housed on former military bases instead of hotels in new plans due to be announced later. germany prepares for the first state visit by king charles since becoming monarch. israel s prime minister reacts angrily to comments by the us president who urged him to walk away from his controversial judicial reform plans. amsterdam warns rowdy british sex and drug tourists to stay away in a digital discouragement campaign targeting men aged 18 to 35. hello and welcome to bbc news. we start with the news that the celebrated british tv presenter and comedian paul o grady has died at the age of 67. in a statement his partner andre portasio said he died unexpectedly but peacefully on tuesday evening and thanked fans for all the love they have shown him over the years . paul o grady first came to fame as a drag artist before becoming he first came to fame as the charismatic drag queen lily savage. the act, honed in a succession of pubs, had to be toned down for tv but it was as acerbi
the government wanted to promote the longevity of the empire and the commonwealth, this new, emerging commonwealth. today, we can very much see the primary foreign policy goal of this government which is to start mending relations with europe. they are obviously two very different goals, 70 years apart, but the monarchy is being used in the same way, it is being used by the government as a kind of soft power symbol, something, another tool, that we can use to try and promote our national interest. our national interest. aided, i . uess, our national interest. aided, i guess. by our national interest. aided, i guess. by the our national interest. aided, i guess, by the king s - our national interest. aided, i guess, by the king s german | guess, by the king s german ancestry? guess, by the king s german ancestry? guess, by the king s german ancest ? , , ., ., ancestry? exactly! his father would have been able ancestry? exactly! his father would have been able to ancestry? exac
queen, which was this extraordinary, 40,000 mile, six monthjourney 40,000 mile, six month journey around 40,000 mile, six monthjourney around the world, when she went to australia, 75% of the australian population turned out to see her, just in person, extraordinary numbers, 6 million to 7 million people out of their population of 9 million. obviously charles is not going to have anywhere near that kind of reception in germany but that does not mean that it is not a success. he is going to be greeted with extraordinary pageantry, and they are going to welcome him with these gun salutes and everything, that they are not giving to other heads of state, so we should compare and contrast but not be too down about it. , ,., .., about it. given the political landscape. about it. given the political landscape, how about it. given the political landscape, how importantl about it. given the politicall landscape, how important is about it. given the political- landscape, how important is thi
humza yousaf arrived a short time before, he was with his family, that included his parents and his three year old daughter, who we also saw with him in the parliament yesterday when he was voted in as first minister. and then he went into the war formal setting today of the court of session, and we saw him surrounded byjudges here the more formal setting surrounded by judges as he signed the oath and he took the oath to king charles, who is likely to meet in the coming days. a very short ceremony, and he has now officially been sworn in as the sixth first minister of scotland, and we expect him to come out quite soon if he hasn t already, and then i m sure he will be back to business, because i think he is going to have quite a full entry, and one of the first things he will
in the very heart of berlin. he will, before that, have been welcomed with a 21 gun salute at the airport upon arrival. tonight there is a state banquet and you really get the sense that the excitement is building here. in the next 20 minutes or so, the public will be allowed into the area behind me. it s one of the very few opportunities they are going to get to catch a glimpse of king charles. journalist tom mctague, the staff political editor at the political website unherd, has been following the king s visit, he joins us now from westminster. jenny wasjust jenny was just mentioning the german public, what kind of reception do you thinking charles will get? i think he will get a good reception, he is popular, he has been to germany multiple times now, he is a kind of kindly figure, but i would like to contrast it with his mother, and there is such a stark difference between his mother s first visit as