Watch ceremony as former President Jimmy Carter taken to lie in state at US Capitol

Click watch live at the top of this page to follow the journey of former US President Jimmy Carter’s remains to the Capitol, where mourners will visit to pay their respects

Carter, who served as the 39th US president from 1977 to 1981, died on 29 December at age 100 in his hometown of Plains, Georgia

On Tuesday, the Carter family is flying with his casket from Atlanta to the Washington DC area, where it will travel in a motorcade to the US Naval Memorial and then to Capitol Hill, where he will lie in state for two days

After a congressional ceremony, members of the public will be able to come view Carter’s casket in the Rotunda

President Joe Biden will deliver a eulogy at Carter’s state funeral at the National Cathedral on Thursday, before the former president’s body will be returned to Georgia and buried alongside his wife Rosalynn