Mataifa saba sasa kuingia Marekani

[Joselela]

Jaji mmoja wa Marekani amesimamisha kwa muda utekelezaji wa amri ya Rais Donald Trump ya kuwazuia raia kutoka mataifa saba, yaliyo na raia wengi wa imani ya Kiislamu kuingia nchini Marekani.

Jaji wa Seattle alipuuzilia mbali sababu zilizotolewa na mawakili wa Serikali na kusema kuwa amri hiyo inaweza kusimamishwa mara moja huku kesi hiyo ikiendelea kusikilizwa mahakamani.

Serikali inatarajiwa kukata rufaa ya dharura dhidi ya uamuzi huo wa mahakama, ambao ni changa moto kubwa kwa utawala wa Trump.

• TANZANIA BUSINESS DEALERS

Serikali ya Marekani inasema kuwa makumi ya maelfu ya visa zimefutiliwa mbali tangu rais Trump kutia sahihi amri ya kupunguza idadi ya watu wanaopaswa kuingia nchini Marekani juma lililopita.

Wakati huohuo waziri Mkuu wa zamani wa Norway, Kjell Magne Bondovik, alisema kuwa alizuiwa katika uwanja mmoja wa ndege mapema juma hili, katika tukio alilosema ni la uchokozi, kwa sababu eti alikuwa na visa ya Iran katika paspoti yake.

 

[Jay One]

Title ya thread umekosea sana..!! Hawajaruhusiwa.. Ikulu ya Marekani imekataa tayari, ila muda si mrefu wameruhusu wale wenye visa tu wa nchi hizo 7 na wameshafika airports za U.S waingie.. ila bado wamezuiwa.. sbb Ikulu imekataa, huku Home Land security wamekubaliana na Jaji waingie.. kwa hiyo kuna mvutano..

Ni kwa wale tu wa nchi hizo 7 ambao wako U.S ktk airports mbalimbali walishafika huko.. sasa Ikulu haitaki waingie.. inataka warudishwe makwao, Ila Home Land wamekubaliana na Jaji sasa ni mvutano..

 

[manizzle]

Sijui kwa nini tunakurupuka kwenye uandishi, kwa nini haukuhakiki kabla ya kupost?

 

[bne]

Huo ndio uwezo wa mahakamani, si kama kwetu hapa ambako mtukufu malaika yuko juu ya mahakama na kuielekeza nini cha kufanya.
Twafaaaaaa

 

[Elungata]

Wanaenda kufanya nini kwani?,maana kama wanafosi sana

 

[Elungata]

Wanaenda kufanya nini kwani?,maana kama wanafosi sana

 

[jmushi1]

Title ya thread umekosea sana..!! Hawajaruhusiwa.. Ikulu ya Marekani imekataa tayari, ila muda si mrefu wameruhusu wale wenye visa tu wa nchi hizo 7 na wameshafika airports za U.S waingie.. ila bado wamezuiwa.. sbb Ikulu imekataa, huku Home Land security wamekubaliana na Jaji waingie.. kwa hiyo kuna mvutano..

Ni kwa wale tu wa nchi hizo 7 ambao wako U.S ktk airports mbalimbali walishafika huko.. sasa Ikulu haitaki waingie.. inataka warudishwe makwao, Ila Home Land wamekubaliana na Jaji sasa ni mvutano..

Acha kumpinga bila ushahidi. Uko behind. Ni kweli kuwa wale wote wenye visa kutoka kwenye yale mataifa saba wanaruhusiwa kuingia marekani baada ya order ya federal judge kutengua executive order ya Trump. Kinachofuatia sasa ni serikali ikate rufaa, na hiyo issue itafika hadi supreme court, na hiyo court hawajakamilika bado kwasababu judge mmoja aliyepishwa juzi na Trump itamchukua kama siku 40 kabla hajaingia ofisini. State department wametangaza kuchukua hatua ambayo inatekeleza amri ya judge huyo. Ikiwa ni pamoja na kutangaza rasmi kuwa wenye visa wanaruhusiwa kuingia marekani, na mashirika ya ndege kama Qatar Airways na Air France wametangaza kuwaruhusu wenye visa kutoka mataifa hayo saba wanaruhusiwa kupanda ndege kwenda Us

 

[babalisa05]

Wanaenda kufanya nini kwani?,maana kama wanafosi sana

kaka wengi wana familia zao USA hivyo wanarudi kwa wake na watoto zao.. pia ajira na maisha yao ni USA sasa ukikatishwa gafla inakuwa sio

 

[Waberoya]

kaka wengi wana familia zao USA hivyo wanarudi kwa wake na watoto zao.. pia ajira na maisha yao ni USA sasa ukikatishwa gafla inakuwa sio

mkazi wa mbutu huyo, hawezi kukuelewa

 

[MLAU]

Wanaenda kufanya nini kwani?,maana kama wanafosi sana

Ndugu hii dunia ni kazi watu wanafanya eti watu wanasafiri sana aiseee si kama unavyofikiri watu wanatengeneza pesa watu wana miradi mkubwa watu wana fanya makongamani ya kitaaluma,watu wapo ktk taasisi kubwa kikazi.wengine ni familia

 

[mroya]

Jaji mmoja wa Marekani amesimamisha kwa muda utekelezaji wa amri ya Rais Donald Trump ya kuwazuia raia kutoka mataifa saba, yaliyo na raia wengi wa imani ya Kiislamu kuingia nchini Marekani.

Jaji wa Seattle alipuuzilia mbali sababu zilizotolewa na mawakili wa Serikali na kusema kuwa amri hiyo inaweza kusimamishwa mara moja huku kesi hiyo ikiendelea kusikilizwa mahakamani.

Serikali inatarajiwa kukata rufaa ya dharura dhidi ya uamuzi huo wa mahakama, ambao ni changa moto kubwa kwa utawala wa Trump.

• TANZANIA BUSINESS DEALERS

Serikali ya Marekani inasema kuwa makumi ya maelfu ya visa zimefutiliwa mbali tangu rais Trump kutia sahihi amri ya kupunguza idadi ya watu wanaopaswa kuingia nchini Marekani juma lililopita.

Wakati huohuo waziri Mkuu wa zamani wa Norway, Kjell Magne Bondovik, alisema kuwa alizuiwa katika uwanja mmoja wa ndege mapema juma hili, katika tukio alilosema ni la uchokozi, kwa sababu eti alikuwa na visa ya Iran katika paspoti yake.

Kwani Amerika ni mbinguni? Nimemnukuu waziri mmoja wa Kenya. Alitoa kauli hii baada ya kupigwa ban kuingia Marekani.

 

[Jay One]

Acha kumpinga bila ushahidi. Uko behind. Ni kweli kuwa wale wote wenye visa kutoka kwenye yale mataifa saba wanaruhusiwa kuingia marekani baada ya order ya federal judge kutengua executive order ya Trump. Kinachofuatia sasa ni serikali ikate rufaa, na hiyo issue itafika hadi supreme court, na hiyo court hawajakamilika bado kwasababu judge mmoja aliyepishwa juzi na Trump itamchukua kama siku 40 kabla hajaingia ofisini. State department wametangaza kuchukua hatua ambayo inatekeleza amri ya judge huyo. Ikiwa ni pamoja na kutangaza rasmi kuwa wenye visa wanaruhusiwa kuingia marekani, na mashirika ya ndege kama Qatar Airways na Air France wametangaza kuwaruhusu wenye visa kutoka mataifa hayo saba wanaruhusiwa kupanda ndege kwenda Us

Wee ndio uko nyuma ya wakati, out of date.. Read this, acha ujinga ujinga, White House, imesema itageuza haraka maamuzi hayo.. haraka sana




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White House vows to overturn travel ban court block as visas reinstated – as it happened

A ruling by a federal judge in Washington state has thrown the legitimacy of the ban into question as US customs tell airlines to start allowing people back into the country. Follow all the developments here

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A Customs and Border Protection officer at Atlanta airport. Photograph: Erik S. Lesser/EPA

Alison Rourke

Saturday 4 February 201707.55 GMTFirst published on Saturday 4 February 201703.20 GMT

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6.39amDemocratic senator Chuck Schumer hails ruling5.56amIranian baby in need of heart surgery allowed to enter US5.51amAnti-Trump protests in Australia5.17amNew US sanctions on Iran5.07amProtests over ban continued in US on Friday4.42amUS Airlines told to allow in previously banned travellers4.41amChina accuses US of putting stability of Asia-Pacific at risk

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7.50am 07:50

SUMMARY

The White House hasvowed to overturn a court ruling that temporarily halted Donald Trump’s travel ban for refugees and people from seven predominantly Muslim nations.The ruling by a Seattle court put a temporary stop to the travel ban across the country.A White House statement said the Department of Justice intended to challenge the court’s decision.The US Customs and Border Protection agency reportedly told airlines to board passengers previously affected by the travel ban.The ruling followed another court decision in a Massachusetts which lifted a temporary injunction against Trump’s travel ban, so the ban could resume on Sunday, prompting accusations of legal chaos.Court challenges have been mounted inseven states President Trump has not commented on the halting of his travel ban and is on a weekend break with his wife in Florida.

Updated at 7.55am GMT

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7.26am 07:26

President Trump has been unusually quiet on his Twitter POTUS account given the furore surrounding his presidential travel ban order. Not a peep from him from on his weekend getaway at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. But there were photos of him and Melania arriving there. US magazine websites said the couple was “reuniting for the weekend”.

President Trump walks with his wife Melania arriving in Florida for a weekend visit. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Donald Trump tosses a pen that he was using to sign autographs back to the group that greeted him after landing in Florida on Air Force One. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Updated at 7.30am GMT

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7.21am 07:21

Bob Ferguson, Washington state attorney general, has placed himself in the spotlight with his legal challenge to the Trump administration’s“unconstitutional and unlawful” order.

Here he is talking to the media on Friday:

Seattle judge temporarily blocks Trump’s travel ban

Updated at 9.42am GMT

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6.39am 06:39

Democratic senator Chuck Schumer hails ruling

Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, has hailed the Seattle judge’s order to impose a temporary halt on the travel ban.

“This ruling is a victory for the Constitution and for all of us who believe this un-American executive order will not make us safer,” he said in a statement.

President Trump should heed this ruling and he ought to back off and repeal the executive order once and for all.

Updated at 7.43am GMT

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6.27am 06:27

Students have been protesting the travel ban in Indonesia and the Philippines.

In Jakarta, Associated Press reports that dozens of students and activists from several rights groups called on the Indonesian government and the international community to help stop Trump’s order. Banners waved by demonstrators included “I’m angry with Trump” and “No ban, no wall”.

An activist holds a placard during a protest in front of the US Embassy in Jakarta on Saturday. Photograph: Bagus Indahono/EPA

Organiser Veronica Koman said Trump’s “xenophobic” policy would hurt people fleeing war-torn countries who are currently in Indonesia.

A similar rally was held outside the US embassy in the Philippine capital, Manila.

Updated at 6.48am GMT

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6.19am 06:19

The Washington state attorney general, Bob Ferguson (@AGOWA) who brought the case in Seattle, has tweeted a photo the judge’s temporary restraining order on the travel ban.

WA Attorney General(@AGOWA)

pic.twitter.com/wgNb2FBlUu

February 4, 2017

Media and lawyers waited outside the Seattle court for the ruling which has temporarily stayed the president’s travel order.

Jim Brunner(@Jim_Brunner)

Long line of lawyers, media, others waiting for Seattle federal court hearing on@AGOWA lawsuit against @POTUS#ImmigrationOrderpic.twitter.com/1JRN4ZudPZ

February 3, 2017

Updated at 6.22am GMT

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5.56am 05:56

Iranian baby in need of heart surgery allowed to enter US

A four-month-old Iranian girl in need of an emergency heart surgery has received an emergency waiver for Donald Trump’s 90-day travel ban on Iranian citizens, New York governor Andrew Cuomo announced late on Friday.

“This evening we were pleased to learn that the federal government has now granted Fatemeh Reshad and her family boarding documents to come to the United States,” Cuomo said in a statement Friday night. He said that a team of pediatric cardiac doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York had agreed to help the family pro bono, and that a law firm was funding the travel.

You can read the full story here

Iranian baby girl Fatemah Taghizadeh has been granted an emergency waiver to travel to the US for heart surgery. Photograph:

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5.51am 05:51

Anti-Trump protests in Australia

Australians concerned that the country’s refugee resettlement deal with the US may be in doubt have held protests across the country.

Australians protest in Melbourne against President Trump’s travel ban. Photograph: Scott Barbour/Getty Images

It follows a fraught phone call over the issue between the Australian prime minster, Malcolm Turnbull, and President Trump this week, in which the president described the deal for the US to take in refugees from Australia’s offshore detention centres as a “dumb deal”.

Donald J. Trump(@realDonaldTrump)

Do you believe it? The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia. Why? I will study this dumb deal!

February 2, 2017

You can read the full story on the protests in Australia here from our correspondent, Ben Doherty.

Here’s a flavour of what he says:

Australia’s fragile refugee resettlement deal with the US has brought thousands of people on to city streets, decrying the US president’s immigration ban and demanding an end to Australia’s offshore processing policy of asylum seekers.

The deal, purportedly, is for the US to resettle up to 1250 refugees from Australia’s offshore detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru, where refugees have been held for more than three years, and which are the subject of sustained criticism over systemic violence by guards, sexual assaults, including of children, and deaths from murder, suicide and inadequate medical care.

The refugee agreement has spent the week in furious on-again, off-again debate. Trump has spent the week railing against the “dumb deal” and the “worst deal ever”, followed by his officials then quietly rowing back his comments and promising the deal, struck with the Obama administration, would be upheld.

The president’s fraught phone call over the issue with the Australian prime minster, Malcolm Turnbull, briefly dominated the international news agenda.

But the deal does not oblige the US to actually accept a single refugee, only to allow them to “express an interest” in resettlement. All the refugees from the Australian-run camps will be subject to “extreme vetting”, the US president said. Australia has legal responsibility for the refugees after they landed in its territory, but has moved them offshore and refuses to accept them for fear of encouraging more arrivals.

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5.31am 05:31

The US customs and border protection agency has reportedly told airlines to resume operation as normal – that is, as if the Trump travel ban order never existed. But you could be forgiven for being confused by the statement on its website, which gives information about the 27 January executive order “Protecting the National from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States”. There doesn’t seem to be any information on the court ruling in Seattle which has put a nation-wide stop on Trump’s ban.

The Customs and Border Protection agency is part of the US department of Homeland Security. Photograph: CBP

Updated at 6.26am GMT

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5.21am 05:21

Passengers who are affected by the travel ban have been asked to check airline websites for information before travelling. But I’m not sure how much luck they are going to have. I’ve looked at several and can’t see any reference to the court ruling or what it means for anyone.

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5.17am 05:17

New US sanctions on Iran

On what’s turning out to be a major news day in the Trump administration, the White House announced it was imposing sanctions on companies and individuals suspected of involvement in Iran’s missile programme and its support for foreign armed groups, warning there will be more pressure on Tehran to come.

Donald Trump accused Iran of “playing with fire”.

“They don’t appreciate how ‘kind’ President Obama was to them. Not me!” he said in anearly morning tweet.

Donald J. Trump(@realDonaldTrump)

Iran is playing with fire - they don't appreciate how "kind" President Obama was to them. Not me!

February 3, 2017

Here’s the full report by the Guardian’sJulian Borger andDavid Smith in Washington:

The sanctions announced on Friday targeted on a dozen companies and 13 individuals, including Chinese firms suspected of supplying parts used in Iran’s missile development programme. The measures were invoked in response to a January missile test by Iran and the country’s support for Houthi rebels in Yemen.

“The Trump administration will no longer tolerate Iran’s provocations that threaten our interests,” Trump’s national security advisor, Michael Flynn, said in a statement. “The days of turning a blind eye to Iran’s hostile and belligerent actions toward the United States and the world community are over.”

A senior administration official described the measures as “initial steps” while a broader review of Iran policy was under way.

“Iran has a choice to make,” the official said. “We are going to continue to respond to their behaviour in an ongoing way at an appropriate level, to continue to pressure them to change their behaviour.”

Iran said it would retaliate with its own blacklist of American nationals and companies it said gave support to terrorists.

“The Islamic Republic will proportionately and reciprocally confront any action that targets the Iranian people’s interests,” the foreign ministry said.

Sanctions experts said the new measures appeared to be in line with the Obama administration’s approach of incrementally expanding sanctions as procurement and influence networks are uncovered, but a senior Trump administration official said the decision to impose the new sanctions had been triggered by the 29 January Iranian test of a medium-range ballistic missile.

The sanctions were also declared to be in retaliation for a Houthi attack on a Saudi warship on 31 January. In a statement on Friday, Flynn referred to the Houthis as one of Iran’s “proxy terrorist groups”, although the Yemeni Shia militia is not designated by the state department as terrorist. It has fought a long-running insurgency in and seized the capital Sana’a by early 2015, triggering a full-scale war against the Yemeni president, Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, and a Saudi-led coalition supporting him.

The people and companies targeted in the new sanctions list are suspected of being parts of networks that import dual-use items that have been used in Iran’s nuclear programme, or transfer funds abroad for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards to foreign armed groups. The measures do not reimpose any sanctions that were lifted as a result of the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran.

“It is an appropriate response and consistent with the approach that the Obama administration took in dealing with missiles and terror,” said Elizabeth Rosenberg, a former senior sanctions adviser at the treasury department. “It doesn’t look that it is a major departure. What we see is a page from the playbook we know.”

Tyler Cullis, legal fellow at the National Iranian American Council, said: “Trump has imposed targeted sanctions aimed at low-level individuals and entities alleged to be involved with Iran’s ballistic missile programme. These sanctions are intended to evidence US pushback without sacrificing the nuclear accord. I wouldn’t have expected a President Clinton to act any differently.”

US officials said that the missile test was “inconsistent” with UN security council resolution 2231, which endorsed the 2015 nuclear deal and “calls on” Iran not to develop or test missiles “capable of delivering nuclear weapons” but does not ban such activity outright.

The Iranian defence minister, Hossein Dehghan, has insisted that the 29 January test did not violate the resolution and declared: “We will not allow foreigners to interfere in our defence affairs.”

A senior administration official insisted on Friday that the tested missile was nuclear-capable.

“Those are ballistic missiles that can travel a certain distance and carry a certain payload and this ballistic missile falls within that parameter,” the official said.

Michael Elleman, a missile expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said it was not clear what Iran had launched, but said most likely it was a Shahab-3 medium-range ballistic missile based on the North Korean Nodong missile, and which was first tested in 1998.

Trump’s attempt to shock and awe both allies and adversaries in his first two weeks in office has deepened global uncertainty as Trump has taken an abrasive approach to diplomacy from Australia to Mexico.

Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, said the administration was in the midst “of a full review of all US policies towards Cuba”, with a focus on its human rights policies, as part of a commitment to such rights for citizens throughout the world.

It also emerged that more than 100,000 visas may have been revokedas a result of Trump’s fiercely contentious ban on travel from seven Muslim-majority countries. The number was revealed by a government attorney during a lawsuit brought on behalf of two Yemeni brothers who arrived at Dulles International Airport near Washington on Saturday, only to be put on a return flight to Ethiopia.

But the state department contradicted the attorney’s figure, saying that fewer than 60,000 visas had been cancelled under Trump’s order.

In a highly provocative move last month, Trump signed an executive order that affects people holding passports from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, and also halts temporarily the entry of refugees into the country. The White House contends the moves are necessary for national security but Democratic attorneys general in several states have called them unconstitutional.

In a separate case,a federal judge in Detroit ruled that US green card holders should not be affected by Trump’s travel ban following a suit by the Arab-American Civil Rights League. The nonprofit argued in US district court that the president’s executive action is unconstitutional and targets immigrant communities.

Criticism of the White House’s misrepresentation of the issue intensified after Kellyanne Conway, counselor to Trump, was forced to issue a correction after blaming two Iraqi refugees for a massacre that never happened.

Conway cited the fictitious “Bowling Green massacre” in an interview in which she backed the travel ban. Interviewed by Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s Hardball programme on Thursday evening, Conway compared the executive order issued by Trump in his first week in the White House to what she described as a six-month ban imposed by his predecessor, Barack Obama.

This claim has been debunked by commentators who have pointed out that the 2011 action was a pause on the processing of refugees from Iraq after two Iraqi nationals were arrested over a failed attempt to send money and weapons to al-Qaida in Iraq.

Conway told Matthews: “I bet it’s brand new information to people that President Obama had a six-month ban on the Iraqi refugee program after two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalised and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre. Most people don’t know that because it didn’t get covered.”

The two Iraqi men arrested in 2011 did live in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and arecurrently serving life sentences for federal terrorism offences. But there was no massacre, nor were they accused of planning one. The US Department of Justice, announcing their convictions in 2012, said: “Neither was charged with plotting attacks within the United States.”

After a barrage of mockery on social media, Conway tweeted on Friday: “I meant to say ‘Bowling Green terrorists’ as reported here,” and she linked to a 2013 news report about the men.

Trump met business leaders at the White House and promised to roll back financial regulations that resulted from the 2007-08 financial crisis. He was set to issue directives targeting the 2010 Dodd-Frank law on Wall Street reform, although only Congress can rewrite it.

The Department of Labor announced that the economy added a total of 227,000 jobs in January, while wages rose by 2.5% over the last year. Democrats hailed it as an “emphatic capstone” on the economic legacy of Barack Obama.

House Democrats will gather for a conference in Baltimore next week, strategising a way forward for the party after Trump’s stunning election defeat of Hillary Clinton and the helter skelter start to his presidency. They are under pressure from an energetic base to shift to the left and, for example, oppose Trump’s supreme court nominee Neil Gorsuch at all costs.

Updated at 5.38am GMT

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5.07am 05:07

Protests over ban continued in US on Friday

Protests over the travel ban continued in the US on Friday, including a large group that gathered in a parking lot of Kennedy International Airport in New York for the Friday Prayer.

Protestors hold Friday prayers at JFK airport in New York in solidarity with detained Muslims. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

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4.59am 04:59

According to the New York Times, is is not unusual for district courts to issue nationwide injunctions blocking executive actions. It says the “federal government must obey such injunctions even when other district courts have declined to issue injunctions in similar cases.”

You can see the fullNYT story here

Airlines told to allow previously banned travelers to US, after judge's order – reports



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4.42am 04:42

US Airlines told to allow in previously banned travellers

One of our correspondents in the US, Alan Yuhas, has just filed a story on US airlines being told to let in people previously banned under the executive order. He says the Seattle court ruling opens the path for states to sue the White House.

Here’s are top lines from Alan’s report:

After a federal judge in Seattleordered a temporary halt on Donald Trump’s travel ban for refugees and people from seven predominantly-Muslim nations, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reportedly told US airlines that they could board travelers who had been barred.

Trump administration offers conflicting numbers of revoked visas after travel banRead more

District judge James Robart granted a temporary restraining order on Friday after hearing arguments from Washington state and Minnesota that the president’s order had unlawfully discriminated against Muslims and caused unreasonable harm.

It was not immediately clear whether authorities would comply with the broad order, especially after officials reacted in confusion a week earlier, detaining valid visa holders and arguing with lawyers. But the justice department said it would not immediately file for an emergency stay, at least on Friday night, and reports said Customs and Border Protection (CBP0 had informed US airlines that they should board travelers who had been barred by an executive order last week.

“We are a nation of laws. Not even the president can violate the constitution,” Washington state attorney general Bob Ferguson told reporters outside the courtroom. “No one is above the law, not even the president.”

“This decision shuts down the executive order immediately, shuts it down,” he added. “That relief is immediate, happens right now. That’s the bottom line.”

You can read Alan’s full report here.

Updated at 4.48am GMT

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4.41am 04:41

China accuses US of putting stability of Asia-Pacific at risk

Trump’s defence secretary has put the cat among the pigeons on his visit to Japan. James Mattis said today that the US would defend Japan if it got into a conflict with China over the disputed South China Sea islands.

The Chinese foreign ministry says the US should avoid complicating the issue and “bringing instability to the regional situation”.

James Mattis with Japanese defense minister Tomomi Inada in Tokyo. Photograph: Franck Robichon/EPA

Our man in Tokyo, Juystin McCurry, has filed a report on this and here’s the top lines:

China has accused the US of putting the stability of the Asia-Pacific at risk after Donald Trump’s defence secretary said Washington would come to Japan’s defence in the event of a conflict with Beijing over the disputedSenkaku islands.

James Mattis, on a two-day visit toJapan, said the islands, which are controlled by Japan but also claimed by China, fell within the scope of the Japan-US security treaty, under which Washington is obliged to defend all areas under Japanese administrative control.

Mattis also made clear that the US opposed any unilateral action that risked undermining Japan’s control of the Senkakus, a group of uninhabited islets that are surrounded by rich fishing grounds and potentially large natural gas deposits.

“I want to make certain that Article 5 of our mutual defence treaty is understood to be as real to us today as it was a year ago, five years ago - and as it will be a year, and 10 years, from now,” Mattis, a retired marine general who has served in South Korea and Japan, told Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, on Friday evening.

We’ll launch Justin’s full report very soon ...

Updated at 4.41am GMT

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Jaji mmoja wa Marekani amesimamisha kwa muda utekelezaji wa amri ya Rais Donald Trump ya kuwazuia raia kutoka mataifa saba, yaliyo na raia wengi wa imani ya Kiislamu kuingia nchini Marekani.
Jaji wa Seattle alipuuzilia mbali sababu zilizotolewa na mawakili wa Serikali na kusema kuwa amri hiyo inaweza kusimamishwa mara moja huku kesi hiyo ikiendelea kusikilizwa mahakamani.
Serikali inatarajiwa kukata rufaa ya dharura dhidi ya uamuzi huo wa mahakama, ambao ni changa moto kubwa kwa utawala wa Trump.
Trump kuwazuia wahamiaji kuingia Marekani
Donald Trump kuwarejesha wahamiaji kwao
Jaji apiga marufuku amri ya Trump kurudisha wahamiaji makwao
Amri ya Trump: Ni nani anaathirika?
EU: Donald Trump ni tishio kwa Ulaya
Trump: Mexico watalipia ukuta '100%'
Serikali ya Marekani inasema kuwa makumi ya maelfu ya visa zimefutiliwa mbali tangu rais Trump kutia sahihi amri ya kupunguza idadi ya watu wanaopaswa kuingia nchini Marekani juma lililopita.
Wakati huohuo waziri Mkuu wa zamani wa Norway, Kjell Magne Bondovik, alisema kuwa alizuiwa katika uwanja mmoja wa ndege mapema juma hili, katika tukio alilosema ni la uchokozi, kwa sababu eti alikuwa na visa ya Iran katika paspoti yake.

 

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Wanaenda kufanya nini kwani?,maana kama wanafosi sana

Wewe kama upo kijijini kwenu huko sitimbi huna kazi ya kufanya usidhani dunia nzima watu wako kama wewe.

 

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White House vows to overturn travel ban court block as visas reinstated – as it happened

A ruling by a federal judge in Washington state has thrown the legitimacy of the ban into question as US customs tell airlines to start allowing people back into the country. Follow all the developments here

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Alison Rourke

Saturday 4 February 201707.55 GMTFirst published on Saturday 4 February 201703.20 GMT

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6.39amDemocratic senator Chuck Schumer hails ruling5.56amIranian baby in need of heart surgery allowed to enter US5.51amAnti-Trump protests in Australia5.17amNew US sanctions on Iran5.07amProtests over ban continued in US on Friday4.42amUS Airlines told to allow in previously banned travellers4.41amChina accuses US of putting stability of Asia-Pacific at risk

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7.50am 07:50

SUMMARY

The White House hasvowed to overturn a court ruling that temporarily halted Donald Trump’s travel ban for refugees and people from seven predominantly Muslim nations.The ruling by a Seattle court put a temporary stop to the travel ban across the country.A White House statement said the Department of Justice intended to challenge the court’s decision.The US Customs and Border Protection agency reportedly told airlines to board passengers previously affected by the travel ban.The ruling followed another court decision in a Massachusetts which lifted a temporary injunction against Trump’s travel ban, so the ban could resume on Sunday, prompting accusations of legal chaos.Court challenges have been mounted inseven states President Trump has not commented on the halting of his travel ban and is on a weekend break with his wife in Florida.

Updated at 7.55am GMT

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7.26am 07:26

President Trump has been unusually quiet on his Twitter POTUS account given the furore surrounding his presidential travel ban order. Not a peep from him from on his weekend getaway at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. But there were photos of him and Melania arriving there. US magazine websites said the couple was “reuniting for the weekend”.

President Trump walks with his wife Melania arriving in Florida for a weekend visit. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Donald Trump tosses a pen that he was using to sign autographs back to the group that greeted him after landing in Florida on Air Force One. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Updated at 7.30am GMT

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7.21am 07:21

Bob Ferguson, Washington state attorney general, has placed himself in the spotlight with his legal challenge to the Trump administration’s“unconstitutional and unlawful” order.

Here he is talking to the media on Friday:

Seattle judge temporarily blocks Trump’s travel ban

Updated at 9.42am GMT

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6.39am 06:39

Democratic senator Chuck Schumer hails ruling

Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, has hailed the Seattle judge’s order to impose a temporary halt on the travel ban.

“This ruling is a victory for the Constitution and for all of us who believe this un-American executive order will not make us safer,” he said in a statement.

President Trump should heed this ruling and he ought to back off and repeal the executive order once and for all.

Updated at 7.43am GMT

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6.27am 06:27

Students have been protesting the travel ban in Indonesia and the Philippines.

In Jakarta, Associated Press reports that dozens of students and activists from several rights groups called on the Indonesian government and the international community to help stop Trump’s order. Banners waved by demonstrators included “I’m angry with Trump” and “No ban, no wall”.

An activist holds a placard during a protest in front of the US Embassy in Jakarta on Saturday. Photograph: Bagus Indahono/EPA

Organiser Veronica Koman said Trump’s “xenophobic” policy would hurt people fleeing war-torn countries who are currently in Indonesia.

A similar rally was held outside the US embassy in the Philippine capital, Manila.

Updated at 6.48am GMT

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6.19am 06:19

The Washington state attorney general, Bob Ferguson (@AGOWA) who brought the case in Seattle, has tweeted a photo the judge’s temporary restraining order on the travel ban.

WA Attorney General(@AGOWA)

pic.twitter.com/wgNb2FBlUu

February 4, 2017

Media and lawyers waited outside the Seattle court for the ruling which has temporarily stayed the president’s travel order.

Jim Brunner(@Jim_Brunner)

Long line of lawyers, media, others waiting for Seattle federal court hearing on@AGOWA lawsuit against @POTUS#ImmigrationOrderpic.twitter.com/1JRN4ZudPZ

February 3, 2017

Updated at 6.22am GMT

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5.56am 05:56

Iranian baby in need of heart surgery allowed to enter US

A four-month-old Iranian girl in need of an emergency heart surgery has received an emergency waiver for Donald Trump’s 90-day travel ban on Iranian citizens, New York governor Andrew Cuomo announced late on Friday.

“This evening we were pleased to learn that the federal government has now granted Fatemeh Reshad and her family boarding documents to come to the United States,” Cuomo said in a statement Friday night. He said that a team of pediatric cardiac doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York had agreed to help the family pro bono, and that a law firm was funding the travel.

You can read the full story here

Iranian baby girl Fatemah Taghizadeh has been granted an emergency waiver to travel to the US for heart surgery. Photograph:

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5.51am 05:51

Anti-Trump protests in Australia

Australians concerned that the country’s refugee resettlement deal with the US may be in doubt have held protests across the country.

Australians protest in Melbourne against President Trump’s travel ban. Photograph: Scott Barbour/Getty Images

It follows a fraught phone call over the issue between the Australian prime minster, Malcolm Turnbull, and President Trump this week, in which the president described the deal for the US to take in refugees from Australia’s offshore detention centres as a “dumb deal”.

Donald J. Trump(@realDonaldTrump)

Do you believe it? The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia. Why? I will study this dumb deal!

February 2, 2017

You can read the full story on the protests in Australia here from our correspondent, Ben Doherty.

Here’s a flavour of what he says:

Australia’s fragile refugee resettlement deal with the US has brought thousands of people on to city streets, decrying the US president’s immigration ban and demanding an end to Australia’s offshore processing policy of asylum seekers.

The deal, purportedly, is for the US to resettle up to 1250 refugees from Australia’s offshore detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru, where refugees have been held for more than three years, and which are the subject of sustained criticism over systemic violence by guards, sexual assaults, including of children, and deaths from murder, suicide and inadequate medical care.

The refugee agreement has spent the week in furious on-again, off-again debate. Trump has spent the week railing against the “dumb deal” and the “worst deal ever”, followed by his officials then quietly rowing back his comments and promising the deal, struck with the Obama administration, would be upheld.

The president’s fraught phone call over the issue with the Australian prime minster, Malcolm Turnbull, briefly dominated the international news agenda.

But the deal does not oblige the US to actually accept a single refugee, only to allow them to “express an interest” in resettlement. All the refugees from the Australian-run camps will be subject to “extreme vetting”, the US president said. Australia has legal responsibility for the refugees after they landed in its territory, but has moved them offshore and refuses to accept them for fear of encouraging more arrivals.

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5.31am 05:31

The US customs and border protection agency has reportedly told airlines to resume operation as normal – that is, as if the Trump travel ban order never existed. But you could be forgiven for being confused by the statement on its website, which gives information about the 27 January executive order “Protecting the National from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States”. There doesn’t seem to be any information on the court ruling in Seattle which has put a nation-wide stop on Trump’s ban.

The Customs and Border Protection agency is part of the US department of Homeland Security. Photograph: CBP

Updated at 6.26am GMT

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5.21am 05:21

Passengers who are affected by the travel ban have been asked to check airline websites for information before travelling. But I’m not sure how much luck they are going to have. I’ve looked at several and can’t see any reference to the court ruling or what it means for anyone.

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5.17am 05:17

New US sanctions on Iran

On what’s turning out to be a major news day in the Trump administration, the White House announced it was imposing sanctions on companies and individuals suspected of involvement in Iran’s missile programme and its support for foreign armed groups, warning there will be more pressure on Tehran to come.

Donald Trump accused Iran of “playing with fire”.

“They don’t appreciate how ‘kind’ President Obama was to them. Not me!” he said in anearly morning tweet.

Donald J. Trump(@realDonaldTrump)

Iran is playing with fire - they don't appreciate how "kind" President Obama was to them. Not me!

February 3, 2017

Here’s the full report by the Guardian’sJulian Borger andDavid Smith in Washington:

The sanctions announced on Friday targeted on a dozen companies and 13 individuals, including Chinese firms suspected of supplying parts used in Iran’s missile development programme. The measures were invoked in response to a January missile test by Iran and the country’s support for Houthi rebels in Yemen.

“The Trump administration will no longer tolerate Iran’s provocations that threaten our interests,” Trump’s national security advisor, Michael Flynn, said in a statement. “The days of turning a blind eye to Iran’s hostile and belligerent actions toward the United States and the world community are over.”

A senior administration official described the measures as “initial steps” while a broader review of Iran policy was under way.

“Iran has a choice to make,” the official said. “We are going to continue to respond to their behaviour in an ongoing way at an appropriate level, to continue to pressure them to change their behaviour.”

Iran said it would retaliate with its own blacklist of American nationals and companies it said gave support to terrorists.

“The Islamic Republic will proportionately and reciprocally confront any action that targets the Iranian people’s interests,” the foreign ministry said.

Sanctions experts said the new measures appeared to be in line with the Obama administration’s approach of incrementally expanding sanctions as procurement and influence networks are uncovered, but a senior Trump administration official said the decision to impose the new sanctions had been triggered by the 29 January Iranian test of a medium-range ballistic missile.

The sanctions were also declared to be in retaliation for a Houthi attack on a Saudi warship on 31 January. In a statement on Friday, Flynn referred to the Houthis as one of Iran’s “proxy terrorist groups”, although the Yemeni Shia militia is not designated by the state department as terrorist. It has fought a long-running insurgency in and seized the capital Sana’a by early 2015, triggering a full-scale war against the Yemeni president, Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, and a Saudi-led coalition supporting him.

The people and companies targeted in the new sanctions list are suspected of being parts of networks that import dual-use items that have been used in Iran’s nuclear programme, or transfer funds abroad for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards to foreign armed groups. The measures do not reimpose any sanctions that were lifted as a result of the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran.

“It is an appropriate response and consistent with the approach that the Obama administration took in dealing with missiles and terror,” said Elizabeth Rosenberg, a former senior sanctions adviser at the treasury department. “It doesn’t look that it is a major departure. What we see is a page from the playbook we know.”

Tyler Cullis, legal fellow at the National Iranian American Council, said: “Trump has imposed targeted sanctions aimed at low-level individuals and entities alleged to be involved with Iran’s ballistic missile programme. These sanctions are intended to evidence US pushback without sacrificing the nuclear accord. I wouldn’t have expected a President Clinton to act any differently.”

US officials said that the missile test was “inconsistent” with UN security council resolution 2231, which endorsed the 2015 nuclear deal and “calls on” Iran not to develop or test missiles “capable of delivering nuclear weapons” but does not ban such activity outright.

The Iranian defence minister, Hossein Dehghan, has insisted that the 29 January test did not violate the resolution and declared: “We will not allow foreigners to interfere in our defence affairs.”

A senior administration official insisted on Friday that the tested missile was nuclear-capable.

“Those are ballistic missiles that can travel a certain distance and carry a certain payload and this ballistic missile falls within that parameter,” the official said.

Michael Elleman, a missile expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said it was not clear what Iran had launched, but said most likely it was a Shahab-3 medium-range ballistic missile based on the North Korean Nodong missile, and which was first tested in 1998.

Trump’s attempt to shock and awe both allies and adversaries in his first two weeks in office has deepened global uncertainty as Trump has taken an abrasive approach to diplomacy from Australia to Mexico.

Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, said the administration was in the midst “of a full review of all US policies towards Cuba”, with a focus on its human rights policies, as part of a commitment to such rights for citizens throughout the world.

It also emerged that more than 100,000 visas may have been revokedas a result of Trump’s fiercely contentious ban on travel from seven Muslim-majority countries. The number was revealed by a government attorney during a lawsuit brought on behalf of two Yemeni brothers who arrived at Dulles International Airport near Washington on Saturday, only to be put on a return flight to Ethiopia.

But the state department contradicted the attorney’s figure, saying that fewer than 60,000 visas had been cancelled under Trump’s order.

In a highly provocative move last month, Trump signed an executive order that affects people holding passports from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, and also halts temporarily the entry of refugees into the country. The White House contends the moves are necessary for national security but Democratic attorneys general in several states have called them unconstitutional.

In a separate case,a federal judge in Detroit ruled that US green card holders should not be affected by Trump’s travel ban following a suit by the Arab-American Civil Rights League. The nonprofit argued in US district court that the president’s executive action is unconstitutional and targets immigrant communities.

Criticism of the White House’s misrepresentation of the issue intensified after Kellyanne Conway, counselor to Trump, was forced to issue a correction after blaming two Iraqi refugees for a massacre that never happened.

Conway cited the fictitious “Bowling Green massacre” in an interview in which she backed the travel ban. Interviewed by Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s Hardball programme on Thursday evening, Conway compared the executive order issued by Trump in his first week in the White House to what she described as a six-month ban imposed by his predecessor, Barack Obama.

This claim has been debunked by commentators who have pointed out that the 2011 action was a pause on the processing of refugees from Iraq after two Iraqi nationals were arrested over a failed attempt to send money and weapons to al-Qaida in Iraq.

Conway told Matthews: “I bet it’s brand new information to people that President Obama had a six-month ban on the Iraqi refugee program after two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalised and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre. Most people don’t know that because it didn’t get covered.”

The two Iraqi men arrested in 2011 did live in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and arecurrently serving life sentences for federal terrorism offences. But there was no massacre, nor were they accused of planning one. The US Department of Justice, announcing their convictions in 2012, said: “Neither was charged with plotting attacks within the United States.”

After a barrage of mockery on social media, Conway tweeted on Friday: “I meant to say ‘Bowling Green terrorists’ as reported here,” and she linked to a 2013 news report about the men.

Trump met business leaders at the White House and promised to roll back financial regulations that resulted from the 2007-08 financial crisis. He was set to issue directives targeting the 2010 Dodd-Frank law on Wall Street reform, although only Congress can rewrite it.

The Department of Labor announced that the economy added a total of 227,000 jobs in January, while wages rose by 2.5% over the last year. Democrats hailed it as an “emphatic capstone” on the economic legacy of Barack Obama.

House Democrats will gather for a conference in Baltimore next week, strategising a way forward for the party after Trump’s stunning election defeat of Hillary Clinton and the helter skelter start to his presidency. They are under pressure from an energetic base to shift to the left and, for example, oppose Trump’s supreme court nominee Neil Gorsuch at all costs.

Updated at 5.38am GMT

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5.07am 05:07

Protests over ban continued in US on Friday

Protests over the travel ban continued in the US on Friday, including a large group that gathered in a parking lot of Kennedy International Airport in New York for the Friday Prayer.

Protestors hold Friday prayers at JFK airport in New York in solidarity with detained Muslims. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

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4.59am 04:59

According to the New York Times, is is not unusual for district courts to issue nationwide injunctions blocking executive actions. It says the “federal government must obey such injunctions even when other district courts have declined to issue injunctions in similar cases.”

You can see the fullNYT story here

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4.42am 04:42

US Airlines told to allow in previously banned travellers

One of our correspondents in the US, Alan Yuhas, has just filed a story on US airlines being told to let in people previously banned under the executive order. He says the Seattle court ruling opens the path for states to sue the White House.

Here’s are top lines from Alan’s report:

After a federal judge in Seattleordered a temporary halt on Donald Trump’s travel ban for refugees and people from seven predominantly-Muslim nations, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reportedly told US airlines that they could board travelers who had been barred.

Trump administration offers conflicting numbers of revoked visas after travel banRead more

District judge James Robart granted a temporary restraining order on Friday after hearing arguments from Washington state and Minnesota that the president’s order had unlawfully discriminated against Muslims and caused unreasonable harm.

It was not immediately clear whether authorities would comply with the broad order, especially after officials reacted in confusion a week earlier, detaining valid visa holders and arguing with lawyers. But the justice department said it would not immediately file for an emergency stay, at least on Friday night, and reports said Customs and Border Protection (CBP0 had informed US airlines that they should board travelers who had been barred by an executive order last week.

“We are a nation of laws. Not even the president can violate the constitution,” Washington state attorney general Bob Ferguson told reporters outside the courtroom. “No one is above the law, not even the president.”

“This decision shuts down the executive order immediately, shuts it down,” he added. “That relief is immediate, happens right now. That’s the bottom line.”

You can read Alan’s full report here.

Updated at 4.48am GMT

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4.41am 04:41

China accuses US of putting stability of Asia-Pacific at risk

Trump’s defence secretary has put the cat among the pigeons on his visit to Japan. James Mattis said today that the US would defend Japan if it got into a conflict with China over the disputed South China Sea islands.

The Chinese foreign ministry says the US should avoid complicating the issue and “bringing instability to the regional situation”.

James Mattis with Japanese defense minister Tomomi Inada in Tokyo. Photograph: Franck Robichon/EPA

Our man in Tokyo, Juystin McCurry, has filed a report on this and here’s the top lines:

China has accused the US of putting the stability of the Asia-Pacific at risk after Donald Trump’s defence secretary said Washington would come to Japan’s defence in the event of a conflict with Beijing over the disputedSenkaku islands.

James Mattis, on a two-day visit toJapan, said the islands, which are controlled by Japan but also claimed by China, fell within the scope of the Japan-US security treaty, under which Washington is obliged to defend all areas under Japanese administrative control.

Mattis also made clear that the US opposed any unilateral action that risked undermining Japan’s control of the Senkakus, a group of uninhabited islets that are surrounded by rich fishing grounds and potentially large natural gas deposits.

“I want to make certain that Article 5 of our mutual defence treaty is understood to be as real to us today as it was a year ago, five years ago - and as it will be a year, and 10 years, from now,” Mattis, a retired marine general who has served in South Korea and Japan, told Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, on Friday evening.

We’ll launch Justin’s full report very soon ...

Updated at 4.41am GMT

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Saturday 4 February 201707.55 GMTFirst published on Saturday 4 February 201703.20 GMT

Key eventsShow

6.39amDemocratic senator Chuck Schumer hails ruling5.56amIranian baby in need of heart surgery allowed to enter US5.51amAnti-Trump protests in Australia5.17amNew US sanctions on Iran5.07amProtests over ban continued in US on Friday4.42amUS Airlines told to allow in previously banned travellers4.41amChina accuses US of putting stability of Asia-Pacific at risk

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SUMMARY

The White House hasvowed to overturn a court ruling that temporarily halted Donald Trump’s travel ban for refugees and people from seven predominantly Muslim nations.The ruling by a Seattle court put a temporary stop to the travel ban across the country.A White House statement said the Department of Justice intended to challenge the court’s decision.The US Customs and Border Protection agency reportedly told airlines to board passengers previously affected by the travel ban.The ruling followed another court decision in a Massachusetts which lifted a temporary injunction against Trump’s travel ban, so the ban could resume on Sunday, prompting accusations of legal chaos.Court challenges have been mounted inseven states President Trump has not commented on the halting of his travel ban and is on a weekend break with his wife in Florida.

Updated at 7.55am GMT

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7.26am 07:26

President Trump has been unusually quiet on his Twitter POTUS account given the furore surrounding his presidential travel ban order. Not a peep from him from on his weekend getaway at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. But there were photos of him and Melania arriving there. US magazine websites said the couple was “reuniting for the weekend”.

President Trump walks with his wife Melania arriving in Florida for a weekend visit. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Donald Trump tosses a pen that he was using to sign autographs back to the group that greeted him after landing in Florida on Air Force One. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Updated at 7.30am GMT

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7.21am 07:21

Bob Ferguson, Washington state attorney general, has placed himself in the spotlight with his legal challenge to the Trump administration’s“unconstitutional and unlawful” order.

Here he is talking to the media on Friday:

Seattle judge temporarily blocks Trump’s travel ban

Updated at 9.42am GMT

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6.39am 06:39

Democratic senator Chuck Schumer hails ruling

Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, has hailed the Seattle judge’s order to impose a temporary halt on the travel ban.

“This ruling is a victory for the Constitution and for all of us who believe this un-American executive order will not make us safer,” he said in a statement.

President Trump should heed this ruling and he ought to back off and repeal the executive order once and for all.

Updated at 7.43am GMT

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6.27am 06:27

Students have been protesting the travel ban in Indonesia and the Philippines.

In Jakarta, Associated Press reports that dozens of students and activists from several rights groups called on the Indonesian government and the international community to help stop Trump’s order. Banners waved by demonstrators included “I’m angry with Trump” and “No ban, no wall”.

An activist holds a placard during a protest in front of the US Embassy in Jakarta on Saturday. Photograph: Bagus Indahono/EPA

Organiser Veronica Koman said Trump’s “xenophobic” policy would hurt people fleeing war-torn countries who are currently in Indonesia.

A similar rally was held outside the US embassy in the Philippine capital, Manila.

Updated at 6.48am GMT

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6.19am 06:19

The Washington state attorney general, Bob Ferguson (@AGOWA) who brought the case in Seattle, has tweeted a photo the judge’s temporary restraining order on the travel ban.

WA Attorney General(@AGOWA)

pic.twitter.com/wgNb2FBlUu

February 4, 2017

Media and lawyers waited outside the Seattle court for the ruling which has temporarily stayed the president’s travel order.

Jim Brunner(@Jim_Brunner)

Long line of lawyers, media, others waiting for Seattle federal court hearing on@AGOWA lawsuit against @POTUS#ImmigrationOrderpic.twitter.com/1JRN4ZudPZ

February 3, 2017

Updated at 6.22am GMT

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5.56am 05:56

Iranian baby in need of heart surgery allowed to enter US

A four-month-old Iranian girl in need of an emergency heart surgery has received an emergency waiver for Donald Trump’s 90-day travel ban on Iranian citizens, New York governor Andrew Cuomo announced late on Friday.

“This evening we were pleased to learn that the federal government has now granted Fatemeh Reshad and her family boarding documents to come to the United States,” Cuomo said in a statement Friday night. He said that a team of pediatric cardiac doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York had agreed to help the family pro bono, and that a law firm was funding the travel.

You can read the full story here

Iranian baby girl Fatemah Taghizadeh has been granted an emergency waiver to travel to the US for heart surgery. Photograph:

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5.51am 05:51

Anti-Trump protests in Australia

Australians concerned that the country’s refugee resettlement deal with the US may be in doubt have held protests across the country.

Australians protest in Melbourne against President Trump’s travel ban. Photograph: Scott Barbour/Getty Images

It follows a fraught phone call over the issue between the Australian prime minster, Malcolm Turnbull, and President Trump this week, in which the president described the deal for the US to take in refugees from Australia’s offshore detention centres as a “dumb deal”.

Donald J. Trump(@realDonaldTrump)

Do you believe it? The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia. Why? I will study this dumb deal!

February 2, 2017

You can read the full story on the protests in Australia here from our correspondent, Ben Doherty.

Here’s a flavour of what he says:

Australia’s fragile refugee resettlement deal with the US has brought thousands of people on to city streets, decrying the US president’s immigration ban and demanding an end to Australia’s offshore processing policy of asylum seekers.

The deal, purportedly, is for the US to resettle up to 1250 refugees from Australia’s offshore detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru, where refugees have been held for more than three years, and which are the subject of sustained criticism over systemic violence by guards, sexual assaults, including of children, and deaths from murder, suicide and inadequate medical care.

The refugee agreement has spent the week in furious on-again, off-again debate. Trump has spent the week railing against the “dumb deal” and the “worst deal ever”, followed by his officials then quietly rowing back his comments and promising the deal, struck with the Obama administration, would be upheld.

The president’s fraught phone call over the issue with the Australian prime minster, Malcolm Turnbull, briefly dominated the international news agenda.

But the deal does not oblige the US to actually accept a single refugee, only to allow them to “express an interest” in resettlement. All the refugees from the Australian-run camps will be subject to “extreme vetting”, the US president said. Australia has legal responsibility for the refugees after they landed in its territory, but has moved them offshore and refuses to accept them for fear of encouraging more arrivals.

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5.31am 05:31

The US customs and border protection agency has reportedly told airlines to resume operation as normal – that is, as if the Trump travel ban order never existed. But you could be forgiven for being confused by the statement on its website, which gives information about the 27 January executive order “Protecting the National from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States”. There doesn’t seem to be any information on the court ruling in Seattle which has put a nation-wide stop on Trump’s ban.

The Customs and Border Protection agency is part of the US department of Homeland Security. Photograph: CBP

Updated at 6.26am GMT

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5.21am 05:21

Passengers who are affected by the travel ban have been asked to check airline websites for information before travelling. But I’m not sure how much luck they are going to have. I’ve looked at several and can’t see any reference to the court ruling or what it means for anyone.

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5.17am 05:17

New US sanctions on Iran

On what’s turning out to be a major news day in the Trump administration, the White House announced it was imposing sanctions on companies and individuals suspected of involvement in Iran’s missile programme and its support for foreign armed groups, warning there will be more pressure on Tehran to come.

Donald Trump accused Iran of “playing with fire”.

“They don’t appreciate how ‘kind’ President Obama was to them. Not me!” he said in anearly morning tweet.

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Iran is playing with fire - they don't appreciate how "kind" President Obama was to them. Not me!

February 3, 2017

Here’s the full report by the Guardian’sJulian Borger andDavid Smith in Washington:

The sanctions announced on Friday targeted on a dozen companies and 13 individuals, including Chinese firms suspected of supplying parts used in Iran’s missile development programme. The measures were invoked in response to a January missile test by Iran and the country’s support for Houthi rebels in Yemen.

“The Trump administration will no longer tolerate Iran’s provocations that threaten our interests,” Trump’s national security advisor, Michael Flynn, said in a statement. “The days of turning a blind eye to Iran’s hostile and belligerent actions toward the United States and the world community are over.”

A senior administration official described the measures as “initial steps” while a broader review of Iran policy was under way.

“Iran has a choice to make,” the official said. “We are going to continue to respond to their behaviour in an ongoing way at an appropriate level, to continue to pressure them to change their behaviour.”

Iran said it would retaliate with its own blacklist of American nationals and companies it said gave support to terrorists.

“The Islamic Republic will proportionately and reciprocally confront any action that targets the Iranian people’s interests,” the foreign ministry said.

Sanctions experts said the new measures appeared to be in line with the Obama administration’s approach of incrementally expanding sanctions as procurement and influence networks are uncovered, but a senior Trump administration official said the decision to impose the new sanctions had been triggered by the 29 January Iranian test of a medium-range ballistic missile.

The sanctions were also declared to be in retaliation for a Houthi attack on a Saudi warship on 31 January. In a statement on Friday, Flynn referred to the Houthis as one of Iran’s “proxy terrorist groups”, although the Yemeni Shia militia is not designated by the state department as terrorist. It has fought a long-running insurgency in and seized the capital Sana’a by early 2015, triggering a full-scale war against the Yemeni president, Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, and a Saudi-led coalition supporting him.

The people and companies targeted in the new sanctions list are suspected of being parts of networks that import dual-use items that have been used in Iran’s nuclear programme, or transfer funds abroad for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards to foreign armed groups. The measures do not reimpose any sanctions that were lifted as a result of the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran.

“It is an appropriate response and consistent with the approach that the Obama administration took in dealing with missiles and terror,” said Elizabeth Rosenberg, a former senior sanctions adviser at the treasury department. “It doesn’t look that it is a major departure. What we see is a page from the playbook we know.”

Tyler Cullis, legal fellow at the National Iranian American Council, said: “Trump has imposed targeted sanctions aimed at low-level individuals and entities alleged to be involved with Iran’s ballistic missile programme. These sanctions are intended to evidence US pushback without sacrificing the nuclear accord. I wouldn’t have expected a President Clinton to act any differently.”

US officials said that the missile test was “inconsistent” with UN security council resolution 2231, which endorsed the 2015 nuclear deal and “calls on” Iran not to develop or test missiles “capable of delivering nuclear weapons” but does not ban such activity outright.

The Iranian defence minister, Hossein Dehghan, has insisted that the 29 January test did not violate the resolution and declared: “We will not allow foreigners to interfere in our defence affairs.”

A senior administration official insisted on Friday that the tested missile was nuclear-capable.

“Those are ballistic missiles that can travel a certain distance and carry a certain payload and this ballistic missile falls within that parameter,” the official said.

Michael Elleman, a missile expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said it was not clear what Iran had launched, but said most likely it was a Shahab-3 medium-range ballistic missile based on the North Korean Nodong missile, and which was first tested in 1998.

Trump’s attempt to shock and awe both allies and adversaries in his first two weeks in office has deepened global uncertainty as Trump has taken an abrasive approach to diplomacy from Australia to Mexico.

Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, said the administration was in the midst “of a full review of all US policies towards Cuba”, with a focus on its human rights policies, as part of a commitment to such rights for citizens throughout the world.

It also emerged that more than 100,000 visas may have been revokedas a result of Trump’s fiercely contentious ban on travel from seven Muslim-majority countries. The number was revealed by a government attorney during a lawsuit brought on behalf of two Yemeni brothers who arrived at Dulles International Airport near Washington on Saturday, only to be put on a return flight to Ethiopia.

But the state department contradicted the attorney’s figure, saying that fewer than 60,000 visas had been cancelled under Trump’s order.

In a highly provocative move last month, Trump signed an executive order that affects people holding passports from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, and also halts temporarily the entry of refugees into the country. The White House contends the moves are necessary for national security but Democratic attorneys general in several states have called them unconstitutional.

In a separate case,a federal judge in Detroit ruled that US green card holders should not be affected by Trump’s travel ban following a suit by the Arab-American Civil Rights League. The nonprofit argued in US district court that the president’s executive action is unconstitutional and targets immigrant communities.

Criticism of the White House’s misrepresentation of the issue intensified after Kellyanne Conway, counselor to Trump, was forced to issue a correction after blaming two Iraqi refugees for a massacre that never happened.

Conway cited the fictitious “Bowling Green massacre” in an interview in which she backed the travel ban. Interviewed by Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s Hardball programme on Thursday evening, Conway compared the executive order issued by Trump in his first week in the White House to what she described as a six-month ban imposed by his predecessor, Barack Obama.

This claim has been debunked by commentators who have pointed out that the 2011 action was a pause on the processing of refugees from Iraq after two Iraqi nationals were arrested over a failed attempt to send money and weapons to al-Qaida in Iraq.

Conway told Matthews: “I bet it’s brand new information to people that President Obama had a six-month ban on the Iraqi refugee program after two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalised and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre. Most people don’t know that because it didn’t get covered.”

The two Iraqi men arrested in 2011 did live in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and arecurrently serving life sentences for federal terrorism offences. But there was no massacre, nor were they accused of planning one. The US Department of Justice, announcing their convictions in 2012, said: “Neither was charged with plotting attacks within the United States.”

After a barrage of mockery on social media, Conway tweeted on Friday: “I meant to say ‘Bowling Green terrorists’ as reported here,” and she linked to a 2013 news report about the men.

Trump met business leaders at the White House and promised to roll back financial regulations that resulted from the 2007-08 financial crisis. He was set to issue directives targeting the 2010 Dodd-Frank law on Wall Street reform, although only Congress can rewrite it.

The Department of Labor announced that the economy added a total of 227,000 jobs in January, while wages rose by 2.5% over the last year. Democrats hailed it as an “emphatic capstone” on the economic legacy of Barack Obama.

House Democrats will gather for a conference in Baltimore next week, strategising a way forward for the party after Trump’s stunning election defeat of Hillary Clinton and the helter skelter start to his presidency. They are under pressure from an energetic base to shift to the left and, for example, oppose Trump’s supreme court nominee Neil Gorsuch at all costs.

Updated at 5.38am GMT

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5.07am 05:07

Protests over ban continued in US on Friday

Protests over the travel ban continued in the US on Friday, including a large group that gathered in a parking lot of Kennedy International Airport in New York for the Friday Prayer.

Protestors hold Friday prayers at JFK airport in New York in solidarity with detained Muslims. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

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4.59am 04:59

According to the New York Times, is is not unusual for district courts to issue nationwide injunctions blocking executive actions. It says the “federal government must obey such injunctions even when other district courts have declined to issue injunctions in similar cases.”

You can see the fullNYT story here

Airlines told to allow previously banned travelers to US, after judge's order – reports



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4.42am 04:42

US Airlines told to allow in previously banned travellers

One of our correspondents in the US, Alan Yuhas, has just filed a story on US airlines being told to let in people previously banned under the executive order. He says the Seattle court ruling opens the path for states to sue the White House.

Here’s are top lines from Alan’s report:

After a federal judge in Seattleordered a temporary halt on Donald Trump’s travel ban for refugees and people from seven predominantly-Muslim nations, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reportedly told US airlines that they could board travelers who had been barred.

Trump administration offers conflicting numbers of revoked visas after travel banRead more

District judge James Robart granted a temporary restraining order on Friday after hearing arguments from Washington state and Minnesota that the president’s order had unlawfully discriminated against Muslims and caused unreasonable harm.

It was not immediately clear whether authorities would comply with the broad order, especially after officials reacted in confusion a week earlier, detaining valid visa holders and arguing with lawyers. But the justice department said it would not immediately file for an emergency stay, at least on Friday night, and reports said Customs and Border Protection (CBP0 had informed US airlines that they should board travelers who had been barred by an executive order last week.

“We are a nation of laws. Not even the president can violate the constitution,” Washington state attorney general Bob Ferguson told reporters outside the courtroom. “No one is above the law, not even the president.”

“This decision shuts down the executive order immediately, shuts it down,” he added. “That relief is immediate, happens right now. That’s the bottom line.”

You can read Alan’s full report here.

Updated at 4.48am GMT

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4.41am 04:41

China accuses US of putting stability of Asia-Pacific at risk

Trump’s defence secretary has put the cat among the pigeons on his visit to Japan. James Mattis said today that the US would defend Japan if it got into a conflict with China over the disputed South China Sea islands.

The Chinese foreign ministry says the US should avoid complicating the issue and “bringing instability to the regional situation”.

James Mattis with Japanese defense minister Tomomi Inada in Tokyo. Photograph: Franck Robichon/EPA

Our man in Tokyo, Juystin McCurry, has filed a report on this and here’s the top lines:

China has accused the US of putting the stability of the Asia-Pacific at risk after Donald Trump’s defence secretary said Washington would come to Japan’s defence in the event of a conflict with Beijing over the disputedSenkaku islands.

James Mattis, on a two-day visit toJapan, said the islands, which are controlled by Japan but also claimed by China, fell within the scope of the Japan-US security treaty, under which Washington is obliged to defend all areas under Japanese administrative control.

Mattis also made clear that the US opposed any unilateral action that risked undermining Japan’s control of the Senkakus, a group of uninhabited islets that are surrounded by rich fishing grounds and potentially large natural gas deposits.

“I want to make certain that Article 5 of our mutual defence treaty is understood to be as real to us today as it was a year ago, five years ago - and as it will be a year, and 10 years, from now,” Mattis, a retired marine general who has served in South Korea and Japan, told Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, on Friday evening.

We’ll launch Justin’s full report very soon ...

Updated at 4.41am GMT

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