has died at the age of 76. hello, and a very warm welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. another emotional staging post in the queen s along the journey from a balmoral to westminster abbey. journey from a balmoral to westminsterabbey. her journey from a balmoral to westminster abbey. her coffin is now at buckingham palace for the night after it was flown from edinburgh airport to raf northolt west of london just a few hours kirk, accompanied all the way by her daughter princess anne. the weather change from sunshine in scotland to pouring reign in london. still, crowds lined the roads on the journey into central london. traffic came to a standstill as people pulled up a standstill as people pulled up and got out of their cars to watch the queen s purse passed by on the other side of the carriageway. on wednesday, her coffin will travel to westminster hall but she will lay in state. it is our royal correspondent nicholas mitchell. and so, to london, on
Labour. Our Political Editor chris mason reports. Cheering placards and cheers, and babies getting attention from politicians. Keir starmer is quite the fan of visiting Lower League Football grounds in places he hopes labour can win. He was in gillingham, in kent this morning his deputy with him, too. Thank you. Whatever Service People try and access these days, they find its like wading through treacle. Red cards arent usually welcome for folk on a football pitch, but expect to see plenty of these in the next month or so, spelling out labours core message. Weve had 14 years of going round and round in circles, getting absolutely nowhere. Chaos and Division Feeding Chaos and division. If you want change, you have to vote for it. And if you vote labour, its a vote to stop the chaos. Its a vote to turn the page, and its a vote to rebuild our country together. Thank you very much, thank you a general election is about winning seats and staying in them. Rishi sunakjust about managed that i
the wikileaks cofounder has been fighting extradition to the us on espionage charges for over a decade. let s look at the key dates that have brought us here. in 2010, julian assange was part of a flood of classified military files and diplomatic cables spilled by wikileaks that year. months later, an international arrest warrant was issued. sweden wanted to question him about sexual assault allegations made by two women. to avoid extradition, he sought refuge in ecuador s london embassy. he d spend seven years there. but in 2019 in a dramatic moment he was dragged out of the embassy after the ecuadorian government withdrew his political asylum. he was thenjailed for skipping bail. and soon, the americans were asking for his extradition. backed by his supporters, he fought against it in the courts and lost. his extradition was approved in 2022. butjulian assange kept appealing until finally this new plea deal with the us allowed him to fly out of the uk. more on our websi