will culminate with her funeral september 19th. following the service at westminster abbey she ll be interred at windsor castle. well, a trumpet fanfare on saturday heralded king charles. even though charles automatically became king upon his mother s death the title was officially bestowed in an accession ceremony. with one voice published and proclaimed at the prince charles philip arthur george is now by the death of our late sovereign of happy memory become our only lawful and rightful liege law, charles iii. by the grace of god of the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland and of these other realms and territories, king, head of the commonwealth, defender of the faith, to whom we do acknowledge all faith and obedience with humble affection. as part of that accession ceremony the new king then put his signature to the formal proclamation. it was also signed by the prince of wales and the queen consort. the queen s death may help close a rift between the
around the world, i m becky anderson live for you at buckingham palace in london with cnn s special coverage, continuing coverage of the death of queen elizabeth ii. an hour from now britain s late queen is scheduled to embark on her final journey, leaving her beloved country home in scotland for the last time. the hearse expected to depart from balmoral castle for a 175 mile, six-hour trip to edinburgh. there she will be taken to the official royal residence, the palace of holyroodhouse. the king and queen consort will attend a church service in edinburgh for the queen on monday. on the following day quinn ses ann will accompany the queen s casket on a flight to london. the queen will lie in state at westminster hall for four days as the public pays its final respects to britain s longest reigning monarch. her state funeral is september 19th at westminster abbey followed by internment at windsor castle. pomp and ceremony as her son charles iii was officially proclaimed the n
what we see from reports don t know why they re there and aren t fighting hard because of that. okay, let s look it at from the other side of the equation here. is there fear russia could be more likely to unleash a weapon we haven t seen so far, for instance either chemical weapons or tactical nuclear strikes to turn the tide back in its favor? neither of those would turn the tide back in its favor on the battlefield, but i do think we re at heightened risk, at max point escalation right now for russia to turn and wane this on the west. what we see in the air waves in russia right now and with their bloggers is that the narrative is very much now saying it wasn t ukraine who pushed through here, it was the west, right, and ukraine s our pruksy. and now they re building up a narrative to attack into poland, into nato bases there or romania or somewhere. we don t know where, but it
professionalism. what you have is the world s heretofore thought of as second most powerful military collapsing because as it turns out it s unprofessional on the inside. what happened in the east here in large part is you had second and third tier personnel in those front lines, you had officers who have been denuded in battle who are unprofessional and not paying attention to the signs. on the flip side you have a citizen volunteer army that s turned professional in a matter of weeks, that is exploiting the weapons that have been given to them by the united states and the west to great effect, but they re able to do that because they know why they re fighting and, therefore, they are fighting. the russians increasingly what we see from reports don t know why they re there and aren t fighting hard because of that. okay. let s look at it from the other side of the equation here. is there fear that russia could be more likely to unleash a weapon we haven t seen so far, for instance, e
and you have someone who is de facto leader of a republican party who just flatout lies to millions of his followers. like, how do you instill that confidence in the system? yeah, historically, it s been different. look, what people like or difficult. look, what people like adolf hitler and benito mussolini were able to do so effectively, i would say we ve got several problems. one is things like social media and information technology enabled distribution of information is so much better that it s a weapon we haven t completely matured to yet. we don t completely know how to control it. and yet, we ve got this kryptonite-like thing that can cause huge problems. another is in our system, we have to reinstate consequences for actors who violate norms that we respect. one, of course, is telling the truth. and that s never been guaranteed in a political process, but