this is bbc news. the headlines at 11. more trouble for trump — the us president flies to saudi arabia but as he leaves there's another twist in the controversial sacking of fbi chiefjames comey. a disagreement within labour over trident after shadow foreign secretary, emily thornberry, says the party could abandon its support for the nuclear deterrent, the tories defend their pledge to cut net migration to "tens of thousands" after it comes under fire from former chancellor george osborne. hassan rouhani is re—elected as iranian president, defeating his conservative rival in the first round. also in the next hour: which airlines are the worst for being late? the consumer group, which, draws up a list of the worst offenders for flights arriving at uk airports. and it's being billed as the wedding of the year — we'll be live in berkshire where pippa middleton will marry james matthews later this morning. good morning and

welcome to bbc news. president trump has arrived in saudi arabia this morning, but he leaves behind more controversy in washington. the us media is reporting that he told senior russian officials that the fbi director, james comey, was a "nutjob" whose sacking had "relieved great pressure" on him. anisa kadri reports. a red carpet welcome for president trump, who's touched down in saudi arabia. he was met by the king, on his first foreign visit since taking office. he tweeted that he will be strongly protecting american interests, that's what i like to do. but he might be glad to leave washington for a while, after the week he's had.

it started with the accusation that he'd leaked classified information to the russians. then reports of a memo which claimed president trump asked the fbi director to drop an investigation into his former national security advisor, michael flynn. the next day, it was announced that a special council will lead the enquirery into russian meddling into the us presidential election and look at possible links between moscow and the trump campaign. the washington post is now reporting that someone close to the president is of interest in that investigation and just as air force one took off, the new york times published this: not only did mr trump call the fbi director, james comey, a nutjob, he said he felt with him gone, it would relieve the pressure over the fbi's investigation. it seems like we are learning disturbing new allegations about president trump notjust every day, but ladies and gentleman, every hour. the white house said mr trump

was acting in the nation's interests in firing james comey and earlier this week, mr trump described the russian inquiry as a witch hunts. james comey has now agreed to give his account of events, in public, in around ten days. while in saudi arabia, mr trump will attend a summit, where he'll speak about his hopes of a peaceful vision of islam, but this ambitious, eight—day foreign trip, which is to move onto israel, rome and brussels, may be overshadowed by the prospect of more trouble when he returns home. our security correspondent, frank gardner, is in riyadh. he said that president trump was being well received in saudi arabia, especially when compared to his predecessor. saudi officials have said to me privately that this for them is ten times bigger and more important than

the last presidential visit they had from barack obama. they didn't like him fora number of from barack obama. they didn't like him for a number of reasons, that he was too close to iran and that he was too close to iran and that he was pressing so much for the nuclear deal which president trump called the worst deal ever but he has renewed it. they didn't like the fa ct renewed it. they didn't like the fact that obama in their view was wea k fact that obama in their view was weak on syria. at the same time, they have forgiven on drum for some of the things he said earlier about saudi arabia, claiming that islam doesn't like us. he will give a speech tomorrow to the leaders of over a0 muslim majority countries where he will talk about the need for a combined united front against religious intolerance and extremism. another of commentators are saying in private that resident trump is perhaps a slightly unusual and odd ambassadorfor the perhaps a slightly unusual and odd ambassador for the west and the message on this but he is getting a very good reception here. the saudis

seem pleased he has chosen the country as the first stop on his tour and they are giving him the benefit of the doubt. the idea of an arab nato is an aspiration rather than something that can be immediately achieved. two years ago, saudi arabia for days coalition of mainly sunni countries and the aim was mainly to resist what they see as iranians encroachment in the region. the saudis are feeling quite paranoid as they are, in their view, surrounded by iranians proxies. now, they feel iran has influence or control of several —— several middle east capitals, baghdad and beirut and others and they are trying to push back against that. they very much want us support in combating that with maritime security, missile defence, anti—high altitude air

defence, anti—high altitude air defence and so on. all this is part ofa defence and so on. all this is part of a huge $100 billion plus arms deal or deals that will probably be signed on the back of this trip. two members of the labour shadow cabinet have had a public disagreement over the party's policy on renewing the trident nuclear weapons system. the shadow foreign secretary, emily thornberry, suggested the outcome of a defence review — promised in the party's manifesto — could result in support for trident being dropped. but labour's shadow defence secretary, nia griffith, told the bbc‘s newsnight programme that her colleague was wrong. meanwhile, the chief secretary to the treasury, david gauke, has insisted the conservatives are right not to set a timetable for achieving their ambition of reducing annual net migration to the tens of thousands. the commitment was announced by the party in their manifesto on thursday. mr gauke says it's an aim and has no timetable. earlier, i spoke to our political

correspondent. since 2007 when tony blair was correspondent. since 2007 when tony blairwas in correspondent. since 2007 when tony blair was in charge they agreed that trident would be renewed. that has been a commitment every year. in fa ct, been a commitment every year. in fact, last year they agreed it. earlier this week they agreed it. so you would imagine it would be a simple question to the shadow foreign secretary who could be the foreign secretary who could be the foreign secretary who could be the foreign secretary in the weeks. this was put to her and it was asked that presumably we could assume that they programme would be renewed. no, of course not. therefore, it is possible thatjeremy corbyn could drive through a policy of ditching trident? the policy is that we... i know what it is, but i am asking if it could change in the future. but

overwhelmingly we need to make sure that our policy is up to date and meets 21st—century that our policy is up to date and meets 21st—ce ntury threats that our policy is up to date and meets 21st—century threats and no one can disagree with that, surely. there was a time when we gave up on sabres or horses. she is driving coach and horses through labour party policy. last night, the shadow defence secretary who also sat in on those —— will also sit on those policy reviews if labour got into power, on newsnight she was asked about the comments. well, with all due respect, emily is not the shadow defence secretary, i am. we had a long meeting on thursday in which we agreed the manifesto. nobody has raised the issue of removing trident nuclear deterrent from our manifesto. that was agreed last year that we would have it as part of our defence review that we had last year as part of our national policy forum. emily thornberry said if you're going to have a proper review, there's a review. there's no point in reviewing trident if you're committed to it. we are absolutely committed to it.

so emily thornberry is wrong. indeed. because last year we looked at it, in particular at the national policy forum, and it was decided that we would keep the nuclear deterrent and that was reaffirmed at our conference in september. emily thornbury‘s team insisted there is no difference in terms of party policy. whilst emily thornbury was expressing a personal view there are still many questions over the cost and viability of trident. but the reality is that three weeks before a general election and knowing that in the pastjeremy corbyn voted against renewable, i think voters will be left in some doubt as to what labour would do if they were in power. for the

conservatives, david cameron was the first to make the commitment that they would bring net migration down to below 100,000. it has proved impossible to meet thus far. but they have reintroduced it. even among cabinet ministers there seems some confusion about whether it is a policy or an aspiration. it is not clear what their position is. they are trying third time lucky in terms of manifestos with this pledge. the political temperature rose yesterday. another example of blue on blue friendly fire, if unite. george osborne said that his former party has not got a clue, in his editorial, when it is going to happen, haven't got a clue about the costs or they are not saying so if they do know. all these questions we re they do know. all these questions

were put to the chief secretary to the treasury last night on radio a and this is what he said. it is a name. it doesn't have a timetable but it should drive our policy in terms of improving skill so we have a stronger domestic workforce. it should drive our policy in terms of technology so that we can reduce immigration fashion —— pressures we face. and he went on to say that it was right there is no deadline. he wa nts was right there is no deadline. he wants the flexibility in this in order to deal with perhaps the economic consequences of the brexit deal and insists that it —— and to insist does take place so to balance the economics and the political will to do so. let's cross to the west midlands, where the labour party are holding a rally. jeremy corby, john mcdonnell and rebecca long bailey all in attendance.

it looks like she will be introducing john mcdonald. he has been famously carrying around a little black book with the various expenditure pledges labour has made. he will do the warm up really for jeremy corbyn. we will return to that rally a little later when jeremy corbyn appears. new rules for cigarette packaging come into force this weekend. all packs must be greenish—brown withjust a small space for the brand name and include a graphic warning of the dangers of smoking. the measures, aimed at discouraging young people from taking up the habit, also include a ban on selling packs of ten. tom burridge reports. persuading young people not to smoke. that's what the government hopes these new rules will do. from today, all cigarette packets have to be a standard green design, similar to this. health warnings must cover two thirds of the front and back of the packets. and you can no longer

buy packets of ten. there will also be restrictions on e—cigarettes and on rolling tobacco too. public health campaigners say the number of people smoking in britain continues to fall and this is another positive step. it's too early to say how many will avoid taking up, but even if it's just a few percent that will have a big benefit in 20 or 30 years' time. but the tobacco industry says greater restrictions will only push people to buy cigarettes elsewhere. we are seeing people actually not quitting or giving up smoking, but basically buying cheap tobacco from the black market. it's never been so expensive to smoke. the government wants to emphasise the possible health costs and persuade more to stub the habit out. hassan rouhani has won a second term as president of iran with a convincing majority. with most of the votes now counted, he won nearly 60% and avoided a run—off with his conservative challenger.

mr rouhani had campaigned to continue his policies of greater engagement with the west and increased civil liberties. kasra naji from bbc persian said the result was not expected. we didn't expect this. nearly 60% and it's a resounding victory. a landslide almost. and it is in spite of the efforts of the hardliners to pull out all the stops and mobilise all the resources to bring out as many people as possible out to vote. it didn't work in the end. so it's a victory for people, an overwhelming number of people in iran, whose support the moderation that the president has been proposing. it's a

revenge for them, in a sense, against people who exiled them, killed them, executed them all jailed them and drove them into exile. so, it's a defeat for those people. the rival who was defeated at being kind of targeting poorer voters saying he's the man to help revive the economy. in the past that has worked. why not this time? it didn't work. people thought that the promises may not work or other promises may not work or other promises that president rouhani is offering are more attractive. but ebrahim raisi had promised cash hand—outs to the poor. $a0 per month to each member of the poorfamily. soi to each member of the poorfamily. so i thought that would be an

interesting... but it didn't work. what about the announcement that came out of washington that they weren't going to reimpose sanctions. there had been suggestions that with donald trump in so hostile to the nuclear deal, that sanctions might come back on and suddenly the pressures on the president would be greater and it might be a problem for him. in a sense, it seems to have helped him. for the moment. they tried to stay away and help president rouhani in a way by not pressurising him during the election campaign. but the nuclear deal is still up campaign. but the nuclear deal is stillup in campaign. but the nuclear deal is still up in the air in a sense. they still want to pile on more sanctions against iran and that might mean that the nuclear deal is

doomed in the sense that the deal is based on the premise that you lived the sanctions for iran abandoning its nuclear programme. but if you add on more sanctions, you are fundamentally undermining that very deal. so, i am fundamentally undermining that very deal. so, iam not very fundamentally undermining that very deal. so, i am not very optimistic about the deal surviving in the long term. the headlines on bbc news: the us president flies to saudi arabia, but as he leave,s there's another twist in the controversial sacking of fbi chief, james comey. a disagreement within labour over trident, after shadow foreign secretary, emily thornberry, says the party could abandon its support for the nuclear deterrent the tories defend their pledge to cut net migration to tens of thousands, after it comes under fire from former chancellor george osborne. guests

g u ests have guests have begun to arrive at the wedding of pippa middleton and james matthews. prince george and princess charlotte will act as pageboy and lava girl. some have described it as the society wedding of the year. speculation as to prince harry will bring his actress girlfriend to the ceremony, meghan markle. 0ur correspondent alexandra mackenzie is in englefield in berkshire for us now. yes, guests have been arriving for the last half—hour or so. you mentioned prince harry and his girlfriend but there has been no sign of them yet nor the duke and duchess of cambridge. but we have been informed they are on their way

to saint marks church in englefield where the wedding is due to take place in about 15 minutes time. the bride is due to arrive with her father then. some of the guests have been arriving, as you've said. roger federer has arrived with his wife. princess beatrice and the gulf friend of james middleton princess beatrice and the gulf friend ofjames middleton also. you can also see many people on the grass who are local people who have been given access their vacancy the guests arriving and departing. we have been speaking to some of the people who have come here today asking them who it is they are looking to see. it's a royal wedding, i suppose, looking to see. it's a royal wedding, isuppose, isn't looking to see. it's a royal wedding, i suppose, isn't it? hipper, kate and the two little kids. what's the big deal about it for you? nostalgia isn't it because

it's connected to royalty. it's brilliant. we've been on the road for four hours. we've come from west wales. we're staying you hear anywhere for a few days, the cotswolds and the thames valley, and this happened to be going on so is good timing. we've come down to see what's to say. i came yesterday from between liverpool and manchester and i have arrived this morning at quarter past seven. i stayed in a hotel last night and was determined to get the front seat. i'm really exact to do. i'm hoping to sleep paper, prince george and princess charlotte. so many other excited about seeing the bride. much anticipation about what she'll be wearing. they don't have long to wait. many more are excited to see vince george, who is now three, and his sister, princess charlotte, who

is too and they were taken active role in the wedding as flower girl and pageboy. so far, the sun has kept shining for the guests arriving and elaborate hats and suits and dresses. we are just hoping the rain holds off and the sun keeps shining until pippa middleton arrives. thank you very much. just as you've finished there another burst of sunshine so fingers crossed for when they come out for their photographs. let us hope we get to see more of them. sport now and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. the russian shareholder, alisher usmanov, who owns a 30% stake in arsenal, has made his move — a bid of around £1 billion — to buy out stan kroenke's majority share. but it's understood this bid has been rejected, usmanov has been critical of kroenke's support of arsene wenger. the arsenal manager is still keeping everyone guessing about his future. something's got to happen.

we're going to start to miss out. we're missing out on the so—called managers that we may be interested in. we're going to start missing out on the players. this has to happen at some stage. something has got to happen for arsenal to go to the next level. talking of play—offs, bradford and millwall meet in the league one final at wembley later today. it's difficult to lose at wembley because so many people come and there's so much love for the players and the team. however, we use the disappointment quickly to galvanise us disappointment quickly to galvanise us for this year. we've used it all season to get as in this position. we will lean on experience from last

year. expectations from the fans. we will try to improve what we did last season. we knew automatic was never going to be in the equation so i think the players deserve to go to wembley and the supporters do as well. we've been consistently good this season but it will count for nothing unless we can perform on saturday and get a result. the england under 20 team have won their first match. then the england under 20 team have won theirfirst match. then newcastle's adam armstrong doubled the lead. they face guinea next and then play their korean hosts. this elbow on

another chelsea player was spotted on replays so argentina's player was sent off. wales have safely negotiated a tricky opening fixture against the united states. a week after retaining the champions cup, the saracens play exeter and hoping to move a step closer to the double double. they've got the home advantage. that's huge in a semifinal, with knockout rugby. they thoroughly deserve that across the 22 rounds, they were the best. they deserve that privilege. we'll have to go and make sure that we're accurate early in the game and we keep the creators as quiet

as we can and we do the things that make us a good team. if leicester come out with a fantastic performance and better than us on the day, you have to put your hand up. if we play like we have for most of the season, the result should be ours. but anything can happen on the day. we've worked hard to finish top of the table. get a home draw so we're determined to put in a performance which we believe will be good enough to get the result. that's all for now. time for the weather. hello. a spring mix across the british isles. across the west, there were plenty

of showers to be had. but glorious through central and eastern parts of england particularly. but things will change. this pressure allows this band of showers to sweep underneath it across the greater pa rt underneath it across the greater part of england and wales, northern ireland and southern scotland. and the rain is still there across northern parts as well. showers will sweep in underneath it. showers aplenty in northern ireland and some really quite sharp. having had the glorious start in the east, the first signs of showers moving from the west. in the midlands they will be sharp in the early part of the afternoon. and maybe a rumble of thunder in the midlands with some hail in between. central and southern england and the south—west

also a few showers. close to the low pressure and showers, the premiership will be a rather dank affair. showers just premiership will be a rather dank affair. showersjust beginning premiership will be a rather dank affair. showers just beginning to fade away this evening. that gets us off and running into a decent day on sunday. the one fly in the ointment is the western side of northern ireland and scotland. the art bit of rain, notamounting ireland and scotland. the art bit of rain, not amounting to much, but nowhere near as glorious as what we might expect across the west of england and wales. crucial fixtures in the last round of the premier league for some of the clubs and then we are off and running into monday. low pressure is close by to the west side of the british isles and the eastern side is dominated by high pressure from the continent. increasingly warm but watch out for

heavy showers in western areas. hello, welcome to dateline london. this week: donald trump's travels abroad and trouble at home. can one escape the other? and now britain's political parties have published their manifestos, their contract with the people, if we vote for one of them, just what are we signing up to? with me: annalisa piras the italian writer and film—maker. nabila ramdani the algerian journalist. stryker mcguire, london editor for bloomberg markets. good to have you with us. donald trump may have been onboard air force one friday night, en route to saudi arabia, but his team was still trying to fire fight the latest twist in the sacking of the fbi director and the russia connection— if there is one. "i just fired the head of the fbi he was crazy, a real nutjob," the new york times claims he told the russian foreign minister, "i faced great pressure because of russia. that's taken off."

well, if he did say it, that last part looks premature. john mccain, the veteran republican senator, is among many to observe that this all feels horribly familiar. stryker mcguire, they're all thinking of watergate. you were in washington in the early 1970s. does it feel like that to you? i was iwasa i was a mere child. journalists started at a young age back then. is it like watergate? no and yes. 0ne thing is that watergate began with the two break—ins. may and june 19 72. it built rather slowly to break in wasa 72. it built rather slowly to break in was a cover—up. nixon resigns. in this case, it starts out much bigger.