this is bbc news. the headlines at 2:00. 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. jeremy corbyn insists the party is in favour of trident as the cabinet members publicly disagree. the tories defend their pledge to cut net migration to "tens of thousands" after it comes under fire from former chancellor george osborne. and here comes the bride — the duchess of cambridge‘s sister, pippa middleton, marries in berkshire. good afternoon.

donald trump has arrived in saudi arabia, the start of his first foreign tour as president of the united states. we can go there now and talk to our international correspondent. after a very royal welcome at the riyadh international airport and the presentation of the highest civilian honour, down to business, and reports that deals have already been signed. memorandum is of understanding. another summit taking place at the same time, the saudi us chief executive officer summit. donald trump is putting his emphasis on the bilateral meeting, here is

frank gardner with report on what has happened so far today. into the blazing heat of the saudi summer, and away from the political heat of washington, president trump and his wife emerged from air force one to a red carpet welcome. they were greeted by saudi arabia's king salman. the two leaders have a lot to discuss, specifically iran, the threat of terrorism and the problem of religious intolerance. the us president is due to address over a0 muslim leaders on the subject. going on past performance many will be watching closely to see if he goes off script. this us presidential trip to saudi arabia could still go either way. if it goes according to plan it will be judged a either way. if it goes according to plan it will bejudged a great success plan it will bejudged a great success but this is sensitive territory that donald trump is treading on, is long, extremism and the need to combat intolerance. given his propensity to go off

script there is a great deal that could go wrong. laura beckett reports now on what donald trump left behind. it started with the accusation that healy classified information to the russians and then reports of mmo that president trump asked the fbi director to drop an investigation into his former national security adviser. the next day, there will be an enquiry into russian meddling in the us presidential election looking at possible links between moscow and the trump campaign. the washington post is reporting that someone close to the president is of interest in that investigation and just as fa swann took off, the new york times published this —— air force one. but only did donald trump call director

comey a nut—job he said it would relieve pressure on the investigation. it seems that we are learning disturbing new allegations about president trump, notjust everyday, but, ladies and gentlemen, everyday, but, ladies and gentlemen, every hour. the white house said mr trump was acting in the nation's interest in firing james comey and earlier this week mr trump called the russian enquiry a witchhunt. james comey has agreed to give his account of events in public in ten days' time. donald trump is embarking on an eight—day ambitious foreign trip but it may be overshadowed by the prospect of more trouble when he gets home. when he speaks in public and it is expected to be carefully scripted, he's going to be carefully scripted, he's going to focus on the battle against extremist forces and how to push

back against saudi arabia's main rival, iraq, but what kind of measures can they take? i'm joined by an expert on extremist groups from kings college, london. you are here at one of the many conferences taking place at the same time. what do you think the saudis want from the americans when it comes to stepping up the fight against islamic state and other groups? the saudis want renewed defence collaboration. there is a huge package being agreed here. they want america to take leadership again, there is a widespread feeling in the gulf that under obama, america wasn't there any more, not saying where people should go. there is hope that this will change and trump his isolationist instincts. they want, to say something sensible about islam, he has said so many controversial things in the past. tomorrow he will give a speech on islam and they will listen very carefully how he phrases the fight

against radical islam, daesh, and what words he uses will be very important. will they tried to lure him intoa important. will they tried to lure him into a more direct intervention in syria? him into a more direct intervention in syria 7 they him into a more direct intervention in syria? they have applauded two military strikes against the syrian army, do they want more of that?” think what they want more of, special forces assistance on the ground. president trump has made it clear that the battle on the ground must be fought by people from the region, that is his strategy. he will expect them to step up. they will expect them to step up. they will expect them to step up. they will expect him to deliver more special forces assistance, training etc. there will be a common narrative among gulf states and the us when it comes to what they see as the biggest threat posed by iran, but what about action? some gulf

states such as an and kuwait won't necessarily agree to take an aggressive posture? what the saudis wa nt to aggressive posture? what the saudis want to talk about is not necessarily islamic state, that's a second order concern to them, they think it is contained. they see themselves as locked in a regional confrontation with iran. they've been trying to construct an alliance against them, not necessarily successfully. tru m p against them, not necessarily successfully. trump has a number of people in his administration like james mattis and hr mcmaster who are really iran —phobes so he can expect them to support into some extent. so this will be a success? let's see how we measure it, i suspect there will be collaboration but with trump you never know, he may say something next week that overturns everything. it is wise to be cautious. thank you for joining it is wise to be cautious. thank you forjoining us. the first day of a

two—day visit here to the saudi kingdom. from here the president goes on to israel and the palestinian territories where he'll face more tough issues. a lot of people looking at what is happening here. that's all from us. labour leaderjeremy corbyn has insisted his party is "committed to trident". it comes after shadow foreign secretary emily thornberry suggested the party could abandon its support for the nuclear deterrent after a review. but shadow defence secretary nia griffith said ms thornberry was wrong and that labour's position on trident was settled. speaking in birmingham, mr corbyn said the question was settled in the party's manifesto. the manifesto makes it clear that the labour party has made a decision, it is committed to trident and we are going to look at the real security needs of the country on other issues such as cyber security

which the attack on the nhs proved, there must be a serious re—examination of our defences against those attacks. just to be clear, because there was a different view from emily thornberry saying that it was a review and things could change. i've made it clear, i've included it in the manifesto, a commitment given by the party and by me that we will also pursue multilateral disarmament through the nuclear non—proliferation treaty and thatis nuclear non—proliferation treaty and that is the position that has been held for a long time. you are committed to renewing trident?m held for a long time. you are committed to renewing trident? it is clear what is said in the manifesto. we can speak to our parliamentary correspondent sean curran, who is in birmingham for us now. we could hear the exasperation in his voice, he keeps having to come back to this, doesn't he? yes, this is an issue that labour would like to see saddled once and for all. they say that their policy isn't going to change —— to see saddled.

the background to this is that jeremy corbyn has been a well—known opponent of nuclear weapons and when he became leader that put him in conflict with the party policy which is to support the renewal of the uk's nuclear deterrent. there has already been a vote in parliament in favour of renewing trident and as mr corbyn said, the policy is in the ma nifesto. corbyn said, the policy is in the manifesto. the problem seems to be that when certain people are asked questions, they start talking about their personal views, or raising questions. emily thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary, suggested that if labour were to become elected then they would need a strategic defence when you which would involve looking at trident which brought criticism from the shadow defence secretary who said no, this has been decided and it is myjob to be the shadow defence secretary, not yours. all this is overshadowing the message that labour wants to get out at the

moment and whyjeremy corbyn has beenin moment and whyjeremy corbyn has been in birmingham for this election rally, they are trying to double down on their conservative election ma nifesto down on their conservative election manifesto criticism, especially the proposals relating to pensioners. 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. the liberal democrats have launched their new poster — taking a swipe at the prime minister. the party say the poster is a direct attack at the conservative leadership and the closeness between the policies of the prime minister and the former ukip leader nigel farage. with me is the liberal democrat peer, brian paddick. thank you forjoining us. it isn't a

very nice poster, is it? it has impact, some people will find it funny, it may appeal to nigel farage's sense of humour but it has a serious message. nigel farage has said that theresa may is using the same words and phrases that he has been using for the last 20 years and that he is delighted by that. they have merged into the same person. what do you think that the traditional lib dem supporters will think, it may not be part of what they are expecting? it is quite a scary image. it is designed to make an impactand scary image. it is designed to make an impact and get people talking. we are saying that crashing out of the european union, the single market, the customs union is going to be very damaging to the british economy. even the ukip leader paul nuttall was supporting a norwegian style brexit before, where we stayed in the single market, but nigel farage has always been one who has

said no to the single market and customs union. therefore theresa may is clearly going for a nigel farage style brexit. very much geared at picking up voters who didn't want to leave, the remaining voters. we are saying that the nature and character of the tories' election campaign has turned cold hearted and rather nasty, whether you look at social care, the approach towards brexit. nigel farage, a couple of weeks ago, was supporting marine le pen, the head of the french nationalfront. he is pals with donald trump. this is the sort of person who is enthusiastic about the conservative election campaign. to the extent that ukip are not standing in one third of seats because they are

giving way to the conservatives because the conservatives are seen as the same as ukip. what about the lib dems and their campaign? losing a lot of seats all over the place including the south—west, and i imagine that you want to rebuild support. a lot of people in the south—west who used to vote liberal voted out, actually. obviously the referendum said that we should negotiate the terms of the deal to leave the european union but nobody even now knows what the deal is going to look like. one of two groups of people will have to decide whether it is a good deal, either members of parliament, politicians, westminster politicians, who many people think are out of touch with them, all the people should decide. when we know, is it a good deal or a bad deal, then the people should have the final say about whether a very bad deal, potentially, is better or not than staying in the european union. do you think that by

unveiling posters like this that are specifically about one policy in this election you are in danger of being seen as a one issue party, reversing ukip? the thing is, if we adopt this very hard brexit where we abandon the single market it is going to be very damaging for britishjobs and going to be very damaging for british jobs and the british economy. we won't be able to properly fund the health service, social care, our schools, if properly fund the health service, social care, ourschools, if we properly fund the health service, social care, our schools, if we have a devastating impact of brexit on our economy, so a devastating impact of brexit on our economy, so the two things, all these policies are linked. we have to have a healthy economy in order to have a healthy economy in order to fund the public services and a ha rd to fund the public services and a hard brexit is going to be very damaging to our economy. thank you for joining damaging to our economy. thank you forjoining us. the green party have released their youth manifesto — attempting to appeal to young voters. among the commitments is a pledge to scrap tuition fees and cancel existing student debt. the party also promises stable housing for what it calls ‘generation rent‘.

ukip have been campaiging in clacton. it's the only seat ukip won in the last election under douglas ca rswell until he left the party. away from the campaign trail, the party have suspended one of its general election candidates because of a series of social media comments which have drawn allegations of racism. paddy singh will continue to be listed as the ukip candidate, but the party will no longer endorse him. he has denied being racist. the headlines on bbc news: the us president flies to saudi arabia but as he leaves there's another twist in the controversial sacking of fbi chiefjames comey. there's a disagreement within labour after the shadow foreign secretary says the party could abandon its support for trident. meanwhile the tories defend their pledge to cut net migration after it's criticised by former chancellor george osborne.

the wedding has taken place of pippa middleton, the sister of the duchess of cambridge. she married james matthews in berkshire. 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 — by a comfortable margin. with a0 million votes counted, he received 57% enough to avoid a run—off with his conservative challenger. mr rouhani, a moderate who agreed a deal with world powers to limit iran's nuclear programme, has pledged to seek further

engagement with the west, and to increase civil liberties at home. with me is kasra naji from bbc persian. thank you forjoining us. a decisive win? it is, it is better than expected for mr rouhani and his supporters. there was a high turnout, more than expected, 73.5%, which is pretty high. the reason for thatis which is pretty high. the reason for that is that there were rumours and reports that the hardliners were pulling out all the stops, using all their resources to bring as many people as possible into the polling stations to vote so they could oust president rouhani, so millions of people, it turns out, were inspired to come out on the streets to vote for to come out on the streets to vote foer to come out on the streets to vote for mr rouhani

to come out on the streets to vote foer rouhani and to come out on the streets to vote for mr rouhani and in the end, moderation won basically because rouhani promised moderation, promised to open up the political atmosphere, expand and extend individual and political freedoms, put the economy back on track. so his message was a lot more attractive than the other side's, which was traditional, hardline islamic and inward looking. what will this mean for the average iranians? a better and the sphere to live in within iran. because hardliners, socially, have made it very difficult for very people to engage, to operate, to work and to be in contact with each other. on the foreign policy side, it means that president rouhani has got a bigger mandate to engage with the

outside world. to open up this sort of inward looking policy of the hardliners. so he's got this mandate to engage more than before. what is that going to result in, how will we see a change? better relations with the outside world is hopeful but the hardliners have not finished, they aren't going to go away, they're going to make life very difficult for going to make life very difficult foer rouhani. so going to make life very difficult for mr rouhani. so a lot of his promises he may not be able to keep because he doesn't have the full power, the hardliners have other centres of power like the judiciary, the supreme leader. so they will try to frustrate rouhani's efforts to open up. but is going to be an interesting four years. my guess is

that he's going to have a very difficult time over the next four yea rs difficult time over the next four years because the hardliners will fight tooth and nail at every turn to make sure that he cannot keep his promises. thank you forjoining us. two men have been arrested after a woman went missing in hull nearly a month ago. renata antczak, who's 29 and originally from poland, hasn't been in touch with her family since the 25th of april. police are searching a number of addresses in the city. the duke and duchess of cambridge are in berkshire this afternoon for the wedding of the duchess's sister pippa middleton. prince george was one of the page boys while his sister charlotte was a bridesmaid. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell gave us this update from englefield in berkshire a short time ago. there's nothing quite like a wedding, is there? in the county of

berkshire there is nothing like a middleton family wedding, this one involving kate's younger sister, pepper, marrying james matthews —— pippa middleton. he runs a hedge fund. this being a middleton family wedding there were a number of celebrities like roger federer and the royals, william, kate and harry, who was not with his girlfriend, megan markle. the youngest royals, charlotte and george, were among the page boys. they with their mother we re page boys. they with their mother were taken into the church to perform their roles as pageboy and bridesmaid. then the bride have a middleton arrived with her father, michael, in an open top car in a dress. a lot of people want to know about it, it was long, it was cream,

it had a veil and it was designed by the british designer, charles deacon. it lasted one hour, then they emerged and they are at a reception and i'm sure they are having a lot of fun, out of the rain! enjoying the british summertime! a survey by which? magazine has found that one in four flights to british airports arrived at least 15 minutes late last year. which? analysed 850,000 flights at 25 british airports and found most uk airlines perform worse than average, with one in three easyjet flights delayed. imagine if you could unlock doors or control your phone using a tiny chip implanted in your hand. it sounds like something out of a sci—fi thriller, but for a growing number of people in the uk it's becoming a reality. so called "bio—hackers" are installing microchips into their bodies and programming them to perform everyday tasks. but will it catch on? danny savage went to

meet some of them. this is a hack space where people into their tech build stuff or take things apart and start again. a few of them, though, have technology implanted inside them. they have been chipped, fitted with near—field communication. buried in their hand, it can do tasks for them. phil's chip has been programmed to work as a key. so you can see that will open the doorfor me, so i can get in. it is the same technology we have been chipping cats and dogs with for the past 30 years. it is entirely benign. if anyone wanted to change it, they would have to be within one centimetre of me and i have a password on it as well. so you can't be turned into a cyborg assassin? nothing that exciting. my chip goes to my facebook art page as a digital business card.

the chip in holly's hand directs people to her webpage. she sees a medical use in the future. i feel this is going to replace a hospital tag. something as simple as that, it could help, because if someone's passed out on the floor, you've got no idea of their medical history. can you scan their hand and you've got all their history, all their details. i think something like that is where this technology is going to go. it's brilliant. and this is the size of the chip that hackers have inside them. would you want one? currently today, i've programmed it to send you a text message. tanja does. she's a tech expert at a university, and believes it is important to be a pioneer human with a chip. this is a very simple chip. the dangerer is not that great. in the future they could be more versatile, more powerful. we don't know what it can hold.

that's what we're trying to explore now. there are only 200 in the uk at the moment with a chip. we think nothing of them in cats and dogs. is putting them in people the next logical step? danny savage, bbc news. whether it is french champagne or italian prosecco the uk's love of fees shows no sign of slowing down —— the love of fizz. some call it "brit fizz," or simply bubbly. its proper name is english sparkling wine, and it is made like champagne. the french will tell you the method was discovered by a frenchman. a monk called dom perignon in 1967. but here in winchcombe, they know better. on monday, they will put up a plank

on his birthplace to a local, christopher merritt, a pioneering scientist who recorded english scientists using the technique in 1662, more than 30 years before dom. he described the way they were adding sugar and molasses to the wine, which was making it "sparkling." he was the first person to actually use that word, "sparkling," in connection to wine, wasn't he? yes. at this gloucestershire winery, they use the technique. they make it and add sugar and yeast to bring on what is called a secondary fermentation. we put the grapes into a vat, and we ferment them in the vats. that is the first.

the second is in the bottle itself. from the first one you get bubbles, but we allow it to bubble off. then you get a secondary one and you need to contain that within the bottle to give us the bubble in the finished sparkling wine. one reason, it's said, the english did it first is that english bottles were thicker and heavier. flimsy french bottles exploded when the fizz built up inside them. sparkling wine was a menace to french makers. english glass was much more robust. english sparkling wine has a long history. even longer than champagne. but it has a long and cumbersome name as well. at this small vineyard in the coltswolds, they have tried to come up with a snappy title, with mixed success. we have come up with balarry, which is what we want to call it. it's derived from the latin

word for bubbles. we thought about the welsh version, which was swigot, but i do think that quite had the ring to it. "would you like a glass of swigot?" italians have prosecco, the spanish cava, and germans, sekt. what is the english equivalent? perhaps we should call at winchcombe. time for the weather now. i have heard a rumour that it is raining out there. it is, a lovely start to the day in the south—east but shallow clouds are gathering as in the rest of england.