a michael oku welcome to the program again we start in the united states where the body of the late civil rights icon john lewis is to be carried across the edmund pettus bridge in selma alabama in a special ceremony which is about to start it was on this bridge that lewis and other civil rights marchers were beaten 55 years ago what was to become bloody sunday a key event in the fight for voting rights for african-americans we want to show you live pictures now where mourners should begin to gather on that bridge there you see the pictures outside across from the bridge where lewis his body is supposed to be carried across. causing you to see these live pictures we're seeing mourners gathered near the casket of lewis to be carried across the edmund pettus bridge in a highly symbolic ceremony this was the side of a conflict and war days as i mentioned was called bloody sunday and march 7th 1965 police attacked and brutally beat civil rights movement demonstrators as they were attempting to march across the bridge to the state capital montgomery. his death brought the capitol to a standsti