this is bbc news. i'm sophie long. the headlines at 4pm... a grand welcome for donald trump in saudi arabia, where the us president is making his first foreign trip. he was greeted by king salman at riyadh airport. mr trump is leaving behind fresh controversy in washington. there's claims he said firing the fbi chiefjames comey, relieved him of great pressure. jeremy corbyn insists his party is committed to trident after members of the shadow cabinet publicly disagree over the issue. 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 a comfortable margin. and here comes the bride —— the duchess of cambridge‘s sister, pippa

i duchess of cambridge‘s sister, pippa , marries in berkshire. and the most successful and pics sailor is attempting to win the world's oldest sporting trophy. fa cts world's oldest sporting trophy. facts in america's cup quest in half an hour. good afternoon. welcome to bbc news. donald trump and king salman of saudi arabia have been meeting in riyadh, where they've approved an arms deal worth more than $100 billion. mr trump is on his first foreign tour as president. back home, there are fresh claims about his reasons for sacking james comey, the director of the fbi. mr trump is said to have told russian officials that mr comey was a real nut—job and that his departure eased great pressure on the president.

my colleague lyse doucet is in riyadh. the day continues to unfold, beginning with the most royal welcome this morning, actually, at the international airport in riyadh. president trump's first stop on his five stop foreign visit, his first everforeign visit five stop foreign visit, his first ever foreign visit as a president who was known not to like troubling. they are doing everything possible to make him feel at home. after the welcome at the airport they have had traditional rituals including a coffee ceremony and some conversation between the most senior saudi rulers, including king salman, and president trump. reuters news agency reported one of the conversations was overheard, with king salman expressing regret. he said syria was such an advanced country in the region, he said we goes to get professors from black and talked about how the country had

been destroyed. the us and saudi arabia have been instrumental in arming the opposition to take on president assad. lots of deals being signed, to the tune of brilliance of dollars. military, engineering and industrial deals that macro to the tune of millions of dollars. let's watch this report from a security correspondence frank gardner. arriving in the heat of arabia, and leaving behind the political heat of washington, president trump and the first lady had been welcomed with full honours by their royal saudi hosts. they were greeted by king salman, now in his eighties, and escorted to the terminal. they 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 this subject. going on past performance many here will be watching closely to see if he goes off script. inside the king's palace, president trump was given a token

of the high esteem he is held in by his hosts, the collar of king abdulaziz. accompanied by his wife and much of his white house entourage, the president seemed at ease despite his troubles at home and the gruelling schedule that still lies ahead. this us presidential trip to saudi arabia could still go either way. if it goes according to plan it will be judged a great success. but this is sensitive territory, islam, religious extremism and the need to combat intolerance. given his propensity to go off script there is a great deal that could go wrong. very sensitive and it has all been scripted, most of all the speech tomorrow on islam and the common fight against extremist forces,

including so—called islamic state. there do not seem to be many press conferences chewing the two days he will spend here, no time for some very pointed questions from the journalists who have accompanied president trump and his entourage from washington. what kind of questions would they be likely to ask? here is a taste, with washington correspondent laura bicker. it started with the accusation that he'd linked classified information to the russians, then reports of a memo claiming president trump asked the fbi director to drop an investigation into his former national security adviser. the next day it was announced a special counsel will lead an enquiry into russian meddling in the us presidential election and look at possible links between moscow and the trump campaign. the washington post has reported that someone close to the president is of interest in the investigation and just as air force one took off, the new york times published this, not only mr trump calling the fbi director a nutjob, he felt that with him gone it would relieve the pressure on the investigation. it seems that we are learning

disturbing new allegations about president trump, not just everyday, but, ladies and edelmann, every hour. the white house has said mr trump was acting in the nation's interests in firing james comey and earlier this week trump described the enquiry as 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 ambitious foreign trip but it may be overshadowed by the prospect of more trouble when he gets home. the saudi hosts and president trump hope those issues will not surface anywhere on this agenda, but they

agree on one issue, at least in terms of the kind of language we will hear coming out of saudi arabia and the next leg, jerusalem. very strong condemnation of iran and what these countries see as its aggressive actions across the region, destabilising actions. coincidentally, iran has re—elected its reformist president, hassan rouhani. in the middle east this weekend, two important events that will shape the future of iran in this region. let's look at these relationships. we are joined from washington by the executive director of the arab ear foundation, he is a saudl of the arab ear foundation, he is a saudi. welcome. —— the executive director of the arabia foundation. and we arejoined by director of the arabia foundation. and we are joined by an expert from they can eat the endowment. welcome to you both. ali, you are in washington, why has saudi arabia

claimed the prize of being the first stop on president trump's first foreign visit? what was it about the relationship? i think it shows the enormous importance that saudi arabia has for american interests in the middle east, they need to work closely with saudi arabia to fight terrorism and to deter iran. i think the advisers, the secretary of defence, the secretary of state, the security adviser, people around the president, are strong believers of that. that is really what has pushed the tremendous symbolism of this trip, it is a very symbolic trip for a president to have a lot of rhetoric on the campaign which caused concern to a lot of people, but the fact he is making this tremendous gesture and coming to riyadh, addressing the muslim world as the leaders, i think it is a tremendous achievement for saudi arabia and shows the relationship is very strong and very enduring.

do you think this is causing worry in teheran? i think the us/ saudi reset in some ways is the more natural equilibrium in the iran/ us/ saudi triangle. us policy in the persian gulf was cooperation with saudi arabia and containment/ confrontation with iran. the obama administration tried to pursue a different approach, to engage with iran and bring about approach meant, which result of the not successful. the trump administration is going back to traditional us policy toward the persian gulf. what is likely to be the reaction of iran and the iranians revolutionary guard, who seem to be the fourth leading policy across the region? if

there are more sanctions against iran, and possibly other actions, how would iran respond? iranian foreign policy in the middle east has been consistent for the last four decades. hostility towards the united states, the rejection of the existence of israel and rivalry with saudi arabia which is really intensified, those are the three pillars. i don't think that will change, trump's policies will not change, trump's policies will not change the strategic pillars, but if there is more confrontation between america and places in the middle east like syria and yemen, it could indirectly help to unravel the nuclear deal, which would be a real national security concern for not only the united states but the us partners in citing the nuclear deal, europe, russia and china. ali, talking to senior saudi

officials, you had to say saudi arabia is obsessed with iran and its engagement in this region, but it is not clear that even the neighbouring persian gulf states would be ready to put the kind of pressure on iran that saudi arabia would like. what is your assessment? saudi arabia sees it as alexis sanchez battle. it is not a normal rivalry, saudi is a status quo power and iran is a revolutionary power. saudi arabia sees iran is wanting to bring down order in the gulf. despite the moderate noises they make in english to the global media, but the supreme leader and the revolutionary guard who really run iran, regardless of the elections they put together, the regime has been talking about taking down the saudi monarchy for the past 40 years. lots of the gulf nations share that, they are closer to run and feel more than rubble so they

have to be more powerful, but there isa have to be more powerful, but there is a consensus have to be more powerful, but there is a consensus among have to be more powerful, but there is a consensus among the gulf states that it is a consensus among the gulf states thatitis is a consensus among the gulf states that it is an existential battle with this iranian regime. the fact that this administration sees it the way that saudi arabia does is extremely reassuring. what is the risk of confrontation, there will be strong language but is that the risk of more than that? america is strong and shows its deterrents, the risk of confrontation comes down because it pushes the regime in iran back into its box. under the obama days, the risk went up because they took their eye off the ball as far as we we re their eye off the ball as far as we were concerned. i think the risk of confrontation, to a certain extent, has gone down a bit. and you? on one hand the uranium population does not wa nt hand the uranium population does not want conflict and the american

population, after a decade and a half in the middle east, does not. but there are so many theatres of potential conflict in the middle east that this is something we must watch very, very closely. even if neither side wants a conflict, we might be indirectly heading there. thank you both forjoining us with your assessments, all the way from washington. those kind of assessments resonate right across the region. at this moment in riyadh, it is a decisive moment, nothing less than a turning point. president trump has come notjust for a bilateral summit with the saudi rulers but he is meeting the six neighbours of saudi arabia and dozens six neighbours of saudi arabia and d oze ns of six neighbours of saudi arabia and dozens of kings, presidents and prime minister is from across the arab and islamic world. lots of talk of new alliances, even reports that some arab states will start steps to bring down the walls of hostility

with israel. the talk will be different but the big question, as always, will be actions be different? this is truly a moment to watch. that is all from riyadh, back to you in london. the headlines... the us president flies to saudi arabia but there is another twist in the controversial sacking of fbi directorjames comey. disagreement within labour after the shadow foreign secretary says the party should abandon support for trident. the tories defend their pledge to cut net migration after it was criticised by former chancellor george osborne. the wedding has taken place of pippa middleton, the sister of the duchess of cambridge. she married the financierjames of cambridge. she married the financier james matthews in berkshire. in sport, millwall hope to make it second time lucky in the league i play—off final. they play bradford

city at wembley with a championship place at stake. it is still goalless, 56 minutes on the clock. saracens are at exeter in the clock. saracens are at exeter in the premiership play—off semifinal as they continue their quest for the double—double by winning european and domestic titles in successive seasons. exeter currently lead 13—11. england fast bowlerjames anderson will miss the remaining of lancashire's county championship match against yorkshire. he limped off with a groin injury and will have a scan on monday. england's first test against south africa is at lord's onjuly six. more from you at around 5:30pm. —— more for you. 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 party's manifesto was decisive on the issue.

the manifesto makes it clear — that our decision is committed to trident. we will look at the real security needs of this country in other areas such as cyber security, which i think the attack last week on the nhs proved that there needs to be serious re—examination of our defences of those sort of attacks. to be clear because there was a different view from emily thornbury that perhaps the review could... it was a review so things could change. i have just made it clear. in our manifesto is a commitment given by the party and me that we will also pursue multilateral disarmament through the nuclear non—proliferation treaty and that is a position that has been held for a long time by the party. committed to renewing the full summary? it is clear what is said in the manifesto. earlier i spoke to our parliamentary correspondent sean curran about the labour trident row. this is an issue labour would like

to see settled once and for all. they say that their policy is not going to change, but the background to this is thatjeremy corbyn, for a lot of his political career, has been a well—known opponent of nuclear weapons, which put him when he became leader in conflict with his party's policy, which was to support the renewal of the uk nuclear deterrent. there has been a votes in parliament in favour of renewing trident, as mr corbyn said the policy is in the manifesto. the problem seems to be that in certain people are asked questions, they start to talk about their personal views or raise questions. shadow foreign secretary emily thornberry suggested that if labour became the government it would need a strategic defence review, and that would mean looking at trident. that brought criticism from the shadow defence secretary, who basically said, no,

this has been decided, what's more it is myjob to be the shadow defence secretary, not yours. this all alpha shadows the message labour wa nts to all alpha shadows the message labour wants to get out at the moment and whyjeremy corbyn has been in birmingham foran whyjeremy corbyn has been in birmingham for an election rally, they are trying to double down on criticism of the conservative ma nifesto, criticism of the conservative manifesto, particularly the proposals relating to pensions. sean curran. theresa may has said that she wants to put the divisions caused by the eu referendum behind us and get on with the job of making a success of brexit. speaking to party activisits in west london, she said she knew that people in the city were disappointed with the referendum outcome but that it was important to come together. she also attacked the labour party for the party's internal disagreement over trident. but i think now is the time to put that division behind us, because in this country when we had a votes, we respect the result. so let's... let's put the division behind, the divisions of the past behind us, and

actually just get divisions of the past behind us, and actuallyjust get on with the job of making a success of brexit. applause and, of course, if we're going to do that, we need strong and stable leadership and a strong and stable glove to be able to deliver on success for us. and we have seen yet again from jeremy corbyn's labour party today that labour led by jeremy corbyn would not be unequivocally committed to the trident nuclear deterrent, they would not be able to defend this country. a jeremy would not be able to defend this country. ajeremy corbyn lead labour government could not be trusted with the defence of our country. earlier i spoke to correspondent alex forsyth, who is with the premised on the campaign trail. theresa may has been in west london

doing a very brief campaign speech at. she spoke to party activists for 34—macro minutes and the themes were very familiar territory, the big focus on leadership, i'm drawing parallels between her leadership thatjeremy corbyn's parallels between her leadership that jeremy corbyn's and parallels between her leadership thatjeremy corbyn's and wasted no opportunity to comment on what we have heard from labour about the pa rty‘s have heard from labour about the party's position on trident, because theresa may thinks that when it comes to defence and security she has the upper hand. but this area of west london voted to remain in the european union, so we heard from theresa may some language to try to cater to that when she said she understood that many people wanted to remain, but now is the time to focus on getting on with brexit. labour don't want to miss the opportunity to stick the boot into what they see the flaws in her campaign, so their attack lines have been on policies around social care, the plan to means test the winter

fuel payment to pensioners, on plans to ditch the pensioners‘ triple lock, so there isjust to ditch the pensioners‘ triple lock, so there is just a to ditch the pensioners‘ triple lock, so there isjust a double back. we have the manifestos from the two major parties, we are at a phase where they are trying to retain arguments on the ground where they think they can cut through and be the most comfortable. forjeremy corbyn it is about domestic policy, for theresa may it is a lot about leadership qualities. in the next few weeks we will see people picking over the detail of the policies, trying to bottom out exactly what it would mean for people and whether that would affect the way people votes. alex forsyth. 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 party say the poster highlights the similarities between the party leader and the former ukip leader, nigel farage. 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.

—— cancel outstanding 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 candidate, 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. hassan rouhani has been re—elected president of iran for another four years. mr rouhani won 57% of the vote, easily beating his conservative challenger, ebrahim raisi. he‘s tweeted that the people are the real winners of this election. kasra naji has this report. president hassan rouhani, the winner of the election by a wide margin. he had promised not to let the hardliners take the country backwards.

he had promised to steer the country towards moderation. this is him in his first televised message after his victory. translation: yesterday you said no to all those inviting us to return to all those inviting us to return to the past or remain stuck in the present. we have put iran back on the road to progress. almost all the votes have now been counted, more than 41 million of them. the iranian people have said a resounding no to the islamic hardliners by voting in droves for president rouhani, running for a second term in office, in a landslide. and the interior ministry in teheran, a sigh of relief that the election went peacefully. translation: mr rouhani won 23,549,616 votes, representing 57% of all votes.

therefore he is elected the next iranian president. today, for many, a day of celebration, a big victory against the islamic hardliners who had intimidated them. jo brand, executed them, and drove them out of theirjobs —— jailed them, executed them. this, just before the final results were announced. translation: i'm glad he was re—elected. of course, if, by the end of today, they announce it as a certain result i would be very happy. turnout was unprecedented, more than 73%. here in teheran more than 5 million people voted, twice that of 2013. many ran out of time while they waited in long queues although the authorities extended voting by five hours. there were indications that the hardliners had pulled all the stops and organised

all their resources to oust president rouhani. that spurred the supporters of president rouhani to come out in big numbers. iranians have given president rouhani a big mandate for change, greater freedoms at home and engagement with the outside world. but islamic ha rdliners are not done yet. they will fight tooth and nail at every turn to frustrate his efforts. kasra nasri, bbc news. two men have been arrested after a woman went missing in hull nearly a month ago. renata antczak, who‘s 49 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. new rules to cigarette packaging come into force this weekend. they must all be greenish brown with just 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. persuading young people not to smoke, that is what the government hopes these new rules will do. from today, all cigarette packets had to bea today, all cigarette packets had to be a standard green design, similar to this. health warnings must cover two thirds of the front and back of the package. you can no longer buy packets of ten. there will also be restrictions on e—cigarettes and rolling tobacco. public health campaigners say the number of people smoking in britain continues to fall, and this is another positive step. it is too early to say how many will avoid taking up, even if it is just many will avoid taking up, even if it isjust a many will avoid taking up, even if it is just a few percent that will have a big benefit in 20 or 30 yea rs. have a big benefit in 20 or 30 years. the tobacco industry says greater restrictions will only push people to buy cigarettes elsewhere. people are not quitting or giving up and basically buying cheap tobacco

from the black market. it has never been so expensive to smoke. the government wants to emphasise the possible health costs and persuade more to stop the habit out. 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 correspondent alexandra mckenzie is in englefield, watching the occasion unfold. i don't know how much you can see behind me but the guests arejust much you can see behind me but the guests are just leaving englefield house, the guests that were at the church service earlier. they have been at the reception at englefield house, now it looks like they are continuing those celebrations on into the middleton family home, whichjust six miles into the middleton family home, which just six miles from here. into the middleton family home, whichjust six miles from here. if you join to say few minutes earlier we got a particularly good view of

the newly married couple, pippa middleton and james matthews. there was lots of cheering going on behind us was lots of cheering going on behind us and we thought, something is going to happen. we saw an open top carjust go down the road past us and, indeed, it was pippa middleton and, indeed, it was pippa middleton and james matthews that were in that car. the snappers were delighted and we all got a good view of the newly married couple. lots of excitement, thatis married couple. lots of excitement, that is likely to continue here for the next few hours. we had to leave it there but we will be back, hopefully to see how the party is going later. thank you. now the weather. weather conditions for tomorrow will bea weather conditions for tomorrow will be a bit more like those captured in cornwall this afternoon, dry with sunny spells and feeling a bit warmer and a bit less like what we saw at times to date, some pretty nasty downpours here. still some of them around at the moment, a wetter and to the day across eastern parts

of england. fewer showers in the west, bit more sunshine, but wet across the northern half of scotland in particular, that rain easing away tonight and the showers becoming fewer in number. most are dry into sunday morning, cooler across scotland, three or four degrees sunday morning, cooler across scotland, three orfour degrees in rural areas. maybe around seven celsius as we start the day. into sunday morning, it will be a dry start for the vast majority. some good sunny breaks, maybe the odd isolated shower on the hills of moores to —— north wales north—west england, lots of sunshine, winds lighter than through today, temperatures on the rise. a lovely start across scotland compared with this morning, thick cloud quickly spreading into northern ireland after a bright start, patchy rain and drizzle. we start was a gentle southern part of central scotland, the cloud amount will increase through the day, bringing in patchy rain and drizzle.

the showers will be light, fewer in number, mainly over the hills. a dry sunday in store for the vast majority of the country and temperatures get a welcome boost compared to today, up to 21 degrees in the south east corner. a fine end to the day, patchy rain and drizzle across the north and west of scotland, outbreaks of rain spread across northern ireland into western scotland. heavier bursts will push eastwards. more of a breeze, temperatures limited into the mid—teens across scotland, further south, widely into the 20s across england and wales, some into the mid—20s. whilst we will see some weak weather fronts push in from the atlantic through the coming days, producing a bit more thicker cloud, high—pressure family setting up its store from mid week onwards, meaning the week ahead will be a good deal dry and warmer