This is al jazeera and these are the top stories, the united kingdoms new monarch charles. The 3rd has addressed the nation and the wider commonwealth for the 1st time as king he prized his mother, Queen Elizabeth for her unswerving devotion. Earlier he met crowds of well wishes at buckingham palace. Queen elizabeth was a life well lived, a promise with destiny kept. And she is mourned most deeply in her passing. That promise of lifelong service. I renew to all to day alongside the personal grief that all my family of feeling. We also share with so many of you in the united kingdom, in all the countries where the queen was head of state in the commonwealth and across the world. A deep sense of gratitude for the more than 70 years in which my mother, as queen served the people of so many nations across the u. K. Cannons fired at 96. 00 shots marking each year of the queens life. 7 ah, bells also told and cathedrals and town churches as part of a long plant, carefully organized series of