where the crowds are ready for a hugely significant historic event that dates back more than two centuries. this is trooping the colour, as we mark the king s official birthday. all five regiments of the fog cards making their way onto centre stage. the footguards. led by the irish wolfhound known as seamus, the regimental mascot of the irish guards. because this year, it is number nine company irish guards who have the honour of providing the escort and trooping their colour. and with them comes the musical flair of the pipes and drums. we have a real treat in store. in about 15 minutes, his majesty the king will set off from buckingham palace for his second birthday parade as monarch and he will be accompanied by other members of the royal family. there is huge excitement around that. we can offer a number of ways to enjoy our coverage this morning. we have audio described commentary for those who are blind or partially sighted, that is via the red button. and you can fi
now to paris to talk to the to those latest makola macron to try to persuade them that this irish backstop this sticking point particularly to get a deal with the e.u. has to go and that i would do everything to tell them we ve just got to put so tonnage of arrangements in place for getting to the point that at the moment they re on tenney so he s proving to the u.k. that he s doing that but also many believe that if he doesn t get anything back that is concrete he can go back to the u.k. go back to parliament to his conservative party and say look i ve tried my best to get what i can from these leaders they won t budge this is all the useful if there isn t no deal bricks it it s not awful it s down to brussels and they re intransient on this whole issue and particularly of the backstop which he said in a letter to donald tusk the president of the european council earlier this week would be anti democratic so that is the line that he is playing we want our
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London from all over the country. but it is a changing situation with the queue. lauren, i don t know if you are still able to hear me but do we know what happens if people get to southwark park and at that point the entrance to the queue is closed? where do they go then? we had talked yesterday of a queue for the queue. again something which sounds very british as well! there was a queue for the queue, and another queue at the back waiting to get into that queue. that is not the official advice. what is the situation is here is a balancing act, they are very much aware of people travelling quite a long wait to come here and try to pay their respects and they don t want people to be stuck in the queue and not be able to get into westminster hall before 6:30am on monday morning, when the queen will be lying in state until then before the funeral takes place around 10:30am,11am on monday. while