that s the civil rights act that had been filibusters by segregationist for 54 straight days. but in the end, their efforts to stop it failed. they signed. it in the civil rights act of 1964 banned segregation. in public facilities, also in private facilities to which the public had access. and the segregationist at the time, screamed bloody murder. it s unconstitutional, you can t tell private entities what s to do. actually yes, yes you can. in the summer of 1964, president johnson made that law of the land. then the following summer. july 1965, lbj, actually went out on the road this time for an unusual signing ceremony. he went to missouri. two presidential s librarian to sign into law the bill that created medicare. and medicaid. he went to truman s presidential library, because it had been president truman her first proposed the u.s. government should commit to providing health coverage to all elderly people in the country. truman could not get it done while he was pr
and that it would carefully consider any issues raised by the programme. darragh macintyre, bbc news. you can see panorama: the dark side of horse racing on bbc one tonight at 8.30pm. time for a look at the weather here s susan powell. the whole team is a sleep deprived in these temperatures, it is tricky. pretty unbearable now. today the heat has built again as the sun has come up and we will continue with the story of heat humidity and sunshine for a few days yet. look at the map closely. even with a high pressure there is a little bit of blue flag there. a little bit of blue flag there. a little bit of instability higher up in our atmosphere that could spark of isolated. slow moving, could be a lot of rain in a short space of time. the majority, though committees blue skies, the sunshine, some patchy cloud for the north west of scotland. these showers if they do get going could rumble on into the smaller hours of tuesday. i am afraid tonight does not look like will be ve
by about twice the global average. it s already increased by 2 degrees celsius. 20 years since the us led coalition invaded iraq to topple dictator saddam hussein, we look at the legacy. hello and welcome to bbc news. the world s financial markets have reacted with unease following last night s emergency takeover of the troubled swiss bank credit suisse. shares in credit suisse fell by more than 60% this morning after european markets opened and the value of banking shares across europe have dropped sharply. credit suisse was bought by fellow swiss bank ubs after a deal brokered by the swiss government. here s the chief executive of ubs explaining the rationale behind the deal. translation: it means we bring back stability and security for credit suisse clients, but also that we keep the reputation of the swiss financial centre high. and finally it means we are stemming the turmoil in the international financial markets. these three goals are very, very important to us. we