but. this is news alone from a close vote expected as polling chooses a president populous incumbent he's favored to win the runoff but he faces a tough challenge from wausau as pro e.u. mayor rafael confiscate. the u.n. security council agrees on a new lifeline for syria in a vote to extend mandatory need to liveries to the rebel held north but russia and china in says it entered the country through a single border crossing. a

market welcome to the program polls are heading to the ballot box 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 country set poland's divide it challenges a community of 8000 people in central poland most people here work in agriculture in town as a bastion of support for incumbent president people here say things have gotten better on his presidency if they're not going to be candid to the faith 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 with us there's a. lot of those of years on the. opposition candidate rafael just kosky has also made extravagant complain promises he's courting the youth vote you know i propose a grad 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 he only paid $240.00 euros a month so what kind of salary 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 it why didn't he ask you

a question some hundreds of people come out to see and to meet was this mayor in towns like ah george but dude as incumbent attracts crowds of thousands of people who don't want things to change this says fight with the child support extra subsidies for pensions and tax cuts he's provided. not that i'm starving 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 victory in sunday's elections may well be decided by a handful of votes. joining me from. polar service greetings monica give us a sense of what's at stake. well this election is a clash of 2 different systems of values on one hand there are huge conservative parts of the polish society would close with close ties to the catholic church and

for that these are voters of the incumbent president conservative the conservative . for them the western liberalism represented by the open and candidate. is a threat for the traditional values. and the liberal mayor of warsaw. poland to be a conduit which is more tolerant more leiber out and 1st of all what he's looking for is. our closer ties to the european union. was fairly popular one point but their popularity has been slipping why is that. what i. didn't expect this strong opposition candidate and he came very late late into this race 1st after the election which was settled for

may originally was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. he put a lot of energy a lot of fresh air into this race and. this was something which the incumbent president was not prepared for so he tried to radicalize his language he attacked foreign media for interfering in the polish election campaign he attacked the l g b t community for building what he called an ideology which would undermine the polish of the traditional values. so that this radicalization mobilized that they leave liberal voters who. started to hope that there must be another turn at the polish politics and is this. the people his victory and the power monopoly of the ruling and justice party and would be defined as the major

change in polish politics in 5 years monica when can we expect the final result and just how tight is it likely to be. yes this is a very tight race and this is. this election and there are many legal concerns about this election because the postponing of the election was not quite in accordance with the polish constitution. only the fact that the polish people living abroad has only the possibility to make the postal vote. for many experts is being criticized by many experts so there we will be a huge challenge for the election commission to count all the votes and with the very tight the difference. results are expected we expect them. at the earliest tomorrow but probably in 2 days got it monica shroud to go with the

polish service really appreciate that the u.n. security council has voted to extend humanitarian aid deliveries to millions of syrians who rely on it to survive their council back to proposal that would use only one authorized crossing point for aid supplies into the country on the turkey syria border aid agencies are warning that the decision to shut down all other access routes will intensify the suffering of thousands of displaced syrians and cost lives the result of the vote follows $12.00 votes in favor. no votes against and 3 abstentions. resolution submitted by benjamin and germany is adopted. a resolution from the united nations security council to resume aid deliveries to war 2 on syria one day after the program had expired but it gave way

to russia's unhearing demands only one border crossing from turkey will remain open for the next 12 months a move that will cut a lifeline as western countries describe it for syrians in the country's northwest to be clear today's resolution leaves a bitterly disappointed at the law. and on our border crossings the syrian themselves i had a voice will tell you that a lot of those crossings is unacceptable and rest the health and welfare of millions of their fellow syrians are those people who gave the instructions to give instructions to cut out the aid of 500000 children. to look into the mirror to mark . this a cure or to cancel it was in a deadlock the majority of members argued to the 2 crossing points were essential

especially during the coronavirus pandemic but the veto powers russia and china argued that the north west of syria can be reached from within the country. we could have the right to these results much earlier and while most of the cross is what russia was because it's just the very beginning. initially the u.n. aid mission had included access to syria from jordan and iraq those crossing points were cut in january also due to russia and china. correspondent basil the reason he in beirut has more on this story for us welcome basle why were russia and china blocking for their border crossings. the international diffuser for 2 border crossings is because they believe that there is no single party whose controlling it province and according to some sources close to the russian stance told me this morning that according to previous

experiences mainly in aleppo. controlled and stuck by it upas and refused to deliver it to the syrians unless they got paid made inside the russian pushing forward to make these getting aid passed through the syrian government. because according to the sources they told me that it's better much way better to have these aid that's don't go to keep that there than via the euro so in the eastern border or jordanian borders in south of syria because the state went through and yet controlled by the medicare u.s. army. at the same time this was spent at this kind of compromise benefit in syria because it would keep turkey in control over the over the. ok so let's let's make something really crystal clear here in the end nations voted

to in fact extend aid to the syrian people so why specifically did the german u.n. ambassador and others expressed disappointment about the compromise. because they were asking for 2 crossing borders border crossings one turkey of course 12 and the 2nd one to a little for 6 months but because due to the russian and chinese vetoes the compromise was for one. border. directly for one year instead of 6 months but they may try it here is the one district or one maybe will not give sufficient supplies for the. province essentially the projection on their part is people are going to suffer so what else will this decision mean for people on the ground is that essentially it. yes of course this will unfortunately this kind of wars will affect directly and the c.b.d.

ends up being the highest prices especially with that with the announcement of the 1st cabinet 19. according to some opposition sources talking about the syrian observatory for human rights told me this morning that 11 point across it will not be sufficient to supply 3000000. and the us will control this but it's turkey or the us and specials that there is too many of that of main sufficient supplies and therefore now this may very well be a dynamic situation let's see if the security council gets better on this in weeks to come that'll really think you so much. thank you. let's now take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world thousands of bulgaria ins have protesters for a 3rd day in a row they're demanding the resignation of the center right government and the country's chief prosecutor prime minister boyko boards of some has resisted the

calls saying the opposition socialists would break the state apart if they assumed power. on one of india's best known film actors has tested positive for covert 19 together with his actor son both have been moved to a private hospital the bollywood legend has been a prominent figure in the fight against a krone virus appearing in public service advertisement. the. us president donald trump has appeared in public wearing a face 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. and here are some other developments in the krona 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 mexican the number of mexicans in extreme poverty has nearly doubled since february amid widespread job losses and the wife of brazilian president gyre balsa says she has tested negative for the virus the brazilian president announced she had the virus on tuesday he's quarantining at home in a separate bedroom from his wife. sports 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 truck driving for mercedes fought off and 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.

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