Lies in state. The civil rights icon, the first africanamerican lawmaker to in history to lie and stay there. Kelli meyer has the story. All members rise for a moment of silent, a somber start to the week as lawmakers pay respects to one of their own 80 yearold georgia congressman john lewis who spent much of his life fighting for racial equality died friday after a 6 month battle with pancreatic cancer. He was the last survivor of the big 6 civil rights leaders of the 1960s i first met john norris in 1968 in Atlanta Georgia. At the funeral of doctor Martin Luther king junior lawmakers like North Carolina democrat ek butterfield and Georgia Republican buddy carter. Praise lewis says the moral compass of congress is certainly a great loss. The state of georgia, but also to the nation voters first elected louis to represent his Atlanta Georgia district in 1986 Georgia Republican congressman doug collins was just an intern, we ended a run same elevator, almost every morning together. He l
On the show. The russian and turkish leaders say they have a plan to end of the six year old war in syria but the ever closer cooperation between putin and air along is raising concerns at nato headquarters. And reimagining europes future the german chancellor backs the french president s new vision for the e. U. Today the blocks the Digital Future is on the agenda at a leader summit in tolerance. And whats up with byron munich a day after the shock sacking of coach carlo and chalabi we ask whether germanys biggest club can return to its winning ways. And were on patrol with the a booge a Traffic Police we report on nigerias controversy all efforts to put the brakes on dangerous driving. Hello and welcome im brian thomas the countdown is on for a contested referendum in the spanish region of catalonia local authorities are determined to go ahead with a vote on breaking away from spain but madrid says sundays referendum is illegal and cannot be allowed to go ahead more than seven and a