this is bbc news. the headlines at 2pm: a setback for donald trump as a court denies his emergency appeal against a suspension of a controversial travel ban on people from seven countries. a shake—up of the housing market in england — ministers pledge more affordable homes will be built aimed at tackling the high cost of renting. not fit for purpose — mps publish a scathing report into the way britain's train system is organised. also in the next hour — the race to become france's new president heats up. as a former economy minister launches his campaign national front leader marine le pen is expected to begin her bid within the next hour. and an ugly victory for england against france in their opening six nations match at twickenham. and in half an hour, the week in parliament takes a look at all the latest developments in westminster. good afternoon.

the us appeals court has delivered another blow to president trump's travel ban on people from seven mainly muslim countries. it has refused to reinstate the ban, which was suspended yesterday by a federal court in washington state. travellers from the affected countries who had been prevented from travelling have been arriving in the the united states. jane frances kelly reports. passengers arriving in the us while they can. for now, at least, the lifting of president trump's travel ban denying entry to people from seven mainly muslim countries remains. this iraqi family are heaidng for new york while they can. we are very excited, we are very happy. finally we have been cleared, we are allowed to enter the united states.

one man from yemen, a country which is on the list, quickly booked a flight back from turkey, where he'd been visiting his fiancee. i'm very happy, i know i'm free now, i feel safe now. a ruling late on friday byjudgejames robart in seattle led to president trump's order being suspended. in a series of tweets yesterday, president trump vowed to restore the ban, denouncing him as a "so—called judge". the vice president, speaking on american tv, defended the administration. we face a dangerous enemy, inspiring people to come into this country, frankly inspiring people already in this country, and the president is determined to use the authority he already has under the constitution and under the law. but doesn't thisjudge have the authority to do what he did as well? he certainly does, and that's why the administration is complying with that order as we speak. despite president trump's anger,

in the latest legal twist a federal appeals court has denied thejustice department's request for an immediate reinstatement of the ban. the court has given the white house and the states challenging it a deadline of monday to present more arguments. the executive order has provoked mass protests. critics say the ban is a violation of the constitution, but the president said it's not about religion but ensuring the country's national security. the acting solicitor general has argued president trump alone, and not the judiciary, has the power to decide who can enter or stay in the us. jane frances kelly, bbc news. abc america correspondent david wright spoke to us from florida, where president trump is on a weekend getaway to his resort with his wife, first lady melania trump. the next stop is the full circuit nine court of appeal ‘s. the trump

side will be filing briefs today and tomorrow, the next step would be the supreme court. the supreme court is incomplete at the moment, there are supposed to be ninejustices, there are eating place at the present time. donald trump has nominated and eighthjudge to time. donald trump has nominated and eighth judge to fill the seat, but what the democrats say is that trump is trying to bully the judiciary, whereas normally they have checks and balances against presidential authority. interestingly, the trump administration accuses the judge in washington of doing the same thing, saying he is the one trying to provoke a constitutional crisis. there is a lot more it at stake than just this travel ban as this legal fight plays out. did you think from the outset that president trump's travel ban was

vulnerable to this sort of legal challenge? it certainly was, a slapdash attempt to instigate campaign trail. it is of the sleeve vulnerable to criticism that it was of one band. —— obviously vulnerable to criticism that it was a muslim ban. he rushed this through and created vulnerability to the sort of challenges. do you think the white house will learn from this? you surprised that president trump did not take better advice or surrender themselves by the sort of advisers who might say, let us look at this a bit more carefully? i hope so. there was some recklessness. people like stephen bannon and stephen miller, who are very influential people to

trump, are realising that they are in charge of one and not three branches of government. this process is playing it through the court, as it should, according to the constitution. what you make of trump's response, describing the judge as a so—called judge? trump's response, describing the judge as a so-called judge? he is attacking the independentjudiciary in an unprecedented personal way. residents often publicly disagree with rulings that go against them, thatis with rulings that go against them, that is totally normal. but to call somebody a so—called judge and criticise him for supposedly doing hisjob is something criticise him for supposedly doing his job is something you criticise him for supposedly doing hisjob is something you do not see often, and i think a lot of republicans are also worried about this. talking of his party being worried about how he is handling this, is the party in congress going to try to rein him in? we have seen him use lots of executive orders so far, he has not had to consult

congress over those, clearly, is he going to use those more and more in the future? privately, many republicans in congress are livid. they are viewing this presidency is something that they are tied to but wish that they were not tied to. for some of them, they are caught between the piece of voters and their principles. this is something that many of them spoke out against, there was a wave of republican opposition to a muslim ban. you're going to have to make a calculation of how the deal with donald trump going forward, and currently many are very unhappy. do you think that trump will have difficulty handling the transition from ce voted president? you have to build coalitions, you have to get people who disagree with you to come along and buy into the process and see that this is the right policy. he

did not do that, he tried to ram this through and he is no getting the pushback that was going to be the pushback that was going to be the almost inevitably. the government is promising security through minimum tenancies for renters and it will increase the number of homes built for rent. what we're going to see is a real rental revolution, we there is a choice that people have. it is not about whether you can rent or buy, but if you want a professionally managed apartment that has loads of amenities with it then you can have that, if you just want to rent a flat in a victorian house conversion in headingley, the sort of familiar things that students rent, you can have those and they might be a bit cheaper, or if you can afford to

own, and the government says that they will create an array of ownership offers as well. it is offering a lot without the current red tape and bureaucracy. could this be a rental revolution? the government should be stripped of responsibility... sorry, i beg your pardon, that is the next story. but we're going to discuss the issue of any reforms to the rental sector with our political correspondent. murk, is this a rental revolution? it is quite a significant policy shift for the conservative party. if you think about margaret thatcher selling off all of those council houses, david cameron and his right to buy, offering huge loans for those who could not afford to get on the ladder. it is catching up with

the ladder. it is catching up with the reality that many people are not realistically going to own their own home. what they are going to do is provide them with some help in that way. there is not much detail at the moment and all of this. how much of what we do know is new? bc that they wa nt to what we do know is new? bc that they want to tackle high rents —— vca. they want to extend tenancies so that people can stay in the same place for longer, because the proportion of people renting who have children is going up. and also that councils will be able to plan these build to rent houses and have consultations with developers in the way that housing associations do about these longer tenancies so that the earmark a certain number of houses for a rental. how are they going to guarantee that these rents are affordable, that these tendencies will be sent up —— setup

with a tendencies will be sent up —— setup witha minimum tendencies will be sent up —— setup with a minimum time? we do not know yet. the white paper comes out on tuesday and it will outline the consultations that need to take place. the housing minister was asked about what they are rent would be, he said that it would be 20% boggled the current market. housing associations sometimes have rents that are 60% will all the current rate. that is lower than what he is suggesting. labour have pointed out that in terms of affordable new builds, last year was the lowest figure in many years. it is a huge challenge for the government. the government should be stripped of responsibility for overseeing rail companies' franchises, according to mps on the transport committee. their report criticises the department for transport forfailing to hold rail companies to their promises. the government says it's

already implementing many of the mps recommendations. here's our business correspondent joe lynam. if you're a regular train user you'll know all about the disruption at southern rail, the above—inflation ticket price rises and carriages bursting at peak times. how do you feel about rail franchises, though? i live in halifax, so i get the northern line to either manchester or leeds, and it's always late, there are two carriages for a million people. it's very expensive, which is why i don't normally use them, i can drive much cheaper. i think it should still stay a franchise, but there needs to be more regulations in place to punish the train companies. i tend to travel on virgin. i tend to prefer them over the other ones, they tend to be very reliable. the transport select committee, which oversees the government, says that taxpayers are still on the hook when things go wrong on the railways, and that the department for transport should no longer control and monitor rail franchises, that should be handed over to the independent office for rail and road. the cost of running the railways

hasn't gone down, the system doesn't work together very well and, in reality, there is actually very little competition. but the transport secretary said he's aware of the problems and is solving the issue of different parts of the sector not connecting very well. they say there's not enough coordination between network rail, the infrastructure operator, the track operator and the train companies. i agree with that, before christmas i set out plans to start to reunite track and train step by step. train operators say that franchising, which has been around for 21 years, has been a success story, and passenger numbers have doubled. but with satisfaction dwindling and overcrowding soaring, reform might be coming down the track. joe lynam, bbc news. this is bbc news. a setback for donald trump as a court denies his emergency appeal against a suspension of a controversial travel ban on people from seven countries. in last few minutes, france's

national front leader, marine le pen, has launched her campaign to become the countrynew president. not fit for purpose — mps publish a scathing report into the way britain's train system is organised. the french far—right leader, marine le pen, formally launches her presidential election campaign today with a speech in lyon. the national front leader's manifesto includes promises to pull france out of the euro and to reduce immigration. our correspondentjonny dymond is in paris. the national front has never won more than a third of their popular vote, has it? what is marine le pen going to try to do to change that?|j

think going to try to do to change that?” think that she will cry a plague on all your houses and present ourselves as the outsider who can save fa ns ourselves as the outsider who can save fans from corrupt politicians. —— save france. i imagine we will get more of that in the speeches in months to come. you mentioned withdrawal from the euro, months to come. you mentioned withdrawalfrom the euro, a full—scale renegotiation of what the european union is, trying to make it a much looser grouping of european states, more police officers, reducing retirement age. but the way that she makes an impression as being outside what some people see asa being outside what some people see as a cosy group of french politicians, and that she will change france, stand up for france, change france, stand up for france, change multinationals, whilst all

the well withdrawing some rights from residents were not french citizens. many people will stand in the first round, at the moment there are fouror the first round, at the moment there are four orfive decent the first round, at the moment there are four or five decent candidates, only two will go through to the next round. one of them will probably be marine le pen, but the other one will gain the support of the many others who cannot stand green le pen, and at that point is unlikely that she will win. how will francois fillon and beale aged —— and be a legend thejobs fillon and beale aged —— and be a legend the jobs and the leaded the job scandal help her? he denies

paying state funds to his wife for a nonexistent job when he paying state funds to his wife for a nonexistentjob when he was senator and state funds to his children for and state funds to his children for a nonexistent work when he was a senator. i should say that he denies all of that. we are expecting some kind of statement come out on monday, he says he will not stand down. but his support has been swapping. does that support go over to marine le pen? maybe. probably not. it will probably go to this interest, independent candidate who has been gaining a lot of popularity. but it goes to the message that marine le pen has been very good at putting out there, that french politicians are very stale, the fill their pockets and slap each other‘s backs and are far removed from the problems of ordinary french people. this is the scene just now in lyon, where marine le pen is formally

launching her presidential campaign, the national front manifesto promises to offer france a referendum on membership of the european union, reduce immigration, and cool france out of the euro. —— full france. but she would have to face a difficult second round, where those opposed to the national front might coalesce around her opponent. that is the scene in lyon. an 18—year—old man has been shot dead in a pub car park at llanbedrog, in gwynedd in north wales. police says the man was in a vehicle outside the ship inn when he was attacked. four people have been arrested. britain's most senior police

officer, sir bernard hogan—howe, warned that policing britain will become increasingly difficult and that only so many front line cuts can be made before services will suffer. iam not suffer. i am not defeatist. but it is going to be more challenging environment. we have done a lot over the last five years to mix it more efficient and more modern —— met police. we have taken at a lot of things from the past that were less efficient, sadly we have lost around a500 support staff. we have to do these things and there are more hard decisions to come, that is one of the point i'm trying to make. firefighters are battling to control a large blaze at a recycling centre near stoke on trent. a large plume of smoke has been rising from the building, which the staffordshire fire service says is full of recycled plastics. residents have been advised to stay indoors and to keep their windows closed.

romania's government has withdrawn a controversial decree that would have reduced some penalties for corruption. the prime minister said he did not want to divide the country after days of huge street protests. i think we're going to get news any time that the government has revoked that decree. they will then engage in some kind of damage limitation, i think. they will tell their own supporters, their own voters that this is a setback and not surrender for them. one important they, they will have to try to persuade romanian society that this was not a simple black and white battle between those that are corrupt politicians on one hand and the

anti—corruption fight as the protesters who have been flocking to these squares have been seeing, but that this is something more complicated, i battle between different branches of legislature, the executive, something like that. they want to limit the damage that this very public climb—down will cause them. those protests that you talked about, they were huge demonstrations, a real example people power, if you like? absolutely, yes. romania is a country where a protests in the past have brought down governments. most famously during the 1989 revolution, but just two years famously during the 1989 revolution, butjust two years ago that famously during the 1989 revolution, but just two years ago that then social democrats government was toppled by street protest. this is a country where hundreds of thousands of people feel able, even on cold weekday evenings, to come out on the streets and stand up for what they believe in. also here, it is a

country where the government is often at loggerheads with different branches of their executive. the orthodox church here in romania also sided with the protesters and in the end i think the government felt it had no choice but to back down. the number of recorded cases of children committing sexual offences against other children has increased by nearly 80% over the last three years, according to the charity barnardo's. the charity has said such abuse may become the next scandal in our society. the national police chiefs' council said the increase was down to more awareness and greater victim confidence. more and more children and more and more parents are worried about these issues, and it is important that we talk about them. child—on—child sexual abuse is a difficult issue to wrestle with. the first thing we can do is talk about it, but then we need to support the children involved, not only the victims but also

the children perpetrating the acts, because they are often victims of abuse and trauma themselves. a man with motor neurone disease is using voice recognition software to replicate his voice. it was so important to me to emulate my voice, notjust have a voice which could be anybody. was it important to have a yorkshire

accent, crew did you go to get the words? we did an appeal on the local newspapers and radio and social media last year. people came to edinburgh at their own expense to create a synthesised computer voice forjason. create a synthesised computer voice for jason. what does it create a synthesised computer voice forjason. what does it sound like to hear daddy? lily? does it sound like daddy? is it good to hear him? important here? it is, isn't it? yes. you do like daddy's voice. that is crucially important. it is obviously important to you, jason, that you can communicate with them the way that you use to communicate. it is amazing to know that my girls and my wife will still be able to talk to me and hear my voice back, especially the girls because they

only know my voice now and not as it used to be. motor neurone disease, as we know, can be devastating for families. how can it —— how has it affected jason? it has been a year since she came on the programme. affected jason? it has been a year since she came on the programmem has been eating months, the last time he was walking and his mobility was much better. —— 18 months. now he is unable to walk, he can only stand for a few seconds and needs help with washing, dressing, eating, everything. it is a devastating diagnosis. last year to protect this appealed to find these voice donors. it is an extraordinary thing to be able to digitise the way that people top. were you surprised by the way that people responded to the appeal that people responded to the appeal that you put out? it is coming. it is coming, is it? it is interesting,

the viewers cannot see the screen, but there is a lot of programming going on without movement of hands. how's that happening? here comes your answer. we did an appeal for donors through friends and my old school website. the response was great, people older and younger blonde you to go to edinburgh and support me, which has blown me away. how does this work? it works with infrared, which tracks his eye movements. the computer has a keypad, jason looks at each individual letter, presses a speech button with his eyes and it will speak the sentence. he has only had this for a week. yes, it has taken a bit of getting used to. stephen hawking has a thing on his cheek, he controls it with muscle movement?” think maybe because his eyes are not

strong enough for him to control it using infrared. you were diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2013, how difficult has it been for you to deal with the condition? first of all, did not believe it. it is like your whole life flashes before you. i think it took about three weeks to get my head around it. i will be honest, i think that i have dealt with it truly well. the way i have a lwa ys with it truly well. the way i have always seen it, the glass is not half empty. you can see an extended programme, inside out, tomorrow evening. time for the weather. dry and fear across much of the british isles. a bit of a mishmash

of whether on offer. isn't that glorious? this came in from northern ireland. some showers in the north—east of scotland, then come further south and it is not as easy as being a north—south thing. there is some fog lingering from last night, or there was earlier in northamptonshire. there are not many isobar is, so the wind is not much ofa isobar is, so the wind is not much of a feature except in the north—east of scotland. there will be some showers overnight. if this skies are clearfor be some showers overnight. if this skies are clear for any period of time we will have frost. lots of mist and fork around. —— fog. " wind and rain will move into many parts of the day progresses. —— cloud, wind.

hello, this is bbc news with annita mcveigh. the headlines at 2:30. a setback for donald trump as judges refuse to immediately reverse a suspension to his controversial travel ban on people from seven countries. in the last few minutes, france's national front leader, marine le pen, has begun outlining her campaign to become the country's new president. ministers pledge more affordable homes will be built in england, aimed at tackling the high cost of renting. a scathing report into the way britain's train system is organised. mps says it lets down passengers and isn't fit for purpose. now on bbc news, the week in parliament. hello there and welcome to the week in parliament —

as mps take the first parliamentary step on the road to brexit. the ayes to the right, a98. the noes to the left, 114.