rest at the royal family s official scottish residence after arriving sunday in edinburgh where crowds turned out to pay their final respects. in the hours to come, the queen s coffin will be taken in procession from the palace of holyrood house to st. giles cathedral for a prayer service. god save the king played as charles iii was proclaimed king across the uk, including in scotland. he was formally confirmed as the new monarch on saturday before meeting with commonwealth leaders in london on sunday. and in the hours ahead, king charles will visit westminster hall where he ll receive condo lances from both houses of parliament. he will later depart for edinburgh to take part in the service for the queen. royal historian kate williams joining me now here at buckingham palace. and it is a busy day ahead. we also have nic robertson standing by with more from edinburgh. let s start with you, kate. king charles iii well and truly now ensconced in his new role. it is a busy day
Joining me now here at buckingham palace. and it is a busy day ahead. we also have nic robertson standing by with more from edinburgh. let s start with you, kate. king charles iii well and truly now ensconced in his new role. it is a busy day for him and a busy week. yes, becky. this is really the beginning of the king s constitutional role. we have seen him address the nation in the speech that he gave about his mother, that very moving speech, which he wished the angels to her rest. then the accession council, privy council filmed for the first time ever. he met the commonwealth leaders, met the prime minister and now it s a case of really he will receive condolences at westminster hall. the monarch can t go into parliament. that s historically the case after charles i tried to kidnap mps. then he will go to scotland and
Crimes. it must be punished. cnn international diplomatic editor nic robertson standing by live for us in brussels. nic, the symbolism of visiting kyiv is important, anything else, any substance to come of this? reporter: michel promising a donor conference the 5th of may, the world bank involved, sweden and poland along with the eu. he said they would be putting it together. so important financial assistance he said that would continue to flow to ukraine for humanitarian, the military component continuing to flow. he said it s important ukraine can continue to pay its government services, government employees in the days and weeks ahead but also committed to helping rebuild ukraine. zelenskyy, interestingly, said nothing on the horizon at the moment in terms of any peace negotiations with russia. he said there were 120,000 civilians still trapped in mariupol, a much bigger number
Deeds. cnn s nic robertson standing by live in brussels. first we go to phil black in lviv, ukraine. so there were some incidents around the city? reporter: well, lester, we ve had recent statements from both russians and ukrainians saying there were missile strikes carried out here by russian forces here in the west of the country. according to the russian statement, it was just one of a number of strikes that have been carried out in the last 24 hours or so right across the breadth of ukraine targeting a number of specific key pieces of ukrainian infrastructure. it is part of an ongoing campaign by russian forces using that clear superiority that it has with the long-range precision weapons to knock out things like fuel storage depots, repair stations and command posts. regardless of what happens on
Preventing an all-out war between russia and ukraine. u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken and sergei lavrov will meet in geneva, switzerland. negotiations have done little to ease tensions so far. and ukrainian leaders say the u.s. and president joe biden must do more to deter a russian invasion. well, tens of thousands of russian troops a mass on ukraine s eastern border and president biden is having to clean up his comments that a minor incursion could bring a less forceful sports from western allies. have a listen. i ve been absolutely clear with president putin. he has no misunderstanding. if any, any assembled russian units move across ukrainian border, that is an invasion. it will be met with severe and coordinated economic response. russia will pay a heavy price. let s get more on the story. cnn s international diplomatic editor nic robertson standing by