that's quest now to selma alabama well cal gas it from detroit public radio is standing near the edmund pettus bridge kyle really appreciate your joining us for this ceremony this ceremony must be charged with emotion tell us what you're experiencing there yes michael you know today the bridge has been transformed there are floral arrangements and there have been rose petals that have been scattered across the bridge where louis is going to set to right over and today many of those in attendance are spontaneously breaking into freedom saw him songs at the civil rights marches often saying together so while this is reflective occasion it's also a joyous one as we celebrate understand lewis is like. we've heard a little about the historic significance of this bridge tell us about its connections specifically to. well as you heard in that piece before the this bridge was a moment in history in which congressman lewis kind of rose to the national national attention to national prominence as i understand it this bridge is much but 165 narrow sidewalks the side of the bridge and so the large

earlier we talked to from detroit public radio who witnessed the ceremony from. bridge was the site and 965 of the march galvanized by the death of one of their fellow hard people to reject protesters here and decided to march from selma to montgomery protesting for the right to vote they organized and on that sunday afternoon they marched to by 2 blocks of the bridge you cannot see anything at the top of the bridge and look down and as they reach that point they could see the alabama state troopers who were 'd assembled and who were told that they were to stop the march with any means necessary in the course that included some very violent means and john lewis was one of the 1st to be beaten by the alabama state troopers very badly there was actually blood on this bridge. that was from troy public radio let's go now to some other stories making news around the world a cease fire has gone into effect in eastern ukraine moscow and kiev agreed to implement a full ceasefire between government forces and pro russian separatists earlier this month more than 13000 peop

we're going to go now to selma alabama where kyle ghassan from detroit public radio is standing near the edmund pettus bridge kyle it's a nice to see you again and this is going to be an emotional event here i want to let our viewers know something you know this is a man who served at the in the u.s. congress for over 30 years and at one point as you may well know he once famously told his brother i've come a long way from the cotton fields of alabama i imagine that there are a lot of people gathering there today who are feeling the emotion of this. yes michael there are a lot of people who had that same experience has been with coming from the cotton field and alabama still to this day and of course there are people who have benefited from his work in congress and from his work in civil rights so i think today it's it's a mixed emotion as as if there is a time for reflection a time to think about what lewis did for this country it's also a time to be joyous and celebrate critique the work of him and of course the icons that he served with and admired that you can jr and rosa parks.