it s currently more than four miles long, with waiting times of up to nine hours. away from westminster, today s other headlines authorities in ukraine say they re investigating evidence of a mass grave in the city of izyum, which was recently liberated from russian occupation. disruption for thousands of british travellers today, as air traffic controllers in france go on strike. and it s farewell to one of the greatest tennis players of all time, as roger federer announces his retirement. good morning. it s friday september the 16th. you re watching bbc breakfast from westminster, where her majesty the queen has spent a second night lying in state. the queue to enter westminster hall is now stretching back 3.6 miles, as thousands more people wait to pay their respects. here are some of the images here at westminster towards the end of the queue. the queueing time changes hour by hour, but at the moment it is approximately nine hours for those people queueing to pay their
all of those buried here, but they expect to be digging at more sites like this in areas recently taken back from the russians. orla guerin, bbc news. india s prime minister, narendra modi, has told the russian leader, vladimir putin, that now is not the time for war . the two men have held face to face talks in uzbekistan on the sidelines of a regional summit. mr modi stressed the importance of democracy, diplomacy and dialogue . the russian leader responded that moscow was doing everything it could to bring the conflict to an end: translation: i know about your stance on the conflict in ukraine. | i know about the concerns that you voice constantly. we will do everything for it to stop as soon as possible. unfortunately, the leadership of our opponents, ukraine, has stated that they refused to hold talks and that they want to reach their goals militarily, or as they say, on the battlefield. drjenny mathers is an expert on russian politics and security at the department of
Or other asian muslim origin is well established. Today, ken macdonald, a former director of public prosecutions, said it is a disease of racism and sexism that will not abate until it is confronted. Labour mp Sarah Champion said that people are more afraid to be called a racist than they are afraid to be wrong about calling out child abuse, which has inhibited exposure of wrong doing. She asked, why are we not commissioning research to see what is going on and how we need to change what is going on, so that it never happens again . Theyre good questions, so we are going to ask them for the first part of the programme this evening. First, Rabiya Limbada reports from oxford. Some of the 18 men and one woman convicted of abusing girls in newcastle. The men convicted were mainly british born, and came from bangladeshi, pakistani, indian, iraqi, iranian and turkish communities. A report in 2011 by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre identified over 2000 potential localised
with people later in the programme. the queen s death is being mourned across the commonwealth, but of course, every country s relationship to the monarchy is shaped by its own history. 0n cyprus, the reaction to her majesty s death has been divided, as our correspondent anna foster reports. more than 2,000 miles from home, this corner of cyprus feels distinctly british, and within the expat community here, the queen s death is keenly felt. tracey moved here eight years ago from milton keynes. don t get that on camera! sad. wishing i could go home to be part of it, to be honest. she s like part of the family. she s been there for everyone s life. and it s like losing your nan, isuppose. yeah. sad. ijust love the queen. that s it, really?