ms ardern is currently in labour, and the paper has live online coverage from outside auckland hospital. the 37—year—old is only the second world leader to have a child while in office. bbc news online features a story about japanese fans at the world cup. the ‘samurai blue‘ supporters impressed organisers when they came equipped with large rubbish bags and cleaned the stadium after their team beat colombia on tuesday night. so let's begin. with me is jane foley, senior foreign exchange strategist at rabobank. the washington post starts with donald trump's decision to reverse that order, ending his policy of separating families at the border after an international outcry. indeed it does, and the thing that shocked me — the pictures were extremely shocking, but then we heard about the numbers. this is the washington post and it says that, since last month, 2342 children have been separated from their parents. the sheer numbers are enormous. this

paper also goes on to discuss — it might be quite difficult for the government now to house the children together because they really work have the facilities. there might have the facilities. there might have to be changes to the laws to find beds for them. it's not clear what is going to happen to those children who've already been separated. an unusual climbdown for president trump. yes, it is, and he states that this is a difference between being weak and strong, and we've all seen enough of trump to know he wants to portray the image ofa know he wants to portray the image of a strongman, and now of course he is looking weak, at least there's the perception, to some people. that's one of the difficulties. he wa nted that's one of the difficulties. he wanted to be strong on immigration committee made that clear during the election campaign, and this is a big climbdown. he also has the balance the mid—term elections in november because opinion polls were very negative against this. also they are going to look at the laws and trying to change the laws so, while he wa nts to to change the laws so, while he wants to be strong, he will see what congress will do about it. he blamed

the democrats. he did, and many newspapers looked into this and said, no, this is down to you, the separating of children from their pa rents. separating of children from their parents. with that flourish of the pen, he ended it so simply. let's move on to the guardian, and lord sugar underfire over move on to the guardian, and lord sugar under fire over that racist senegal world cup tweet, and this is where he tweeted a photo shopped picture of the senegalese team, portraying them selling handbags on a beach in spain. he has apologised. eventually, but that was not his first reaction. when he was first criticised, he came out and started criticising the people that were criticising the people that were criticising him, so clearly, when he did eventually apologise, this was clearly something under duress, so it's not necessarily an apology that was done in good faith. he said, i can't see what i have to apologise for. you are ott, it's a joke. then he had more pressure on goulashjust been reading the reaction to my

funny tweet, seems to have been interpreted the wrong way. i can't see that, i think it's funny. then he did another one eventually and said, i apologise if i did cause offence. clearly my attempt at humour has backfired. i've deleted the tweet. it took him some time. it appears that was done from some pressure from his employers at the bbc, so it's not an apology that is really seen as a proper apology. essentially because we've been asking for reaction from our viewers this morning. thomas said, my favourite non— apology is i'm sorry you feel that way. there's been others who say they support him and that there's been a sense of humour failure, just looking for them here. only the extreme liberals, from sarah louise, would read racism into lord sugar bosna tweet. jacobs says, it was just harmless fun, doesn't make lord sugar a racist. can't we have a laugh any more? clearly it's been taken seriously. does it put

lord sugar in a difficult position over his resenting of the apprentice? clearly the bbc are trying to push diversity and when someone trying to push diversity and when someone with a high profile portrays racial stereotypes which may not be offensive to everybody, but certainly i would imagine our offensive to the people he is referring to — if it was a racial stereotype i was involved in, i'd be offended. i think it's one thing for people to think, no, and support him, but actually if he was offending any group of people, some harm has been done. this is about president trump's visit to europe, heading to london in a few weeks' time, and questions about him meeting president putin of russia, whether that could be before he meets theresa may or after, but there is concern in westminster about this. there is, and there's so many themes related to this. there is concern in westminster. clearly we've had the poisoning of a

previous russian spy some months ago. clearly there is some sensitivity there, but this is deeper. theresa may recently suggested she wants more of our defence budget to go on cyber crime, and russia was certainly in her frame of mind when she was thinking about doing that. but more than that, if we look from trump's perspective, what we are aware of nell is this push between china and the us over trade was. but actually trump is trying to work out who is behind him and he was against him in this power push between the world's largest two economies, and where russia is positioned in respect that could be important to him. so possibly trump is trying to get putin to side with him rather than but clearly the position of nato in this is very much want to be watched, and one that many people involved in nato are very fearful about continued coherence. this is

about continued coherence. this is about singapore to cut the use of cash and go cheque free. it's not talking about being a cashless society but it's heading that way, and this is a system that makes it easy to transfer money without revealing your bank details. this is a new system called pay now. in many respects whether you are surprised that this depends on what country you live in. americans may be more surprised than us because they still use cheques. we in europe don't. we are moving to electronic banking far more than cash, but from an economist‘s point of view, there are some worrying tracks. if we all went cashless, if we were all using electronic money, it might be great for the government because tax evasion would be quite difficult to do, and that would be good, but it would also be easier for central banks to use negative interest rates if they wanted to promote growth. and that could be quite worrying. we do have negative interest rates in

denmark and elsewhere in europe. central banks would be able to do that if we didn't have the facility to put cash under the bed, under the mattress or in the safe. there are some interesting sidelines to this story. i know a lot of people don't use cash any more that i'm a cash person! i like to know it's there. the new zealand prime minister has gone into labour, only the second ever prime minister to have a baby while in office, and everybody is on baby watch in new zealand. a lot of excitement there. it's a massive event really for new zealand but really for women's rights, too. it's going to be difficult for her. she said she would take about six weeks' maternity leave, but clearly her workload is going to ratchet up considerably from now on. but it is a very nice story. good on her, and she says she thinks her husband will be at home with the baby for a little bit at least. interestingly,

only the second sitting prime minister to have a baby in office. the first was benazir bhutto in 1990. this story on bbc news online, japanese fans impressing all by their extremely tidy hagar, taking their extremely tidy hagar, taking their own rubbish bags to the stadium. they've done this before. this is not just stadium. they've done this before. this is notjust the culture of the japanese fans but the japanese people, and this story does underpin that politeness, respect — it's all pa rt that politeness, respect — it's all part of how japanese people are brought up, and indeed this story does say that, in schools, japanese children do have to clear up their classroom and corridors after themselves, and there's something they are trained to do, but it also makes a very interesting point that the japanese fans are not the only ones to have done this. senegal fans have also been seen to be clearing up have also been seen to be clearing up after themselves as well.“ have also been seen to be clearing up after themselves as well. if only all our children would do the same... really good to see you this

morning. some really interesting stories. we will see you little bit later. thank you very much. thanks for watching the briefing. i'll be back very shortly with all the latest headlines and plenty more business stories as well. you can get in touch with me on twitter. thanks very much for watching. goodbye for now. good morning. it is the summer solstice today, but i just want to cast your mind back to this time last year when we saw a high of 35 degrees. it really was a scorcher on the 21st ofjune, 2017. however, for us, things will turn notably fresher today as we have a north—western flow driving that humidity away to the near continent. high pressure is building, but the wind swinging around that high, coming through the north—west. that is going to make it feel noticeably fresher out there. close to 19 hours of daylight. get out and enjoy it if you can. a scattering of showers and some gusty winds, gusting in excess of 40 miles

an hourfor the northern isles. a little bit of cloud developing. generally speaking, it is a quiet day. 14 to 18 degrees quite widely. might see 21 in the south—east corner if we are lucky. as we move out of thursday, we keep those clear skies with us and temperatures will fall away perhaps into single figures to start our day on friday. lowerfigures in more rural spots, so again a comfortable night for sleeping, a chilly start to friday morning. but there will be plenty of dry weather and an area of high pressure is just starting to nudge a little bit further eastwards, which means we lose that north—westerly flow, with the exception perhaps along that east coast. further west we see the best of the sunshine, lighter winds, and temperatures will start to respond — highs of 22 degrees. what is in store for the weekend? not much change, in fact. high pressure is still set with us. we will hardly have a breath of wind on saturday.

maybe the chance of a few showers just brushing the extreme north of scotland and a little more cloudy but generally speaking, maybe some hazy looking skies, but a pleasant feel — 16 to 24, 75 fahrenheit. warmer still on sunday. we still have those winds, the high pressure centred right across the uk. very little in the way of rain for the gardens. if you are a gardener or grower out there, that will be a little frustrating, but plenty of warm summer sunshine to look forward to. if you have outdoor plans on sunday, you will not be disappointed. 18—25 the overall high. guess what? there is more of the same to come right throughout the next week. warming up with temperatures likely to peak in the high 20s. enjoy. hello — this is breakfast, withjon kay and naga munchetty. a u—turn from president trump — he promises to stop separating children from families crossing the us border and signs an executive

order reversing his own policy. thousands of youngsters including babies and toddlers have been taken from their parents and locked up as part of his zero—tolerance approach to illegal immigration. good morning — it's thursday the 21st ofjune. also this morning: families call for criminal proceedings over the premature deaths of hundreds of elderly hospital patients in gosport. as