this is bbc news. i'm rebecca jones. the headlines at 3pm: president trump says he may rewrite the travel ban on people from seven mainly muslim countries, after his initial attempt was overturned in the courts. we'll win that battle, but we also have a lot of other options including just filing a brand new order on monday. labour issues formal written warnings to frontbench mps, who defied jeremy corbyn in the commons brexit vote. lord dubbs delivers a petition to downing street calling on the government to accept more unaccompanied child refugees, after it closed a resettlement scheme. public opinion is on our side. parliamentary opinion, i believe, is on our side. i think the government should back off. if they have any sense and humanitarian instincts, it will dojust sense and humanitarian instincts, it will do just that. also in the next hour, 240 pilot whales become stranded on a new zealand beach. conservationists say

it's the country's worst beaching for 100 years. more than 300 whales have died in recent days. and in half an hour, click visits 500 yea rs of and in half an hour, click visits 500 years of robots at the science museum in london. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. president trump says he may rewrite his travel ban, after his initial attempt to bar travellers from seven mainly muslim countries was blocked by the courts. but he said he hasn't ruled out an appeal to the supreme court over his original directive. it's unclear what his new immigration plan might look like. david willis sent this report. after a federal appeals court backed a stay of his executive order, donald trump vowed he would see his opponents in court.

speaking on air force one, en route to his weekend retreat in florida, the president revealed he was actively weighing other alternatives. we'll win that battle, but we also have a lot of other options, including just filing a brand—new order on monday. is that your plan? could very well be. i like to surprise you. we need speed for reasons of security, so it could very well be that we do that. unveiled at the end of a frantic first week in office, the original order suspended america's refugee programme and banned travellers from seven majority muslim nations from entering the united states. it caused chaos at airports and sparked protests across the country. quite how the white house might rewrite the order isn't clear, although lawyers would almost certainly have to address the claim that, in its existing form, the order is unconstitutional, in that it blocks entry to the united states on the grounds of religion. mr trump has continued to insist that tough immigration

measures are crucial to america's national security. david willis, bbc news, washington. earlier i spoke to the professor of politics at the university of virginia. i asked politics at the university of virginia. iasked him how likely it is for the president to go through with his plans for a new executive order? that appears to be the route the trump administration has chosen. they may still appeal the earlier court decisions to the supreme court. but i think they're more likely to issue a new executive order. if they do that, how different will it have to be from the first order to avoid legal challenges? it must be substantially different. it will have to be much more carefully and narrowly tailored than the first one. even that may not pass muster in the courts. we'll just have to see. can a president

effectively just keep just have to see. can a president effectivelyjust keep issuing executive orders? how does it work? yes, a president can issue a new executive order at any time. he can revoke executive order at any time. he can revo ke a n executive order at any time. he can revoke an executive order at any time. so this could continue for quite some time. it could be a game of ping pong. however, at some point, it's going to be obvious to the courts the game that he's playing and there could be some reaction from the courts that would be very unpleasant for the president. what do you mean by that? well, well holding him in contempt. that could lead to potentially an effort by democrats to impeach. they don't have a majority in either house of congress. it wouldn't go anywhere. but the publicity would be certainly something that president trump would, one presumes, would prefer trump would, one presumes, would p refer to trump would, one presumes, would prefer to avoid. i appreciate you don't have a crystal ball, it would be extraordinary if the president was to be impeached over this, is

that really a possibility? not as long as the republicans control both houses of congress and they do at present. it's simply an opportunity for democrats and maybe some republicans who are alienated from trump to state their case and to attract attention. a few congressmen have already broached the subject. we're only three weeks into the trump presidency. this is something for much later in the term. trump presidency. this is something for much later in the termlj understand. what is the, if anything, is the precedent for all of this? have we seen presidents before issuing executive orders which have been challenged in the courts? occasionally it has happened, but nothing as controversial as this executive order and never as early in a presidency as hiss. this has —— as this. this has been a shock, though if you follow trump's career i don't know why it has been a shock. i'm interested how this is playing with

the population at large in america. president trump himself has tweeted that he thinks this is one of his most popular policies. well, he's simply wrong, if you care about fa cts . simply wrong, if you care about facts. sometimes the trump tweets have no relationship with the facts. every survey that has been taken by an independent, non—partisan agency has shown that a majority of americans or a solid plurality oppose the president's executive order and his decision in this particular case. there's no question that many of trump supporters and probably a solid majority of republicans favour what he is doing, but let's remember, he lost the popular vote substantially. he got 46% of the vote. i've seen no evidence that this executive order 01’ evidence that this executive order or indeed many of the action that's trump has taken have the support of more than 46%. generally they have less tha n more than 46%. generally they have less than 46% support. meanwhile, president trump is hosting the japanese prime minister this weekend. he's the first world leader

to ride on air force one during the new president's leadership. he's planning on two rounds of golf with him. he's getting to spend quite a lot of time with him. is this a sign, do you think, that mr trump is prioritising building links with asian powers rather than european ones? well, let's remember that prime minister abe is simply travelling along a trail blazed by prime minister theresa may. she decided to get in early, to see president trump very quickly, to cosy u p president trump very quickly, to cosy up to him, to stroke his rather large ego and it worked for her, at least in terms of the relationship with trump, it caused problems in britain. as far as prime minister abe is concerned, he wants to make sure that he doesn't end up like china or mexico in the cross—hairs of the trump administration. a final question, have you seen the hand shake between the two leaders,

because it does appear at the end that shinzo abe after being clutched foreve ntsly that shinzo abe after being clutched foreventsly by the hands of the president somewhat rolls his eyes. i wonder how you interpreted that? well, you'd be surprised how many millions of people roll their eyes when they see president trump, whether they're embraced when they see president trump, whether they‘ re embraced by when they see president trump, whether they're embraced by him or not. you said it! good to talk to you, tharchingz. —— thanks. labour frontbenchers, who defied jeremy corbyn in the commons brexit vote, will be sent a formal written warning, but they will not be sacked. mr corbyn had ordered his mps to vote to back brexit. but 52 labour mps rebelled in wednesday's vote, including 14junior frontbenchers. let's talk now to our political correspondent, tom barton. how serious a telling off is this? well, it is a formal, written warning. it will tell these mps that

they must comply with the whip in they must comply with the whip in the future, but compared with the usual outcome in these circumstances, if you're a frontbench mp, who's voted against the most serious instruction that your leadership can give you when it comes to a parliamentary vote, and broken a three—line whip, well, normally they'd be fired. this is actually, in a lot of ways, getting off pretty lightly. why have they got off so lightly? a number of reasons. i think the leadership see this particular vote, the vote around article 50 and triggering brexit as being a unique event, partly because a lot of these mps we re partly because a lot of these mps were in constituencies where significant majorities, 75% of people voted in favour of remain. many felt that they couldn't, in all conscience, vote against the views of their own constituents, when such

an overwhelming majority had backed an overwhelming majority had backed a certain side of the argument. but there is another issue thatjeremy corbyn faces, which is, to put it blu ntly, corbyn faces, which is, to put it bluntly, a significant human resources challenge. he has 229 mps. 0ver resources challenge. he has 229 mps. over the course of his leadership, he's faced 79 resignations or sackings, on top of that, there's a significant number of mps who have made it clear that they don't want to serve in his frontbench team. so the pool of people from which he could choose, if he decided to fire all 14 of these frontbenchers, would potentially be limited and he might struggle to find suitable candidates. among the 14 frontbenchers, these are the people responsible for enforcing party discipline. how difficult is it going to be in the future when that is what they have to do? there's going to be extraordinary conversations with mps sitting down, one of them saying, "you have to

obey these rules." the other can, in all fairness, say, "well, you didn't obey these rules and you got away with it, so why should i? forjeremy corbyn and the party leadership when they have a difficult vote, where they have a difficult vote, where they need to present a united front to the public of their mps, actually, they might find it quite difficult to persuade particularly some of the mps who are less inclined to back jeremy some of the mps who are less inclined to backjeremy corbyn than maybe they would have done before all this. tom barton, our political correspondent, thank you. a 15—year—old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a teenager was stabbed in leeds. the police believe the attack may have been filmed on mobile phones. the victim, a 16—year—old boy, was found stabbed yesterday afternoon. he died later in hospital. chasm painers

campaigners have chasm delivered painers a petition at downing street with 50,000 signatures calling for theresa may to allow more child refugees to come to britain. the government this week scrapped its plans to re—home thousands of unaccompanied children from syria and other warzones, after the arrival of just 150 youngsters. the campaign has been led by lord dubs, who himself came to britain as a refugee from the nazis at the age of six. the argument for child refugees today is a humanitarian argument. it doesn't depend upon the person who's putting the case. however, because i came to this country in that way, i have an emotional involvement with it. can i say this, this country's been wonderful to me in terms of the welcome i received and the opportunities i've had. i would like other unaccompanied child refugees coming here to have the same warm welcome and to be given the same opportunities. thousands of british school children are to be offered intensive lessons in cyber—security, to encourage more teenagers to pursue a career in defending the country from online attacks.

it's hoped almost 6,000 pupils aged 14 and over will spend up to four hours a week on the subject in a five—year pilot. here's tom symonds. daniel kelly's a convicted teenage hacker, facing a jail sentence. in 2015, he took part in the massive digital break—in at the phone company talk talk. but what if his potential had been harnessed at an earlier age? he might have ended upjoining a new breed of apprentices learning the cyber security trade like these at bt‘s headquarters. with that in mind, the government is putting up £20 million, for nearly 6,000 schoolchildren aged 14 and above to take four hours of cyber security lessons after school each week. we think that will help seriously with this shortage of cyber skills that we've got. now, of course, we will always keep it under review, in case this needs to get bigger, but getting it going on that scale, i think shows serious ambition to make sure that we can

have the pipeline of talent that we will need in the years ahead. while the police are stepping up the fight, this is not a threat which can be defeated on the ground by raiding the hackers. the cyber crime battlefield will be online and britain's gchq will be its command centre. 58,000 people are now employed in the growing anti—hacking industry. but more will be needed and the government knows it has to start finding them when they are young. the headlines on bbc news: the donald trump says he could submit a new executive order in the coming days. 14 labour front—benchers, who defied jeremy corbyn in the commons brexit vote, have been told they will be allowed to keep theirjobs — but have received formal written warnings. lord dubbs delivers a petition to

downing street calling on the government to accept more unaccompanied child refugees, after it closed a resettlement scheme. in sport, arsenal have beaten hull city by 2—0 in the day's early kickoff. sanchez with both of the goals for arsenal. in rugby union six nations, ireland are leading italy 28—10. they're into the second half. wales host england later. and in the fifth round of the scottish cup, celtic have thrashed inverness 6—0 to book their place in the quarter finals of the competition. i'll be back with more on those stories and a lot more in an hour's time. volunteers in new zealand say a further 240 whales have become stranded on a beach on the country's south island. hundreds have already died in one of the biggest ever mass strandings in the country's history. it's hoped they'll be able to swim to safety during the next high tide. you might find some of the scenes in this report

by kathryn stanchesin distressing. doing whatever they can to help before it's too late. these volunteers have been working for many hours, trying to keep the whales cool as they lie stranded. some say singing also helps to keep them calm, but what they really need is high tide. very quickly this tide has come racing in, and now we're all up to our knees, some people are up to their waists in water, and we're starting to get a bit of floating, and we're just helping assist the whales with their breathing until the water gets deep enough they can swim. this is one of the worst whale strandings in new zealand's history. 400 whales came into farewell spit on thursday. rescuers managed to refloat100 of them, but they failed to stop another stranding of 240. scientists don't know for sure why beaching happens. the whales could simply have become lost. one theory is that if a single whale gets stuck, others

follow its distress signal. but once it has happened, it can lead to devastation. for those ones that restrand there's very little chance they will ever swim away, so we have to euthanise those ones there. we do hope they corale their resources and head back out to sea. it's very difficult to manage that part of it, but dealing with the ones that are left is quite an issue. efforts are stood down overnight for safety reasons, but the logistics of trying to save these whales and then dealing with the aftermath if they can't will start again tomorrow. kathryn stanczyszyn, bbc news. veterans have welcomed the government's decision to shut down a £34 million probe into allegations of abuse made against british troops in iraq. a report yesterday blamed the ministry of defence for allowing law firms to bring cases on an industrial scale, many of which were not backed by evidence. sergeant brian wood of the princess of wales' royal regiment was wrongly accused of war crimes,

after a fierce battle with insurgents in iraq in 2004. he says allegations against troops were not properly scrutinised before being pursued by the inquiry. they should have looked into them into so much detail before releasing it as a public inquiry. now going into a courtroom, you know, i've never had — i've never been in that situation before, never. having to be cross—examined in an intimidating environment like that, people questioning, and questioning my actions, i sort of questioned my actions also, because i was getting told that many times that i potentially did it wrong. i started to think — did i do it wrong? ijust knew that me and my fellow soldiers and my regiment‘s integrity and values and standards of the british army were of the highest order. the government has defended its handling of the inquriy. veterans minister mark lancaster, said the ministry of defence had

stepped in as soon as it could. i hope everybody accepts that the government does have a duty to investigate allegations, that's precisely why, in good faith, this team was set up. clearly, after the inquiry, it became clear when the judge gave his judgment that he felt many of the allegations simply lacked any basis whatsoever. it was at that point that the government took the unprecedented step to report phil shiner that. process has taken some two years. i regret it's taken two years. but at least we now have a positive outcome. there will be lessons to be learned from this as we move forward. it's taken a lot longer than i would have hoped for. nonetheless the government has taken positive action. today we see the outcome of that. public parks are at risk of falling into neglect because the funding to maintain them is under pressure, according to a group of mps. the commons communities and local government committee says

opening hours have been cut, play equipment removed and there's more litter. john maguire reports. what have parks ever done for us? we've taken up tennis. we're not very good! we're not wimbledon standard. it's got all the facilities for the kids. it feels almost wild, even though you're in the centre of london. this is very close to my house, so we don't have far to walk with the children. it's the perfect place to walk, it's quite big and there is a cafe over there. they may be loved, but the crucial question surrounds their value, and of course their cost. so for the past six months a committee of mps has been asking that question and listening to the answers. it found that with council budgets so tight, many local parks are at a tipping point. what of their viability, what of their future? how can they be saved? instead of regarding parks as only a leisure and recreation area of service, we should be thinking about parks as big contributors to

public health and to environmental policy and to community cohesion. and maybe they can be re—prioritised. but there is a fundamentally a problem about the level of cuts that local authorities have been experiencing. we started to do some work and eventually created a ten—acre nature reserve. we have planted 60,000 trees to encourage flora and fauna. the innovation started here on the edge of the pennines, in 0ldham, more than 30 years ago. it's vital for the community to have this sort of open space. if it's looked after and maintained, it's for their benefit. as well as the nature reserve there is a community garden and a football pitch. it is the result of partnerships between the council, the charity groundwork and local volunteers. a model example of how public green spaces can determine their own future. it was a redundant piece of land, fly tipping and things like that.

from that, we were able to create this community garden and help out with adding some elements to the sports pitch. it helped the group service the community a lot more, and more and more people could get involved with that. long—term it is a cost saving to the council, but the councils have to be responsible about what they are doing. the mps are calling on the government and local authorities to ensure they have strategic plans in place for these emeralds, these green jewels in the crown. emeralds, these green jewels in the crown. they believe parks must remain publicly owned, open to all and free of charge. from flood management to healthy living to biodiversity of wildlife, our parks and green spaces can be the lungs and the heart of our increasingly urbanised lives. british sailor alex thomson says

he'll compete again in the next vendee globe race. last month he claimed second place in the round the world yacht race, only 16 hours behind the french winner. we caught up with him earlier today on his arrival back home. alex thomson's exploits in the race ca ptu red alex thomson's exploits in the race captured the imaginations of millions of people. today he's been giving a rousing welcome here in gosport. all the way round the vendee globe race he was trying to catch up with the leader in his damaged boat. in the end, he had to settle for second place. today, thousands of people have turned out to welcome him home. alex, what do you think, huge welcome home. it's amazing. it's almost like finishing

in france. it's very emotional, to share it with my son 0scar in france. it's very emotional, to share it with my son oscar and the whole family. it's going to be a great day. does it bring it home to you how many people were following you how many people were following you during the race. it's amazing. when you're out there, you're really isolated. you don't really get a feeling of it. when you come back and see such a massive welcome, it's incredible, yeah. what are your next plans? what's the next big project for you? the next big project will be to put together a competitive challenge for the 2020 vendee globe. that's our mission. we have to get the right team, get the funding together and hopefully we can bring ina together and hopefully we can bring in a british winner. third place, second place, next time round... in french they say premiere, it means first. the objective now is to put together the competitive bid to win the vendee globe race in 2020. it was looking rather grey and gloomy there. what is the weather

news for the rest of the country? nick miller has all the details. well, if anybody doesn't like the dull, damp weather, it's hard to escape it. it's like that for the rest of the weekend, across the bulk of the uk. there are lovely exceptions, though, in parts of north and north—west scotland, seeing decent sunshine today. actually it's here you get the ha rd est frost actually it's here you get the hardest frost under the clearest skies tonight. most of us, the cloud is holding firm. a constant feed of moisture coming in from the north sea, especially down the eastern side. every now and again, you get a pulse of rain, sleet or snow spreading further west through england and wales and into southern scotland. at times, reaching into the east of northern ireland. more snowfall to come tonight through parts of eastern england, east anglia, east midlands, north—east england, even to lower levels you could see a centimetre or two going into tomorrow morning. the more significant falls of snow are going to be over the higher ground, i think especially into pennine areas,

into the peak district, about 300 metres, you could see 15 centimetres of snow. that gets stronger for sunday, it feels colder as a result. numerically around four celsius. but that colder feel in the stronger wind indication that's things will turn a bit milder gradually next week. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines at 15.30: president trump says he's considering a "brand new" executive travel order after his initial attempt was overturned by the federal courts. his current order stops citizens from seven mainly muslim countries travelling to the us. labour frontbench mps who defied jeremy corbyn in the commons brexit vote will be sent formal written warnings, but they won't be sacked. 52 labour mps rebelled in wednesday's vote, including 11 junior shadow ministers, and three whips. campaigners led by lord dubs have delivered a petition with 50,000 signatures to downing street urging

the government to accept more unaccompanied child refugees. the government has recently come under fire after scrapping a programme which was expected to help 3,000 vulnerable children. a further 240 pilot whales have become stranded on a remote beach in new zealand. more than 300 of the 400 original arrivals have died. volunteers have been working to refloat the whales in one of country's biggest ever mass strandings. the government will fund alsoons in cyber security in school in england, to encourage teenagers to become experts in the future. it's hoped pupils will spend up to four hours a week working through real world challenges in a bid to develop careers defending britain from online attacks.

now on bbc news it's time for click. this week, swan eats fish, cat ignores mouse, and mountain moves man. few things say the future better than robots. we seem to be in an era of massive advances at the moment. this week, a leaked video from boston dynamics shows off its latest machine, called handle, something its founder described as "nightmare—inducing". rolling on with the wheel theme,

piaggio, known for its desperate piaggio, known for its vespa motorcycles, has revealed a new robot servant called gita. this robo—suitcase follows its owner's every move, using cameras in its body and in the user's belt. but sometimes it's good to look at where we've come from. the robots exhibition at london's science museum is a 500—year history of humanity's attempts to create robots that resemble us and our behaviours. there are more than 100 robots here, including some old friends that we've met before. and this amazing swan, made from silver, is all the more incredible because it was made over 200 years ago, in 1773. it's incredibly fragile inside. one of the issues is, how do you get a machine that old to work. so we've had two weeks of highly esteemed conservation colleagues

piecing things back together. how does it work? what's inside? you've got a whole series of these silver rings, almost stacked one on top of the other. they are designed to move as it moves as well.