29/01/2017 World News Today

This is BBC World News Today, broadcasting in the UK

Political and legal opposition is growing

in the United States to President Trump's

The British Prime Minister tells her ministers to raise

concerns with their American counterparts about

The Socialist Party in France has chosen a politician from the left

to be its candidate in this year's presidential election.

And a sweet moment for Roger Federer.

He wins an epic five-set match to claim his 18th Grand Slam

16 US state attorneys general - some of the country's

chief legal advisors - have condemned an executive order

from President Trump restricting immigration from seven mainly

They say the move is unconstitutional,

The Attorneys General said in a joint statement

they were confident the order would be struck down by the courts.

One federal judge has temporarily halted

Meanwhile, there's been more anger and consternation around the world.

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel who has said the fight

against terrorism does not justify putting people from specific

backgrounds or faiths under general suspicion.

The Mayor of London - Sadiq Khan, has called the ban

on refugees and immigrants from certain countries

The right-wing populist Dutch politician Geert Wilders tweeted:

"No more immigration from any Islamic country is

At home, the administration has has downplayed a court ruling

which temporarily rules out deporting people who have already

arrived, saying it only applies to a small number of people.

Meanwhile, angry protests continue around the country.

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 knew Donald Trump would be bad but, boy, 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.

If President Trump enacts laws or executive orders

that are unconstitutional, and illegal, 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's working out very nicely and we are going

strict ban and extreme vetting which we should have had in this

And this morning he doubled down on Twitter.

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.

We can go live to New York. Protesters against this executive

order that was signed on Friday and we have seen a weekend of protests

with increasing numbers of voices from across the political and legal

spectrum coming out against these new restrictions. We can speak to

our correspondent at JFK airport. Just tell us what you have seen this

how people are being affected by this executive order. There is a

growing number of protesters who have come here to demonstrate

against what they see as President from's Muslim ban, but inside the

terminal more than 20 people have been detained since this order was

signed on Friday. Among them relatives of people who are active

members of the US military, who have come here to protest at the

treatment of their relatives. There was also someone who had worked for

the United States military in Iraq who was detained and then released,

a Yemeni grandmother with diabetes, an elderly Somali man who was met by

his son. These are the kinds of people who have been caught up in

this and there are about 40 volunteer lawyers inside terminal

four, many of them work for corporate law firms but they have

come here to volunteer their services to provide legal

representation for those detained and as of now, there are six people

detained. I don't know whether you have seen the Foreign Office

statement here. It basically has clarified that the order does not

necessarily affect those coming from the UK. In practical terms, we are

hearing all sorts of stories of people travelling from different

parts of the world, is there any sense of clarity about what

officials should be following? It is completely confused. Amongst those

detained are people who are legal, permanent residence of the United

States, green card holders. They have mostly been Iranian Americans

who have been abroad for a variety of reasons. One is a student here on

Rhode Island and she returned here and was detained. The administration

already on talk shows walking back and saying this is not supposed to

apply to holders of green cards. In the UK, there has been a lot of

reaction to the migrant ban and there is a petition on the

Parliament website saying President Trump should not be allowed the

privilege of a state visit when he comes to the UK because it would

embarrass the Queen. In less than a date it has gained nearly 700,000

signatures meaning it could be considered for a debate in

Parliament. In the last hour, the latest advice

from the British Foreign Office is that the US Presidential

executive order only applies to individuals travelling from one

of the seven named countries and not To get more clarification on this

statement, we're joined by our correspondent,

Richard Lister. We have had a lot of coverage today

of Mo Farah and also a British MP. This clarification, does it make

things clear because it seems to be contrary to what we have heard? It

is certainly good news for Mo Farah, but basically the Foreign and

Commonwealth Office has put on its website a statement saying the

Foreign Secretary has had conversations with the US government

and they can clarify that anybody who is a UK national who happens to

be travelling from one of the seven countries targeted by this executive

order, anybody who is doing that who is a UK national, and the order does

not apply to you even if you were born in one of those countries so UK

nationals seem to be given a pass. If you are a dealer citizens of one

of those countries, travelling to the US from outside those countries,

the order does not apply to you. Mo Farah is a dual nationality Somali

citizen. He is training in Ethiopian and he was concerned he would not

get back to the US which is currently his home base. His family

are there but if the Foreign Office is to be believed, he will be able

to do that because he is not travelling to the US from one of

those countries affected. What about those who have come from one of the

countries named, but if they come to London for a night, and start a

fresh journey, will they not be affected? There was the case of an

Iraqi family who travelled through Cairo. They were turned back. They

could argue, according to this advice, that they were travelling

from Cairo but their journey originated in Iraq and so therefore

they were turned back. The real problem is there is not a great deal

of clarity about how these rules are being interpreted around the world

and even the Trump administration seems to be backtracking that it

said earlier this week. Again we are seeking clarification from the White

House. That will come in the next few hours hopefully. Do stay with

us. More ahead. The Socialist party in France makes

is choice but does he stand a chance in the presidential election?

Political and legal opposition is growing in the United States

to President Trump's order to prevent the entry

of refugees and citizens of seven Muslim countries.

And the British government has been talking about British exemptions to

the travel ban. A former education minister,

Benoit Hamon, has won Sunday's run-off to be

the French Socialist Party's The hard left politician

was comfortably beating his rival the former Prime Minister,

Manuel Valls, who conceded before With 60% of votes counted,

Mr Benoit had just over Philippe Marliere is a lecturer

in French and European politics at University College,

London. Tell us about Benoit Hamon and does

he have a chance to become president? It is a mountain to climb

because they are so behind in the polls of the Socialist party which

reflects how popular the government has been. This victory might turn a

little bit the game, but also it will vitalise the left which has

been clearly nonexistent and in disarray. I think his chance is to

do that, try to unify the different segments of the left. First of all,

his own party, which will not be easy because the right-wing might be

tempted to look to the centre with the other candidates, but also on

the left of the Socialist party, there is another candidate who is

ahead. A difficult task for him to unify the left, make sure it does

not lose too many votes in the centre. But at least the Socialist

party gives itself a chance to at least not to get a crushing defeat.

The fear of all moderates is that a Le Pen victory. I don't think it

will impact much on her eventual victory as you say. I think you

would have to look at Phil on who is in trouble for other reasons. It is

an incredible race, full of upsets and surprises. He is accused of

various things to do with his wife. This antiestablishment mood that we

are seeing all over the world, how does this play into having a new,

very left wing leader for the Socialist, very right wing popular

leader. The main party, centre left, centre right... Don't inspire

confidence and are not supported. Mac ron is doing well but he is a

lonely man. He does not have a proper party behind him. He tries to

get votes from the centre-left but he is in the centre so he will not

make it to the second round. Benoit Hamon's victory changes the

situation. At least there is someone to represent the values of the left,

something a number of voters, those who voted for Francois Hollande had

the lowest hope in this party. I think they can come back and support

this party. Thank you. A US special forces raid

against Al Qaeda in Yemen, authorised by President Trump,

has killed at least fourteen The raid targeted the houses

of three tribal chiefs linked In Myanmar, a leading member

of the governing National League for Democracy has been shot dead

at Yangon airport. Ko Ni, was a prominent Muslim member

of Aung San Suu Kyi's party. A suspect has been detained

but there's no further information Reports say 25 Chinese

nationals on board a missing Malaysian boat have

been found alive. But as many as six people

are still missing. Malaysian naval ships

and an aircraft have been searching for the vessel in a large sea area

off the coast of Borneo. Hundreds of protesters are still

demonstrating against those new orders, that executive order from

President Trump on trying to restrict migration. We have heard

about the kind of international condemnation that this refugee ban

is attracting. What will be long-term consequences be on US

foreign relations? First of all, we are seeing massive opposition, the

attorneys general saying this is unconstitutional. Will this

policyholder? President trumpeted is determined to implement the policy

unless Republican senators organise against it, there is little

difference protests can make but there is clearly outraged across the

country not only to this but to others in the past week. What will

be the impact on foreign relations with other countries we have seen?

There is immense concerned that this will backfire and radicalised

opposition? This order invites violence targeting US citizens, US

interests. Clearly the world is appalled at the Islamophobia that is

behind this executive order and there's a real risk of a violent

backlash against the United States. Why has Saudi, Qatar and other Sunni

states, citizens of those countries have been involved in

radicalisation, why have they not been involved? It is curious. Those

happen to be countries where Trump has business interests. I wonder if

there is any link. When you say this is going to have a", some will say

President Trump is saying, voicing a concern that many have around the

world which is about security and he is taking action that is going to be

popular. It is legitimate to have security concerns, but this idea of

extreme betting is not new. Prior to the executive action, the vetting

process was very intense. It would take an applicant to come here under

the asylum programme or as a refugee 18-24 months to be approved. It is

nothing new that can be done on the betting side. What is being done

here is security is being used as an excuse to justify chauvinism and

Islamophobia. How do you think it will in practical terms, have

impacts on big countries like Iran? Seven countries listed here. We are

hearing that Canada will provide temporary shelter to people stranded

as a result of the tops order but a number of countries, how will it

affect direct relations with the US? These countries will take reciprocal

measures. Iran has said that if nationals are not able to travel to

the US, they will do similar. This is going to have a ripple effect

across... Sorry, they sound just breaking up. But thank you for

speaking to us. Let's move on and catch up with some of the sport now.

Big day in tennis. Roger Federer says he had never thought he would

make it back to a grand slam final but he has picked up his 18th title.

He spent the past six months on the sidelines with injury but he

overcame Rafa Nadal in a thrilling final. I don't think either one of

us believed we would be in the final was when we saw each other at the

Academy five, four months ago and here we stand in the finals. Tennis

is a tough sport, there are no draws but if there was one, I would be

happy to accept one tonight and accept it with Rafa. It could not

happen here, but it can happen on clay if I am able to play like this,

hold matches like this and recover well... Opponents will not get that

many free points and I am playing solely from the baseline, if I make

that happen, I think I can have success on hard courts.

Three more shocks in the English FA Cup on Sunday.

But Manchester United are through to the last 16

for Jose Mourinho's side - the manager made nine

Chris Smalling made it 2-0 following a cross

from Anthony Martial, who set up Henrikh Mkhitaryan

But the big story coming out of Old Trafford

was Bastian Schweinsteiger who marked his first

Manchester United start for a year with a goal and an assist

We deserved to win. The first half was not very good but we managed to

be won- zero in front and then at half-time we spoke about changing a

few things, the boys accepted it well and the second half was much

better. We deserved to win, the job was done and we are in the last 16.

Championship side Fulham pulled off an upset as they thrashed Hull City

at Craven Cottage to progress to the fifth round.

Afterwards the Hull boss Marco Silva said Fulham

deserved to win the game - we have a lot of problems to solve

with our team playing a lot of games in a row.

Sutton United - a non-league club - have beaten Leeds United.

Watford were also beaten 1-0 away at Millwall.

Ghana are through to the semi-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations...

The Black Stars beat DR Congo thanks to a late penalty from Andre Ayew.

Andre's brother Jordan had opened the scoring before

Ghana will now face Cameroon in the semi-finals.

Those semi-finals on Wednesday and Thursday next week.

Leo Santa Cruz beat Carl Frampton to win the WBA

It was a rematch of their bout from last year which

Frampton said he was surprised by Leo's ability to box on the back

foot. He won on two rounds on two of the judges scorecards. Frampton is

adamant that next time round he wants to fight in Belfast because

his fans have now travelled here to the USA three times in a row but the

pull of the casinos and the money here in Vegas means that those

negotiations for the trilogy fight might be as feverish as the contest

we saw here. That is it for the programme.

Goodbye. The weather was very split today.

Sunshine across Scotland, heavy rain in the south. The week ahead very

unsettled. Potentially turning very windy towards the end of the week.

Lots of weather fronts and areas of low pressure starting to develop out

on the Atlantic. The clouds are racing our way. One area of rain

clears away, tonight we have another one heading in our direction and

reaching Cornwall by the morning. Scotland a different story, clear

skies here and a sharp frost. Down south it will be mild, at the very

least cloudy first thing in the morning. Not a lot of brightness and

the further north you go, the drier it is and by Cumbria, northwards

through the lowlands of Scotland, very frosty start here. Freezing fog

in one or two spots and possibly I see as well. Through the morning,

into the afternoon, that rain moves across and that means another great,

drizzly day. Eastern areas, particularly Scotland and the

north-east some sunshine. I'll fast cloudy with spots of rain. This mass

of cloud and rain and drizzle hangs around into Monday evening, but

Northern areas staying dry. Tuesday, rain anywhere across the UK coming

and going. Patchy, western areas could brighten up a little bit later

on. And milder, 10 degrees in Belfast, ten across Yorkshire.

Wednesday we are between weather systems and it brightens up. A large

chunk of the UK should have a bright if not sunny Wednesday and then on

Thursday, low-pressure approaches. The winds will start to increase,

that will push in a weather front and some rain. Mild, ten even as far

north as Newcastle and Glasgow and then Saturday, very windy

potentially.