with just two days to go into the coronation, excitement is building on the mall where the clouds are camped out. hello, welcome to bbc news. i am lewis vaughan jones. we are starting in russia where president vladimir putin has made his first tv appearance since an alleged attempt on his life. we have got these pictures in the last couple of hours. here he is in these pictures released by the kremlin in a routine meeting with economic development minister maxim reshetnikov. presumably projecting an image of business as usual. russia claims ukraine was targeting putin in this drone atack on the kremlin on wednesday following orders from the united states. both kyiv and washington have denied any involvement. russia launched a series of air raids on kyiv overnight, in apparent retaliation. but authorities say all the strikes were intercepted by air defences which you can see working here. strikes were also reported in zaporizhizhia and odessa. our russia editor, st
a picture of this, but this is a man who is the chief of the amazon tribes and he has flown here all the way from ecuador to present the king with headdress, a crown of rainforest flowers, the highest honour that they can show and it course it marks a commitment to the king has shown to the obama throughout his life, particularly the preservation of the amazonian rainforest, so he carved out sometime this afternoon to receive this chief, and he has been crowned 48 hours ahead of the real thing on saturday! but thejunior 48 hours ahead of the real thing on saturday! but the junior royals 48 hours ahead of the real thing on saturday! but thejunior royals have also been out and about today, so let me show you some of these live pictures. so the prince and princess of wales boarded a tube today at acton and they travelled down the new elizabeth flying to tottenham court, which must have been a shock for those people sitting there in
view, as thejubilee state coach leaves spot beam blue buckingham palace around 10:20am on saturday. i think there has been a shift in the mood today. there are more people here enjoying the sunshine. of course, some of them are casing where they are going to stand on saturday, just looking where it might be the best position, the best vantage point and of course the hardcore royalists are already here, about 60 or 80 of them already in position with their tents at the top of the mall and they are going to have to dig in because i think tomorrow the weather will turn, it is meant to get a bit rainier tomorrow, so they are as well to come and enjoy it today. you can see the royal standard is fluttering above the palace, which tells us that king charles is in residence. he did leave briefly today for a walkabout down at westminster abbey. rehearsals and also i am told that in the last hour or so, he has been taking and receiving visitors, so this, i don t know if we still have
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this week and no doubt they will be watching the coronation there. that tells you a little bit about how important this is for the royal family, this next few days. it is notjust family, this next few days. it is not just about the king, family, this next few days. it is notjust about the king, it s about the royal family as a whole because they are very much in the spotlight, their position in british society is under the spotlight and the king wants to ensure that the other royals are seen to be fulfilling their duties as well. but as they say, he did go down, the king today, to westminster abbey, where katty kay is today. i can tell you it is a royal event that is upon us because katty kay is in town! and she will be with your saturday and we ll watch events together. you have already sent me copious notes, i have been going through them so i don t let you down, but i m really interested to see how people react to this because we are a very visual society and this is going to be an