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:00:22. > :00:35.Hello, this is BBC News with me, Reeta Chakrabarti.

:00:36. > :00:38.We'll be taking a look at tomorrow morning's papers in a moment,

:00:39. > :00:50.CHANTING: No hate, no fear - Muslims are welcome here!

:00:51. > :00:52.Demonstrations are taking place at New York's JFK Airport,

:00:53. > :00:54.where travellers have been detained following Donald Trump's latest

:00:55. > :00:57.executive orders which ban people from seven mainly Muslim countries

:00:58. > :01:00.On a trade visit to Turkey, Theresa May refused to join others

:01:01. > :01:03.voicing concern at President Trump's measures, which have also suspended

:01:04. > :01:07.Well, the United States is responsible for the United States'

:01:08. > :01:09.policy on refugees, and the United Kingdom is

:01:10. > :01:11.responsible for the United Kingdom's policy on refugees.

:01:12. > :01:13.The president has also being holding phone calls with world leaders.

:01:14. > :01:15.In his conversation with President Putin,

:01:16. > :01:17.the two reportedly spoke of strengthening trade ties,

:01:18. > :01:19.though there was no mention of easing sanctions imposed

:01:20. > :01:26.on Russia following the Ukraine conflict.

:01:27. > :01:28.And stars from around the world have been paying tribute

:01:29. > :01:32.to the actor Sir John Hurt, who has died at the age of 77.

:01:33. > :01:35.Star of stage, TV and film, he was best known for roles

:01:36. > :01:41.in The Elephant Man, Alien and Harry Potter.

:01:42. > :01:44.Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

:01:45. > :01:49.With me are Martin Bentham, home affairs editor

:01:50. > :01:51.at the Evening Standard, and the journalist and

:01:52. > :02:00.A quick look, before that, at some of tomorrow's front

:02:01. > :02:08.The Observer, which leads with Global Fury in reaction

:02:09. > :02:11.to Donald Trump's immigration ban preventing people from seven

:02:12. > :02:13.mainly Muslim countries from entering the United States.

:02:14. > :02:15.The Express says Prince William and Harry are to unveil a statue

:02:16. > :02:18.of Princess Diana in the grounds of Kensington Palace to mark

:02:19. > :02:22.The Daily Mail reports that NHS doctors have been advised not

:02:23. > :02:24.to call pregnant women "mothers" because it might offend

:02:25. > :02:34.The Telegraph leads with comments from the Northern Ireland Secretary,

:02:35. > :02:36.James Brokenshire, who tells the paper the system

:02:37. > :02:37.for investigating murders committed during the Troubles

:02:38. > :02:54.Let's begin. Let's start with the story that is an ongoing story that

:02:55. > :02:59.we will be speaking about for days and weeks to come, I think.

:03:00. > :03:04.President Trump's ban on migrants and on refugees. Global Fury,

:03:05. > :03:09.Martin. And I think that sums up the reaction by and large? Yes,

:03:10. > :03:13.obviously lots and lots of denunciation of this policy which

:03:14. > :03:18.clearly is rather distasteful, and I think misguided as well. Quite where

:03:19. > :03:29.it goes from here, it will go on for days and days, and obviously the

:03:30. > :03:32.policy is meant to last for 90 days, a part of that 120 days, for

:03:33. > :03:34.refugees, and possibly longer than that. Clearly there will be

:03:35. > :03:37.developments in the coming days in terms of potential challengers. I

:03:38. > :03:41.expect clarification actually from the US administration about green

:03:42. > :03:45.card holders, some of the big corporations like Google and

:03:46. > :03:49.Facebook already expressing concern about some of their employees who I

:03:50. > :03:53.am sure generally speaking the US government would like to still see

:03:54. > :03:56.in the country and so on, being affected, because there will be all

:03:57. > :04:01.sorts of unforeseen consequences, family members and so on. So, yes,

:04:02. > :04:09.this will continue for a long time. Clearly it has an awful lot of

:04:10. > :04:12.attacks because it is clearly discriminatory against a group,

:04:13. > :04:17.certain groups, people, and seems to be based on no real evidence, to be

:04:18. > :04:26.frank. The Observer, Rachel, speaks about several cases... Yazidi woman

:04:27. > :04:31.who fled an IS massacre in Iraq in 2014 being stopped from boarding a

:04:32. > :04:34.flight in Baghdad after waiting for months to be reunited with her

:04:35. > :04:38.husband already in the US. Presumably these stories will

:04:39. > :04:44.multiply in the next few days. To be clear, these measures... It is

:04:45. > :04:50.absolutely cruel, and absolute cruelty, and it has caused chaos and

:04:51. > :04:53.heartbreak. Some half a million people in the last decade from those

:04:54. > :05:00.countries on the list have been given green cards in the US. They

:05:01. > :05:04.have lives in the US, they have families, jobs, houses. They might

:05:05. > :05:09.happen to be overseas at this time and are now wondering whether they

:05:10. > :05:13.can go home to their lives, families, everything. It is

:05:14. > :05:18.unimaginable, the horror and despair that would cause those people, so of

:05:19. > :05:22.course it has been condemned. Although, interestingly, not by

:05:23. > :05:32.Theresa May. Even though it has now transpired it is going to affect

:05:33. > :05:34.British citizens who either have dual nationality or where it seems

:05:35. > :05:38.just been born in one of those countries is enough, so it is

:05:39. > :05:44.absolutely despicable and craven of our Prime Minister, I think, do not

:05:45. > :05:47.speak out against something that is very clearly racial discrimination

:05:48. > :05:51.and is now affecting British citizens as well. Martin, did

:05:52. > :05:56.Theresa May have an alternative in terms of the way she should have

:05:57. > :06:02.addressed this? She was asked about her attitude to President Trump 's

:06:03. > :06:10.palsy, and she simply said the US and the UK has separate policies --

:06:11. > :06:13.Trump's policy. I think in general countries do not Express opinions

:06:14. > :06:18.about the country's domestic policies, that is the general

:06:19. > :06:22.principle. Obviously when they become extreme and a portent it can

:06:23. > :06:26.be an exception. I think she will have to speak not least in

:06:27. > :06:29.Parliament on Monday, she comes to give a statement about the visit

:06:30. > :06:37.with President Trump I suspect this shall be raised then -- when they

:06:38. > :06:39.become extreme and abhorrent. For British people affected by this, she

:06:40. > :06:44.will potentially speak about that. I think she has made a decision that

:06:45. > :06:53.she cannot every time she appears be questioned about the latest Trump

:06:54. > :06:58.policy, no doubt there are going to be more of those. There is no way

:06:59. > :07:02.that kind of calculation can hold. She should never have bound her feet

:07:03. > :07:07.so closely with him to begin with. The Observer is to be commended, I

:07:08. > :07:11.think, for putting this comment on its front page. Interestingly, it is

:07:12. > :07:18.the only one with the story on the front page. The US president in his

:07:19. > :07:22.first week has proved he is like nothing that has gone before. He is

:07:23. > :07:26.ignorant, prejudiced and vicious in a way that no American leader has

:07:27. > :07:32.been. I think that is the point. It is a very extreme situation. This is

:07:33. > :07:35.not a normal president. This is quite blatantly racial

:07:36. > :07:40.discrimination. Sorry, religious discrimination. And we saw it coming

:07:41. > :07:49.down the line... I will bring Martin in quickly. I think she was right to

:07:50. > :07:52.go and meet him because unfortunately we have to work with

:07:53. > :07:55.what is there in the White House and there is no point shouting from the

:07:56. > :07:57.sidelines, so I can understand why she went. Obviously it is a

:07:58. > :08:00.problematic position to do so in one sense because it is high risk and

:08:01. > :08:03.that risk will continue. I think in terms of the papers actually the

:08:04. > :08:06.reason for that is that some papers will make a political decision not

:08:07. > :08:11.to do it, perhaps, and others will simply think that story has been all

:08:12. > :08:14.over the broadcast news today, we want to give our readers something

:08:15. > :08:18.different that will make them pick up the paper tomorrow. That might be

:08:19. > :08:21.the right or wrong decision but I am sure the Mail on Sunday, for

:08:22. > :08:25.example, has a very good story, and I am sure... You think it was

:08:26. > :08:29.commercially rather than politically driven? In some cases I think it

:08:30. > :08:33.will be commercial rather than political. Let me stop that for a

:08:34. > :08:37.moment and turn to another Donald Trump story on the front page of the

:08:38. > :08:41.Sunday Express. Officials feel there could be a diplomatic row when

:08:42. > :08:45.President Trump comes on his state visit later this year between him

:08:46. > :08:49.and the Royal family. An intriguing story, actually, when you look at

:08:50. > :08:53.the details. The clashes there might be between him and various members

:08:54. > :08:59.of the family... He will probably turn up and be a complete poodle, in

:09:00. > :09:02.fact, because he will be delighted to be in that environment. But you

:09:03. > :09:08.are right, with some of the detail... The top line of that you

:09:09. > :09:12.would think, obviously Prince Charles being a committed

:09:13. > :09:15.environmentalist, President Trump being a climate change denier, that

:09:16. > :09:19.is the sort of top line of the potential clash, but there is more

:09:20. > :09:28.to it than that. Prince Harry, who apparently had a close relationship

:09:29. > :09:33.or was... Had close bond the former first Lady Michelle Obama, is weary

:09:34. > :09:39.of President Trump, who once bragged he would have had sex with President

:09:40. > :09:42.Diana -- Princess Diana, apparently. And obviously you will not take

:09:43. > :09:48.kindly to the fact President Trump tweeted about Kate being

:09:49. > :09:52.photographed topless, in unsavoury terms, William will not be happy

:09:53. > :09:56.about that. Interesting things in the next. It will be interesting to

:09:57. > :09:59.see who does meet him when he comes. I suspect when they meet there will

:10:00. > :10:05.not be any great clashes because they all know there roles, and

:10:06. > :10:09.although Trump can be very maverick, clearly, I think he will behave

:10:10. > :10:15.himself in front of the Royal family. But whilst Prince Charles

:10:16. > :10:20.has refused to meet the Chinese on numerous occasions in the past, and

:10:21. > :10:22.whether Princes Harry and Prince William decide they have numerous

:10:23. > :10:29.other things to do and cannot be there... That might be... And what

:10:30. > :10:33.President Trump can be persuaded to say on Twitter afterwards as well,

:10:34. > :10:37.because there is protocol that you do not report on what is being said

:10:38. > :10:47.during Royal conversations. Someone will have to just take his phone

:10:48. > :10:55.away. Let's return to the Observer, potential for a grassroots Labour

:10:56. > :11:00.revolt over Brexit. This organised by a grassroots group? It is

:11:01. > :11:04.basically saying the MPs... Some people have resigned from the Shadow

:11:05. > :11:09.Cabinet since Jeremy Corbyn posed his three line whip saying members

:11:10. > :11:13.had to vote triggering Article 50, that there is grassroots group of

:11:14. > :11:16.members supporting that stands of people saying they cannot vote for

:11:17. > :11:22.Brexit, and I suppose the interesting there is that Corbyn has

:11:23. > :11:26.always been sustained, not by the parliamentary party, but by his

:11:27. > :11:30.support at the grassroots level, so there is a suggestion, only a very

:11:31. > :11:37.vague suggestion, that that might change or be changing a little as a

:11:38. > :11:40.result of this Article 50 three line whip. Whether it comes down to that,

:11:41. > :11:44.I don't know, or whether it is something that blows over in two

:11:45. > :11:47.weeks' time when the vote goes through, and I suspect that is more

:11:48. > :11:53.likely to be the case, that it will be a temporary problem, because most

:11:54. > :11:58.of the grassroots still seem to support his brand of Labour

:11:59. > :12:02.politics. Rachel, what do you make of it? It is a horrible situation

:12:03. > :12:08.for the Labour Party, because as you say given the composition of their

:12:09. > :12:12.voters and their base, and Labour cannot really be seen to be

:12:13. > :12:17.thwarting a democratic vote to leave, but I think, and this is

:12:18. > :12:27.possibly where the readership has not been clear -- leadership. It now

:12:28. > :12:32.has a lot of space to negotiate the kind of Brexit we are going to have,

:12:33. > :12:35.which is after all the job of Parliament and not just the

:12:36. > :12:41.Government, and I think maybe it has not been forceful enough about what

:12:42. > :12:47.its red lines are in that regard, and had it been, it might have not

:12:48. > :12:52.alienate it its base in the way this piece suggests. I am not sure they

:12:53. > :12:58.have much ability to negotiate and dictate the terms. I am not sure

:12:59. > :13:03.this debate on Article 50, this bill, will lead to that in reality.

:13:04. > :13:08.It might not this particular bill, but the next two years... I will cut

:13:09. > :13:13.you both off for the next stories. Front page of the Mail, very strange

:13:14. > :13:17.story coming quite left-field compared to the others. Doctors have

:13:18. > :13:28.been told not to call pregnant patients mothers. How can that be?

:13:29. > :13:37.Because some of them might be men. Sorry, women who are changing.

:13:38. > :13:41.Transgender. Women who are transgender. But this comes from the

:13:42. > :13:45.BMA, according to the Mail. This, talking about what is on the front

:13:46. > :13:49.page, great story. Do not call pregnant women and mothers, it seems

:13:50. > :13:55.absolutely crazy, and of course you can understand the logic, not

:13:56. > :14:00.wanting to offend or upset if it were too upset somebody in that

:14:01. > :14:07.situation, but the likelihood of that, I think, is minuscule, I would

:14:08. > :14:13.have thought. Maybe I am wrong. Guest... It just seems to be, the

:14:14. > :14:18.Mail obviously, just being nonsensical, really, their take on

:14:19. > :14:23.it. It is a shame. Gone off on what they call the relentless march of

:14:24. > :14:25.transgender political correctness and they have had a go at the

:14:26. > :14:29.traffic lights in central London which I have to say I really like,

:14:30. > :14:34.they always make me smile in Trafalgar Square, this assortment of

:14:35. > :14:43.gay, lesbian and transgender symbols and couples. Quite confusing trying

:14:44. > :14:47.to work out what they mean. Sadiq Khan's bid to show how open and a

:14:48. > :14:50.diverse and tolerant Londoners. There is nothing wrong with that,

:14:51. > :14:55.all a good thing in general. I think when you try to pretend that the

:14:56. > :15:06.9.9% of people who in this case are going to be mothers, women and so on

:15:07. > :15:07.-- Corbyn. It is quite a hard one to explain. Thank you very much. We

:15:08. > :15:12.will have another one through. Thank you, Martin and Rachel -

:15:13. > :15:17.you'll both be back at 11:30 for another look at the stories

:15:18. > :15:20.making the news tomorrow.