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$1400.00 g m t. this is al jazeera from doha. the coffin of queen elizabeth. the 2nd has begun the 1st stage of its journey towards london for a funeral. on september 19th, the coffin off. the monarch is on the 1st stage of that long journey to london. a cortez shut, leaving balmoral castle and scotland 5 hours ago. it then went to aberdeen for bet . it may, it's making its way on to edinburgh where the coffin will lie in the throne room of hollywood house palace overnight before church service. on sunday, thousands of people lined up along the route to pay their respects to the late plot . many were moved to tears as the convoy moved past it as the cortege made its way through the scottish countryside, aberdeen sher pharmacy paid their respects to the queen. they parked that tract us along the route to form a guard of honor. and this is where the cortez is right now. heading its

way to puff at across the river tay, across the frightened bridge. triple. then move on to ward. sir edinburgh crossing over the 4th over the queensbury crossing before it enters the outskirts of edinburgh. alesco lived at browsers here as alan fisher is there. what will happen? ab allen. once sir, are the cortez arrives there in the capital? all just as the queen's body is passing through t site, i think is important to know that that's a part of the country. she also knows well because her mother's family came from te site. in fact, they lived in glands castle, which is not far from path. and she spent a number of her childhood summers there with her grandparents. but you're right, adrian. she's heading here to hollywood palace, which is the official residence of the monarch in scotland. summer she would come at least one week every year. and now with her,

the strains of the pipe were seen soldiers being drilled. they're all getting in preparation for that arrival. no, she was due to be here in about an hour's time. but if she's just coming to path, no, i suspect she's at least 90 minutes, possibly 2 hours behind schedule. but the people here and not really worried about that at the moment. oh that it's rain in the forecast for the next couple of hours . so that might start to reduce the crowds, but people have been here since very early this morning, bringing flowers to lee at the gates of hollywood palace. a some carrying sweet peas, which was the queen's favorite flower, some just 2 years old. others much, much older. remembering the rule that the, the queen is play than their lives. i mean, she's been the queen for from most people, for most of their lives are body. will i a rest here at hollywood palace that will give the chance to people who served her for a number of years to pay their respects. prince charles, so it is good hearted to remember to call him king charles,

will call them prince charles for so long. king charles will be here in edinburgh on monday, and he will lead a procession from hollywood to saint giles cathedral, which is just up the royal mile. and there there'll be a service of thanksgiving for the life of the queen. he will then accompany the queen's body back to our f north, all in north london. and then on to buckingham palace from there was pointing out as well that when the proclamation of the king was made here in edinburgh, remember, there was a ceremony in london on saturday. and then that's the proclamation was heated in the capitals of wales, northern island, and here in scotland and edinburgh at the market cross the market cross just very short distance from here. there was some brewing when it ended with god save the king. there was a republican group who are, they're making their voice is known quickly drowned out by a chorus of god, save the king. but it's important to remember that while the, the, the, the monarchy, immediately passes from the queen to her eldest son, charles,

in this case, the affection in which the queen was held won't automatically be assumed by the new monarch until a solemn, something about the building that the standing outside of the moment to hollywood, her palace. and what's the significance of that to the british monkey while this is we're in the summer, this would be the home. this is essentially buckingham palace in scotland. this is where the family said it is where she would hold her annual garden party in scotland, where people from civic life and those who had done good works would be would be invited. and also where she held a number of investiture ceremonies. so if you were given an award by the queen, by the government, but in the queen's name, so a night, her door a, c, b, e, or an m b, e. you would come here almost certainly to the investiture ceremony while she was here. and she also carried the mote at buckingham palace and a number of scots, a be near at to receive their, their awards there. but this is where

a lot of people came to receive their awards from the queen. she, she stayed here any time she was in scotland before she headed off to bol moral because of course, by moral was the place that was closest to her heart. she spent many childhood summers. they had as well as glance castle, but the moral is where she felt she could get away from at the wild and away from essentially being the figure head of a nation and could just relax. she could ride her horses, she could go fishing. all of these things that she loved. so while holly, who was important to heart and to the royal family, but moral is certainly where her hartley, the queen, undoubtedly loved scotland. what about the people of scotland that they love her was that was the feeling mutual to know. you always reads reports that there are people who want to see the end of the, the monarchy in scotland, but they still remain in a minority. even the group that was protesting at the announcement the proclamation just a couple of hours ago, they were droned out by more people singing god,

save the king. no, it's a very emotional time. and there is probably a significant portion of people who would like to see the end of a hereditary monarchy. they don't believe that there's a place for that in the modern society in the 21st century, but they still remain in the minority of people here have been talking about their, their memories of the queen, how they'd seen her in edinburgh before. they liked her smile, they had that she had a keen sense of humour at the they remember it seeing her at edinburgh tattoos which happened in august every year on the esplanade of the castle where she would come along. and he felt honored when she was there a that is an essentially, it's a large military parade at the end of the edinburgh festival. and they would enjoy her attendance there. so i think there was an affection i of for queen elizabeth no more so than any other part of the country. but you always felt that the scott to the special place. ringback for her, because of her long history of service or service during the 2nd world war. and the

fact that her mother came from a scottish family. so there was always that slightly more visceral connection with, with queen elizabeth. so for many people here, she will be missed, but many of them and expressing their support for her son, king charles the 3rd, though of course, has now been proclaimed king in all 4 corners of the kingdom. and in many of the territories of the commonwealth, where he is also head of state of various alan fisher reporting live there from edinburgh. many thanks for the moment alan. let's go live now to london, where we find our diplomatic editor james base, he's outside buckingham palace. the focus may be on scotland today. james bond, there's business to be attended to the in london. what is the new king charles steering survey? well he 2 hours ago delighted the crowd here by coming fast in his vehicle and very

slowly driving past in his come boy and waving at all the crowd without you he said air in the crowd cheering again now, but we've just gotten checked and actually just i think because it's a very slow process for them to come to the front and put the flowers, that is a mexican wave going on at the moment. but charles is inside the products and there is more serious and serious business going on. that serious business is with the commonwealth at the moment and he is meeting the 2nd general of the commonwealth bonus, scotland, patricia scotland. the commonwealth is grouping that he is now the head of in addition to being the king of the u. k. and the head of state for the country, there are 56 nations in the commonwealth that grew out of colonial times. that grew out of what was known as the british empire. and many people would say that queen elizabeth was the person who cemented the commonwealth, who made it strong, and was the glue that held it together. so there is a bit of

a question mark on where the commonwealth goes. now what the future is for the commonwealth, and certainly that is the center of the business today with the secretary general of the commonwealth, and then meeting the high commissioners of the realm. let me break that down for you adrian. the realm, i just mentioned them, the 14 states where king charles is also had a state where he's also king high commission as well. they're actually ambassadors . if you are a commonwealth country and you have a representative, another commonwealth country robin is called and i'm back to the they called a high commissioner, and they don't work out of embassy. they work out of a high commission. so those diplomatic representatives from those 14 countries, they are all meeting king charles today to we now have a tape james for the state funeral. it will be as we or thought, september 19th a week. tomorrow, a huge event. it's going to be with the leaders from around the world attending

yes, of course we need to see who, who, who, who accepts her invitation and comes here. but we do expect it will be very, very big gathering. because i think there's no doubt that all of the u. k. european neighbors, all the countries, other european countries will be here. all of the commonwealth will be sending that leaders unless they have some pressing reason why they can't be here. and then i'm sure they'll be sending their foreign ministers. so all of those are present. the other big guest of course, will be president joe biden. what representation will come from other important countries, but will the chinese, who, with the chinese will send, will be an invitation to anyone from the russian federation at the time of the war and ukraine. big questions, we don't know the answers to at this stage, but clearly a massive undertaking and considering the previous time that was something like this was the last funeral of the last king,

george 6. and then the combination of queen elizabeth that was back in 1952 and then in 1953. well and travel was pretty primitive in those days. you couldn't get foster far parts of the world, i suspect is going to be one of the biggest gatherings that world leaders that london has ever seen. and that creates a problem because there's gonna be large crowds here as well. we expect people from all over the u. k. a maybe further afield to come to watch what's going on with regard to the funeral and pay that last respects. so a policing challenge, certainly for the authorities here in the u. k. a major security event, as well as a major crew member to event diplomatic. it's a james base, live outside buckingham palace and london. james, many, thanks and team. let's bring in once again, boil biographer, christopher wilson. he's studio in london. good, heavy back on christopher at james. they're speaking about large crowds that will be expected for the same funeral a week. tomorrow

a but i'm just looking behind him that now i for 3 days people it seems of wanted to come to bucking about us that drawn to buckingham palace to pay their respects to the queen. what would you make of that? well, i think what, what is wonderful is the sort of unifying moment, but i think also what it shows is that or less in, in the shadow of the queen's death or to more or less, everybody is equal. ok. you know, some of those cries are being pushed around a little bit as jane space pointed out yesterday. you saying that her, you know, they had to be corralled in, and they were getting bit fractious about it. but actually, this a sort of a quality going on there, which it was, which i to, i think is some, the, a wonderfully unifying. but i want to sort of pick up on a, one of james's points. and well, 1st of all, he was so showing her king charles coming to buckingham palace and i,

it's very interesting to see that is actually in a rolls royce, which was probably built at about the time that he was born. i mean, it's a colossally ancient vehicle or a part of the vast array of vehicles which there are in the royal muse run by the crown inquiry. as of a guy's job, it is to make sure all the royal knows work wise chosen that a is very interesting indeed. he said, are you naser traditionalist and some stuff out there? yesterday i was talking about what a modernist. he was how he went out and shook hands with the public before he even shook hands with his prime minister. here we've got the other thing that it is an ancient old thing which you might expect that the guys in the police vehicle behind might have to get out and push. so it's a really interesting combination between,

you know, old and new. do you think that would have been, has i used to travel in that vehicle? crystal i well, it's always interesting. i mean there are some time ago when meghan went to her wedding at windsor saint george's chapel windsor. another, rolls royce was brought out also from a very, very ancient time ago, and it took an eagle. i'd spot her to see that it was the same rolls royce that has carried the duchess of windsor at some stage or another. and somebody in the royal muse was either having a joke or making a very sharp point. so who makes that choice? i do not know, but it's, it's all these points are extremely thoughtful. they are indeed, and i also wanted to ask you about the proclamation ceremonies that we were discussing yesterday when, when we spoke. and, and you told us then that the proclamation would have to be read in the capitals of

the realm in cardiff and wales, belfast, on that island and in edinburgh. as we heard a little earlier from alan sasha. after the proclamation was, was read in edinburgh. there was a gun salute and then the, the national anthem, which course is now god save the king. and then we have booing. or what do you make of that? wow, in the old days, people wouldn't. bu they'd throw stones. they'd shoot at the ball because i said earlier, queen victoria had 6 different fascination attempts on her person. so i think that's pretty miles by comparison person title. but you, you know, if people are not entirely happy with what's going on, let them express that the worst thing is when they are, as it were dismissed. and i remember, charles is waiting to commit

a and windsor in well, 17 years ago there were a group of people who were uncomfortable about camilla being actually marriage. prince charles and they started just shot the odds in windsor high street and the police moved them all. now that's not what we like. what we actually like to do is let people, if they want to let off steam, let some of that all steam the worst you possibly do from in a democratic world. and also, particularly for the british royal family, is to suppress people's feelings against them. what was a joy store to chris? everybody? thanks again for being with us. royal biographer, christ of wilson in london. so the queen, sir quoterush will cottage carrying her coffin draped. indeed, the royal standard now heading its way towards edinburgh.

this, it's roughly the vicinity of, of, of puff, not too far away from edinburgh, but as alan fisher who's selling us little early, we think that it's running at least 20 to 30 minutes late a possibly longer. it was due to arrive in the capital at 1500 hours, gmc will continue to work to monitor its progress here on al jazeera and we'll continue to keep you updated. in the meantime, we're going to take a look at what else is happening right now in the world. it craves army says that its armed forces pushing further into the ne, hockey region. after making significant gains in a counter offensive, president followed him as lensky says, the advance could be a potential breakthrough. in the over 6 month old war, ukrainian troops said that they've taken control of 2 cities of russian supply routes in col, keith, but russia's defense ministry says that it's staging attacks while a fighting wages. there's been concern about the russian controls parachia nuclear

plot. the you and nuclear watchdog agency says that a back up power line is now in place and it's providing electricity in order to allow the facility to cool. it's nuclear reactors, are the zeros hotter abdel hamid has more from hockey's. the last we heard from president zalinski is that the ukrainian army was now in consort for 2000 square kilometers, sort of south east of high retrieve city where i am at the moment. they have 1st start pushing through the town of bella. clia went all the way to coop piano, which is a strategic win because it sits on a railway major railway up there and that and then it headed towards him. now as we understand it, the ukrainians are now on the highlands around the city of is you, we haven't had any announcement from the government that the ukraine is, are in full control of issue. but i'm sure that they're putting all the efforts

they can do to take that state to because that one actually sits on a hub of highways and railway system that the russians use as a strong coal. and as a logistic line for their offensive in the east of the country ended abbas region. so if the ukrainians managed to get full control of israel, it puts to russians who are in the dumbass regions in a very difficult position. now you have to also understand that at the same time as a 2nd counter offensive that's going on, that's in the south of the country. very little information trickling out of this one. what we do know is that the russians are isolated because they were being re supplied by the crimea peninsula when do ukrainians bomb those bridges. so the russians who are there are quite isolated at the moment, but the government or the defense ministry are not saying anything and are giving us any details about that counter offensive. that's crypt more now on the credit in

advance from i was is here is gabriel. elizondo is in chief it's an ambitious ukrainian military offensive in the northeast. that is retaking land and towns occupied by russian military that is now in retreat by saturday night and cleans had reached a zoom about a 120 kilometers southeast of the regional capital. hot keep city leveled over a, you know, brought bottom of the reconnaissance group and the special forces are already here in assumed it's lori to ukraine, of the soldier said, is soon home to a major rail line is strategically important and was a russian military stronghold for months no more. russian forces in the city fled as ukrainians closed in video showed ukrainians also recapturing compliance another key supply line city and invalid clear re taken by the ukrainians

a day before. a top commander raised the flag as a sign of victory to day where completing the liberation of bulloch lea a because big city in our offensive annual funding. i'm sure this is not delicacy, but the war has taken its toll up in the recaptured town of graco. their destruction can be seen everywhere. we saw there are a lot of damage buildings. this village is almost completely destroyed for hospital, the rushes service been occupied. every 3rd house there, a huge garbage piles and place you live to those living behind ammunition bullies, another things, a used toner. the world bank estimate. ukraine will need $349000000000.00 in aid just to rebuild. by saturday night, the russian defense ministry admitted to withdrawing their troops from key towns in the northeast, but said it was an operational regrouping. but many people on pro russian telegram channels or calling it something else, a defeat,

and one high profile russian military analysts said that their troops are now in an operational crisis and that the ukrainians have seized the initiative. in this war, gabriel's hondo al jazeera keith maximilian hass as a fellow in the erasure program of the foreign policy research institute. he says that while ukraine says it's making advances, russian forces are still capable of staging counter attacks. ukrainians and credited their own calendar events of the day and now is the end of august in the southern region in the south. they have said that this is distract russian horses in cost for us. and i have to regroup, edition a number of most capable and most technically advanced units found in there, which then enabled them to launch this counter offensive, se, or even just northwest of the main fighting. and then that's the region as well. the russian telegram community was russian bloggers who often travel onside,

the rest of the military and promote it. had warned of this, however, i have been quite a blessing and complaining about it only to a battle mickery. but the major propaganda, i think, was ukrainian really been fighting on the battlefield for quite some time. that was ensuring whatever victory may achieve in eastern ukraine terms of taking more territory that appear at victory that it's one that ultimately has major costs for him. and undermines is governance in the long term backlash that we've seen in this announcement from the russian right wing groups is exactly that which they've been hoping to lay the groundwork for now the russian bar, right. and russian nationalist groups that have been the ones who really been carping about the military withdrawals. they are not political unified and where they are. and it's very heavily controlled by the someone, sadly in relation to a number of other new military successes or announcements of new initiatives, for example, in the other week, rather than unleashed

a barrage or missile strikes on ukrainian population centers. so that's a real concern for, for the immediate future that i think people have been worried about from all the way to the west of the militarily, to take the initiative in ukraine. it looks like the russians are already sending more troops down to the front. bare there are areas where they've had more successes, and it's in your surroundings, in northeastern than that. so this major invest in ukraine is a turning point. but the russians do still have the capability to really put pressure on the prayers and other points in the front and will likely wash their own counter attack in that area. voting as well on the way in sweden's general election opinion polls suggested it's a close race between the left when government and an unprecedented alliance between the right and far right. rising crime at a surgeon, immigration among the main issues, the war in ukraine and the energy crisis that's followed have also become

a crucial for voters out there. as paul reese is in stockholm, sweden's 1st female prime minister is trying to get her 1st election victory pe, magdalena on the sions. social democrat lead coalition is not connecting the poles with an opposition block led by the moderate party. but it's the rise of the ranked wing sweden. democrats, that she's been warning vote as against i am very concerned that says we, the democrats, that will be the 2nd largest party park and therefore hadn't very great influence on. now on another government and another prime minister in salina. essentially the vote is a choice between under sions, left leaning coalition and the opposition led by oath kristen of the moderate party . but even if they, when the moderates could be a minority in their own government, the difference between this election i'm the last one, is that the opposition moderate party is not willing to work with the right wing suite and democrats. the other difference is that the suite and democrats are ahead

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