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britain in the world to final farewell to queen elizabeth at a funeral, attended by kings, queens, presidents and prime ministers. those who serve will be loved and remembered when those who claim to power and privileges are long forgotten. ah, norton taylor, this is al jazeera live from london, also coming up a series of explosions kills 13 people in the separatist hell, city of genetic. as ukraine says, it's preparing for an assault on russian forces in the don't bus region. and tara confused slams into the dominican republic auto flooding puerto rico, and triggering total back out. ah
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hello, it was a funeral, drew some of the world's most powerful leaders, presidents, prime ministers, kings and queens, or hundreds of thousands of people packed the streets to say a final farewell to queen elizabeth. the 2nd u. k is longer serving monarch who's rain, span 70 is, has not been laid to rest alongside her late husband, prince philip. she was one of the world's most recognizable faces, but many saw as a rocco stability, seeing them through to mount us times. but with her passing, others have questioned the role of the monarchy in a modern world, along with its dark, colonial legacy or force. it begins our coverage on how the u. k. and the world with firewall to queen elizabeth the 2nd in sullen silence. the queen's coffin was borne from westminster hall onto the gun carriage, pulled by sailors and a tradition begun with a funeral of queen victoria on the coffin,
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a distillation. this very public person was in the mornings crown, old and set to besides favorite flowers chosen by the king and a hand written his mother in charles followed the coffin and that his family on the short journey to westminster abbey. oh. and on towards the altar, late queen's children and grandchildren accompanied now are their spouses and her great friendship. george and charlotte. we gather from across the nation from the commonwealth. and from the nations of the world, some 500 foreign dignitaries were in the abbey to mark this moment, including the queen's 14th us president and 15th british prime minister, whom she invited the former government just 2 days before her death. ah. but above the politics,
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she'd been clear that the service should fall most on her constant christian faith that featured the favorite him. the lord is my shepherd. service in life. hope in death. all who follows the queen's example and inspiration of trust and faith in god can with her say we will meet again the in more heralded to minute funds across the country before the queen's piper broke the state close to 4 days. the people had been
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a spectacle as they queued and file past the queen's coffin. now they were still witnessing an extraordinary spectacle on spool before them the parade of hundreds which service men and women from the u. k. in the commonwealth. over the course of 70 years, queen elizabeth the 2nd came to embody the idea of monarchy in this country, a symbol and a person woven into the fabric of daily life. for those here now on the streets outside, buckingham palace, a last chance to say goodbye, transferred to the state, hers the coffins, progress flowed again as it neared wind to cancel. so long, meticulous planning. this was a day of undeniable beauty that images grand and intimate insides and ga chapel. the service of committal british history separated into royal ages, the jacket b in the george and the victorian each defining a particular time a particular society. the merciful goodness of the lord and jury for ever and ever
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. the 2nd elizabethan age was so long and so such change it seems to defy that kind of definition. it is now, though ended the queen load into the royal vault. ah, days ago he would have some this and now it's sung for him. later away from the cameras would come the final burial service. closest family lane tourist, a matriarch alongside her husband, r equals 0, london. and fisher has more from windsor on the private burial service that happened away from the world's gaze. hundreds of thousands have said their farewells over the last week or so to the queen in a very public fashion. but this was a very private farewell for the king and the rest of the royal family at the queen's body was taken to at saint george's, chapel, and windsor. but for the private service, it was taken to a much smaller area of the chapel,
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known as the king george this 6 chapel named after her father. and there, the queen was laid to rest alongside prince philip, who died last year and not very far away as her father, king george the 6th, and also her mother, the queen mother. this was finally a chance for her children or grandchildren and her great grandchildren to see farewell. she was the monarch for 70 years. but to king charles, she was very simply. mamma. even though they're all standard has no been lord here at windsor and replaced with the union flag, which tells us that king charles is no longer here yet. that are still people even after that. the brush, the rain that we had here here at windsor. no, no, to ask them why the new why they were here. they knew that they wanted to touch this moment of history. they wanted to express their solidarity with royal family. they wanted to mark the passing of the queen, and i asked them, well, why you still here?
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but they couldn't really answer, and they'll be here for a few hours yet. but at some point they will move on. and of course, to morrow. so will britain. hundreds of thousands of people came to london to watch . as the queen, his funeral, cortez made its way from westminster abbey to windsor, and many millions more. watched the service and procession on tv and large scale. how many screens around the u. k. o brennan joined the crowds in the bush capital aah! many had travel long distances. some had camped out over night to secure their viewing positions. around a 1000000 people were predicted to turn out the queen's funeral procession and the reality looked pretty close. i did it justice i you see, suffice on tv. anything. oh my god, alex incredible. but like saying a like in person like oh what music and everything and they're amazing. rachel quayle had traveled from bedfordshire together with 3 month old daughter. bobby. i
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personally had always said i wanted to behave for the queen's final farewell. i am and i happen to have a 3 month old and who will come with me and then we'll be able to share these memories. although she will remember will be able to share things with her with large parts of central london close to traffic. the capital stations were braced her enormous crouch row funeral, drawing in spectators from all around the country and beyond. i dont like watch at home is not the same so the same with football is not the same with you. no, no, no. i feel like being here in person is much more like an events and we can, it will make us feel so much more and being pay so much more respects. yeah. oh, do you from the service in the abbey was broadcast to those waiting along the route via a p, a system. the enormous crowd, 8 or 9 deep at the barriers, stood and listened in hushed attention was totally beautiful. mm hm. it represents
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a lovely day to celebrate green's, mom i i felt i had to be here. 2 minutes silence was observed with an refined clarity and stillness. ah, and then came the procession itself. this is what these tens of thousands of people lining and the roots have waited so many hours for to see with their own eyes the final procession and to experience the spectacle. monsieur am immense isness of this occasion and for the chance to say, we were there. it was family connections that drew the nash's to want to pay their respects in person. my dad used to work at westminster abbe, my dad was a queen's arms man. so he'd seen the crane met the queen, lots of lots of things at the abbey. i've been services at the abbey. so for me,
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she's been told more of course my life for i don't know 3040 years. those unable to reach them all, watched the service at a public screening a short distance away in hyde park, whole thousands more gathered in windsor to follow the service broadcast on to big screens. there. there were similar scenes in cities across the u. k. monday had been declared a public holiday because of the funeral, and hundreds of thousands of people took the opportunity to pause and reflection it on 70 year old of the royal reign. ethan during states since you do notice betsy to monarchy of england and especially to form a queen. but she still had such respects from the autumn monarchs to sneak reduction was a grand mother to them. from any in britain, the queen was a constant. governments rose and fell and were replaced. the economy fluctuated. the royal family continued. the size of the crowds share the loyalty and affection
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with which the queen was regarded. the sense of what has been lost with her passing may take some time yet to st. kid. pull brennan, al jazeera, central london quinlan, but the 2nd was also the head of the commonwealth. a group of $56.00 independent nations, including republics. as in many former colonies, the day of her funeral was also a stark reminder of the brutal legacy of the british empire. michelle is in new delhi where if its being made to reclaim some colonial era symbols, the shopping district in the heart of new journey was very nearly century ago. india was a british colony and this was called cannot place named through due, 30 years ago. it was read names often named in prime minister over the last 2 years that have been concerted efforts to revamp and rename several colonial symbol such as this one. who in elizabeth, the 2nd bossing a re ignited conversations about communion legacy and also on the line in just sees
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a says in its presence and its future. during her reign, the 2 countries have become close allied for many people. she was the head of a country with india has flo diplomatic relations threads. when his birth ascended the throne on february, the 6th 1952. she was in kenya at the time, 3 hours outside nairobi at a rural lodge where she was informed of her father's death. it was also run the start of the mamma uprising against colonial rule, during which british soldiers committed widespread atrocities against kenyans. catherine sawyer has more on the queen's complicated legacy in that country. queen elizabeth was here in central kenya in 1952. and this is where she learned that how father hot died. they had come to a tree house that was here in the region. she was, we've husband,
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she spent quite some time right here watching alison's into the animals that were drinking water. there are so many memories here. the work because he has said that the selling point is that this is a woman who came as a princess, but then she left the queen. during the queen's reigns, he did visit kenya again, about 2 other times. and she did come to this lodge where she spent the night and a lot of can the we have spoken to say that the downside of her legacy is colonialism and t and bob buddha, her bid farewell to queen elizabeth the 2nd, holding a memorial in a cathedral once feared as a symbol of british rule in its former caribbean colony. dana trees and politicians gathered at the cathedral, loosened john the divine members of the military. with band nets,
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then marched the nation's flag, capped with a golden crown through the streets towards government house and t go. bob. eugene only became independent in 1981, a minister guest on brown pans to hold a referendum to remove british monex as a country's head of state. next year. the parade was watched by a handful of people. still to come this half hour an earthquake causes panic in mexico. an anniversary of not one but 2 devastating quake. ah, we had the strongest storm strike, mainland japan in more than 70 years. have one. so here's the update on where the storm is. it's lashing japan's main island upon you on tuesday, but watch this. it's a quick mover. so throughout the day on tuesday we will see an improvement in those conditions,
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also clipping hoko as while widespread landslide alerts warnings emergencies. so some spots getting about a meter of rain, potentially over the next 48 hours. got a bit of a bubble of heat over gray land, even with overcast conditions. 36 degrees, some soaking rains for the western yangtze. river valley cha ching coming in at 26 . now for southeast asia, let's focus on the philippines. some driving rain here for luzon island. we go in for a closer look. it is really both the western and eastern side of the main island there . so certainly could see some flash flooding down under we go right now. and last st. showers across south australia and toward the top. and over the last old bit, we've had some high heat here. temperatures hitting about 40 degrees, but they're cool off a bit sad. darwin coming in at 34 off to new zealand. it's going to be a what day for the northland and the eastern escape, i should say. and also some rain coming in and across sub southern alps on tuesday has been charged for you with a height of 19 degrees. that's it. we'll see you,
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ah. one of the top stories here now g 0. ah, you k and the world have bid farewell to queen elizabeth the 2nd for the state funeral that drew kings and queens presidents and prime ministers, a 70 year reign was the longest in british history. hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets to watch the coffins final procession from london to windsor. the quoterush was accompanied by a military escort and the queen's family, including her son, king charles. the 3rd is now taking the throne. the coffin was load into a volt in windsor castle before a private service bearing the queen with her late husband, prince philip. when he saw her as a rock of stability during turbulent times, others have criticized the monarchies colonial legacy. a code of human rights groups has 4 people have been killed off to renew security forces. open fire during
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protests over a woman's death in police custody nasa, meaning his death was as ignited nationwide. anger in iran, protests to say the 22 year old was beaten after being arrested for not complying with headscarf regulations. she fell into a coma and died in hospital police of call the death an unfortunate incident and denied accusations of miss treatment demonstrations have been taking place in big cities like terror on and also runs kurdish province where amena was from to ukraine now and at least 13 people have been killed by shilling in the eastern city of don't ask, according to his russian back mer to children is said to be among the casualties. if i was a similar attack on saturday, which officials say killed 4 people to that city has been controlled by russian back separatists in 2014. ukraine's military says its troops have crossed a key river and the country is northeast. as the fight to regain lost territory continues. crossing your skill river would be another important milestone as it
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paves the way for an assault or russian forces in the eastern don't bass region. ukrainian officials say the 200 region is right next door, and the occupation is not far away. in the past few weeks, ukraine's counter offensive in the hockey's and her own regions have gained momentum. president luminance case, as there will be no let up in the fight back. the criminal has rejected accusation that russian forces committed war crimes in ukraine's hockey region. ukraine's president for ms. lewinsky says more than 10 torture chambers have been discovered since russian troops retreated last week. oscar says it's nothing but a smear campaign. going to the to just finish the booking. you know, it is the same scenario is in butcher. everything is unfolding according to the same scenario. it's a lie, and of course we will defend the truth in this whole story. victories on the battlefield in her son and russian troops retreating in hoc eve. i've led to some
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military unless to suggest ukraine has a chance of eventual victory and many ukrainians. now, thinking more about if and when that victory might happen, and what form it might take. gabriel is under reports from keith on a recent day in downtown keith with ukraine seizing the momentum. we asked people to define victory in the war against russia. when our territory was crimea. dom bars and carson will be ukrainian, and again, we're all the russians. ok. buyers will get back to russia. member lou betrothed, but i hold may be the will convict that, because i will kill an old people. crimea for many years. victory includes reclaiming the southern peninsula, annexed by russia, 2014. or we need to make the whole country free glued and crimea. i know there are many people in the european union which,
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who still do not believe in that i believed. and we believe that it happens time pass. and her, this happens for some, it's about joining military alliances. i yeah, had those. sure. oh yeah. in my opinion we have to join nato as soon as possible, only with the support of our partners. can we guarantee our independence and wellbeing this war made us stronger, more powerful? we started to believe in ourselves more weakness and for others. victory is about making russia pay. oh, but more had, we have to reset our borders to where they were in 1991 when we gained independence from the soviet union. but victory is also when russia will pay reparations to ukrainians to all those have lost their family. their homes in this invasion, victory means a strong ukraine, that nobody will ever tried to conquer. again, it was the ukrainian military counter offensive that retook the entire heart of cave region. back from the russians, certainly has boosted morale,
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but ukrainians also know that with russia is still in control of about 75 percent of the don boss. more than half of the aperture and all of the her so in region is very well, could be a long war in a country where for most the only debate is not if ukraine eventually will win. but what victory will look like when it does gabriel's onto al jazeera keith. 4 of the 5 year pin union countries bordering russia, began turning away russian tourists at midnight on monday, saying they will not be allowed in walla countries. it will with ukraine. poland estonia, that fear, and if you any, impose the new restrictions. finland has cut back on visa appointments for russians, but has decided to remain open at a warnings that russian travelers will now head for the finish border. instead. it's not entirely effective. mainland is not on board that is to but it's still
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better than nothing. 2 thirds of russian tourists come via finland and i estonia to to europe. so. so a clearly, i'm putting this in on our side is, is making the pressure to go to, to finland. and i really, really hope that and that they will join villages and men ma say at least 6 children were killed after ami helicopters, short of the school. 17 others were wounded, didn't friday attack in the village of let yet cone in the side gang region. military says it open fire because rebels were using the building to attack its forces. report say some children were killed on the spot. while others died after troops and to the village. mars been gripped by violence since the army over through the government early last year. the taliban says it's released an american engineer in exchange for a senior tomba member held by the united states groups. foreign minister told
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journalists in cobble that exchanged mark ferry at campbell airport on monday morning. he was freed in return for her g, but she knows i, we've been in us custody for 17 years on drug smuggling charger. our confusion continues to turn through the caribbean, bringing with it heavy rain and a 145 kilometer now winds. after killing one person in guadalupe fiona swept through puerto rico and sunday, battering the island with life threatening with floods. on the early as monday, the eye of the stall was over the dominican republic, near book a human. and it's expected to grow stronger. turning into a category 3 harken before it had north into the open waters of the atlantic ocean, possibly impacting turks and keiko's and bermuda petticoat high and has the latest a sign of an island hit again. this bridge built after the last hurricane to hit puerto rico washed away 2 days before the 5th anniversary of hurricane maria. now
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fiona maria was a category for fiona, a one. but the devastation appears to be just as widespread. real love love. when this is the plots of river from the bridge and com or you, it is approximately 10 feet from hitting the bridge. this is crazy. the governor of puerto rico has called the damage catastrophic. it more just audio, in many areas that had never seen flooding. there has been an unprecedented accumulation of water. in fact, in many areas, it was greater than what we saw during hurricane maria. you're up to $76.00 centimeters of rain was forecasted to fall in some parts of puerto rico houses. businesses washed away, landslides are continuing, and more than 1300000 people are without electricity and will likely stay that way for days or weeks. many also don't have access to clean water. at my age,
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i've never seen anything like this before. i have no words to describe this or destroyed everything, everything has been effected. it all has to be both. all this, more than 1000 people had to be rescued. and now fiona has moved on to the dominican republic, the damage there, also widespread as fiona brought winds of more than 140 kilometers per hour were not well, i'll tell you the truth. i didn't sleep. i was sitting behind the door because the wind was strong enough. that would have taken me with everything i woke up for i am because the house was one large pool. fiona is expected to strengthen in the coming days as it next bears down on the bahamas and turks and keiko's unlikely. bermuda as well. patty, gl haine al jazeera. as hope the pocket stone may be slowly recovering from its worst ever floods. the government says it hasn't recorded any new fatalities in the last 3 days for the 1st time since mid june. well,
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the 1500 people have been confirmed dead. a 1000 more been injured. catastrophic monsoon floods have swept away villages, rose and bridges at one point submerging a 3rd of the country. doctors and medical workers are now battling a surge in water warm diseases quickly but doesn't oh good. for the last 10 days, you've been getting a malaria cases, receiver on 295 blood samples to test my area. i'm out of them 60 to 70 percent of positive. most of the cases coming here out of malaria. and we also have gastro integrated, diarrhea, typhoid, and skin diseases. a $7.00 magnitude earthquake has drunk off the coast of lab plus heated, more or less in western mexico, killing at least one person in equally mer region. the tremors were felt in mexico city were building shook and residents ran into the streets. alas, unami warning was issued. it happened about an hour after the city held its annual quaint drill on the anniversary of 2 devastating earthquakes. in 19852017. tom
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homan has more from mexico city. we can probably see the people behind me. they still have it outside of their buildings on roy, in the past sale, the law reform, which is the main avenue in mexico city. and they got it here because we just had a more than 7 and a half crate. that's more than 7 on the richter scale. some more people behind us over there. what's actually really bizarre about this earthquake is that it's happened exactly on the anniversary, the 19th of september. those 2 other major earthquakes in mexico, one in 2017, and one in 1985, some people on twitter starting to talk about the as to curse. those last 2 grades really, really have a, especially here in the capitol. this one seems to have not done the same so far, the 1st report of no damage, but there are helicopters going to have both here in the capital and also mitchell
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and the state in the south west where this happened. so we'll keep you updated as to news on this, but meanwhile, you can see that people are starting to head back into their own. it says that the bus is here on the main avenue, starting to run medical, unfortunately, is pretty used for this sort of thing. happening, i judge in a year, a city of baltimore has ordered the release of ad nan sired, overturning his murder conviction, which was the subject of the popular podcast serial. so i had was just 17 when he was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his girlfriend, him in li, prosecutors say the evidence used in his conviction was problematic, and that 2 other possible suspects were not disclosed. se andrews now 41 years old as always maintained his innocence ah,
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