Are the Health Care Workers themselves, the medical workers themselves, the doctors, the nurses, the support staff who weve relied on from the very first moments that we began to realize that this virus was bigger than any health issue weve dealt with in a long time. Were still depending on it today. At some point you run out of some of the capacity and steam that you had to do the job that needs to be done. But we see these heroes continue to step up. Some giving their lives. In bill in birmingham and kansas city was an emergency medical technician. He was with the Kansas City Fire Department and he died of coronavirus in april. His son described billy as selfless. He said billy had decided he wanted to find new ways to help people and so he reinvented himself as an e. M. T. When he was in his 40s so he could help others and then he was an e. M. T. For about 22 years. We see the Emergency Medical Technicians, the First Responders out there saving lives, bringing people in a desperate
Coronavirus well to discuss that im now joined by. A consulting cardiologist bestselling author and one of the u. K. s leading active b. C. Can painters thats on the whole train so good to talk to you thank you very much for your time likewise ticks on i know that you are now writing your new book about the link between the worst complications from called at 19 and poor Metabolic Health and i heard you mention the u. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson as a manifestation of that what exactly do you mean. Well thats great important issues your phrase oxana so this is something ive been looking at so many months on life in the recess and they said and its quite clear 1st and foremost that people get seems to suffer the worst of it might seem almost certainly have some underlying condition and when you look at those conditions such as such diabetes i took their old really great seats. In lifestyle and more specifically what we put into a mouse the food that we eat and well you know how this b
Community i mean he was just that i call that for for better education better housing more Voting Rights acts solidified as those years passed by so i think this is an extremely sad day for many people but also a celebration of one of the biggest civil rights icons this country has ever seen if youve just joined us and i was in a well have live coverage here of the body of the u. S. Civil rights pioneer john lewis being taken across the Edmund Pettus bridge in selma alabama one final time is the bridge where he was knocked down to be nonconscious in 1965 for the modeling the black people are given the right to vote and the. Weve weve talked much about john lewis is legacy. His death coming at a Pivotal Moment in the u. S. Given all thats going on right now with the election coming up in november. Do you want to do. Talk to us a little about about what you think his his legacy will be and you know that the timing of his death coming right now when once again were seeing. Racial strife i
Contained measures are exposing Police Brutality in argentina. And the painstaking process of restoring the acropolis in athens as the greek government renews its call the britain to return to its ancient traditions. A long serving politician who stood alongside Martin Luther king jr as a pioneer of Americas Civil Rights Movement has made a symbolic final journey 55 years ago john lewis was knocked down and beaten unconscious on the atman pettus bridge in alabama for demanding black people begin the right to vote his body has now been taken across that same bridge in selma one last time as part of 6 days of ceremonies to remember the 80 year old who died of pancreatic cancer now disease and he gallagher is following all of this from miami in florida for us addie just explain the significance of this moment today. Well john lewis was more than an icon he was a giant in the Civil Rights Movement his casket slowly going across the Edmund Pettus bridge today peacefully but remember back in
A warning the disruption caused by the coded 19 pandemic could lead to double the number of malaria related deaths in africa this year. And the painstaking process of restoring the acropolis in athens says the greek government renews its call for britain to return to its ancient traditions. And sport the west indies are fighting to avoid defeat in the deciding task match against england stuart broad taking 8 wickets in the match so far and closing in on a series victory. A powerful politician who stood alongside Martin Luther king jr as a civil rights pioneer in the u. S. Has made a symbolic final judie 55 years ago john lewis was knocked down and beaten unconscious on a bridge in alabama for demanding that black people be given the right to vote his. Bodies been taken across that bridge in selma one last time its part of 6 days of ceremonies to remember the 80 year old who died after battling pancreatic cancer lewis was one of the socalled big 6 of the Civil Rights Movement led by Lut