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hello. i m celia hatton. welcome to the programme. the uk s first coronation in 70 years will take place today when king charles iii is crowned at westminster abbey in a ceremony that s expected to attract a global television audience of hundreds of millions of people. the service will reflect a millennium of tradition and be surrounded by a spectacular display of pomp and pageantry involving thousands of members of the military. live now to our correspondent, louisa pilbeam, westminster abbey is where the ceremony is due to take place. guess we ll be arriving there starting around 7:15am. guests will begin arriving. many of the overseas dignitaries, royals, members of the british royal family will be arriving at around 9:30am and we expect the king to arrive at 10:53am. that is crossed to buckingham palace. c buckingham palace at this early hour. now, the king will be leaving buckingham palace at 10:20am. the king has been sleeping there overnight. that is crossed n ....
singing. in tel aviv tonight, friends and campaigners coming together. there is hope here and there is caution. the first israeli hostages should be coming home tomorrow. 13 families should be reunited. but it s bittersweet. many hostages will remain in gaza. only 50 are due to be released during the ceasefire. sisters dafna and ella are not on the list for tomorrow, according to their mother, maayan. she tweeted tonight, it s incredibly difficult. i long for their return but i am relieved for the other families . gil dikman says all the families will share the joy when hostages come home. his cousin carmel is being held. she s 39 and loves to travel. her sister in law, yarden, is also trapped in gaza. even if our hostages won t be released in the next few days, the fact that there will be hostages released, pictures of children and mothers coming back, that s very, very strong and i think people are going to feel as if it s their own children. in gaza, one more day ....
Thank you very much, phil mercer. speaking to us from sydney. let s cross live and look at the mall this hour. that is where the coronation will be taking place later today. westminster abbey. 1053 is when we expect the king and queen consort to arrive in the abbey. they will be entering the abbey at around 11am this morning local time. at around 11am this morning localtime. let s at around 11am this morning local time. let s cross to buckingham palace alive. that s the buckingham palace this hour. it isjust coming. here we go. the king, of course, inside. crowds have been kept quite far back from the palace but we do know that is where the journey is going to begin ....