Trump and Zelensky hold Talks at Pope Francis' Funeral

Pope Francis has been laid to rest, after a moving funeral attended by world leaders including royalty, presidents and prime ministers.

According to Vatican estimates, 250,000 people flocked to the funeral mass at the Vatican, marked by enchanting choral music and emotive readings.

The 88-year-old pontiff’s coffin was then transported to its burial place in the Basilica of St Mary Major, as 150,000 more onlookers lined the route through Rome for the first funeral procession for a pope in a century and to bid farewell to the first Latin-American pope

The day also set the stage for critical international diplomacy, with Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky holding talks in the Vatican which the Ukrainian leader said had the “potential to become historic”.

Pictured face-to-face for a spontaneous meeting in St Peter’s Basilica, Mr Zelensky said the pair “disc.ussed a lot one-on-one” in a “very symbolic meeting”.

Leading the funeral service, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re also echoed one of Francis’ strongest criticisms of Mr Trump, making a call to “build bridges, not walls”