hello and welcome to the programme. we start today with russia. it says a pro kremlin military blogger has been killed in a blast in a cafe in st petersburg. police say 16 others have been injured in the incident. the city is the second largest in russia after the capital, moscow. vladlen tatarsky was one of a handful of reporters writing blogs on the telegram platform from the front line and was a vocal supporter of russia s war in ukraine. these are pictures before the explosion. tatarsky was a guest speaker at an event hosted by the cafe in st petersburg when the bomb went off. i m joined now by sergei goryashko, journalist at bbc russian. thank you so much forjoining us on the programme. i know information is coming in fast and fluid but if you could talk us through what we know at this point. for could talk us through what we know at this point- at this point. for now we know that the explosion at this point. for now we know that the explosion was at this point. for
welcome to westminster, where people continue to queue to pay their respects to her majesty the queen. the queue is now officially closed and no more people are now allowed to join the end of the queue, so the people who are now filing past me are some of the last who will have that moment in westminster hall in that historic building, nearly 1000 years old, that has witnessed so much history, witnessing it once again, these are some of the last people to be able to file past her majesty the queen, the late queen who has been lying in state for nearly four and a half days. that will then end at 6:30am many of these people behind me, they have started at 4pm and they continue to file past and this is we are right in the middle of the snake, that moment where people have do zigzag very compressed in order to facilitate so many people, thousands of people, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people. we believe at least half a million people will ma
in the queue for the queen s lying in state. thousands continue to queue for hours to file past the coffin, with the line stretching for miles through the streets of london. i m mark lobel in westminster, where mourners have one day left to pay their respects to the queen. i ll speak to some of the tens of thousands already have. president biden is the latest world leader to arrive in the uk, ahead of the queen s state funeral on monday. in other news ukraine says more western weaponry is needed to beat russia, as bodies are recovered from a mass burial site, newly liberated, in northeastern ukraine. hello, welcome to the programme. the queen s eight grandchildren, including princes william and harry, have held a vigil at her lying in state in westminster hall. it s the first time in history that a monarch s grandchildren have performed such a ceremony, on their death. earlier, the king and the prince of wales met members of the public queueing to pay their respects to the
is the scene in central london. then the prince of wales just visiting, the crowds, you the qb waited to westminster hall, thanking them. a busy time for the royals. king charles iii meeting the new met commissioner. the mayor of london and suella braverman who are in charge of the extraordinary policing operation that will unfold on monday here in central london. let s get the reaction to down there. it is continuing flow of people. tens of thousands of people still coming here. the wait time thankfully for many people is way lower than it was when we started in the early hours of the morning. then it was something like 25 hours. now thatis it was something like 25 hours. now that is considerably more palatable. obviously getting used to these enormous numbers. it is down to m hours. the people coming through now as they approach the final leg of this whole epicjourney along the thames and across lambeth bridge are seeing thejoin the thames and across lambeth bridge are seei
the queue to see the queen lying in state it s close to full capacity, with a waiting time of at least 2a hours. military rehearsals have been taking place in windsor ahead of the queen s funeral on monday. away from westminster, today s other headlines. ukraine says hundreds of graves have been found outside izyum, a city that was recently regained from russian forces. the premier league returned with fans and players paying their own respects to the queen. it s saturday, 17th september. you re watching bbc breakfast from westminster, where her majesty the queen has spent a third night lying in state. people hoping to pay their respects at westminster hall are being told not to travel tojoin the queue, as it s almost at capacity, with waiting times at least 2a hours long. last night king charles, the princess royal, prince andrew and prince edward held a silent vigil by their mother s coffin. in conversation with some of the people who have been arriving here, they have be