More than 100-thousand mourners have now visited St Peter's Basilica to pay their respects to Pope Francis. The pontiff's body will lie in state for one more day before a funeral is held.
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00:00200,000 people are expected to crowd into St Peter's Square for the funeral mass of Pope Francis and that will include world leaders such as Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron, Volodymyr Zelensky and also Prince William.
00:16It's been busy here all week as people have come to view the body of the Pope lying in state. 100,000 people have now done that. When the public viewings end this evening local time there will be a special ritual to seal the casket of the Pope ahead of that funeral and then after the funeral there will be one more opportunity for people to say their farewells as the casket is driven along a four kilometre route to the Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica,
00:45the Pope's final resting place.