this is bbc news, i'm martine croxall. the headlines at 6pm. president trump angrily rejects a us court ruling which temporarily lifts his ban on travellers from seven muslim majority countries. judge robart‘s decision effective immediately, effective now, puts a halt to president trump's unconstitutional and unlawful executive order. i signed an executive order to help keep terrorists out of our country. labour promise they would cap future fuel price hikes by the energy companies. a five—year—old boy has died at a school in east yorkshire after choking during a school dinner break. also in the next hour, champions england are currently drawing in their match with france on the first day of rugby union's six nations. scotland pulled off a surprise victory by beating the tournament favourites ireland 27—22. good afternoon and

welcome to bbc news. a court in america has ruled that donald trump's ban on travellers from seven mainly muslim nations is unconstitutional. a judge in seattle said it amounted to religious discrimination. the court temporarily lifted the ban and several major airlines say they will now allow passengers affected by it to fly to the united states. the government has pledged to overturn the ruling. describing thejudge‘s ruling as "ridiculous". he wrote: "when a country is no longer able to say who can, and who cannot, come in and out — especially for reasons of safety and security — it's big trouble". it has been a week of confusion

and protests outside the white house and inside airports. but the most significant opposition to donald trump's immigration ban came from judgejames robart in this seattle courtroom. i find that the court should and will grant the temporary restraining order. overruling president trump's executive order that he signed just eight days ago. now people are free to travel once again into the united states. the challenge — that this violates a clause in the us constitution prohibiting the favouring of one religion over another was brought by the state of washington and later joined by minnesota. judge robart‘s decision effective immediately, effective now, puts a halt to president trump's

unconstitutional and unlawful executive order. i want to repeat that — it puts a stop to it immediately. in the last week some passengers have still managed to enter now. the us customs agency has told} mainly muslim countries who were barred, they can now fly. qatar airways, air france and lufthansa say they will begin boarding passengers immediately. the white house says it will fight this court ruling. in a statement it said, "the department ofjustice intends to file an emergency stay of this outrageous and defend the executive order of the president". but then 15 minutes later toned that wording down removing "outrageous".

the white house has said it will act to overturn this at the earliest possible time. but the confusion and protests seem set to continue. our correspondent richard lister has been following developments from washington and told us more about the federal judge's ruling. it has been clarified to an extent. i mean, what we were in last week was a situation whereby there were a number of court rulings which in their various ways toned down parts of this executive order and made it actually not apply at all, at logan airport in boston in the state of massachusetts. what this ruling seems to be saying is the entire executive order has to be suspended temporarily, and that applies to the entire country. so last night the department of customs and border protection briefed airlines that in effect this executive order had been suspended, and that they were now free to fly passengers who had passports and visas from those countries affected, those seven

predominantly muslim nations. they were now free to board them onto their planes and take them to the united states, so that was what the office of customs and border protection was saying. the state department was saying it was going to look at this ruling and see how it affected its operations. now, after all, they have admitted to having revoked something like 60,000 visas from people affected by this order, so they are looking, i suppose, at whether or not those visas become reinstated now, or whether they still have the grounds — that once those visas are revoked they remain revoked, but for the moment at least one part of the government is saying to airlines, look, this suspension means that this order no longer applies for now. well, the state department actually have just issued a statement saying, "individuals with visas that were not physically cancelled," which is an interesting phrase, "may now travel to the us if the visa is otherwise valid." i'm sure if you've got a visa you will need to check that out,

but clearly donald trump is very angry that this has happened, this "so—called judge," he said, has made this decision. how quickly, and what mechanism could he use to reinstate his executive order? well, the department ofjustice has said that it will try to ensure this order is overturned, and they can do that by filing with the court of appeals to at least suspend this judge's order from seattle. that application could be made at any time, but how long the court process takes is another matter. it could be hours, it could be days, because both sides will have to hear the arguments, and present their arguments, for and against the suspension of this judge's order from seattle. so certainly for now, at least, it seems the legal process cannot ensure that this judge's order is instantly overturned, but that is what the white house wants to ensure happens. the white house believes, and so do many lawyers, that it is on very solid constitutional grounds,

that it is enshrined in law, that the president has the right to decide whether people should be banned from entering the united states if it is a question of national security, and president trump clearly feels this is a question of national security, that he wants to review all the procedures in place for assessing how visas are given in those seven countries, and he has three months in which to do that, and he believes he is well within his rights to do it. thisjudge in seattle believes otherwise, so it will be a court battle and it might end up at the supreme court. there have been demonstrations against donald trump receiving a state visit. thousands have taken

pa rt state visit. thousands have taken part in matters across the country in london and belfast and edinburgh. the stop the war coalition said 40,000 people had taken part. we had a producer down there at the persists springwatch protests and the estimate said it was more like four or 5000. smaller than the protest outside whitehall on monday but still if you thousands people turning out. jeremy corbyn told the crowds that mr trump's state visit should be withdrawn until the executive orders are gone and every element repealed. that has been a temporary lifting of that band. this has been sparked after theresa may invited donald trump to a state visit. demonstrators want to see mrs may withdraw the invitation and denounce his travel ban as racist. well, staying with us relations, a day after president trump imposed

sanctions on iran for a missile test last weekend, the country has carried out military exercises to test its missile and radar systems. the trump administration says it's not considering increasing the number of its military personnel in the middle east —— but has warned that it won't ignore iran's activities labour has promised to place a cap on the prices charged by energy companies if it wins power. it follows criticism of npower which has announced a 15 per cent rise in the cost of electricity. here's our political correspondent matt cole. from the cost of cooking to the heating of houses, the prices of everyday things are not getting cheaper, but even with that in mind, yesterday's announcement by npower that it's putting up dual fuel prices by 9% was seen as a step beyond. today, labour's shadow chancellor said enough is enough. we'd legislate to control them now. but you'd have control of the energy companies? we'd have to because we can't allow this to keep going on. this is huge. look, people's wages, for many people have been frozen since 2007/2008, the economic crash and

the situation they're in now. how would you control them? you'd legislate to control them. in what way? you'd introduce legislation in parliament. what would the legislation say? you'd limit the amount they can increase their prices on. from day one as prime minister theresa may said she would stand for people who were just about managing. so by throwing down this challengejohn mcdonnell is testing that promise, entering the battle for the hearts of householders. the government believes that price comparison and proactive switching between companies can help people keep their bills down. and the department for business, energy and industrial strategy said in a statement, "we expect energy companies to treat all their customers fairly and have been clear that wherever markets are not working for consumers, we are prepared to act." the trade association, energy uk, didn't comment on john mcdonnell‘s demand, but says the industry is taking action to help consumers. later this spring ministers will produce a policy paper which officials say will examine a range of markets not currently working for consumers including

energy, but any action could be a long way off. a report from the competition and markets authority last year ruled out price caps as a viable way of keeping overall prices down, but labour may hope this an issue to fire up the enthusiasm of voters. it's emerged a five year old boy died at a school in east yorkshire after choking during a school dinner break. the pupil — who has not yet been named — was taken ill yesterday at anlaby primary school near hull. 0ur correspondent simon spark had this update for us a little earlier. well, this is the anlaby primary school. it is the main school in this large village. it has 325 pupils aged between four and ii. it has in the last hour been confirmed that during yesterday's lunch break a five—year—old boy started choking during his lunch break.

paramedics were called in and despite attempts they were unable to save him. the school has issued a statement. they say that they are deeply saddened by this tragic event and the thoughts of everyone connected with the school are with the child's family. now, what will happen now is that specialist staff will be sent into the school on monday and of course, an inquest to consider the circumstances surrounding this tragic incident will now have to be opened. the father of the man who is alleged to have carried out an attack at the louvre museum in paris has been speaking about his son. 29—year—old abdullah reda refaei al—hamamy was shot four times after slightly injuring a soldier patrolling the shopping centre under the museum. he's now in hospital. his father said he could not believe his son had been involved in the attack. translation: i was looking at facebook as i sometimes do

and when i was scrolling through, i found that it said abdulla was the one who carried out the louvre attack and of course, i felt shocked and couldn't believe that my son was involved. his mother was in shock too and fainted and after that, we started to follow everything. never in his life did he wear a short white robe, never in his life did he wear the short trousers. he dresses normally injeans and a t—shirt with italy written on it. the beard that he had grown is the kind the young guys grow these days and say it is fashionable. there is justification for you to call someone a killer if he is someone who got into a vehicle and ran over 82 people before driving off. that's a justification for you to say he's a killer, but someone going to see the great museum, the louvre? and you fire on him? i say this is all a scenario made up by the french government to justify

the soldier's opening fire inside the louvre. four men, they don't know how to grab a man who is only this tall. excuse me! even if he had hit one of them. so they shot him several times? one of the frontrunners in the french presidential election — emanuel macron — is making a speech setting out his platform. around 16,000 people have turned out to see him at his campaign rally in lyon, ahead of the vote in april. and i asked him what he thought made emanuel macron interesting.

i think it is what he is not promising as much as he is promising that makes interesting. these are early days of this campaign and he is an independent, not from the socialist republican parties of the national front and that is probable filers such a buzz around him. hugely enthusiastic crowd at this meeting in lyon. that had been criticisms of the speeches are all on the policy detail and this has followed a pattern but he has tried to work his way through some of the big themes, liberty, equality to work his way through some of the big themes, liberty, equa of to work his way through some of the big theml liberty ty, equa of to work his way through some of the big theml liberty in equa of