to protest about uk support, under prime minister tony blair, for the us decision to invade. the first raids were on the capital baghdad it took the us just over a month to overwhelm iraqi forces, and for saddam s baathist government to collapse. these images from the capital were to become iconic a statue of saddam hussein being toppled on april 9th, attacked and pulled down by iraqi civilians and us marines. 0ur international editor jeremy bowen is in baghdad tonight. jeremy, the conflict didn t end with the toppling of saddam hussein. what has been the legacy of that war 20 years on? catastrophic consequences. iraq went through a catastrophe. hundreds of thousands of people were killed, no one knows exactly how many. the consequences read violence elsewhere in the middle east. they still rumble on. iraq is a highly corrupt,
mason temple in memphis was hacked. memphis was a city in mourning, grappling with unrest over the deaths of two black employees of a memphis department of public work. employees that were crushed to death while taking cover from severe weather. today marks the 55th anniversary of their deaths. today, under the slogan i am a man, more than 1000 black appointees were on strike, and tensions were rising. despite a bad thunderstorm that april 9th, the room was filled. there was one man that the crowd wanted to hear from. martin luther king junior, who visited memphis twice before. he was trying to help the black workers get a living wage, and decent working conditions. that night, he was back. he was delivering what would be his final speech, the night before he was assassinated. dr. king began his famous mountaintop speech by saying
for staying up late with us. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow on april 3rd, in 1968, the mason temple in memphis was hacked. memphis was a city in mourning, grappling with unrest over the deaths of two black employees of a memphis department of public work. employees that were crushed to death while taking cover from severe weather. today marks the 55th anniversary of their deaths. today, under the slogan i am a man, more than 1000 black appointees were on strike, and tensions were rising. despite a bad thunderstorm that april 9th, the room was filled. there was one man that the crowd wanted to hear from. martin luther king junior, who
sending a message to them, keep standing, up keep protesting, basically overthrow this guy and send because he is holding you back. i thought it was an interesting note in the speech. and again, he put at the top, talking about a recurring, line how those through lines being important about how these things land, he said our first joint victory, congratulating you and us, and our first joint victory meaning america and ukraine, our first joint victory was defeating russia, in the battle for the minds of the world. then he came back to that idea when he was talking about the russian people, needing to be free of the kremlin in their minds, and needing to be able to resist this. hard speech for vladimir putin to watch tonight, because you talked at the beginning this thing about alexei navalny, and the people outside including who picture you had up in your introduction. volodymyr got arrested, he went back from the u.s. to russia, on april 9th or tenth, and i
about and there are people who are outside, including karen moussa whose picture you had up in your introduction. vladimir got arrested, he went back from the u.s. to russia on april 9th or tenth and i remember talking to him dancing, i am worried for you. within 24 hours, he too is arrested. his argument is i have to be here with my people, the speech strengthens the russian decedent movement. and gives them on that, point he said at one, point it was naive to wait for steps toward peace from russia. and that was already paired with this idea that the russian people, essentially you don t have the power to resist the kremlin right. the idea think at the national, and certainly the idea and much of american analysis of why putin did, this it was putin s war. not something that anybody else in russia talk them into. it s an obsession of putin and he has this idea of reconstituting the russian empire. if not the soviet union and he wants ukraine to be one of the things that he owns