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President Trump defends his temporary ban on citizens | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
from seven countries entering the United States. | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
There have been angry protests in the United States - | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
and still some confusion over who it applies to. | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
The President blames chaos at airports on a computer outage, | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
and mocks Democrats involved in the protests. | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
Shock Schumer yesterday with fake tears. I will ask who is his acting | :00:39. | :00:46. | |
coach will stop -- Chuck Schumer. I'll speak to some of those | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
affected by the policy - and hear from Trump voters | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
who are fully behind it. As far as security to our country, | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
threats to our country, if they feel this is necessary, I am with it all | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
the way. No matter how high I get in my career, it will still be the | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
Syrian Muslim, that will be it. Here in the UK - nearly one | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
and a half million signatures. The petition calling for the UK | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
government to abandon Donald Trump's proposed state visit to Britain | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
is growing - but Theresa May I have issued that invitation, the | :01:16. | :01:32. | |
invitation to President Trump to the United Kingdom and that protest | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
stands. The protests are beginning in London tonight. The Foreign | :01:38. | :01:45. | |
Secretary says UK passport holders and dual nationals will not be | :01:46. | :01:46. | |
affected by the ban. I'm Katty Kay in Washington | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
and Christian Fraser's in London. Week two of the Trump administration | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
- and already there are legal challenges to one of the President's | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
key election pledges - the introduction of a temporary ban | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
on refugees and visa holders from seven majority Muslim | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
countries, including Iraq and Syria. Today European governments have | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
been seeking further clarity on who is banned, | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
and who is not. But Mr Trump makes no apology | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
for the way the ban was implemented, as Nick Bryant reports | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
from New York. A policy intended to | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
defend America is seen by protestors as an attack | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
on American values. And the demonstrations | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
against the travel ban brought This was Portland, | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
Oregon and an angry clash between supporters and opponents | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
of the president. Inside airports there has been great | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
confusion over who should be allowed into America, | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
partly because the ban was implemented so quickly | :02:55. | :02:56. | |
without consultation with the relevant | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
government agencies. And it wasn't just Muslim | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
arrivals who struggled This was the leading Democrat | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
on Capitol Hill, Chuck Schumer. It was mean spirited | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
and un-American. This morning at the White | :03:10. | :03:24. | |
House, President Trump I noticed Chuck Schumer | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
with fake tears yesterday. It was the protestors thronging | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
airports who Donald Trump claims are responsible for any chaos | :03:33. | :03:41. | |
over the weekend. Then an airline computer glitch | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
grounded more than 150 flights. He defended his travel | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
ban on Twitter. He said there was nothing nice | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
about searching for terrorists This was a big part of my | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
campaign, study the world. The bad would rush | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
into our country in a week. Over the water from | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
the Statue of Liberty, is Staten Island, the only New York | :04:08. | :04:17. | |
borough to vote for Donald Trump. Here there is strong | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
support for the travel ban. Whatever needs to be | :04:21. | :04:22. | |
done, has to be done. We live in a country of democracy | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
and if the majority of people feel they are threatened and wants | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
to have things in place, then we should be able | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
to have things in place. Donald Trump boasted throughout | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
the campaign he was a businessman But even members of his own | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
party have been critical of the botched roll-out | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
of a signature policy. In the past few hours | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
the Foreign Secretary here in the UK has clarified again | :04:49. | :04:58. | |
that the extreme vetting programme will not apply to British citizens | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
with dual nationality. But - today American | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
embassies around On the Facebook page | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
of the Embassy in Berlin, officials said any "national or dual | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
national" from the seven affected countries should not | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
schedule a visa appointment. Well, we've been speaking | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
to one woman directly affected by the ban - | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
Batool Shannan. She is a Syrian scientist who lives | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
in Essen in North Germany, who had already obtained a visa | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
to visit the US. I asked her how she felt as a Muslim | :05:27. | :05:42. | |
who was effectively locked out of the country. I had never thought of | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
myself as different. The religion is personal. It is part of you. But you | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
don't really show it around. I am not the kind of person who goes | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
around saying, I am a Muslim. I am not really a practising Muslim. A | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
lot of people cannot guess because of my parents but once they know I | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
come from Syria, they make the connection. It is really demeaning. | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
That is probably a strong word but the way I feel about it, no matter | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
what I do on the matter how high I get in my career, it will still be | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
the Syrian Muslim, that will be it. Everything else will be stripped | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
away. You can never be equal to the people here, for example. Not here | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
literally in Germany, but in general. You are not measured by | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
your achievements, you are measured by the two things you cannot | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
control, like your citizenship is given to you at birth, and your | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
religion is usually chosen by parents. You can choose whatever you | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
want to do with it but like I said, it is private. I am not prepared to | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
share it with anybody, because I didn't hurt anybody with it, it is | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
mine. Batool Shannan speaking to us earlier. When we looked at the | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
concept of this programme, 100 days, some people said, is it 100 days of | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
Donald Trump, or is it 100 days of how things are affected around the | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
world. What really became clear is the two things were deeply | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
connected. We have seen that very clearly over the course of the last | :07:23. | :07:31. | |
few days. I think we have lost Katty. That is the problem being | :07:32. | :07:39. | |
3000 miles apart. There she is. 3000 miles apart and a technical glitch! | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
We were pains to point out that the 100 days did not just apply to | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
Donald Trump's presidency, but also how it would affect security, the | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
economy and defence around the world. We got a sense of how the | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
world really is. You have to be aware of how far the White House is | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
aware of what the fallout would be from the executive order on Friday, | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
in terms of what allies around the world would think. But also if they | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
care. How much is the White House national security team, in terms of | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
secretary of defence, the secretary of State, the head of the CIA, are | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
they on board with this? Because they are the ones who have to deal | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
in terms of collecting intelligence, in terms of formulating policy with | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
America's allies and this is not good for America. I have lived in | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
America for 25 years and the only time I have seen at global reaction | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
like this was in the run-up to the Iraq war because of what George Bush | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
was doing. A lot of this has been about Steve Bannon, one of the | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
senior advisers to Donald Trump will stop he was once in charge of | :08:57. | :09:05. | |
Breibart. Some people are saying he is now supplanting the military top | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
brass. Some are saying the military top brass are not excluded although | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
that did seem the position of the executive order which is now signed. | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
George Bush specifically said he did not want Karl rove, who was a | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
political appointees come in on those intelligence meetings because | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
he wanted it pure intelligence, not litter sized intelligence. We can | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
now speak to retired Army General Wesley Clark. He served that Nato | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
and was a former presidential candidate on the Democrat side. He | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
is in Little Rock, Arkansas. I want to ask you about this travel ban on | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
immigrants from seven countries. As a security matter, it is a mistake. | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
It does not help your security. First, you cannot win the war at the | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
border, second we might be doing what is called extreme vetting of | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
people in the country anyway. Third, it does alienate us from governments | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
who are trying to help off abroad, and defeat since the Al-Qaeda and | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
Isis propaganda lines. You can only view this in terms of follow-through | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
on a campaign pledge terms of American domestic politics. It is | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
like the other executive orders which was signed in the first week | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
of the Trump administration. It could be called the education of | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
Donald Trump. It could be called something else. But you cannot | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
govern the country with executive orders which are not coordinated and | :10:41. | :10:48. | |
apparently this wasn't. I will not ask what else you would call this! | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
You and I know that if you poll the American public, as polls have been | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
done recently on stricter immigration procedures, he | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
campaigned radically on tougher administration Leave immigration | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
procedures. He is just following through on what he campaigned on. | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
You could argue that but the consequences were not foreseen | :11:16. | :11:24. | |
because the circumstances were not understood. If you polled the | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
American public, 70% are in favour of tighter gun control but we will | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
not get that and 70% are in favour of family planning but this runs | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
counter to the mandate in office. This is the rough and tumble of | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
politics. General Clark, as a former supreme Allied Commander, spell it | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
out for us a little bit more specifically, how this might hurt | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
American national security? Well, we have to work with our allies and the | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
Allies have to work with us. We have had mixed messages from the Trump | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
administration and figures within the Trump administration on Nato. I | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
thought we got some clarity with Prime Minister May's visit last | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
week. They both agreed that Nato was important but beyond that, when you | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
get into specific issues, you have to do intelligence sharing, you have | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
to talk about people, you have to talk about groups with Muslim | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
countries, because they are the ones who know these groups and people | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
best. If you cut off your relationships with those countries | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
and think you can build a wall, literally or figurative Lee around | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
America and Europe, you are making a mistake. You are not strengthening | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
security, you are weakening it. How would you advise your European | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
allies to deal with the Trump administration on this issue? Well, | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
on this issue, I think you have got to go back through all the different | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
methods of reaching out. We have intelligence to intelligence, state | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
to Foreign Ministry, state to defence cooperation, we have | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
alliance organisations, we have economic. You have to come back on | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
every single issue, on every single connection point back to the | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
administration, as well as having the ambassador talking to the state | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
department. You have business people who have been dealing with Donald | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
Trump. There are UK businessmen who know Donald Trump. Maybe they have a | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
view on this? That is general Clark from Arkansas. His guide on dealing | :13:44. | :13:52. | |
with the Trump administration! There has been some more news in | :13:53. | :14:03. | |
Washington. On Twitter Donald Trump said he would reveal the nomination | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
for the Supreme Court live. The president says he will | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
announce his choice On Twitter, Mr Trump wrote he'll | :14:12. | :14:13. | |
reveal his nomination live There's been a vacancy | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
on the Supreme Court bench since last February, | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
after the death of Mr Trump said he'd be nominating | :14:21. | :14:22. | |
someone who was "pro-life". Police in Canada say they've | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
arrested a suspect after a mosque Six people were killed and at least | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
a dozen others were injured, when shots were fired | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
inside the building Another man was arrested | :14:33. | :14:33. | |
and police say, he's now Canada's Prime Minister Justin | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
Trudeau says it was a terrorist The Australian government says | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
the US has agreed to honour a deal to resettle refugees currently | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
being held in off-shore detention Mr Obama had agreed | :14:45. | :14:46. | |
to take on refugees on Manus Island and Nauru - | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
and there were doubts about whether Mr Trump would follow | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
through given his latest travel ban. Many of the refugees | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
are from Iran, Iraq and Syria. A petition to cancel | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
President Trump's state visit to the UK has just reached | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
1.4 million signatures. Members of Parliament | :15:07. | :15:08. | |
have criticised the ban, and will debate the state | :15:09. | :15:10. | |
visit on Tuesday. As we mentioned a little earlier | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
the British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has been addressing | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
parliament in the past few hours - The general principle is that all | :15:18. | :15:30. | |
British passport holders remain welcome to travel to the US. We have | :15:31. | :15:41. | |
received assurances, we have received assurances from the US | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
Embassy that this executive order will make no difference to any | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
British passport holder, irrespective of their country of | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
birth, or whether they hold another passport. That is the current | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
Foreign Secretary, let's speak to the former Conservative Foreign | :16:01. | :16:01. | |
Secretary, Malcolm Rifkind. What do you make of this petition? | :16:02. | :16:10. | |
Well, I think it genuinely reflects the views of a large number of | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
people in the United Kingdom, but you cannot conduct International | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
Relations on the basis of the number of people who may or may not have | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
signed a petition. But there is a general feeling that maybe the | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
extension of a state visit was held out too early, was not something we | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
could have held back? Cull you seem to misunderstand the point of state | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
visits. They are not meant to be a personal to the individual invited, | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
nor a reward for treatment they have carried out. We had a state visit | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
from the President of China a few months ago and China is not exactly | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
a democratic country that respects human rights but it was crucial in | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
order to advance the United Kingdom was my interests and influence China | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
in its behaviour. If that is true of China it is to be at least as true | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
when you're dealing with someone who whatever we think of them, and I | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
have no admirer of Mr Trump, but he is the democratically elected | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
President of the United States. I understand no US President has been | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
offered a state visit in his first year of office. Because previous | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
Presidents were already established political figures. We are dealing | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
with somebody who nobody expected to be President. This is a crucial | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
period for trying to get some opportunity to be able to influence | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
his decisions both now and over the weeks and months ahead. Clearly, a | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
state visit of the kind that is proposed bills on what has already | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
been achieved by Theresa May in her meeting in Washington. The United | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
Kingdom has an opportunity to influence the President at this | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
moment in time probably more than any other foreign head of | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
government. That is something we will use in a positive way. The | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
Prime Minister has made clear on this issue that is captivating | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
attention today, the UK strongly disagrees with the measures in the | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
executive order. Let's have a listen to the Prime Minister, who is in | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
Dublin today as a guest of Enda Kenny. This is what she had to say | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
on the travel ban. In relation to the policies that have been | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
announced by the United States, the UK takes a different approach. I was | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
Home Secretary for six years and at no stage did I introduce those sorts | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
of arrangements. So obviously, President Trump is now moving to put | :18:33. | :18:40. | |
into place what he had said he would do, but we have a different approach | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
to these matters in the UK. Theresa May, speaking in Dublin. Sir | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
Malcolm, I just wanted to ask, your advice to Theresa May is to deal | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
with Donald Trump in a polite but firm way on issues she might | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
disagree with him on. You could argue that is exactly what she did | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
on Friday and did not really get very far. No sooner is she on the | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
plane back to UK and Turkey, this row erupts over the immigration | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
bill, making her look a little like Tony Blair did with George Bush. I | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
was not present at these power conversations but we have no | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
indication they discussed refugee questions. It was her ability to say | :19:21. | :19:28. | |
without any contribution by him but he is 100% in favour of Nato, which | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
is a big step in the right direction compared to what you're saying | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
during the election campaign. As far as the current controversy is | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
concerned, I think the UK Government has two responsibilities, the first | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
which it has already done is to say clearly and unambiguously that it | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
disapproves, disagrees with the executive order and thinks there's a | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
very unwise decision. The second obligation is to use the diplomatic | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
means available to it to seek to influence changes in that decision. | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
Already, by getting the Foreign Secretary and the Home Secretary to | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
get in touch with their counterparts in Washington, we have had it | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
clarified that those with dual nationality will not be affected by | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
the band. They does not resolve the overall controversy but it is a big | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
step for tens of thousands of people who are affected by that. -- by the | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
ban. By good chance, we have a Prime Minister who already has a very | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
constructive personal relationship with the American President. I'd | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
remember, was Margaret Thatcher's -- in Margaret Thatcher's government | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
and involved with meetings she had with Mr Gorbachev, they totally | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
disagreed with each other, however, by personal conversation in a | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
constructive way, she was able to end up saying, this is a man with | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
whom we can do business, and that led to the end of the Cold War, | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
through President Reagan as well, without a shot being fired. On this | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
petition, the wording is such that it is not really drawing issue with | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
him coming to the UK, it is the capacity of the state visit. They | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
worry he might embarrass the Queen. Maybe for our global viewers, you | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
can explain why that might be the case. If I can say in the most | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
respectful and loyal way, Her Majesty the Queen is not capable of | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
being embarrassed. If you remember how difficult and painful it was | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
when we did the deal with the IRA to bring peace in Northern Ireland, and | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
the Queen at one stage had to shake hands with Gerry Adams and Martin | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
McGuinness, and her own family, Lord Mountbatten, had been one of the | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
people murdered by the IRA. The Queen is head of state and just as | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
the rest of us often have to do things which we personally dislike, | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
if we have public responsibilities, we have to decide what the interests | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
of our country as a whole require of us, otherwise we should not be in | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
that job. So the question of a state visit, state visits are more than | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
just working visits, but they have a serious purpose, not just | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
ceremonial, they are there in order to have the maximum impact on | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
another head of government, with whom we can make important progress | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
on things that we believe in and we wish to see advance. If we can do | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
that better to a state visit than without one, there is not the | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
slightest doubt in my mind that that is the right thing to do. The | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
sooner, the better. Because Donald Trump, like his predecessors, need | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
advice, is less aware of foreign policy in particular, than most any | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
of his predecessors over the last 50 years. Sir Malcolm, thank you for | :22:38. | :22:39. | |
being with us. Very interesting to hear his defence | :22:40. | :22:49. | |
of the rationale behind the state visit and why that is a good idea, | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
he seems to be saying, at the moment. And also his defence, I | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
think, of Theresa May and the efforts she has made to try to | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
influence the White House, when of course as you know, those protesters | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
are thinking actually, she seems to have caved too much. But there have | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
been protests across the Middle East as well reacting to Mr Trump's | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
travel ban. The BBC has heard stories around the whole region. In | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
Iraq, the Parliament has called for retaliation and a ban on Americans | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
visiting. More than 12,000 of those refugees were from Syria. Alex | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
Forsyth has spent the day with one of those affected. | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
A desperate sound but all too familiar for the UN's refugee | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
reception in Beirut. This is where hundreds of thousands of those who | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
fled Syria come for aid or advice. This morning, along with the usual | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
queues and quiet resignation, there was added frustration now Syrian | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
refugees have been banned from the US. For two years, Yasser has wanted | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
to find a new country in which he can settle. He said today, even if | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
given the chance, he would never go to America. TRANSLATION: I do not | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
want to go to a racist country that discriminate against Arabs and | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
Muslims. For others, it is another hope fading. Like this man, | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
desperate to leave Lebanon -- this woman, desperate to leave Lebanon | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
and get help for her cancer ridden child. She told me, I just want to | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
be treated like any other human being, look in a country which | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
protect my rights and helps my children. | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
Only a fraction of Syrian refugees would have been eligible for | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
resettlement in the United States. Those deemed to be the most | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
vulnerable. Yet, still here, news of President Trump's executive order | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
has increased the sense of hopelessness. Many feel another door | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
is now closed to them. Elsewhere, there is anger as cases emerge of | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
legitimate residents being stopped from returning to America. Like Ali, | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
from Iraq, who has lived near LA for three years but is stuck in Jordan | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
after leaving the US will work. Yesterday he missed his six-year-old | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
daughter's bracket. TRANSLATION: Today I went to buy a new ticket by | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
companies advised me not to travel. -- daughter's birthday. As the | :25:13. | :25:20. | |
confusions plead out across the Middle East, the scale of those | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
affected is still unclear. World-renowned clarinet player | :25:26. | :25:33. | |
Jeanne Anne is here for a concert. One of the many unsure if he will be | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
able to return home. I have not been able to go back for a few years and | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
now, this other home with my friends and family, now that has also been | :25:46. | :25:54. | |
barred. Watt-mac the consequences of the American immigration changes are | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
echoing around the region. In many places leaving behind questions and | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
growing discord. Alex Forsyth, BBC News, Beirut. | :26:05. | :26:06. | |
You're watching One Hundred Days from BBC News. | :26:07. | :26:17. | |
We have seen a lot of cloud today, rather misty and murky day as well | :26:18. | :26:25. | |
with temperatures in double figures, perhaps here in Swanage, but there | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
was some sunshine across Scotland, chilly here, with of fog and we also | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
had some sunshine across the far North of England. You can see the | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
difference in temperature from earlier as well. Double figures | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
towards the South West, nearer three Celsius in the Highlands. Tumbling | :26:45. | :26:47. | |
for a while in Scotland and the north-east England. Then all this | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
cloud comes in is lovely from the West, bringing rain and drizzle. The | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
more substantial rain comes into Northern Ireland and western | :26:57. | :26:58. | |
Scotland later. The wind picking up and a lot of low cloud, Sam Hill fog | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
and pretty mild. But chilly for a while across eastern areas. | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
Temperatures slow to rise during tomorrow. Some rain pushing its way | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
East across Scotland are some gusty wind, particularly around the Moray | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
Firth. The wettest weather probably first thing across Northern Ireland, | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
especially more eastern parts. Spitz and spots of rain and drizzle coming | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
in crossing them and Wales, a lot of low cloud and Sam Hill fog. -- some | :27:27. | :27:35. | |
hill fog. Deborah Gers are still sitting at ten or 11 Celsius, | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
contrasting with the chilly start for the Easter inside of the | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
country. The wet weather clears away from Northern Ireland and we get | :27:44. | :27:46. | |
some sunshine. That rain pushing East across Scotland. It will be | :27:47. | :27:49. | |
rather heavy at times. Gusty winds as well. A chilly wind blowing | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
across eastern parts of England and Scotland. Milder further West. | :27:55. | :27:57. | |
Premier league football returns tomorrow. It returns with this | :27:58. | :28:03. | |
cloudy and mild air, there could be some rain around as well. For the | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
first day of February, Wednesday, we will have some cloud and rain. Most | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
of it heading into the North Sea but lingering in the South East of | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
England. More rain coming into Wales and the South West. In between a | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
little brighter after a chilly start in Scotland, eight to 11 Celsius. | :28:21. | :28:23. | |
The weather will be coming in from the Atlantic this week and later in | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
the week, areas of low pressure pushing up from the South and West, | :28:28. | :28:31. | |
which will threaten some wind and rain. That is the theme for the week | :28:32. | :28:34. | |
ahead. The wind will get stronger this week. That will blow in some | :28:35. | :28:40. | |
rain from time to time. On the whole, I think will be on the might | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
-- mild sight, a far cry from what we have been used it over the last | :28:45. | :28:46. | |
week or so. Welcome back to 100 Days - | :28:47. | :30:10. | |
with Katty Kay in Washington As protests are held across America, | :30:11. | :30:25. | |
Donald Trump is making no apologies for the way his travel ban was | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
implemented across the weekend. And how much of a dusty how to push | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
these changes through? We will have a look at President Trump's | :30:36. | :30:47. | |
popularity. We do have some news coming in to us. It is from the | :30:48. | :30:51. | |
office of the former President Barack Obama. This is his first date | :30:52. | :30:54. | |
men since leaving the White House men since leaving the White House | :30:55. | :30:57. | |
and his officers President Obama fundamentally disagrees with the | :30:58. | :31:02. | |
notion of discriminating because of faith or religion. The statement | :31:03. | :31:08. | |
says he has been heartened by the civic engagement of the country. | :31:09. | :31:13. | |
has had a lot to say about President has had a lot to say about President | :31:14. | :31:18. | |
Obama's presidency. Is it usual to get involved this soon? I am | :31:19. | :31:24. | |
surprised he is getting involved this soon but I'm not surprised | :31:25. | :31:29. | |
because of the protests we saw at the weekend. Barack Obama did say | :31:30. | :31:35. | |
that he felt if there were issues of the fundamental nature of the values | :31:36. | :31:39. | |
of America and what it meant to the American then he would weigh in on | :31:40. | :31:45. | |
them. At the time the suggestion was about immigration and Hispanics but | :31:46. | :31:52. | |
now the president feels he needs to get involved in this. He did say he | :31:53. | :31:56. | |
would leave office and be quiet for a bit. | :31:57. | :32:04. | |
The one foreign policy area that has defeated all US presidents, | :32:05. | :32:06. | |
is finding a negotiated settlement to the Israeli Palestinian conflict. | :32:07. | :32:09. | |
It's no secret that Barack Obama saw Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu | :32:10. | :32:11. | |
as one of the main impediments to peace, particularly when it came | :32:12. | :32:14. | |
to the building of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. | :32:15. | :32:17. | |
In contrast, Donald Trump has vowed to be Israel's "best friend". | :32:18. | :32:22. | |
He has invited Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House on February 15. We | :32:23. | :32:28. | |
have just heard that. He condemned a UN Security Council | :32:29. | :32:30. | |
resolution last year, that called for a halt to settlement | :32:31. | :32:32. | |
building, and he has promised to move the US embassy | :32:33. | :32:35. | |
in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Politics changes but Jewish | :32:36. | :32:46. | |
tradition remains. The ancient ritual of transcribing the Torah for | :32:47. | :32:53. | |
prayer boxes. From this factory in a settlement, this man has seen | :32:54. | :32:58. | |
American Presidents come and go. Now he hopes Donald Trump will write a | :32:59. | :33:04. | |
new chapter in US Israel relations. Obama came and Obama went, thank | :33:05. | :33:08. | |
God. That is what we think about Obama. Let's hope that we won't have | :33:09. | :33:18. | |
to think the same about Trump in four or eight years from now. | :33:19. | :33:23. | |
Rhetoric is cheap. Talk is cheap. Actions speak. Ties weakened under | :33:24. | :33:31. | |
President Obama who was against settlement building. The final blow | :33:32. | :33:35. | |
was allowing a resolution against it to pass at the UN. Israel was | :33:36. | :33:43. | |
furious. Because Israel is tough and smart and strong and Israel has been | :33:44. | :33:49. | |
sold out by Obama. Donald Trump has taken a far more pro-Israel line, | :33:50. | :33:54. | |
vowing to move the Embassy to Jerusalem. He said he would be | :33:55. | :34:00. | |
Israel's best friend in America. This settlement is deep in the | :34:01. | :34:03. | |
occupied West Bank which Palestinians want for a free state. | :34:04. | :34:12. | |
David Friedman, the President's pic for US ambassador, the President's | :34:13. | :34:18. | |
son and son-in-law have donated to it. He will not limit us like Obama | :34:19. | :34:24. | |
did. Maybe the world will change their approach to follow Donald | :34:25. | :34:29. | |
Trump. That the Palestinians say it is also their territory. | :34:30. | :34:33. | |
TRANSLATION: The Arabs claim it is theirs, it is not all birds. Those | :34:34. | :34:40. | |
who want to come and live in peace can but otherwise they can go. They | :34:41. | :34:49. | |
America, sort of, is entrenched America, sort of, is entrenched | :34:50. | :34:55. | |
here, but they fear support from Washington is burning away. The | :34:56. | :35:00. | |
language we have heard, particularly the language of ideology, that | :35:01. | :35:04. | |
Israel can do no wrong and the US will be the victim of Israel, and in | :35:05. | :35:09. | |
many ways the partner of Israel in its illegal activities, this is | :35:10. | :35:15. | |
serious cause for alarm, and if it moves its embassy, then there is no | :35:16. | :35:20. | |
reason to talk about any solution because it is finished. It is done | :35:21. | :35:27. | |
for. This is where a US embassy injuries in a stand, but the Trump | :35:28. | :35:31. | |
administration has now lowered expectations saying discussions are | :35:32. | :35:37. | |
at a very early stage. For years, the US has leased this empty plot | :35:38. | :35:41. | |
from Israel for the annual rent of a dollar. Successful presidents and | :35:42. | :35:46. | |
candidates have vowed to move here and then ditched it. Now Donald | :35:47. | :35:50. | |
Trump appears to be rowing back somewhat on the same promise. When | :35:51. | :35:54. | |
it comes to the new president, nobody knows what his Middle East | :35:55. | :35:58. | |
policy will be, whether an embassy will be built here and whether his | :35:59. | :36:01. | |
rhetoric will translate into reality. So an unknown quantity that | :36:02. | :36:09. | |
Israel's most important ally is renewing the relationship, and | :36:10. | :36:12. | |
others in the region fear what it means for the borders of this | :36:13. | :36:21. | |
contested land. Katty, it is an area I know well and | :36:22. | :36:27. | |
in that part of the world they pay attention to coded signals. The one | :36:28. | :36:30. | |
thing that might be different about this president is he is a | :36:31. | :36:34. | |
transaction or president, he arranges things as if they are | :36:35. | :36:38. | |
business deal, and I wonder if that might be a breath of fresh air for | :36:39. | :36:43. | |
the Middle East peace process. You are right, he is transactional. At | :36:44. | :36:45. | |
the weekend he spent an hour the weekend he spent an hour | :36:46. | :36:50. | |
speaking to the king of Saudi Arabia and the ruler of the United Arab | :36:51. | :36:54. | |
Emirates. A sign that having this uproar over the immigration ban, he | :36:55. | :36:59. | |
was still going to deal with senior Arab officials. When it comes to the | :37:00. | :37:03. | |
Israeli-Palestinian question, Donald Trump has made it clear he would | :37:04. | :37:07. | |
like to be the American president who solves this problem and he has | :37:08. | :37:11. | |
put his son-in-law Jared Kushner in charge of doing that so it is | :37:12. | :37:14. | |
something he will focus on but there are a lot of problems in the Middle | :37:15. | :37:17. | |
East as there are four other presidents. We will watch it | :37:18. | :37:25. | |
closely. We are going to turn back to the travel ban. | :37:26. | :37:27. | |
So some very noisy and visible protests this weekend in America. | :37:28. | :37:30. | |
But does that reflect popular sentiment around the country. | :37:31. | :37:32. | |
What are the polls telling us about Donald Trump's | :37:33. | :37:34. | |
His approval ratings for an incoming president were pretty low. | :37:35. | :37:37. | |
45% of Americans in favour, and by Saturday it had dropped to 42%. | :37:38. | :37:43. | |
The inaugural address was broadly well received with around half | :37:44. | :37:47. | |
We don't have any new polling on what they make of the travel ban | :37:48. | :37:52. | |
but data collected earlier this month showed nearly half | :37:53. | :37:54. | |
Here's what some of the Trump supporters on Staten Island | :37:55. | :38:01. | |
We lived in a dangerous world on Donald Trump's number one job is to | :38:02. | :38:14. | |
protect the American people. I have mixed feelings because members of my | :38:15. | :38:17. | |
family came as immigrants and they came here in a much different time | :38:18. | :38:22. | |
in history, and now with all the Lone wolves that operate and attack | :38:23. | :38:28. | |
the US, we really need to have some form of betting in place. -- | :38:29. | :38:36. | |
vetting. I think circumstances in the Middle East over the last few | :38:37. | :38:41. | |
years require a degree of caution that we have not been exercising | :38:42. | :38:46. | |
before so I do think it is important. I'd trust him. His number | :38:47. | :38:51. | |
one job is to protect the American people and he said he would do it so | :38:52. | :38:55. | |
that is why he was voted in. Do I agree with everything he is doing | :38:56. | :39:00. | |
right now? No, identical. But I feel he has a reason for doing what he is | :39:01. | :39:08. | |
doing so we have to wait and see. My parents are immigrants as well. | :39:09. | :39:11. | |
Although they came here legally with their own Visa and stuff like that. | :39:12. | :39:15. | |
Hopefully, in the future they can also have a future in the way my | :39:16. | :39:22. | |
people want to come to my country people want to come to my country | :39:23. | :39:25. | |
and they want to live here and stay here, if the betting is part of the | :39:26. | :39:28. | |
process, that should be acceptable to them as if I went to their | :39:29. | :39:34. | |
country and there was a vetting process in place that I would have | :39:35. | :39:39. | |
to abide by. But some of the people at the airport had already had their | :39:40. | :39:45. | |
visa checks. We are very threatened in this country and there are a lot | :39:46. | :39:49. | |
of things which our government know about in terms of threats to our | :39:50. | :39:54. | |
country, and if they feel that this is necessary, then I am with it all | :39:55. | :39:57. | |
the way. There we go. It is important to | :39:58. | :40:03. | |
remember there are a lot of people in America who stand. Where behind | :40:04. | :40:05. | |
the president. A lot of the criticism there has | :40:06. | :40:07. | |
been, has focused not on the controls the President | :40:08. | :40:10. | |
was trying to introduce, more on the way they | :40:11. | :40:12. | |
have been implemented. Let's speak to Professor | :40:13. | :40:14. | |
Jonathan Turley - he's a legal scholar | :40:15. | :40:16. | |
from George Washington Professor, let's unpack this, is the | :40:17. | :40:26. | |
law on President Trump's side with this immigration ban? I think he | :40:27. | :40:32. | |
definitely has the advantage. Part of the problem we are seeing is | :40:33. | :40:35. | |
there is plenty to disagree about this executive order. I happen to | :40:36. | :40:42. | |
think it is a terrible mistake, but what the court looks like is not a | :40:43. | :40:46. | |
policy or how it is rolled out, but whether a president has the | :40:47. | :40:52. | |
authority to suspend entries at the border. For the president, his | :40:53. | :40:57. | |
powers at the border, courts have generally deferred to presidents. It | :40:58. | :40:59. | |
is ironic to hear President Obama is ironic to hear President Obama | :41:00. | :41:03. | |
object because last year he told the Supreme Court that he doesn't | :41:04. | :41:10. | |
believe the federal courts should be second-guessing his policies on Ed | :41:11. | :41:21. | |
immigration. He said he fundamentally disagrees with the | :41:22. | :41:24. | |
notion of discriminating against individuals based on their faith or | :41:25. | :41:30. | |
religion. Could that get President Trump into legal trouble? I think it | :41:31. | :41:36. | |
is going to be difficult for a judge to come in and say I will reject the | :41:37. | :41:40. | |
National security claims of the president here or to say it is | :41:41. | :41:47. | |
unconstitutional to bar entry from particular countries. Jimmy Carter, | :41:48. | :41:51. | |
Barack Obama himself, have isolated countries in the past that they | :41:52. | :41:55. | |
believe our national security risks. One thing that will not happen in my | :41:56. | :41:59. | |
view is a federal judge will not view this as a Muslim ban, because | :42:00. | :42:05. | |
technically it is not. We can talk about motivations but federal courts | :42:06. | :42:09. | |
do not get into motivations. They look at this rather dispassionately. | :42:10. | :42:14. | |
They will see a ban that affects some but not most Muslim countries. | :42:15. | :42:23. | |
Thank you, unpacking the legality of this. All of this, the politics, the | :42:24. | :42:30. | |
legality, the international reaction, that is why we are doing | :42:31. | :42:37. | |
this programme. There is a lot happening in Washington which | :42:38. | :42:41. | |
affects our viewers around the world. Tomorrow we will be | :42:42. | :42:46. | |
discussing the Supreme Court. The first Supreme Court nominee will be | :42:47. | :42:57. | |
Days. Laura Trevelyan will be on Days. Laura Trevelyan will be on | :42:58. | :43:01. | |
Facebook live after this. And we'll be back tomorrow, | :43:02. | :43:03. | |
at the same time on BBC World News, and the BBC News Channel in the UK, | :43:04. | :43:06. | |
looking at President Trump's pick | :43:07. | :43:11. |