this is the bellevue palace in berlin.s is the official residence of the president and as you can see, that is the us president joe biden arriving and greeting his counterpart in berlin. as we mentioned earlier, this will be present biden�*s last visit to germany as us president. of course, he has been a great ally of the country. they have been working together on helping ukraine during conflict after russia's invasion of ukraine. latertoday, after russia's invasion of ukraine. later today, we expect that president biden will be given a merit order. this is the highest honourfor given a merit order. this is the highest honour for the german state. that is president biden, greeting his german counterpart in berlin. as we were hearing earlier from counterpart in berlin. as we were hearing earlierfrom our correspondent in berlin, jess parker, she was saying that he is celebrated in germany and they will continue talks on how they will continue talks on how they can support ukraine in this war, but it is unlikely that there w

we can take you to berlin and the scene at the bellevue palace where president biden, as you can see,ent frank—walter steinmeier. a little early at the us president was greeted with a military guard of honour. this is being seen as a farewell visit to the us president, this will be his last visit to germany before he steps down as president. let us listen to what is happening. applause for germany, the friendship with the united states has been, is now and will always be existentially important. existential both for our security and our democracy. and yet in this friendship there have been and always will be times of proximity and greater distance. times of agreement and times of discord. even recently, just a handful of years ago, the distance had grown so wide that we almost lost each other. but, ladies and gentlemen, throughout the ups and downs of time, there have been people who have stood by the transatlantic relations, no matter what. and chief among those people, the president, you. you stand with us, sir, because you know that what binds us is so much deeper than the news of

artwork. >> bellevue police are not calling the incident a hate crime yet. record breaking heat is being seen across much of the west and in arizona. two dogs were seen chained up in a backyard during this extreme heat wave. >> two phoenix police officers were in the area when they received the call last week. the officers say they arrived to find one dog had collapsed and the other one was barking in distress. body camera footage shows the officers immediately began spraying those dogs with water to try and cool them off. but after being rushed to a nearby hospital, the second dog died. >> the dogs. unfortunately, they were chained to a pole and they were chained with a metal chain linked chain. if you see something, say something. luckily for us, that witness was an amazing witness and she's the reason why the other dog lived. >> the other dog is now with the humane society. phoenix police say the homeowner in this case faces two felonies and city code violations. with that, let's get you over to meteorologist roberta gonzalez. roberta, a heat wave here at

more success in fighting this, we should learn more from that on what the mayor of bellevue has done. ms. laven: dr. garcia, what would you do to address public safety? as i travel -- dr. garcia: as i travel around the state, it is the number one thing on everybody's mind. we want our children to be safe when they are out there playing. our streets are not safe. we need to change the culture, to reinforce our support for law enforcement. seattle itself is 375 policemen under. we cannot take the 911 calls and be there on time if we do that. second, we need to revive the community relationship between law enforcement and businesses. when we had that, we knew who did not belong in our streets. most importantly, we need to start prosecuting small crime again. small crime leads to bigger crime. this is what our permissive society so far has done to our city and seattle into our state. truthfully, to our country. when it comes to fentanyl, there is no bigger crisis in america. a human being is dying every four minutes and 40 seconds. i walked 184 miles to bring awareness to this crisis and

we're afraid we're turning into a new, gaza in love and on how it generally stolen men in bellevue, told me more about the latest air strikes. yes, indeed, we have witnessed a series of asteroids here and may roost on this silence up groups of favorites. this comes off the long nights of more air strikes into the silence of so fair words at this point. now these strikes have really become i am on a daily basis and he is really hit state and nice. but this choice also continue in other parts of the country. are the composite continue to be very dangerous? the is there any army has just confirms that have targeted and was a town of center sped and it also hits a refugee camp in the northern city of tripoli, almost here and up on, on sides it target and a leader had been killed during this attack. we understand israel is also continuing its ground, defensive and 11 on what are you hearing? yes. uh there are a heavy ground batches going on in this house or slip on as a bose is paula. and these were a ami, a confirming these classes were here. so far is that the classes on may need taking pla

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

and as a result of that, amazon moved some 10,000 employees and nearby bellevue and entire argument revisionmpletely false flat. stuart: focused on qualifications instead of gender identity. how is this a problem? >> well, understand that according to the radical left, any time you look at merit, it's part of a white supremacist culture. it's part of white supremacy system. and that needs to be dismantled and what we heard from the very people, and it's not just about race and gender identity, it's looking at any marginalized community and if someone does better, it's not because they are better at a job or more gifted or studied harder or whatever it is, it's because of some kind of privilege. in the case of gender identity, if you're a cisgender, heterosexual male, you have privilege that someone that's transgendered does not. someone looks at qualifications and rather than checks on a check box; right. we're going to judge people and it's best for the position and not because we can pat ourselves on the back and pretend that we care about a marginalized community and basically created. >>

it started many bellevue, washington. fedex has half a million workers.phis, tennessee, with one plane. home depot, 460,000 workers, it started in marietta, georgia. that's not where booms start. target, 400,000 workers, it started in minneapolis. and then there's walmart. walmart began with its first store in rogers, arkansas, the year i was born. that's amazing stuff, folks. now, again i mentioned that there are pockets of animal spirits that still exists in europe. there's an area in sweden, guess what the characteristics are? resourcefulness, frugality. they're very religious and community-driven, entrepreneurship. and on a -- the. [audio difficulty] he made an interesting remark. he said how fortunates it is for such a poor area, one of the most barren in the country, that through ingenuity and resourcefulness of the local people have found a new and profitable and at the same time unique if way to make a living. by the way, one of the companies that was born there may be familiar to you, ikea. sadly though, the animal if spirits have been drowned ou