Media captionUS political leaders pay tribute to John McCain
Former presidents Barack Obama and George W Bush are to guide mourners at a provider for Senator John McCain at Washington’s National Cathedral.
The Vietnam Warfare hero, who changed into one in all America’s most high-profile politicians, died every week ago from brain cancer on the age of 81.
President Donald Trump is not going to be attending the memorial provider.
The two Republicans had prime variations, each non-public and political.
McCain’s circle of relatives made clear Mr Trump was now not welcome at memorial products and services in the state of Arizona – which McCain represented as senator – and Washington, or at Sunday’s private burial provider in Annapolis, Maryland, at the US Naval Academy.
Media captionJohn McCain: US warfare hero, maverick and political titan
Former presidents Obama and Bush – every of whom beat McCain in his twin presidential campaigns – will deliver eulogies, and so will former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
McCain’s frame was taken from his home to a church in Phoenix, Arizona, on Thursday for a commemoration led by way of former US Vice-President Joe Biden.
It was once then taken to Washington to lie in state at the Capitol.
On the way to the cathedral, the cortege stopped at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the place McCain’s wife Cindy laid a wreath.
Media captionVisitors to the Vietnam memorial in Washington DC paid tribute to John McCain.
Sooner Than he went into politics, McCain was once a US Military pilot who was once shot down over Hanoi while on a bombing mission in 1967.
He was held as a prisoner till 1973, enduring torture that – along side the wounds he sustained bailing out of his jet – left him with existence-lengthy accidents.
While deeply conservative on a few issues, the Arizona senator had a maverick streak that endeared him to political buddies and fighters.
He championed reform people immigration, campaign finance and environmental laws, and was once outspoken in criticising folks who recommended what he regarded as torture towards captured enemies of The Us.
