i am here on the mall where people are preparing to camp overnight ahead are preparing to camp overnight ahead of are preparing to camp overnight ahead of the funeral. also on the programme. in ukraine, president zelensky says he has more evidence of torture carried out by the russian forces in the east of the country. and a huge typhoon strikes southern japan around three million people are told to evacuate their homes. good afternoon. ahead of the queen s state funeral tomorrow, people are being advised not to join the queue to see her lying in state as it will shortly reach its final capacity. those who were already in line will be admitted to westminster hall untiljust before 6.30am tomorrow. this evening there will be a one minute silence at 8pm across the uk to remember the late queen. during the day, king charles greeted foreign dignitaries and world leaders arriving for her majesty s state funeral, which will be held at westminster abbey tomorrow morning. he also
the one minute silence has been observed on the eve of the state funeral for her majesty queen elizabeth ii, and across britain as we saw there people eager to show their respect and indeed to think about what tomorrow represents, and judith and giles are still with me for a final thought as we look ahead to tomorrow. what do you think tomorrow, judith, will mean to people, as a day of remembering and giving thanks? will it touch millions of people as some people predict i would very much think it will be a beautiful day and we will see all the wonderful thing that can happen in music and the wonderful abbey, and i think also an important moment for us to realise we will not be seeing the queen again. she won t p0p up, seeing the queen again. she won t pop up, as she so often did, even in the last year doing some delightful things like cutting a cake at the wru or something. she has died and this is our real moment. yes, wru or something. she has died and this is our real mom
Together to the ceremony. Along the crowds, some of the countrys former president s. Of the countrys former president s. 0n capitol hill, the inaugural platform is almost full, but waiting for the arrival of donald trump. He will at the 35 words goodbye americas founding fathers, the Oath Of Office, that will make him americas 45th president. Hundreds of thousands of supporters, and protesters, too, in washington, dc for this event. Dignitaries, protesters, too, in washington, dc forthis event. Dignitaries, members of congress, military leaders, are already taking their seats on the platform ahead of the ceremony, and we will bring you every moment of it. In less than one hour, donald trump will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. The Property Tycoon won an unexpected victory in novembers election after a controversial campaign. Hundreds of thousands of his supporters are here in washington, but there are protesters as well. They have come for the event that will be
a couple of hundred metres behind me is the us ambassador s residence and that is where we assume present biden is sleeping but on monday he is expected to go to downing street where he will meet with rishi sunak in the fifth time in as many months and they will have a meeting of around 30 a0 minutes and will discuss a range of issues from clean energy to artificial intelligence but chief among theissues intelligence but chief among the issues we expect they are going to discuss will be the war in ukraine. when they have finished that meeting the president is expected to make his way to windsor where he will meet with king charles. this will be the first time he has actually met charles since charles became king because president biden did not in fact attend the coronation, instead sending his wife, first lady, doctorjill biden. when they are meeting, we know that the king is a massive advocate of environmental issues so it is expected they will discuss a range of climate initiatives
germany s defence minister. germany s defence minister. germany really ramped down its defence on her watch. then, of course, there are the more parochial issues, you could say, between the us and britain. the transatlantic alliance, the special relationship, is not in it the best shape. there is still enormous sharing of military and intelligence expertise at mid and low levels, but up at the top? president biden did not he chose to the coronation of king charles iii in may. he sent his wife, the first lady, but he did not come to it. this is a once in a generation event, people presume, and he chose not to come to it and that i think is seen by some people as a bit of a snob. he spent plenty of time in ireland. he likes to stress his irish roots and he has sometimes made comments that would imply possibly that he is