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00:00:00precipitation from North Estonia towards the south. In Virumaa,
00:00:03there may be a brief mix of sleet. The wind blows from the west and
00:00:06northwest, and in the evening also from the north, 4/9, with gusts up to
00:00:0912, on the coast up to 18 meters per second.
00:00:13The temperature is five to 10 degrees.
00:00:16Wednesday night will be dry, with rain showers in many
00:00:19places during the day. The night air temperature will be between -3
00:00:23and plus seven degrees. The day will bring warmth of 4-11
00:00:27degrees. On Thursday night, precipitation will depart, and during the day,
00:00:31there will be isolated rain showers in Eastern Estonia. The night temperature will be
00:00:344:11, and during the day 8:11
00:00:37degrees. On Friday and Saturday, there will be very few
00:00:40rain clouds over Estonia. The air will be cool, and the wind
00:00:44will be felt every day. At the moment, one hundred will go and
00:00:47another will come after it. Between them,
00:00:50in the morning, the desire for a break, it has just
00:00:54begun the Võro language week.
00:00:57Thank you. Workshops recommend that
00:01:01now is the right time for tire changes. Most people
00:01:04prefer to wait until the last minute, when the
00:01:07weather forecast already shows freezing temperatures. Drivers are
00:01:10increasingly considering the cost and, whoever can, tries
00:01:14to put winter tires on the car themselves.
00:01:17According to mechanics, the grip of summer tires deteriorates already at seven
00:01:20degrees Celsius, and one should consider changing tires.
00:01:24People somehow think that winter this year will not come as usual,
00:01:28that, in short, "they go and change them nicely,
00:01:32but you can still do it during the day, definitely. It's very
00:01:36difficult to compare, because last year, I think, there was snow on the ground at that time.
00:01:39Now it's a proper pickle season, let's be honest. These tire piles here
00:01:43are still waiting for a bigger rush. You can get a tire change for your free time
00:01:47even tomorrow. And according to mechanics, it's worth doing this trip right now
00:01:50before the first sleet. Many who live outside the city of Tartu
00:01:54take it out on the rest of the world? still inevitably experience night frosts, roads can already
00:01:57be slippery in places and and..."
00:02:00"the main thing is this fear, in Estonian weather conditions, the weather
00:02:04can be 20 degrees Celsius at one moment and snow on the ground at the next moment.
00:02:07There are plenty of tire workshops in Tartu, but rather the number of customers
00:02:10has decreased over the year, because due to the general cost of living, some
00:02:14people have started changing tires at home or at a neighbor's place.
00:02:17Usually, either the bolts are too tight
00:02:20and won't come off anymore, or there are
00:02:24problems with balancing. Due to tariffs
00:02:27imposed on Chinese tires, the prices of cheaper tires
00:02:30have risen by almost half this year.
00:02:34After the sports news, Välisilm is on air, where Astrid Kannel
00:02:37reveals from multiple angles this great political spectacle
00:02:41we see in the USA. Have a nice evening!
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00:03:10With the support of Beijing's influence, a new reality is being imposed
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00:03:18Välisilma Tonk tonight on Estonian
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00:14:11Good evening from Välisilm, since there are essentially
00:14:14only a few selected
00:14:17hours left until the midterm elections in the United States, our program
00:14:20is practically entirely dedicated to this topic,
00:14:23including all stories and interviews tonight.
00:14:27Tomorrow's US Congress midterm elections do not bode well for President Donald Trump.
00:14:31It's difficult to understand what the
00:14:35US political goals are in the
00:14:37Iran
00:14:39Ceasefire in Ukraine as a publicity
00:14:42stunt.
00:14:46In tomorrow's US Congress midterm elections, both the House
00:14:49of Representatives and the Senate majority are at stake, and Democrats
00:14:53have the opportunity to seize power in both. Rapid changes in US
00:14:57foreign policy are unlikely, but a sharper domestic political
00:15:00brawl can be expected. Marie Jaan Rohemäe
00:15:04continues. US congressional midterms are
00:15:08always a satisfaction rating for the incumbent
00:15:11president. For Donald Trump's Republicans,
00:15:14this is not good
00:15:15news this year.
00:15:21I think people are really frustrated with inflation, especially with respect to uh gas prices and people areus.
00:15:25with some of the corruption that they see in this administration, different
00:15:29people care about different things and immigration and the
00:15:32enforcement of immigration under this administration has been wildly different
00:15:36than in the past. Republicans fear that some of their
00:15:39previous supporters might not vote this
00:15:42time. Last weekend, Republicans in
00:15:45Fairfax County, Virginia, therefore sent out a
00:15:49text message emphasizing that staying home would mean
00:15:52a vote for higher taxes, energy bills, and
00:15:56illegal immigration.
00:15:59According to regional party leader Keiti Korka, the campaign has been
00:16:02difficult.
00:16:08uh talking so much about affordability, when gas prices were
00:16:11high under biden, nobody talked about affordability then, and
00:16:15the other thing is um, the mainstream media and I'm going to
00:16:18say the left in general has just hammered President
00:16:21Trump so hard and so it has put lot
00:16:25of people or some people into a camp of simply wanting
00:16:29to vote against President Trump.
00:16:32There are certainly those who are disappointed with Trump's policies among
00:16:35Americans without party affiliation.
00:17:07The struggles in Texas and Kansas are
00:17:10shocking to Korka.
00:17:12I really worry, are we gonna is it going to be too little, too
00:17:16late for us to sort of turn the course?
00:17:20I don't know, unfortunately, we may have to go through a period of
00:17:24experiencing some of the socialist
00:17:26policies for people to really understand what
00:17:30socialism is. Part of the problem right
00:17:32now, a high percentage of our young
00:17:35people think it so...
00:18:37we're talking about, because they show where the democrats and
00:18:40bipartisan actually agreement in congress wants to go post
00:18:442028, which is reasserting congress's role over
00:18:47trade policy. At the same time, other countries should consider that
00:18:51tariffs will not disappear anymore. there's a lot of reasons about
00:18:54that, budget constraints on our end, revenue in the United States, the tariffs
00:18:58generate revenue deals that have been negotiated that involve investment commitments
00:19:02from other countries that the next president won't just want to give up on. However,
00:19:06tariffs may change, and for some European partners, they may
00:19:09even decrease, especially since both this and the next
00:19:12administration want to cooperate with Europeans against
00:19:16China's trade policy. We have a shared
00:19:19problem and that shared problem is China, China's export
00:19:22capacity. So you are experiencing that in Europe with all of the outflow and
00:19:25manufacturing products, automobiles, but not just automobiles, we have our trade
00:19:29issues with China. Is there something unified we want to do, US and Europe
00:19:33to deal with this? In that case, can we then renegotiate our bilateral trading?
00:19:41No matter how tomorrow's elections go, Democrats
00:19:44and Republicans will already be moving
00:19:47towards the 2028 presidential elections
00:19:50the day after tomorrow. Over the next two years, there will be plenty
00:19:54to think about for both.
00:19:58And in the studio is Anni Karras, an expert in elections and political communication.
00:20:02Good evening, with what
00:20:05probability will the majority in both chambers now
00:20:09go to the Democrats? Good
00:20:11evening. These different prediction
00:20:14engines and also analysts
00:20:18rate this possibility as rather very high, so if
00:20:21we now look at both, then maybe the estimate
00:20:25is a little lower, but in the view of the House of Representatives, these estimates still range
00:20:28between 80-90%, so that is feasible. Whether this also happens in
00:20:32the Senate, there is a 50-60%
00:20:35probability, in some opinions. A little higher,
00:20:38but it seems that a change is coming. But can
00:20:42opinion polls not also be somehow
00:20:46misleading? And if Democrats, for example, do not
00:20:50come to vote, then anything can happen, the result might still
00:20:53be that Republicans retain the majority, and
00:20:57well, the surprise is that predictions are always
00:21:00predictions. The final voter behavior is still decided
00:21:03on election day, as it always is. But at the moment, everything
00:21:07still indicates that I would say the main point of observation
00:21:11is now what will win: money or activity? Because Republicans have much
00:21:15more money that has been put into the campaign,
00:21:18that number already exceeds one billion
00:21:21dollars. At the same time, all surveys again indicate
00:21:24that Democrats have much greater motivation to go out and
00:21:27vote. Dissatisfaction with Trump is very high, and
00:21:31dissatisfaction is known to be a very strong
00:21:35argument for activation.
00:21:38We know how Donald Trump reacts when
00:21:41he doesn't get the Nobel Peace Prize, when he doesn't get
00:21:44all the medals and trophies. How will he take it
00:21:48if he loses?
00:21:50Well, he's already been asked that question, and I think he said in his usual
00:21:54arrogant way that
00:21:57"I can still veto," meaning that
00:22:00he can still veto anything that is decided
00:22:03against him. So, he
00:22:06certainly won't accept that loss
00:22:09easily. But another thing to watch is whether and
00:22:12to what extent Republicans will start challenging
00:22:15election results. The first situation is already ongoing in some state.
00:22:19And there will definitely be more. I believe
00:22:23that such deep state stories
00:22:26and questioning the legitimacy of elections may arise, but of course
00:22:29only in a situation where he does not get a favorable
00:22:33result. So, are Democrats ready for the possibility that
00:22:37they might win? Do they have brilliant leaders to see?
00:22:40Are they ready for all that Maria Rohemäe mentioned
00:22:44earlier, that they will start torpedoing everything that Republicans
00:22:47do? Well, we can say that this may lead America
00:22:50to perhaps a path of confusion. But on the other hand, we will at least
00:22:54see some change. Yes, well, Democrats have been
00:22:58in American politics as much as Republicans, so there is certainly
00:23:01readiness among them, and at the moment there is definitely
00:23:04a greater desire to do something. At the same time, it cannot
00:23:08be said that they currently have such a very strongly established single
00:23:12leader. At the moment, there is still a period of exploration
00:23:15among Democrats to understand who could potentially become
00:23:19their next presidential candidate, and the next elections are in
00:23:222028, so I believe that the results
00:23:26of these midterm elections will start to show a lot
00:23:30about what the power dynamics will be like among Democrats. How is it
00:23:33possible that in a country like America, where so
00:23:37many people live, where democracy prevails, everyone can
00:23:40fight their way to any position, they basically
00:23:44cannot find a common brilliant
00:23:47candidate? This is half of the American population.
00:23:50Well, the key word is probably interests, that interests
00:23:54exist both between parties and
00:23:57within parties, and there are probably many within the Democrats
00:24:00who want to become that number one
00:24:04themselves, and that's why this exploration is ongoing. Kamala
00:24:07Harris has also been said to potentially try again,
00:24:11but within the Democrats, there is a considerable strong sentiment
00:24:14among certain groups who
00:24:18after she failed once already
00:24:20no longer believe in her, so it cannot be assumed from this basis
00:24:24that she will run again, although there are talks about her. So, what
00:24:28ultimately is it that has disappointed
00:24:31voters, including Republican voters, with Donald Trump the
00:24:35most? Well, we here imagine it's the hormone crisis,
00:24:38maybe, well, we also think about Ukraine, but what is it that has disappointed
00:24:42Americans now? Well, the biggest concerns are
00:24:45domestic, but these domestic concerns stem
00:24:49largely from the same
00:24:52issues that you just mentioned. Inflation
00:24:55is one of the main concerns. On the topic
00:24:59of inflation, I looked at a recent survey, and practically
00:25:0275% of people say they are very
00:25:05dissatisfied with how Trump has handled
00:25:08this issue. Similarly, there is immigration,
00:25:12regarding which he has made abrupt decisions
00:25:16that have affected certain voter groups.
00:25:20In light of this, one should definitely
00:25:23monitor electoral districts with Latin American
00:25:26backgrounds and those of Latinos, as there is another very
00:25:30significant aspect of dissatisfaction there, and certainly the Iran
00:25:33war and everything related to
00:25:36energy is under very strong criticism,
00:25:40and well, that may also be one of the reasons why, when there was talk for a while that
00:25:43he might take another more active step towards Iran, well,
00:25:47why not even before the elections then, looking at it.
00:25:51Well, yes, I don't believe in that,
00:25:54but at the same time, surprises can always happen,
00:25:57but just looking at the dissatisfaction in that direction, it is simply very
00:26:00unlikely that they would do anything
00:26:04immediately before people go to vote. Well, Donald
00:26:08Trump has a second term in office,
00:26:12basically, the president doesn't have to worry about anything
00:26:15anymore, he can do whatever he wants, because he doesn't have to think that he won't
00:26:19be elected next time. Is it, if he
00:26:23loses, even a substantial problem
00:26:25for him? Well, looking at his
00:26:29modus operandi so far, we can't be sure that he himself thinks
00:26:32this is his last term in office. I say that with a touch of irony,
00:26:36but this
00:26:38conviction that he is capable of achieving great deeds and
00:26:42also striving for the Nobel Peace Prize, in light of all that, I believe he
00:26:46may still see that there is something to lose, so he certainly won't
00:26:49take that fight lightly.
00:26:53And even if it should happen that
00:26:56in the Senate, for example, or
00:27:00in the House of Representatives, it goes over to the Democrats, then
00:27:04it won't be easy for the Democrats, because even if you have a small
00:27:07majority, then, for example, in the House of Representatives, they should have at least
00:27:11enough votes to overcome something there, for example, to end
00:27:15obstructions, no, more precisely in the Senate, they need at least 60, right?
00:27:18So, these are the election results that
00:27:22we are currently looking at, that it is said that they only need a majority.
00:27:26to achieve five or six votes, then those five or six votes or
00:27:29or or in reality do not change the big game for the Democrats,
00:27:33so uh,
00:27:36rather what will happen is that Trump will continue his previous
00:27:39style, there will be an even bigger stalemate and
00:27:42trench warfare, but results will not
00:27:46actually be achieved, which in turn will probably lead to the American people
00:27:50being even more dissatisfied than they already are today. Well, how could Donald
00:27:53Trump, if he loses,
00:27:57We know he has that habit. They have made
00:28:00various attempts in the direction of Ukraine, we... we have
00:28:03seen that, so that is definitely one place where
00:28:07he can continue that direction.
00:28:09The other thing that he has threatened a bit here, where
00:28:13he has tried to become a bigger friend with various
00:28:16autocratic countries than the democratic world thinks is
00:28:20reasonable, or should even be the case, well, that is definitely
00:28:24another direction, and Iran cannot be left
00:28:26unnoticed, because energy
00:28:30is one of his strategic
00:28:33goals. If you also look at, for example, his decision signed a year
00:28:36ago, with which he launched such a large
00:28:40artificial intelligence development program, then one of its cornerstones,
00:28:44in addition to technological domination, was also
00:28:47securing and supplying
00:28:50energy. Where can we expect the biggest
00:28:54surprises from this
00:28:56performance now? Eh, surprises,
00:28:59mm
00:29:01ee, you'll see? There are
00:29:05e.g. Alaska, Ohio, Iowa,
00:29:09Texas for sure, Michigan,
00:29:13Maine, it is said that these are the six main ones, where
00:29:16today the numbers show that with a high
00:29:20probability the Democrats will be able to bring about some kind of breakthrough
00:29:24there, so those will become the decisive factors, but
00:29:27it is definitely worth looking at the voters in the suburbs of
00:29:31big cities, who are usually
00:29:35unpredictable in their behavior, and whether and how actively
00:29:38they will even turn out, and they are also most strongly affected by this inflation,
00:29:42and rural areas exactly the same way, so there may be surprises
00:29:45in activity or also
00:29:49well, precisely, from which side will the activity increase? Well,
00:29:52a Democratic victory in Texas,
00:29:55how will he definitely comment
00:29:58on that somehow, he will somehow say something to the people of Texas
00:30:02about it, I can't even imagine it. Well, if that
00:30:05were to happen, then that is one state where I would predict that
00:30:09the election results would still be called into question, that then
00:30:13someone's long fingers sinned there.
00:30:16If there is a loss, then could we also expect
00:30:20some kind of Capitol riot-like
00:30:23thing? I would hope not, I have not
00:30:26seen such an analysis from analysts
00:30:30in America that it is considered likely, but Trump has
00:30:34surprised me before, so, uh, but yes, I would rather
00:30:37not believe in its repetition today. Well, it has also been said that it is feared
00:30:41that he will also weaken NATO.
00:30:45Yes, NATO is also definitely one of the critical topics
00:30:48that need to be followed, that is, if he is still
00:30:52deeply offended, then Ukraine,
00:30:54NATO, and such
00:30:57liberal democratic principles are those.