[ inaudible ] his extraordinary boxing career only em compassed half of his life. The other half was committed to sharing a message of peace and inclusion with the world following his wishes, his funeral will reflect those principles, and be a celebration open to everyone. Lonie and the entire ali family invite everyone to join them for the celebration in muhammad alis hometown of louisville, kentucky. So, muhammad ali will return to louisville within the next 24 to 48 hours with family members accompanying him. He will be the celebration of muhammad alis life will begin on thursday with a private family ceremony in for just the immediate family, children and grandchildren, cousins, brother, and then the next morning the family will gather at the funeral home location where they will be joined by the eamons aid who is presiding over the funeral arrangement for prayers. A rather large funeral procession will take muhammad ali through the streets of louisville to allow anyone that is the
Of fans. He passed away after this 32year battle with parkinsons disease. Muhammad ali, dont know if you are aware, he was born cassius clay in 1942 in louisville, k kentucky and started boxing at the age of 12. He went on of course to become threetime world heavyweight champion. As so many people know, in 1964 he joined the nation of islam, changed his name to muhammad ali after his retirement as parkinsons disease began to take away his motor skills, he became really an ambassador of peace and he raised millions of dollars for charity. The boxing champ was married four times. He is survived by nine children. Muhammad ali led a pretty inspirational life when all is said an done. Obviously has incredible boxing career but he had such strong work for hx causes and he never stopped fighting for what he believed in. He is known as a very principled man. And he always spoke out, quite clearly. Cnns wolf blitzer takes a look now at the boxing legends life. This is the legend of moment ali.
The ceremony is holding ceremonies friday and saturday. Locals paying their own respects, attributes on their own, laying flowers and well wishes outside of alley al lis childhood home. The greatest brings everybody together and the best out of them. Whats the call to action . Sure, celebrate him. What are you going to do to make the world a better place. My hope is throughout this week people are asking themselves that question and really respecting those values he stood for. And joining us now is cnn world sports don wooddell with more on alis life. They want this to be a public ceremony. Its going to be held on friday in a basketball arena which seats 22,000 people. We wonder if thats going to be enough. Not just his fans, just the people he inspired zp he and hement so much to so many different people from so many different walks of life. Thats where its going to culminate in this basketball arena. Theres going to be a procession of the hearse through the town. Hes instructed the p
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A 14 year old german girl this case is fueling controversy over migration here as the court prepares to announce its verdict. I am brian thomas thanks so much for joining us we begin this program in britain where the 2 remaining contenders to become conservative party leader and the next british Prime Minister have faced off in a nationally televised debate their big clash coming on their approach to bracks a former foreign minister Boris Johnson is expected to win the ballot of Party Members if he does ill have about 3 months to take britain out of the e. U. As a tough negotiator jeremy hunt had previously accused barsa johnson of being a coward for not meeting him in a t. V. Debates. Earlier when the 2 finally fronted up hunter came out swinging the current foreign secretary house johnson if you would promise to resign as Prime Minister if britain didnt leave the European Union by the 31st of october johnson says doing that now would simply be a gift to e. U. Negotiators. Deliver a d