our hearts go out to you. you were fortunate to have had her for 70 years, we all were. the world is better for her. hundreds of world leaders and dignitaries have attended a reception at buckingham palace hosted by king charles, ahead of his mother's funeral on monday. and i'm lewis vaughan—jones. in other news:

welcome to westminster, where people continue to queue to pay their respects to her majesty the queen. the queue is now officially closed and no more people are now allowed to join the end of the queue, so the people who are now filing past me are some of the last who will have that moment in westminster hall in that historic building, nearly 1000 years old, that has witnessed so much history, witnessing it once again, these are some of the last people to be able to file past her majesty the queen, the late queen who has been lying—in—state for nearly four and a half days. that will then end at 6:30am many of these people behind me, they have started at 4pm and they continue to file past and this is we are right in the middle

of the snake, that moment where people have do zigzag very compressed in order to facilitate so many people, thousands of people, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people. we believe at least half a million people will make this journey to file past her majesty the queen at westminster hall, just a few moments from here, but that journey still long, still about 40 journey still long, still about a0 minutes left for these people. so many people have been passing through and amongst them world leaders, president biden has been there, he was there with his wife, the first lady, doctorjill biden, many other different dignitaries passing by, paying their respects. we begin our coverage with a royal correspondent, nicholas witchell. it is ten days now since the news came of the queen's death. the new king, charles, arriving at buckingham palace earlier today with a wave to the crowds, has led

the country's mourning in the days since. in a message tonight he said he'd been deeply touched by the many messages from around the world. "as we all prepare to say our last farewell, he wrote, i wanted simply to take this opportunity to say thank you to all those countless people who have been such a support and comfort to my family and myself in this time of grief." among the hundreds of world leaders in london for the state funeral, the president of the united states. his motorcade arrived at the palace of westminster. a few moments later, president biden and the first lady of the united states, drjill biden, stood quietly on a balcony inside westminster hall. like so many thousands of others over the past four days, struck by the intensity of the scene. i think what she gave is a sense of maybe above all, the notion of service. we all owe something,

there is something within our capacity to do that can make things, notjust the world better, but your neighbourhood better, your household better, your workplace better. to all the people of the united kingdom, our hearts go out to you and you were fortunate to have had her for 70 years, we all were. the world is better for her. as the royal family prepares for the state funeral, from camilla, the queen consort, her reflection on the 70 years of the queen's reign. she has been part of our lives for ever. i'm 75 now and i can't remember anybody except the queen being there. it must have been so difficult for her being a solitary woman, there weren't women prime ministers or women presidents, she was the only one. so i think she carved her own role. i'll always remember that smile.

you know, that smile is unforgettable. many thousands of people have wanted to be a part of this moment. some have queued for many hours or placed flowers in the designated spaces, or simply travelled to london to absorb the sights and emotions along the route of the procession and outside the abbey church where the funeral will take place. we didn't know what exactly to do, but we wanted to do something. you know, it felt right to come up and do something and bring my son here. you know, i think there's a lot of people who don't know what to do, but feel like they need to do something, so itjust felt like the right thing to do was to come up here with everybody else. during the hours of darkness the last visitors will be admitted to the lying—in—state at westminster hall. and then in the morning, the state funeral will take place of her majesty, queen elizabeth ii. nicholas witchell, bbc news.

so these are indeed some of the last people who are able to file past the queen's coffin. they still have around a0 minutes or so to wait, but bear in mind they have been queueing from around three o'clock or four o'clock in the afternoon, so they have spent so much time together, we have heard so many stories of people making friends and reflecting and at midnightjust a few moments ago we heard a cheer and when we asked what was happening it was simply that it was midnight and they were getting so much closer to paying their respects. earliertoday closer to paying their respects. earlier today at 8pm there was a minute's silence and we will expect a two—minute national silence after the service late on monday morning in westminster abbey itself. my colleague, fergal keane, has this report. piper plays. the flowers of the forest echoing across a scottish mountainside.

a lament for the fallen, played now in tribute to a queen. and then, on the cusp of silence, in blackpool, the going down of lights.

then out of silence, into the anthem celebrating a new monarch. god save the king. # god save our gracious king. # long live our noble king. # god save the king. # send him victorious. # happy and glorious. # long to reign over us. # god save the king #.

applause. across the land it was a gathering of strangers. for whom the queen was the unifying symbol. i'm just paying respects to the queen and just to mark the passing of an era. i don't think we'll see the likes of our queen again. you know, she's been such a role model all our lives, really. she was very important to me and i'm startingl to get emotional now. because i remember the coronation. - i'm old enough to remember king george vi and him - dying and the coronation, and we had a little - 12—inch television and all- the neighbours came in to watch the coronation, so yes, she has been our queen for a long time |

and she served us well. the silence spoke of respect and affection on the eve of farewell. fergal keane, bbc news. so many national moments, that one minute's silence after the service and there will be a two—minute silence, but before that there is still the lying—in—state, the queen is still lying—in—state and behind me these people will have the opportunity to file past the coffin draped with the royal standard with the imperial crown on top and then it will officially close, so no more people will be able to join, but these people here who have been queueing for the afternoon will get that opportunity and one person who has been doing

exactly this is one of my colleagues, grace, who you have been queueing back, well, you tell me. ,, . ~ tell me. since three o'clock in southwark — tell me. since three o'clock in southwark park _ tell me. since three o'clock in southwark park and _ tell me. since three o'clock in southwark park and we - tell me. since three o'clock in| southwark park and we quickly established the queue friends in the little group we were in. we had people from somerset, we had somebody from oxford and then we had two sisters from new york who had flown in especially for this and then we just kind of settled in, went past tower bridge still feeling good and then at the london i started to get dark, so we kind of thought, right, we need to brace ourselves, but the marshals at the london eye had said yesterday at this point people had already been queueing 12.5 hours, so are a mere six felt 0k and then obviously all the way down the embankment and then here, but the snake has been the worst, it has gone on and on, so i'm very pleased to see the end in sight. very pleased to see the end in siuht. ~ ., ,., very pleased to see the end in siuht.~ ., .

sight. we hear so much about the camaraderie _ sight. we hear so much about the camaraderie and - sight. we hear so much about the camaraderie and when - sight. we hear so much about the camaraderie and when we j the camaraderie and when we pulled out, i have got to admit, we pulled you away from your queue family, your queue friends and there was a big round of applause and big hugs. real camaraderie, but yes, you mentioned the snake, this is exactly what we are seeing behind us, this zigzagging, this a0 minutes or so of justice. i this 40 minutes or so of justice-— this 40 minutes or so of 'ustice. ~ ._ , justice. i think maybe even loner. justice. i think maybe even longer. what _ justice. i think maybe even longer. what is _ justice. i think maybe even longer. what is so - justice. i think maybe even l longer. what is so deceptive justice. i think maybe even - longer. what is so deceptive is at the front there is the first snake and you think that is it and obviously you can see when you need to be going and then you need to be going and then you get past a certain point and there is a second snake, so you have got to have a lot of stamina to get through the first and then be ok about the fact that you have a whole second snake to get through, but you kind of know you are reaching the end because there are security announcement saying get rid of all your food and your liquids and proper airport security, so you are encouraged, but equally the steak is just relentless. i’m steak is 'ust relentless. i'm auoin steak isjust relentless. i'm going to — steak isjust relentless. i'm going to ask _ steak isjust relentless. i'm going to ask you _ steak isjust relentless. i'm going to ask you a - steak isjust relentless. i'm going to ask you a personal question. what motivated you to

do this? i think i have been watching so much of the queue and i thought, should i, shouldn't i?— shouldn't i? and i 'ust thought, fl shouldn't i? and i 'ust thought, this i shouldn't i? and ijust thought, this won't i shouldn't i? and ijust - thought, this won't happen again for a long time. we have had, out of anything, i want to pay my respects to the queen and tonight was the last night, so... i thought most people would come tonight, but actually i think the last night has put people off slightly because we have gone round the queue much quicker than is people anticipated and we have had an amazing weather, i am still holding my coat, i haven't had to put it on yet, so we had a pretty good queue experience, as far as queueing back goes. fix, experience, as far as queueing back goes-_ back goes. a good queue experience, _ back goes. a good queue experience, well, - back goes. a good queue experience, well, listen, | back goes. a good queue i experience, well, listen, we will let you go and will try to catch you after you have filed past her majesty the queen. thank you very much for speaking to us, we will catch up speaking to us, we will catch up with grace after she has filed through westminster hall with all of these tens of thousands of people who have taken the time to come here to

have that moment. so many different reasons, but all of the people here are now the final people to be able to pay their respects because, as we have been hearing now for the past few hours, the queue back is officially closed, but we are showing a live stream across our bbc platforms for those who want to witness what is happening within westminster hall itself, but from me, the queue camaraderie, the queue family, thank you. thanks very much for giving us a flavour of what is going on there. president biden willjoin around 2,000 other guests — including some 500 heads of state and foreign dignitaries — at the queen's state funeral. it will be one of the biggest gatherings of royalty and politicians the uk has hosted for decades. they have been paying their respects to the late queen and signing the book of condolence all afternoon, queen and signing the book of condolence, as our diplomatic correspondent, james landale, reports. some came by themselves in, well, some sort of style.

0thers came together, rather unusually, on a bus, but they were all here to honour the queen in perhaps the biggest diplomatic wake seen for decades. there was the king and queen of spain. there was his exiled father, juan carlos. there was the president of france and his wife. leaders from the gulf. the king and queen ofjordan. hundreds of statesmen and women, there to pay their respects and indulge, perhaps, in a little diplomacy. 0thers arrived around the back of the palace. prime ministers and presidents, all guests of the king and other members of the royal family at a formal state reception. on a day of frantic international engagement, the princess of wales even found time to meet the first lady of ukraine. earlier, joe and jill biden had followed other heads of state and government in stopping off at lancaster house to sign a book of condolence.

a steady flow of the global great and sometimes good, paying their respects on behalf of themselves and their countries. i so wish eternal peace to her wonderful, generous spirit and of course, every good wish to king charles iii. on behalf of the government and people of barbados that i record my sincere sympathy to all of great britain and especially to the members of the royal family. we appreciated very much her- leadership of the commonwealth, which saw a dramatic _ transformation from a nation of eight countries when she went on to the throne to 56 - at the time of her death. thank you, your majesty, thank you for your dedication. the people of fiji will never forget you.

many also came to see the lying—in—state. not queueing, of course, butjoining the public to stand in silence and perhaps some awe before the coffin of a woman whose reign will outlast their own. and despite the opposition of some mps and peers who have been sanctioned by beijing, a delegation from china also came to westminster hall, including the vice president, on the right, who will attend the funeral tomorrow. one man who will not be coming to the abbey tomorrow is saudi arabia's crown prince and de facto ruler, mohammad bin salman, who has been accused of being involved in the murder of a journalist — accusations he has denied. several leaders, including canada's prime minister, also dropped by downing street for what officials said were informal conversations with liz truss. earlier he paid his own tribute to the queen. i first met her majesty when i was seven years old and her presence throughout my life

had been constant, inspiring and graceful. as prime minister, i benefited from her counsel, her thoughtfulness, her curiosity, her sense of humour. tomorrow, the diplomacy will be put on hold as the leaders arrive at westminster abbey and the focus returns to the monarch they have come to mourn. in other news... the prime minister ofjapan has urged people to act swiftly to save their lives as the country is hit by one of the most destructive typhoons in years. fumio kishida's warning comes as the authorities urgently advised 3 million people to leave their homes, as a huge storm moves across the southern island of kyushu. 0ur tokyo correspondent, rupert wingfield—hayes, reports.

typhoon nanmadol is a huge and angry storm, the like of which japan has rarely, if ever experienced before. all day it has been battering the southern island of kyushu, with gusts of 150 miles an hour. this shows the immense size of the typhoon enveloping the whole of the island. for the first time ever, the japanese government issued its highest level emergency alert, warning winds could be strong enough to bring down buildings. and an even bigger threat is the vast amount of water that nanmadol is carrying. as much as 500 millimetres of rain is expected to fall in less than 2a hours. kyushu is very mountainous and it is feared the water could unleash landslides and swollen rivers could burst their banks. so serious is the concern that the japanese prime minister made this appeal for millions of people to head for evacuation centres before nightfall. translation: do not go near dangerous areas. i if you feel you are in danger, do not hesitate to evacuate.

please take early action to save your lives. evacuating at night is extremely dangerous. many thousands have heeded the call, but many more have not and have chosen to ride out the storm at home. river levels across kyushu and southern honshu are now rising fast and will peak in the next 12 hours. all it takes is one breach and the whole town can be inundated in minutes, giving those that have refused to evacuate no time to escape. japanese people are used to dealing with typhoons, especially here. but as the global climate changes, the data shows these sorts of mega—storms are becoming more frequent and defences that worked in the past may no longer be enough. rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, tokyo. in ukraine president zelensky says investigations into possible russian war crimes are continuing

in the city of izyum, one of several areas back in ukrainian hands after significant territorial gains in recent days. bodies are being exhumed from a mass burial site on the edge of the city. 0ur ukraine correspondent, james waterhouse, has more from kyiv. since ukraine forced russia out for the first time since the invasion and retook territory that was taken, it now seems to be focusing on investigating what the invaders did and what moscow is going to do next. in the case of the city of izyum, while bodies continue to be recovered from a mass grave, the latest claim from kyiv is that evidence has been uncovered which suggests that torture chambers were used by russian troops. there are reports of people being tortured and a city being littered with mines. there has again today been heavy fighting in the kharkiv region, where ukraine has enjoyed some recent successes, but on the question of what russia will look to do

next, well, the thought from the uk ministry of defence is that it will look to strike more civilian targets in ukraine, while it is frustrated on the battlefield. but this is something russia has done throughout this war, it has hit targets across this vast country to try to exert influence and undermine ukrainian morale, but on that latter point in his latest address president zelensky has said, just because we have regained vast swathes regained swathes of territory, this does not mean there will be a lull. what russia will hope is that the very speed of their retreat will force ukraine to pause. thanks to james for the update. one of russia's most famous singers has publicly condemned the war in ukraine. alla poogachova said she wanted to be declared a foreign agent in solidarity with her husband, who's another outspoken critic of the conflict. 0ur russia editor,

steve rosenberg, told us the intervention is significant, as alla poogachova is more than just a pop star: she is super popular, she is admired, she is adored, she is respected across russia and aside from her wonderful voice, when she has something to say, people tend to sit up and listen. the statement that she issued today was more than just a staunch defence of her husband, it was a stinging criticism, really, of what the kremlin still calls its special military operation. some strong language, and at one point she said, "our lads," meaning russian soldiers, "are dying for illusory aims that make our country a pariah and the lives of our citizens extremely difficult." i reckon that language like that coming from someone like that, someone as famous as alla pugacheva, is going to infuriate the kremlin. so i suspect we will see attempts to discredit alla pugacheva in the state media. but it's going to be fascinating to see whether her public criticism will affect

public opinion here and spark more public opposition to the special operation. now, you may remember, recently several town councillors in russia expressed public criticism of vladimir putin and called on him to resign. today, we hear the criticism from alla pugacheva. is there a pattern here? i think it is too early to tell, but certainly the message from the kremlin is, as far as they are concerned, everything is going according to plan. thanks to steve rosenberg for that. let's bring you back to london now, we can take your life to westminster to the heart of london and the queues of people still there and still moving through, waiting to head into westminster hall, where of course queen elizabeth ii is still lying—in—state for just a few hours more. these are some of the last people, some of the

last few hours the event their own westminster hall formally closes at 6:30am in the morning and the queue to join that is officially closed now, so these people here are amongst the last people that will be able to pay their respects in person. this is bbc news. hello. many of us have seen increasing amounts of cloud over the weekend. and cloud will play quite a big part in monday's weather story, possibly thick enough at times to give some spots of rain, maybe the odd shower, but it will largely stay dry. and i am hopeful that things will remain dry in london and in windsor for the queen's state funeral. there is just the chance that as that cloud thickens through the afternoon, it could give the odd light shower or the odd spot of rain or drizzle. high pressure still is in charge, that is keeping things

mostly dry, but this weak warm front is introducing more cloud and the chance for some damp weather first thing across south—west scotland, perhaps north—west england. and this band of thick cloud adds the potential for the odd spot of rain or drizzle, it does tend to push eastwards as the day wears on. north—east scotland will see some good spells of sunshine, though, northern ireland may brighten up for a time, south wales and the south—west of england should see some sunny spells. temperatures north to south between 12 and 19 degrees, the winds for most places will be fairly light. now, through monday night, we will see large areas of cloud still potentially giving some spots of rain and drizzle, especially in eastern parts. some clear breaks out towards the west may well fill in with a little bit of mist and fog, a little milder than it has been over recent nights, 9—12 degrees. tuesday, well, we stick with a rather cloudy theme, this stripe of cloud here still giving rise to some spots of rain and drizzle, but it does look like the cloud should tend to turn over

and break up a little bit across some western parts to give some sunny spells, a bit more patchy rain into the western isles of scotland. 17—19, maybe 20 degrees in the south, so feeling a little bit warmer. actually, on wednesday, if we see some sunny spells, at least for a time, it will feel considerably warmer than it has of late, temperatures of 17 degrees in aberdeen, 21 in norwich and in london. but a frontal system pushing them towards the north—west, bringing some outbreaks of rain, and that will make erratic progress southwards and eastwards through thursday and into friday, some of the rain, actually, could be quite heavy, even as it gets down into the south of england and south wales. so, the chance of some rain, particularly later on in the week and a bit less chilly than it has been.

this is bbc news, they headlines... the queue to go into westminster hall has now closed. though still in the queue will be able to continue, though still in westminster abbey.

king charles is hosting a reception for hundreds of world leaders at buckingham palace ahead of the funeral on monday of his mother, queen elizabeth. heads of state from around the globe are attending, including joe biden. the us president earlier paid his respects at the hall where the late monarch is lying in state. the prime minister ofjapan has urged people to act swiftly to save their lives as the country is hit by a destructive typhoon. the warning comes as the authorities advise three million people to leave their homes, and a huge storm moves across the southern island of kyushu. across the southern now on bbc news, christian fraser looks at some of your tributes to her majesty in this special programme your queen.

hello and welcome to this programme of tributes to her majesty the queen. for the last week, we have been asking people around the world and in the uk to share their memories of meeting her majesty and to offer their tributes, we will bring you some of those stories over the next 25 minutes or so and we start with emma and len who told us about the time they met the queen, though we didn't go quite to plan. it met the queen, though we didn't go quite to plan-— go quite to plan. it was every traumatic _ go quite to plan. it was every traumatic event. _ go quite to plan. it was every traumatic event. their - go quite to plan. it was every traumatic event. their one, l traumatic event. their one, take it from _ traumatic event. their one, take it from the _ traumatic event. their one, take it from the beginning. | traumatic event. their one, i take it from the beginning. it was quite a rainy day at the deer park in windsor great park, and i slipped on a hill and my holdback was covered in mud so we started walking back home and the car was driving down the road and my whole family was confused because there was never really any cars

there was never really any cars there so the lady was in the car and she laughed at me and waved at my mum, and then when the car drove off, this man walked up to us and said it is not everyday that you get to see the queen on her own my mum got really confused, and my mum was confused and said where was the car and the man pointed at the car and the man pointed at the car and when my mum told me the car and when my mum told me the queen laughed at me, i burst into tears.— burst into tears. so, lynn, this lady — burst into tears. so, lynn, this lady driving _ burst into tears. so, lynn, this lady driving a - burst into tears. so, lynn, this lady driving a jeep - this lady driving a jeep through the deer park? emma remembers — through the deer park? emma remembers are _ through the deer park? emma remembers are many - through the deer park? emma remembers are many but - through the deer park? emma remembers are many but she| through the deer park? emma . remembers are many but she was driving _ remembers are many but she was driving a — remembers are many but she was driving a jaguar. she remembers are many but she was driving a jaguar-— driving a jaguar. she was havin: driving a jaguar. she was having a _ driving a jaguar. she was having a dead _ driving a jaguar. she was having a dead giggle - driving a jaguar. she was having a dead giggle at l driving a jaguar. she was - having a dead giggle at emma's

expense? having a dead giggle at emma's exense? . , , having a dead giggle at emma's exense? ., , _ ., , , having a dead giggle at emma's exense? ., , , ., , , ., expense? happy lady smiling at my daughter — expense? happy lady smiling at my daughter and _ expense? happy lady smiling at my daughter and my _ expense? happy lady smiling at my daughter and my daughter l my daughter and my daughter scaled — my daughter and my daughter scaled at her and she just laughed and waved like any normai— laughed and waved like any normal person and drive away, it did _ normal person and drive away, it did not — normal person and drive away, it did not occur to me it was the — it did not occur to me it was the queen. it did not occur to me it was the queen-— it did not occur to me it was the queen. �* , , ~ the queen. because she did like to drive herself _ the queen. because she did like to drive herself around, - the queen. because she did like to drive herself around, of - to drive herself around, of course,. to drive herself around, of course"— to drive herself around, of course,. ~ ., , ., ., course,. we had seen that royal family quite _ course,. we had seen that royal family quite frequently, - course,. we had seen that royal family quite frequently, prince | family quite frequently, prince andrew, — family quite frequently, prince andrew, you see them driving around — andrew, you see them driving around in _ andrew, you see them driving around in a range rover but to actually — around in a range rover but to actually see the queen, and not recognise — actually see the queen, and not recognise her was quite unusual for us _ recognise her was quite unusual for us. ., ., ., , ., for us. emma, what has it meant to ou, for us. emma, what has it meant to you. these _ for us. emma, what has it meant to you, these last _ for us. emma, what has it meant to you, these last few _ for us. emma, what has it meant to you, these last few days - for us. emma, what has it meant to you, these last few days and l to you, these last few days and watching the pictures of scotland, what has it been like for you? i scotland, what has it been like for ou? ., , for you? i feel it has connected _ for you? i feel it has connected me - for you? i feel it hasl connected me closer. for you? i feel it has - connected me closer. the for you? i feel it has _ connected me closer. the queen was a frequent, i didn't get to see her a lot so being able to

see her a lot so being able to see all these photos for me closer to her. i see all these photos for me closer to her.— closer to her. i think that is the point. _ closer to her. i think that is the point, lots _ closer to her. i think that is the point, lots of _ closer to her. i think that is the point, lots of people i closer to her. i think that is l the point, lots of people talk about the constancy and the duty on a service at the queen gave us but i think it is also a moment when everybodyjust stands back with their own recollections of of either meeting her talking to her or something that she stirs in the past. something that she stirs in the ast. ., , ., , something that she stirs in the ast. ., , .,, ., past. for us, it was that constancy. _ past. for us, it was that constancy, i— past. for us, it was that constancy, i rememberl past. for us, it was that - constancy, i remember going with— constancy, i remember going with rny— constancy, i remember going with my late father to the jubilee. _ with my late father to the jubilee, i was only little child _ jubilee, i was only little child myself, and she has always— child myself, and she has always been there, touring the yacht _ always been there, touring the yacht britannia in leeds and being — yacht britannia in leeds and being from edinburgh and having watched — being from edinburgh and having watched the procession at the st giles, — watched the procession at the st giles, it really hits home. with— st giles, it really hits home. withiust _ st giles, it really hits home. withjust somebody who st giles, it really hits home. with just somebody who has st giles, it really hits home. withjust somebody who has been there _ withjust somebody who has been there our— withjust somebody who has been there our whole life. with just somebody who has been there our whole life.— there our whole life. then, that is true _ there our whole life. then, that is true for _ there our whole life. then, that is true for people - there our whole life. then, that is true for people in i that is true for people in windsor because the people around the world who perhaps

don't know, it is very much part of the town and it is a royal town, and so they feel it perhaps a lot harder than other parts of the country, maybe? absolutely, you couldn't drive down — absolutely, you couldn't drive down the _ absolutely, you couldn't drive down the road and not know she was home — down the road and not know she was home because the royal standard was there, we took it for granted that she would be at home, _ for granted that she would be at home, and she won't be. david — at home, and she won't be. david williams was a rugby player at school when he met her majesty and he has been speaking to my colleague roz atkins. i speaking to my colleague roz atkins. ,, ,., . ,, atkins. i met the queen back in 2002, and — atkins. i met the queen back in 2002, and this _ atkins. i met the queen back in 2002, and this is _ atkins. i met the queen back in 2002, and this is when i atkins. i met the queen back in 2002, and this is when she i atkins. i met the queen back in 2002, and this is when she wasj 2002, and this is when she was touring the country and her goldenjubilee and this year happened to coincide with my school, the king school in macclesfield, also celebrating, celebrating its 20 centennial year, so it was 500 years old, so it was founded in 1502, and at this time, various peoples were invited to talk to the

queen about various aspects of school life, and white is such a good memory for me is because my friend and myself he was also in that picture were given an opportunity to talk to the queen about our recent rugby tour to canada. i can't really remember too much discussion other than it was probably more about british columbia and vancouver rather than the finer points of what goes on in the front row but she made two very nervous 13—year—olds feel comfortable in her presence and that we had generally been listened to.— that we had generally been listened to. , , ., listened to. presumably you are feelin: listened to. presumably you are feeling the _ listened to. presumably you are feeling the nerves i listened to. presumably you are feeling the nerves as i listened to. presumably you are feeling the nerves as the i feeling the nerves as the moment arrived?- feeling the nerves as the moment arrived? yes, deftly. i can't really _ moment arrived? yes, deftly. i can't really remember i moment arrived? yes, deftly. i can't really remember too i moment arrived? yes, deftly. i | can't really remember too much about what was said other than kind of, you know, that we were nervous at the time. bud kind of, you know, that we were nervous at the time.— nervous at the time. and what have your _ nervous at the time. and what have your emotions i nervous at the time. and what have your emotions been i nervous at the time. and what have your emotions been in i nervous at the time. and what l have your emotions been in the last few days after the news of her death came three?-

her death came three? yes, it has been _ her death came three? yes, it has been quite i her death came three? yes, it has been quite interesting, i has been quite interesting, really, i think some of the tributes that have come through have been really quite good. one of the one that vertically stands out to me is a quote from sir keir starmer, and his line when something like her loss, the queens of bank debt is losing one of this the list points in britain. i think what in essence it is so important, not talk about the superlatives, he talk about the commonality, a reference point that we all had to her, she wasn'tjust a transient wasn't just a transient political figure or politicalfigure or sportsperson, she was someone thatis sportsperson, she was someone that is intergenerational, people from all walks of life, ages, and backgrounds, have some memory of her.- ages, and backgrounds, have some memory of her. yes, she was a constant i some memory of her. yes, she was a constant in i some memory of her. yes, she was a constant in many i some memory of her. yes, she | was a constant in many people's lives. thank you for speaking to us. that theme coming out time and again in stories of the queen is her thoughtfulness, stephanie says her father was a minister and

was invited to preach at balmoral and his favourite memory was being given a lift back to the palace by the queen. she opened the door of the land rover and told him to hop in so she could drive him back. another tribute we received sent by jackie downey from lee in south—east london, nay 20 years ago she was chosen to present a bouquet to the queen and jackie, you were saying you had to curtsy for the first time, that has obviously stayed with you, what else can you remember of meeting her? it was a lovely occasion, i i remember of meeting her? it was a lovely occasion, i went i remember of meeting her? it was a lovely occasion, i went down i a lovely occasion, i went down to windsor with all my colleagues from the london offices and we were all standing around waiting for the unveiling of the statue and she unveiled the statue and then it was up to me to go forward and present her with the bouquet that i was holding. and

remembering to curtsy and hoping that i had done it correctly. hoping that i had done it correctly-— hoping that i had done it correctl . �* , correctly. i'm sure you did, and i correctly. i'm sure you did, and i can — correctly. i'm sure you did, and i can see i correctly. i'm sure you did, and i can see in i correctly. i'm sure you did, and i can see in the i correctly. i'm sure you did, i and i can see in the background of that photo that it was a big gathering, there were a lot of people there, did you feel like the queen knew exactly who you were? because after all, she's meeting a lot of people.- meeting a lot of people. yes, she had briefed i meeting a lot of people. yes, she had briefed on i meeting a lot of people. yes, she had briefed on who i i meeting a lot of people. yes, | she had briefed on who i was, and she was able to let that back to me, she knew my name, she knew myjob, and how long i had been there as well, so, we exchanged a lovely couple of words, yes. exchanged a lovely couple of words. yes-— exchanged a lovely couple of words, yes. were you nervous about getting _ words, yes. were you nervous about getting the i words, yes. were you nervous about getting the right i words, yes. were you nervous| about getting the right flowers for her? i about getting the right flowers for her? �* ., ., , , for her? i didn't have to buy the flowers, i for her? i didn't have to buy the flowers, so i for her? i didn't have to buy the flowers, so that i for her? i didn't have to buy the flowers, so that was i for her? i didn't have to buy l the flowers, so that was quite good, i wasjust the flowers, so that was quite good, i was just given the bouquet, yes. good, i wasjust given the bouquet, yes.— good, i wasjust given the bouquet, yes. good, i wasjust given the bou:uet, es. �* ., , ., bouquet, yes. and after she had soken bouquet, yes. and after she had spoken to _ bouquet, yes. and after she had spoken to you. _ bouquet, yes. and after she had spoken to you. i _ bouquet, yes. and after she had spoken to you, i wonder i bouquet, yes. and after she had spoken to you, i wonder how- spoken to you, i wonder how much state but you? presumably, the memories have remained still clear. it the memories have remained still clear-—

still clear. it was a lovely occasion _ still clear. it was a lovely occasion for i still clear. it was a lovely occasion for myself i still clear. it was a lovely occasion for myself and l still clear. it was a lovely l occasion for myself and my colleagues, we were all honoured to be there and it was just a lovely day, and i think we have all remembered it, and occasions like the golden jubilee, which is what the statue was four, and the platinum jubilee, it brings statue was four, and the platinumjubilee, it brings it back to you through the years, and unfortunately now we are remembering it in slightly different circumstances, but it is a memory that many people share, of spending time with her, even if it wasjust share, of spending time with her, even if it was just a few minutes, like i did. her, even if it wasjust a few minutes, like i did.- her, even if it wasjust a few minutes, like i did. our next sto is minutes, like i did. our next story is from _ minutes, like i did. our next story is from brian i minutes, like i did. our next story is from brian scott, i minutes, like i did. our next story is from brian scott, a i story is from brian scott, a butcher from story is from brian scott, a butcherfrom ballater, he met the queen because his shop supplies balmoral castle. he has been sticking to my colleague annita mcveigh, and he told her he would see her majesty fairly often when she was in aberdeenshire.- majesty fairly often when she was in aberdeenshire. yes, we deliver to _ was in aberdeenshire. yes, we deliver to the i was in aberdeenshire. yes, we deliver to the estate i was in aberdeenshire. yes, we deliver to the estate so i was in aberdeenshire. yes, we deliver to the estate so on i was in aberdeenshire. yes, we deliver to the estate so on a i deliver to the estate so on a daily basis, we would drive into the estate and meet the

queen on the green, the grandkids are members of the royal family. on a day—to—day basis, we would bump into them, it was good. bud basis, we would bump into them, it was good-— it was good. and how was the queen treated i it was good. and how was the queen treated by i it was good. and how was the queen treated by locals? i it was good. and how was the i queen treated by locals? when i spoke to people there last week, they said they very much doubt that connection with the royal estate and felt very protective of the royal family. we considered the queen as a local member of the community, she was one of our neighbours and she was very well respected, not only as head of the monarchy but also, like, a very, very well—known local to the village. she could be walking down the street and she would walk straight past you and you would never know that it was the queen just walking past you, she was very good at hiding her disguise, you know, with a headscarf and a tatty

kind of waterproofjacket or a wax jackets, in glasses, you know, she was very, very good. so, just very ordinary clothes, really, that helped her blend in. and we are seeing these lovely photographs, lovely lovely photog ra phs, lovely images, lovely photographs, lovely images, i should say, of the queen in your butchers shop. what was it like chatting to her? it what was it like chatting to her? . , what was it like chatting to her? ., , ., , , her? it was really interesting, i wasn't actually i her? it was really interesting, i wasn't actually at i her? it was really interesting, i wasn't actually at the i i wasn't actually at the butcher shop at that time, i met the queen at the golf when i was a chef at the golf after the floods of 2015, she came in september of 2016, and she went around all the numbers of the golf and she shook hands with everybody, she made everybody feel at ease and calm, she asked me how i got on and how long did it take to clean—up the premises. and what were the next stages. she was very influential as well, she wanted to know what was happening, she wanted to know what was going

on in the community, and generally, i think she actually knew what was going on but she just wanted clarity of everything from every perspective, from every person at the club. she was asking everyone at the butchers shop what was this cut, what was that cat, what was your position, what was yourjob? she wanted to interact with everybody, she wanted to be a part of it, you know.— part of it, you know. patricia and james — part of it, you know. patricia and james when i part of it, you know. patricia and james when from i part of it, you know. patricia and james when from the i part of it, you know. patricia i and james when from the west midlands celebrated their 68th wedding anniversary in the days before the queen died. they received a card of congratulations from her majesty which would have been the last she sent. their granddaughter beth moore recorded the reaction. i was delighted — recorded the reaction. i was delighted to i recorded the reaction. i was delighted to receive i recorded the reaction. i was delighted to receive the i recorded the reaction. i was| delighted to receive the card from the queen, absolutely delighted. and very sad by the news that came three that on the lunchtime of the anniversary that the family had been summoned. the

anniversary that the family had been summoned. the memories we have of the — been summoned. the memories we have of the queen, i been summoned. the memories we have of the queen, we i been summoned. the memories we have of the queen, we only i been summoned. the memories we have of the queen, we only saw- have of the queen, we only saw her once, — have of the queen, we only saw her once, on her silverjubilee her once, on her silver jubilee during — her once, on her silverjubilee during west bromwich, but i was at the _ during west bromwich, but i was at the accession, proclamation in victoria _ at the accession, proclamation in victoria square birmingham in victoria square birmingham in february 1952, so we both have — in february 1952, so we both have full— in february 1952, so we both have full memories of her full reign — have full memories of her full reign and _ have full memories of her full reign and i think we were saddened and shocked, like so many— saddened and shocked, like so many millions, because she had only many millions, because she had onlv been— many millions, because she had only been on camera with the new— only been on camera with the new prime minister two days before — new prime minister two days before. , ._ , , new prime minister two days before. , , , ., before. sophie haynes is a rima before. sophie haynes is a primary school i before. sophie haynes is a primary school teacher i before. sophie haynes is a i primary school teacher from london. back in 2016, this queen celebrated her 90th birthday and sophie and her class decided to write to her majesty after learning about buckingham palace and the queen's corgis in their lessons. here is you tell us what happened next. the children _ what happened next. the children showed i what happened next. the children showed her- what happened next. the children showed her pictures, small— children showed her pictures, small crowns, large grounds.

thev — small crowns, large grounds. they wrote a message and they were _ they wrote a message and they were asking interesting questions, so we asked the queen— questions, so we asked the queen what is it like in buckingham palace and what is it like _ buckingham palace and what is it like an — buckingham palace and what is it like an afternoon tea? we put all — it like an afternoon tea? we put all our letters in the post and we — put all our letters in the post and we send them off. there were — and we send them off. there were five _ and we send them off. there were five and six years old. and — were five and six years old. and a — were five and six years old. and a month went by, two months went— and a month went by, two months went by, _ and a month went by, two months went by, has the queen written? and i_ went by, has the queen written? and i was— went by, has the queen written? and i was thinking in my heart, do i _ and i was thinking in my heart, do i write — and i was thinking in my heart, do i write a _ and i was thinking in my heart, do i write a letter as the queen— do i write a letter as the queen and say she has written? and the — queen and say she has written? and the third month went by and the school— and the third month went by and the school secretary one day came — the school secretary one day came running into my room with a letter— came running into my room with a letter on — came running into my room with a letter on my desk and it didn't— a letter on my desk and it didn't take long for us to see the er — didn't take long for us to see the er sign, and the crown, and

it said— the er sign, and the crown, and it said everyone in class one s.~ — it said everyone in class one s,. i— it said everyone in class one s,. i opened it in front of the children— s,. i opened it in front of the children because we thought, it is that— children because we thought, it is that letters so we waited till we _ is that letters so we waited till we were in class and very kindly— till we were in class and very kindly she wrote two letters to me and — kindly she wrote two letters to me and the other class so we shut— me and the other class so we shut our— me and the other class so we shut our own letter. i think the — shut our own letter. i think the moment of realisation was when — the moment of realisation was when we — the moment of realisation was when we did... i thank you for the kind— when we did... i thank you for the kind words you sent to me on the — the kind words you sent to me on the occasion of my 90th birthdav _ on the occasion of my 90th birthday. we got a letter from her ladv — birthday. we got a letter from her lady in waiting. having just— her lady in waiting. having just learnt about buckingham

palace — just learnt about buckingham palace. everyone in the class. the _ palace. everyone in the class. the queen— palace. everyone in the class. the queen wishes me to write and thank— the queen wishes me to write and thank you for the splendid handmade card you have sent on the occasion of her majesty's 90th— the occasion of her majesty's 90th birthday, it was very kind of you — 90th birthday, it was very kind of you to — 90th birthday, it was very kind of you to make this card in honour— of you to make this card in honour of— of you to make this card in honour of her special day and her majesty greatly appreciated the care you have taken with you elucidations. i am to send you elucidations. i am to send you the — you elucidations. i am to send you the queen has backed best wishes — you the queen has backed best wishes and thank you once again for your— wishes and thank you once again for your thoughts her majesty at this— for your thoughts her majesty at this time. and that was from the lady— at this time. and that was from the lady in _ at this time. and that was from the lady in waiting. now at this time. and that was from the lady in waiting.— the lady in waiting. now to henry ward _ the lady in waiting. now to henry ward who i the lady in waiting. now to henry ward who painted i the lady in waiting. now to | henry ward who painted the queen's portrait in 2016 a told me about the experience. it was uuite me about the experience. it was quite remarkable. i me about the experience. it was quite remarkable. when i me about the experience. it was quite remarkable. when you're i quite remarkable. when you're sitting with the queen and she comes out wearing garter robes, it is quite the most remarkable moment and you had to steel yourself because she had an incredible presence about her. you get a point where you realise it isn't going to

assist you if you feel bombed by her present and you have to realise that the best way to get the queen sociallyjust realise that the best way to get the queen socially just to talk to her so we got about two talking very quickly, and eventually, at a certain point, you realise that the people that have assisted this project into reality, which in my case was notjust the british red cross who had commissioned the work and the fundraising committee at the british red cross, raising awareness of the charity, but also my friend and her majesty's gentleman usher, he said, look, if she's wearing the garter robes, they are hot and heavy, and you must ask her both to sit down when you have what you she needs and ask her if she would like to remove the garter robes. i said, ifeel

uncomfortable doing that, and he said she is there to help you. that is a thing that stands out in my mind about the queen, that she was so willing to help people, she wanted to put people at ease. when angela kelly, who was in the room with my wife and i, came to remove the garter robes, it was very complex, when she unclipped it, it was as if the month of the monarchy was removed,... you monarchy was removed, . .. you went from _ monarchy was removed, . .. you went from the i monarchy was removed, . .. you went from the formal— monarchy was removed, . .. you went from the formal to i monarchy was removed,... you went from the formal to the real person as the garter robes came off. it real person as the garter robes came off. . , real person as the garter robes came off-— came off. it was almost as if ou came off. it was almost as if you were — came off. it was almost as if you were sitting i came off. it was almost as if you were sitting with i came off. it was almost as if you were sitting with your. came off. it was almost as if i you were sitting with your most favourite grandmother. she was wise, magnificent, extremely experienced, and for all of her majesty, she wore it with such levity and such unbelievably —— unbelievable style, she was unbelievably beautiful. she would have i unbelievably beautiful. she would have sat i unbelievably beautiful. she would have sat for i unbelievably beautiful. she would have sat for some great painters in her time, did she

discuss what she wanted to say, whether any instructions at all? ., ., ,, ., , all? no, and i think that is where one's i all? no, and i think that is where one's role i all? no, and i think that is where one's role as i all? no, and i think that is where one's role as a i all? no, and i think that is i where one's role as a portrait artist for the monarchy is very complex because you can't ever really be completely alone in the creative process in the studio. sometimes, you would have to come to moments where you would have to back out of there and refocus on what you were trying to say and move forward that in the knowledge that people would be looking at it for the rest of time. she said to me after she agreed to unveil it, she said this painting needs to be seen. fist painting needs to be seen. at the unveiling, that must be the most daunting moment? it is the best art most daunting moment? it is the best part because i most daunting moment? it is the best part because that i most daunting moment? it is the best part because that is i most daunting moment? it is the best part because that is when i best part because that is when your year of work is when you get your painting seen by her, she unveiled it, and it was quite wonderful, actually, we had the press association there, they will take those wonderful photographs of it and

that was the best part, the most nerve—racking part was... where is the painting now? in the savoy hotel. henry ward, lovely to talk to you, thank you for sharing your thoughts. henry had a good conversation with the queen but it is not like that for everyone. tracy marshall met her in the 1990s, tracy got so tongue—tied her friend had to do all the talking. friend had to do all the talking-— friend had to do all the talkina. ~ , ., ., talking. we stood in a line and she me did — talking. we stood in a line and she me did i — talking. we stood in a line and she me did i grated i talking. we stood in a line and she me did i grated a i talking. we stood in a line and she me did i grated a lot i talking. we stood in a line and she me did i grated a lot of. she me did i grated a lot of us. when it came to me, she said to me, and what is it that you do? and ijust froze, i was totally starstruck, totally and utterly starstruck. my mate gloria bailed me out and started speaking to this queen, she stood there and was totally calm, totally collected, and shejust calm, totally collected, and

she just put me at may's, but i still had no words. —— put me at ease. still had no words. -- put me at ease-— at ease. you hear that so often, at ease. you hear that so often. you _ at ease. you hear that so often, you have i at ease. you hear that so often, you have to i at ease. you hear that so often, you have to lose i at ease. you hear that so i often, you have to lose your innovations when you are in the presence of royalty. this girl gave a bunch of flowers. she joins us now. you were a brownie, and the queen of course for the scout, she joined the first buckingham is dell guides that are farther created so she could speak to people. how that happened.

she came to open our local hospital furnace general and we would we'd have the day off school to go to see her as a brownie pack. and we'd waited all day long, all afternoon long for her to come out of the hospital. and i think it was raining. and when she finally came out, our brownie leaders like "go, go, go." and so we sort of snuck under the police barriers with these posies in our hands and one of the brownies. and yeah, it was totally unofficial. and she took the time to speak to us and she actually apologised for being late. and she was she was just lovely. she asked us about our brownie badges and just her smile, itjust made you feel so relaxed. the local paper said you'd broken through police lines to reach her. that sounds quite dramatic, but she wasn't fazed. it was before, i think before they did walkabouts and things. so yeah, that's what the local paper said. but yeah, we definitely snuck under the barriers. i moved them out the way a little bit so we could get past. and you talked to her for a short. how long do you thank

you talk for? probably a couple of minutes, maybe something like that. it felt like an instant, but then it felt like forever because she was just so easy to talk to. yeah. and did your parents get the photograph? yes. absolutely. yeah. that's a pride of mine is it really i mean, that's the interesting point. this is this is all those years ago when you're a little girl, but it sticks with you. oh yeah. and i'm the first person whenever the queen came on telly, or if we went to buckingham palace or went near windsor, we would say, oh, i've met the queen, i've met the queen to anybody who would listen, because i'm so proud of that. really, really proud. jolly good. you still got the brownie badges? we had a court that had been passed down through the family from harrods, and she's like, if you're going to see the queen, even though we were thinking, you've just got to put this coat on. so in the picture i'm in this coat, this tweed coat from harrods, which at the time i hated. yeah, keep the coat for best. i hated. my mum was just the same.

i hated. just the same. i hated. you still got the brownie badges? absolutely. they're all sewn on a blanket. thank you very much indeed. lovely to talk to you. lots of people, as i say, have said through their thoughts and their tributes to the queen, including many people who have sent artwork as well. this one is from sarah glover. she sent in a drawing of the queen with the simple message, "good night, your majesty," she says, "sometimes it's hard to express our feelings with words. "and at times like that, she likes to draw." here's a quick look at some of the other art that you've created inspired by the queen.

well, that's it for now. a reminder, you can send your memories into your yourqueen@bbc.co.uk. and of course, we'll try to show you as many of those as we can. thanks for watching. hello. many of us have seen increasing amounts of cloud over the weekend. and cloud will play quite a big part in monday's weather story, possibly thick enough at times to give some spots of rain, maybe the odd shower, but it will largely stay dry. and i am hopeful that things will remain dry in london and in windsor for the queen's state funeral.

there is just the chance that as that cloud thickens through the afternoon, it could give the odd light shower or the odd spot of rain or drizzle. high pressure still is in charge, that is keeping things mostly dry, but this weak warm front is introducing more cloud and the chance for some damp weather first thing across south—west scotland, perhaps north—west england. and this band of thick cloud adds the potential for the odd spot of rain or drizzle, it does tend to push eastwards as the day wears on. north—east scotland will see some good spells of sunshine, though, northern ireland may brighten up for a time, south wales and the south—west of england should see some sunny spells. temperatures north to south between 12 and 19 degrees, the winds for most places will be fairly light. now, through monday night, we will see large areas of cloud still potentially giving some spots of rain and drizzle, especially in eastern parts. some clear breaks out towards the west may well fill in with a little bit of mist and fog, a little milder than it has been over recent nights, 9—12 degrees.

tuesday, well, we stick with a rather cloudy theme, this stripe of cloud here still giving rise to some spots of rain and drizzle, but it does look like the cloud should tend to turn over and break up a little bit across some western parts to give some sunny spells, a bit more patchy rain into the western isles of scotland. 17—19, maybe 20 degrees in the south, so feeling a little bit warmer. actually, on wednesday, if we see some sunny spells, at least for a time, it will feel considerably warmer than it has of late, temperatures of 17 degrees in aberdeen, 21 in norwich and in london. but a frontal system pushing them towards the north—west, bringing some outbreaks of rain, and that will make erratic progress southwards and eastwards through thursday and into friday, some of the rain, actually, could be quite heavy, even as it gets down into the south of england and south wales. so, the chance of some rain, particularly later on in the week and a bit less chilly than it has been.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. a minute's silence across the uk, time to reflect on the life and legacy of queen elizabeth the second. the queen this spring, one of the last official photographs of her majesty is released on the eve of herfuneral. president biden pays his respects at the lying—in—state, and later gave this tribute. 0ur our hearts go out to and you

were fortunate to have had her for 70 years, we all were stopping the world is better for her. hundreds of world leaders and dignitaries have been attending a reception at buckingham palace hosted by king charles, ahead of his mother's funeral. and i am live in westminster, this is quite near to the very front of the queue and these are some of the last people to pay their respects to her majesty the queen. welcome to westminster where i stand that what is close to the very front of the queue, this legendary queue that people have beenjoining for legendary queue that people have been joining for the legendary queue that people have beenjoining for the past four days, spending hours upon hours, tens of thousands of people waiting for their moment to fail past her majesty the

late queen'soften in westminster hall. the whole has now officially closed but those people who have been waiting so patiently are still allowed to remain, these are the last people who will be filing past the coffin themselves. there have been so many moments throughout this mourning period, the nation coming together to pay their respects together to pay their respects to queen elizabeth, these amongst some of the a huge community, a whole host of volunteers looking after these people who have spent so many hours queueing. later, the state funeral itself. earlier we had a minutes silence in memory of the queen. it is ten days now since the news came of the queen's death. the new king, charles, arriving at buckingham palace earlier today with a wave to the crowds, has led the country's mourning in the days since.

among the hundreds of world leaders in london for the state funeral, the president of the united states. his motorcade arrived at the palace of westminster. a few moments later, president biden and the first lady of the united states, drjill biden, stood quietly on a balcony inside westminster hall. like so many thousands of others over the past four days, struck by the intensity of the scene. i think what she gave is a sense of maybe above all, the notion of service. we all owe something, there is something within our capacity to do that can make things, notjust the world better, but your neighbourhood better, your household better,

your workplace better. to all the people of the united kingdom, our hearts go out to you and you were fortunate to have had herfor 70 years, we all were. the world is better for her. as the royal family prepares for the state funeral, from camilla, the queen consort, her reflection on the 70 years of the queen's reign. she has been part of our lives for ever. i'm 75 now and i can't remember anybody except the queen being there. it must have been so difficult for her being a solitary woman, there weren't women prime ministers or women presidents, she was the only one. so i think she carved her own role. i'll always remember that smile. you know, that smile is unforgettable. many thousands of people have wanted to be a part of this moment.

some have queued for many hours or placed flowers in the designated spaces, or simply travelled to london to absorb the sights and emotions along the route of the procession and outside the abbey church where the funeral will take place. we didn't know what exactly to do, but we wanted to do something. you know, it felt right to come up and do something and bring my son here. you know, i think there's a lot of people who don't know what to do, but feel like they need to do something, so itjust felt like the right thing to do was to come up here with everybody else. during the hours of darkness the last visitors will be admitted to the lying—in—state at westminster hall. and then in the morning, the state funeral will take place of her majesty, queen elizabeth ii. nicholas witchell, bbc news. so just sojust ahead so just ahead of the state funeral which will be taking place later on on monday morning. these are amongst some

of the last people who will have that opportunity to pay their respects, to fail past their respects, to fail past the coffin in westminster hall, that historic building that has witnessed so much history. these people are among the final ones tojoin these people are among the final ones to join what has become a thing in itself, this huge queue, people queueing for hours upon hours in the middle of the night and they are the final ones to actually make it through. there have been so many moments throughout these past few days, we are expect two minutes silence at the end of the service in westminster abbey. earlier on sunday there was one minutes silence in memory and respect of her majesty the queen. piper plays. the flowers of the forest echoing across a scottish mountainside. a lament for the fallen, played now in tribute

to a queen. and then, on the cusp of silence, in blackpool, the going down of lights.

then out of silence, into the anthem celebrating a new monarch. god save the king. # god save our gracious king. # long live our noble king. # god save the king. # send him victorious. # happy and glorious. # long to reign over us. # god save the king #. applause.

across the land it was a gathering of strangers. for whom the queen was the unifying symbol. i'm just paying respects to the queen and just to mark the passing of an era. i don't think we'll see the likes of our queen again. you know, she's been such a role model all our lives, really. she was very important to me and i'm starting to get emotional now. because i remember the coronation. i'm old enough to remember king george vi and him dying and the coronation, and we had a little 12—inch television and all the neighbours came in to watch the coronation, so yes, she has been our queen for a long time and she served us well.

the silence spoke of respect and affection on the eve of farewell. fergal keane, bbc news. and there are so many people who have been filing past, people continuing to go past in this queue which has almost become a thing in itself, when we talk about the queue, just bearin we talk about the queue, just bear in mind the number of people that have been helping to help these people that have spent so many hours waiting for the opportunity to walk through westminster hall itself. the volunteers who have been gathering food who will then go to food banks. and then also people just searching, going through the food itself that will then go onto the food banks, these guys are here for i think it the third night. we arejoined by izzi and caitlin, you are from the queens scouts, and how many nights have you been here at?—

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who won't be at westminster abbey will be able to watch it. thank you very much, and sorry i keep getting in the way really great to join you and we will see you throughout the night is a whole team of volunteers helping out, doing all of this kind of stuff to ensure that the people in the as the guys are saying, are happy and content because this is a moment that they really want to be here and just help, so that is the situation live from westminster. thank you very much indeed, we are releasing it from one end of the spectrum to the other. president biden willjoin around 2,000 other guests, including some 500 heads of state and foreign dignitaries at the queen's state funeral. it will be one of the biggest gatherings of royalty and politicians the uk has hosted for decades. they have been paying their respects to the late queen and signing the book of condolence all afternoon, as our diplomatic correspondent james landale reports.

some came by themselves in, well, some sort of style. 0thers came together, rather unusually on a bus, but they were all here to honour the queen in perhaps the biggest diplomatic wake seen for decades. there was the king and queen of spain. there was his exiled father, juan carlos. there was the president of france and his wife. leaders from the gulf. the king and queen ofjordan. hundreds of statesmen and women, there to pay their respects and indulge, perhaps, in a little diplomacy. 0thers arrived around the back of the palace. prime ministers and presidents, all guests of the king and other members of the royal family at a formal state reception. on a day of frantic international engagement, the princess of wales even found time to meet the first lady of ukraine. earlier, joe and jill biden had

followed other heads of state and government in stopping off at lancaster house to sign a book of condolence. a steady flow of the global great and sometimes good, paying their respects on behalf of themselves and their countries. i so wish eternal peace to her wonderful, generous spirit and of course, every good wish to king charles iii. on behalf of the government and people of barbados that i record my sincere sympathy to all of great britain and especially to the members of the royal family. we appreciated very much her- leadership of the commonwealth, which saw a dramatic i transformation from a nation of eight countries when she went i on to the throne to 56 i at the time of her death. thank you, your majesty, thank you for your dedication. the people of fiji

will never forget you. many also came to see the lying—in—state. not queueing, of course, butjoining the public to stand in silence and perhaps some awe before the coffin of a woman whose reign will outlast their own. and despite the opposition of some mps and peers who have been sanctioned by beijing, a delegation from china also came to westminster hall, including the vice president, on the right, who will attend the funeral tomorrow. one man who will not be coming to the abbey tomorrow is saudi arabia's crown prince and de facto ruler, mohammad bin salman, who has been accused of being involved in the murder of a journalist — accusations he has denied. several leaders, including canada's prime minister, also dropped by downing street for what officials said were informal conversations with liz truss. earlier he paid his own

tribute to the queen. i first met her majesty when i was seven years old and her presence throughout my life had been constant, inspiring and graceful. as prime minister, i benefited from her counsel, her thoughtfulness, her curiosity, her sense of humour. tomorrow, the diplomacy will be put on hold as the leaders arrive at westminster abbey and the focus returns to the monarch they have come to mourn. james landale, bbc news. well, of course those world leaders have come to london to represent their countries. well, the death of queen elizabeth ii has of course been followed in great detail by many countries all over the world, in particular across the commonwealth, such as australia, a land with a strong republican leaning, even if it hasn't yet turned in to majority support to lose the monarch as head of state.

let's go over to sydney now because our correspondent shaimaa khalil is there. we are on the eve of what is going to be a hugely emotional as well as ceremonial occasion. ijust wonder how australians are looking at this.— looking at this. well, australians i looking at this. well, australians are i looking at this. well, | australians are waking looking at this. well, i australians are waking up to this of course, as you can imagine the national broadcaster abc is already telling australians to tune in. almost all of the channels will carry the funeral. the vlad is playing half—mast here at the sydney harbour bridge. it will remain at half asked until after the beautiful in landmarks across the country. as australians remember our monarch that was viewed not just at the queen of australia and the head of state but also as a mother, a grandmother and as a mother, a grandmother and a friend of the country. and it's a friend of the country. and its people of course. queen elizabeth ii may the historic

visit in 195a, sailing across sydney harbour bridge about where the opera house is at the moment. she became the first, the only reigning monarch to visit australia stop in total, she visited 16 times, her last biz it was in 2011. the prime minister anthony albanese is in london, he will attend the funeral, he laid flowers in green park next to an australian black and said it was an honour to commemorate a life well lived. when he comes back, a national day of mourning mac will be observed on thursday 22 september at a one—minute silent will be observed at 11am local time. really, speaking to regular people, to a former prime minister, you get the overwhelming feeling that whatever the politics is, there is that unanimous feeling of goodwill for king charles, but a feathered loss of the only

one at that most people knew. you cannot get over the fact that this is a staging post and an historic staging post. people are bound to reflect, let's give it a few weeks, a few months, even a couple of years, they are bound to reflect on where they, where australia sits in the commonwealth hierarchy and who they really feel is the head of state. �* ., _ they really feel is the head of state. �* ., ., state. and i would say, not even that _ state. and i would say, not even that long. ii state. and i would say, not even that long. i think i state. and i would say, notl even that long. i think many australians are already reflecting on that. the queen 's that has brought a mix of feelings. a sense of loss as i was saying, the first nations people said many of them said it brought up a sense of trauma at the difficult legacy of imperialism, of colonialism in the world, that the crown had played in that. it also brought the republican debate, whether australia should have an australian head of state. even the store just of republicans, i spoke to malcolm turnbull the former prime minister anna berry very well—known republican, even he will tell

you that republicans have a sense of respect for the queen. yes, somewhere down the line they will look into a referendum into whether or not australia should become a republic but right now is a type of reflection and appreciation for the queen at the life dedicated to duty and service. , ., the life dedicated to duty and service. , ,, a, .., service. yes, i think malcolm turnbull was i service. yes, i think malcolm turnbull was one i service. yes, i think malcolm turnbull was one who i service. yes, i think malcolm turnbull was one who told i service. yes, i think malcolm | turnbull was one who told me service. yes, i think malcolm i turnbull was one who told me he may not be a monarch but he was certainly an elizabeth byrne. an elizabeth byrne, absolutely. very good to see you, thank you and take care. in ukraine, president zelensky says investigations into possible russian war crimes are continuing in the city of izyum, one of several areas back in ukrainian hands after significant territorial gains in recent days. bodies are being exhumed from a mass burial site on the edge of the city. 0ur ukraine correspondentjames waterhouse has more from kyiv. since ukraine forced russia out for the first time since the invasion and retook territory that was taken, it now seems to be

focusing on investigating what the invaders did and what moscow is going to do next. in the case of the city of izyum, while bodies continue to be recovered from a mass grave, the latest claim from kyiv is that evidence has been uncovered which suggests that torture chambers were used by russian troops. there are reports of people being tortured and a city being littered with mines. there has again today been heavy fighting in the kharkiv region, where ukraine has enjoyed some recent successes, but on the question of what russia will look to do next, well, the thought from the uk ministry of defence is that it will look to strike more civilian targets in ukraine, while it is frustrated on the battlefield. but this is something russia has done throughout this war, it has hit targets across this vast country to try to exert influence and undermine ukrainian morale, but on that latter point

in his latest address president zelensky has said, just because we have regained vast swathes of territory, this does not mean there will be a lull. what russia will hope is that the very speed of their retreat will force ukraine to pause. let's get back to what will happen in the hours ahead. the national papers are already putting out their prints, they have done it, they have published. the photos are obviously the things that everyone is looking for on the front pages. mark labelle is with me now, you have been scouring through, it is obvious what the front pages going to be. , ., , , . ., what the front pages going to be. there is a special picture for us? that's i be. there is a special picture for us? that's right, i be. there is a special picture for us? that's right, the i be. there is a special picture | for us? that's right, the date of the queen 's funeral, the style of the papers reflect the date that the news of her death was announced on the day after the news of her death was announced with black—and—white mastheads. there is one picture that was previously unseen, a portrait of the queen in may in

windsor castle the buckingham palace has just released. windsor castle the buckingham palace hasjust released. the telegraph go without add to number of other papers. the telegraph says a life of selfless service. the express says farewell our glorious queen. the mirror also using that photo. if you look at the photo. you see on it her aquamarine and diamond clip brooches which were an 18th birthday present from her father george vi in 19aa. the queen 's sun king charles features on the front page of the times in his audience with liz truss, not at things to come, charles gives thanks is the headline there because of course he was deeply touched up ten days of messages of condolences and support. the daily mail also quoting charles as move beyond measure by britain's outpouring of grief stopped our last farewell, her famous wave at one of hats featuring prominently. the

tides have a rap like they did after the date of death was announced, i will show you a quote from that.— announced, i will show you a quote from that. just about you do, 'ust quote from that. just about you do, just reflecting i quote from that. just about you do, just reflecting on i quote from that. just about you do, just reflecting on that. i do, just reflecting on that. so much care goes on to what that picture is going to be. isn't that right? for all of the papers. this is the abiding image that that nation had been given on the day of her funeral. given on the day of her funeral-— given on the day of her funeral. ~ , ,., , ., , funeral. absolutely and it is the smile- _ funeral. absolutely and it is the smile. the i funeral. absolutely and it is the smile. the smile i funeral. absolutely and it is the smile. the smile and i funeral. absolutely and it is the smile. the smile and al funeral. absolutely and it is i the smile. the smile and a look in her eyes. it's not, there are many older pictures of when she is gunbower, when she is a newly crowned queen but this is the queen we all remember, of course. to quote the tides as well? this is what she said 2002. it reminds me of the quote in an article online from the former archbishop of york who said the queen was so immersed

in scripture that she would just evangelise naturally, well worth a read on the bbc website. worth a read on the bbc website-— worth a read on the bbc website. ., ,, , ., ., ., website. thank you for that. i would like — website. thank you for that. i would like to i website. thank you for that. i would like to close i website. thank you for that. i would like to close with i website. thank you for that. i would like to close with a i would like to close with a couple of live pictures for you of westminster hall as there are still people paying their respects as they passed the coffin there. we can go to victoria gardens as well. getting a bit of a clip on as they head towards westminster hall. that is the scene, you are watching bbc news. hello. many of us have seen increasing amounts of cloud over the weekend. clever play a big part in my day's without story, possibly thick enough time to get some spot of rain, maybe the odd shower. it will largely stay dry. i'm hoping things will remain dry in london and in winds are for the queen's state funeral. there is

just a chance at the cloud began through the afternoon here could give the odd shower or the odd spot of rain or drizzle. high pressure is still in charge, that is keeping things mostly dry but this week when front is introducing more cloud and the chance of some dab went up bursting across south—west scotland, perhaps north—west england and the bad thick cloud and the potential for the odd spot of rain or drizzle does tend to push eastwards as the day wears on. north—east scotland was see good spells of sunshine, northern ireland made but not by time, south wales and the south—west of england should seek sunny spells. temperatures north to south between 12 and 90 degrees. winds were most places will be fairly light. through monday night we will see large areas of cloud still potentially giving some spot of rain and drizzle especially in eastern parts. some clear breaks out was the best, they may pull in it with a bit of and fog. milder that has been over recent nights, 9— 12

degrees. tuesday we stick with our cloudy bean. this type of cloud giving rise to some spot of rain and drizzle. but it does look like the cloud should tend to turn over and break up a little bit over western parts to give some study spells, patchy rain in the western isles of scotland. 17—19, maybe 20 degrees in the south. bilic a little warmer. wednesday we see some sunny spells at least for a time. it will feel considerably, that has of late. temperatures of 17 in aberdeen, 21 in london. a frontal system pushing it was a north—west bringing outbreaks of rain. that will make erratic progress southward and eastward thursday into friday, some of the rain could be quite heavy. even as a guest out into the start of england and south wales. the chat of the the rain particularly later on in the rate at a little bit less chilly than it has been.

this is bbc news, the headlines: the queue to pay last respects to the former monarch as she lies in state in westminster hall has now been closed. those still in the queue will be allowed to continue. preparations are being made for the state funeral on monday, which will begin in westminster abbey. king charles has hosted a reception for hundreds of world leaders at buckingham palace ahead of the funeral. heads of state from around the globe have attended, including joe biden. the us president earlier paid his respects at the hall

where the late monarch is lying in state. the prime minister of japan has urged people to act swiftly to save their lives as the country is hit by a destructive typhoon. the warning comes as the authorities advise three million people to leave their homes — and a huge storm moves across the southern island of kyushu. those are the headlines. now on bbc news, click. can tech go green? this week, we are going green, although other colours of nature are available. oh, i can change the colour of my tree.

we discover some highly unusual building materials. it is, in a sense, mould in here. that's the strangest case of rising damp i've ever seen. no, the whole place is made of it. and spencer meets the man behind an icon. this is your baby. but as the ipod is laid to rest for good, we meet the robots built to break down your iphone. and also, cats — big ones. a giant redwood — the largest tree on earth. and this one's been laser—scanned with lidar technology, capturing a sense of the endangered species so viewers don't have to physically visit california's sequoia national park to be inspired.

it's beautiful. this digital art exhibition at london's barbican centre aims to get more people thinking about the interconnectedness of humans and nature, the materials we use in day—to—day design, and how to build cities that are fit for the future. at a time of extreme climate crisis, we've got to consider all of these things if we're going to avoid an apocalyptic fate. this is one of the more controversial... the digital technology we have can create a sense of awe, a sense of wonder and a sense of playfulness, but, ultimately, it can ignite hope and ignite a sense of courage to enact change. what are we doing here? so, this is, essentially, us dissipating into particles. we're looking at our identity through the lens of fluid ecology. you've done this before, you're more flowery now than me. i've got that growth energy going on, yeah. i remember my old drama classes where they said,

"pretend you're a tree." now i don't have to do those classes anymore. immersive media that transports us in size and place lets us play games with the elements and see our surroundings differently is not only a joy to experience, but could help us rethink a world in which sustainability must come first. i'm also here to meet the man behind some of apple's most iconic devices. first, though, paul carter's been to the netherlands to look at a new way to try and make sure that these things don't keep piling up in the back of your drawer. it's estimated that the amount of e—waste generated last year was over 57 million tonnes, and that figure is set to increase year on year. although phone recycling is on the rise, the majority of handsets still end up in landfill. traditional methods of recycling phones generally involve shredding them in industrial machines and then sifting them to remove the precious metals or reusable material.

but apple, who produced over 200 million iphones last year, has devised a modern way of recovering the materials, and they let me in to have a look. most of us are now quite used to the idea of recycling our phones when they reach the end of their life. but if you're anything like me, you probably don't think too much about what happens to them once you send them away. here, at a secret location in the netherlands, apple have created daisy, this robot behind me. and it takes the process of recycling these things to a whole new level. let's give it a go. daisy can completely deconstruct an entire iphone from start to finish in undera minute. the product travels through four modules. the first step separates the display from the iphone.

what's happening behind me is the removal of the batteries. and to do that, it's using really cold air — —70 degrees celsius — to actually stop the adhesive from working so the battery can be taken out. it's pretty cool. afterwards, the screws are taken out, before all the different components are separated by the machine. all individual bits and pieces land here to then be sorted by a human. most modern smartphones contain as many as 30 elements and rare earth materials, including cobalt, tungsten, gold and tin. and the world economic forum has warned that some elements may be completely depleted in 100 years. apple claims that new methods of recycling phones, like daisy, could help recover

more of these metals from end—of—life phones, and that its products contain more recycled materials than ever before. rare earth elements and metals require extensive mining with considerable environmental, social and political impacts. our goal is to make all of our products using only recycled or renewable material. daisy is helping us with that — she can do 23 models of iphone, she can do 2.a million units a year, and all of that means more material going back around a circular supply chain so, ultimately, we can end our reliance on mining. daisy concentrates on 1a key materials which would otherwise be extracted from the earth, from the rare earth magnets to the aluminium in the housing. if you take, for example, the main logic boards, the cameras and the flexes, one tonne of that has the same amount of material that we'd have to mine 2,000 tonnes of new material to get to, so it's quite important and also its much lower carbon. but it's notjust about recovering the materials, but crucially, getting them back at a purity where they can be used again. the brute force traditional methods of recycling can degrade the recovered materials or miss them entirely,

meaning they can end up in landfill, causing pollution and environmental damage. perhaps, though, the most sustainable solution of all would be reducing the volume of e—waste we create in the first place. paul there, in the netherlands, looking at ways to reduce our e—waste. later in the show, spencer will be talking more about sustainability with the co—creator of the ipod. now, here in the uk, conservationists are also seeking to protect the earth and the joy of living things on it. they've gone for a rest in the shade. my daughter's favourite, i had to come and see them for her. london zoo's best known for protecting endangered animals. there are over 750 different species here. think you might be able to hear one of them behind me! but today, i'm taking a leafier approach. i'm going to sow some seeds with my smartphone. this is the

eiwaz tree of life app. your mission — to plant a virtual tree. ok, so i need to find a big space — that hits sorted. scan your surroundings and digital branches unfurl in augmented reality. oh, wow, there's a tree. a big tree. and a series of mini games plays out. oh, no, it's on fire. all to unlock your very own digital seed. a heart is drifting to the ground, and tap to grow. you can design and snap pictures of your own creations too. 0oh, i can change the colour of my tree! but this isn't just for fun. the app also tells you where in the world a real tree is going to be planted on your behalf, giving impact and carbon information. and to mark the moment, you could always rope in a friend

to take a video of you under the ar branches. the app's creator believes that this intersection of art, technology and science can inspire real change. martine, tell me about the technical process behind the ar app. eiwaz tree of life was essentially made by drones 3d—scanning an ash tree, and then we put it through the processing software photogrammetry, and then that essentially takes the 2d photos and makes it into a 3d asset. add to that some virtual sculpting and gameplay developed on unity, and you get an exciting interactive experiment. the essence of this is that i want to empower people, i want them to feel that they're part of the solution and they're part of a greater movement in a battle for nature. martine has sourced donations to grow 200,000 trees. 1a0,000 of these will be earthed in the philippines, which has lost 50% of its mangroves. the mangroves are i biodiversity superstars. they provide nursery grounds

for local species. i they are vital stocks of fisheries i and income for communities. they protect coastlines from damaging floodsl and storm surges, and they also lock vast amounts of carbon into the ground. i replenishing this kind of natural resource is vital, even if trees aren't cute or fluffy. animals are great ambassadors for conservation. _ i'm standing here in front of our penguin exhibits, i which are always i incredibly popular. however, conservation can be quite an abstract notion. i we can be asking people to care about things i that are many thousandsl of miles away from them. people are engaging more and more i with the climate crisis in particular, i and looking to restore whole ecosystems, i and that's really. where our focus is. markers like this one in london zoo are designed to grab the attention of passers—by, and portals have popped up in cities including 0slo, copenhagen and at the world expo in dubai,

although you can play anywhere through the app. this project isn't going to fix climate change overnight, but it was certainly fun getting my digitalfingers green. that looks less like a real tree... 0r whatever other colours i fancied. that looks spooky. 0k, time for this week's tech round—up now, and first up, it's official — ads are coming to netflix. yep, co—ceo ted sarandos has announced the streaming giant will begin testing a new cheaper tariff option which you can use if you don't mind some commercials popping up while you watch your favourite shows. medical students at the university of cambridge are taking part in what the uni says is a world first — treating holographic patients. through the use of an augmented reality headset, the students are learning by practising on virtual people. it feels very much more that you're connected to the scenario. and when you feel the patient, you see their neck muscles straining,

and the way they're breathing, the trained eye of a doctor will tell a lot from how a patient�*s chest rises and falls, and we spend a lot of time trying to get that exactly right. nasa has launched its first rocket from a commercial spaceport outside the united states. it hopes the sub—orbital rocket launched from australia will enable astrophysics studies that can only take place in the southern hemisphere. and after taking me for a spin last year, paralysed racing driver sam schmidt has broken new ground by being the first person ever to complete the hill climb at the goodwood festival of speed using only head movements and breath to drive. he achieved the feat in his modified mclaren that uses infra—red cameras and a breath—measuring device. i'm at the barbican in london to meet tony fadell, the co—creator of one of apple's biggest icons, which has recently been decommissioned after 20 years. can we have a moment of

silence, please, for the ipod? this is your baby. it is. how do you feel about it? oh, it's obviously sad to see an old friend go, but at the end of the day, you know, technology marches on. without the ipod, the modern—day apple wouldn't exist, and the iphone, i don't think, would have ever existed if the ipod didn't. was there any consideration for the green credentials of these devices — the disposability, the renewability of these things — was that even on the table back then? no, it wasn't really highly considered by any means. of course, it wasn't just, go trash things, but at the same time, it's very different now. do you think we have reached a turning point now, where companies are more aware, and in fact, it might be good to market something that can last a few years? you know, the iphone i have in my pocket is not the latest one. you don't have to necessarily ship new hardware. in fact, it might be actually more profitable for the company to ship a lot more services on the same piece of hardware. what we should be seeing is more subscription—based devices, and you get

a new version of the device when the company thinks you need it. maybe it's the right thing to do for the environment, maybe for the customer as well. what's the next big idea? i think when we look at our existential problems on this planet, there are so many ideas that need to be brought to life. something like the hydrogen economy. we can use hydrogen to make all kinds of materials, and make them much more climate—friendly. and actually for business, they're actually better for business, you can make more money. agriculture, materials, transportation — we should be using all of the technology to revolutionise those, some of the biggest polluters on the planet. now all we have to do is convince big oil. but, for his part, fadell heads a fund that's made dozens of climate investments. although he's notjust focused on this world. virtual reality — discuss.

you can make shoes, you can make furniture, homes, what have you. it is the first way to truly break the 2d barrier, to 3d. so, fadell is backing virtual collaboration, though the metaverse at large doesn't quite have him convinced. some people are trying to trap us in these kinds of headsets. it's a place where you're going to go socialise, where we're going to dance, we're all going to turn into cartoon characters, we'll never even see each other�*s eyes. is that a problem we really need to solve? i don't think so. let's park zuckerberg's vision for a moment, then, and ask tony instead about apple's biggest visionary. steve moved the whole smartphone industry. yes, i'd like to order a,000 lattes to go, please. no, just kidding! the great thing about steve was he never projected himself as a real expert of any one thing. so there was some humility there — it wasn'tjust about, i know everything and i'm right all the time? absolutely not — he had strong

opinions, but sometimes they were weakly held, if we brought in data or other things to show him that there was a different way. and since stevejobs, the biggest personality in tech surely now has to be this guy. hope you like what you see. but what does fadell make of him? without the personalities, without the passion, without the drive, you wouldn't see the ev revolution that we're having. you need these personalities that people can really resonate with. that was tony fadell, who is admittedly a bit of a character himself, and he's not the only one who believes that big tech can clean up. adrienne murray's been finding out more in denmark. each time we upload a selfie, chat online or stream a video, we're transmitting data to and from a server, and all those files we store virtually in the cloud, well, there's a physical backbone, keeping it all running smoothly —

a datacentre. this hyperscale facility on the outskirts of 0dense in denmark is among a growing number found in the cooler nordic countries. and here, how our internet use is actually helping to warm people's homes. this is one of our servers. and if you feel underneath it's quite... it's really hot. datacentres are all over europe, providing services for all our applications, facebook, instagram, whatsapp, messenger, etc. it is pictures, videos, stories, all of that. all these servers are running 2a/7, and keeping them ticking over requires huge amounts of energy. but they also produce a lot of heat. at many data centres, the heat given off is lost or wasted. here, the hot air is trapped behind the servers and then it's put to use. it really is much warmer in here, it's

like stepping inside a sauna. what happens to the heat that's coming off these servers? so the heat goes up to the roof where we have some cooling units. when it reaches the rooftop, the hot air flows through almost 200 heat exchangers. oh, gosh. that's really windy. we are getting cold water from a district heating system from the city, and then we give them warm water back. it is a heat exchange, so you take one warm element and then one cold element, and you actually exchange the heat and warmth. residual cool air is left over from this process and that's used to help cool all those hot servers. across the road

is a pump station. all these different coloured pipes are carrying water. as you might have guessed, red is hot and blue is cold. so right here, we have the heat pumps where we elevate the heat. so when we receive it, it's only 27 degrees celsius. but we need it to elevate it to 70 degrees to put it in this district heating grid. district heating is a community—wide heating system that's common in scandinavia. in 0dense, which is the third largest city in denmark, we have about 200,000 inhabitants. that's about 100,000 households. and this plant can actually provide heat for more than 10% of these customers. hello, welcome. hi, thank you. long—time resident hans erik is one of them. what do you get as part of the district heating?

it's water, it's heating, it's everything with hot water. you don't have to have a boiler, it's coming out of the pipes. every household has a meter, and then you pay for what you use. from the datacentre is now also providing heat to homes in the area? i mean, the heat is there. either you give it to the birds or you make use of it in our households. other nordic countries like sweden have also embraced the idea of warming homes with recycled heat. and in finland, microsoft and energy firm fortum are now planning the world's biggest project of this kind. that was adrienne in denmark. but these companies aren't the only ones considering how our buildings could become more sustainable. this is recycled concrete. the idea is that that'll be the basis of kind of almost a whole ecosystem.

my name is martyn dade—robertson, i'm professor of emerging technology at newcastle university. we're sitting in the 0me, which is an experimental house where we're developing a new generation of building technologies. the way that we build isn't sustainable — it's polluting, it uses high amounts of energy, and that really needs to be addressed if we're to live sustainably. just behind me is one of the most significant pieces of biotechnology that we have. it's a structure that is initially knitted, grown with a root network of fungus we call mycelium. this is black fabric, i and the white that you're seeing is all the mycelium. it is, in a sense, mould in here, or at least what some people think of as being mould. this is a case where we could replace, say, a cement with a biological process instead. this is quite nice, the way you can see the cellulose. it's not a stained glass window, it's a stained cellulose window. it looks like a kind of skin. in our different labs, we're growing different materials.

but in relationship to digital technologies as well. we're developing a robot arm to control the way that materials are deposited in three dimensions. we're also developing our own machine that looks a little bit like a 3d printer. the main kind of fermentation will be happening here. i the pumps will be located here. it allows us to program the material for different outcomes and different material properties. imagine the construction of a wall. you've got your bricks, which are cemented together, often you have insulation material, you have your plasterboard inside. we want to do that in one step. the wall might be able to respond to light by thickening, maybe giving greater insulation or reducing insulation, maybe allow a building to sweat in the way that skin does. that will mean that servicing our buildings are not as heavy, because we don't have to make use of heating and ventilation quite as much. we use all kinds of different computational models that are key to the research that we do.

often, they're modelling the way in which our biological systems will respond to different environments. we're even thinking about the soil beneath our houses. the idea is that the bacteria can detect the load on the soils and make crystals that will make the soil stronger. we're not using polluting concrete, and moving the land is a very energy—intensive process _ artificial intelligence might give us a way to discover these new biologies and processes that we can't, as human beings, on our own, work out. some of our technologies are quite near—future. i can see mycelium, for example, being part of our built environment actually very quickly. this feels really, really solid. some of the work in engineered living materials is decades and decades away. there are lots of technical challenges, but also the construction industry is very conservative, so persuading people that this is the future is going to take

a lot of validation and effort. sustainability calls for transformational technologies that will change the way that we live. we've had the digital revolution, but we see ourselves as heading up a biological revolution. that sense that we're at the frontier of a completely new science and technology is really exciting. some great ideas there, although some of it did look a little bit unusual, i'm not quite sure that it would fit in with my decor. whilst that's all we've got time for this week, i think i'll stick around for a wander. they know how to do it — slower pace of life.

hello. many of us have seen increasing amounts of cloud over the weekend. cloud will play quite a big part in monday's weather story, possibly thick enough at times to give some spots of rain, maybe the odd shower. it will largely stay dry. i'm hoping things will remain dry in london and in windsor for the queen's state funeral. there is just the chance that as that cloud thickens through the afternoon it could give the odd light shower or the odd spot of rain or drizzle. high pressure is still in charge, that is keeping things mostly dry, but this weak warm front is introducing more cloud and the chance of some damp weather first thing across south—west scotland, perhaps north—west england and this band of thick cloud and the potential for the odd spot of rain or drizzle does tend to push eastwards as the day wears on. north—east scotland was see good spells of sunshine, northern ireland may brighten up for a time, south wales and the south—west of england should see some sunny spells. temperatures north to south between 12 and 19 degrees. winds for most places will be fairly light.

through monday night we will see large areas of cloud still potentially giving some spot of rain and drizzle especially in eastern parts. some clear breaks out towards the west, they may pull in it with a bit of mist and fog. milder that has been over recent nights, 9—12 degrees. tuesday, we stick with a rather cloudy theme. through monday night we will see large areas of cloud still potentially giving some spot of rain and drizzle especially in eastern parts. some clear breaks out towards the west, they may pull in it with a bit of mist and fog. milder that has been over recent nights, 9—12 degrees. tuesday, we stick with a rather cloudy theme. this stripe of cloud here still giving rise to some spots of rain and drizzle. but it does look like the cloud should tend to turn over and break up a little bit across some western parts to give some sunny spells, a bit more patchy rain

into the western isles of scotland. 17—19, maybe 20 degrees in the south. feeling a little warmer. on wednesday we see some sunny spells at least for a time. it will feel considerably warmer than it has of late. temperatures of 17 in aberdeen, 21 in norwich and in london. but a frontal system pushing in towards the north—west bringing some outbreaks of rain. that will make erratic progress southwards and eastwards thursday and into friday, some of the rain actually chance of some rain later on in the week and a bit less chilly than it has been.

welcome to bbc news. our top stories: a minute's silence across the uk, time to reflect on the life and legacy of queen elizabeth ii. the queen this spring, one of the last official photographs of her majesty is released on the eve of herfuneral. president biden pays his respects at the lying—in—state, and later gave this tribute.

0ur our hearts go out to you and you were fortunate to have her 70 years, we all were. the world's better for her. hundreds of world leaders and dignitaries have been attending a reception at buckingham palace hosted by king charles, ahead of his mother's funeral on monday. and i'm live in westminster very near to the front of the queue, some of the last people to grow one past the queen's coffin. —— the last people to file past the queen's coffin. in other news: 'act swiftly to save your lives' — the warning ofjapan's prime minister to people living in the path of a huge typhoon.

welcome to westminster, the middle of the night and yet people continue to queue. these are some of the final people who will be able to pay their respects as they file past the coffin that lays in state not far from coffin that lays in state not farfrom here. these people have been waiting for hours but as we now know the official queue, this queue that has turned into a bit of a method itself, this queue that so many people have experienced, hundreds of thousands of people, this is it now. these are some of the last people. this is what is known as the snake period. this is where the people are really concertina at together. very much crowded together. very much crowded together as they still have some time to go before they actually get to file past westminster hall, that historic building, one of the oldest parts of the palace of

westminster and pay their respects. bear in mind the huge number of people that have been volunteering as well to support all of these guys and just bear in mind all of the security services, the police force, the army, all of the people making this happen. there have been so many moments. a correspondence looks back on the day. it is ten days now since the news came of the queen's death. the new king, charles, arriving at buckingham palace earlier today with a wave to the crowds, has led the country's mourning in the days since. in a message tonight he said he'd been deeply touched by the many messages from around the world. among the hundreds of world leaders

in london for the state funeral, the president of the united states. his motorcade arrived at the palace of westminster. a few moments later, president biden and the first lady of the united states, drjill biden, stood quietly on a balcony inside westminster hall. like so many thousands of others over the past four days, struck by the intensity of the scene. i think what she gave is a sense of maybe above all, the notion of service. we all owe something, there is something within our capacity to do that can make things, notjust the world better, but your neighbourhood better, your household better, your workplace better. to all the people of the united kingdom, our hearts go out to you and you were fortunate to have had herfor 70 years, we all were. the world is better for her. as the royal family prepares for the state funeral, from camilla,

the queen consort, her reflection on the 70 years of the queen's reign. she has been part of our lives for ever. i'm 75 now and i can't remember anybody except the queen being there. it must have been so difficult for her being a solitary woman, there weren't women prime ministers or women presidents, she was the only one. so i think she carved her own role. i'll always remember that smile. you know, that smile is unforgettable. many thousands of people have wanted to be a part of this moment. some have queued for many hours or placed flowers in the designated spaces, or simply travelled to london to absorb the sights and emotions along the route of the procession and outside the abbey church where the funeral will take place. we didn't know what exactly to do, but we wanted to do something.

you know, it felt right to come up and do something and bring my son here. you know, i think there's a lot of people who don't know what to do, but feel like they need to do something, so itjust felt like the right thing to do was to come up here with everybody else. during the hours of darkness the last visitors will be admitted to the lying—in—state at westminster hall. and then in the morning, the state funeral will take place of her majesty, queen elizabeth ii. nicholas witchell, bbc news. these are indeed some of the last people to make that file past the queen's coffin, the queue now officially closed. these people have been here from roughly eight o'clock we are hearing and every now and again some cheers and some claps, people have been through so, so much as they spend so

many hours together, friendships formed, stories told, snacks shared. we've been hearing this time and time again. bear in mind this has been a phenomenon that has been going on forfour days been a phenomenon that has been going on for four days and it is now finally in the final hours before the state funeral itself. at the end of the state funeral, the service at westminster abbey there will be two minutes of national silence and earlier on sunday evening we also had a minute's silence, national silence across the country for the country to just remember and reflect. my colleague reports on that. piper plays. the flowers of the forest echoing across a scottish mountainside. a lament for the fallen, played now in tribute to a queen. and then, on the cusp of silence, in blackpool, the going down of lights.

then out of silence, into the anthem celebrating a new monarch. god save the king. # god save our gracious king. # long live our noble king. # god save the king. # send him victorious. # happy and glorious. # long to reign over us. # god save the king #. applause. across the land it was a gathering of strangers. for whom the queen was

the unifying symbol. i'm just paying respects to the queen and just to mark the passing of an era. i don't think we'll see the likes of our queen again. you know, she's been such a role model all our lives, really. she was very important to me and i'm starting to get emotional now. because i remember the coronation. i'm old enough to remember king george vi and him dying and the coronation, and we had a little 12—inch television and all the neighbours came in to watch the coronation, so yes, she has been our queen for a long time and she served us well. the silence spoke of respect and affection on the eve of farewell.

fergal keane, bbc news. and we are indeed expect being a two—minute silence at the end of the service that will take place westminster abbey later on on monday morning but before that people are still continuing to queue, to wait for their moment to go past the coffin itself, to reflect and have that opportunity to walk through that historic westminster hall. we have just heard actually that because of rehearsals going on there has been a pause for a5 minute so these guys have just stopped in their tracks and i am going to do so, you have been queueing from what time today. 8:30pm. and what motivated i from what time today. 8:30pm. and what motivated you i from what time today. 8:30pm. and what motivated you to i from what time today. 8:30pm. | and what motivated you to come here? ~ ., ., _ and what motivated you to come here? ~ ., ., , here? wanting to pay my respects _ here? wanting to pay my respects and i here? wanting to pay my respects and in i here? wanting to pay my respects and in my i respects and in my anticipation over towards the end that queue had died down a so it would be

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so quickly, it's really busy and then you are in and it is silent. it isjust and then you are in and it is silent. it is just such a huge contrast from being in all this noise and high spirits to inside and it is very sombre and very poignant and it is the little details, everyone who is wearing a hat takes off their hat out of respect. there is so much candle wax on the ground and you then have split—second moment and i did a little curtsy in my walking boots which is an odd thing to have done but itjust felt like what they should do, so it felt really significant.- they should do, so it felt really significant. and you say it is silent. _ really significant. and you say it is silent, can i really significant. and you say it is silent, can you i really significant. and you say it is silent, can you feel, i it is silent, can you feel, because it is such a historic building, that haul itself with the coffin just there with the royal standard draped over it, with the imperial state crown, people are saying it is overwhelming. people are saying it is overwhelmina. ~ , overwhelming. absolutely, it takes your — overwhelming. absolutely, it takes your breath i overwhelming. absolutely, it takes your breath away i overwhelming. absolutely, it takes your breath away when j overwhelming. absolutely, it i takes your breath away when you first get in there and it is

this vast cavernous hall and so beautifully put together, every detail is just to absolute perfection, like you said the guardsmen standing around the coffin, the colours of the standard and the crown, it feels very kind of enormous, the enormity of it really sinks and and i felt the the enormity of it really sinks and and ifelt the more i got to the area of bowing all curtsy in, but it was fantastic, i'm really pleased to have done it.— to have done it. and you've been here _ to have done it. and you've been here since i to have done it. and you've been here since the i to have done it. and you've been here since the early i been here since the early afternoon. thank you very much for coming back to us to speak to us. we spoke to grace just before she went in to the hall itself and now it is lovely to hear that personal reflection. this is exactly what all of these people behind me will be experiencing in a little bit

longer than perhaps they had anticipated because there is a rehearsal going on in the hall itself at the moment so there has been a bit of a pause and we believe it is going to be about a0 minutes to add on top of the many, many hours that all of these people have been waiting for, but these are some of the last people that will have that opportunity to file past her majesty's often and have that moment to reflect ahead of the state funeral itself ahead of the coffin then being moved to westminster abbey. so much still to come ahead for these people but for the time being david, a bit of a pause and this is central london right now where time to reflect and time to still wait in this legendary queue. where patients is a virtue of course. so it's a good job they got that. thank you very much indeed and we will keep across that of course. president biden willjoin around 2,000 other guests, including some 500 heads of state and foreign dignitaries at the queen's state funeral.

it will be one of the biggest gatherings of royalty and politicians the uk has hosted for decades. they have been paying their respects to the late queen and signing the book of condolence all afternoon, as our diplomatic correspondent james landale reports. some came by themselves in, well, some sort of style. 0thers came together, rather unusually on a bus, but they were all here to honour the queen in perhaps the biggest diplomatic wake seen for decades. there was the king and queen of spain. there was his exiled father, juan carlos. there was the president of france and his wife. leaders from the gulf. the king and queen ofjordan. hundreds of statesmen and women, there to pay their respects and indulge, perhaps, in a little diplomacy. 0thers arrived around

the back of the palace. prime ministers and presidents, all guests of the king and other members of the royal family at a formal state reception. on a day of frantic international engagement, the princess of wales even found time to meet the first lady of ukraine, 0lena zelenska. earlier, joe and jill biden had followed other heads of state and government in stopping off at lancaster house to sign a book of condolence. a steady flow of the global great and sometimes good, paying their respects on behalf of themselves and their countries. i so wish eternal peace to her wonderful, generous spirit and of course, every good wish to king charles iii. on behalf of the government and people of barbados that i record my sincere sympathy to all of great britain and especially to the members of the royal family. we appreciated very much her-

leadership of the commonwealth, which saw a dramatic i transformation from a nation of eight countries when she went on to the throne to 56 at the time of her death. thank you, your majesty, thank you for your dedication. the people of fiji will never forget you. many also came to see the lying—in—state. not queueing, of course, butjoining the public to stand in silence and perhaps some awe before the coffin of a woman whose reign will outlast their own. and despite the opposition of some mps and peers who have been sanctioned by beijing, a delegation from china also came to westminster hall, including the vice president, on the right, who will attend the funeral tomorrow.

one man who will not be coming to the abbey tomorrow is saudi arabia's crown prince and de facto ruler, mohammad bin salman, who has been accused of involvement in the murder of a journalist — accusations he has denied. several leaders, including canada's prime minister, also dropped by downing street for what officials said were informal conversations with liz truss. earlier he paid his own tribute to the queen. i first met her majesty when i was seven years old and her presence throughout my life had been constant, inspiring and graceful. as prime minister, i benefited from her counsel, herthoughtfulness, her curiosity, her sense of humour. tomorrow, the diplomacy will be put on hold as the leaders arrive at westminster abbey and the focus returns to the monarch they have come to mourn. james landale, bbc news.

re: president biden, he said that the us would send forces to defend taiwan in the event of an invasion, with china conducting military exercises in the region. he has not ruled out the use of force in what he —— china because the reunification of taiwan with the mainland. the white house says us policy on taiwan had not changed. in other news: the prime minister ofjapan has urged people to act swiftly to save their lives as the country is hit by one of the most destructive typhoons in years. fumio kishida's warning comes as the authorities urgently advised 3 million people to leave their homes as a huge storm moves across the southern island of kyushu. 0ur tokyo correspondent rupert wingfield—hayes reports. the typhoon is a huge and angry

stone, the like of which japan has rarely, if ever experienced before. all day it has been battering the southern island of kyushu, with gusts of 150mph. this satellite image shows the immense size this satellite image shows the immense size of the typhoon covering the whole of the island. for the first time ever, the japanese government issued its highest level emergency alert, warning winds could be strong enough to bring down buildings. and an even bigger threat is the vast amount of water that nanmadol is carrying. as much as 500mm of rain is expected to fall in less than 2a hours. kyushu is very mountainous and it is feared the water could unleash landslides, and swollen rivers could burst their banks. so serious is the concern, the japanese prime minister fumio kishida

made this appealfor millions of people to head for evacuation centres before nightfall. translation: do not go near dangerous areas. i if you feel you are in danger, do not hesitate to evacuate. please take early action to save your lives. evacuating at night is extremely dangerous. many thousands have heeded the call, but many more have not and have chosen to ride out the storm at home. river levels across kyushu and southern honshu are now rising fast and will peak in the next 12 hours. all it takes is one breach and the whole town can be inundated in minutes, giving those that have refused to evacuate, no time to escape. japanese people are used to dealing with typhoons, especially in kyushu. but as the global climate changes, the data shows these sorts of mega—storms are are becoming more frequent and defences that worked in the past may no longer be enough.

we have a huge day of history on monday. the papers will reflect that. i am joined by marc lobel. ids, reflect that. i am 'oined by marc lobel.i reflect that. i am 'oined by marclobel. �* , ., _ , marc lobel. a previously unseen icture marc lobel. a previously unseen picture taken — marc lobel. a previously unseen picture taken in i marc lobel. a previously unseen picture taken in may i marc lobel. a previously unseen picture taken in may of i marc lobel. a previously unseen picture taken in may of the i picture taken in may of the queen in windsor castle. telegraph here, a life of selfless service. the express says: in the mirror: a grammarian expect the aquamarine and diamond could brooches were in 80th birthday presents from the queen's father. they were also worn for ve day, the 75th anniversary. it is very vibrant, and a wonderful picture from not very long ago. wonderful picture from not very lone auo. , ., .,

long ago. the photograph was taken by ranald i long ago. the photograph was taken by ranald mckechnie, i long ago. the photograph was i taken by ranald mckechnie, who was taken many generations of photos. he had all of them that photo. the queen consort camillo gave a video address to the bbc talking about the wonderful blue eyes, you can see what she was talking about there. let me give you a contrast here. that was towards the end of the rain, this is at the end of the rain, this is at the beginning. the metro, a great shot. a really striking portrait of queen elizabeth from 195a. this is the italian artist pietro annigoni. and the guardian has a simple tribute. focusing on the normal —— enormous operation choreographed for the funeral. no glitches other than big and not chiming around one—minute silence. 0n not chiming around one—minute silence. on sunday. it's got to

do 96 chimes as a tribute on monday. the parliamentary office is urgently investigating and says it will be fine. fingers crossed that works. the new york times, just to give you an indication of what the international press is saying, the queen had what was in lux. if you don't have time to read this opinion piece, the answer in our minds is legitimacy. although she had no personal political power, the opposite is true for president putin. he has retained all this political power himself but lacking legitimacy both on the global stage and in the view of the new york times.— global stage and in the view of the new york times. sounds like an interesting i the new york times. sounds like an interesting discussion. ii an interesting discussion. i could see that being an essay applied to form students. we need to leave it there. thank you for that. i say that because i want to give you the images, both of westminster hall and victoria gardens to show you the pictures we've got for you. these other lines,

they come to a bit of a standstill because there is a rehearsal taking place in westminster hall, they will start moving soon enough. the lines are no morejoining, they will be finished early in the morning, and preparations for the funeral will go ahead, westminster hall is readying itself for that moment. we will keep across it here on bbc news. hello. many of us have seen increasing amounts of cloud over the weekend. cloud will play quite a big part in monday's weather story, possibly thick enough at times to give some spots of rain, maybe the odd shower. it will largely stay dry. i'm hoping things will remain dry in london and in windsor for the queen's state funeral.

there is just the chance that as that cloud thickens through the afternoon it could give the odd light shower or the odd spot of rain or drizzle. high pressure is still in charge, that is keeping things mostly dry, but this weak warm front is introducing more cloud and the chance of some damp weather first thing across south—west scotland, perhaps north—west england and this band of thick cloud and the potential for the odd spot of rain or drizzle does tend to push eastwards as the day wears on. north—east scotland was see good spells of sunshine, northern ireland may brighten up for a time, south wales and the south—west of england should see some sunny spells. temperatures north to south between 12 and 19 degrees. winds for most places will be fairly light. through monday night we will see large areas of cloud still potentially giving some spot of rain and drizzle especially in eastern parts. some clear breaks out towards the west, they may pull in it with a bit of mist and fog. milder that has been over recent nights, 9—12 degrees. tuesday, we stick with

a rather cloudy theme. this stripe of cloud here still giving rise to some spots of rain and drizzle. but it does look like the cloud should tend to turn over and break up a little bit across some western parts to give some sunny spells, a bit more patchy rain into the western isles of scotland. 17—19, maybe 20 degrees in the south. feeling a little warmer. on wednesday we see some sunny spells at least for a time. it will feel considerably warmer than it has of late. temperatures of 17 in aberdeen, 21 in norwich and in london. but a frontal system pushing in towards the north—west bringing some outbreaks of rain. that will make erratic progress southwards and eastwards thursday and into friday, some of the rain actually could be quite heavy, even as it gets down into the south of england and south wales. the chance of some rain particularly later on in the week and a bit less chilly than it has been.

indeed and we will keep across that of course. this is bbc news, the headlines: the queue to pay last respects to the former monarch as she lies in state in westminster hall has now been closed. those still in the queue will be allowed to continue. preparations are being made for the state funeral on monday, which will begin in westminster abbey. king charles has hosted a reception for hundreds of world leaders at buckingham palace ahead of the funeral. heads of state from around the globe have attended, including joe biden.

the us president earlier paid his respects at the hall where the late monarch is lying in state. the prime minister ofjapan has urged people to act swiftly to save their lives as the country is hit by a destructive typhoon. the warning comes as the authorities advise three million people to leave their homes, and a huge storm moves across the southern island of kyushu. now on bbc news, martine croxall presents a special programme looking at the numerous moments the royal family have met the members of the public in the last week, following the death of the queen. hello and welcome to this special programme from bbc news. 0ver special programme from bbc news. over the next 25 minutes orso news. over the next 25 minutes or so we are going to show you some of the many special moments from the royal walkabouts, members of her

majesty's family have taken part in since the queen died. to thank the many thousands of people up and down the uk who have come out to pay their respect. we will take you to the four corners of the uk and we start in aberdeenshire at balmoral where senior members of the royal family spent time last sunday seeing the many floral tributes to her majesty.

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king and queen consort met well—wishers in hillsborough. crowd: love you! crowd cheers

two wins and now we have the first time in a number of years, princes william and harry and their wives greeted people at windsor castle.

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wales william and catherine were also out greeting people in sandringham in norfolk.

meanwhile in wales on a visit to cardiff castle the new king and queen consort met well—wishers.

cheering. to buckingham palace now were so many thousands of people from around the world have visited in the last few days. members of the royal family have been out to meet him —— them. let us start with the earl and countess of wessex.

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william! _ cheering. woman: take care! that is all for now but a reminder you can keep up—to—date on the latest of all the events relating to the death of her majesty on the bbc website or download our smartphone app. from me, martine croxall, thanks for watching. hello. many of us have seen increasing amounts of cloud over the weekend. cloud will play quite a big part in monday's weather story, possibly thick enough at times to give some spots of rain, maybe the odd shower. it will largely stay dry.

i'm hoping things will remain dry in london and in windsor for the queen's state funeral. there is just the chance that as that cloud thickens through the afternoon it could give the odd light shower or the odd spot of rain or drizzle. high pressure is still in charge, that is keeping things mostly dry, but this weak warm front is introducing more cloud and the chance of some damp weather first thing across south—west scotland, perhaps north—west england and this band of thick cloud and the potential for the odd spot of rain or drizzle does tend to push eastwards as the day wears on. north—east scotland was see good spells of sunshine, northern ireland may brighten up for a time, south wales and the south—west of england should see some sunny spells. temperatures north to south between 12 and 19 degrees. winds for most places will be fairly light. through monday night

we will see large areas of cloud still potentially giving some spot of rain and drizzle especially in eastern parts. some clear breaks out towards the west, they may pull in it with a bit of mist and fog. milder that has been over recent nights, 9—12 degrees. tuesday, we stick with a rather cloudy theme. this stripe of cloud here still giving rise to some spots of rain and drizzle. but it does look like the cloud should tend to turn over and break up a little bit across some western parts to give some sunny spells, a bit more patchy rain 17—19, maybe 20 degrees in the south. feeling a little warmer. it will feel considerably warmer than it has of late. temperatures of 17 in aberdeen, 21 in norwich and in london. but a frontal system pushing in towards the north—west bringing some outbreaks of rain. that will make erratic progress southwards and eastwards thursday and into friday, some of the rain actually could be quite heavy, even as it gets down into the south of england and south wales. the chance of some rain particularly later on in the week and a bit less

chilly than it has been.

welcome to bbc news, i'm david eades. our top stories: a minute's silence across the uk, time to reflect on the life and legacy of queen elizabeth ii. the queen this spring, one of the last official photographs of her majesty is released on the eve of herfuneral. president biden pays his respects at the lying—in—state, and later gave this tribute. our hearts go out to you and you were fortunate to have had herfor

you were fortunate to have had her for 70 years, you were fortunate to have had herfor 70 years, we you were fortunate to have had her for 70 years, we all were. the world is betterfor her for 70 years, we all were. the world is better for her. hundreds of world leaders and dignitaries have been attending a reception at buckingham palace hosted by king charles, ahead of his mother's funeral on monday. and i am live in westminster among some of the last people tojoin the queue. among some of the last people to join the queue. the queue now officially closed. these are the last people to file past the queen. hello and welcome to westminster, where the queue continues although at that very moment there is a a5 minute pause, we are told, for the rehearsals that are taking place within westminster hall itself. the rehearsals ahead of

the state funeral that will take place in the morning on monday morning. the people behind me are amongst some of the final people to file past her majesty the queen's often. the queue now officially closed but like ice a common acute not moving —— like i say, the queue not moving there have been so many moments throughout the past few days, my colleague reports now. it is ten days now since the news came of the queen's death. the new king, charles, arriving at buckingham palace earlier today with a wave to the crowds, has led the country's mourning in the days since. in a message tonight he said he'd been deeply touched by the many messages from around the world.

among the hundreds of world leaders in london for the state funeral, the president of the united states. his motorcade arrived at the palace of westminster. a few moments later, president biden and the first lady of the united states, drjill biden, stood quietly on a balcony inside westminster hall. like so many thousands of others over the past four days, struck by the intensity of the scene. i think what she gave is a sense of maybe above all, the notion of service. we all owe something, there is something within our capacity to do that can make things, notjust the world better, but your neighbourhood better, your household better, your workplace better. to all the people of the united kingdom, our hearts go out to you and you were fortunate to have had herfor 70 years, we all were. the world is better for her.

as the royal family prepares for the state funeral, from camilla, the queen consort, her reflection on the 70 years of the queen's reign. she has been part of our lives for ever. i'm 75 now and i can't remember anybody except the queen being there. it must have been so difficult for her being a solitary woman, there weren't women prime ministers or women presidents, she was the only one. so i think she carved her own role. i'll always remember that smile. you know, that smile is unforgettable. many thousands of people have wanted to be a part of this moment. some have queued for many hours or placed flowers in the designated spaces, or simply travelled to london to absorb the sights and emotions

along the route of the procession and outside the abbey church where the funeral will take place. we didn't know what exactly to do, but we wanted to do something. you know, it felt right to come up and do something and bring my son here. you know, i think there's a lot of people who don't know what to do, but feel like they need to do something, so itjust felt like the right thing to do was to come up here with everybody else. during the hours of darkness the last visitors will be admitted to the lying—in—state at westminster hall. and then in the morning, the state funeral will take place of her majesty, queen elizabeth ii. nicholas witchell, bbc news. nicholas they're touching upon the thousands of people who are still waiting, they are hair, they are still waiting, their weight extended that little bit longer because of course there are still a lot of preparations taking place within westminster

hall itself, that historic building that has seen so much history and is again witnessing this incredible moment for this nation. all of these people patient from quiet, it is very quiet in the past few moments when they heard they will have two wait for another a5 minutes as this rehearsal takes place but there is an understanding that these are some of the last people to witness this moment, failing past the coffin itself and then onto the service little later on on monday at westminster abbey where we expect a two—minute silence, national silence that we also witnessed on sunday as my colleague now reports. piper plays. the flowers of the forest echoing across a scottish mountainside.

a lament for the fallen, played now in tribute to a queen. and then, on the cusp of silence, in blackpool, the going down of lights.

then out of silence, into the anthem celebrating a new monarch. god save the king. # god save our gracious king. # long live our noble king. # god save the king. # send him victorious. # happy and glorious. # long to reign over us. # god save the king #. applause.

across the land it was a gathering of strangers. for whom the queen was the unifying symbol. i'm just paying respects to the queen and just to mark the passing of an era. i don't think we'll see the likes of our queen again. you know, she's been such a role model all our lives, really. she was very important to me and i'm starting to get emotional now. because i remember the coronation. i'm old enough to remember king george vi and him dying and the coronation, and we had a little 12—inch television and all the neighbours came in to watch the coronation, so yes, she has been our queen for a long time and she served us well.

the silence spoke of respect and affection on the eve of farewell. fergal keane, bbc news. that moment of silence, that moment of national reflection and we had such a silent moment just a few moments ago, didn't we? and yet now there has been a lot of movement because we believe that the people who have been queueing for so, so many hours, most of these guys have come from roughly in the afternoon, they are now moving again, once again moving so they will have that opportunity to experience that moment of failing past the queen's often. one person who was in westminster hall itself a little bit early on as my colleague helen who joins us now. we are hearing so much aboutjust how immense that moment is, what was it like? we

are allowed _ moment is, what was it like? - are allowed in as journalists to sit very quietly at the back half—an—hour and just observe people as they file into the hall and pay their respect and gives you more of a sense hopefully to be able to convey what it's like in there rather than just seeing it on the television and i think that the biggest thing about it is how different it is from the atmosphere that is out here. out how you got the noise, light, and traffic and people chatting and general hubbub, a bit of laughter. in the hall itself it is absolutely still. absolutely quiet, incredibly peaceful and westminster hall is usually very busy, it is usually noisy, echoing, stuff going on there all the time. that is absolutely not the case now, you've got those very, it is a very sensory thing as well. there is the white walls, that very dark wooden ceiling and then you got that rich splash of colour in the middle with the royal standard, the purple,

the royal standard, the purple, the soldiers and guards standing around it and then that absolute quiet to the point where they bang the stick on the floor to signify the change of guards, it made me jump change of guards, it made me jump a few times. it is that still and that quiet and i think what that does, you can see it in people's body language and the way they change from when they walk in there and i was trying to work out how long people get, i was trying to time them for how long it took them to get from the top of the steps, if it wasn't a change of guard it was looking like four or five minutes but the best way ike can describe it as that time slows down a bit. everything is very precise stopping the movements of the guards, it is very precise, there is nothing sudden, it is very calming. thank you so much for painting such a vivid picture of that experience within westminster hall itself, and experience that all of these people who are failing past behind me will have in the next moments. thank ou ve have in the next moments. thank you very much — have in the next moments. thank you very much indeed, i

have in the next moments. thank you very much indeed, we i have in the next moments. thank you very much indeed, we will i you very much indeed, we will keep a cross of course that queue as it gradually dwindles in number now heading on towards the funeral itself. but the great and the good have been filing past as well. president biden willjoin around 2,000 other guests, including some 500 heads of state and foreign dignitaries at the queen's state funeral. it will be one of the biggest gatherings of royalty and politicians the uk has hosted for decades. they have been paying their respects to the late queen and signing the book of condolence all afternoon, as our diplomatic correspondent james landale reports. some came by themselves in, well, some sort of style. others came together, rather unusually on a bus, but they were all here to honour the queen in perhaps the biggest diplomatic wake seen for decades. there was the king and queen of spain. there was his exiled father, juan carlos. there was the president

of france and his wife. leaders from the gulf. the king and queen ofjordan. hundreds of statesmen and women, there to pay their respects and indulge, perhaps, in a little diplomacy. others arrived around the back of the palace. prime ministers and presidents, all guests of the king and other members of the royal family at a formal state reception. on a day of frantic international engagement, the princess of wales even found time to meet the first lady of ukraine, 0lena zelenska. earlier, joe and jill biden had followed other heads of state and government in stopping off at lancaster house to sign a book of condolence. a steady flow of the global great and sometimes good, paying their respects on behalf of themselves and their countries. i so wish eternal peace to her wonderful, generous spirit and of course, every good wish to king charles iii. on behalf of the government

and people of barbados that i record my sincere sympathy to all of great britain and especially to the members of the royal family. we appreciated very much her- leadership of the commonwealth, which saw a dramatic i transformation from a nation of eight countries when she went on to the throne to 56 at the time of her death. thank you, your majesty, thank you for your dedication. the people of fiji will never forget you. many also came to see the lying—in—state. not queueing, of course, butjoining the public to stand in silence and perhaps some awe before the coffin of a woman whose reign will outlast their own. and despite the opposition of some mps and peers who have been sanctioned by beijing,

a delegation from china also came to westminster hall, including the vice president, wang qishan, here on the right, who will attend the funeral tomorrow. one man who will not be coming to the abbey tomorrow is saudi arabia's crown prince and de facto ruler, mohammad bin salman, who has been accused of being involved in the murder of a journalist — accusations he has denied. several leaders, including canada's prime minister, also dropped by downing street for what officials said were informal conversations with liz truss. earlier he paid his own tribute to the queen. i first met her majesty when i was seven years old and her presence throughout my life had been constant, inspiring and graceful. as prime minister, i benefited from her counsel, herthoughtfulness, her curiosity, her sense of humour. tomorrow, the diplomacy will be put on hold as the leaders arrive at westminster abbey and the focus returns

to the monarch they have come to mourn. james landale, bbc news. it's been close to six decades since the british monarchy symbolically ruled singapore, but queen elizabeth ii's death still elicited grief and reflection in the south—east asian nation and there's been little discussion about its colonial past. our asia reporter, suranjana tewari, joins me now live from singapore. i note that it is some 50 years since the queen visited singapore for the first time. how much interest and attention of the last two weeks absorbed singaporeans?— of the last two weeks absorbed singaporeans? david, there has been a period — singaporeans? david, there has been a period of— singaporeans? david, there has been a period of reflection, ii been a period of reflection, i would say here in singapore over the queen's death and today for her funeral, here at the british club, a social club

in singapore, they are marking the event and expecting a few hundred people to come to watch the funeral and also to eat in the funeral and also to eat in the restaurants here. all government buildings in singapore are flying the flag at half mast in a show of respect but largely apart from these pockets of areas that are reflecting and mourning the queen, it is business as usual. it has been many years since singapore was under british rule and many years since she visited the city—state as well. but very much a part of the commonwealth. is that something of importance to your average singaporean, if i can put it that way? how much does it feature in singapore's life and sense of its own identity to mark well, singapore's parliament last week did hold a moment of silence during which the leader of the house did say

that singapore is a very proud member of the commonwealth. his member of the commonwealth. as for member of the commonwealth. is for ordinary people, so member of the commonwealth. sis for ordinary people, so many member of the commonwealth. is for ordinary people, so many of the systems there are british. politicians point to the british legal system that allowed singapore to become a very successful former colony of witton. it is one of the wealthiest countries in the world per capita, it's also got, a lot of the education system as well as british, and the singaporean prime minister did mourn the death of the queen and said she left an incredible mark on history and set her legacy would survive beyond her. the president of singapore is also going to be attending the funeral later today. halimah yacob is travelling to london to show how proud this former member of the commonwealth is. in other news: the prime minister ofjapan has urged people to act swiftly

to save their lives as the country is hit by one of the most destructive typhoons in years. fumio kishida's warning comes as the authorities urgently advised 3 million people to leave their homes as a huge storm moves across the southern island of kyushu. our tokyo correspondent rupert wingfield—hayes reports. typhoon nanmadol is a huge and angry storm, the likes of which japan has rarely, if ever, experienced before. all day it has been battering the southern island of kyushu, with gusts of 150mph. this satellite image shows the immense size of the typhoon covering the whole of the island. for the first time ever, the japanese government issued its highest level emergency alert, warning winds could be strong enough to bring down buildings. and an even bigger threat is the vast amount of water that nanmadol is carrying.

as much as 500mm of rain is expected to fall in less than 2a hours. kyushu is very mountainous and it is feared the water could unleash landslides, and swollen rivers could burst their banks. so serious is the concern, the japanese prime minister fumio kishida made this appealfor millions of people to head for evacuation centres before nightfall. translation: do not go near dangerous areas. i if you feel you are in danger, do not hesitate to evacuate. please take early action to save your lives. evacuating at night is extremely dangerous. many thousands have heeded the call, but many more have not and have chosen to ride out the storm at home. river levels across kyushu and southern honshu are now rising fast and will peak in the next 12 hours. all it takes is one breach and the whole town can be inundated in minutes, giving those that have refused to

evacuate, no time to escape. japanese people are used to dealing with typhoons, especially in kyushu. but as the global climate changes, the data shows these sorts of mega—storms are becoming more frequent and defences that worked in the past may no longer be enough. rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, tokyo. in ukraine, president zelenskyy says investigations into possible russian war crimes are continuing in the city of izyum, one of several areas back in ukrainian hands after significant territorial gains in recent days. bodies are being exhumed from a mass burial site on the edge of the city. our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse has more from kyiv. since ukraine forced russia out for the first time since the invasion and retook territory that was taken, it now seems to be focusing on investigating what the invaders did and what moscow is going to do next. in the case of the city of izyum, while bodies continue to be recovered

from a mass grave, the latest claim from kyiv is that evidence has been uncovered which suggests that torture chambers were used by russian troops. there are reports of people being tortured and a city being littered with mines. there has again today been heavy fighting in the kharkiv region, where ukraine has enjoyed some recent successes, but on the question of what russia will look to do next, well, the thought from the uk ministry of defence is that it will look to strike more civilian targets in ukraine, while it is frustrated on the battlefield. but this is something russia has done throughout this war, it has hit targets across this vast country to try to exert influence and undermine ukrainian morale, but on that latter point in his latest address president zelensky has said, just because we have regained vast swathes of territory,

this does not mean there will be a lull. what russia will hope is that the very speed of their retreat will force ukraine to pause. one of russia's most famous singers has publicly condemned the war in ukraine. alla pugachova said she wanted to be declared a foreign agent in solidarity with her husband, who's another outspoken critic of the conflict. our russia editor steve rosenberg told us the intervention is significant. she is super popular, she is admired, she is adored, she is respected across russia and aside from her wonderful voice, when she has something to say, people tend to sit up and listen. the statement that she issued today was more than just a staunch defence of her husband, it was a stinging criticism, really, of what the kremlin still calls its special military operation. some strong language, and at one point she said, "our lads," meaning russian soldiers, "are dying for illusionary aims that make our country a pariah and the lives of our citizens extremely difficult."

i reckon that language like that coming from someone like that, someone as famous as alla pugacheva, is going to infuriate the kremlin. so i suspect we will see attempts to discredit alla pugacheva in the state media. but it's going to be fascinating to see whether her public criticism will affect public opinion here and spark more public opposition to the special operation. now, you may remember, recently several town councillors in russia expressed public criticism of vladimir putin and called on him to resign. today, we hear the criticism from alla pugacheva. is there a pattern here? i think it is too early to tell, but certainly the message from the kremlin is, as far as they are concerned, everything is going according to plan.

i want to take you back to victoria gardens.- i want to take you back to victoria gardens. these are the --eole victoria gardens. these are the people waiting _ victoria gardens. these are the people waiting to i victoria gardens. these are the people waiting to pay i victoria gardens. these are the people waiting to pay their i people waiting to pay their respects to the late queen elizabeth ii. are moving fairly quickly now, given some of the other stages of long, long wait and they will soon be in westminster hall. there is the scene now live as the public pay their respects. hello. many of us have seen increasing amounts of cloud over the weekend. cloud will play quite a big part in monday's weather story, possibly thick enough at times to give some spots of rain, maybe the odd shower. it will largely stay dry. i'm hoping things will remain dry in london and in windsor for the queen's state funeral. there is just the chance that as that cloud thickens through the afternoon it could give the odd light shower or the odd spot of rain or drizzle.

high pressure is still in charge, that is keeping things mostly dry, but this weak warm front is introducing more cloud and the chance of some damp weather first thing across south—west scotland, perhaps north—west england and this band of thick cloud and the potential for the odd spot of rain or drizzle does tend to push eastwards as the day wears on. north—east scotland was see good spells of sunshine, northern ireland may brighten up for a time, south wales and the south—west of england should see some sunny spells. temperatures north to south between 12 and 19 degrees. winds for most places will be fairly light. through monday night we will see large areas of cloud still potentially giving some spot of rain and drizzle especially in eastern parts. some clear breaks out towards the west, they may pull in it with a bit of mist and fog. milder that has been over recent nights, 9—12 degrees. tuesday, we stick with a rather cloudy theme. this stripe of cloud here still giving rise to some spots of rain and drizzle. but it does look like the cloud should tend to turn over and break up a little bit

across some western parts to give some sunny spells, a bit more patchy rain into the western isles of scotland. 17—19, maybe 20 degrees in the south. feeling a little warmer. on wednesday we see some sunny spells at least for a time. it will feel considerably warmer than it has of late. temperatures of 17 in aberdeen, 21 in norwich and in london. but a frontal system pushing in towards the north—west bringing some outbreaks of rain. that will make erratic progress southwards and eastwards thursday and into friday, some of the rain actually could be quite heavy, even as it gets down into the south of england and south wales. the chance of some rain particularly later on in the week and a bit less chilly than it has been.

this is bbc news. the headlines: the queue to pay last respects to the former monarch as she lies in state in westminster hall has now been closed. those still in the queue will be allowed to continue. preparations are being made for the state funeral on monday, which will begin in westminster abbey. king charles has hosted a reception for hundreds of world leaders at buckingham palace ahead of the funeral. heads of state from around the globe have attended, including joe biden.

the us president earlier paid his respects at the hall where the late monarch is lying in state. the prime minister ofjapan has urged people to act swiftly to save their lives as the country is hit by a destructive typhoon. the warning comes as the authorities advise three million people to leave their homes — and a huge storm moves across the southern island of kyushu. now on bbc news, hardtalk, stephen sackur speaks to maria pevchikh of the anti—corruption foundation founded byjailed russian opposition figure alexei navalny. the interview was recorded on september 7th, just hours before navalny said he had been banned from communicating confidentially with his lawyers from prison. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. since vladimir putin

launched his all—out invasion of ukraine, he's put a tighter squeeze on russian civil society. criticism of the war risks years in prison, independent media voices have been silenced, and new punishments have been piled on putin's most prominent political opponent, alexei navalny. my guest is maria pevchikh, investigations chief for navalny�*s anti—corruption foundation, which is now outlawed in russia. where does russia's anti—putin movement go from here?

maria pevchikh, welcome to hardtalk. hello. right now, it seems vladimir putin is intent on crushing all forms of dissent, of opposition inside russia. do you fear that he's succeeding? he's succeeding for now. he's definitely quite good at imposing this fear, you know, complete fear that goes everywhere — the fear that you cannot hide from. but i don't think that this is a sustainable strategy to do what he's doing at the moment. the opposition moods aren't going tojust disappear if you hide everybody in prison — people are still going to think what they think — and i guess eventually, this crackdown will actually backfire on vladimir putin. but fear is a very powerful emotion to instil in a population and, of course, part of that fear is based on messaging, about what happens if you cross red lines

and nobody sort of better symbolises what happens if you cross red lines than your colleague, alexei navalny. now, you've worked with him for a good decade or more in the anti—corruption foundation in russia. he, right now, is languishing in a top security prison in solitary confinement. just begin by telling me what you can of his current condition. absolutely. so, today, he was released from the solitary confinement. it's called a standard housing unit. essentially, it's a punishment cell. you're there on your own, it's tiny — two metres by three metres — and you go there if you've done something wrong. so, he was released this morning and then, within five minutes, he was re sentenced to an additional 15 days there, so he was only out for a couple of minutes.

and, for the following two weeks, he will be there again in that little cell, where all you do for the whole day is just sit on a stool. you are allowed to read only one book per term. you're allowed to use paper and a pen for one hour a day, and that's it. you just sit and stare at the wall. you're not even allowed to lay down, to use the bed, because the bed has been chained up to the wall at 6am and it's only being chained down at the end of the day. it's extraordinary to imagine living that life in that cell. does he get any exercise? is he allowed out at any point during the day? well, he is allowed to walk and walk in his cell, next to a cell where he's sat, but that one doesn't have a ceiling. so, you are still among four walls, you still don't really get to see anything, apart from this little tiny patch of sky above you, and that's the walk, that's the exercise,

so that's how it works. how does he get messages out? because i follow him on twitter — so do millions of other people... everybody should! ..and those messages emerge but he, clearly, does not have any access to communications or a phone, so who's writing these messages? he's writing those messages but he hand writes them and he passes them on through his lawyers and then, we just type them up. so, we would never write anything instead of him. his social media is still entirely managed by himself. he is allowed to write letters and he uses this allowance, he uses this hour a day that he has to write those instagram and twitter. why do you think they let him do it? that's a rhetorical question. we don't know. now they do, tomorrow they won't. so, like, so far, let'sjust be grateful he can do it now, because that can stop any minute. he seems very angry — very angry with the european union, with the americans as well — about what he sees as a failure

to be serious about imposing tough sanctions on hundreds — no, thousands of oligarchs, the richest russians who surround and — he would say — aid and abet putin and his associates in the kremlin. is he angry? i think he is. annoyed, angry — i'm not sure what the right word is — and i share these emotions. because we've been talking about sanctions, about sanctioning oligarchs and those people close to putin, to putin's regime, for years. and the level of sanctions that we see today, which is pretty good — like, these are decent sanctions, the current packages — but let's be honest, they should have been imposed so long before. the... crosstalk. but this list of 6000 that the anti—corruption foundation

has come up with and, you know, the very loaded term "oligarchs, bribe takers and warmongers" you say, these 6000. you tell me what proportion of those 6000 are currently under sanctions in the west. a tiny, tiny proportion. i can tell you from the richest people in russia, from 200 richest people in russia — oligarchs, businessmen, etc — only a6 were sanctioned. and that's exactly the problem, and this is why we're being upset because the proportion is not good. there is no imminence to those sanctions, you know? a6 to 200, that is still a good chance to get away, and this is exactly what we are lobbying for. we're saying that there shouldn't be a way to get away from those sanctions and they should just be imposed regularly and strictly and if you work for putin's regime, there shouldn't be a way, you know, to kind of sway a little bit and find your way out. you will be punished for that.

the more you push this message that there are oligarchs around putin who are currently escaping from sanctions and that you want the west to act on it, the more you push that message, the more likely it is that those holding navalny right now will intensify the level of pain and punishment inflicted upon him. there is some logic to that but i do not like that logic because following that, it means that we just need to lay low, do nothing and just be quiet, so they don't do something bad to navalny or to other political prisoners — and there are plenty of those. this is not how we work. we respond by applying even more pressure on them, and i think that's the only way to go. that's the only way to show putin that imprisoning navalny is not going to solve anything. we are actually investigating and publishing more stories now than we did when alexei

was around and it is a matter of principle for me personally just to show them, "look, your plan didn't work. "you've thrown him into prison. "we are making more investigations about you. "you are torturing him in prison and we are getting your — vladimir putin's yacht arrested in italy" and that's the way i like to operate. but it was plain after you made a big high—profile pronouncement about this yacht, scheherazade, which is held in italy and which, after your revelations, the yacht was impounded by the italians. yes. we then saw the conditions worsen for navalny, so i come back to the very personal point — do you not have any difficulty with that? i have... i might have difficulty with that, but i have put this difficulty on a faraway shelf and i try not to think about it because i have a very clear instruction from alexei navalny himself what to do,

how to work. he wants us to continue working and the worst thing that we can do is kind of change and wobble and do something differently. we have to be persistent. it's a long fight and no—one is going to give it up halfway through. i guess i'm really struck by how much risk you are prepared to take. if we go back a little bit in the navalny story and your involvement with it, he, of course, was poisoned inside russia. yes. miraculously, he survived. he recuperated in germany and he went back to russia. but it became clear during your investigations that you had a trail which led you, it seems, to the people who perpetrated the poisoning and you agreed to work with documentary makers... yes. ..you and others to try to tell this story. why did you believe it was important to go so very public — even to the point of you and navalny making a call to the agent who appears

to have placed the poisoned underpants in navalny�*s room which had the novichok on them — why did you decide it was so important to go public with all of that when you must have known that would simply make you a personal target for russian intelligence? well, because there are things that are bigger than me in this life, and this story — the story about this poisoning, the story about the fact that vladimir putin uses chemical weapons — just think about it for a second, chemical weapons that are forbidden, they shouldn't exist, but he uses them against his opponents, his, like, personal enemies. that story is so embarrassing for putin. this is something that will stay with putin forever. this is something that hopefully one day he will be prosecuted for and i would love to be part of that process because, well, i've

been a witness to that. i think that this is a very scary and dangerous crime that he's committing with these chemical weapons poisonings and this whole system that he runs of this, you know, operations thatjust needs to be stopped and we made this big film that is available on bbc iplayer, recommended. here, i mean, here we sit in london and you clearly are a person who lives in exile, but you are very well aware of the names of litvinenko, of skripal. yes. you know the reach of the russian secret services is long. you have a target on your back. perhaps. i don't think there's any doubt about that, is there? how do you, those close to you, live with that? it's not that difficult to live with. sometimes, you just — no, there are situations

in your life when you're scared — objectively dangerous situations — but in those situations, you can make a choice to not be scared. it's a very deliberate, very rational and cold—hearted choice in a dangerous situation to not be scared. personal issues are one thing. there's also the more collective issue. recently, the guardian newspaper reported on a former navalny staffer, somebody that presumably worked alongside you — a young man, mikhail sokolov — who says that he first volunteered for navalny in 2017. he was then approached by the fsb and was paid to be an informer inside your organisation. do you fear that the reach of russia's secret services does actually go inside the anti—corruption foundation? we assume it does and we act

in a way that anything we say inside the office or in any work environment can be leaked, can be published, and we behave accordingly. we have no secrets to hide. we aren't doing anything that we wouldn't — we would be concerned doing publicly, so that's the only way to live your life in this sort of situation so, yes, probably we are targets of some sort of, you know, strange people running around europe undercover and not cover, illegals, you know, this sort of secret services branch, but what can you do about it? you just have to be reasonably careful and, yeah, that's all. most, pretty much all, independent media now has been shut down inside russia, so you don't have that outlet for your work.

so, how do you reach the russian people right now? through youtube. our channels haven't changed. so, there was a big — there is a big youtube channel that we use to publish investigations. so this is, for example, when people could have seen putin's palace — our biggest investigation. so we use the same channel where before, that alexei navalny was the presenter. and now instead of navalny, it is me and my other colleagues, and we do very similar investigations and they are watched by the same amount of people. are they really, though? yes. i mean, inside russia today... yeah, absolutely. ..let us be realistic about what happens — it is a surveillance society. russia is a society which we, at the very beginning of this conversation discussed, was — is gripped by fear right now. do you think russians, given that your organisation is outlawed inside the country, defined as an extremist organisation, do you think russians feel comfortable viewing materials that you put up on youtube — even if they're lucky enough to be able to get around

all of the different internet censorship which the russian administration tries to impose? youtube is still fully accessible in russia — for unknown to me reasons, but it is — and russian people have a good experience with samizdat and other soviets, you know, sort of techniques of overcoming these things so yes, i — our numbers have not changed, so there is definitely the same level of interest to our work, to investigations, and we are very happy about it. what seems to be part of navalny�*s plan, maybe your plan too, is to put so much pressure on the russian elite, the oligarchs, the people around putin, that you basically ferment split and disruption within the inner circle. but i've spoken to many other people well—versed in how russia under putin works who say this is completely unrealistic. the oligarchs are not close to putin. he's basically done a deal with them — they stay out of politics, they're free to make money, but they are not in politics, and they are not

in a position to move against or launch some sort of palace coup against vladimir putin. it is naive to think that might happen? i don't think it's naive and i don't think the assessments that you just spoke to, i don't think that this is entirely correct. we don't really know, because now, the sanctions against oligarchs aren't imminent, and there are still people who can get away and who can think that, "0h, maybe i can wait on the side and nothing will happen to me." i think that those oligarchs are very crucial to putin's regime and if you... really? 'cause i spoke to mikhail khodorkovsky, who of course used to be one of the uber oligarchs not so very long ago in russia. he said it's completely unrealistic to expect that kind of putsch coming from the elite, from the oligarchs against putin, and the ftjust reported the other day — there is little sign that sanctions have pressured the oligarchs into contemplating a palace coup. instead, they are scrambling for ways to cling

onto their wealth. many are now resigned to a life inside russia. but if they don't work, why is usmanov and aven — there was an article today about them going through hungary, asking the hungarian prime minister, orban, to cross them off the list of the european sanctions. so if sanctions aren't effective, why is that happening? i need to interjectjust to make clear that all the individuals you've named deny that they are oligarchs involved in propping up putin or supporting a war or anything else. so, letjust be clear about that because it's important to get that on the record. i just wonder if we change the perspective from thinking about the oligarch to thinking about the russian people, are you and alexei navalny, are you disappointed in the russian people, that the russian people haven't, in the last six months, taken to the streets? when navalny tweeted out, "we should not be a nation of frightened cowards," he urged people to conduct daily protests against the war. that hasn't happened.

is there a level of disappointment it didn't happen? perhaps, yes. do i understand and get completely why it hasn't happened? also, yes, and i will never ever dare to blame russian people for not going into the streets right now because i understand the level of risk involved into this. do you think some russians might listen to this interview and wonder whether you have not become, in a highly nationalistic atmosphere in russia right now, worry whether you have become a puppet for russia's enemies? we're in london. there are allegations that the foundation, over years, has taken money from western interests. i think russia today recently pointed out that your contributions through cryptocurrency have gone through the roof, and they say, "ah—ha!" that's a means by which they hide the fact that they are

being sponsored by western governments, rich westerners who want to do down russia. just to make it very clear — we are not being sponsored by western governments and we have never been, and that line of argument that you are referring to, it is just pure propaganda line. if we ever were caught with — i don't know — dealing with foreign governments or anything like that in some sort of dodgy way, that would be all over russian tv, that would be... so where do you get your money from? it's entirely — we are entirely crowd funded. but where — where from? from inside russia? um, from inside russia, we are — we have almost stopped receiving any donations apart from actually cryptocurrency because it's too dangerous. we don't want to expose our russian donors to these risks. we are an extremist organisation, we are on the same list with al-qaeda, isis, etc, so giving us money directly right now is not a good idea. but we have had time

to reroute our fundraising a little bit to diasporas, to russian people who live abroad, to russian people who have foreign bank accounts, because that solves the problem, that's not reachable for the russian authorities, and also, we use some crowdfunding platforms that also make you untraceable in terms of where the payment comes from. you are russian. yes. do you worry that in the current climate, with everything that's going on with the ukraine war, there's a danger that some in the united states and europe and the west are becoming anti—russian rather than anti—putin? yes, it's a big problem, and every time i see it, i feel very upset and i feel very concerned because i don't think that there is a concept of collective responsibility.

don't you? no. see, i had a very interesting interview with the editor—in—chief of the kyiv independent recently, olga rudenko, and she said, "listen — russians aren't a normal nation who got lost and turned the wrong way. "no, they turned the wrong way many times until the country became finally what it is today — a fascist society, a mix of aggressors and their apathetic accomplices." when you hear ukrainians say that this isn't a putin problem, this is a russia problem, do you think they're wrong? i understand why they're saying this. i understand where the ukrainians are at the moment, and this war and what's happening with their country, what's russia doing to their country is...is heartbreaking and it's probably the biggest catastrophe that happened in the world in a very long time. i would understand every emotion that they feel towards the russians right now and i understand how it's possible to...

but her point really is that the governance you have in russian couldn't happen in ukraine because ukraine does not have this sort of latent deep desire for strongman rule that she thinks is part of what russia is. i think this is a very shallow understanding of what russia is. well, if it's shallow, you explain to me, as a last question — how is russia going to change and convince people like her that it can change? i won't be able to give you a timeline and i won't be able to give you a step—by—step guide, you know, this is what's going to happen in february, or this is what's going to happen in may or injune. we know and we've seen how it works. do you remember how forever soviet union seemed, how it seemed indestructible and how engaged people were into building socialism, etc, etc? and it collapsed overnight. these very strong regimes that

are led by one person, one dictator like vladimir putin, they seem to be strong when you look at them, but the point is that they can break and crumble overnight. but is it your contention that it's not the palace coup we should look to, but people power? because we don't see it right now. 0k, we can spend a lot of time assigning probabilities to this scenario, so is it going to be a palace coup or is it going to be a revolution or is putin simply going to die tomorrow? which is also possible. it doesn't. .. it's not a constructive way to spend your time. a constructive way to spend your time is trying to break through russian propaganda, try to educate the russian population, try to talk about the war, about what's happening, spreading the truth, etc, etc. that's the way we deal with it. and we, i'm afraid, have to end there. but maria pevchikh, it's

been a pleasure having you on hardtalk. thank you very much. thank you. hello. many of us have seen increasing amounts of cloud over the weekend. cloud will play quite a big part in monday's weather story, possibly thick enough at times to give some spots of rain, maybe the odd shower. it will largely stay dry. i'm hoping things will remain dry in london and in windsor for the queen's state funeral.

there is just the chance that as that cloud thickens through the afternoon it could give the odd light shower or the odd spot of rain or drizzle. high pressure is still in charge, that is keeping things mostly dry, but this weak warm front is introducing more cloud and the chance of some damp weather first thing across south—west scotland, perhaps north—west england and this band of thick cloud and the potential for the odd spot of rain or drizzle does tend to push eastwards as the day wears on. north—east scotland was see good spells of sunshine, northern ireland may brighten up for a time, south wales and the south—west of england should see some sunny spells. temperatures north to south between 12 and 19 degrees. winds for most places will be fairly light. through monday night we will see large areas of cloud still potentially giving some spot of rain and drizzle especially in eastern parts. some clear breaks out towards the west, they may pull in it with a bit of mist and fog. milder that has been over recent nights, 9—12 degrees. tuesday, we stick with a rather cloudy theme.

this stripe of cloud here still giving rise to some spots of rain and drizzle. but it does look like the cloud should tend to turn over and break up a little bit across some western parts to give some sunny spells, a bit more patchy rain into the western isles of scotland. 17—19, maybe 20 degrees in the south. feeling a little warmer. on wednesday we see some sunny spells at least for a time. it will feel considerably warmer than it has of late. temperatures of 17 in aberdeen, 21 in norwich and in london. but a frontal system pushing in towards the north—west bringing some outbreaks of rain. that will make erratic progress southwards and eastwards thursday and into friday, some of the rain actually could be quite heavy, even as it gets down into the south of england and south wales. the chance of some rain particularly later on in the week and a bit less chilly than it has been.

this is bbc news — welcome, if you're watching here in the uk or around the globe. i'm david eades. our top stories: a minute's silence across the uk, time to reflect on the life and legacy of queen elizabeth ii. the queen, this spring, one of the last official photographs of her majesty is released on the eve of herfuneral. president biden pays his respects at the lying—in—state, and later gave this tribute. our hearts go out to you and you were fortunate to have had herfor 70 years, we all were. the world is better for her.

hundreds of world leaders and dignitaries have been attending a reception at buckingham palace hosted by king charles, ahead of his mother's funeral on monday. and i am live in westminster among some of the last people tojoin the queue. these are the last people to file past the queen's coffin. welcome to westminster, scenes we have been watching for the last four days and nights, it is the middle of the night here

and we are finally seeing the end of the queue, this phenomenon that has become a thing in itself, hundreds of thousands of people waiting patiently since wednesday, waiting patiently to file past the coffin of the queen, this is what we're looking at some of the final people who will make that walk past her majesty the queen's koppen, will be able to file through westminster hall. the queue now of course is closed, we have been watching as these people have been waiting for many, many hours. finally here, historic moment for them and us as well, monitoring all of this, friendships made, stories shared, this is quite an emotional moment to bear in mind, what we have been witnessing over the past days as my colleague now reports. it is ten days now

since the news came of the queen's death. the new king, charles, arriving at buckingham palace earlier today with a wave to the crowds, has led the country's mourning in the days since. in a message tonight he said he'd been deeply touched by the many messages from around the world. among the hundreds of world leaders in london for the state funeral, the president of the united states. his motorcade arrived at the palace of westminster. a few moments later, president biden and the first lady of the united states, drjill biden, stood quietly on a balcony inside westminster hall. like so many thousands of others over the past four days, struck by the intensity of the scene. i think what she gave is a sense of maybe above all, the notion of service.

we all owe something, there is something within our capacity to do that can make things, notjust the world better, but your neighbourhood better, your household better, your workplace better. to all the people of the united kingdom, our hearts go out to you and you were fortunate to have had herfor 70 years, we all were. the world is better for her. as the royal family prepares for the state funeral, from camilla, the queen consort, her reflection on the 70 years of the queen's reign. she has been part of our lives for ever. i'm 75 now and i can't remember anybody except the queen being there. it must have been so difficult for her being a solitary woman, there weren't women prime ministers or women presidents, she was the only one. so i think she carved her own role.

i'll always remember that smile. you know, that smile is unforgettable. many thousands of people have wanted to be a part of this moment. some have queued for many hours or placed flowers in the designated spaces, or simply travelled to london to absorb the sights and emotions along the route of the procession and outside the abbey church where the funeral will take place. we didn't know what exactly to do, but we wanted to do something. you know, it felt right to come up and do something and bring my son here. you know, i think there's a lot of people who don't know what to do, but feel like they need to do something, so itjust felt like the right thing to do was to come up here with everybody else. during the hours of darkness, the last visitors will be admitted to the lying—in—state at westminster hall. and then in the morning, the state funeral will take place of her majesty,

queen elizabeth ii. nicholas witchell, bbc news. so much to look ahead to, the state funeral itself taking place in the next hours, a little bit later on monday. so much still to come, look at this, we have reached the end of the queue, these are the last who will be witnessing something so historical, walking past the casket of the queen, and this is it. how long have you been waiting for? since half nine. bill have you been waiting for? since half nine.— have you been waiting for? since half nine. all of these eo - le since half nine. all of these people waiting i since half nine. all of these people waiting for i since half nine. all of these people waiting for such i since half nine. all of these people waiting for such a i since half nine. all of these i people waiting for such a long time. nearly there. nearly there.i very, i time. nearly there. nearly there.i very, very i time. nearly there. nearlyi there.i very, very close there. tiring. very, very close now, there. tiring. very, very close now. we _ there. tiring. very, very close now. we will _ there. tiring. very, very close now, we will let i there. tiring. very, very close now, we will let you i there. tiring. very, very close now, we will let you get i there. tiring. very, very close now, we will let you get on. i there. tiring. very, very close i now, we will let you get on. we have been watching for the last four days how people have just felt compelled to come, to

share this, to be together to share this, to be together to share stories, reminisce and reflect, and, this is the final moment of this historic queue, in itself. let's get more now from my colleague fergal keane. piper plays. the flowers of the forest echoing across a scottish mountainside. a lament for the fallen, played now in tribute to a queen. and then, on the cusp of silence, in blackpool, the going down of lights.

then out of silence, into the anthem celebrating a new monarch. god save the king. # god save our gracious king.

# long live our noble king. # god save the king. # send him victorious. # happy and glorious. # long to reign over us. # god save the king #. applause. across the land, it was a gathering of strangers. for whom the queen was the unifying symbol. i'm just paying respects to the queen and just to mark the passing of an era. i don't think we'll see the likes of our queen again. you know, she's been such a role

model all our lives, really. she was very important to me and i'm starting to get emotional now. because i remember the coronation. i'm old enough to remember king george vi and him dying and the coronation, and we had a little 12—inch television and all the neighbours came in to watch the coronation, so yes, she has been our queen for a long time and she served us well. the silence spoke of respect and affection on the eve of farewell. fergal keane, bbc news. so many moments that this country has experienced, this is something that has become a phenomenon in itself, the queue, the queue that has been

bringing people here, the queue where friendships have been made, the queue where people have spent hours and hours waiting. this is the end of it, these are the final moments and so many different moments, this gentleman has caught our attention with his bowler hat. tell us about why you are here and the hat?— tell us about why you are here and the hat? well we had been meanin: and the hat? well we had been meaning to _ and the hat? well we had been meaning to come i and the hat? well we had been meaning to come all i and the hat? well we had been meaning to come all week- and the hat? well we had been meaning to come all week but| meaning to come all week but the opportunity finally arose tonight when we managed to get one of our children into bed and said let's make a dash for it, we were listening to the news and it seems like it might be able to make it before the cut—off and we just managed to do so. as we were leaving my wife said you should put your bowler hat on i only usually put it on for remembrance sunday but this seems like an appropriate time to do so and i'm hoping that the guards are going to be providing the colour as we go through, i

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moments where you have what we have been watching for so many days now, you have the last, final people who will be filing past the casket of her majesty, a historic moment, then of course we have the rest of the preparations to take place ahead of the service itself, which will be taking place at westminster abbey we know already so many dignitaries from all over the world have come, right now this moment is about these people, the end of the queue. the thousands, hundreds of thousands of people who have given up so much of their time and who have, well, made it to here at westminster. a very long day ahead. worth pointing out the metropolitan police say 10,000 officers and staff will be on duty in london through monday to oversee the state funeral.

the security operation is the biggest in british history. our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandord, has been watching the final preparations. tonight there is an army of police officers in central london. tomorrow, more than 10,000 will be working to protect the funeral. every force in the uk is involved in what has been a national mobilisation. on the rooftops overlooking westminster, armed officers with binoculars and telescopes were already watching this afternoon. every lamp post and traffic light is being taken apart, searched for hidden explosive devices and carefully sealed again. even officers patrolling the river thames are on alert. and this is where it's all being run from, the metropolitan police's special operations room. here they'll be able to access every cctv camera. they'll be able to communicate with officers at every step along the route. and then there'll be specialist desks for things like firearms and for handling real time intelligence. but despite all the technology and the thousands of officers, police are asking people in the crowds tomorrow

to be their eyes and ears. members of the public who are coming please engage with the officers because you will see things, you will hear things that police officers might not. and if there is anything that you see that you think is out of the ordinary, please speak to one of the police officers so we'll be able to respond and deal with it appropriately. the biggest vip protection operation the police have ever mounted in london is already up and running, with president biden's motorcade shuttling between westminster and the palace and the french president, emmanuel macron, coming to pay his respects to the queen on foot. tomorrow, all the heads of state will be in one place, an 800—year—old church with no permanent security perimeter. there have been bumps along the road, like when a roller blader nearly ran into the king's convoy, officers say the plan has been decades in development and they should be able to keep everyone safe. daniel sandford, bbc

news, westminster. the queues to see the queen's coffin over the last few days have become a familiar sight, and are likely to remain among the abiding images of this period of national mourning. so what does this say about britain's attitude to the monarchy — and people's desire to be part of a moment of historical change? nick robinson has been finding out. it is "the queue". like "the queen", no other words are needed. you were, it seemed at times, either in it, or watching it. at the last count, 7.5 million people had tuned into the live feed to watch an estimated 750,000 walk past the coffin. we've never seen anything like it before, we all said. except those old enough to remember that some had.

newsreel: through the night the people wait, silent i and patient. their night rest they give to the king... what we are seeing is extraordinary. it isn't though, new. in fact, it's a flawless replica of what happened 70 years ago when the queen's father, king george vi, died, and he lay in state. britain has changed dramatically, of course. there are 17 million more of us. our population is so much more diverse. back then there was just the one tv channel, in black and white. thank you. for so many here, what matters is that being here, being in the queue. in this era of selfies and emojis and online posts, it seems that what we've discovered is the advantages of being social without the media, because the queue, for many people, is as much about this journey as it is about the destination.

newsreel: the night ends, the doors i open and into the hall of kings, the great hall of westminster, passes the long, silent column. so many people, but so little noise. the silence notjust the absence of the noises of our modern era, the clicking and beeping of mobile phones, not even the silence of an ancient cathedral. thick, deep piled carpet on the stone floor absorbs almost every sound. until... tapping. that tap—tap, for the changing of the guard. another signals the lowering of weapons. after a third tap—tap, heads are bowed. newsreel: of george vi it will be written, i this was a king his people loved. so little has changed since we last mourned a monarch and yet

so much has changed. gone are the sunday best suits, the ties and the hats, of course, but we are still mourning together. not everybody, of course. there are some who are baffled by all of this. there are others who fear that the monarchy has remnants of empire, of hierarchy, of deference, of class. so what does explain the willingness of so many to queue for so long for so short a glimpse of a coffin? people in the queue feel they are not alone. they are not socially distanced. they are not behind a mask or a screen. they are together with strangers who share that desire simply to be together. to remember, to respect and to be here, in the queue. nick robinson, bbc news.

well, for a look at today's papers, i'm joined now by mark lobel. a really big day for them to make their moment on history and set the scene.— make their moment on history and set the scene. there is one endurin: and set the scene. there is one enduring image _ and set the scene. there is one enduring image but i and set the scene. there is one enduring image but before i and set the scene. there is one | enduring image but before that, just come off nick's report and i've been standing by the queue for about five days broadcasting and it had not occurred to me, go to page 21 of the daily mail, and there you go. page 21, after six days, there you go, after six days, there you go, after six days, there you go, after six days, the end of the elizabeth line. that's what we should have called it all along, not the queue. very good, very good. if you stick with the daily mail and go to page four and five... daily mail and go to page four and five- - -_ daily mail and go to page four and five- - -— and five... you are working hard this — and five... you are working

hard this morning. i and five... you are working hard this morning. this i and five... you are working hard this morning. this is i and five... you are working i hard this morning. this is how the daily mail— hard this morning. this is how the daily mail calls i hard this morning. this is how the daily mail calls the i the daily mail calls the reception of the century. this huge gathering of world leaders, and look at the footwear, they are very interested in the wear of president macron and his wife, they kept security on their toes by visiting on foot. there isjoe toes by visiting on foot. there is joe biden toes by visiting on foot. there isjoe biden as well. the times says it is a very tricky summit because you have all these world leaders from lots of countries that have many disputes between themselves and kings and queens with all sorts of historical disputes. they want to come because the viewing figures around this funeral are predicted to be a billion people. the main picture, let me show you the telegraph now, in the uk papers on the day of the queen's funeral, a previously unseen portrait of the queen. the telegraph go with the headline

a life of selfless service. it is in the express in the daily mirror as well. this was taken in may by the photographer ranald mackechnie. also, the queen's aquamarine brooch, present from her parents in 19aa but the point is, this photographer are taken family photographer are taken family photo afterfamily photographer are taken family photo after family photo, so photographer are taken family photo afterfamily photo, so in 2016 for example, the queen, prince charles, prince william and prince george, and was a 90th birthday at the time. we've been discussing this before, this is a woman who has been put at ease. the before, this is a woman who has been put at ease.— been put at ease. the power of familiarity _ been put at ease. the power of familiarity with i been put at ease. the power of familiarity with your i been put at ease. the power of familiarity with your subject, i familiarity with your subject, isn't it? she certainly seems very comfortable. and very happy which is a nice picture. the queen consort, camilla, remarking on her blue eyes

there. i think this photo really brings this out. let us show you — really brings this out. let us show you 'the i really brings this out. let us show you 'the i', i really brings this out. let us show you 'the i', the i really brings this out. let us show you 'the i', the world's farewell to elizabeth. this is the walk and that is how people are lining up their to pay their respects. if we show you their respects. if we show you the metro, my favourite image, this is from the beginning of her reign, or close to the beginning of her reign, from 195a, a strike imported by the italian artist pietro annigoni, quite a fitting and striking tribute. thank you, mark, for a look at the papers. with the queen's passing, with the queen's passing, questions are being raised over being raised over the future of the commonwealth of nations. her ceremonial role has helped bind the group of 5a nations together. out of all of britain's former colonies in asia, singapore has seen the most dramatic development since independence. it's also seen as one of the commonwealth's success stories, and accordingly, the prosperous city—state tends to remember the positives

of british rule — as nick marsh reports. singapore is synonymous with modernity but look around and signs of the past reveal themselves. the late queen immortalised in a forwardthinking city. when she first came here in 1972, singapore was an ambitious young nation, keen to show its former colonial master it could go it alone. she visited this estate, pioneering public housing that singapore is now famous for. it’s housing that singapore is now famous for-— housing that singapore is now famous for. it's something that i think famous for. it's something that i think we _ famous for. it's something that i think we wanted i famous for. it's something that i think we wanted to i famous for. it's something that i think we wanted to show... i i think we wanted to show... joe lim was seven when the queen was invited into his parents flat.— parents flat. that is me, there. that's i parents flat. that is me, there. that's you? i parents flat. that is me, there. that's you? thatl parents flat. that is me, | there. that's you? that is parents flat. that is me, i there. that's you? that is me with my back to the camera you

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he returns, the crowds might not be as big as they were for his mother 50 years ago that he will be welcomed because here, the past isn't something to be dwelled on for too long. nick marsh, bbc news, singapore. puerto rico's entire electricity grid has been knocked out by hurricane fiona, which has made landfall on the island's southwest coast with sustained winds of 1a0km/h. the us territory's population of 3.3 million is without power and the us national hurricane centre says catastrophic flooding is expected. it comes just five years after the island was devastated by hurricane maria. president biden has approved an emergency declaration, allowing the federal authorities to provide disaster relief.

one of russia's most famous singers has publicly condemned the war in ukraine. alla pugachova said she wanted to be declared a foreign agent in solidarity with her husband, who's another outspoken critic of the conflict. our russia editor, steve rosenberg, told us the intervention is significant, as alla pugacheva is more than just a pop star: she is super popular, she is admired, she is adored, she is respected across russia and aside from her wonderful voice, when she has something to say, people tend to sit up and listen. the statement that she issued today was more than just a staunch defence of her husband, it was a stinging criticism, really, of what the kremlin still calls its special military operation. some strong language, and at one point she said, "our lads," meaning russian soldiers, "are dying for illusionary aims that make our country a pariah and the lives of our citizens extremely difficult." i reckon that language like that coming from someone like that, someone as famous as alla pugacheva, is going to

infuriate the kremlin. so i suspect we will see attempts to discredit alla pugacheva in the state media. but it's going to be fascinating to see whether her public criticism will affect public opinion here and spark more public opposition to the special operation. now, you may remember, recently several town councillors in russia expressed public criticism of vladimir putin and called on him to resign. today, we hear the criticism from alla pugacheva. is there a pattern here? i think it is too early to tell, but certainly the message from the kremlin is, as far as they are concerned, everything is going according to plan. now on bbc news, martine croxall presents a special programme looking at the numerous moments the royal family have met the members of the public in the last week, following the death of the queen.

hello and welcome to this special programme from bbc news. over the next 25 minutes or so we are going to show you some of the many special moments from the royal walkabouts, members of her majesty's family have taken part in since the queen died. to thank the many thousands of people up and down the uk who have come out to pay their respects. we will take you to the four corners of the uk and we start in aberdeenshire at balmoral where senior members of the royal family spent time last sunday seeing the many floral tributes to her majesty.

staying in scotland and the princess royal, princess anne, went out meeting people in glasgow.

to northern ireland where the king and queen consort met well—wishers in hillsborough. crowd: love you! crowd cheers.

to windsor now where for the first time in a number of years, princes william and harry and their wives greeted

people at windsor castle.

right, everyone, thank you so much. thank you, everyone. applause.

the new prince and princess of wales, william and catherine, were also out greeting people in sandringham in norfolk.

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the new king and queen consort met well—wishers. applause. woman shouts in distance: god save the king! cheering. cheering and applause.

to buckingham palace now, where so many thousands of people from around the world have visited in the last few days. members of the royal family have been out to meet them. we start with the earl and countess of wessex. inaudible.

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cheering and applause. also in london, the king and prince william have been out meeting some of the hundreds of thousands of people who have queued for many hours to see the queen lying in state. inaudible. thank you so much. i hope you're toes and everything are ok. it was a cold night last night. your hands are quite warm, which is good! maybe you are

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it was worth it! it was worth it! it's worth it just i to see you, william! inaudible. it wasn't too bad. cheering and applause. best wishes! take care! that's all for now but, a reminder you can keep up to date on the latest of all the events relating to the death of her majesty on the bbc website or download our smartphone app. from me, martine croxall, thanks for watching. hello.

many of us have seen increasing amounts of cloud over the weekend and cloud will play quite a big part in monday's weather story — possibly thick enough at times to give some spots of rain, maybe the odd shower — but it will largely stay dry and i am hopeful that things will remain dry in london and in windsor for the queen's state funeral. there is just the chance that as that cloud thickens through the afternoon, it could give the odd light shower or the odd spot of rain or drizzle. high pressure is still in charge — that's keeping things mostly dry — but this weak warm front is introducing more cloud and the chance of some damp weather first thing across south west scotland, perhaps north west england and this band of thick cloud and the potential for the odd spot of rain or drizzle does tend to push eastwards as the day wears on. north east scotland will see some good spells of sunshine, though. northern ireland may brighten up for a time. south wales and the south—west of england should see some sunny spells. temperatures north to south

between 12 and 19 degrees. the winds for most places will be fairly light. now, through monday night, we'll see large areas of cloud still potentially giving some spots of rain and drizzle, especially in eastern parts. some clear breaks out towards the west. they may well fill in with a little bit of mist and fog. a little milder than it has been over recent nights — 9—12 degrees. tuesday, well, we stick with a rather cloudy theme. this stripe of cloud here still giving rise to some spots of rain and drizzle but it does look like the cloud should tend to turn over and break up a little bit across some western parts to give some sunny spells. a bit more patchy rain into the western isles of scotland. 17 to 19, maybe 20 degrees in the south, so feeling a little warmer. and actually, on wednesday, if we see some sunny spells, at least for a time, it will feel considerably warmer than it has of late. temperatures of 17 degrees in aberdeen, 21 in norwich and in london. but a frontal system pushing in towards the north—west, bringing some outbreaks

of rain, and that will make erratic progress southwards and eastwards through thursday and into friday. some of the rain actually could be quite heavy, even as it gets down into the south of england and south wales. so, the chance of some rain, particularly later on in the week, and a bit less chilly than it has been.

this is bbc news. i'm sally bundock with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the final goodbye to a much—loved queen — the funeral of elizabeth ii will begin in westminster abbey in a few hours' time. prince george and princess charlotte will join the procession of the royal family, following the coffin as it enters the church. the last of the hundreds of thousands of people who have queued to see the queen lying—in—state, as preparations for

the funeral begin. and i'm calcium madeira live in westminster where those final people are still waiting to file past two majesty's casket, they are the last people to do so. hundreds of world leaders and foreign dignitaries attended a reception hosted by king charles at buckingham palace. canadian prime ministerjustin trudeau paid tribute to the queen. i first ifirst met her majesty i first met her majesty when i was seven years old, and her presence throughout my life has been constant, inspiring, and graceful. more than 10,000 police officers will be on duty in london to oversee the funeral —the biggest single gathering of global statesmen and women in living memory.

welcome to westminster. the final people are filing through the queue we have been watching for so many days here, they are now the final people to get to westminster hall, to make that finaljourney, past the casket of her majesty. this is the last moment of, the part that has become known as the snake, that really compact part of the queue, where so many hundreds of thousands of people have made the many, many hours of this journey, made the many, many hours of thisjourney, now made the many, many hours of this journey, now we are seeing the end of that queue as we now await the end of the formal part of the lying and state for

the public, the doors then will be closed as the final people do go past, go through westminster hall and then onto the next part the proceedings. we await the service itself which will take place at westminster abbey as my colleague, nicholas twitchell, now reports. it is ten days now since the news came of the queen's death. the new king, charles, arriving at buckingham palace earlier today with a wave to the crowds, has led the country's mourning in the days since. in a message tonight he said he'd been deeply touched by the many messages from around the world. among the hundreds of world leaders in london for the state funeral, the president of the united states. his motorcade arrived at the palace of westminster.

a few moments later, president biden and the first lady of the united states, drjill biden, stood quietly on a balcony inside westminster hall. like so many thousands of others over the past four days, struck by the intensity of the scene. i think what she gave is a sense of maybe above all, the notion of service. we all owe something, there is something within our capacity to do that can make things, notjust the world better, but your neighbourhood better, your household better, your workplace better. to all the people of the united kingdom, our hearts go out to you and you were fortunate to have had herfor 70 years, we all were. the world is better for her. as the royal family prepares for the state funeral, from camilla, the queen consort, her reflection on the 70 years of the queen's reign. she has been part of our lives for ever. i'm 75 now and i can't

remember anybody except the queen being there. it must have been so difficult for her being a solitary woman, there weren't women prime ministers or women presidents, she was the only one. so i think she carved her own role. i'll always remember that smile. you know, that smile is unforgettable. many thousands of people have wanted to be a part of this moment. some have queued for many hours or placed flowers in the designated spaces, or simply travelled to london to absorb the sights and emotions along the route of the procession and outside the abbey church where the funeral will take place. we didn't know what exactly to do, but we wanted to do something. you know, it felt right to come up and do something and bring my son here. you know, i think there's a lot of people who don't know what to do, but feel

like they need to do something, so itjust felt like the right thing to do was to come up here with everybody else. during the hours of darkness, the last visitors will be admitted to the lying—in—state at westminster hall. and then in the morning, the state funeral will take place of her majesty, queen elizabeth ii. nicholas witchell, bbc news. during those hours of darkness nicholas was reflecting on we have spent night with final people who are in that queue, the thing that has become a phenomenon in itself, waiting, still waiting but now finally we see the end of the queue, and it's quite a touching moment when we see some of the final people who will be filing past the casket of the queen, becoming —— is the final part of the line and state is concluded. it's notjust the

people behind me who have been waiting in this queue, there are also around westminster and around buckingham palace trying to secure their place to watch the moment the funeral cortes goes by and my colleague spent the night with people along the wall. with the sun setting behind those at buckingham palace they prepared for a night in the open. what have we got here? hot chocolate? it is duly�*s second night on the wall, she wasn't taking any chances. i wall, she wasn't taking any chances-— chances. i want to see the queen go _ chances. i want to see the queen go up _ chances. i want to see the queen go up for— chances. i want to see the queen go up for the i chances. i want to see the queen go up for the last i chances. i want to see the i queen go up for the last time and pass buckingham palace for herfinaljourney and pass buckingham palace for her finaljourney to and pass buckingham palace for her final journey to windsor to be with prince philip and that means a big deal to me stop some depended on more than a candle to keep them warm. others on years of military

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today. strangers that have become friends, all here to pay theirfinal become friends, all here to pay their final respects and with one thing in common, bidding farewell to their queen.- farewell to their queen. good niuht. farewell to their queen. good night- tom — farewell to their queen. good night. tom mcguire, i farewell to their queen. good night. tom mcguire, bbci farewell to their queen. good i night. tom mcguire, bbc news, buckingham _ night. tom mcguire, bbc news, buckingham palace. i night. tom mcguire, bbc news, buckingham palace. there i night. tom mcguire, bbc news, buckingham palace. there are i buckingham palace. there are images like that across the centre of london, just outside where we are, we are just in front of westminster, the palace, there are so many people that have spent the night he notjust in the queue behind me but also in places where they are waiting to see the next moments, the next procession that will take place. of course, the funeral cortes will leave westminster hall to make the short distance to westminster abbey, people already spending the night across different parts of central london, we saw asjohn was reporting people along the

wall trying to make sure they have the place stop it has not been as cold tonight. —— mall. we have seen the people we have been speaking to, so many people who have spent hours and hours queueing, they have joined together, made friends and friendships, shared stories and friendships, shared stories and snacks, it has been quite a touching moment in quite an insight into why so many felt so compelled to come here. and the last people behind me, the people queueing up they are the final people, the queue we have been watching for the last a.5 days will be coming to an end, what will they see when they get to westminster hall, the final moments of the queen lying in state. one person who was able to go into the call is my colleague helen katz who joins me now. explain to me are you able to go in and just what was it like?

you able to go in and 'ust what was it neat was it like? journalists have been able — was it like? journalists have been able to i was it like? journalists have been able to go i was it like? journalists have been able to go in i was it like? journalists have been able to go in and i was it like? journalists have | been able to go in and stand very quietly back and just observe for a bit but as people are coming in too far past the coffin to pay respects on the idea behind it is so hopefully we can sort of add some explanation to what the atmosphere is like, add to what you can see on the television. you get a sense from it if you are watching the live stream or the television you can see the visual aspect of it that every rich block of colour in the middle of that sombre wall, the sense and impact of it and you get a sense of being quiet but i'm not sure it quite conveys the sense of absolute stillness that there is inside westminster hall. when you think about the contrast here we have the generators, the lights the gentle noise of people having a chat and sharing snacks, as soon as they get into the hall it is absolutely still and produces a quite interesting effect. it is

so quiet that ijumped when someone knocked a stick on the floor for the changing of the guard, and it produces this sense and the way of time slowing down a little bit, i was trying to work out how long are able to spend in there after queueing so long roughly timing how long it would take them to get through, four or five minutes from the steps to leaving the wall. but when you are in that moment the stillness and peacefulness makes time stop as they all walked past and they have that moment to pay that tribute. makes time stop, thank you, helen for sharing that moment when you go into the wall, we hear that time and time again from people who have made that journey, who have been into the hall that what we see on the television we are offering a live feed continuously lying in state but being there is so very very different to watching

it on television. and helen just describing what it's like, the stillness, the magnitude of the stillness, the magnitude of the moment, of time stepping still. one person who has spending many hours waiting in the queue into will go through and walked into westminster hall as fiona joins me now. hello. you have been waiting for such a long time, how are you? i for such a long time, how are ou? ., ~' ., . ~' �* you? i am knackered. i'm starting _ you? i am knackered. i'm starting to _ you? i am knackered. i'm starting to tremble i you? i am knackered. i'm starting to tremble from | starting to tremble from exhaustion. but, iwanted starting to tremble from exhaustion. but, i wanted to do this since i was a little girl, i have huge admiration for the queen, i cut short holiday i came from king's cross to join the queue and dragged a friend along with me, we have been here since eight o'clock, till five. �* , s,

here since eight o'clock, till five. �* ., s, s, five. and you are one of the last, what _ five. and you are one of the last, what does i five. and you are one of the last, what does that i five. and you are one of the last, what does that feel i five. and you are one of the i last, what does that feel like? i won't be the absolute last, i wasn't sure if i would make it, that hasn't sunk in, we haven't beenin that hasn't sunk in, we haven't been in just yet, that hasn't sunk in, we haven't been injust yet, i honestly didn't think we would be able tojoin the queue. didn't think we would be able to join the queue. been watching it from france and thinking i want to be part of that. just exhausted by now and looking forward to it. you that. just exhausted by now and looking forward to it.— looking forward to it. you said ou cut looking forward to it. you said you cut short _ looking forward to it. you said you cut short a i looking forward to it. you said you cut short a holiday, i looking forward to it. you said you cut short a holiday, we i you cut short a holiday, we were so eager to be here, in a sentence or so, what did the queen mean to you? i sentence or so, what did the queen mean to you? i guess she was like a _ queen mean to you? i guess she was like a kind i queen mean to you? i guess she was like a kind of— queen mean to you? i guess she was like a kind of grandmother. was like a kind of grandmother figure to me, she has always been there, through everything, i was at the olympic stadium when shejumped out i was at the olympic stadium when she jumped out of the helicopter on the one time i saw her was at the opening ceremony of the olympics and she was always there. strange to think that she is gone. she wasjust such an to think that she is gone. she was just such an iconic figure. the olympics was such a moment

and paddington bear... that sense of— and paddington bear... that sense of humour— and paddington bear... that sense of humour shone i and paddington bear... trust sense of humour shone through and i think it was very important and one of the things i really loved about her. fiona, thank you very much. and to get out of the queue to share your perceptions and we wish you the best of luck, i'm sure once you have gone through the ball you will experience that same feeling, that time stopping. we are hearing so many different stories and reasons why people help compelled to be here, that the lying in state the ending over the next hour. probably under an hour and a half now as people, well, that moment will be closed, the public no longer able to file through, we have been watching so many different types of people come past wanting to be here. we now look forward to the next part of the day when we will have service at westminster abbey and so

many dignitaries from all over the world have come to london to experience this. back to you, sally. let's talk about that in a bit more detail now. president biden willjoin around 2,000 other guests, including some 500 heads of state and foreign dignitaries, at the queen's state funeral, which will be one of the biggest gatherings of royalty and politicians the uk has hosted for decades. they have paid their respects to the late queen and signed the book of condolence, as our diplomatic correspondent james landale reports. some came by themselves in, well, some sort of style. others came together, rather unusually on a bus, but they were all here to honour the queen in perhaps the biggest diplomatic wake seen for decades. there was the king and queen of spain. there was his exiled

father, juan carlos. there was the president of france and his wife, leaders from the gulf, the king and queen ofjordan. hundreds of statesmen and women there to pay their respects and indulge, perhaps, in a little diplomacy. others arrived around the back of the palace. prime ministers and presidents, all guests of the king and other members of the royal family at a formal state reception. on a day of frantic international engagement, the princess of wales even found time to meet the first lady of ukraine, 0lena zelenska. —— first lady of ukraine, 0lena zelenska. earlier, joe and jill biden had followed other heads of state and government in stopping off at lancaster house to sign a book of condolence. a steady flow of the global great and sometimes good, paying their respects on behalf of themselves and their countries. i so wish eternal peace to her wonderful, generous spirit and, of course, every

good wish to king charles iii. on behalf of the government and people of barbados that i record my sincere sympathy to all of great britain and especially to the members of the royal family. we appreciated very much her- leadership of the commonwealth, which saw a dramatic i transformation from a nation of eight countries when she went on to the throne to 56 at the time of her death. thank you, your majesty. thank you for your dedication. the people of fiji will never forget you. speaks fijian. many also came to see the lying in state — not queueing, of course, butjoining the public to stand in silence and perhaps some awe before the coffin of a woman whose reign will outlast their own.

and despite the opposition of some mps and peers who have been sanctioned by beijing, a delegation from china also came to westminster hall, including vice—president wang qishan — here on the right — who will attend the funeral tomorrow. one man who will not be coming to the abbey tomorrow is saudi arabia's crown prince and de facto ruler, mohammed bin salman, who has been accused of involvement in the murder of a journalist — accusations he has denied. several leaders, including canada's prime minister, also dropped by downing street for what officials said were informal conversations with liz truss. earlier, he paid his own tribute to the queen. i first met her majesty when i was seven years old and her presence throughout my life had been constant, inspiring and graceful. as prime minister, i benefited from her counsel, herthoughtfulness, her curiosity, her sense of humour.

tomorrow, the diplomacy will be put on hold as the leaders arrive at westminster abbey and the focus returns to the monarch they have come to mourn. james landale, bbc news. the metropolitan police have said that more than 10,000 officers and staff will be on duty in london today to oversee the state funeral, which is the biggest security operation in british history. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandord has been watching the final preparations. tonight, there is an army of police officers in central london. tomorrow, more than 10,000 will be working to protect the funeral. every force in the uk is involved in what has been a national mobilisation. on the rooftops overlooking westminster, armed officers with binoculars and telescopes were already watching this afternoon. every lamp post and traffic light is being taken apart, searched for hidden explosive devices, and carefully sealed again. even officers patrolling

the river thames are on alert. and this is where it's all being run from, the metropolitan police's special operations room. here, they'll be able to access every cctv camera. they'll be able to communicate with officers at every step along the route. and then, there'll be specialist desks for things like firearms and for handling real—time intelligence. but despite all the technology and the thousands of officers, police are asking people in the crowds tomorrow to be their eyes and ears. members of the public who are coming, please engage with the officers because you will see things, you will hear things that police officers might not. and if there is anything that you see that you think is out of the ordinary, please speak to one of the police officers so we'll be able to respond and deal with it appropriately. the biggest vip protection operation the police have ever mounted in london is already up and running with president biden's motorcade shuttling between westminster and the palace and the french president emmanuel macron coming to pay his respects to the queen on foot.

tomorrow, all the heads of state will be in one place, an 800—year—old church with no permanent security perimeter. there have been bumps along the road, like when a rollerblader nearly ran into the king's convoy, but officers say the plan has been decades in development and they should be able to keep everyone safe. daniel sandford, bbc news, westminster. well, the death of queen elizabeth ii has, of course, been followed in great detail by many countries all over the world — in particular, across the commonwealth, such as australia — a land with a strong republican leaning, even if it hasn't yet turned into majority support to lose the monarch as head of state. life to sydney now. —— our correspondent shaimaa khaliljoins me live from sydney. of course the prime minister of australia is here in london for the state funeral and today is a national day of mourning in australia, is that right? the

national mourning i australia, is that right? tue: national mourning day in australia is going to actually be after the funeral, sally. the prime minister anthony albanese will attend the funeral in london, he will come back and thursday september the 22nd has been announced as the national day of mourning and will also be a one off holiday as australia remembers the queen. there will also be a one—minute silence at 11 o'clock local time on the day. but of course, all eyes here in australia and around the world are on london, specifically on westminster abbey, as britain and the world get ready to bid farewell to her majesty the queen. the flag here, if! farewell to her majesty the queen. the flag here, if i can point you to the sydney harbour bridge, is flying at half—mast. it has been except for the day of the proclamation, and it will be, as well as other landmarks across australia, until after the funeral. of

course, it was here that queen elizabeth ii made her historic visit, sailing into the sydney harbourjust visit, sailing into the sydney harbour just where the visit, sailing into the sydney harbourjust where the sydney opera house is at the moment, becoming the only, the first and only reigning monarch to visit australia. she in total toured 16 times. and, you know, as you can imagine, most major channels are going to be carrying the funeral live. in melbourne, it will be shown on the big screen in federation square in the city centre. but in queensland, on the gold coast, there is a shop called a bit of britain and on the facebook page, they invited some of their customers to come and watch the funeral, saying biscuits and tea will be served from eight o'clock which is what will happen local time and they said if we cannot be there, we should be here together. the queen's death has brought to the surface so many different feelings, sadness, a sense of loss, a celebration of her life and her relationship

with australia but also some challenging sentiments as well. first nation indigenous australian say it has water presence of trauma from the painful legacy of colonialism and of course, as you mentioned the republican debate. australians who say that the head of state should be an australian national. but even the staunchest of republicans like malcolm turnbull, for example, and i spoke to him last week, who has led the campaign in 1999 and failed, he said he has no doubt they will be a referendum except now is not the time. now will be a time to celebrate the queen and honour her life. even staunch republican but he is, he was very emotional after the announcement, shedding a tear on national television, and he told me how charming, how calm and witty she was, someone who was always very well informed and in touch with the details and in touch with the details and he said you can be a republican but also you can be an elizabeth and, as he put it. the prime minister anthony albanese has been asked about

it so many times in the last few days —— elizabethan. he said now is the time to celebrate the queen's life, a life dedicated to duty and to service. i will tell you something, sally. they have been so many memorable moments and memorable images coming out of australia and the rest of the world and i think one of the world and i think one of the ones that will stay with me, and i'm sure many of our view is you have seen it, picture of the queen on the of the sydney opera house when the announcement was made. i think it was a gesture to express the love, to express the admiration but also, a sense of loss at the only monarch most people here have ever known.- here have ever known. yeah, absolutely- — here have ever known. yeah, absolutely. shaimaa, i here have ever known. yeah, absolutely. shaimaa, thanki here have ever known. yeah, i absolutely. shaimaa, thank you so much for giving us a sense of how australia is navigating today, thinking of them all tuning in during their early evening to the state funeral. it's been close to six decades since the british monarchy symbolically ruled singapore, but queen elizabeth ii's death still elicited grief and reflection in the south—east asian nation,

and there's been little discussion about its colonial past. our asia reporter, suranjana tewari, joins me now live from singapore. suranjana, sura njana, it is suranjana, it is so fascinating, isn't it, to see how the different countries have reacted to the passing of her majesty. do talk us through what's happening in singapore. yes, sally, as you mentioned, reflection is certainly the mood here in singapore and i'm standing outside the british club which is a social club here, counts around half of its members as british expats and it is putting on an event this evening, this afternoon, actually, to mark the funeral of her majesty the queen and they put out tickets for just over 100 people, they are sold out and expecting many more to come to their restaurant, roughly around 100, perhaps more than 100 as well. the

prime minister did say all singaporeans mourn the loss of her majesty the queen and of course singapore was a former colony but it's largely moved on it argues singapore are not on it argues singapore are not on a bank holiday today, perhaps those working for british companies are, and things have moved on. that said, politicians do point to the fact that the uk, the british system, the legal system is very much imprinted into the dna of singapore in its white singapore has become such a successful former colony, one of the richest city states per capita, rather, and you know, politicians do say that's largely because of the legacy that the british left here. singapore's head of state is in london for the funeral as well. singapore has said it's a very proud member of the commonwealth and she is there

to represent being that proud of the commonwealth moving forward as well. so of the commonwealth moving forward as well.— of the commonwealth moving forward as well. so later today in singapore. _ forward as well. so later today in singapore, are i forward as well. so later today in singapore, are many i forward as well. so later today i in singapore, are many expected to tune in when the state funeral gets under way? yes, these types _ funeral gets under way? yes, these types of _ funeral gets under way? yes, these types of social i funeral gets under way? yes, these types of social clubs i these types of social clubs probably, there are some pockets, but largely, sally, you know, singaporeans are looking more towards the region rather than over to the uk. there are very few connections in that way from the former colonies. it's not like other countries within the region like india that had such a negative history with the british. singapore managed to have a largely positive experience from the colonisation and from the exit from the empire as well. it negotiated its own exit from the empire, so while there are these pockets of people who will be marking the event,

largely singaporeans are not as connected with their colonial masters from the past. suranjana, thank you. in other news, nearly 300,000 homes in southern japan are without power as a powerful typhoon continues to cause destruction and disrupt lives in the region. the huge storm, which made landfall on the island on sunday, has unleashed torrential rain and high winds and forced tens of thousands of people to spend the night in emergency shelters. let's cross to our correspondent in tokyo, rupert wingfield—hayes. what is the latest on this? the -hoon, what is the latest on this? the typhoon. which _ what is the latest on this? the typhoon, which is i what is the latest on this? tue: typhoon, which is a real monster storm, typhoon, which is a real monsterstorm, one typhoon, which is a real monster storm, one of the biggest storms to hitjapan half a century, it is continuing to churn north—east, it has left the southern island

which are passed over yesterday afternoon and through the night now is go across southern honshu, the main island of japan, continuing to dump very large amounts of rain, across southern japan and even up in tokyo very heavy rainfall this morning. it is causing huge disruption, lots of flights cancelled, trains cancelled, electricity out to hundreds of thousands of households across south—western japan, also tens of thousands of people have left home and gone to evacuation centres so that is the bad news. the good news is damage and death so far are very low, we have heard of one confirmed death, and 50 people injured, but the fears that we had here yesterday that the store may cause huge structural damage and massive flooding, those have not yet been borne out, and the japanese infrastructure seems to be holding up pretty well. because

that is the worry, i holding up pretty well. because that is the worry, the i holding up pretty well. because that is the worry, the volume i that is the worry, the volume of water and the rain and if it does cause mudslides and flooding and it's hard to tell at this point? it flooding and it's hard to tell at this point?— at this point? it is, it is still going _ at this point? it is, it is still going to i at this point? it is, it is still going to be i at this point? it is, it is| still going to be another at this point? it is, it is i still going to be another 12 to 2a—hour is before the storm weakens and then passes out back into the pacific, so we are not out of the danger zone at all, rivers are swollen right across south—western japan and there is still plenty of potential for those rivers to peak over the next 12 or 2a—hour is an cause, to burst their banks and burst through flood defence and cause widespread flooding, but as i say this is a very well engineered country and so far have held up pretty well. ok. have held up pretty well. ok, for now. _ have held up pretty well. ok, for now, thank i have held up pretty well. ok, for now, thank you. i president biden has said the united states would send us forces to defend taiwan in the event of an invasion by china. china has been conducting military exercises in

the region and has not ruled out the use of force in reunification of taiwan with the mainland. mr biden affirmed that unlike in the conflict in ukraine, the decision would mean american boots on the ground. the white house later said that us policy on taiwan — which is claimed by beijing but governs itself had not changed. we're joined now by daniel l davis, an american foriegn policy analyst specialising in defence strategy: this comment about the us and taiwan and foreign policy was made in an interview with cbs where they were talking about issues, give us your take on the significance of what he had to say about taiwan? i the significance of what he had to say about taiwan?— to say about taiwan? i was a little bit concerned i to say about taiwan? i was a little bit concerned by i to say about taiwan? i was a little bit concerned by that, l little bit concerned by that, the interview was very emphatic when he said, asking him are

you saying if china text taiwan us military personnel will go in and defend taiwan? the president said, yes, that's what he would do and the interviewer gave him a second chance to walk back and he said yes, that is the fourth time president biden has said this since he has been an office in the previous three times the white house walks it back, i don't know how you can walk this back when president biden is so explicit stop i can assure you the leadership in china will be reading that the negative sense possible and my concern is that instead of deterring china from an attack this kind of thing may take the very attack we wish to deter. the us has had to walk a very difficult tightrope when it comes to taiwan, and the sense it is not saying it's comes to taiwan, and the sense it is not saying its support its own decision for independence, and support the status quo as it is right now

but at the same time does support taiwan minutes, you know, wanting to have a democracy and an independent political future. democracy and an independent politicalfuture. it's a democracy and an independent political future. it's a tricky one? it political future. it's a tricky one? , , , ., s, one? it is, but we 'ust have to be wreath one? it is, but we 'ust have to be careful we i one? it is, but we just have to be careful we don't i one? it is, but we just have to be careful we don't do i one? it is, but we just have to be careful we don't do things. be careful we don't do things that can result in a negative result, what we want to prevent, the ideal as we would like the status quo to continue on, we would like to want to continue to be an independent nation cannot be attacked by china, that is self—evident. but of all we ever do is use the threat of military force, the threat of military force, the threat of us acting and defence of taiwan, may be accelerating the chance that china actually does that because to them it is an absolute core interest into the united states it is an interest but not of vital national interest because our security is not threatened and that is why it is so important we keep the strategic ambiguity and we

don't give china an easy excuse to do something we know they have wanted to do for decades. in terms of what might happen next? i in terms of what might happen next? ., in terms of what might happen next? ~ .., in terms of what might happen next? ~ .. , s next? i think we can expect some pretty _ next? i think we can expect some pretty harsh i next? i think we can expect| some pretty harsh response next? i think we can expect i some pretty harsh response from china over the coming hours, when they have a chance to process this a little bit, it's unfortunately a combination with what the nancy pelosi visit was earlier this summer with a $1 million military deal signed a few days ago, weeks ago and now this, the fourth time president biden said it set something in place and a series of events that could end “p series of events that could end up in a very bad place for military conflict that nobody wants. , ., ~ military conflict that nobody wants. , ., wants. daniel davis, thank you for sharing _ wants. daniel davis, thank you for sharing your i wants. daniel davis, thank you for sharing your thoughts i wants. daniel davis, thank you for sharing your thoughts on i for sharing your thoughts on that. now, to ukraine. president zelensky says investigations into possible russian war crimes are continuing in the city of izyum,

one of several areas back in ukrainian hands after significant territorial gains in recent days. bodies are being exhumed from a mass burial site on the edge of the city. our ukraine correspondentjames waterhouse has more from kyiv. since ukraine forced rush out for the first time since the evasion and retook territory that it has taken it now seems to be focusing on investigating what the invaders did and what moscow is going to do next. in the case of the city of izyum, what is continuing to be uncovered from a mass grave, the latest claim from here is that evidence has been uncovered suggesting torture chambers were used by russian troops, reports of people being tortured and a city being littered with mines. it has again been heavy fighting in the hauraki region where ukraine has enjoyed success, on

what russia will do next? the thought from ukraine military of defence it will look to strike more civilian targets in ukraine while it is frustrated on the battlefield, but this is something russia has done throughout this war, hit targets throughout this large country to try to exert influence and undermine ukrainian morale. but on that latest point, president zelensky said just because we have regained areas of territory this does not mean it will be a pause, what russia will be a pause, what russia will hope is the speed of the retreat will force ukraine to pause. retreat will force ukraine to ause. �* , s, s, retreat will force ukraine to ause. h s, s, ., pause. let's return to our main sto . over the last few weeks, the queues of people who lined up to pay their respects to the late queen have become a familiar sight and a major talking point and are likely to remain among the abiding images of this period of national mourning. so what does this say about britain's attitude

to the monarchy and the public�*s desire to be part of a moment of historical change? nick robinson has been finding out. it is "the queue". like "the queen", no other words are needed. you were, it seemed at times, either in it, or watching it. at the last count, 7.5 million people had tuned into the live feed to watch an estimated 750,000 walk past the coffin. we've never seen anything like it before, we all said. except those old enough to remember that some had. newsreel: through the night the people wait, silent i and patient. their night rest they give to the king... what we are seeing is extraordinary. it isn't, though, new. in fact, it's a flawless replica of what happened 70 years ago when the queen's father, king george vi, died, and he lay in state.

britain has changed dramatically, of course. there are 17 million more of us. our population is so much more diverse. back then there was just the one tv channel, in black and white. thank you. for so many here, what matters is that being here, being in the queue. in this era of selfies and emojis and online posts, it seems that what we've discovered is the advantages of being social without the media, because the queue, for many people, is as much about this journey as it is about the destination. newsreel: the night ends, the doors open and into i the hall of kings, the great hall of westminster, passes the long, silent column. so many people, but so little noise. the silence notjust the absence of the noises

of our modern era, the clicking and beeping of mobile phones, not even the silence of an ancient cathedral. thick, deep piled carpet on the stone floor absorbs almost every sound. until... tapping. that tap—tap, for the changing of the guard. another signals the lowering of weapons. after a third tap—tap, heads are bowed. newsreel: of george vi, it will be written, i this was a king his people loved. so little has changed since we last mourned a monarch and yet so much has changed. gone are the sunday best suits, the ties and the hats, of course, but we are still mourning together. not everybody, of course. there are some who are baffled by all of this. there are others who fear

that the monarchy has remnants of empire, of hierarchy, of deference, of class. so what does explain the willingness of so many to queue for so long for so short a glimpse of a coffin? people in the queue feel they are not alone. they are not socially distanced. they are not behind a mask or a screen. they are together with strangers who share that desire simply to be together. to remember, to respect and to be here, in the queue. nick robinson, bbc news. the prime minister of canada justin trudeau first met the queen as a child when his own father was prime minister. he and his wife, sophie gregoire trudeau, spoke to the bbc�*s mishal husain about canada's and their own special relationship with the late monarch.

i was seven i was seven years i was seven years old, i remember i had to rush back from school to meet her, and i had actually been told these are the only shoes that fit me and i needed to keep them clean and i needed to keep them clean and i needed to keep them clean and i got them all muddy so i rememberjust before running remember just before running home rememberjust before running home to go to the school washroom with a buddy of mine and cleaning of my shoes i could have clean shoes for meeting the queen.- could have clean shoes for meeting the queen. what was the relationship _ meeting the queen. what was the relationship of i meeting the queen. what was the relationship of your i meeting the queen. what was the relationship of your father i relationship of your father with her like? he relationship of your father with her like?— with her like? he had a tremendous i with her like? he had a tremendous respect i with her like? he had a| tremendous respect and affection for her, i think the two of them got along very, very well. obviously, he was busy repatriating the constitution, which he did in 1982, from british north america act to be our own canadian constitution, a lot of work with her, and making sure everything worked out well. it was a time of change then and tricky moments they must have

had to navigate together, there was separatism sentiment, a referendum in quebec and republican sentiment as well what is your sense of how she approached and navigated those? she always understood that internal political discussions when something she needed to get involved with. it when something she needed to get involved with.— get involved with. it doesn't matter what i get involved with. it doesn't matter what your i get involved with. it doesn't matter what your opinion i get involved with. it doesn't matter what your opinion is | get involved with. it doesn't i matter what your opinion is in this— matter what your opinion is in this time _ matter what your opinion is in this time of change and chaotic living _ this time of change and chaotic living in— this time of change and chaotic living in so— this time of change and chaotic living in so many ways this capacity— living in so many ways this capacity for stillness and attachment, perspective and deep — attachment, perspective and deep listening is crucial. you have taught. _ deep listening is crucial. you have taught, prime i deep listening is crucial. grins, have taught, prime minister, about this being the end of a chapter of shared history between britain and canada, what do you think the next chapter looks like? aha, what do you think the next chapter looks like?- what do you think the next chapter looks like? a lot of it is steadiness i chapter looks like? a lot of it is steadiness and i chapter looks like? a lot of it is steadiness and continuity, | is steadiness and continuity, and my first audience with king charles, we talked about things that he and i have spoken about years now, he knows my passion for the environment, for reconciliation with indigenous people, his ability to continue

and extend the work the crown has done in canada for decades. do you think canada will still be around for your children's lifetimes? i be around for your children's lifetimes?— lifetimes? i think there is an extraordinary i lifetimes? i think there is an extraordinary stability i lifetimes? i think there is an extraordinary stability in i lifetimes? i think there is an extraordinary stability in our| extraordinary stability in our system of democracy. you will miss her? _ system of democracy. you will miss her? i — system of democracy. you will miss her? i will— system of democracy. you will miss her? i will miss i system of democracy. you will miss her? i will miss her i miss her? i will miss her terribly- _ miss her? i will miss her terribly- i _ miss her? i will miss her terribly. i am i miss her? i will miss her terribly. i am still- miss her? i will miss her i terribly. i am still absorbing it, for me, just coming to london and not being able to see her, is something that catches me off guard, a little bit. ~ , , , catches me off guard, a little bit. a ,,, catches me off guard, a little bit. , , bit. as it because she reminds ou of bit. as it because she reminds you of your — bit. as it because she reminds you of your father i bit. as it because she reminds you of your father and i bit. as it because she reminds you of your father and your i you of your father and your childhood, beyond others who have been in your position? you know what _ have been in your position? grins, know what question mac no, she was enough all on her own, i affection for her my missing her is real. the canadian prime minister speaking to mishal husain.

the victoria cross is one of the most prestigious medals awarded in the uk and recipients of the honour have been invited to the queen's funeral. captain rambahadur limbu, the only living nepalese citizen to have been awarded the medal, is unable to go because he's too old. he served in the british gurkha regiment of the uk military. for more than 200 years, soldiers from the gurkha region have served in the uk military. the bbc met him at his home in the south east of nepal. yogita limaye reports. he knew the queen for years. now, he is saying goodbye. translation: felt very sad to hear she had died, said captain ram bahadur limbu, nepal's only living victoria cross recipient. aha, living victoria cross recipient.— living victoria cross reciient. ., s, , s, recipient. a long 'ourney for the condolence i recipient. a long journey for the condolence book i recipient. a long journey for the condolence book to i recipient. a long journey for| the condolence book to him. from nepal's capital hundreds of miles away. flying past the

world's tallest mountains. then, on the road to damak in the south—east. at 88, captain ram bahadur limbu cannot travel to the funeral. so the uk envoy to the funeral. so the uk envoy to nepal went to his home. "i'm sad that i cannot be at her funeral" he wrote. "may her soul rest in peace."- funeral" he wrote. "may her soul rest in peace." she used to speak _ soul rest in peace." she used to speak to — soul rest in peace." she used to speak to us i soul rest in peace." she used to speak to us like i soul rest in peace." she used to speak to us like we i soul rest in peace." she used to speak to us like we were i to speak to us like we were members of herfamily. i used to feel happy while talking with the queen and felt i was fortunate to be working with her. �* , , ,, ., ., her. the british gurkha veteran was awarded i her. the british gurkha veteran was awarded the i her. the british gurkha veteran was awarded the victoria i her. the british gurkha veteran was awarded the victoria cross| was awarded the victoria cross in 1966 for gallantry in the conflict in borneo between british and indonesian forces. later, he also served as one of the queen'sorderlies, accompanying her to military ceremonies. i

accompanying her to military ceremonies.— accompanying her to military ceremonies. i worked closely with her for i ceremonies. i worked closely with her for that i ceremonies. i worked closely with her for that one i ceremonies. i worked closely with her for that one year. i i with her for that one year. i adored her. she was soft—spoken and she had such clarity of thought. when she used to meet me, she would always ask how are you? how is your family? captain ram bahadur limbu has also met king charles several times. he hopes he gets to meet him again. yogita limaye, bbc news, damak. so, a momentous day ahead and, of course, the newspapers capture that today and to talk us through some of the front pages and what is inside, we arejoined by mark pages and what is inside, we are joined by mark lobel, pages and what is inside, we arejoined by mark lobel, our report. you have a whole array of articles in front of you. where to start? buckingham palace has always a previously unseen portrait of the queen. it is dominating many of the front pages and we can show you that now. this is from a

photographer who has met the queen on five separate occasions at least and it is across the telegraph. they have gone with a life of selfless service, and the express has gone with farewell, our glorious queen.- gone with farewell, our glorious queen. this is the times? we _ glorious queen. this is the times? we also i glorious queen. this is the times? we also have i glorious queen. this is the times? we also have the i glorious queen. this is the i times? we also have the sun which just says god bless. it's a really lovely photo, isn't it? ., ~ ., a really lovely photo, isn't it? taken at windsor in may. and on it _ it? taken at windsor in may. and on it if _ it? taken at windsor in may. and on it if you i it? taken at windsor in may. and on it if you look i it? taken at windsor in may. and on it if you look closely l and on it if you look closely at that bridge, and aquamarine brooch, her80th at that bridge, and aquamarine brooch, her 80th birthday present from her parents in 19aa, if you for her diamond jubilee ——18.ve 19aa, if you for her diamond jubilee ——18. ve day 19aa, if you for her diamond jubilee ——18.ve day in 19aa, if you for her diamond jubilee ——18. ve day in 2020 but it is the smile on but i think that is the reason why they chose it. it's a really pronounced smile compared to all of the other portraits we've seen. but also, she is so at ease and it's not surprising because this photographer took a very famous photograph if you remember of prince charles,

william, george and the queen which kind of showed the line of succession around the time of succession around the time of her 90th birthday so he knew her well. ., , of her 90th birthday so he knew her well. a, , ., ., , her well. lovely to release that today _ her well. lovely to release that today for i her well. lovely to release that today for us i her well. lovely to release that today for us all i her well. lovely to release that today for us all to i her well. lovely to release | that today for us all to see. ahead of the state funeral. inside the pages? let ahead of the state funeral. inside the pages?- ahead of the state funeral. inside the pages? let me show ou the inside the pages? let me show you the front — inside the pages? let me show you the front page i inside the pages? let me show you the front page of— inside the pages? let me show you the front page of the i you the front page of the metro. while we're on these striking front pages, this is a portrait of queen elizabeth from 195a they have chosen there, the italian artist there with the words thank you mam. both ends of her reign. inside the paper, let me show you the gurkhai because let's not forget the many people involved in this which is the british public —— the i. the world's farewell to elizabeth, this is the long walk to windsor castle from windsor great park and if we show you...— from windsor great park and if we show you... which is where the final moments i we show you... which is where the final moments of— we show you... which is where the final moments of today's i the final moments of today's events will be taking place, isn't it? ,

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missed a trick. it day out, the queue, i think we missed a trick.— missed a trick. it how the daily mail _ missed a trick. it how the daily mail have i missed a trick. it how the daily mail have captured l missed a trick. it how the | daily mail have captured it missed a trick. it how the i daily mail have captured it on page 21 what they called the queue, of course we only have about 30 minutes left of it but... about 30 minutes left of it but. . . j: about 30 minutes left of it but... 35. after six days, it is the end _ but. .. 35. after six days, it is the end of— but... 35. after six days, it is the end of the elizabeth line. a. . a. is the end of the elizabeth line. ., , ., s, line. that is a great line, isn't it, _ line. that is a great line, isn't it, because i line. that is a great line, isn't it, because of i line. that is a great line, | isn't it, because of course line. that is a great line, i isn't it, because of course she opened the elizabeth line this year. one of the few public... indeed. events that you turned up indeed. events that you turned up to, a big surprise at the time. �* . up to, a big surprise at the time. �* , s, time. it's right, we did not exect time. it's right, we did not expect her— time. it's right, we did not expect her to i time. it's right, we did not expect her to be i time. it's right, we did not expect her to be there. i time. it's right, we did not i expect her to be there. should have been _ expect her to be there. should have been calling i expect her to be there. should have been calling at i expect her to be there. should have been calling at the i have been calling at the elizabeth line, the queue, all this time. the daily mail, page five, love this, the reception of the century. it sounds like a luggage, glamorous thing but it was the state reception hosted by king charles, hundreds of dignitaries from around the world —— lavish. turning the page and looking at the times, we see it is not that simple. you have many, many diplomatic, potential diplomatic incidents with all of the people invited because

of the people invited because of course you have for example the former spanish king he was asked not to come by the spanish government but turned up, iran, israel... bud spanish government but turned up, iran, israel...— up, iran, israel... and i do love with _ up, iran, israel... and i do love with got i up, iran, israel... and i do love with got this, i up, iran, israel... and i do love with got this, key i love with got this, key protocol problem was that the guests, this was yesterday afternoon, were free to mingle at buckingham palace when world leaders can move unimpeded, there is both diplomatic opportunity and risk. i thought that would you rather well! free to mingle.— that would you rather well! free to mingle. why are they all making — free to mingle. why are they all making the i free to mingle. why are they all making the trip? i free to mingle. why are they all making the trip? there i free to mingle. why are they all making the trip? there is| all making the trip? there is an estimated tv audience of a billion. ., ., , an estimated tv audience of a billion.— they i an estimated tv audience of a billion.— they all i billion. enormous. they all want to be _ billion. enormous. they all want to be seen. i billion. enormous. they all want to be seen. this i billion. enormous. they all. want to be seen. this image billion. enormous. they all i want to be seen. this image is everywhere — want to be seen. this image is everywhere as _ want to be seen. this image is everywhere as well i want to be seen. this image is everywhere as well of i want to be seen. this image is everywhere as well of the i everywhere as well of the princess of wales meeting with the first lady of ukraine, the wife of the ukrainian president, here to represent ukraine. president zelensky not here for obvious reasons. catherine princess of wales is linking to show her support.

this quote from the times, the back page, this was the queen in 2002, i will read it. each day is a new beginning, this is from the queen's christmas broadcast in 2002, each day is a new beginning. i know the only way to live my life is to try to do what is right, to take the long view to give it my best and all that the day brings and to put my trust in god. really important to end on her words there. an interesting quote on the website, the bbc�*s religion editor aleem maqbool talking about how central faith was to her life, the former archbishop of york says the queen was so immersed in scripture that she would just evangelise laterally. absolutely. and that particular speech that year, 2002, when she says each day is a new beginning, itake she says each day is a new beginning, i take the long view, she lost her sister and her mother that year and it was a tough year, 2002. i looked at the numbers that were tuning

into the speech, 3pm on christmas day last year, or the 9 million chintin. —— more than. —— tuned in. it will be strange this christmas. she will be missed. i strange this christmas. she will be missed. she i strange this christmas. she will be missed. she will, i strange this christmas. she . will be missed. she will, and is. will be missed. she will, and is- thank— will be missed. she will, and is. thank you, i will be missed. she will, and is. thank you, mark. i will be missed. she will, and is. thank you, mark. and i will be missed. she will, and i is. thank you, mark. and thank you, too, for your company and before i say goodbye, let's take you to westminster hall as we have just over half—an—hour now for the public to pay their respects. hello. many of us have seen increasing amounts of cloud over the weekend and cloud will play quite a big part in monday's weather story — possibly thick enough at times to give some spots of rain, maybe the odd shower — but it will largely stay dry and i am hopeful that things will remain dry in london and in windsor for the queen's state funeral. there is just the chance that as that cloud thickens through the afternoon, it could give the odd light shower or the odd spot of rain or drizzle. high pressure is still in charge — that's keeping things mostly dry — but this weak warm front is introducing more cloud

and the chance of some damp weather first thing across south west scotland, perhaps north west england and this band of thick cloud and the potential for the odd spot of rain or drizzle does tend to push eastwards as the day wears on. north east scotland will see some good spells of sunshine, though. northern ireland may brighten up for a time. south wales and the south—west of england should see some sunny spells. temperatures north to south between 12 and 19 degrees. the winds for most places will be fairly light. now, through monday night, we'll see large areas of cloud still potentially giving some spots of rain and drizzle, especially in eastern parts. some clear breaks out towards the west. they may well fill in with a little bit of mist and fog. a little milder than it has been over recent nights — 9—12 degrees. tuesday, well, we stick with a rather cloudy theme. this stripe of cloud here still giving rise to some spots of rain and drizzle but it does look like the cloud should tend to turn over and break up a little bit across some western parts to give some sunny spells. a bit more patchy rain into

the western isles of scotland. 17 to 19, maybe 20 degrees in the south, so feeling a little warmer. and actually, on wednesday, if we see some sunny spells, at least for a time, it will feel considerably warmer than it has of late. temperatures of 17 degrees in aberdeen, 21 in norwich and in london. but a frontal system pushing in towards the north—west, bringing some outbreaks of rain, and that will make erratic progress southwards and eastwards through thursday and into friday. some of the rain actually could be quite heavy, even as it gets down into the south of england and south wales. so, the chance of some rain, particularly later on in the week, and a bit less chilly than it has been.

good morning, welcome good morning, welcome to bbc breakfast with to bbc breakfast with jon kay and sally nugent. jon kay and sally nugent. it's monday 19th september. it's monday 19th september. we're at westminster abbey we're at westminster abbey on an historic day. on an historic day. a day the likes of which we haven't a day the likes of which we haven't seen for more than 70 years. seen for more than 70 years. queen elizabeth ii, the united kingdom's queen elizabeth ii, the united kingdom's longest—reigning monarch, sailors, and make its way longest—reigning monarch, will be laid to rest. will be laid to rest. in the next half hour in the next half hour the final mourner will pass the final mourner will pass through westminster hall, through westminster hall, where her majesty has been lying where her majesty has been lying in state for over four days. in state for over four days. later, at precisely 10.aa, later, at precisely 10.aa, her coffin will be taken on a gun her coffin will be taken on a gun carriage, towed by 1a2 royal navy carriage, towed by 1a2 royal navy

sailors, and make its way here to westminster abbey where the state funeral service will take place at 11:00. afterwards, thousands will line the route of a procession,