28/01/2017 BBC Weekend News

Chaos and confusion as America closes its borders to refugees

and to citizens of a number of mainly Muslim countries.

Donald Trump's sweeping order means even lawful US residents may not

be allowed to return if they leave the country.

Lawyers have launched a legal challenge while some politicians

This type of action underminds our national security and Donald Trump,

Britain signs a ?100 million defence deal with Turkey as Theresa May

warns President Erdogan to uphold human rights.

Serena Williams becomes the most successful female

player of the Open era, beating her sister Venus

And, after a career spanning six decades, tributes power

And, after a career spanning six decades, tributes pour

in to the acclaimed actor Sir John Hurt who's died.

There's been chaos and confusion at airports around the world tonight

after America closed its borders to refugees and to citizens of seven

Some travellers have already been held at US airports -

while others were barred from boarding planes.

President Trump's sweeping executive order means even some lawful US

residents may be banned from returning to the United States

Mr Trump said the move would keep out radical Islamic terrorists

but civil rights campaigners say its unconstitutional and have

Our Washington correspondent Gary O'Donoghue reports.

Released after a night in detention, Hameed Jhalid Darweesh is one

of the first to feel the bite of Donald Trump's

America is the greatest nation, the greatest people in the world.

Mr Darweesh got his visa to come to America on the very day

He worked for a decade as an interpreter for the US

military in Iraq and was awarded a special immigration visa

His release followed lobbying by human rights groups

Donald Trump, our President, doesn't get it.

This is wrong and we're going to fight it, right

here on the streets, we're going to fight it in court

and we're going to fight it every place and in every

It's just a day since Donald Trump ended his first frenetic week

by fulfilling his promise to impose tough new immigration rules aimed

Rules he says that will keep America safe from terrorism.

I am establishing new vetting measures to keep radical

Islamic terrorists out of the United States of America.

People from Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, Syria,

Iraq and Iran cannot enter the US for 90 days, even if

All refugees will be kept out for 120 days with the annual limit

Syrian refugees will be barred from America indefinitely.

This Iraqi-born software engineer has been advised to stay put.

I had trips planned for yesterday and next week that I was going to go

to Africa for business and I had to suspend all my travel

and basically just sit still and that's how I ended

I wasn't planning to be in Boston, but I am now here and, you know,

waiting to see what's going to happen without really

It's also emerged that people with a green card could also be

banned from those seven named countries, despite the fact

that the card gives you rights to employment and residence

It's a move that could split families.

There was one case where a wife was travelling back to Iran

to visit her sick father, leaving behind her husband

and their two-month-old son and now she is stuck in Iran and cannot get

Donald Trump's immigration policy has brought condemnation from human

rights groups and political opponents but his tough rhetoric

was one of the most important factors in his election victory

and he seems determined to follow through with it.

Gary O'Donoghue is in Washington for us.

I suppose the big question is can he really achieve what he is setting

out to do? Well, first it was the visa and refugee ban, then we

learned it was green cards, as well. Now we are learning that it is

people with dual nationality who are potentially going to be affected by

this ban. So, for example, if you have a British passport and an Iraqi

passport, you won't be allowed to come into this country on your

British passport for the next 90 days. Of course that will put

pressure on people like Theresa May who said these rules are purely a

matter for the United States. Meanwhile, Donald Trump himself, he

says that this is not a Muslim ban, he says it is working out very

nicely indeed. We will see if he faces any legal challenges in the

days and weeks ahead. Thank you.

Well, the Prime Minister Theresa May today repeatedly refused to condemn

President Trump's immigration policy.

She was speaking during a visit to Turkey where she announced

a ?100 million deal to develop Turkish fighter jets.

From Ankara, our political editor Laura Kuenssberg sent this report.

Meeting a President used to doing perhaps whatever it

Popular, feared too, after a coup that failed against him

but she wants closer ties on trade and defence, but also

to make British concerns about his behaviour clear.

I am proud that the UK stood with you on 15th July last year

Now it is important that Turkey sustains that democracy

by maintaining the rule of law and upholding its international

human rights obligations as the Government has

TRANSLATION: It gives us great pleasure and it's a privilege

to host Prime Minister Theresa May here in Turkey.

We have had a meeting, a working lunch and discussions

I hope will yield success for both of our countries.

Just as Theresa May was the first leader to enter

the Trump White House, she has today become the first

western leader to come to President Erdogan's golden Palace

in Ankara high up on the hill since the attempted

Urging the importance of human rights, though,

she has shown she was unafraid to speak her mind.

Having delivered her message on human rights,

The Prime Minister able to enjoy the parade and appear

alongside her counterpart to announce a deal where British

firm BAE will design Turkish fighter jets,

the start of a partnership that Downing Street hopes

But questions about her other new friend, President Trump,

followed her to Turkey after the American leader

banned some Muslims from entering the country.

Asked three times whether she agreed with President Trump's ban,

Well, the United States is responsible for the United States

The United Kingdom is responsible for the United Kingdom's

While marking the past, Theresa May is following her own

She can't choose her fellow leaders, yet politicians,

are sometimes judged by the company they keep.

Tributes have been paid to the actor Sir John Hurt,

He'd been suffering from pancreatic cancer.

His career spanned over six decades and more than 120 films -

including the Elephant Man, Alien, and Harry Potter.

His widow said he was the most sublime of actors and the most

John Hurt, as the deranged Roman Emperor Caligula

Well, of course I ordered no triumphs.

Do you think I'd order triumph for myself?!

Yes, and you took me at my word, didn't you?

I wear rouge, I wear mascara on my eyelashes, I dye my hair,

I wear flamboyant clothes, far more outre than

He was an unusual actor, instantly recognisable,

Here, he played the notorious and flamboyant Quentin Crisp.

People said it was a brave part to take on.

Many people said, don't do that, you'll never work again, and so on.

And I said but it's not about homosexuality,

it's about the tenderness of the individual,

as opposed to the cruelty of the crowd, really.

His breakthrough had come in A Man For All Seasons

in 1966, a small part in an Oscar-winning film.

He earned an Oscar nomination himself for Midnight Express,

in which he played a heroin addict in a Turkish prison.

I'm very pleased to meet you, Mr Merrick.

And another for his performance as the hideously disfigured

Like Quentin Crisp, Merrick was an outsider

Late in his career, he reached new audiences in Harry Potter.

And in a guest appearance in Doctor Who.

Why are you pointing your screwdrivers like that?

In one of his last performances, he played a dying screenwriter,

quoting lines from a famous Dylan Thomas poem.

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Old age should burn and rave at close of day.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Today, his widow Anwen called him "The most sublime of actors

With all the sport here's Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes

Serena Williams has become the most successful tennis

She beat her sister Venus to win the Australian Open,

In the field of sporting achievement she now stands alone. This latest

victory a defining chapter in the legend of Serena Williams, the twist

in the tale only her sister could deny her a record 23rd Grand Slam.

In the first game it looked like Serena had left any sisterly

sentiment in the locker room. Sdmrp

But Venus had her own fairytale to write, 36 years old, back from

career-threatening illness, now with a chance of another Grand Slam title

eight years since her last. After that initial frustration,

though, and a replacement racquet, Serena began to settle.

And rediscovering that devastating first serve.

She took the first set. Venus made her little sister fight

for her piece of history. But in the end Serena powered her

way into the record books. Finally, number 23. There it is! Serena is

the history-maker but for the past two decades she and Venus have

revolutionised women's tennis. She's my inspiration, she is the only

reason I am standing here and the only reason the Williams sisters

exist, so thank you for inspooring smee, Venus. The record-broken, she

has nothing left to prove but being Serena there will be much more to

come. The fourth round of the FA Cup has

caused quite a few upsets. Match of the Day follows the news,

so if you want to wait for the results, then you need

to avert your attention now. The seven-time winners

Liverpool are out. They were beaten 2-1 by Wolves,

who play in the Championship. Non-league Lincoln City's FA Cup

adventure continues, they're into the last 16

after beating Championship In the other games, Oxford United

knocked out Newcastle. Chelsea, Manchester City,

Middlesbrough and Arsenal But Spurs had to rely on a very late

stoppage-time goal to beat Rangers are back up to second

in the Scottish Premiership after beating Motherwell 2-0

in a heated game at Fir Park. There were also wins

for Kilmarnock and St Johnston. One of the country's best known jump

race horses, Many Clouds, died today shortly after winning

a feature race at Cheltenham. The 2015 Grand National winner had

just beaten the favourite, Thistlecrack, to win a warm-up

for the Gold Cup, But he collapsed and

died moments later. British boxer Lee Selby was close

to tears after his IBF world title fight was called-off

because his opponent failed Meanwhile, Carl Frampton still tops

the bill at the boxing spectacular The Northern Irishman

is defending his WBA World Featherweight belt

in a re-match with And British snowboarder Katie

Ormerod has claimed bronze nonthe slopestyle at the X Games in as pen,

Colorado. You can see more on all of today's

stories on the BBC News Channel. Good evening. It is trying to warm

up out there but it is a really slow process. In fact, it's just southern

areas that have been affected, been feeling the milder weather and with

that also comes a mix of weather