, fell, hope ,fell, hope and the berlin wall fell, hope and history rhyme. studio: president biden at the bellevue palace in berlin, where he is visiting the country before stepping down as president in november. you're watching bbc news. and we are leaving the scene in berlin and heading to sydney in australia, where king charles and queen camilla have arrived in the country for their visit. this is the plane that touched down a while ago. it is around 8.31 in the evening in sydney, australia and this is a major visit for the king following

the revelation of his cancer diagnosis in february. of course, the king's health will be a key focus during this trip and we understand there had been amendments to the schedule to reflect that. one of the things that has happened is that the new zealand leg of that the new zealand leg of that trip has been cancelled for now. we understand that there will be rest days in place and i will not be any events late in the evening to make sure the king has enough time to recuperate. this is the start of a nine—day tour by king charles and queen camilla of australia and samoa. some of the highlights of the trip will be visiting the aboriginal and islander memorial, a fleet review of the royal australian navy in sydney harbour. they will also go to the national botanic gardens and a community

barbecue, of course a tradition in australia. the king will also meet two australians, hearing about the work they do to help those affected by melanoma, one of australia's most common cancers. this year is the start of the national nine—day tour by king charles and queen camilla. in the build—up to this trip, politics has been a key focus there, especially the ongoing debate as to whether australia should become a republic. and of course, we have our teams on the ground in australia. they will be following that trip over the next nine days and this will be the biggest overseas trip by king charles and queen camilla following the revelation of the king's cancer

diagnosis in february. we understand that his cancer treatment will be paused whilst he is in the country and that trip has been cut short in orderfor the king to come back to the uk to resume that treatment. welcome to sydney in australia, where we are watching an aircraft of the royal australian air force that has just landed at the city's main international airport. on board that aircraft, steps are taken up that aircraft, steps are taken up to the door, are king charles the first and queen camilla —— king charles iii and queen camilla. they have landed on australian soilfor queen camilla. they have landed on australian soil for the king's says a visit to australia as head of state on

this important trip for him and his wife to visit australia and samoa that will last about nine days, and that starts here in sydney. we are waiting for the king and queen to disembark from the aircraft. on board with them will be members of staff and those that have planned this visit. there is a welcome party here in australia to greet them. they have come in on a jet from the royal australian air force because thatis australian air force because that is the custom. when you are a visiting head of state, it is usually the country you are visiting which were sent an aircraft to pick you up and bring you back to the country you are heading to. we await now the departure of the king and queen from this aircraft. this is a strategically important visit for the king, especially important because of the kind of year he has had. it has been an extreme challenge in eight months for the king because of his cancer

diagnosis. to be honest, stayed or nine months ago when buckingham palace announced that the king had cancer, were stepping back from public duty and embarking on cancer treatment, it seemed impossible that this moment we are watching would ever happen, that we would see him land in australia to start a royal tour. it seemed unthinkable, that because of his health issues, he would be able to withstand the rigours of a journey of 10,500 miles from the uk, a journey of around 2a hours, a punishing ten hour time difference between london and sydney. it didn't seem possible that the king and queen would be able to cope. but adjustments have been made to the schedule, as we watch the door open and some of the welcoming party go up to the aircraft door. as i was saying, some adjustments have been made to ensure that this trip could happen. to give you a flavour of what has changed, this was a

trip that was planned to include new zealand at the start, but on medical advice, new zealand was removed from the schedule. that meant the whole trip could be shorter and it would mean the king could return to the uk quickly to resume his cancer treatment, which has been put on hold while he is in australia and then onto samoa. and in terms of the timetable that the king and queen will have while they are in australia, that has been altered as well. they will have altered as well. they will have a rest day on saturday. that in itself is unusual is that they will have a day of rest to recover. of course, the king and queen are both in their mid—70s. they will also have some shorter days while they are here and no evening engagements. all of this is a nod to the fact that the king has not been well. here in australia, there timetable will be confined to sydney and

canberra only. we are now watching some of those on board december. i can see the king in the doorway, king charles iii, coming off the aircraft, luckily for him, holding an umbrella. we had a torrential rainstorm in sydney over the past hour that has caused enormous problems. queen camilla is dressed in blue with a see—through umbrella above her so that we can still see her so that we can still see her as she comes down a little tentatively. they will be slippery stairs. it is atrocious weather in sydney at the moment. but the king is meeting the welcoming party, the governor general of australia. and her partner and a number of other dignitaries from new south wales, greeting him on the soggy wet tarmac at sydney's international airport.

i expect the welcome party will not last too long. many people will want to get into the dry. the king is on his first visit here since 2018, when as prince of wales, he came to open the commonwealth games in melbourne. and crucially in that welcoming party, the king is being greeted by the australian prime minister, anthony albanese. he is of course a republican, someone who has said that he would politically like australia to become a republic. he believes australia should have an australian head of state. but the mood in the room for this visit is that that won't be a live political issue during the trip. in fact, the australian prime minister, the man who would like this country to be a republic, is going to be one of the hosts of the king and queen

while they are here and there are a lot of other domestic political pressures on the australian prime minister, which mean the idea of this becoming a republic, of there being a referendum of the australian people around a republic, is off the table for now because there are more pressing issues. we can see the welcoming party continuing on the tarmac of sydney's international airport is the king and queen are greeted on theirfirst visit to king and queen are greeted on their first visit to australia as monarch and his wife. we can see the king is being presented with a posy of flowers by kai, who is 12 years old and from adelaide. it was his wish to

meet the king and queen as part of the charity the make a wish foundation, with his sister charlotte. handing flowers to the queen is that welcome party finishes. some last chat to the governor general of australia. i think the queen is keen to get into the car and out of the rainy weather here. but they are both looking good. but in their mid—70s. it's been a long journey to get here. now they will get into the vehicle and go to admiralty house in sydney, the home of the governor general. there they will have a private meeting. the king will have a meeting with the australian prime minister, anthony albanese. we will get a photo of that later. and then, unusually, once that moment has happened, we won't see the king again until sunday was that he is having a rest day, again, something that is

unusualfor a royal tour, day, again, something that is unusual for a royal tour, which normally kicks in the moment the king and queen land. not this time, because of the length of that journey, this time, because of the length of thatjourney, the age of the king and queen and the fact that the king has been unwell. a rest day has been built into the programme. they will have time to recover, and the next time we see the king and queen properly in sydney will be on sunday. now safely into the vehicles and they will be driven from the main international airport to admiralty house, the home of australia's governor general where they will meet the prime minister before heading off for a rest day for the next 36 hours before properly embarking on this royal tour, the first royal tour of australia by the king as monarch.

the queen was wearing a brooch. that was apparently a gift to the late queen, queen elizabeth ii, from the people of australia, that has now been passed on to the current queen, queen camilla. she was wearing that brooch in her dress as she disembarked the aircraft. and there they go, the king and queen, being driven away from sydney's international airport after that long journey from the uk, heading to admiralty house, the home of australia's governor general, the

representative of the monarch here. studio: that was our senior

royal correspondent daniela relph, talking us through the arrival of king charles and queen camilla in sydney, australia, for their nine—day tour of australia and samoa. we will have more from daniela relph and our colleagues in australia throughout that visit. let's go back to one of our top stories. liam payne's former one direction bandmates say they are "completely devastated" following his death at the age of 31. the group has released a joint statement saying "we re completely devastated by the news of liam's passing. in time, and when everyone is able to, there will be more to say. but for now, we will take some time to grieve and process the loss of our brother, who we loved dearly". here's our correspondent fiona lamdin. # you don't know you're beautiful. liam payne, a music superstar. # it's got to be you. releasing hit after hit. helping one direction to global glory.

he found fame while still a teenager, but his best friend from secondary school, john carpenter, knew him long before the rest of the world did. it was the first day of year 7 and liam came over to me and he said, "oh, come on, john, let's join the cross country team together". and ifound out later that he was a really keen runner and he had been running for many years, but, nevertheless, he encouraged me to try and become as good as he was. for years, the pair trained and raced together, hoping to reach the olympics. when liam was around 13, his focus shifted from running to singing and performing, and you had a part in that? yes, there was a joke that went around st peter's at the time that actually, i pushed him into singing because i started to beat him at the cross country races in the wolverhampton schools races. and certainly from year 10 onwards, he started to focus a lot more on singing and the drama side of things. # fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars.

and liam's career path was set from 2008 at his first x factor audition. he was only 1a. come back in a few years, thejudges told him. # now you say you love me. and in 2010, he did just that. one massive, fat, almighty yes. i was really proud. overnight, it seemed, liam went from an ordinary, young, hard—working, humble guy from wolverhampton to a megastar. it was just surreal for us all. we couldn't believe what was going on. we had the local media coming to our school, holding up x factor banners saying "go, liam". he had overnight fame. what was that like when he came back to school and he was your friend? he walked up to me and he said in a jokey way, "john, i think you need to be my bodyguard.

i'm worried that the other pupils are going to come after me." and literally 30 seconds later, like that, all of the young people and teenagers in st peter's were out of their classrooms like a shot, and they had their phones out, taking selfies with liam and myself, and one or two others were trying to guard him against the crowds. so, yes, it was amazing to see, really. we'd never seen anything like it before on our own doorstep in wolverhampton. # if you like midnight driving with the windows down. # and if you like going places we can't even pronounce. liam was now living his entire adult life in the spotlight, but said he hadn't missed out on his teenage years. when we came out from school, you know, and college and stuff, we would have gone to uni, whereas this has been like our little kind of uni. having your mates around, you know. yeah, especially when we started in x factor house, as well, stopping in the same little room, whatever. like, you know, it's just living it out in a different way. and i think, you know, if i had to choose between the two, i'd much — you know, i'd do this

every single time. jodie richards taught liam dance from the age of 12. she spoke to him just a few hours before he died. liam meant the world to me. so, i've got three children of my own, three boys and i also consider liam to be, you know, family to me. he's definitely made a big impact on my life, as i hope i've made an impact on his life. those who knew liam will remember him notjust as a pop star, but as a funny and brave soul who left a lasting impact on them all. fiona lamdin, bbc news. psychologist dr tara quinn spoke to us here on bbc news and told us more about the impact of finding

fame at a young age. it's important to recognise that at the moment, people are grieving and looking for answers. so a psychologist can be helpful in helping people understand the impact of something like fame on someone who is very young and whose brain is still developing. the front part of the brain doesn't finish its development sometimes until the late twenties, and that part of the brain controls how you make decisions, how you plan your impulse control. so if you throw something like being in the public eye, having a lot of pressure on you, a lot of exciting things, a lot of dopamine hits from being recognised, sometimes that can have a detrimental impact on your mental health, but also your ability to navigate the things that are thrown your way in the future into adult and beyond. and liam payne spoke out about his own battles with addictions. we don't know the circumstances of his death, police are still investigating in buenos aires. but how easy is it to overcome addiction when you're in the public eye? addiction is a really complicated thing, and i wanted to bring in compassion. when we're struggling with health issues and pressures, it affects our emotional health.

sometimes the way we cope is to try and numb, and substances like alcohol and drugs can numb the intense thoughts that can come from being publicly accessible, so people can get access to you wherever you go. he has spoken bleakly about that before his death. it's very easy to get caught in a cycle. addiction can be really dangerous and although sometimes we mayjudge, it is something we need to take time to understand and be compassionate about as well. that was the psychologist dr tara quinn. the bbc has learned that the uk government is planning to increase the amount of money it raises in inheritance tax at the budget. it is not known how many people are likely to end up paying more — nor how much more they would pgy- inheritance tax

is charged at 40% on the property, money and possessions of somebody who has died — above the £325,000 threshold. it raises about seven billion pounds a year for the government. around 4% of deaths in the uk result in an inheritance tax charge. our political correspondent ben wright has more. we've learned that the chancellor plans to raise more money via inheritance tax. i don't think it's a big surprise, because labour, in its manifesto, ruled out raising the three big taxes that could provide it with useful revenue — vat, income tax and national insurance, although there is a question mark over the employers' contribution to the national insurance element and whether that is something the chancellor is going to do, with strong hints she would change that. so therefore, she is left looking at smaller taxes to raise money. we know she needs billions of pounds extra a year to balance the books and avoid austerity, which is her stated aim with this budget.

so this complex tax, which stirs up strong emotions, both by proponents of inheritance tax and opponents of it, is going to be looked at but we don't know which of the reliefs and allowances she may be tempted to tinker with. but there is the potential to raise quite a bit more money. at the moment, the treasury receives £7 billion a year through inheritance tax. that is a tiny amount considering the £800 billion of revenue the treasury gets every year. fewer than 1 in 20 estates pay inheritance tax, so at a time when many assets are rising in value, in particular houses, of course, and there is a big generational transfer of wealth under way from the baby boomers to their children and grandchildren, you can see why people in the treasury think this could be a good source of money to tap, but it will be controversial. yes, it will.

talk us through what the likely political fallout from such a decision could be? depends how it's done. the conservatives haven't waited for the budget to attack this idea. they are long—standing opponents of trying to raise money through inheritance tax, they think it is unfair and that people should have the right to pass on as much money as possible to their descendants. so they've already said this is unfair. but it depends what actually happens and the argument that the chancellor makes about the decisions she takes, and that of course applies to the whole of the budget. but she has warned many times that there are difficult choices to make. and i think quite a few tax experts and thinktanks have thought for some time that this is a fiendishly completed area in the way it currently operates, and it does not produce much revenue for the treasury, so it could be ripe for an attack by the treasury as a source of further money.

we're focusing on inheritance tax at the moment, but really, this budget is being seen as a crucial moment for the government that only came into office injuly? it will be the defining moment, and it will set the course for the next five years of this government. they've said endlessly that the inheritance is grisly and in terms of the public finances, the plans they were bequeathed by the previous government are extraordinarily hard. add into that the overspend that the government has discovered in various departmental budgets and the fact that they've settled pay disputes across the public sector, and there are difficult choices to make both about public spending, tax and borrowing. the choices that she makes will without a doubt if i'm certainly the first half of this new government. the choices that she makes will without a doubt define certainly the first half

of this new government. that was our political correspondent ben wright. the irish weather service have given us our first named storm of the season, dom ashley. it will impact us in the uk, especially late on sunday, widespread gale developing. there could be travel disruption as rough seas. the latest weather warnings on the bbc weather website. the storm itself is this bunch of cloud out to the west of the atlantic. before it arrives, this cloud will bring wet and windy weather today. it will affect western areas this afternoon. some outbreaks of rain, but in northern ireland and western scotland, the regular turn heavy and persistent later. away from that, the fog clears to bring sunny spells and here, the winds are not as strong as they will be in the west at 13 to 15 miles an hour. temperatures will still be above normal for october, in the mid—if not high teens. this evening, the first

batch of heavy rain will work across the country. turns clearer in the west later on. and it's here where temperatures will drop down into single figures, leading to a fresh start to the weekend. milder, though, across the east. but it's across central and eastern england, saturday morning will be cloudy, ratherwet. it's going to be a struggle to brighten up in parts of east anglia and kent as we go through the day. some of that rain could linger well into the afternoon. elsewhere, not a bad looking day. some sunny spells for the vast majority. one or two showers around in the west. winds lighter than we will see through today. and temperatures still a notch above average for this stage in october. and then it's through saturday night into sunday, things turn that bit stormier. now, this is the area of low pressure. it's going to be at its worst out in the atlantic, but could still have some impact. overall, though, it's a fairly standard autumn storm. it will bring rain to all of us, but as far as the winds are concerned, widespread gales during the day on sunday. it's in the north and west we could see winds gusting

50—60mph, whipping up some rough seas. but through the evening and overnight, the strongest of the winds, particularly across parts of scotland and northern ireland, we think, and that could cause the greatest amount of damage and disruption. with it, as i said, outbreaks of rain on sunday sweeping the country, some of which will be heavy and thundery. some sunshine between the downpours. but the wind picks up, as i said, through the evening and overnight, and that could have an impact as we go into monday morning's rush hour. stay tuned for further updates.

live from london. this is bbc news. israel's prime minister insists that the war in gaza continues, despite the death of hamas leader yahya sinwar. king charles lands in sydney to begin his biggest overseas trip since his cancer diagnosis in february. these are live pictures of the sydney opera house. we will have much more from the country ahead of this nine—day tour of australia and samoa. us presidentjoe biden is honoured with a military medal by germany's president, frank walter steinmeier, at a ceremony in berlin. british foreign secretary

david lammy begins his first official visit to china, in an effort to improve relations. hello, i'm catherine byaruhanga. the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has insisted that the death of the hamas leader, yahya sinwar, does not mean the end of the war in gaza. sinwar is widely believed to be behind the october 7th attacks. israeli forces say the 61—year—old died along with two other hamas members on wednesday during a ground operation in the southern city of rafah. an israeli drone captured pictures of sinwar sitting at the back of a room in a partially destroyed building before the building was brought down. the idf carried out dna testing to confirm his identity. iran's mission to the un describes sinwar as a martyr, saying the manner of his death will strengthen

the "spirit of resistance".