too that the voters appear to select particular issues that concern them. the message that he gave in his news conference was to the american voter. i hear you appreciating the fact that there's concern, there's fear certainly about issues like the economy, about various things like the cost of living. so president biden saying, yes, i understand all of that. at the same time, he reached out to hand to republicans across the aisle well aware that what the result also perhaps indicates is a degree of impatience and frustration among voters, with the ongoing sense of political rancor. at the same time while saying that he was happy to work with the republicans, president biden also laid down what he believes, all his red lines. he would not contemplate any change in legislation or attempts to ban abortion within the constitution. he would fight against any attempts to prevent him continuing to fight climate change. so while saying that he's willing to work with republicans, the president made very clear on what lines he would absolutely not compromise. threatening. of course, a veto should a republican majority in the house introduce legislation on any of those red lines . and mike, where are we in terms of the race that are still too close to call? well, it is a raise, a said margin separating the parties in both the house and in the senate. the senate is dependent on the results of 3 seats and most likely is going to go down to the wire in a runoff election in georgia, which will be held on december. the 6th, which may well determine which party eventually gets that 5050 seats in the senate, which would give the democrats the majority. the republicans, of course, would need 51 seats, not having the vice president making the costing vote, but as to the house. well, it does appear, the trend is that the republicans may gain control of the house, but by a very slim margin. and this would make it difficult for them to exercise their agenda, having it's the majority in that house, remembering to as well that president biden has made very clear. he will veto any legislation that the house my past that infringes any of what he sees as his red lines. but certainly it would be difficult for president biden to press through on his agenda. should he lose control of the house? and in particular, if he loses control of both house and senate, my cannot live at the white house. thank you very much, mike format. the russia says it's withdrawing its troops from a major battle grounding 7 ukraine. the pull back would be a set back for president vladimir putin for several weeks now. ukrainian forces have been advancing and the case on region is one of the full regions moscow. i mixed in september. well, now rushes defense minister has ordered it forces to retreat from the western bank of the near pro river near the city, of course on if i don't hear from you. so this recession, so having comprehensively assess the situation, i propose that we take up defensive position along the left bank of the disney pro river. i understand this is a very difficult decision. at the same time, we will save most importantly, the lives of our troops and the overall combat effectiveness of our forces, whom it is futile to keep on the right bank in a restricted area. in addition, it will free up some forces and means they will be used for active operations, including offensive ones on other fronts. but the ukrainian government is skeptical about moscow's announce with jaw warning, it may be a trap out. his ears, as i beg, is on the front lines, in cases where the crane ships this is how the battle for her son is being fought. automobile lottery crews targeting russian forces just kilometers away. they have the coordinates, it's a quick, 2 shots, and then they have to move go get and going good. we had to get out the way really quickly, because the russians can locate where the artillery was fired from. so we have to move away before they return, fire crews can one to the targets from small commercial drones back where they are hidden away from russian drones. they can take a moment to rest, thought us, most of the navi, dominate the us. lovely retreating russians used all reserves, so they can only reach our frontline, some of those one of us. he has a wife and child at home and says being away from them has been tough. rhonda miller, the situation is drones is complicated. they are flying always every day and every hour of the then it was scary only at the beginning of more hope i would just do our job even when they fire back at us. we dont panic. we are used to were awful of the weapons are sometimes twice as old as the men who used them spoke, this crew writes a name of their fallen on missiles. we're told the majority of times, the russians fight back quickly. this crew has lost friends with no fees, as a commander. this curious thing is to lose people. well, every one here in the infantry, artillery and engineering brigades is karen to be under the enemy's arthur fire. some russians use everything they got. the crew stays out of sight and awaits orders and coordinates to move and fire was brushed. certainly, this is a war of drones. in most cases, hardly fire adjustments are made from drones. bo small commercial ones. larger ones have made the difference. lank. let's just leave the front lines, have moved quickly of late. these trenches will once facing the enemy, but so horrible a bluish russians were close a few months before. but now the front line is moving jets and drones are always flying overheads. but for observation only, mostly it's russian drones. we don't see them, but they keep flying. life is basic in the trenches, but they're waiting here. they believe in a matter of time they, we'll retake her son and if they do, it will be the defining moment of this will. i said, bake. i'll jazeera, her son, has been called the most difficult change for take giant meta, the parent company, a facebook, instagram, and what sam planned to cut more than 11000 jobs announcement comes. she stays after a similar moved by twitter. rob reynolds has more from california profile pictures to do better boss mark zuckerberg called it a sad day. read said the mass layoffs were needed. your do to lower than expected revenue forecasts. and the need to operate more efficiently across the company's various platforms. analysts say there's another reason and it's right there in the company's name. zuckerberg has gone full obsession on met averse. he believes as a future of, you know, human existence. and that's the future of meta, even changed the name of the company in to pursue that. and he's thrown hundreds of millions of dollars does every quarter he and the result it as nothing people who have tried it, don't find it that exciting, almost a lonely experience. the met averse is sort of just sitting dead in the water. and it's become a gigantic financial st. call. more than 11000 workers, or 13 percent of metas workforce will be notified by email that they are out of their jobs. it's an international corporation and firings will be felt globally at facebook's european headquarters in dublin. a 1000 workers will reportedly be let go. these are tough times in the tech industry overall. in addition to meta other companies that have recently announced wide scale layoffs include lift, sales force, zillow, and stripe. and of course there's twitter which under new boss, ellen musk slashed its workforce by half last week. besides the failure. ready of the met, averse to take off as zuckerberg had hoped. facebook is losing younger social media users to newer hipper apps like tick tock, tick, tock is taking over the world. i mean, there's no question about a google's beginning to really feel the impact of tick tock as well. so i think he did get the next big thing for kids. better stock as nosedive, nearly 75 percent since last year, bringing the company's market value down from one trillion dollars to less than $240000000000.00 with profits down nearly 50 percent. rob reynolds al jazeera menlo park, california still had on the shell a high tech til could expose the dirty secrets of countries pumping massive amounts of pollution into the air. and, and nurses union in the u. k. will gone strike for the 1st time in a 100 years will tell you why. and jesse ah, anticipate is rising with wanted my cattle anyways. it's still unbelievably warm sass of the yanks. you know, the weather is changing in charlotte. there's a hint of some snow coming in, but for the most part it's a dry picture and with temperatures around the 30 mark where they should be 20, it's obviously still too warm south of the yanks, even though the yanks, the things are really changing slow this line of blue is a developing rain band, shannon jones, where temperatures will come down over the wall waters. we've got big chows at, we're near tie one. now over the small islands, rekey chain, yvonne's in japan, the major islands dry and it's not particularly cold nor warped. about right at $22.00. and then 19 in sol with a few showers here. but over the chinese mainland. that rain by these developing be quite significant potential, but a fresh flooding i think is it runs started towards beijing, but it is tucking in cold air. so snow is on the horizon minus 5, the high temperature will on the top, south of all this, the wet weather seems like to be in the central and some philippines. you can suggest the same is true in south vietnam, malaysia. down through sumatra and parts of java as well. and on the coast of india, tamara. now they're allianz for lanka. an increase in rain seems like the dream late part of thursday or friday. much the rest of course. it's now dry. the weather, sponsored by cat on a ways overflowing with passion, but desperately under resourced charge. national football team has never qualified for the africa cup of nations. for the world cup al jazeera world asks, what will it take for the squad to find success? poor wilbur t. b for ever sidelined chad's football dreams on al jazeera. oh ah, you're watching al jazeera alive from doha reminder of our top stories us present. joe biden has hail the mid term elections as a great day for american democracy. results show the democratic party defined expectations about republicans as to likely to control the house of representatives . the senate is still too close to come. russia says it's withdrawing is truth from the strategic ukrainian city. of course, on the ukrainian government is concerned. the announcement may be a trap and facebook's parents company meta is sacking more than $11000.00 employees and extending a hiring freeze into next year. ceo mark soccer. burke says he takes responsibility for expansion plans which have not worked toddlers helped. ephram says it's unacceptable that it's these new far right. government refused to allow several migrant rescue ships to dock for vessels carrying asylum seekers were initially denied permission to come to shore in sicily. 3 were later allowed to dock and disembark passengers by the 4th ship. with $234.00 on board is now on its way to france. instead. tony bert me reports on the sicilian port of catania. the humility, one rescue ship was still in port wednesday, but without its passengers, after climbed down by the italian government, 250 people, mostly africans were finally allowed to disembark from the boat. and the 2nd vessel, the jew parents. after being stranded in the sicilian port of cataneo since saturday until tuesday, the italian government said they were not vulnerable enough to enter the country. but late in the evening, they were unexpectedly allowed to leave. it's a victory for human rights campaigners and the rescue ship's captains who refused to sail away with them on board. it's in this case, the victory that we sold, that the right is on our site that we doing something illegal. and that this decree which was, which was brought against us, was illegal and that these actions in the last 14 days were not correct. the prime minister, georgia maloney came to power on a promise to crack down hard on illegal migration. neither she nor any government minister has explain the reasons behind the about turn, but it's believed internal and external pressure came to bear. we are in on the edge and i think the government is moving on a very complicated off respecting d. e, you not upsetting to you the you and the same time trying to do what it was water for people aboard the humanity one who started hunger strike in a desperate bid to be admitted to the country. the question now is will the government abandon its tough stock or approach it in a different way? the italian government hardline stein may have kept support is happy, but in reality it's crackdown policy couldn't work legally. it's been widely criticized for denying rights and compassion to people who were simply seeking a safer better life. these people were allowed into sicily some time ago, their learning italian in order to better assimilate into the community. those that have made the long and dangerous journey to italy, or cross section of asylum seekers, refugees and migrant, but all have one thing in common. they want a better life. he behemoth from guinea. his trip in a small boat across the mediterranean 6 years ago was risky, but not as dangerous as some. you now speak, excellent, italian. and he's grateful to italy, but has concerns. what you saw more than one cup of some of that up, one of help people like me. if the show the current government doesn't help and makes life difficult. it's not right. a happy in for some, but looking out at the central mediterranean where more than 20000 people are drowned, making the this journey. you wonder how many more victims will the cruel seas of winter claim? tony berkeley, al jazeera catania sicily for me. you, as vice president, al gore has unveiled a new tool at the camp 27th time at summit in egypt. the climate trace projects reveals the world's top fossil fuel emitters. it's found that the top 14 individual polluters are all gas and oil feels new data has also found that emissions from oil and gas production could be 3 times higher than the official amounts. the top $500.00 the sources emit more per year than the united states and 51 percent of those dimensions are from power plants. half of the top 50 globally or oil and gas feels this. this is the self reported c o c o, 2 equivalent emissions that include c o, 2 and methane. this is what the actual measurements show. this is really a shock. tens of thousands of british nurses are set to down tools as their union strikes for the 1st time ever, members of the royal college of nursing union are demanding better pay. the union says a majority of members in the state by national how service voted in favor of the strike. it's a 1st in russia industrial action in the r c and 106 year history. it has more than $300000.00 members and says it will strike before the end of the year. the message for every one to day is lloyd and player. hundreds of thousands of nurses have spoken i today and said enough is enough. with turned my the auction and to anger and, and right across the u. k. in all parts of the, in a chess, we will see strike action and those nurses have been pushed to them. in greece, thousands of people have taken want in a general strike against the rising cost of living. public schools were shot and flights and public transport disrupted. unions are demanding lower taxes and an increase to the minimum wage. inflation hit 12 percent in september, the highest in 2 decades. john strapless has more from athens, the private and public sector workers who demonstrated in central athens on wednesday, asking the government to eliminate consumption and sales taxes on electricity bills, and gas bills, and other forms of energy such as petrol. which at the moment is one of the most highly taxed forms of energy in the country. more than 80 percent of the cost of petrol, of the pump goes directly to the government. and it is one of the most expensive rates of a gasoline in the european union at more than 2 years in liter. shared only by a few northern european countries with 2 or 3 times greece has per capita income. the government is going to have great difficulty lowering those taxes and consumption fees because it depends on that income to keep the budget reasonably balance. if it does away with this, it will have to borrow more from markets at 5 percent, and it's already in great expenditures, subsidizing electricity and gas bills. $13000000000.00 have been committed so far this year alone towards doing that. and there's no help from the european union. the government in athens asked for a european solidarity funds to be set up. but brussel says no, because it doesn't want to subsidize fossil fuels, all slow down europe's transition to renewable clean energy grease. however, a sufferings a result of these opposing forces, the governments need to build up its budget. and the european need to transition away from fossil fuels, which are mostly imported at very high cost. because this society went through 8 years of recession and austerity measures which sold the national average income decline by about a 3rd. and these already pass it households. budgets, which have also been through the coven lockdown crisis, are now going through the 3rd crisis of the decade. and they are finding it extremely difficult to go to democratic republic of congo now. and more than 3000 people have responded to a call for volunteers to help fight the armed group. m 23. the r c. s. government believes that neighboring wanders supporting the group a claim. the government in kigali denies. malcolm web recourse from the eastern city of gama. the men say they want to fight him, acrostic republic of comrades. army says everyone more than 3000 people who responded to a cool for recruit menu by human enough. i am here because we have suffered too much my family, my sisters, they have suffered a lot from war. some of them were right. so we're here because from now on, i need to defend myself. everyone here is that ready to fight and $23.00 widely seen to be a neighboring rwanda. well, they were one to deny that 26 years ago, rwanda and you got the invaded congo ever since. they've been repeated accusations of meddling and a presence of foreign forces for most of the time, floating sometime from those countries as well as us papers. and now, the african regional forces arriving here, going voice from campaigners in congo. more foreign policy will not be the solution to congress probably. as m, 23 rebels make advances, patients has run thin with un peacekeepers. they've been here for more than 20 years. people burned some of their vehicles in a convoy passing near the eastern city of goma last week. he would have protested in goma and kinshasa in recent months. against were wondering uganda. they blamed for decades of military aggression and against the peacekeepers. they blamed for failing to protect them. can you says is now sending troops to join the conflict. well, the only about 60 of arrived is the latest country to send soldiers to congo under the banner of a new east african regional force. these activists say it won't help. they've raised money and bought food for congo soldiers who are often short supplied, accepted as see the blessing. un peacekeepers, east african community forces to the countries in the east african community, the same countries already aggressive. congo, we disagree with the presence of these east african community forces. you see that we over the congress army and nothing else. the decades of conflicts have driven tens of thousands of young men to join armed groups. many fighters of been demobilized by the government in the u. n. congress army says they're not among the new recruits. this is young. this is the argument from our enemies trying to destroy the me to these recruit. none of them are coming from the group. all those from the groups are in containment in another can none of them hear me love to be democrats? congos army defeated the m 23 rebels. 9 years ago when it had supplies in support from the government and the un, people here waiting to see if it can do it again. malcolm web al jazeera, goma, democratic republic of congo. mexico has become one of the most dangerous countries in the world to be a journalist, not according to the committee to protexture, unless it says attacks come from both organized crime and authorities. at least 13 members of the press have been killed this year that put the country 2nd only to ukraine in journalists, deaths. and it's a problem that's been going on for years. more than a $151.00 mexican reporters have been killed in the last 3 decades, but violence against the price has increased by 85 percent under the current government. that's according to the international free speech organization called article 19. and the 1st point of our special theories, we focused on reporters living under threat in mexico. now john, home and reports on what happens when a reporter is killed and how it affects freedom of speech. it was more than 7 years ago when whole his father, maria's husband, mrs. sanchez, was kidnapped from their home immediate se mexico in bizarre or her eyes. b i received, given this, started to say, was the man with the taxi. and when they took my husband down, he saw us and told him, just don't do anything to my family hockey. and while he made money as a taxi driver, voices, his main job was running a free newspaper called lonely on it monitored local authorities. madeline lily, 3 weeks off for disappeared, voices, his body was found on the side of the road, dismembered at the mer pictured here with voices grilling him off camera. the look . it was implicated in his murder in. he fled. he still hasn't been captured. let's close got one of the highest rates of journalist murders in the world. press rights advocate say that's intrinsically linked to a lack of justice when a reporter is killed. it only adds to the silence in the country. we followed voices his case, interviewing with the head of the special prosecutor's office, set up specifically to investigate crimes against journalists. the mare is still an alarm at large. there's only one policeman in prison at the moment for this and several members of the ring who walk in ice, their alleged to whom denies there also remain, not in jail and not sentenced. what's your response to the investigative very well i got to where i crossed we had, i have our back breakthrough. we can give the police all the information that we have, but the prosecutor cannot go on arrest somebody fatima, i work for the police to familiar frustration for sanchez, his office, his case resolution has got better since he's been in charge, but it still stands at only 6 prosecutions from more than $100.00 homicides across more than a decade. it's not a little. meanwhile, according to the federal government, over 40 percent of frets and attacks and journalists come from officials themselves, usually local ones. and the attacks have only gone up under the administration of president under his manual lopez of the door by 85 percent. according to freedom of speech organization, article 19 imperial easter k. klaus the president. what he was doing to stop the impunity when journalists were killed, the contest all the banana catholic, loudecker. i answer category galani that, that there is no immunity. and if you think otherwise, brewbay leonard merell us, patty. but the evidence in this country from voices his case to many others speaks for itself. here just some of the journalist killed many a way to justice. the mates for this year, john homan al jazeera met presently in music icon gal costa has died at the age of $77.00.