it s currently more than four miles long, with waiting times of up to nine hours. away from westminster, today s other headlines authorities in ukraine say they re investigating evidence of a mass grave in the city of izyum, which was recently liberated from russian occupation. disruption for thousands of british travellers today, as air traffic controllers in france go on strike. and it s farewell to one of the greatest tennis players of all time, as roger federer announces his retirement. good morning. it s friday september the 16th. you re watching bbc breakfast from westminster, where her majesty the queen has spent a second night lying in state. the queue to enter westminster hall is now stretching back 3.6 miles, as thousands more people wait to pay their respects. here are some of the images here at westminster towards the end of the queue. the queueing time changes hour by hour, but at the moment it is approximately nine hours for those people queueing to pay their
lucy is outside buckingham palace now. we re getting some sense for the people you talked to up just the links they are prepared to go to to make sure they are part of this and they get to see the cottage and hopefully the coffin lying state. that s right. the crowds are lighter today than they have been at the weekend, so people did get the chance here to go around green park and to look at the flowers and go round buckingham palace outside, but i think on wednesday, that the mood will change again, the crowds. to certainly around westminster, around the banks of the thames with hundreds of thousands of people expected. while here we have had people with their phones filming as the ceremony has gone past and when the ceremony has gone past and when the king came out, the chairs, we will return to a much more sombre mood. the lying in state will start at 5pm on wednesday and it will last until 6am in the morning of the queen s funeral. the rules are strict, people have been t
doing at windsor, at balmoral, at sandringham, at holyroodhouse in edinburgh, at hillsborough near belfast, cardiff, city hall, and actually in town halls and other public buildings all across the united kingdom, there are lots of places where people are laying flowers, books of condolences have been opened in many public places like town halls so people can go and write a message. in fact, the government is saying anyone can open a book of condolence in any kind of institution although the royal household will not be able to collect all of those books in and in the government guidance it says don t forget social media, if you just want to change your social media profile and make it more sombre colours or change something that your profile, all those ways of paying respect to the late queen are being welcomed, right from the top of the royal family all the way through government. i don t think people should feel like they have to go and take part in a line in state thoughi g
if you wish to serve, who here would be happy to have borisjohnson in the cabinet? please, raise your hands. not a single hand raised. we ll take a look at what this says about the leadership race so far. and jenny from the block becomes mrs affleck. nearly 20 years after they first dated, jennifer lopez and ben affleck tie the knot. hello and welcome. britain s first extreme heat warning has come into effect with parts of southern england expected to reach a0 celsius later today for the first time. the government says it s treating the unprecedented red alert as a national emergency. western europe is experiencing its second fierce heatwave in recent weeks, causing wildfires and mass evacuations in several countries. mark lobel reports. almost a week on, the wildfires in the south west of france continue to spread. more than 14,000 continue to spread. more than 1a,000 people have been evacuated as two forest fires and golf over 11,000 hectares of land. the development are no