coffin will leave edinburgh shortly and the cortege will travel slowly to edinburgh airport, about eight miles away from st giles cathedral, in a journey that is expected to take about a0 minutes. she will then be flown to london, arriving at about seven o clock this evening before her coffin is taken to buckingham palace for one last night. this is the scene near st giles cathedral in edinburgh where the queen s coffin has laid at rest since yesterday afternoon. members of the royal family, princess anne and her husband, who are heading towards the cathedral where there will be private prayers for about 15 minutes before the cortege departs for the airport. thousands and thousands of people have spent many hours queueing, lots of them right through the night, to pay their last respects to briton s longest reigning monarch. so many people came today that the queue had to be closed at lunchtime, people were turned away because there was not enough time for them to make it in
as they will be able to from wednesday in london, at westminster hall, from where the king has just departed, now travelling by road to his fight to scotland. with me is our chief political correspondent nick eardley. we continue to watch the pictures of the car are taking the king on his journey to edinburgh. nick was at that service in the houses of parliament. another very important moment of the ceremony and the passing of the baton from one monarch to another stop you we will see a lot of that. the king now travels to edinburgh, are see a lot of that. the king now travels to edinburgh, travels to edinburgh, are very visual embodiment travels to edinburgh, are very visual embodiment of- travels to edinburgh, are very visual embodiment of how - travels to edinburgh, are very| visual embodiment of how the travels to edinburgh, are very - visual embodiment of how the uk s constitutional setup works. it king is going to parliament, getting that address from the speakers of
does climate change now mean regular severe heat waves? future warming is determined by future emissions. if we stop dumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere the world will stop warming. tomorrow night s leadership debate is cancelled after rishi sunak and liz truss indicate they do not want to take part following last night s encounter when the five rivals attacked each other s records and policies. ukraine s president suspends his security chief and top prosecutor over accusations that members of their departments were collaborating with russia. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the uk s first ever red warning for extreme heat has come into effect, meaning there s a danger to life and the threat of major travel disruption. the red alert covers much of england, from london and the south east up to york and manchester. parts of england could be hotter than the western sahara and the caribbean. tomorrow, temperatures could exceed a0 degrees in southern england, which w
6th, we had conversations about potentially obstructing justice or defrauding the electoral count. we ll have much more on her testimony in just a moment. back here in madrid, multiple developments this morning on the first day of the nato summit. president biden, he s participating in several meetings with nato allies including a highly anticipated sit-down with the turkish president next hour. so far, the alliance has announced a significant strengthening of forces along the eastern flank. formally invited finland and sweden to become members after overcoming turkey s opposition and naming china in the strategic concept, as it s known, their mission statement. confronting russia as the brutal invasion of ukraine drags on. poppy? we ll take you back to jim in madrid in just a moment. let s begin this hour though with more on yesterday s damning january 6th testimony. our capitol hill reporter melanie zanona with me. you have reporting, significant developments. walk us