bachmann is a professor of political science at university of social sciences and humanities in wausau a professor it's nice to have you with us so l g b t rights how did that become a major campaign issue. well this was a calculation it was made by spin doctors of the ruling party somewhere or at some point during the pandemic and it turns out in politics that people are getting more and more restrictive and one more kind of xenophobia or directly to get spam nobodies and. they needed something to compensate that and to work to to take advantage of the use of this tendency year at the problem is that it means time has a lot on it's now oh mostly and i mean especially it's no no that and more as the lockdown was. it was faced out also piskies tendency started to disappear and now it's less and less less and less well i would say attractive for voters to. follow the propaganda and actually the propaganda has been has been also faced out to some some extent now it's going to men topic at the moment right so rough just koskie wasn't a major threat at the start of this political season how

is the front runner but wausau mayor rafael chiles koff ski of the center right main opposition party has been rising in the polls he has pushed l g b t rights to the top of the political agenda. now to separate protests against 2 forms of intolerance here in berlin around a 1000 demonstrators rally to support the black lives matter movement and draw attention to racism in germany nearby thousands more gathered to highlight discrimination against the community. with went to both demonstrations. apparently in pride march unlike any other smaller but still strident political instead of commercial with the official parade cancelled due to the coronavirus some activists still sore cause to demonstrate. just because there are a pandemic we don't have a break for transport beyond homophobia and that's reason what we all denies of right today rights groups say the number of attacks against the quick community in berlin increased in the past year same sex public affection is still sometimes met with violence even in girland as many crimes against gay people here and so we are here today to sa

majority he needs to win outright his opponent in the runoff on the belt of july will be the mayor of wausau. who gonna just over 30 percent of the vote for. at least 28 people died in the british capital when their ferry capsized after the collision the boat was carrying it on 100 passengers when it was hit by a larger vessel rescuers are continuing to search the river. the world has passed another sobering milestone in the koran about us pandemic the total number of global cases of the virus has now surpassed $10000000.00 while the number of global deaths now exceeds 500000 the us brazil and britain ranked the highest in terms of fatalities in the us the state of florida has reported a record daily crees of nearly 10000 new cases and full of the states have also seen record spikes infections of particularly surging in regions that lifted lockdowns. they've been battling the coronavirus around the clock but us medical professionals are at their limits in the state of texas alone nearly 6000 new cases were confirmed in just one day despite the rising infections vice president mike pence went

it would help polish soldiers defend our border. 100 years ago, we repelled russians from wausau. we drew them back. it was a great victory, but we managed to stop them to warsaw. we never wanted to see that situation repeated again. that is why the presence is especially important to us today. i'm very pleased that both within nato as well as in the united states today that the president of the united states understands the history of europe and he understands the reality in europe. he also understands the situation as it is developing in europe. so today, this generates peace to my country. it brings security. and thanks to that. russia, unfortunately is a very strong imperial addition, which hasn't revised over the last tens of years i can say, because two georgia it was attacked in 2008. the attacks have stopped for the time being at least in this part of the world. i have no doubt whatsoever that this is also a huge merit of the policy of the united states. i'm grateful for that just like all of my compatriots are. >> president trump: i want to add 2014, which the president w

there were thousands more in wausau, wisconsin. the mayor there saying it might be the largest political protest ever in that city. look at this. this is upstate new york. this is troy, new york. the organizers of this protest said that 11,000 people turned out in troy. there were protests this weekend in victor, idaho and in nutley, new jersey, and in kalispell, montana, palmer alaska. from all corners of this country, protesting george floyd's killing and the treatment of african-americans at the hands of police in this country. with those scenes playing out across the country all through this weekend and through today for a 14th day of response to that killing, today the now former officer, the fired officer at the center of george floyd's case appeared before a judge for the first time. derek chauvin, the officer who kept his knee on george floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes as mr. floyd pled for his life and struggled to breathe, former officer chauvin made his first appearance by video feed today. he was wearing an orange j

course the city has dollar gender they want to keep winning and wants to win the chairman's ucas wausau he will not want to. you know drop off and performances especially with a view of those big games coming back in august when when a chance of hopefully comes back ok rafael chronic stein thank you so much for your time you're welcome barcelona have maintained their perfect record since the spanish legacies of resumed they beat league anus at home and are now 5 points clear of the nearest rivals around madrid it was the 1st match the camp new hosted after the league's 3 month break 17 year old and so fatty scored his 5th goal of the season for barcelona an all time top scorer lino massi doubled their lead in the 69th minute sealing the 2 nil when the 99000 capacity stadium was far from atmospheric as fans are barred from all illegal matches in an attempt to stop the spread of covert 19. before the event that is going before we started i was having a stroll around them it's so different losing such an important part of football the ego the noise the atmosphere the applause everything th

(end video clip) >> next, is tim - calling from wausau, wisconsin. hi, tim. ahead. >> caller thank you for taking my call. i have read several biographies about mary lincoln, and i have never, ever seen anything in there as to how influential she was on some of the policies that abraham enacted while he was president. and i'm just wondering if either of your guests could elaborate further as to the extent of her influence on the political decisions that were made in the white house during abraham's term in office. >> thank you. was she interested in politics or in policy? >> she was interested in personalities. she used to refer to seward as "that abolitionist sneak." grant was "that butcher." but the fact is, i think - we talked earlier - ironically, once they actually had attained their goal, once they moved into the white house, i think her influence certainly, as we would use that term today, over policy diminished. i think their partnership was in some ways broken. >> i think the war consumed him, and i think it was a source of frustration for her. the r