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Cardinals enter the Sistine Chapel.

Cardinals dressed in red and white walk into Sistine Chapel in one line.

Cadinals sit in rows at tables inside the Sistine Chapel.

People stand holding umprellas watching cardinals on a screen at St Peter's Square.

Two guards in uniform stand beside large wooden doors.

"If everybody knows the nature of all the discussions … that rather undermines that as a play."

"I call as my witness, Christ the Lord who will be my judge, that my vote is given to the one who, before God, I think should be elected."

Black smoke rises.

Watching outside

"Do you accept your canonical election as supreme pontiff?"

White smoke rises from the chimney above the Sistine Chapel.

The pope waves from a balcony looking down towards a crowd of people at night.

Pope Francis stands on a balcony waving and smiling.

A group of men dressed in white robes and white head pieces walk through St Peter's Square.

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