sponsibility is huge, they have so much to lose shattering google. i see with women in architecture to smooth. this has to be really, really good. start september 30th on d, w. ah, [000:00:00;00] ah, this is dw news life from berlin. britain's queen elizabeth. the 2nd has died at the age of 96. the united kingdom's longest reigning monarch passed away at her scottish own bo,

moral. she died surrounded by her children and grandchildren. buckingham palace in london becomes the focus of national morning. the queen's eldest son takes over as king charles. he says, the family takes comfort from the affection in which the modern with help ah i'm the cough really welcome to our special program on the passing of queen elizabeth the 2nd. she has died at the age of $96.00. she was the longest reigning monarch and had a state in the world. all 4 of her children were at her scottish home balmoral when she died. her death means her son, charles succeeds her immediately. king charles the 3rd called it a moment of the greatest sadness for himself and the royal family. world leaders have pay tribute to the queen. the german chancellor, olaf shalt said she was

a role model and an inspiration for millions. people in london expressed their sadness. the withal non, to swarm queen this year. she's, she's a pastor, we've always look to some, oh is the so do this for everybody's have been pledged, provide country and she leaded this country with great reverence and duty and respect and honor. and i just don't know if that another like from multiple wireless, but i think she was a mother and shape. she was nice one being here today i'm on to. so for specter she just was leading as an inspiration for women. troy now by karl nice men in london, carl,

we saw some very emotional reactions there to the passing of the queen. what has been the reaction you have been gathering there where you are in front of fucking and leave it in front of the palace earlier today? this afternoon while we were still monitoring the queen help and it was quite to see that initially people were coming as a bit of a, a watch to, to wish the queen well hope we're recovery. and there was this moment right around 630 this afternoon. there is a lag. this flies over buckingham palace, usually it out when the queen and home that flag was lowered to half baths and $630.00. you could see as people and the crowd began to realize what that was said morning. everyone was hoping that that would not be the news when they heard that the queen and the crowd became silent. and you could see the shock on people's faces as night is worn on. it's been really interesting to see people pouring in to pay their tribute, pay their respect, thinking thing,

and god save the queen at the gates of buckingham palace, leaving flowers, leaving messages and sharing stories of their different families. here there been sewers one dinner everyone from across the country is seen as made their way here and it's been quite the theme to see people come and pay their respects to queen elizabeth. i mean, generations of people in the united kingdom haven't known a world without the queen. how much of a sense is there that this is the end of an era? isn't that amazing? i mean, think about this arrow she's, she's been on the throne for 70 years. we've elevated the platinum jubilee here. just this number didn't rulings 1952. and even before that, of course, you play such a big role during world war 2. when she was just a teenager, she's become a part of the nation identity. part of, of it a bit of

a psyche. this is so hard to overstate what the queen means to england into the united kingdom. the legacy that you leave behind is one of, of loyalty of hard work. her motto was never complain and true and you can just see that she lived up to the motto until the very end. we never heard her complain about her health issues. she never one led on that she was suffering she, she really did try to make as many events as awful, even though she was public about having mobility issues and company issues. she made a very big effort to be here for the fly. them do believe very well and of course just 2 days ago there she was reading that again coming prime minister lou and the outgoing prime minister board. it is quite the legacy and one that will be impossible, really to fill for king charles the 3rd as the now takes over the route. that would have been my next question and i think it is the biggest question. everybody's

asking themselves now, isn't it? will he be up to the task? i think that is a question that will be examined here. right now. this is bill country plunged into morning and will be for some time we've been hearing some of the details coming out about the moral services and funeral. but in terms of king charles, he doesn't have the luxury, i guess he might say, of being seen as a fresh start. he's 70 years old. we've known that he would be at some point taking the throne for what seemed like ages. he's always been the king and waiting, and he will be hard for him to shake that image. however, he is in the last few years here become more beloved as the queen herself really did try to leave in more of their family, her son and her grandson into the duties that she had been performing. it was clear that she wanted to make that transition easier for him. it won't be an easy one

simply because of the fact that she was absolutely larger than line correspond and con asmin reporting from buckingham palace in london. thank you. on only her 21st birthday, the queen made a speech in which to promise to dedicate her whole life to public service. it was a promise she kept until the end. earlier this week, she appointed list trust. as britons new prime minister, and in june the nation celebrated her platinum jubilee marking the queen 70 years on the throne. simple letter posted at the gates of buckingham palace informing the public that the queen had passed peacefully at a scottish estate. and the country now has a king away. as the news broke people ro, ready gathering outside the palace grounds. many had been waiting for updates on

the queen's condition. then flags fell to half mast. also at 10 downing street flags were lowered. prime minister lids truss just days into her new job addressed the nation. we are all devastated by the news that we have just heard from balmoral. the death of her majesty the queen is a huge shock to the nation and to the world. queen elizabeth, the 2nd was the rock on which mountain britain was built. our country has grown and flourished under her reign. earlier in the day, members of the royal family had rushed to be by the queen's side. several members flying into aberdeen airport before making their way to queen elizabeth's summer home in scotland. bout moral o. 4 of the queen's children were there, including the air to the throne, prince charles,

now known as king charles. in an official statement, charles said that the family was mourning profoundly, the passing of a cherished sovereign and a much loved mother. tributes to the queen have already begun to flood in from around the world. britain has lost its longest, ever serving monarch a leader who was for so many a cornerstone of stability through 7 decades. extraordinary life indeed devoted to the people and to talk a little more about it. i'm joined now by alex forest whiting, who's been following this very closely for us. and he's in the studio with me now. alex, she's been defined or described as a person larger than life. what will her legacy be? yes, because she was, of course, a very small person, but with this extraordinary personality, not in that she was out, you know,

particularly outgoing. but just in i think how she was, how she presented herself and what she meant for britain. and for many people across the world, i think her legacy has got to be that right up until the very last moment. she put service and duty 1st. and we saw that we've seen that throughout her life. she's always put her role as queen 1st, but i think it has been exemplified this week with her up balmoral, but still a greeting, an outgoing prime minister boris johnson and an incoming prime minister live troth and you know, seeing them clearly she wasn't. she had a smile on, but she clearly was frail. she had a walking stick in the photo that we saw her with british prime minister liz trust . and yet it was that duty and that service that came 1st. and i think to me, that is what really stands out. and the fact that she still did that 2 days before

she died is extraordinary. she was by far the most popular member of the royal family. would you say it's that sense of duty that meter so popular or was there something else to her that people just adored? yeah, i mean, i think we have to remember that there have been times in her rain when she wasn't so popular. i'm thinking, for example, after the death of a princess diana, who was married to her son, king charles, previously prince charles, still getting used to that. i'm still getting used to that. and i think that there was a lot of anger focus towards the the royal family, including the queen. and i think she has had to ride many difficult storms. not just that, if we go back to the fifty's to the sixty's, there have been difficult times. but she's kept going and she has always put her role as queen 1st. and i think that the public, all generations have appreciated that she's wasn't above politics. she's always been there for 70 years for the british people and for others. and i think that is

what made her incredibly popular now just look at the number of people who wanted to get involved in the celebrations of her 70th 70th year on the throne, her black platinum jubilee. it was, it was monumental, even though she herself couldn't attend very much of it because of her ill health. now there have of course been a lot of reactions to the queen's death. the canadian prime minister justin trudeau had some extremely emotional words with listening. in a complicated world, her steady grace and resolve brought comfort and strength to us. all canada is in morning. she was one of my favorite people in the world. and i will miss her. so he

is clearly touched, isn't here it's. it's very moving to see the, the response of all these people around the world who can finally agree on, on one person. yes, it's true. they can finally agree despite all the conflicts and anger that we see at the moment. i think she was, i mean we've even had put in the president of russia also sending his condolences to the, to the role of family. so i really think that she has to do she, she bridge the gap. she came, she, she was above politics and the fact that she was there for so long. the fact that she never gave up despite of many reasons for to step down. she never did. and i think for that comes out in what just intruder was saying. and his emotion there also we have to remember that she wasn't just head of state of britain and northern ireland, but also a 14 other states or countries including canada, including australia, new zealand,

and others. and i think that although perhaps some people in those countries would rather it, they were a public and we may see more of that in the coming months and years. but i think everybody appreciated what she did on what she stood for, which was the continuity duty service. now you've been falling reactions very closely. what else have we been hearing from world leaders? yeah, i mean we've had, i mean, so many messages on twitter and we've heard people speaking. i mean pope frances for example, head of the catholic church. i'm saying that he was deeply saddened by that, by her death and saying that he would be praying for the late queen's eternal rest and paying tribute to her life of, of service to the good of the nation. because of course, we must remember that the queen was also the head of the church of england. so she had a very spiritual role as well. and she was spiritual. so she's drawn people from all walks of life. we were hearing about people like fishing at elton john paying

tribute. everybody loved the queen and that's just that. that is also her legacy. she was left alex, i'm sorry, we'll have to leave it there. there's so much to talk about. thank you so much for being with us and thank all of you for joining us on the special dw news program on the death of britons, queen elizabeth daniel winters of next with our business news. but for now, i'll leave you with some images. looking back at the life and reign of queen elizabeth the 2nd ah, people in trucks injured when trying to free the city center. more and more