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be live in westminster. queen elizabeth, the seconds coffin is in edinburgh. when later people will get an opportunity to pay their respects. ah, hello, i'm adrian. and again, this is al jazeera live from doha, also coming up a hope for peace in ethiopia, rebels integral, i say that they're ready for a cease fire with the government and ukrainians. accuse russia of revenge attacks the caused black house in ca, keith? ah. britain's king charles the 3rd asked you to visit westminster, a short time from mouth that both houses of parliament will convey their condolences. the king will then reply to the addresses. later on monday, the monarch will fly to edinburgh. he lead the wall family in procession. as the
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queen's coffin is taken from the palace of holy root house to some giles cathedral for a service. let's go live to westminster in london. our diplomatic editor james bays . is there. james, talk us through what's due to happen there in the coming out. yeah, well it's, it's an important occasion and it's taking place in westminster hole now that dates from so many years ago. it was actually king rufus, who was the 1st to build westman, the whole he was the son of william the conqueror. so we're talking, you know, 10 centuries of history here represented by this. and this is happened so many times before this, this, this process of the came coming or the queen for that matter and speaking to the 2 houses of parliament, the house of commons in the house of law. ready so be greeted by the 2 speakers of the 2 houses. they will express that condolences to king charles on the death of
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his mother, and then he will make an address to the houses of parliament. so that will be an important moment. it's going to be this like many things in this funeral process, it's going to be shown for the 1st time to us on television. now, i think that doesn't sound so well when you think of the palace of westminster, because you see those pictures on television. every single day, but they weren't shown in 952 the last time this happened. and the interesting to note that you didn't get pictures inside the palace of westminster, at least from the house of commons until 1989. it's a relatively recent thing, so we're going to see this part of the process of the role of the proceedings towards or off, you know, which is taking place in 2 weeks time for the very 1st time life on television. king charles has spoken in parliament before and in fact back in may,
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the state opening of parliaments which is regularly done by the monarch. he stood in for his mother because of those mobility issues we kept hearing about as you got frailer in her last months, meant that she wasn't able to come to the state parliament in bay. and on that occasion king charles stepped in. good james at once, once this is over, the king has a pretty busy day ahead of him, doesn't he? oh yes, a very busy day ahead and it's the start of the king going around the various parts of the united kingdom. clearly he's going 1st to scotland, which is where the body of his mother will later today go to saint charles cathedral. and that is going to be a very moving or process because they'll be going up the royal mile on foot with king charles and some of others, the other senior family members following the cottage on foot and lots of meetings
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in scotland. meetings with the 1st minister and other dignitaries at the scottish parliament coming up as, as the king goes to thank the people of scotland for their condolences goes to scotland. and then his off at to northern ireland to belfast. to see the people of northern ireland back then to london, when his mother's coffin will come back to london. and we'll go eventually on state to lie in state on wednesday in the same hole where he's going to be speaking today . the western of the, the very ancient westminster hall met evil, westminster hall. that's where the body will lie in state before the funeral, which takes place in a week's time. and the last bit of the tour of the king around the u. k. to thank the people of the various countries that make up the u. k for their condolences will be to wales and that's taking place on friday. he'll be going to the welsh capital cottage. tell us
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a little more about that. you mentioned that we're westminster hall hall at that's the oldest part of the premise of westminster. right? it is. you can actually see it from where i am now. because it's at the back. it's on the other side. it's not on the river side of the palace, westminster. it's the oldest bit because that's where it all started. that whole is where the sort of government of the u. k. started to grow. the rest of the institutions were built around it. it's been used in the early times as a place for the king delicious advises of place that was used as an early law course. place to raise money performed all the functions of government early on. but as a say is a law court, that was some very famous things that have happened in that westminster hole that was guy fawkes, who try to blow up. so how is how's the problem in his trial took place there? and most notably, king charles, the 1st was put on trial at the end of the english civil war. and of course,
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he was found guilty and he was executed. and then for a short period, this country that everyone knows for as long, long, long period of having a mother, he didn't have a monarchy. that was a short period where oliver cromwell was in charge of britain. was a republic for that period until 1660 and the rebels, the restoration of the monarchy on charles the 2nd. it's also a place where monarchs, if i said we're going to see on wednesday a little bit, the 2nd live site that well molex of have done that since the time of edward the 7 back in 1910 when he died. this is a place where monarchs have been laid in state before the state funeral. of course, what's been the whole is just across the road from westminster, abbey. and that's where many important oil, religious services take place. a lot of ro, weddings, not all. king charles wasn't married that he was married to the lady,
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diana spencer, at some pulls cathedral, another one of the big cathedrals, further up the river. there are further east from here in london, but westminster abbey is aware. queen elizabeth will have her funeral in one week's time. our diplomatic editor james bay's their lives in london. a james with back with you were again a little later in the hour. in the meantime, let's at speak to alzheimer's port brennan. his outside, buckingham palace are not far from where james is. paul, what's the mood there in london? over the past few days, we've seen crowds of people flocking at buckingham palace goes to day being monday, the start of a new working week. a people to think still coming. they'll want to pay their respects to the late queen elizabeth, worthy indeed, i mean buckingham palace, of course, the home, one of the homes, the main home of the lake green lizard. the 2nd we are seeing people coming here to
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pay their respects. they are able to go up to the gates, but floral tributes at the gates are being discouraged, and many people are leaving floral tributes instead in the area of green park which is over behind where the counter, the camera that is pointing at me at the moment is i just seen a ceremonial band, i am guessing from the scots gods, given the fact that they were carrying pipes, heading off up the mouth towards clarence house. likely as part of the ceremony that's going to be taking place as the king moves from a clarence house over to westminster in a very short space of time. and i think the mood here i've got to say it's, it's, it's, it's, it's certainly not an outpouring of distraught grief. there is more a sense of reflection about 7 decades, all the late queens rame, about how the u. k. and indeed, the world has changed in those 7 decades. there's a sense of wonder,
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as well as the sheer pageantry of it all these occasions happen. so rarely that when they do happen and you realize just how much goes into it, how many horses, how many loyal guards are all the braiding? all the ceremonial that goes, goes into it. it is, it frankly awesome. and, and certainly many people that i've spoken to are all struck by it. i'm, and i think this also the realization that so much is now going to change. now one post, now speaking, to realizing that in here in the u. k, the stamps will have to change post boxes will change as the crest of the last monica is. e to, ah, will ask them how to change. now to see 3 are in and that's a, that ease e. r is, is imprinted on many, many things in public life. so a lot is going to have to change there. um, it's a big transition. it is a very big zisha. people are still coming to terms with it. as i say, it's not a big outpouring of tearful grief, but it's certainly
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a really important transition to people having to get their heads around for, for the moment of any thanks, d, that's out 0 pull. brennan, there in an outside. buckingham palace just along the street from where paul is standing is clarence house, which is where i, formerly prince charles, now king charles the 3rd i had his home. i can just briefly show you that there's nothing happening there. but that this is that the scene will when i'm talking to, i guess you will see the new king leave there for westminster from that area. let's go back to, to westminster hall. but i may not be able to tell you what's happening on it. this is why i'm explaining to you now what you, what you're likely to see while we're talking to work to our, our guests are all correspondence. that's the scene that in westminster hall, while we wait for this sir. this ceremony to get on the way where both houses of parliament give their condolences to the new king. and he replies that, let's take you to edinburgh on the capital of scotland, where i, late majesty,
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queen elizabeth, the 2nd is lying at rest out there was allan fisher is outside the palace of holy road house. allen, once the ceremony and his is in london is over, the new king will be flying there to edinburgh. what's you to happen that today? while the queen has been here since you arrived after that 6 hour trip from balmoral on sunday, coming down the east coast of scotland past tens of thousands of people who gathered by the roadside and gathered here in edinburgh to pay their respects to the queen. what was interesting is that initially, as the cortez set off, as it passed through a number of villages, there was silence people just standing in quiet respect and then as it moved through city centers like aberdeen, there was applause for the queen and that continued all the way down the road until she arrived here at hollywood. late yesterday afternoon at the japanese,
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she was accompanied by her daughter, the princess royal princess on. and then she gave a very small cut, say, in a very poignant moment as the coffin was carried into the throne room in the palace, you see behind me where she has spent the night. and that gave the chance of staff . what for, for decades to say their final farewells before the much more public farewell in a few hours time? no. as you say, king charles will fly here with queen consort camilla. you will be joined by a number of his siblings. they will come here to holywood host. what will happen is that there will be the traditional ceremony of the keys when the money comes to edinburgh. the lord promised at the head of the council here in edinburgh will hand over the keys to the city and then they will be handed back. this happens every single year, the queen did it for 70 years when she came to hold. it is the 1st time king charles will be involved in that sediment. and then he will lead his siblings in a slow procession up the royal mile royal mile, which runs from hollywood palace all the way to edinburgh castle at the top. he
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will lead a procession up the royal mile, but only halfway decent giles cathedral. and that is where there will be a service of thanksgiving. and the queen's body will remain there, having left holywood for the final time. and it will give people of edinburgh of scotland the chance to come and see the affair wells for a 24 hour period. the prince will come back here to hollywood house. he will have a meeting with some senior politicians in scotland. and then on tuesday, he will go with the queen's body and ticket back to london. and then on from there, the buckingham palace and all the services and ceremonies that are laid on before the queen's funeral. exactly one week today. and you mentioned that people are comfortable be given a chance to, to pay their respects. we're hearing from pull brennan in london. huge crowds are expected to to attend. i suppose the same will be true there in scotland.
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i think people gathered by the roadside. yes. the one it was a sunday too, it was passing by and this was however, you want to describe it a moment of history. an important moment of history in a chance to collectively express grief which many people had kept to themselves really since the announcement on thursday. there is not quite the same number of people around here at hollywood palace and that we saw on sunday. but there are people gathering and they will go to the royal mile and lined the route between here and the jails. cathedral is probably no more than than half a kilometer on that royal mile. so there's not a great deal of space, but the roads around here have been close, which makes it slightly more difficult for people to to come here. and of course, while the country is mourning, the loss of the queen. this is still a normal working day for many people. we have to go to what they have to go to school, they have to go to university. so it will be a limited number of people. they'll be here, but we can guarantee that that would be 5 or 6 deep all the way along the royal
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mile. as they watch prince charles leave that cortez of family members behind at the queen's coffin, which will lie at rest. it said giles cathedral with the old ancient crone of scotland on top because of course the queen is she is the queen of great britain and northern ireland, scotland as part of that. but scotland was a kingdom for many, many years before the union of the crown in 17 o 7. and that is the ancient crown that will sit upon the coffin as the queen lies and rest here for $24.00. ready hours of zeros, allan tricia, there live in edinburgh. meanwhile, in london, as you can see, the, the king's car has left clara's house at struggling along the mile. now towards admiralty arch at the bottom of trafalgar square. from there, it had a long white hall to the houses of parliament, the palace ald, westminster. let's bring it onto the pickles, a constitutional commentator. he george does not live up from london as they tossed through the the, the significance of what we're about to witness here. yes,
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so this is the significant moment. this is the, the 1st connection between the new king and parliament. and you have to remember that as part of the british system, the crown is very much an integral part of the way that our parliament operates. we have a house of commons, which is the elected elements. we have a house of lords, and the final part of our system is the crown itself. so the king is the personification of that part of our constitution. so he signs the bills. he reads the government's speech from the order of the king, speech as it will now be known from the throne of the house of lords, setting out the legislative agenda. so he says that the pinnacle of our system and what we witnessing today is his 1st role as sovereign. so he will be accepting of condolences of the house of commons in the house of lords, but parliaments is assembled collectively in the ancient hall at westminster. so
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this is a big moment for him and it's obviously full of ceremonial. um, it will be very solemn occasion, but you will see the elements of state come together in his head, him as the personification of the crown in parliament as showing that consistency. and the fact that you know him ascending to the throne doesn't really change the constitution. it changes the personnel. what sit beneath it. and at significantly this, this whole web where this happens, we were hearing something of a history that whole a little earlier. this is also a hole in which a queen elizabeth the 2nd will lie in state in order for the public to, to pay their respect. that's right. which means the hall is one of the oldest buildings in england and the foundations of it. go back to the norman conquest. om and under that great wooden hammer bin roost. we have seen so many of the trials and tribulations of the british history play out the trial. also, guido forks,
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for example, happened on most stairs, but it is also a hole that carries great honor with it. so a number of great statesmen throughout history of delivered speeches from the steps of westerns the whole. most recently, i believe the pope and former us president barack obama. the, as you mentioned, that the queen will lie in states and in the whole. so there will be what is known as a cat to flank that will sit in the middle of the hole where her cough them will be placed with the regalia or stay. the imperial state, crown the sector, and the old and the members of the public will be able to file past and pay their own tributes in person. so yes, today it's laid out. so the whose members of parliament pairs of the house of lords at gather and to hear from the sovereign for the 1st time on the steps with the lord chancellor, the speaker of the lords and the speaker of the house of commons answer today's about ceremonial. but it very will very quickly will become the focal points of national morning. the new king has arrived now at the palace of westminster. what
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are we to make of the fact that we, that the public are able for the 1st time to see these remarkable scenes? that's right. say to day ceremony, historically has always happened in private and tended to happen actually a buckingham palace or the courts of the new sovereign. the fact that the sovereign is making his way to parliament, i think, is a demonstration of the fact that we live in a different age. the that, that the time when the queen came to the throne was still a very much an age of deference. we don't live in that period now we live in an age of democracy, and this is the recognition really of, of that role and all the respects that ultimate will want to demonstrate. i know you're going to cut to the 2 s as the whole. now, yes and from st. mary's the forty's for his rhetoric. let's, let's listen. oh oh
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. your majesty, i welcome you and her majesty the queen consort to parliament, to day on this solemn occasion. her late majesty of treasured queen and your beloved and deeply miss mother came here to westminster ho many times to receive the congratulations of our loyal subjects in the 2 houses of parliament.
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and to celebrate with them historic landmarks and her long life of dedicated public service. she was both a leader to on the 7th of her people. her humility and integrity commanded the respect and captured the imagination of peoples and nations across the globe. her late majesty's joyous unstinting and reassuring presence across the years made it difficult to contemplate that her long and inspiring rain over deep an unparalleled devotion would ever end. we ant initial closed our eyes to this inevitable lity. but it has ended only a few months after we celebrated our late majesty's historic platinum jubilee.
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and as you said, sole movingly, your majesty and your address to the nation, we all know feel a sense of loss beyond measure. nevertheless, the qualities of late majesty, embodied with such constancy remains to inspire you, your majesty, your family, and all your subjects. we remember her commitment ha kindness, her humor, her courage, and her fortitude as well as the deep faith which was the anchor in her life. your majesty, this is he has stoics piece. it's walls built more than 900 years ago by
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william rufus found to be deficient hammer bin roof above us convention commission 300 years later by richard. the 2nd since medieval times, much of a national story has taken place within these very walls, from civic gatherings to coordination, banquets to the centuries shooting which this hall was at the heart of a legal system. but this ancient whole is a living space. and lake, our great nation. it continues to evolve. in 2012 or late majesty came to westminster hall to march of diamond jubilee. and we saw the unveiling of the splendid memorial window commissioned by both members of parliament houses, which now gracie's the north wall of this historic space. a
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1st 10 years the late from that window. as i did beauty, to the grey stones of this place. they think them in color and remaining hundreds niecy, thousands, millions of visitors to the palace of westminster, or for late majesty's dedicated life of service. like the light that shines through this memorial window. her late majesty's magnificent achievements will lit vaughn by permanently illuminating and enriching our lace and our national discourse. your majesty, even as we mourn the loss of our dear queen, we on future generations will draw strength from our shining example. your majesty on behalf of all the members of the house of lords, i pledge my loyalty to you and wish you and her majesty the queen
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consort well in the life of service to which you uh, dedicated yourself. we are private and indeed humbled to welcome you as a king. and we look forward to welcoming you on many more occasions to parliament and to this hole in the years ahead. finally your majesty the house is commission me to deliver the following humble address, which that lordship's agreed. on the 10th of september, i shall not read the address most cases, sullivan we your majesty's most beautiful and loyal subjects. the lord spiritual on temper than parliament assembled, begged to leave to convey to your majesty the deep sympathy felt by this house and
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the grief your majesty has sustain by the death of a late beloved queen. your majesty is mother of bless it on glorious memory. to extend to all the royal family, the deep sympathy of this house and the grief which is shared by all members to assure your majesty that the example of selfless public service. what shirley soften displayed over her reign of 70 years. hot untiring endeavours for the welfare of her peoples and her fortitude in adversity will ever be held in reverence, affectionate, ungrateful remembrance. and to express to your majesty, oh loyalty to your majesty's royal person. unto firm conviction that under the blessing of divine providence, your majesty will throw your reign. ready for love the happiness and protect the
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liberties of all youth peoples in all your realms. oh your majesty. let me repeat a welcome to you until her majesty the queen consorts. on this solemn occasion, members of both houses of parliament gather here to express a would deep sympathy the loss we have all sustained in the death of our sovereign lady. queen elizabeth, we have seen that this is a last that has failed to run the world. it is a loss to the united kingdom,
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the overseas territories, the crown dependencies, a many countries over which you rate it is a loss to the entire commonwealth, which she did so much to nurture. it is a loss to all levels. but we know most of all, it is a loss to you, your majesty answered the royal family. newspapers have been filled with photographs of a late majesty, since the news broke. the most touching, the been the glimpses into the family lie which we usually kept sheltered from public view. deep as our grief is. we know yours is deeper. we offer our heartfelt sympathy to you and all the royal family. we know that there is nothing we can say in the praise of overlake queen your mother that you will not.
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