i'm maryam moshiri. our top stories: this is the briefing. errors ofjudgement but not political bias, thejustice department's verdict on the former fbi director who investigated hillary clinton's e—mails. fighting for survival in yemen. humanitarian supplies are at risk as saudi—led forces attack a port held by rebel fighters. and i'm lucy hockings in moscow. after russia's spectacular start, we'll have a look at the next big games in the world cup. in business, upping the ante. the white house set to confirm new tariffs on hundreds of chinese products despite warnings from the imf. we'll also be hearing from the boss of confectionery giant mars about why he's taking the long view on the current trade dispute. a warm welcome to the programme,

briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business, and sport. and you can be part of the conversation. tell us what you think. what do you think of the decision of the partner of the sender are done, the partner of the sender are done, the prime minister of new zealand, to bea the prime minister of new zealand, to be a stay—at—home—father? —— jacinda ardern. the former head of the fbi has been severely criticised by the us justice department for launching an investigation into

hillary clinton's emails just before the 2016 presidential election. its report says james comey made a "serious error ofjudgement" and was "insubordinate" but not politically biased. the current fbi director, christopher wray, says the bureau has accepted the findings. here's our washington correspondent, chris buckler. james comey is the man who has been criticised by both sides of the political divide. hillary clinton believes the former fbi director played a part in her losing the presidency, and was subsequently fired by president trump. during the 2016 campaign, james comey was in charge of an investigation into hillary clinton's use of a private e—mail server. it became a deeply contentious issue. and this new report finds james comey was insubordinate and made serious errors injudgement in how he

handled that enquiry. but the fbi says there there was no attempt to influence the election. this report did not find any evidence of political bias or improper consideration impacting the investigation. however, this report does give details of text messages sent between fbi staff members, and in one of them, an agent talks of stopping donald trump becoming president. certainly, there are many things in this report that not only worry those of us in the administration but should worry a lot of americans, that people played this political bias and injected that in the late apartment that should not have any of that. with the special counsel investigation still taking place, allegations of russian meddling, donald trump knows that all the events of the presidential election will remain under scrutiny. chris buckler,

presidential election will remain underscrutiny. chris buckler, bbc news, washington. let's turn now to yemen, which has seen humanitarian supplies hit after a saudi—led military attack on a port held by rebel fighters. the un security council has again called for the port of hudeydah to remain open after holding urgent talks. but the council rejected a call by sweden for an immediate freeze of hostilities. andrew plant reports. soldiers moving in, towards the yemeni port of hudaydah, after three yea rs of yemeni port of hudaydah, after three years of fighting here. this is a big push to defeat rebel forces and ta ke big push to defeat rebel forces and take back control of the harbour. the docks on yemen's west coast matter. they are the main gateway for supplies into the country currently under rebel control but millions of civilians rely on them as well. eight aid ships are docked,

as well. eight aid ships are docked, a lifline for civilians. houthi rebels have already said they have hit back. it targeted a warship with two missiles. it was completely destroyed. the rest of the warships fled. since the fighting started here, 10,000 people are estimated to have died. food and medicine and fuel are now in short supply. at a meeting last night, the un was unable to agree on a call for the fighting to stop, but it did remain united in its concern for the welfare of the people, with more than 22 million now in need of aid, describing the situation in yemen as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. and this has been andrew plant. bbc news. russia's world cup has started with a bang. the hosts had the best possible result in their opening fixture,

beating saudi arabia 5—0. and the matches start coming thick and fast on day two of the tournament. lucy hockings is in moscow for us. it is exciting. it was an exciting match yesterday for russia with plenty more to come today. yes. i wa nt to ta ke plenty more to come today. yes. i want to take you back to yesterday when i talked about the change in moscow and the party atmosphere. i com pletely moscow and the party atmosphere. i completely underestimated the russians and their ability to celebrate. last night turned out to be unbelievable. it was like they got the trophy on the opening day. remember, russia had not won any of their past seven games. expectations we re their past seven games. expectations were low. this is the moscow times from the other day from before the game. it says why russia is doomed to fail. that was yesterday. this paperfrom to fail. that was yesterday. this paper from today says russia has found football within themselves. that is the change in tone here. it was amazing to watch the game. fans told me it changes everything. i

think they may be getting ahead of themselves, but this victory was the second biggest by a host nation at a world cup since 193a. italy against the usa was the last one, 7—1. the coach got a congratulation call from vladimir putin. he said he is feeling no pressure, but they are obviously very relieved. he said he could never have dreamt of anything like this. i think that really does sum up the mood here in moscow. definitely last night, definitely this morning, with them still partying on the streets. we will remind ourselves of all of the action. the wait is finally over for russia and the prize they are all here to try and win. the 21st world cup opened in full party mode. robbie williams entertaining those who packed into luzhniki stadium, a show full of colour both on and off the pitch until it was time to get down to business.

a message from president putin as he welcomed all to russia including today's opponents, saudi arabia, and a world cup first. video assistant referees here — would they be needed today? well, there were no doubts about the tournament's opening goal, the hosts off to the perfect start, thanks to yury gazinsky. a first for his country, leading to some high—level diplomacy in the stands. but there were some nervy moments for russia, especially when alan dzagoev, their tallies man, hobbled off injured early on. his replacement, denis cheryshev, quickly put them at ease. after the break, russia pushed on and made sure of an emphatic win. artem dzyuba made it three before cheryshev scored easily, the goal of the match. russia now in full cruise mode, a chance to increase a goal difference that may become very important in their group. aleksandr golovin added to the rout. five goals for the hosts. the party, well and truly

started in russia. alex gulrajani, bbc news. it was just outstanding to watch the game with the russian fans. they we re game with the russian fans. they were happy. that was one game. 63 to go. everyone is looking forward to spain against portugal. we will talk about what is coming up later in the programme, andi about what is coming up later in the programme, and i will have a guest as well. spain and portugal, a com plete as well. spain and portugal, a complete classic in the making. so, as the world cup well and truly kicks off, what's the potential cost in work places and indeed financial markets across the globe, as millions down tools to watch a match? this year, time—zone differences mean more matches during european, us, and latin american trading hours than any previous tournament. a study done during the last world cup with similarly timed games, the 2010 finals in south africa, showed trading volumes on share markets dropped by a third on average when matches were on and 55% when a market's own team played. lawrence gosling is editor—in—chief

for what investment. he's also a former editor of a weekly football magazine, and a huge football fan. definitely. are you excited? it is like the olympics, you just look forward to it. definitely. the markets. the south africa world cup, they measured the amount of trade volume, which dropped significantly during matches. what do you expect this time? the same the way the matches are staggered. in london, trade and traffic dropped off towards the end of the afternoon. a modest opening game, russia and saudi arabia, not a big one for the london markets, or new york. next

week, you know, england playing on monday night, that should affect trading in london, right in the middle of a trading day in the us. a drop—off. middle of a trading day in the us. a drop-off. what does it mean if there is less trading? is it a good time to start playing the stock markets? a good question. there is potential if you follow the price of certain companies to get them a bit cheaper because there is not much volume. if big institutional investors are not putting a lot of money in, yes, you have a chance of making a quick turn. what about businesses making room and time for employees to watch the football? in brazil, they are dancing around star times for work in the public sector. —— start times. they have said employees need to be sensible and flexible. because of these events becoming big, most employers are being realistic, telling them to work from home if it

is relevant or allowing people to finish early to go and see the game if it is their country playing. england are playing on monday evening. thank you. he will be back with me shortly to look at the newspapers and the top stories. plenty on the world cup, of course. let's brief you on some of the other stories making the news. a memorial service will be held today at westminster abbey to remember the life of stephen hawking who died in march. towards the end of the service the ashes of professor hawking will be interred in the area known as scientists corner, close to charles darwin and isaac newton. ben ando reports. theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap. it is all in the mind. his mind was trapped in a body paralysed by motor neuron disease, but professor stephen hawking's ideas opened up new worlds and found a nswe rs ideas opened up new worlds and found answers about the very origins of the universe. so, if you reverse time, the universe is getting smaller. correct. his life was

depicted in the film, the theory of everything, with eddie redmayne playing stephen hawking. but while well—known in scientific circles since the early 70s, his work on black holes, his surprise best seller, a brief history of time, led to worldwide acclaim, leading to him being a rare phenomenon, a theoretical physicist that is a household name. i am proud i have been able to contribute to our understanding of the universe. i am also glad that my work has reached a popular audience, also glad that my work has reached a popularaudience, because also glad that my work has reached a popular audience, because i believe it is important that the public should know and have the chance to understand the seemingly mysterious work of scientists. a private funeral service to place for professor stephen hawking in cambridge in march. today, in a public memorial, his ashes will be interred in westminster abbey between the remains of the isaac

newton and charles darwin, two other scientists whose ideas shook the world. ben ando, bbc news. stay with us on the briefing. also on the programme: new zealand's "first bloke" tells us about life with his partner, the country's prime minister. there was a bomb in the city centre. a code word known to be one used by the ira was given. army bomb experts were examining a suspect van when there was a huge explosion. the south african parliament has destroyed the foundation of apartheid by abolishing the population registration act, which for a0 years forcibly classified each citizen according to race. germany's parliament, the bundestag, has voted by a narrow majority to move the seat government from bonn to berlin. berliners celebrated into the night but the decision was greeted with shock in bonn. just a day old, and the royal baby is tonight sleeping in his cot at home. early this evening, the new prince was taken by his mother and father to their apartments in kensington palace.

the real focus today was valentina tereshkova, the world's first woman cosmonaut. what do you think of the russian woman in space? i think it's a wonderful achievement and i think we might be able to persuade the wife it would be a good idea if i could to get her to go up there for a little while. you're watching the briefing. 0ur headlines: a report from the us department ofjustice says former fbi boss james comey made mistakes in his investigation of hillary clinton before the 2016 election, but was not politically biased. humanitarian supplies in yemen are at risk as saudi—led forces attack a port held by rebel fighters. let's take you back to moscow now, where it's day two of the world cup. lucy hockings is in moscow for us. we saw a very exciting match last

night to open the event, but there is so much more to come. there is. let us hope the goals continue today. we have three games. it has today. we have three games. it has to be said these games could be a bit more appealing to football lovers, although maybe we underestimated, we definitely underestimated, we definitely underestimated la sarre's aim. today we will see egypt taking on uruguay. we are we will see egypt taking on uruguay. we a re interested we will see egypt taking on uruguay. we are interested to see how much of my salah we will see after his injury. we will have to wait and see tonight. that is followed by morocco against iran. and then the salivating prospect of spain and portugal. this is what is coming up. an emotional view being unveiled as real madrid's new coach. if things had gone a little bit differently he would have been training with the spanish national side ahead of their

first match in this world cup. instead he got the sack and his former team are trying to make the best of things. translation: i would like to invest his conference with a smile, because it looks like we are at a funeral and zoomable start a world cup. i think this is wonderful. hoping to benefit from all of this disarray, portugal. you suspect cristiano ronaldo will not have too much sympathy for his upcoming opponents. this match, arguably the single most attractive fixture in the group stage ta kes attractive fixture in the group stage takes place in sochi. but the venue stage takes place in sochi. but the venue for the first game on day two is in yekaterinburg. for most people it is salah versus suarez. the liverpool side —— star had been in doubt after injuring his shoulder in the champions league final. this national fleet seems fairly confident his side will have

momentum. translation: he is doing very well indeed. he has recovered very quickly. we have paid a lot of attention to him. he has had training sessions with us. i can almost assure you 100% it will play, given any unforeseen factors at the last moment. the remaining fish on day two is morocco versus 0rion. which takes place in saint petersburg —— iran. moroccojust missed out on hosting the world cup in 2026. perhaps victory over the iranians could soften the. tim allman, bbc news. —— the blow. with me is robin edelmann from the university of california. your reaction, firstly, to la sarre's match. a pleasant shock. it is good for business. if you study russian history and the history of russian football, it is good for the attention to your subject. few people pick that they

would thrash saudi arabia.|j subject. few people pick that they would thrash saudi arabia. i was taking a taxi a couple of days ago and the taxi driver said they would win 5—0 and i thought he was an idiot. you have to go back and find him. had in tip the matters for me. everyone is ecstatic by this result. how is this change things?|j everyone is ecstatic by this result. how is this change things? i think it is in the hands of my salah. —— mo salah. if he can get past than the russians have a good chance in the russians have a good chance in the next match and they could go through. it would be a success from their point of view. how the russians feel about football? they feel intensely about football. it has historically been frustrated because they never did that well during the soviet period. some su ccesses , during the soviet period. some successes, in 1966 in england they did well. after that it has been somewhat downhill. what is strange is that they did well in 2008, 2009,

in the europa league and at the european championships, but since thenit european championships, but since then it has been a sad tale. there is just not the money here as well. i don't think it is the money, i think part of the problem is the best players are not playing in europe now. he plays in spain, he had two goals yesterday, about the only person on the roster who is playing abroad. when they did really well in 1988 and came in second at the euros to hollans, most of their players were playing in europe at that point. -- holland. take us back to 1936. 1936. every summer there was this physical culture day parade. you have probably seen it in the propaganda films, everyone marching through in their underwear and looking proper and prim and disciplined, and then the team decided that what they would give the time allowed to is that they had a giant green carpet, they rolled it out over the cobblestones and they

played a game, a rehearsal game for 43 minutes in front of the party leadership, including stalin standing on the mausoleum, and a good time was had by some. and what is the thing that you can russians are most looking forward to now? 0bviously they want the team to progress, but they seem excited about the all tournament. progress, but they seem excited about the all tournamentlj progress, but they seem excited about the all tournament. i think there is a sense of excitement in that this is a world event and that puts the spotlight on russia. and to that extent there is a sense of respect. so far from that extent there is a sense of respect. so farfrom everything i have seen from the organisation it is pretty good. 0ut have seen from the organisation it is pretty good. out in the neighbourhoods the party was muted. it was not quite as tracy. not like outside my hotel —— crazy.|j it was not quite as tracy. not like outside my hotel -- crazy. i got a good sleep last night. thank you very much. where i was eight, it was still going on when i left the hotel at five still going on when i left the hotel atfive a.m.. still going on when i left the hotel at five a.m.. they are extremely with eight in‘s performance, it is

fairto with eight in‘s performance, it is fair to say. there is the sense of surprise that they have defied expectation —— extremely happy with la sarre is performance. lucy hockings. the prime minister of new zealand, jacinda adern, is due to have her first baby on sunday. her partner, clarke gayford, is waiting for news. to keep himself busy, the fishing show presenter, who's been dubbed by local media as the country's "first bloke", took the bbc on an expedition. we don't really have a title for the partner of the pm in new zealand, so it's been slightly unusual. there's no real official role. i don't really have a choice, so i can'tjust roll with it. i call this placejurassic park. we're about 50 kilometres off the mainland, it's a small group of islands called the mokohinau. this is probably one of the few times when i really should be contactable. we have a radio, i'm sure the call will come out.

we use fishing as an excuse to make a bit of a travel show, and i like to just think that i'm introducing a few more people to the ocean. this is my world. it really makes your life, fishing, because you're slowing your heart rate down. i sound like a hippy when i start talking about this. have a look at this. now, that might look like just wind. that's all fish. look at that — beautiful. awesome. whoo—hoo! i hate putting people off, but there are the odd shark here, and some of them are quite big and they can be quite aggressive at times, so it'sjust a case of learning their body language, and how to play a good game of bluff. now, believe it or not, this is not considered particularly huge, but it's still a beautiful fish. this is a yellowtail kingfish. kiwis are mad for this fish. i find myself doing more earthy things like that to try and offset the strange, surreal world ifind

myself in with jacinda, and what she does. sitting there and you suddenly find yourself talking to the queen, being introduced to someone like president 0bama, and you think to yourself, is this real? well, it was kind of a no—brainer as to who was going to stay at home, given that one of us in our relationship got quite a promotion. i know that that's not that unusual, and that there's plenty of dads that do stay at home, but it's been really nice because it's given a lot of them the chance to just come up and talk to me. i had an old sea salt... of 0fa of a sailor, to me and he said, mate, i had my baby in the boat within three months. and i thought to myself, challenge accepted. 0bviously to myself, challenge accepted. obviously there will be sacrificed either way. thankfully, i brought fishing and my love of the ocean to the relationship. she knows where i stand. between us, hopefully, we can

carve out a little bit of free time to come out here and enjoy it. that is the new silom prime minister's usman. a quick briefing on some of the things happening around the world. upgrades will happen on the large hadron collider in switzerland, taking it to its full capability. emmanuel macron is set to host giuseppe conte for a working lunch, where migration will be amongst the topics discussed. it comes a day after high—level talks between the two countries were postponed after brad scott italy irresponsible for turning away a microchip. and also to date survivors of a school shooting will be among those embarking on a 60 day 22nd of the us to encourage people to register to vote. more coming up shortly from me in the business. goodbye. hello once again, thanks forjoining me.

storm hector pretty much lived up to what we expected of it. some of the gust of wind getting up to around 70 miles an hour. the north it was more than that in places. this was the sort of destruction across parts of scotland, the eastern side of asia. 0nce scotland, the eastern side of asia. once the cloudbreak, it was a decent afternoon. still quite breezy. by friday hector became something of a memory as it moved towards the western side of scandinavia. a number of isobars western side of scandinavia. a number of isoba rs close western side of scandinavia. a number of isobars close by to the northern isles of scotland. the wind is taking time to moderate. elsewhere it is a decent sort of day. you will notice we still have this prospect of showers, if not longer spells of rain initially moving into the western side of scotla nd moving into the western side of scotland and northern ireland. becoming more showery as we get into the afternoon. further south, fewer

show us report. the odd isolated one, but with sunshine coming through we could push temperatures to around 22. the weekend by no means a write—off. it may seem that way on saturday. a better day for many of us as we get on into sunday. this is saturday. a set of ruhs bringing rain through northern ireland and pushing on through scotland. savour the very far north—east where it may be drier and brighterfor a time. north—east where it may be drier and brighter for a time. the trailing portion of that for the southern half of wales in southern england. any brightness in the south, around 19,20. any brightness in the south, around 19, 20. a bit ofa dip into any brightness in the south, around 19, 20. a bit of a dip into riches. it will take time through saturday night and the first part of sunday to push the low pressure into the new cotton —— temperatures. behind isa new cotton —— temperatures. behind is a rather pathetic reach of weak pressure trying to settle things down. it will succeed for a time. another band of cloud with it and pieces of rain that works its way through northern ireland into the

west of scotland and england and through western mails as well. generally speaking, the further east you are and north you are be drier and brighter your day will be. the top temperature around about 20. a quick look at monday, we are trying to build this ridge of high pressure in towards the south. weather fronts close by. the warmest and rise of the weather will be found in the south. —— driest. this is business briefing. upping the ante: the white house set to confirm new tariffs on hundreds of chinese products — despite warnings from the imf. plus mars raises the bar in china: the boss says the market looks sweet despite trade tensions — especially for a spicy version of snickers. and on the markets the dollar soars and the euro slumps

as the ecb signals its own interest rate rises are a long way off.