A look at the final day of action in germanys 2nd division where there was joy and frustration as teams invited for promotion to the top to. Make spicer welcome to the program exit polls in polands president ial election show incumbent n. J. Due to winning the 1st round with nearly 42 percent of the vote but falling short of an absolute majority needed to win outright the candidate from the law and Justice Party has run a combative campaign promoting conservative values he caused controversy by focusing on what he called the spread of l g b t ideology in the traditionally catholic country to his opponent in the likely president ial runoff in 2 weeks is warsaw mayor koskie who garnered just over 30 percent of the vote from the centrist civic platform. Party his Campaign Pledge was to heal the rifts in polands divided society. And im joined now by the interviews voice action nancy from the polish service so is this still a race it is the race go on the incumbent president mr du the war i
Venezuela shipments from iran are on the way but theres the threat of a showdown with the u. S. And the drive to attract tourists back to one of the worlds most visited cities there are safety concerns. And sport the head of cattle is World Cup Organizing Committee values to keep the event affordable for found us and all the while he says not pricing out supporters has become more important due to the Economic Impact of coronavirus. Now there are reports that the Chinese Government plans to introduce National Security laws in hong kong following months of mass protests against beijing there and this all comes as chinas biggest political gathering of the kicks off in beijing the opening session of the top political advisory body comes a day ahead of the National Peoples congress for more on this lets cross live now to our correspondent katrina you shes in beijing katrina this is a hugely controversial legislation remember back in 2003 the last time it was on the table it brought a 10000
And it is way bigger than any of us this is europes moment. The European Union proposes an unprecedented 800000000000. 00 stimulus package to deal with the coronavirus pandemic fallout. And he was one of the worlds most wanted man a Court Decides where a top suspect in the rwandan genocide should be tried. Im joining us there with sports the English Premier League teams agreed to return to contact training and by nina take a step closer to a record 30th but just like a title as theyve been here is rivals but. So we begin in the United States where another death of an unarmed black man in Police Custody has triggered new protests police fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators calling. Justice in minneapolis has been you know widespread outrage the video of mud showing an officer using his need to pin george floyd to the ground the officers involved in the attempted arrests have been fired and now all cools for them to Face Criminal Charges 100 times this report should just warn you tha
Musicians before. The program its billed as the worlds biggest festival and every year it attracts some 6000000. 00 visitors from around the globe but this year. The 1st. Event is the latest to be canceled because of the corner of. The state. Given the enormous crowds. Its the 1st time the festival has been. Political correspondent nina hauser joins us with more. Emotionally difficult moment. I think for a very in politics in this is probably one of the west nightmares come true and the october fest means everything to the varians it stands for everything they think the various should stand for its a gigantic party its a piece of important its an important piece of Cultural Heritage and then last but not least its also a very important business event last year alone the oktoberfest generated some 1230000000 euros let me just say yes 1000000000 euros and actually hotels taxi drivers restaurants they all benefit from it so its an extremely important period and this is why it was so diffi
Of black women athletes in the age of jim crow. Thanks for joining us on American History. Thanks for having me. Let me begin with your book expected to be published in about a year. What have you learned so far . Oh, so many things. I started the project asking is there a long history of black women in sports and i found more than i expected to find quite frankly. There wasnt any archive labelled this is a history of black women in sports. So i kind of had to piece it together. I got started by finding three women who played baseball in the negro leagues in the 1950s. And it was a remarkable story. They played with the men. And one of the things that stuck out to me about that story was that the owner who had brought in the black women to play against the men said he had something called a gal file. Where women across the country and young girls too were writing in to request tryouts and that struck in my head as a young graduate student and i thought, hm, if there is a lot of black g