This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Alex Ritson, and at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday the 23rd of April, these are our main stories.

Long queues are forming outside St Peter's Basilica in Rome, as pilgrims wait to file past the coffin of the late Pope Francis.

The US Secretary of State cancels his trip to London for Ukraine peace talks with both sides far apart.

Also in this podcast, this from the head of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, on Hamas.

Sons of dogs, just release whoever you're holding and be done with it.

Shut down their excuses and spare us.

And fines totaling $800 million in Europe for US tech giants Apple and Meta.

The door of St Peter's Basilica are open,

as thousands of Catholics from Rome and beyond

line up to pay their respects to Pope Francis.

His body lies in state in an open coffin,

dressed in red robes and a white mitre.

There he will remain until his funeral on Saturday.

Bells rang and people applauded as the procession made its way through St. Peter's Square,

led by Cardinal Kevin Farrell, who announced the death on Easter Monday.

As Camelengo, he gave a liturgy before the basilica was open to the public.

Frateres, et alores carisime, magna comitione,

Corpus Papin Nostro Franceschi.

These mourners are among thousands of Catholics queuing outside the Vatican.

It's like a member of the family, isn't they?

Somebody very close to our hearts, somebody who made the church very accessible to everybody

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