belarus was not invited, like other countries, outsiders such as syria, myanmar-afghanistan and venezuela elizabeth ii during her lifetime, she helped plan the future mourning ceremony and even made changes . and music will be played at her funeral... we will remember with gratitude her steadfastness and devotion to the monastic , necessarily her loyalty to the people throughout her life , from westminster abbey the mourning cortege took course to windsor castle right there in the hovel of st. george and buried his will ii next to her husband prince philip along the entire route thousands of people lined up to see the beloved queen on her last journey said goodbye to her majesty and her beloved corgis it became one of the most moving moments of the ceremony this is a special day it was an honor for me to see the farewell to the queen. i will never forget it. i did not even think that i would feel such emotions, but the ceremony was extremely moving. her life changed. 15 prime ministers and most of the british people were born already during her reign and britain and the whole world were changing, but

representatives of russia were not invited to the farewell ceremony for elizabeth ii, as well as representatives of belarus, venezuelafghanistan, and myanmar. in response, the russian foreign ministry complained about the profound immorality of the organizers of the queen's burial ceremony because of the fact that russian representatives were not invited. on september 14, i will remind you that thousands of britons and citizens of other countries paid tribute to elizabeth ii. they were shocked to stand in multi-kilometer queues in which they had to stand for more than 12 hours today. tens of thousands of britons gathered on the streets of london to watch the farewell ceremony of queen elizabeth ii. i will remind you that she died on september 8 at the age of 96 and is with us live bohdan tsyupin correspondent of the voice of america in london bohdana my greetings, good afternoon, as i said before the ceremony to the vip reception organized by king charles, among the 500 guests, elena zelenska was also invited. britain as one of the many delegations that were invited to this funeral, this funeral is not just a-a buria

venezuela, myanmar or belarus. but i would say the focus today, becky, very much twofold really. on the one hand, on honoring the extraordinary seven decade reign of queen elizabeth iion the other hand, also ensuring that all the logistics that need to work perfectly and come together in perfect coordination today go off without a hitch to give queen elizabeth ii the funeral that everyone in this country or vast majority of people in this country very much would like to see. this is the largest policing operation in london's history. a mammoth endeavor with thousands of police officers. you can see some of them lined along the streets here. more than 30 kilometers or 20 miles of barriers have been erected around london. huge swaths of the central part of the capital have been completely shut off to road traffic. so this is bigger than the olympics, bigger than the platinum jubilee and extraordinary day. and in the next moments we will be seeing more dignitaries from around the world begin to arrive, becky. >> clarissa ward is outside westminster abbey. this major event is of course seeing unprecedented numbers of people swarm into london. as part of that, the proces