People gather in front of St. Peter's Square and St. Peter's Basilica, on the second day of the conclave to elect the new pope.
Cardinals have entered the second day of the conclave to elect a new pope
On Wednesday evening, black smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel chimney, signalling that the electors had not reached a decision
Crowds are queuing to get into St Peter's Square. An estimated 45,000 gathered there yesterday.
The 133 electing cardinals are attending Mass this morning before returning to deliberations, with a vote expected around 10:30 local time (09:30 BST), followed by another at 12:00 (11:00 BST).
"For this morning's first vote we'll only see smoke if a new pope is chosen. The second vote will see smoke no matter the result - black smoke if no pope is chosen, white smoke if there is a new pope," a bystander said.
A chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel, there is no smoke coming out of it.
Another said, "We're about to get our first chance today to see if the cardinals have chosen a new pope."
There will only be smoke rising from the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel if it is white - which means a successor has been elected. If the electing cardinals have not chosen a pope yet, there won't be any smoke.
Cardinal David, one of three Filipino cardinals taking part in the conclave, was appointed by Pope Francis.
"Not even in my wildest imagination did I think this would happen," said Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David, describing the day he found out that he had been appointed a cardinal.
He was speaking to the BBC at his cathedral in Caloocan, on the outskirts of the Philippine capital Manila. He was leaving the next day for Rome to join the conclave, one of three cardinals from the country who will take part in choosing the next pope.
"Normally you would expect archbishops to become cardinals, but I am only a humble bishop of a little diocese where the majority of the people are slum dwellers, urban poor, you know.
"But I thought just maybe, for Pope Francis, it mattered that we had more cardinals who are really grounded there."
Cardinal David has only been in the job for five months, after his surprise elevation last December. But in some ways he personifies the late pontiff's legacy in his country.
Pope Francis had set himself the goal of bringing a Catholic Church he believed had lost its common touch, back closer to the people.
As we've been reporting, the second day of the conclave is now under way, with electing cardinals expected to take another vote around 10:30 local time (09:30 BST).
Pope Francis, who appointed most of the cardinals voting, created a more global conclave to find his successor than the one that appointed him a decade ago.
There are 133 voting cardinals in this conclave and while cardinals from Europe make up the biggest group of those with a vote (Italy alone has 17), the numbers are down compared to the conclave that selected Pope Francis.
Asia has seen the biggest rise, more than doubling its number of voting cardinals, from 10 to 23.
A graphic showing the continent of origin of the voting cardinals
The secretive ritual known as the conclave has now entered its second day.
For electing cardinals, all conversations with outsiders are forbidden during this period.
Historically, conclaves have sometimes lasted weeks and months, with the longest one lasting three years (but that was a few centuries ago).
The last few conclaves have tended to last just a few days though, with the world's 1.4 billion Catholics watching the Sistine Chapel's chimney in high anticipation.
Charity boss Christine Allen was one of the reportedly 45,000 people packed into St Peter's Square last night.
She tells BBC Radio 5 Live it was "really exciting" as crowds watched the chimney.
Allen, who is CEO of charity Cafod - the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development - says the next pope will inherit "a world in turmoil".
"Conflict, violence, poverty, climate change, issues around debt and the economy.
"They’re all issues we’re concerned about as a development and humanitarian organisation, so it’s really important this pope will continue to speak out - as they traditionally have done - about the social issues of our day and playing their role on the global stage," Allen says.
It looks like it's going to be another sunny say in Rome, and people have already been queuing up in the early morning sun to get into the main square outside St Peter's Basilica.
Tens of thousands of people gathered in St Peter's Square last night in the hopes of seeing white smoke emerge from the chimney. They were made up mostly of pilgrims, tourists and curious Romans. But, though the smoke released was black, not white, the mood didn't darken, too.
"I don't mind that it's black smoke, it shows the Holy Spirit is at work. There will be other votes soon enough, we will get our pope," 37-year-old James Kleineck, from Texas, told AFP news agency.
Barbara Mason, 50, travelled from Canada for the conclave, hoping to see a pope who would continue in Pope Francis's footsteps.
"I'm glad they've taken so much time because that means they're thinking carefully about who the pope will be," she said, suggesting that Francis's popular, bicycle-riding special envoy, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, would be a worthy choice.
A large crowd of people stands in a square surrounded by the ornate buildings of the vatican as they watch black smoke, not visible, emerge from above the Sistine Chapel.
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