party that shook germany's political system to its core all right did abuse chief political editor mcculloch of new joins me now from our parliament studios very good to have you with us mikaela so today lawmakers in through an elected rama low as state premier what went different this time round. well everybody was aware that the far right if the party could pull a political trick the reason given was last time around just a couple of weeks ago angela merkel's c.d.u. delegates here at the state level in theory suddenly saw themselves within the same political count as the far right if t. which led to the favorite in that race border not being elected of course we never would have reported on such a result lection if it hadn't broken the political to do here. norm corporation by mainstream democratic parties with the far right if tea party and that's also why this made already an entry into the history books because it smacked of historical references back to us 933 when the mainstream conservative camps helped to power that's how deep the impact was here in germany right so you've just outl

something that is truly historic to see what it was you know let's see our chief political editor mcculloch with me tonight in berlin we kill or thank you. the coronavirus statistics for germany and the united states have run fairly parallel for much of this al break in terms of confirmed cases but not in the number of deaths germany has noticeably fewer deaths than the us or what does that say about germany's health care system well it may be too early to draw any conclusions at the moment germany's hospitals and clinics like those in the us are struggling to cope with this crisis in rural areas the phones have not stopped ringing at doctors' offices where worries and questions are in abundance but staff and equipment are in short supply. the streets are deserted in the town of. we're on our way to visit a family doctor she's had to deal with a sharp rise in the number of people consulting her since the corona crisis began. yeah nicole suspends up to 15 hours a day advising and treating patients at practice is in a near constant state of emergency it was particularly crazy at the beginning

s chief political adviser mcculloch often are. well it was a rather sober assessment of the situation as she basically told the public that this virus was now here and that it would be here to stay for some time that there would indeed be more deaths and that this was a situation where the government doesn't really have all the answers yet so that's pretty strong stuff for a country that likes to see the political brand of stability that suzy provided by anger machall in place she pretty much echoed the scientists who's pretty much in charge of this the head of the whole box called institute here in germany those recommendations to take care not to have gatherings of more than 1000 people and at the same time to sort of mining ourselves that she came out of a conference call with e.u. leaders calling for an approach of course also knowing that joint approach will be cut short but tensity just by the very fact that every country is pretty much fending for itself right now in trying to track this disease and trying to stop it from s

to his supporters thomas lubanga left mcculloch prison in kinshasa. but to others he was considered one of the most dangerous moon in what's now the democratic republic of congo. you know me better than these 3 international criminal court judges who tried to present me as a devil i remain thomas lubanga who suffered with you in 20022003 during these conflicts and who turi i remain the same to you my people that are not militia this young girl was among many who was taken from have family trained and forced to fight in the 2nd congress will was. a head is a militia called the union of congolese patriots all the u.p.c. one of 6 groups involved in fighting for control of the mineral rich turi region between 19092003 he was later found guilty of abducting children under the age of 15 and forcing him to fight he denied the charge. 10th of july 2012 and historic moment for the i.c.c. its 1st ever case arrest and trial vanga. recruit train and use hundreds of young children to kill. the lights and rape the city banker is sentenced to a total period of 14 ye

exercises as she looks to secure her 1st and then pick trip meanwhile 2 time olympic champion sam mcculloch won his 2nd all around title he was the top scorer on the parallel bars and on the floor. everyone's favorite dog sled race is back the idea to rod race got under. away with the ceremonial start in anchorage alaska on saturday this year 57 mischa's are competing which is the 2nd smallest field in the past 2 decades the real race starts on sunday and will take teams 1600 kilometers through deep snow and 2 mountain ranges to the bering sea coast and the old gold rush town of gnome the winner is expected there in about 11 days and will take home a prize of 50 $5000.05 former champions are in the race all right that is useful for now have to feel like to nick thanks very much they rarely go away and that's it for this news i'll be back. with more the day's news from c n n. then nature's news as it breaks the fostering service is supposed to start from early next year and the corona virus outbreak could put the brakes on the project and slow down construction we detail coverage we know the

to his supporters thomas lubanga left mcculloch prison and. the 2 others he was considered one of the most dangerous mood in what's now the democratic republic of congo. you know me better than these 3 international criminal court judges who tried to present me as a devil i remain thomas lubanga who suffered with you in 20022003 during these conflicts and it turi i remain the same to you my people that it was not militia this young girl was among many who was taken from have family trained and forced to fight in the 2nd continents will the. banga heads a militia called the union of congolese patriots all the u.p.c. one of 6 groups involved in fighting for control of the mineral rich region between 19092003. he was later found guilty of abducting children under the age of 15 and forcing him to fight he denied the charge. 10th of july 2012 and historic moment for the i.c.c. its 1st ever case arrest and trial vanga armed group. recruit train and use hundreds of young children to kill the latch and rape dissolute bangor is sentenced to a total per

terry mcculloch, a number of former 0bama officials. briefly, what happens now?ther group of states in a couple of weeks. florida, arizona, ohio and illinois. you will see a battle therebetween bernie sanders and joe biden. we cannot forget about michael bloomberg, he is reported to reassess his campaign tomorrow. elizabeth warren has shown no indications of dropping out despite a poor performance tonight. thank you very much. i like the idea ofjoe menton. we will have to use that again. 36 minutes past six. it is wednesday morning. a big night of football tonight and last night as well. liverpool are really struggling. liverpool are really struggling. liverpool well beaten by chelsea last night. a few weeks ago, liverpool could seem to do no wrong. the league title will surely come, but they've now lost three of their last four games after chelsea knocked them out of the fa cup. adrian gave willian a helping hand to open the scoring for chelsea. and ross barkley ran half the length of the pitch to score the winner. they could easily have scored four, but boss fr