live from london, this is bbc news. warnings of 100mph winds as storm eowyn reaches ireland and approaches the uk. a red "danger to life" warning is in force in republic of ireland, northern ireland, and later parts of scotland — with schools and public transport shut down. this is the scene at largs in scotland. the met office says the storm will bring very dangerous driving conditions with fallen trees on roads. a judge temporarily blocks president trump's order to end automatic citizenship for babies born in the us, calling it "blatantly unconstitutional". we hearfrom one of the youngest survivors from the nazi concentration camp in poland, as the 80th anniversary of the liberation

of auschwitz approaches. what i want the world to do is to please remember. remember us. and let it be a lesson to the world. coming up in business — "make in america, orface the consequences" — donald trump talks tough on trade at the world economic forum in davos. hello, i'm tadhg enright. millions are bracing themselves for storm eowyn which is hitting ireland and is due to arrive in britain in the coming hours. the met office has issued a rare red weather warning for northern ireland and the scottish central belt, which means a danger to life. 4.5 million people were sent an emergency phone alert, advising them to stay at home.

many schools and large parts of the transport network will be closed in these areas. as you can see from the map, it's a giant storm where coastal areas could see winds of up to 100 mph. an amber weather warning is in place for the rest of scotland, northern england and north wales with seperate yellow warnings for wind and rain covering the rest of the uk. eowyn is also battering ireland, which has seen a provisonal record wind recorded of iismph recorded in galway. let's get the latest from joe inwood. with winds of up to 100 miles an hour, there's only so much you can do to prepare for a storm like eowyn. first to feel its force will be the republic of ireland. a red warning is in place a red warning is in place for the entire country. for the entire country. here, it's being called here, it's being called the storm of the century. the storm of the century. please ensure that your please ensure that your property, garden furniture to be a community. property, garden furniture or other loose material or other loose material on your properties are secured. on your properties are secured.

today is a time today is a time to be a community. today and this afternoon is the time to check on isolated and vulnerable family, friends and neighbours. next in the path of eowyn will be northern ireland — where alerts have already sounded on people's phones. alert blares. all schools will be closed — the first time this has happened since 2017. well, it's always difficult, i suppose, to make a decision to close the school. and i can understand the department and the education authority making making the decision — albeit quite late on — i suppose, really, the health and welfare and safety of children and the entire school community is really vitally important. as it crosses the irish sea, gusts of up to 100mph are predicted before it hits scotland. there's a red warning in place for part of the central belt, and they'll be monitoring disruption at this control room.

and colleagues safe is our number—one priority. because of that, we've had to make the very difficult decision to withdraw all of our scotrail services throughout friday to make sure that we keep everybody safe. much of wales and the north of england are under an amberwarning. there — like everywhere else in eowyn�*s path — disruption is expected, and the advice is to only travel if you really have to. from this storm we're expecting airborne issues. so debris, potentially, power outages. so our advice would be to plan journeys if you are making those journeys. think about what you're doing in any circumstances, and keep safe. almost the whole of the uk is set to be under a yellow warning for high winds. yesterday in cornwall, there were even reports of a tornado. it wasn't caused by storm eowyn, but was a reminder of our increasingly unpredictable weather. joe inwood, bbc news.

let's bring you the latest pictures from coastal areas around britain and ireland. let's first take you to northern ireland, bracing itself for that west of the winds. northern ireland covered by a red weather alert. people have been told to stay at home, public transport has been closed down, and schools have also been closed. this is the picture in scotland, in the ferry port of largs, close to glasgow on the east coast of scotland. the storm expected to hit their at about 10am, which is in four hours. high winds already causing a lot of surge in the water. again, public transport and schools have been closed down. we will bring you the picture in ireland, the republic. this is dublin on the east coast. a relative picture of calm but on the west coast,

in galway, ireland has already seen a new record for wind gusts of up to 113 mph being recorded in galway. 170,000 homes and businesses without power there and the wind is so strong that they have taken out the calmer which we were hoping to show you from galway. the storm described as a storm of the century for ireland. we will be bringing you live updates from our correspondence across britain and ireland a little later in the programme. to the united states now — and what could become a major clash between the white house and the courts. within hours of taking office, president trump signed a series of executive orders — including one designed to bring to an end what's called birthright citizenship. but now a judge in seattle has blocked the move — calling it "blatantly unconstitutional". this was the response from donald trump when he was told the news.

mr president, a usjudge temporarily blocks the birthright citizenship order. do you have any reaction? no. obviously, we'll appeal it. they put it before a certain judge in seattle, i guess. right? and there's no surprises with thatjudge. the amendment in question — the one that has traditionally guaranteed birthright citizenship — is the 14th amendment. adopted after the american civil war, the wording goes as follows — all persons born or naturalized in the united states, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the united states. professorjessica levinson, who is an expert on constitutional law, spoke to me earlier. i asked her if there would be any wiggle room of this. let's be clear that any wiggle

room would go against what i view and what i believe the vast majority of legal scholars and judges view as the plain language interpretation of the 14 language interpretation of the 1a amendment, which is that if you are born in this country, regardless of the status of your parents, you are a citizen, full stop.. as you said, this is part of our constitution after civil war, after slavery to say to people who are for many slaves, to say to black americans, you are full citizens in our country. is there any wiggle room? not based on the plain language of the constitution, not based on the constitution, not based on the supreme court's reading all the supreme court's reading all the way back to the late 1800s, but i think the trump administration is hoping that maybe differentjudges, may be a new supreme court will look at that second clause you pointed to and subject to the jurisdiction and may be read it differently than has previously been read. jessica levinson. donald trump has signed an executive order declassifying

files on the assassinations of presidentjohn f kennedy, his brother bobby kennedy, and the civil rights leader martin luther king. uncertainty still surrounds the shooting of president kennedy in dallas in 1963 — with suggestions of cu ban involvement. martin luther king's family have alleged that his killing was a us government conspiracy — after the man convicted of murder denied carrying it out. we will have lots more about what donald trump has had to say about tariffs in the world economic forum in davos injust over 20 minutes. firefighters are continuing to battle three new wildfires that erupted in and around los angeles over the past day — fanned by strong winds. officials say containment efforts appear to be working — largely thanks to the extra firefighting resources that have been brought into the region since the first fires broke out at the start of the month. from los angeles, peter bowes reports.

several fires are continuing to burn, and the strong winds remain a problem. the biggest new fire in the hills to the north of los angeles started just outside castaic lake about 2k hours ago. firefighters there are largely bringing that fire under control, successfully keeping it away from residential areas close by. and that largely goes for the other new fires that have started over the last day. you can just see the strength of the winds right now, and these are the winds that clearly hamper firefighters. the other two fires — one closer to the centre of la — brentwood and the bel air area, that burned overnight, and then a coastal community to the northwest of los angeles. and the common theme here is that, because of the extra resources that have been brought into los angeles — extra firefighters and heavy equipment, as well, from out of state — they are able to — because they've got the resources — tojump on these fires very quickly in the first few minutes after they start. now, what everyone is hoping

for is that the forecast for the weekend comes true, and that is that there could be some rain from saturday through to sunday. it won't be a torrential downpour — there'll be a few millimetres of rain — but it could be enough to significantly help the firefighters in their efforts to bring complete containment to these fires. and it's what, certainly, people across the city are desperate for because these winds — especially over the last few days — have been unprecedented, and everyone isjust simply crossing their fingers and hoping that things die down, allowing people to, in some areas, get back to their homes for the first time in several days. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news.

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the red weather alert in place across much of ireland. the whole of northern ireland and parts of scotland. let's speak to our ireland correspondent, sara girvin, who is in donaghadee on the northeast coast of northern ireland. i read whether one is due to come into force there in an hour. —— red weather warning. what are you seeing? hour. -- red weather warning. what are you seeing?- what are you seeing? good morning- — what are you seeing? good morning- we _ what are you seeing? good morning. we are _ what are you seeing? good morning. we are on - what are you seeing? good morning. we are on the - what are you seeing? good - morning. we are on the county down coast and the wind is starting to pick up and when you get those big gusts, it really hits you. just behind us, at the seawall, we have seen a lot of waves crashing over that which is why we are standing back. a lot of homes and businesses in the street where we are this morning and some of them have been making preparations, maybe yesterday, to protect their properties from the worst effects of, with some sand bags. the red warning kicks in at 7am and lasts until dpm and covers the entire island of ireland was not the

first time the whole island of ireland has been under the highest weather warning will stop to give you an idea of how serious we are expecting conditions to get, we have just heard that a gust of 114 mph, the highest ever recorded, has been recorded in galway this morning. here in northern ireland, there have been lots of safety concerns, much of this bad weather was going to hit rush—hour traffic, and then came that decision yesterday to close every single school in northern ireland. there is no public transport running this morning, buses and trains have been closed off. lots of businesses have taken the decision to close today, people are being asked to work from home if they can. we heard from the police yesterday on this. they said they are declaring the storm as a major incident and the police service northern ireland warned that the winds we see tink day could be the strongest we have experienced since 1998. and then yesterday

evening came that alert that 4.5 million people got on their mobile phones across northern ireland and a large part of scotland. that emergency alert learning them —— warning them about the dangers of storm eowyn. we heard from the first minister and deputy first minister and deputy first minister of northern ireland yesterday, they said the authorities are prepared for what is to come, or as prepared as they can be, but they have asked people to make their own preparations. two key messages. stay indoors today and do not travel if you want to keep safe. . ~ ,, travel if you want to keep safe. . ~' ,, , travel if you want to keep safe. . ~ ,, , . travel if you want to keep safe. . ~ , . ., safe. thank you very much for that. david wallace lockhart is in glasgow. storm eowyn due to hit there in a few hours. how are things looking now? we a few hours. how are things looking now?— a few hours. how are things looking now? a few hours. how are things lookin: now? ~ ., ., , looking now? we would have been callin: it looking now? we would have been calling it the _ looking now? we would have been calling it the calm _ looking now? we would have been calling it the calm before - looking now? we would have been calling it the calm before the - calling it the calm before the storm but it does feel like it is a chilly getting slightly less calm. some pretty big gusts coming in the last 20

minutes or so. this red weather warning, the highest level of warning, the highest level of warning, is covering the whole of the central belt of scotland and beyond. that is the central part of the country, stretching from east to west, taking in the main cities of glasgow and edinburgh. it is where the majority of the scottish population lives. widespread school closures there and it goes beyond that into transport, as well, obviously. all scotrail trains, the train service in scotland, they have been cancelled. calmac, which runs ferries to the islands in scotland, they are not running any business today. bus service largely affected, airports airports saying you should checkin airports saying you should check in in advance to see if your flight is a chilly taking off. widespread disruption expected there, as well. it goes beyond transport. everything from the courts in scotland to food deliveries from ubereats, putting out a statement that they will not

operate as normal. an idea of the widespread disruption expected. yesterday evening at about 6pm, people in 22 of scotland's 32 local authorities got that uk government emergency alert on their phone, the first time it has officially been used in scotland to give people a warning about the expected weather today, about the storm, and the advice of what they should be doing, which is of course to stay at home, only travel as completely necessary. there is that red level warning of gusts of up to 100 mph possible, and the threat to life which comes with that. that is the official advice, stay at home, only travel is completely necessary. david in glas . ow, completely necessary. david in glasgow, thank _ completely necessary. david in glasgow, thank you _ completely necessary. david in glasgow, thank you very - completely necessary. david in glasgow, thank you very much | glasgow, thank you very much for that. as they were both reporting... many transport links are expected to be disrupted today — with scotrail cancelling all of its services. let's speak to simon calder, travel correspondent for the independent. he's at king's cross station in central london. probably not very windy where

you are, simon, but lots of cancellations on the board. most certainly you are right about that. a chilly i cycled here this morning and that was quite windy enough, thank you very much! if it continues we could well see disruption at the uk's two busiest airports, heathrow and gatwick. that is because they are so heavily used. meanwhile, it is very much a story as we have been hearing, northern ireland and scotland, extreme destruction. no public transport whatsoever in northern ireland. —— extreme disruption. all scotrail trains cancelled, and from here you cannot travel further than newcastle, well within england, and on the west coast main line, you are advised not to try to travel north of preston, which is basically about half way from london to glasgow.

elsewhere, at the airports, we are seeing hundreds of cancellations in edinburgh and glasgow. the two belfast airports in particular i am counting well over 250 cancellations and some of those are long haulflights cancellations and some of those are long haul flights to and from places like dubai and doha in qatar so it will from places like dubai and do