elizabeth ii. and bucking hingham palace with charles iii will soon deliver his message to a nation that s grieving. i m anderson cooper with cnn s special coverage along with don lemon, who s at buckingham palace for us. don. reporter: anderson, a day after the loss of his beloved mother, king charles is about to take a huge st. paul in the transition from prince and heir to his royal majesty, as a matter of fact, as he addresses the united kingdom and the world. he arrived at buckingham palace from scotland just a few hours ago. he s greeting people who gathered to pay their respects. he stopped to look at the many bouquets of flowers laid in tribute of queen elizabeth. accompanied by his wife, the new queen supreme court, camilla. just a short while ago he hosted prime minister liz truss, their first formal audience sitting starting his reign. i am joined now here at buckingham palace by my colleagues, the royal correspondent max foster and cnn s chief international corr
coffin will leave edinburgh shortly and the cortege will travel slowly to edinburgh airport, about eight miles away from st giles cathedral, in a journey that is expected to take about a0 minutes. she will then be flown to london, arriving at about seven o clock this evening before her coffin is taken to buckingham palace for one last night. this is the scene near st giles cathedral in edinburgh where the queen s coffin has laid at rest since yesterday afternoon. members of the royal family, princess anne and her husband, who are heading towards the cathedral where there will be private prayers for about 15 minutes before the cortege departs for the airport. thousands and thousands of people have spent many hours queueing, lots of them right through the night, to pay their last respects to briton s longest reigning monarch. so many people came today that the queue had to be closed at lunchtime, people were turned away because there was not enough time for them to make it in
serve, allowing mr assange to return to australia, his home country. i mjoined by return to australia, his home country. i m joined by our north american correspondence. looks like this long running saga could be coming to conclusion. us more. we received conclusion. us more. we received the conclusion. us more. - received the breaking news in the last couple of hours and there are so many layers to the julian assange story. to recap what you said there, it looks like he will be a free man at some point this week, striking a plea deal with the us. he spent the last five years in a high security prison, belmarsh prison, in the uk. remember, he has been long accused by the us of exposing sensitive secrets about the war in iraq and afghanistan through the wikileaks website, the whistleblowing website. and they claim it put american operatives in danger. and almost all the charges he faced, by the way, 18 charges, were under the 1917 espionage act. but he, now, this plea deal
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