really check out our podcast you can get it wherever you get your podcast you can also find us at. science. this is think of the news live from bourbon a close vote is expected as poland chooses a president populist incumbent and is favored to win the runoff but he faces a tough challenge from warsaw as part of a new rathole chess culture. and the u.n. security council agrees on a new lifeline for syria in a vote to extend humanitarian aid to the priest to the rebel held north but russia

and china insist it into the country through a single border crossing. i'm anthony how it will come polls are heading to the ballot box in what is expected to be a close run off to elect a president incumbent n.j. due to lead the 1st round of voting but there it is facing a strong challenge from opposition candidate. the challenger wants to chart a new course for poland and repair strains ties with the european union. the polls are open till 9 pm in the official results are not expected until monday or tuesday opinion polls show the 2 candidates neck in nick as polls choose between competing visions for the next 5 u.s. . conservative versus liberal big city versus country site poland is divided about

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 under his presidency he leaves them up when we can get 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 face with us there's a. lot of those of years on the opposition candidate refound to scoff ski has also made extravagant campaign promises he's courting the youth vote. no go on those are 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 cover 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 what he must be a crush on some 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 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 the ground stop that no law that restricts or liquidate such benefits will be signed by me you can be assured of that. dude 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. he will be decided by a handful of votes. of more on this envoy joined by yet take

a hot chick case the director of institute of public affairs a political think tank based in warsaw that's a thanks for joining us but it's a relating a president today not a new government so why then is the selection seen as so important for poland. hello yes indeed their election it's seen as not just important but indeed a crucial vote on the continuation of the rule not just by president but by our law and justice party. and the. scene of by many as a kind of referendum on the 5 years altogether of this government and this president. challenging the status quo which was marked by 5 years old. growth good economic conditions

and generous social handouts but also by extremely popular east you know i would even say all 3030 and all it's of this government which tried to dismantle many checks and balances crucial for democracy and also attacked many social groups like the plus people and other groups who protest that that gave some of the policies of this government so for its openness this is a vote against that kind of not just not just a party but a certain way of doing politics in poland you have to do this late in the polls has slipped in the past few months why's that. the situation the events that led to this elections were quite stormy and very

difficult to explain you know brief uncomprehensible learn their elections were scheduled for majoring the punt they meek and the government the ruling party was insisting to conduct their lections as evilly as possible because they expect that significant worsening of economic situation later in the autumn this year and later on so they were you know rush to conduct elections and most of the population was against this site the better for. the also of the president who supported the course of action. so it being people were not very happy at least some people were not very happy also by specific all incidents during the pandemic so that create the kind of crisis in the ruling camp. and the. president who a few months ago seemed like

a sure when they're suddenly started face real challenge. and this is still the situation that we still don't know what what the final outcome of the both will be which is a big surprise to the ruling party although it has everything under control and can be assured of a good result for them yessica hot chick from the institute of public affairs in warsaw thank you so much. thank you. well the u.n. security council has voted to extend humanitarian aid deliveries to millions of syrians who rely on it to survive the council back to proposal that would use only one authorized crossing point for aid supplies into the country that being 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 voting useless follows 12 votes in favor of. no votes against. 3 abstentions. resolution submitted by germany is adopted. a resolution from the united nations security council to resume aid deliveries towards iran syria one day after the program had expired but it gave way to russia and he holding demands of the 2 functioning ones 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 north west western countries had even pushed to reopen the border crossing from iraq. to be clear today's resolution leaves bitterly disappointed at the law. and on

our border crossing. the syrian themselves i had a voice. we tell you that the last 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 the instructions to cut off the aid of 500000 children if they are ready to look into the mirror to mark. the security council 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 and. we could have the right to these results much earlier and while most important to cross into even that is what russia was because it is 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 let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. 4 people have been killed in deadly protests in the capital bamako clashes erupted as demonstrators called for the resignation of president ibrahim because. the opposition rejected concessions by character who announced he was dissolving the country's constitutional court in a bid to calm the wrist. hundreds of thousands of hong kong was turned out over the weekend to vote in a pro-democracy primary the poll was held 2 weeks after beijing imposed a sweeping national security law on the semi autonomous territory the move is widely seen as chipping away at the one country 2 systems. floods are continuing to bet a lot stretches over southern china affecting nearly 34000000 people more rain is expected in the coming days the chinese government has allocated nearly 40000000

euros for disaster relief to flood soaked regions of the country. and president donald trump has appeared in public wearing a face mask for the 1st time trump donned the mask 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 cocaine 19 in brazil that's the 2nd highest number in the world after the united states 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. 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 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 gram presence that indigenous rights groups have been calling for but the testing is much needed only the same. shaken why do you arrived a little bit afraid they noticed us from afar but then we can that trust they can

close it all went well and it's all been so rewarding. to make it. there are hundreds of indigenous groups living in brazil and not all of found in the amazon. were ronnie and be a lived on the edge of the country's biggest cities. here to a community is threatened by the corona virus its residents have been learning how to be in 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 growing a virus is ravaging south america's largest country. and the fear is that it's people like days who will be hurt the most. disease added to poverty and palace.

a further challenge in brazilian indigenous people struggle for survival. and he now is a quick look at some of the other developments in the corona virus pandemic and the india has registered the new records the cases with of the 28000 infections in the last day several states have been reimposed local lockdowns to slow the spread at least 16000000 mexicans meanwhile 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 and made widespread job losses and the wife of brazilian president says she has tested negative for the corona virus he announced that he had tested positive for the virus on cheese day and his quarantining at. sport now in formula one it was a great day for the story and grand prix and for the mercedes team and on the the 2nd race of the season well champion lewis hamilton who started on pole position

picked up his 1st victory of the season he was followed by team i fell 3 both us in 2nd grade both max finished up and alexander album finished 3rd and 4th mixed up the formula one is the hungary and grown pre and that is next some that i'll be back at the top of the hour with more news headlines in the meantime there's always the web site d w dot com for now i'm anthony how tough will the team here in berlin thanks for watching. the needle on did not complete the 2nd season of only. the planet on the brink of disaster we did long in-depth interviews with experts about one question how it has really changed him.