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
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