buckingham palace. we re all day, people have been to leave flowers, share memories, or just be part of history. this is cnn s continuing live coverage of the death of queen elizabeth the second. i m cristiano lump or in london. the queen saw 14 american president and 15 british prime ministers come and go. the latest, lustrous, who became prime minister just two days ago. their meeting was captured in the final photographs of a monarch who is still working right to the very end. now, her family is in mourning, as the world watches. saying farewell to the queen who is also a mother, a grandmother, a great grandmother. prince charles, now can charles the third, is expected to address the british people in a matter of hours. but, this was the scene outside buckingham palace earlier. a rainbow spreading across the sky as crowds gathered shortly before the death of the queen was announced. the queen, who dedicated her life to the service of her people. saw many years ago. i dec
i am outside where the event will be taking place this afternoon but there has been growing opposition from protesters, citing the legitimacy and the cost. and work begins to remove the tens of thousands of floral tributes left to honour the queen, in central london. in the last few hours nasa has successfully managed to test the world s first planetary defence system by deliberately crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid. the dart mission is the first ever attempt to change the course of a large object roughly the size of a football stadium. a live camera relayed the spacecraft s final few seconds to nasa scientists before it crashed into the rock. there, oh, my goodness. oh, wow. four, three, two, one. oh, my gosh! whoo! oh, wow! visual confirmation. cheering they had a news conference after that and the dart team spoke of their relief that the mission had been achieved. it is wonderful to do something this amazing and we is wonderful to do something this amazing and we a
been hearing incoming and are coming shells. it really doesn t stop. and work begins to remove the tens of thousands of floral tributes left to honour the queen, within the last few hours nasa has successfully managed to test the world s first planetary defence system by deliberately crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid. the dart mission is the first ever attempt to change the course of a large object, roughly the size of a football stadium. the probe is thought of the asteroid targetjust i7 the probe is thought of the asteroid targetjust 17 metres off the bullseye. a live camera relayed the spacecraft s final few seconds to nasa scientists before it crashed into the rock. there, oh, my goodness. oh, wow. four, three, two, one. oh, my gosh! whoo! oh, wow! confirming visual confirmation. cheering at a press conference following the succesful mission, the dart team spoke of their relief that the mission had been achieved. it is absolutely wonderful to do something this amazin
the pound remains under pressure from market concerns about government borrowing to fund tax cuts. a state funeral is due to be held for the former japanese prime minister shinzo abe. leaders from across the world are expected to be at the service. the event will start in just under an hour but there has been growing opposition with detractors citing the cost. and honours even as engalnd and germany share six goals in their final game before the qatar, world cup. of an asteroid travelling at 14,000 miles per hour! it s the first time it s ever been done, and it s hoped that it ll teach us how to change the speed and path of future asteroids and planets. our science editor, rebecca morelle, has been taking a look at what happened. closing in on the target. images beamed back from 7 million miles away as a nasa spacecraft approaches an asteroid. the details of the rocky world are revealed. but this probe isn t here to study it. itsjob is to knock the space rock off course by