29/01/2017 BBC Weekend News

The government seeks assurances from Washington about how British

citizens might be affected by the US travel ban.

The order from President Trump came hours after he met Theresa May

at the White House - now there are calls for his state

Despite a court order - and protests against the ban -

the administration has signalled today that it is pressing ahead.

We'll be looking at the reaction here - and around the world.

The right of parents to take their children on holiday

in term time faces a new legal test - this time in the Supreme Court.

And Roger Federer is back - winning an 18th Grand Slam title.

Theresa May has ordered the Foreign Secretary

and the Home Secretary to try and obtain assurances from the Trump

administration about how its travel ban on people from seven mainly

Muslim countries will affect British citizens with dual nationality.

Sir Mo Farah is among those who fear they'll be affected,

and politicians from different parties have been calling

for President Trump's invitation to pay a state visit to Britain

We'll have the latest from the United States in a moment -

but first, our political correspondent, Eleanor Garnier,

New leaders and new friends. It was all going so well. Then just hours

after Theresa May left Washington, Donald Trump enacted one of what

many think is the most extreme of his campaign policies. By then, the

Prime Minister was in Turkey for trade talks, where she avoided

condemning President's travel ban. The United States is responsible for

their policy on refugees. The UK is responsible for their own policy.

Overnight, a new statement clarifying that the Prime Minister

did not agree with this kind of approach. But some, like British

Olympians Sir Mo Farah, still worried. He was born in Somalia but

lives in America. He said he was deeply troubled to have to tell his

children that he might not be able to come home. And one of Theresa

May's own MPs, born in Iraq, says he will also be affected. For the first

time in my life, last night, I felt discriminated against. It is

demeaning, but I'm a successful man and a politician. It's the people

who don't have the platform that I have who could get stuck in an

airport for hours and hours. They are British citizens. By this

morning, government ministers were publicly criticising the plans. The

Prime Minister is not a shoot from the hip type of politician. She

wants to see the evidence and understand precisely what the

implications are. There's always pressure to respond within a new

cycle. The important thing is, we say we disagree with it. Friends can

be candid with each other, that is what the Prime Minister said before

her trip to the States. It now seems that's a lot easier in theory than

in practice. Having failed to live up to her own words once, there is

now criticism she is not living up to her own strategy. There are calls

for Donald Trump 's state visit this year to be cancelled. I'm not happy

for him coming here until it is lifted. Look at those countries.

What will the long-term effect be for the rest of the world? This

relationship is complicated, but as the government presses for British

exemption from the travel ban, Mrs May will hope she's done enough to

keep Mr Trump onside. President Trump - and members

of his administration - have today been defending the scope

of the ban, with some suggestions But there are legal challenges

to the ban, and one judge ruled to suspend the deportation

of refugees and those with US visas Nick Bryant reports

from New York, where several Protest is becoming a permanent

feature of the Trump presidency. And at JFK Airport last night

the demonstrations lasted deep New York has always been the great

gateway into America. The protesters believe

the executive order flies Demonstrations took place

across the country, these are scenes in Boston as a US senator defied

the US president. I always knew Donald Trump

would be bad, but not this At this courthouse in Brooklyn came

a late night legal challenge and civil liberties lawyers emerged

claiming a victory. As the federal judge temporarily

blocked part of the executive order. President Trump enacts laws

and executive orders which are unconstitutional,

and illegal, and the courts are What started as a protest outside

this courthouse in Brooklyn has now At the arrivals hall

at Dallas Airport outside A Muslim woman from Iraq finally

making it back into the country. All of a sudden I get a call telling

me they are detaining my wife who is a green card holder,

legal resident in this country. But, despite the court ruling

and others making it through immigration,

the Department of Homeland Security said it would continue to enforce

the executive order. Prior to the court ruling,

President Trump expressed satisfaction about how his ban

was being implemented. It is working very nicely

and we are going to have a very very strict ban which we should have had

in this country for many years. And this morning he

doubled down on Twitter. "Our country needs extreme borders

and extreme vetting now. Look at what is happening

all over Europe and indeed These Syrians thought

their US visas offered them But this Christian family of eight

was refused entry at Philadelphia airport and forced to fly

back to Beirut. TRANSLATION: My son has been

in America three years, and they did not even

let me call him. They'd spent all their money

on the plane tickets and seen their American dreams

eradicated with the stroke of a pen. So we've just seen there that one

of the countries affected is Iraq - one of the US's closest allies

in the fight against IS. Orla Guerin is our Middle

East correspondent. How does that relationship between

the two countries square with the scope of this band? We've seen that

President Trump isn't afraid to trample on sensitive alliances. The

ally in this case is a key partner in the battle against the so-called

Islamic State. President Trump says that's one of his top priorities.

Predictably, we have already had calls from Baghdad for the

government there to respond. The Imps when shall Schar cleric has

said that Americans should now have to leave Iraq. There are about 5000

US troops on the ground there, playing a very important role,

largely assisting and advising the Iraqis in this battle against bias.

At this stage, we don't know what action the Iraqi government might be

willing to take, but it will face domestic pressure on this. For both

countries, there's a lot at stake. For individual Iraqis, they are

already falling victim to these policies. We spoke to a man who

should been beginning a new life this weekend in the US, and instead

he was turned around here at Cairo. He said he had put his life on the

line, and after all of that, Donald Trump had destroyed his dreams.

Thank you. A US Special Forces raid

against Al-Qaeda in Yemen, authorised by President Trump,

has killed at least 14 militants The raid targeted the houses

of three tribal chiefs The Northern Ireland Secretary

has criticised the way inquiries are being conducted

into the Troubles. James Brokenshire said the current

re-investigations into the conflict were "disproportionately" focused

on the police and the army. A number of former soldiers

are facing prosecution for deaths The case of the father

who refused to pay a fine for taking his daughter on holiday

in term time will be considered Jon Platt won an initial

legal victory last year - on the grounds she attended

school regularly. A BBC investigation has found that,

as a result, councils in England have changed their policies,

or dropped cases against parents. Our Education Editor,

Branwen Jeffreys, reports. For some angry parents,

Jon Platt is a bit of a hero. Dozens get in touch with him

every day about term You take a child on a five-day

holiday and you live in somewhere like Suffolk or

Swindon, they are going to send you a truancy penalty and then you have

got a decision to make. At home on the Isle

of Wight, he told me he has no regrets was after taking his

daughter on holiday, she had 90% The legal row is about what is going

to school regularly means. If you look up the dictionary

definition of regularly, because that is what this is all about, what

it means to attend school regularly, the dictionary says "Often". They

are taking that word to mean 100%. What about teachers who are having

to teach children to get them through their exams, and are having

to say that every single week there could be a child missing, with term

time holidays. There will often the kids off sick. The issue is blown

out of proportion because, for every child, who misses a day because of a

term time holiday, there are 12 days missed because of illness. The cost

of holidays outside of term time is a worry for lots of families. 35

councils say they have changed their policy since the judgment. Five more

are reviewing their heirs. 28 have dropped cases against parents. 22

have noticed parents taking more term time holidays. Councils from

the Isle of Wight to the North of England have different policies.

Some issue thousands of fines. Others almost none. One battle here

on the Isle of Wight has implications for parents across

England. It has drawn a line in the sand with, on the one hand, the

government insisting that every day missed matters, and on the other,

parents furious about the cost of paying for holidays. Ministers say

exam results shaped children's futures and missing even a few days

makes a clear difference. Many headteachers agree. It does matter.

It does make a difference. We look at our students, and any student who

has attendance below 95%, we can track the fact that their progress

isn't as good as it should be. It's not just about one the father. His

case could have a big impact. The Supreme Court will reach a decision

within months. Polls have just closed in France

in the vote to choose the Socialist Former prime Manuel Valls

is facing a stern challenge Whoever wins will go

through to contest the Presidential Jeremy Corbyn has warned his

Shadow Cabinet that it will be "impossible" for them

to keep their jobs if they vote against triggering the start

of the Brexit process. The Labour Leader has

ordered his party's MPs to support the Bill when it

reaches the Commons. Two of his front bench have already

resigned over the issue. At 35 years old - and five years

after his last Grand Slam victory - Roger Federer has triumphed

at the Australian Open He was up against his

old adversary - Rafa Nadal. It's the Swiss player's

18th major trophy - but as Katherine Downes reports,

it didn't come without a battle. Of all his titles and trophies,

this, surely, Roger Federer had been out

of tennis for six months, but he battled his way to the final

of the Australian Open once again, and once again the man at the other

side of the net was Rafael Nadal. An old rivalry reignited,

and Federer rolled back the years, Nadal himself was an unlikely

finalist, also on the comeback With sweat and grit, Nadal

was level, the second set secured. For a while it looked like he'd

given all he had, while Federer But just when you think

Rafael Nadal is beaten, Nadal's sheer determination

dragged him and his old An early break for Rafa,

but Roger fought back with two of his own,

and in the end, just the finest of margins confirmed what he'd

thought was impossible. I would have been happy

to lose too, to be honest. There's no draws, but if there

was going to be one, I would have been very happy

to accept a draw tonight and share Two unlikely finalists,

two legends of the sport. Now one familiar champion,

and a trophy he thought In the FA Cup 4th round today,

two more Premier League sides have been knocked out at the hands

of lower league opposition. Watford were beaten at Millwall

and Hull lost at Fulham but the giant killing of the day

was at Sutton United. The non-league side knocked out

former FA Cup Winners Leeds - who sit 83 places above them

in the football pyramid. Sutton won 1-0, thanks

to a second half penalty. Belfast boxer Carl Frampton

apologised to his travelling fans after suffering his first

professional loss against Frampton lost his WBA featherweight

title to the Mexican fighter Both boxers say they're interested

in arranging another re-match - There's more throughout the evening

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