as he meets president xijinping for the first time since the invasion. and one of the all time tennis greats, roger federer, announces his retirement. welcome to the programme. with shaun ley in westminster and me, ros atkins, in the bbc news room. tens of thousands of people are waiting for their turn to pay their respects to queen elizabeth ii at westminster hall where she is lying in state. these are live pictures from westminster, where the queue is currently stretching over some five km. some people have waited for more than eight hours to get here, inside westminster hall, where the closed coffin is being guarded by soldiers from units that serve the royal household. that process will continue, 2a hours a day, until monday morning at 6.30am. for the latest, we can nowjoin shaun ley in westminster. hello and thank you very much. hello to all of you watching, whether you re in the uk or around the world. here in westminster is the opportunity for members of the public, as
among them, chris millyard from kidderminster. she discovered the queen had sent her grandparents a food parcel in 19117. she found a letter amongst her late grandfather s papers. one of them is to do with my dad s schooling and the other one is the message, a little note from princess elizabeth, as she would ve been at the time, which relates to her wedding and having received lots of food parcels from overseas. and she decided to distribute them amongst poor, humble people of the uk. my grandfather, who was born in 1893 or something like that, they were miners. the miners kept the country going during the war. you know the country had to be kept going. so my take on it, it s one of the reasons, perhaps, why they received a food parcel.
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