church where we are tracking the fallout on wall street as european markets get underway. it s 8 a.m. in the morning here and we are just hours away from the next step in queen elizabeth ii s final journey. the late monarch s coffin rests inside buckingham palace, but later today it ll travel to westminster at the palace of westminster where she will lie in state until her funeral on monday. her arrival in london late on tuesday greeted with cheers and applause by the large crowds gathered to pay tribute and witness this moment in history. king charles iii is now back in london after spending most of tuesday in northern ireland where a prayer service was held for his mother. this, of course, was the first visit there since becoming the new monarch. the king, along with other members of the royal family, will follow the queen s coffin later today as a procession takes it from buckingham palace to westminster hall. our correspondents are following all of the developments for
as we begin day 202 of russia s war of choice, ukrainians are pushing on with their two front counter offensive which has retaken russian occupied territory at a blistering pace. in parts, ukrainian officials claim their forces are just miles from the russian border. in liberated towns and villages, there is evidence everywhere of a hasty russian retreat. tanks and other weapons left abandoned. for weeks, ukraine has been publicly hinting at a counteroffensive at the south. plans for their independence day last month or thereabouts. but it appears the russians might have been duped by abeyance which. with this major push in the northeast. numbers are hard to verify, but in less than two weeks, russia might have suffered one of its biggest losses of the war so far. here is the ukrainian president. since the start of september, our soldiers have already liberated 6000 square kilometers of ukrainian territory in the east and south. we are moving further. the russian ground r
here in london, queen elizabeth the second it will make her final journey back to buckingham palace after an emotional farewell in scotland. the late monarch is not lying at rest at st. charles the jewel in edinburgh where thousands of people filed past her coffin to pay their respects. is it a stream of mourners continuing through the night, after the queen s coffin is flown to london later today, it will remain at buckingham palace before being moved to westminster hall on wednesday. there she will lie and stay until her funeral next monday. cnn correspondents are covering all of the developments, you saw suarez is standing by outside st. charles cathedral in edinburgh. nina dos santos joins me here in london outside whacking him palace. let me start with you, isa, the royal the last royal journey as it were, the royal mile to st. charles cathedral, the very somber occasion and now an opportunity for those who are gathered to pay their respects. you have been speaking to
territory claimed by russia have been liberated. on sunday ukrainian military commander clanld the army had retaken nearly 1200 square miles in two weeks. by monday the official number had doubled. translator: from the beginning of september until today our soldiers have already liberated more than 6,000 square kilometers of the territory of ukraine in the east and south. the movement of our troops continues. the drastic jump in the news is the fact journalists are being denied access to the front lines. u.s. officials refraining from putting out numbers. they say ukrainian soldiers have pushed the soldiers back. clearly we have seen them go on the offensive in the last couple of weeks and actually regain quite a bit of territory. again, i think i ll stay out of quantifying it in too much detail but they are actually taking territory back certainly over the last two weeks during the counter offensive positions. cnn s matthew chance has more from ukraine and russia.
this. that s more ground than the russians have gained in months. and it happened fast. i want to show you this. you can see sort of a time lapse here in the area around kharkiv, the yellow is where the ukrainians have made gains, just since september 3rd. you can see how quickly this all happened and how much of the territory held by the russians the ukrainians were able to take back. russia is responding, however. ukrainian officials say that russian strikes knocked out power in the region. ukrainian troops are being greeted like conquering heroes, civilians rushing to offer flowers, hugs, some of them crying tears of joy. this is a humiliating defeat for russian president vladimir putin and his military. the russians being forced to flee fearing they would be surrounded and captured. they left behind a trail of destruction. sam kiley was live from kharkiv, ukraine, with an exclusive look at what remains from the izium area now. he was the first international corresponden