trying to settle. this is deja news a line from berlin and a close vote expected as poland chooses a president populous incumbent he is favored to win the runoff but he faces a tough challenge from wausau as you may or. the u.n. security council agrees on a new lifeline for syria in a vote to extend humanitarian aid deliveries to the rebel held north but russia and

china insist did enter the country through a single border crossing. and in brazil the country's 2nd worst hit by the hers it's the indigenous people who fear they will suffer the most. a much for joining us 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. conservatives versus let. big city versus country site

poland is divided about challenges a community of 8000 people in central poland most people here work in agriculture the town is a bastion of support for incumbent president and people here say things have gotten better under his presidency if they're not going to be good to the say if i had 2 children and i get child support during the drought we get 8000 euros that was a great help and there's also more money for the animals with us there's. one of those appears on to the. opposition candidate rafael just kosky has also made extravagant complain promises he's courting the youth vote. no are you proposing a grant 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 cut ski appeals to people who are disappointed by the incumbent president. so in washington

my son just went to holland because his apprenticeship from the point office you're only paid 240 euros a month what kind of celery is that for working 8 hours a day and president who talks about opportunities for young people they only chance is to go abroad that's at one. time hundreds of people come out to see and to meet was this mayor in towns like ah george but do doesn't come and attracts crowds of thousands people who don't want things to change this says fight with the child support extra subsidies for pensions and takes cuts he's provided the ground stop that could happen no law that restricts or liquidate such benefits will be signed by me you can be assured of that. i do it is confident of victory but it looks to be a tight race just kosky has the lead in liberal cities they do in sunday's elections may well be decided by a handful of votes. joining me from wausau is monica.

service monica good to see you again in a nutshell what is at stake in this election. well this election is a clash of 2 different countries of 2 different polar poland if you we can see it. saw this is this is a clash of 2 visions of told systems of values the incumbent conservative president ally of this government which has been heavily criticised by the european union and the open end of the strong open and wants of poland a country which has closer ties with brussels which is more open more toll around. to different for different minorities for different groups of society like the community which have been which has been strongly attacked by the incumbent

president in this in this election campaign so this is also a fight between the cities and. this is a pride between the clean big cities and smaller cities and the province where the conservative values. are much more popular and where the ties to the catholic church which is a very strong component are very very strong as well why is andre dubus popularity been slipping. well his popularity is slipping because of this strong open and. he came very late in the into this race 1st after the. election which was shadowed for may originally was postponed because of the pandemic in the form of i respond and with his energy with ice and the heat. a lot of power

a lot of energy into this race and i think that. was not really prepared for that so he he tried to fight radicalizing his language attacking g.b.t. people attacking the foreign media also german media and it was not it will because the huge backlash and criticism in the society so his popularity was diminishing. we only have about 30 more seconds but in that time can you tell us when we can expect the final result and just how likely is this to be a very tight race. it's a very tight race and there are many postal voting which have been which have. which the. election commission have to count it's very difficult to set challenge for the commission and we can expect the final results tomorrow are in 2 days i got

it monica 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 in early resolution that would have allowed to crossing points was vetoed by russia and china but they have stained from saturday's vote. d.w. washington correspondent color blacker says this vote reflects a deep geo political division over syria. well this vote has been a battle of who can push through their will basically russia and china or the western nations on the un 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 proposal had to go was only allowing one border crossing and this is mostly considered a win for russia and china. taking a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world mali's president. has announced the dissolution of the country's constitutional court it's an attempt to calm the young grass that saw 4 people killed in street protests on

friday the court has been at the center of controversy since it overturned provisional election results for earlier this year. thousands of israelis took to the streets of tel aviv to protest against the government's economic response to the coronavirus endemic unemployment has jumped above 20 percent in the country since partial lockdown came into force in more police may 1000 arrests. floods are continuing to batter large stretches of southern china affecting nearly 34000000 people more rain expected in the coming days the chinese government has allocated nearly 40000000 euros for disaster relief in flood hit regions of the country. in the us president donald trump has appeared in public wearing a mask for the 1st time trump donned the mass to visit injured soldiers at a military hospital near washington until now trump had refused to wear

a mask in public claiming he was tested regularly for the coronavirus. over 1800000 people have tested positive for covert 19 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 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 almost shut down when we came to ask for help. to see if we have well. we walked for hours to reach. the.

locals believe the virus was 1st brought to the reserve by prospect is searching for gold. in the remote missive this place increases the danger for the ghana mommy good luck access to health care services at the beginning of the month the brazilian defense ministry organized a fly in 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. let's shake it like you you know arrived a little bit afraid they noticed us from afar that then we can that trust they came closer it all went well and it's all been so rewarding. it made it ok 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 pablo. 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. 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 corona virus 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 powerlessness a further challenge in brazilian indigenous peoples struggle for survival. let's give you some other developments in the cone of virus pandemic. new infections in the united states are still at record highs with more than 60000 new

infections recorded on saturday several states logged record figures including south carolina and hawaii at least 16000000 mexicans have been plunged into poverty by the virus that's according to a new study the number of mexicans in extreme poverty has nearly doubled since february amid widespread job losses and the wife of brazilian president also nara says she has tested negative for the krona virus the brazilian president announced he had the virus on tuesday he's quarantining at home in a separate bedroom from his wife. sports news now and in formula one defending champion lewis hamilton clocked the best time in qualifying to take pole position at the steering grand prix in austria after a rain delay the briton driving for mercedes fought off a determined max for stopping of red bull to clinch pole hamilton with 6 titles

he's hoping to tie the all time record of 7 championships held by michael schumacher. as a special day for spain football fans gathered in madrid to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their world cup triumph excited fans posed with the trophy 2010 is spain's only world cup victory and that year began a run of spanish domination 2 years later spain also won the european championship . this is news here's a reminder of our top story at this hour. people in poland or voting in what's expected to be a tight presidential runoff election populous incumbent president. he's facing waltzes pro e.u. mayor chance koskie failed to win an outright majority in the 1st round 2 weeks ago . don't forget of course you can always get your news on the go just download our

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