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June 19, 2013 / 9:18 AM / Updated June 19, 2013 at 9:29 AM

[LIVE VIDEO] Obama speaks at the Brandenburg Gate

Workers make last-minute preparations at the Brandenburg Gate on the eve of U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Berlin on June 18, 2013. Obama is scheduled to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel and will later speak at the historic site where fifty years earlier, U.S. President John F. Kennedy delivered his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a Berliner)" address . UPI/David Silpa

Workers make last-minute preparations at the Brandenburg Gate on the eve of U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Berlin on June 18, 2013. Obama is scheduled to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel and will later speak at the historic site where fifty years earlier, U.S. President John F. Kennedy delivered his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a Berliner)" address . UPI/David Silpa | License Photo

President Barack Obama is in Berlin, speaking at the historic Brandenburg Gate, to call for additional cuts to the nuclear arsenals of the U.S. and Russia.

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