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the last post played there by four buglers from hm band of the royal marines portsmouth, led by corps bugle major, and before the new saw the king's

troop and horse guards with a gun signal. now the first wreaths will be laid. the first by the prince of wales. on behalf of the queen. now captain bellew of the intelligence corps on behalf of the duke of edinburgh.

and now the prince of wales lays a wreath on his on behalf of. —— on his own behalf. three white feathers of wales. watching on the balcony, the duchess of cornwall and the duchess of cambridge on the right there. the queen in the centre with the lady —— lady in waiting. and on the left, emma lawrence and the countess of wessex as the duke of cambridge comes forward in the uniform of the

royal air force officer. he did seven and a half years military service as a helicopter pilot. the duchess of cambridge watching. and next, the earl of wessex in the uniform of the royal wessex yeomanry. and the princess royal, admiral and chief commandant for women in the royal navy.

and now the duke of kent, field marshal uniform. he served for 21 yea rs marshal uniform. he served for 21 years in the royal scots greys and president of the war graves commission.

ease. and in a moment the funeral march in b flat minor marks a change in the ceremony with the politicians coming after members of the royal family to lay their wreaths, led by borisjohnson as prime minister.

next, sir keir starmer, leader of the labour party. ian blackford, leader of the scottish national party, laying a wreath on their behalf and on half of the welsh national party, plaid cymru. ed davey, the leader of the liberal democrats.

sirjeffrey donaldson on behalf of the democratic unionist party of northern ireland.

the two speakers of parliament, lindsay hoyle, speaker of the house of commons, and in front of him, lord fowler, norman fowler, speaker of the house of lords. the home secretary, priti patel, laying a wreath on behalf of the intelligence agencies.

now two further wreaths on behalf of the overseas territories, including bermuda, anguilla and the cayman islands. and robert buckland, lord chancellor, laying a wreath on behalf of the crown dependencies, thatis behalf of the crown dependencies, that is jersey and guernsey and the isle of man. and they're followed by the ambassador of ireland and the ambassador of nepal. ireland, which

before partition, sent 200,000 troops to world war i. over 5000 of them in one period of two days were lost from a division of 15,000. and nick powell, of course, sending troops still to the british army, the gurkha regiments, 3000 of them currently serving in the british army. and so instead of the long processions of high commissioners this year, for the same reasons everything has been cut back, we just have five high commissioners representing the commonwealth countries. over 1.5 million to send commonwealth dead in two world wars.

so there is a multi come of the high commissioner laying a wreath on behalf of cyprus and malta. —— malta. the high commissioner of bangladesh laying a wreath on behalf of india, pakistan, singapore and malaysia. of malawi on behalf of the whole of africa. papua new guinea high commissioner on behalf of australia and new zealand and fiji and tonga. and from st vincent and the grenadines, on behalf of canada, jamaica and trinidad and tobago, dominique and belize... and now the service chiefs come forward. the chief of the defence staff, sir nicholas carter. the first sea lord of the chief of general staff and the chief of the air staff.

these civilian representatives of the merchant navy, the air transport auxiliary association and the civilian services laying their wreaths together. david appleton representing the merchant navy, minnie churchill from the air transport and axillary association, and roy wilsher from the civilian services. and that ends the official wreath laying. it is curtailed this year and it will be followed by the service, as ever, led by the bishop

of london. dame sarah mullally. o almighty god, grant, we beseech thee, that we, who here do honour to the memory of those who have died in the service of their country and of the crown, may be so inspired continuing coverage of the remembrance commemoration on bbc one. now we have more on the us election with bbc news. pro—trump protesters, who claim that the election has been stolen from them, gathered in nevada. our correspondent james clayton has been speaking to some. you have organised these protests, why? so, myself and and actually quite a few other people across the country, this is a national effort. we are organising these stop the steal protests here in nevada, arizona, wisconsin, michigan, georgia and pennsylvania. these are the final battleground states. and we want the people to come out and hear the truth. there is a lot of censorship still going on right now online, a lot of ballots are still being

counted, and in some of these races and in some of these races it's getting so close, it's a 1% difference or less. if we want every legal vote to be counted, then they should, and americans deserve to have a free and transparent election. what's your evidence that this election is being stolen? we are seeing a lot of different cases of voter fraud in pennsylvania, in michigan, wisconsin, georgia, here, just in nevada, we are finding out there are some dead voters that had voted in this election. even if that were the case, and i haven't seen any evidence for that personally, but even if that was the case, biden‘s lead here is now in the tens of thousands. you're not alleging that tens of thousands of dead people voted here, are you? no, i'm not alleging that, of course not. but they are finding cases where that is happening, or signatures are not matching. where the trump campaign have had republican poll watchers that should be a part of the process that are not part of the process, with the ballot counting. you are here pretty heavily armed, right? you know, maybe, maybe.

maybe just a little bit. what's made you feel like you need to bring a weapon to today's protests? it's not the fact that i have to. it's the fact that i can. and that people have died for this freedom, so i can sit here, i can defend my country, i can defend my president, and i can bear arms as much as i want, because that is how a human right, right, that's in our constitution, it's our second amendment. i'm not a threat. i carry more medical than i do ammunition. i'm just here to represent my president and have a show of force out here with all my friends and show some support. the registrar here said that he felt worried for the safety of some of the ballot counters here. if people turn up with guns, that can be quite threatening to people. do you accept that? the only thing that makes something threatening is in action. you can't just stand around and be a threat. now, if i had this gun, you know, pointed out to you, that's a little different.

butjust right here, nice and slung, hands not even on it, no threat. no threat, not so. i mean, these cops over here, they are armed to the teeth. they've got ar 15s and .870 shotguns in their cruiser, locked and loaded. why is that any different for me to do it? why is it different for you? and why are you actually here? do you think there was voter fraud at this election? yes. i believe that there was voter fraud. i believe that we have way too much unanswered questions. i'm going to be completely honest with you, ifjoe biden is the true winner, i will accept that. that's just what i have to do because i love this country and i will stand for this country no matter who is president. but i don't believe that's what's happened. so, as counting continues in some states, how did joe biden get to the 270 electoral college votes needed to make a victory certain. here's my colleague ros atkins with a summary. to become president of america, you need a majority in the electoral college. this is a system where candidates compete for individual states. if you win a state,

you get a certain amount of electoral college votes. to become president, you need 270 electoral votes. because of the reasonable predictability of a lot of states in america, we always knew thatjoe biden would take california, joe biden would take new york. it was the states that we couldn't predict that really decided which way this election went and in the hours that followed the polls closing, actually, the news was better for president trump. he took florida early on, later on ohio and iowa. he also took texas, which the biden campaign had given some attention to, but that is really where the good news stopped for president trump. then the biden campaign started getting better news. we know there was a huge focus on the midwest. hillary clinton lost all the key states in the midwest. joe biden was to try and win them back. and he took wisconsin, he took michigan, which meant that when the day started, he was on 253 electoral college votes, he needed 17 more to become president. there were various routes,

either via the south—west — nevada and arizona, or simply through the state where he grew up, pennsylvania. he grew up in scranton. and a few hours ago, that's what happened. he took pennsylvania, that took him over 270 to 273. we're still waiting on some states — north carolina, georgia, arizona. actually, nevada's been projected as well — he currently stands on 279. it doesn't matter what happens in these other states, he already has enough to be the president—elect. now, one of the things that will define his presidency is how much progress he can make with congress. let's look at both houses of congress. the senate matters more because it's a tighter political contest. the democrats have a6, add in two independents who tend to vote for them, they're on a8, so are the republicans. there are four outstanding, two of those, north carolina and alaska, we expect to go in the direction of the republicans. the thing we're all focused on is the two run—offs for the two senate seats in georgia, they will happen in january.

if the democrats take them, it will be 50—50 and then the deciding vote goes to the vice president and of course the vice—president—elect is kamala harris, a democrat. that is why there will be a huge amount of attention on georgia in the coming weeks and that's not just because of the fact that we still don't know who won the state in the presidential election. i'll quickly mention the house as well, the lower house of congress, less politically dramatic, the democrats controlled it before election day, they still control it now. the republicans made some gains but that will not have any impact on the fact that the democrats on the whole control the lower house. so, it is the senate that is the unknown at the moment but we know about the house and we know who's going to be president, too. as we saw earlier, the result of the election was greeted with jubilation by democratic supporters across the us. our correspondent clive myrie has been looking at the reaction. cheering. horns blare. this is the soundtrack of the biden campaign,

and now a new america. in the age of covid—19, his election rallies were drive—in and socially distanced. supporters honked in his speeches, instead of applauding. chanting: it's all over! it's all over! outside their cars, the president—elect‘s ecstatic supporters, no less noisy... now go home! ..in the shadow of the building where election votes are being counted. the subjects of their ire — forlorn donald trump voters across this philadelphia street. america's rancorous political divide in miniature. joe biden says he wants to bring both sides together, he wants to be a leader for all america. at the moment, they can't even share the same street without barricades and the police. donald trump lost in part because suburban women turned on him.

listen to penny olds and her daughter, hattie, who set up a facebook group to supportjoe biden. we started with four and we ended with 142. it was incredibly empowering. and it was therapy for us women who felt disregarded. i'm a woman in my 20s and it'sjust really important for people my age to be behind someone who supports us to the full. four more years! but tim trimble, who once called essex home, says donald trump's fight isn't over. he has not lost the election. i think because bbc and cnn and abc calls it, that's irrelevant. # it's fun to stay at the y-m-c-a...# meanwhile, on the same street in another america, they're dancing for joe, and won't sleep. clive myrie, bbc news, in philadelphia. so it's a win forjoe biden let's take a look at some of saturday's images

as an extraordinary election finally produced a result. justice for our lives and the planet, and then you voted.|j justice for our lives and the planet, and then you voted. i have long talked about the battle for the soul of america. we must restore the soul of america. we must restore the soul of america. we must restore the soul of america. and make no mistake, too many dreams have been deferred for too long. we must make the promise of the country real for everybody.

now it's time for a look at the weather with tomasz shafernaker. well, it's been pretty grey and drizzly out there today. the rain's also been quite heavy, for example, in northern ireland and it looks as though it's going to stay like it through most of the day across much of the country. but the weather will improve somewhat a little bit later on in south—western parts of england, wales and also northern ireland and the reason for it is because the weather front is starting to clear these areas here. see this gap in the cloud here? the clearer weather is just starting to filter into south—western parts of england. just like yesterday, also this weather front has brought very mild air, in fact it's coming all the way from the mediterranean and spain. the air has been moving across france northwards and spreading right

across the country so i know if you look out of the window it may look really unpleasant, grey and drizzly, but it's actually quite mild out there. the temperatures this afternoon will probably peak at around about 16 degrees, 15 or 16 degrees in the south of the country and really double figures right across the board. look at that, belfast at around 1a. so that's way above the average. now let's have a look at the forecast for this evening and overnight — not an awful lot changes. again, a lot of cloud across the uk. bits and pieces of rain into tomorrow as well. you can see showers developing by the end of the night across the south. and these are the overnight lows, so double figures across a large part of the country, just about dipping to 8 degrees there maybe in the lowlands of scotland. here's the weather map for monday and another weather front moving in across south—western parts of the country. so i think here, right from the morning onwards, a good chance of running into some showers, some of them could be heavy. the best chance of some bright, if not sunny weather, at least for a time, is across parts of scotland,

maybe aberdeenshire here as well, around inverness there could be some sunshine around. but look at the temperature — 16 in the south, 1a in liverpool, 1a in belfast and double figures as far north as our in lerwick. 1a in belfast and double figures as far north as ourfriends in lerwick. now into next week, so monday, tuesday and wednesday we're expecting by wednesday this weather front to move in. you can see some more substantial rain there sweeping across ireland, moving into parts of wales and other areas of england and scotland. so western areas, i think western areas on wednesday will have at times, gale force winds around coasts and also outbreaks of rain. that's it from me. bye.

hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: joe biden says his win in the american election as a convincing victory

for "the people" and promises to unite and heal the country. i pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide, but unify, who doesn't see red states and blue states, only sees the united states. the victory for mr biden and his running mate, kamala harris, who will make history by becoming the first female vice—president, sparked nationwide celebrations among democrat supporters. donald trump has not conceded — the white house said he would accept the results of a fair election. the queen has attended a ceremony to mark remembrance sunday. people across the uk have observed a two—minute silence. manchester united footballer marcus rashford describes a government u—turn over free school meals in england as a "ma