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this is deja news live from berlin and a close vote expected as poland votes for a president populist incumbent on jade is favored to win a 2nd round vote but he faces a tough challenge from wausau us freight e.u. mayor rafael chess koskie. the un security council agrees on a new lifeline for syria in a foe to extend many terror and aid deliveries to the rebel held mourns but russia and china insist it enter the country through a single border. and in brazil the country's 2nd worst hit by
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a proto virus it's the indigenous peoples who fear they will suffer the. a michael ok welcome to the program polls have opened in poland in what is expected to be a close runoff vote to elect a president people began lining up early this morning to cast their votes they face a choice between 2 opposing visions for poland the result could shape poland's future relations with the e.u. relations have been frayed by the blocs concerns over political control of the country's rule of law. conservative versus liberal big city versus countryside poland is divided russia is a community of 8000 people in central poland most here were. in agriculture the
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town is a bastion of support for incumbent president on jay duda people here say things have gotten better under his party did to say things that i have 2 children and i get child support during the drought we got 8000 euros that was a great help and there's also more money for the animals. and whether those of us wants opposition candidate ref l. just called ski has also made extravagant campaign promises he's courting the youth vote. i propose a graduate program for the 50000 best and most talented young people from towns and villages so they can develop their abilities and get a shot at an education from the best schools and universities. just coasting appeals to people who are disappointed by the incumbent president. so in watching me at house i got my son just went to holism is because his apprenticeship from the employment office pays only 240 euros
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a month that's what kind of salary is that for working 8 hours a day and president do talks about opportunities for young people their only chance is to go abroad that's it hundreds of people come out to see and to me as mayor in towns like russia. but due to the incumbent attraction crowds of thousands of people who don't want things to change they're satisfied with the child support extra subsidies for pensions and tax cuts he's provided. no law that restricts or liquidate such benefits will be signed by me you can be assured of that. due to is confident of victory but it looks to be a tight race shall ski has the lead in liberal cities victory in sunday's elections may well be decided by a handful of votes. joining me from wausau is a moniker from de polar service monica what's at stake in this election.
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for many people in poland this is a choice between disaster and hope. this is a clash of 2 different systems of values. their conservative president actually do that is an ally of the government and he supports every reform by this government which have been heavily criticized by the european union the judicial judicial reform which puts on the judicial system under the government control like. limitation of freedom of meat media and putting public media and under the control of the state and his open and i thought. once exactly the opposite. he wants closer ties with brussels he wants more leverage out paul and he wants. he said he wants a country which is more open and more tolerant for different from different
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minorities like a g p t groups which have been heavily attacked by president to do that in this election campaign so clarify something for us why in a nutshell has do those popularity been slipping. well the popularity has the main reason is in my opinion his very strong candidate have all just got sleepy and he came for us late very late into the race after the election was postponed during and because of the pandemic and it was kosky with his energy with his experience also put more. a lot of power a lot of energy in this into this campaign. that was not really prepared for this fight and. he he'd rather try to fight by radicalizing his late language like attacking people the media like
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attacking german media like attacking g.b.t. people for building the kind of ideology which would undermine. the traditional values and it showed. that he he desperately looked for ways. to fight in this campaign so he was not he wasn't prepared for that moniker. polling for us thank you so much. the u.n. security council has voted to extend humanitarian aid deliveries to millions of syrians who rely on it to survive the council backed a proposal that would use only one authorized crossing point for aid supplies into the country on the turkey syria border and early resolution that would have allowed to crossing points was vetoed by russia and china but they abstained from
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saturday's vote. the washington correspondent carla bleicher says this vote reflects a deep geo political g.o.p. political the division over syria while this vote has been a battle of who can push through their will basically russia and china or the western nations on the u.n. security council russia and china support the assad regime and they have been saying that humanitarian aid should come from within the country rather than from neighboring countries like turkey so they have been opposing this idea from from germany and belgium that there should be 2 border crossings open to get humanitarian aid into the rebel held north west and they are now only allowing this one border crossing. at the turkish syrian border so this means the western nations had to back down from their original
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proposal had to go with only allowing one border crossing and this is mostly considered a win for russia and china. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. there's been a 5th night of anti-government protests in the serbian capital belgrade saturday's demonstration remain peaceful following large clashes a night earlier the rallies began last week after the government announced a new krona virus lockdown critics say the country's policy on the virus has been mismanaged. more than 500 migrants have arrived on the italian island of lampedusa over the past couple of days according to the un migration agency calm seas have allowed several boats to dock with authorities warning of overcrowding on the island. u.s. president donald trump has appeared in public wearing a mask for the 1st time trump donned the mass to visit injured soldiers at
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a military hospital near washington until now trump had refused to wear a mask in public claiming he was tested regularly for the coronavirus. now over 1800000 people have tested positive for cocaine 1000 in brazil that's the 2nd highest number in the world after the u.s. more than 70000 have died and it's the poor who are most at risk of contracting the virus among them residents of the slums and the country's indigenous people. it's one of the most remote parts of south america if not the world the enemy people live in the depths of the amazon in brazil's far north. this is one of the country's largest indigenous reserves. but even here the fear of the coronavirus is growing mama shut down when we came to ask for help here to see
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if we have. we walked for hours to reach. the problem not go there. locals believe the virus was 1st brought to the reserve by prospect is searching for gold. for the remote nyssa this place increases the danger for the ghana mommy who lack access to health care services at the beginning of the month the brazilian defense ministry organized a flying clinic it's not the constant on ground presence that indigenous rights groups have been calling for but the testing is much needed only the same. level to shake a lender who arrived a little bit afraid they noticed us from afar but then weaken their trust they came closer it all went well and it's all been sort of rewarding. to have made it.
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and there are hundreds of indigenous groups living in brazil and not all of found in the amazon. where ronnie and be a lived on the edge of the country's biggest cities sao paulo. he had to a community is threatened by the coronavirus. its residents have been learning how to call it being theory. but not all of the government's advice applies in practice to those who live communally. lives but off. there isn't a proper space to recuperate or to isolate we don't have any of that and this is what worries us. the coronavirus is ravaging south america's largest country. and the fear is that it's peoples like days who will be hurt the most. disease added to poverty and palace notice a further challenge in brazilian indigenous people struggle for survival.
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25 years ago serb forces captured the buzzing in town of fred benita and carried out europe's worst massacre since the 2nd world war on saturday a ceremony was held to remember the thousands of muslims kill serb general ratko nottage was eventually convicted of war crimes and genocide but the families of the victims say they are still not at peace. the bosnian national anthem played at a ceremony to remember the fountains muslims killed on this day. the commemorations had to be scaled back teaching to coronavirus but world leaders like former u.s. president bill clinton who was in office at the time of the genocide contributed via video message. it has been profoundly moving for me. at every town every opportunity to continue to voice to those across the world
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who grieve for the families of those killed to support the ongoing efforts of sing justice those lost and recover their remains and bring them home one of the european leaders also sent thank condolences via video link. in and on those lighten the remember ends of the pain and suffering is a crucial element for reconciliation as is criminal accountability. to. the international community also used the event to recognize its shortcomings in preventing the massacre. when we are the united nations remember the need so we do so much unity and regret as we are not alleged to fail you know the international community including our own organization to prevent this tragedy many relatives of the victims haven't found closure forensic experts still haven't
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dug out and completed work on all the remains newly identified victims a buried each year on july 11th in the memorial cemetery at port a sorry just outside celebrity it said yes i'm getting there get it finished at the book i buried my son in 2013 there were only 2 bones that i had hoped that more would be found but nothing has been so far i still hope they'll be something that they will find i'm not the tribute that 1st son arch oh yes and here i am with the remains of my father died murdered in the genocide of july 11th 1900 $5.00 and $7.00 it's. the. it's the only crime in europe since world war 2 there's been declared a genocide and while many bosnian serbs continue to deny the extent of the massacre thing creasing amount of white gravestones confirms the scale of the suffering.
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through watching t w news said i'll be back with the headlines at the top of the hour in the meantime there's always the web site t w dot com you can also get your fix on twitter and instagram and news i'm like a local for the entire team here thanks for watching we'll see soon. are they friends say wanted to be with you mention the crisis here or do you wish it wasn't really a bullfighting of the trickiest thing you mention or are they enemies would be an issue finished at least sealing the border feel pushed you move forward but he's usually a little he's going to go get my shit my debit card for watching.

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