live pictures of st. peter s square in vatican city as we continue with our special coverage of the funeral of pope benedict xvi. very warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i m bianca nobilo. i m max foster live from london. funeral for pope emeritus has just come to an end a short while ago at st. peter s square at the vatican. pope benedict asked for a simple ceremony. pope francis presided over the funeral delivering the homily a short while ago. before that, nearly 200,000 people paid their respects to the late pope during the last three days of public viewing. benedict will be buried in the vatican crypt inside the basilica. t the. now that the funeral services are over, what are your personal reflections? what did it mean to you as a catholic? well, one of the things that i was thinking as i looked out and saw all of these people that pope benedict had known for so many years was the real sort of scope of his caree
a little girl named abigail, turned 4 years old. she spent her birthday, that birthday and at least 50 days before that, held hostage by hamas. today she s free, and jill and i together with so many americans are praying for the fact that a she is going to be all right. mike: president biden speaking about the 4-year-old israeli-american girl that was own colluded in the recent group of included in the recent group of hostages for transport through the rafah crossing, alabama bail den abigail edan, one of the 17 hostages released today. i m mike emmanuel. mr. biden adding he would like a longer pause in order to get more hostages released from gaza. alex hogan is live in jerusalem with the latest developments. reporter: hi, mike. we just saw three thai hostages and one israeli-russian hostage move through the rafah crossing, and all the other hostages have just arrived at the or air base, but one of them was airlifted to the hospital because of serious medical concerns.
vatican 2 r. i think this will be the beginning of that synthesis, to look back, take the best, to avoid the worst and to really make sense of it moving forward. james martin, when we look on the basilica there, it was extraordinary towards the end of the service. we saw the fog lifting. it felt like a truly amazing situation. do you think they achieved everything they wished from this service? it was a bit of a tight rope, wasn t it? yeah. i mean, it s difficult to have a simple service in sarntt. peter square, but i think it was. one of the things that s important to remember is this is the same funeral mass any catholic would have. the final commendation at the end which is very beautiful with the incensing of the coffin.
live pictures of st. peter s square in vatican city as we continue with our special coverage of the funeral of pope benedict xvi. very warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i m bianca nobilo. i m max foster live from london. funeral for pope emeritus has just come to an end a short while ago at st. peter s square at the vatican. pope benedict asked for a simple ceremony. pope francis presided over the funeral delivering the homily a short while ago. before that, nearly 200,000 people paid their respects to the late pope during the last three days of public viewing. benedict will be buried in the vatican crypt inside the
benedict is being buried in the same grattos as his predecessor. what happens within the basilica now, the non-public part of the event? you re absolutely right. i mean, benedict had indicated so this was very much his wish, that he wanted to be buried underneath st. peter s basilica, in the crypt down below, in the tomb that had been occupied by john paul ii. from the beginning i ve thought there s a great poetic part there. for 25 years joseph radzinger, the man who became pope benedict, was the right-hand man of john paul ii. he was the intellect of that. the he said he felt john paul