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lead in the polls. plus how the simple steps represent a major scientific rate through. paralyzed man is able to walk again thanks to implants in his brain. ♪ welcome to world news america on pbs and arouhe globe. we start tonight on a sad note bualso in celebration of an extraordinary life. tina turner has died at the age of 83. in a statement her representatives said tina turner, the queen of rock 'n' roll has died peacefully today at the age of 83 after a long illness in her home. the world loses a music legend and a role model. tribute have been pouring in from the white house, fellow musicians and fans. many around the world have been no doubt humming her classic

songs upon hearing the news. her life story was quite literally the stuff of movie magic. our arts correspondent begins our coverage. ♪ >> 1966, in your face hip shaking sweat drenched passionate pop perfection. ♪ however, in america, the song was a flop. it would be another 17 years before tina turner truly made it. ♪ annie mabel look grew up in

tennessee. her family were sharecroppers. she started singing in ike turner's band when she was a teenager. and largely abandoned by her parents she hoped it was her escape. it was an escape into a different sort of misery. ♪ there were hits and the world w a confident powerful woman on stage. ♪ the acid queen in tommy was in private fearful of her violent controlling husband. finally in 1976 she walked out. >> i did try to leave. the first time was when i had the experience of being whipped with a wire hanger. another time was something else. i realized you do not go back.

♪ >> her career was in the doldrums. however, there was a place that had long been more receptive to the tina turner magic, britain. ♪ let's stay together was a collaboration with the creative team behind heaven 17, a new british manager and backing from artists such as david bowie hoped to turbocharge her career. ♪ what followed was hit after h. ♪ a film role in mad max. >> how the world turns. ♪

>> in the year 2000, she was 60 years old and the biggest selling concert artist in the world. from annie mabel look and the church choir of not wish baptist church to multiplatinum selling buddhist rock 'n' roll serstar living in switzerland. the extraordiry tina turner. ♪ >> tina turner who has died at the age of 83. our north america correspondent jessica parker is outside of the national museum of african-american history and culture. we can cross over to her now. truly an iconic performer. what is tina turner's legac >> the longevity of her career means this is a huge legacy and what is really striking talking

to people here of all ages, young, old, everybody knew who tina turner was. everyone would be able to name a song by her as wel. that speaks of course of her ability to reinvent herself. what is striking speaking to people here following the news is how much quite a lot of people know about her biographical detls. for example the abusive marriage she suffered with mike turner. a lot of people know a lot about tina turner and are very dedicated to her. something else people talk about, her ability to bring huge energy to the stage in her performances. in terms of legacy, she is credited with inspiring artists that came after her. of course her music. as say, everybody will know a song -- be able to sing a song performed by tina turner. one woman i was talking to citing one of her most famous

songs saying she was quite simply the best. >> the white house today has been calling her death a massive loss. walk us through some of the reaction around the world. >> that is right. actually the news broke during the white house re-think. -- white house briefing paired the white house press secretary said she had been a huge fan of tina turner and tributes had been pouring in through and the world. people are describing her in lots of different ways. they describe her as a free spirit. somebody who really leaved in herself. anof course we have spoken about the struggles through her career. a lot of people talking about what a source of inspiration she was because she kept going. because she kept re-creating herself. i need to tell you as well there was a man we were speaking to. he is called ernest. he spells t-shirt -- he sells t-shirts with inspiring women on

them. he said he was going to go home and make a new t-shirt. one that would feature tina turner. > that sounds like it would be a good selling t-shirt. jess parker in washington. good to talk to you. plenty more on tina turner's life and career on our website plus fan reaction and tributes from fellow legends. that is it bbc.com/news. the florida governor ron desantis has become the latest republican to launch his bid for the parties 2024 presidential nomination. he is widely seen as donald trump's main rival in the race for the white house. he is positioning himself as a trump style conservative without the drama the former president remains the clear front runner and is the dominant force in the republican party. our north america correspondent joins us from miami. great to have you with us. we know that ron desantis has

filed his papers. what more do we know? >> this ends months and months of speculation. if he is like we always knew this was going to happen. ron dantis was always predicted to throw his hat in a crowded ring. it is officially official that he is nning to be the republican party's presidential nomination. in terms of what -- what will be interesting i think is to see whether or not the politiche has in the state, the conservative policies he has implemented. floridians love ron desantis. whether or not they will work on the national stage. . this is such a big test for the republican party to see if they really can move on from donald trump. donald trump as you mention is theavorite. he is leading in terms of who is likely to get thnomination.

but ron desantis is seen as by far and away if you think about the other candidates and there are many more candidates that will throw their hats in the ring. ron desantis is seen as the closest but distant rival to donald trump. we are about a year and away from the election. as we know anything can happen in that time. >> what do you think this means for thce? >> it splices it up, doesn't it? there are loads of other. candidates running the truth is people ours focuseon dissent is and donald trump who used to be very close. donald trump likes to remind people a lot that he is the one that created the star that is ron desantis by endorsing him for the governorship which he won in 2018. what is interesting is when i speak to people here and i say desantis or trump, it is not an easy answer. they are quite measured in the response because people love desantis. they love trump. they are seen as the kings of

florida. they are cautious not to show any infighting. one man said to me i think desantis is a great governor. and that is it. he would not say whether or not he would be a good president. you have others who say we like desantis but we don't think he is ready to be president yet. i do think what we will see now is probably a very exciting race. it does like say spice it up. we are expecting more republican candidates to throw their hat in the ring. >> fascinating insights from north american correspondent. thank you so much. it has been one year since a gunman killed 19hildren and two teachers inside a classroom in uvalde, texas. the shooting was the deadliest in the states history and a criminal investigation is still ongoing into the slow response by law enforcement. on the day the shooting happened president biden said he was quote sick and tired of gun violence and more needed to be done. here is what he had to say at

the white house today. >> number one killer of children in america, guns. and over the last year since uvalde, our country has experienced a staggering 650 mass shootings. it is hard to say well over 40,000 deaths due to gun violence. >> our correspondent will grant first reported from the scenes from the massacre last year and has gone back to revisit the parents of a 10-year-old. some viewers may find this report disessing. >> we wanted to make this room her room. >> her parents are re-creating her old bedroom in their new home. such was the pain of living in uvalde, the city where she was murdered in her classroom a year ago with 18 classmates and two teachers they decided to move away. >> this is our reality. we are going to be carrying this

for the rest of our lives. that just -- that is painful. >> the memories of their vivacious daughter are everywhere. anything can transport them to that awful heartbreaking day. >> just hearing an ambulance. anything with sirens, school buses. triggers us sometimes where it brings us back to that day where we are trying to figure out where she has. >> beyond the crippling grief, thr main emotion is anger. they are furious as this bodycam footage shows, 300 76 heavily armed la enforcement officers waited in the hallway outside her classroom while the gunman was inside murdering children. worst of all, children insid

the classroom had called 911 and were on the phone to police dispatch. >> please help. >> 77 minutes passed before they breached the door and neutralized him. >> talking about it, my blood boils. >> they would have been here if they did something. they would have. it makes me so mad they were crying and screaming while they were out there. while they were out there. just knowing that she is there. mommy, daddy, they just want help. they just want to get out of there. they did not seem to care. they just did not seem to care. >> common sense. be a hero. . go in there. go in there. do what you got to do.

get injured. get killed. that is a part of putting on a badge to protect and serve. they did not do the first thing, was protect. >> the failings of that they have been described in an interim report as egregiously poor decision-making. the families are still waiting for answers and accountability. >> do you feel that anyone will ever be held accountable for the mistakes that were made a year ago? >> it has been a bunch of bs. we are still waiting for answers we are. we are moving forward to get those answers now. as soon we have our report which should have been done but it is not, then i can promise you never action we need to ke we will take. >> the town's memorial was put up in the wake of the attack when there wasfor more flowers at the school. you're year on it is a constant

reminder uvalde has been through the worst possible experience in modern america. children torn from their parents by a lone gunman one ordinary day at school. will grant, bbc news, uvalde. >> i spoke to will grant earlier from uvalde. good to see you, will. we saw in your report the pain of one family and that pain turned into anger. what sense are you getting? is that a feeling being felt throughout the community? >> to an extent, it is. yeah. we have just seen as they have come here to the memorial to lay flowers themselves and pay respects and i asked how the day had been. they could say up and down. in a sen that is a metaphor for the past year not just for their family but all of the victims families. all of the survivors and their families.

all of uvalde. there are those perhaps better moments, worse moments when you think things might be improving. you get knocked back by a delay in the process of finding out some of the reasoning behind what happened, why it took so long for police to breach the door and neutralize the gunman. that anger i think is pretty collective. of course this is part of the world where the gun lobby does very well. where people are generally gun owners. there are a lot of gun owners in texas. that said, when it comes to this town, when it comes to these families, they want answers. they are very frustrated there has been no proper accountability since that day. >> and what about that question of change? do people feel there could ever be some kind of change to legislation that would better protect children? >> i think the feeling by and large is if sandy hook was not

enough, the attack on robb elementary school was not enough, nothing will be sufficient to change gun legislation in any meaningful way certainly at the federal level. there might be local laws. there might be state laws that eventually go through. that is going to be a long time in the waiting. certainly the white house today has modded president biden's record on gun legislation and since the attack in uvalde but the truth of the matter is around the united states have made it onto the books. a majority of them are pro-gun and not probe restrictions. -- not probe restrictions. not creating great pressure comes on ownership since the attack. that tells us a lot about the tone of the debate and any united states even in the wake of the awful events a year ago. >> that was will grant reporting from uvalde. turning now to the latest flashpoint in the war in ukraine

and russia's defense minister has promised a harsh response to cross-border incursions from ukraine. the comments came after moscow said it had defeated an attack in the region bordering eastern ukraine. the head of a russian pill ameritrade group said it carried out the raid from ukraine in coordination with ukrainian military. the government in kyiv has denied involvement. >> for the russian military, it has been a nervous couple of days. but army chiefs were given the news. the cross-border incursion had been crushed and this morning from defense ministry. >> we will continue to respond to such actions by ukrainian militants promptly and with extreme harshness. >> to make the point, the russians released this video. allegedly it shows airstrikes on

the attackers who crossed over. but who were the militants? they were not camera shy, that is for sure. as they drove through the region, they filmed the incursion. they claimed to be anti-putin para militarist. russians fighting on the side of ukraine. moscow says they are terrorists. . ukraine says we did not send them. really? >> they are entirely under the control of ukrainian military intelligence. there is no way they can operate. they rely on the ukrainians for their weapons. for their vehicles. but more to the point, for the fire support and the freedom to operate across the border. >> the kremlin will be relieved the incursion has been repelled. moscow claims it killed dozens of militants. the groups that attacked deny that. prident putin said this week these are difficult times for russia. that is an understatement.

this month alone we have seen explosions over the kremlin and apparent drone attacks, their been drone attacks on several russian regions close to the ukrainian border. bombs on the railways and n embarrassingly for the kremlin this large-scale military incursion into russian territory from ukraine. but if you think that will give vladimir putinause for thought, think again. the kremlin has already made it clear what it calls the special military operation, it is were on you -- the world ukraine will contin should ste renberg, bbc news, moscow. >> now to a medical first. a paralyzed man has been able to walk simply by thinking about it thanks to electronic brain implants. a 40-year-old dutch man says it changed his life. the electronic implants wirelessly transmit his thoughts to his legs and feet by a second implant on his thigh.

our correspondent has more. >> he leaves his wheelchair behind to take a walk in the park. he was paralyzed in a cycling accident in 2001. for more than a decade he was unable to walk. but brain implants have changed everything. >> i am in full control. that gives me a lot of freedom which i did not have previous to therapy. >> he is unable to walk because his accident damaged nerves in his spine and reduced signals from his brain to his legs. the spinal implant amplifies those signals. two implants just above his brain capture his thoughts and a computer sends them to the spinalmplants. but the neurosurgeon who carried out the delicate operation told me there was a long way to go before the system would be available to all those that needed it. >> at this stage it is a little

bit early because it is the first technology. we had to do the proof of concept. then the idea is to have the possibility to develop a device that is available for everybody. >> so what message do you have for paralyzed people watching this program? >> the message to the paralyzed people is we can provide a little but of hope again to again movement. >> looks like it works. >> the latest of nine other patients who have been successfully treated. david and michelle who we featured last year can walk now because of their spinal implants. but he is the first to have the brain implants which gives him more conol and makes his movements much easier for him. >> in the case of david and michelle the stimulation is preprogrammed so they have to make a movement to trigger a preprogrammed sequence of stimulation which makes the walk a little bit robotic.

in his case, he is not controlled by the stimulation. he controls the simulation with his thoughts. > the technology is still at an experimental stage and used only for short periods but researchers believe they can make further progress in the years to come. bbc news. >> and finally, we want to end the program where we begin honoring the life of a legend. ♪ simply the best. indeed that song and so many others will be just parts of the legacy of tina turner whoied today at the age of 83.

turner rose to fame alongside husband ike in the 1960's. she left an abusive marriage in the late 1970's and shots of far greater fame as a solo artist. she was called the queen of rock 'n' roll and anyone who saw her perform could attest to her majesty. the world is a lesser pace for her passing but it is a far greater on narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... narrator: financial services firm, raymond james. man: bdo. accountants and advisors. narrator: funding was also provided by, theeman foundation. by judy and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. and by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ ♪

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♪ >> good evening. i'm william brangham. >> i'm on the nevada in uvalde, texas. families mark one year since the mass shooting at robb elementary as they still unanswered questions about the police response and where their community goes from here. >> then florida governor ron desantis announces he is running for president. how his bid could shape the republican race. >> ngo's push the taliban to lift restrictions on employing women so they can deliver vital aid to afghans amid the worsening humanitarian crisis. >> it is beyond catastrophic really shared probably having the highest number of people in -- anywhere in the world.