scuppered the first. these are live pictures from cape canaveral ahead of take off. we ll take you back to these pictures and our correspondent when it s time for countdown. serena williams is defeated in the third round of the us open in new york, in what is likely to be her last competative match. good afternoon. the funeral is taking place of mikhail gorbachev the last president of the soviet union, who helped bring the cold war to a peaceful end. he died on tuesday at the age of 91. russian president vladimir putin is not attending due to what he described as constraints on his schedule. our russia editor steve rosenberg reports. it was the final farewell to the man who changed the world. in the columned hall of moscow s house of unions, mikhail gorbachev lay in state, a steady stream of mourners filing past his open casket. there was a guard of honour, but the last leader of the soviet union had not been honoured with a full state funeral. a sign that today s kreml
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