this morning on "world news now," president trump appearing to change course in policy toward russia and israel. the white house clarifying its stance on key issues with both countries and they look a lot like his predecessor. the full story ahead. >> new details regarding the president's plans that would complicate the separation of church and state. what we're learning about allowing tax exempt churches from contributing to political campaigns. >> and new this half hour, the president's reality tv feud. >> hear what president trump said about schwarzenegger and his old show "the apprentice" that spurred a terminator-esque response. >> and could this be the end of operation marry harry? the new evidence that royal watchers are pointing to as proof that prince harry has found the one. we'll explain maybe

"the skinny" on this friday, february 3rd. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >> oh, my god. it is such a big, big deal in england and a big deal around here. we should point out that the brian ross unit has been investigating whether or not prince harry. >> is down with the swirl. >> he's down with the swirl. because she is of mixed race. we're going to delve into that in "the skinny" and find out what their findings are. but in the meantime, we're going to talk a little serious this half hour. the administration is sounding more like its predecessor on two key issues. first of course, there's russia. despite promising closer relations with russia, president trump's ambassador to the u.n. had harsh words for the kremlin. nikki haley said if russia does not stop the violence in crimea and give the territory back to ukraine, the u.s. also continue the sanctions against that country. of course, the second issue israel's settlements in disputed territories.

israel not to expand its construction plan. it said such expansion "may not be helpful in achieving peace in the region." however the administration stopped the short of declaring an official position on new settlements. >> and we're learning that a senior white house official telling abc news new sanctions against iran are in the works and may be announced as early as today. the trump administration put iran on notice blasting the country for testing a ballistic missile and supporting terrorists. the president said a range of options are under consideration and made it clear that he's not ruling anything out. >> military action off the table in iran? >> nothing's -- honestly, nothing is off the table. >> all right. >> and there's a call for new sanctions from a bipartisan group of senators. they sent a letter to the president saying iranian officials must feel sufficient pressure to stop their destabilization activities. president trump appeared poised

to blur the line between church and state as he attended his first national prayer breakfast. he proposed to totally destroy the tax rule barring churches and religious groups from endorsing political candidates. more now from abc's cecilia vega. >> reporter: the president closing his eyes, bowing his head in prayer. >> may he never forsake us. >> reporter: and in this room packed with religious leaders, declaring himself one of the faithful. >> we are all united by our faith. >> reporter: many in the room, the evangelicals who helped propel him to the white house, and the president giving them a gift so many had wanted. a promise to, quote, destroy a law that bars tax exempt churches from endorsing political candidates. >> freedom of religion is a sacred right, but it's also a right under threat all around us. >> reporter: the religious right applauding his recent supreme court pick, neil gorsuch, who the conservative judge who talked about his faith at his nomination though his views on abortion are still unknown. but on the issue of gay rights, donald trump has disappointed some conservatives with his campaign statement

>> so you tell me, who is better for the gay community and who is better for women than donald trump? believe me. >> reporter: and after the election, he said he will not fight the supreme court decision legalizing same-sex marriage. >> you have these cases have gone to the supreme court. they've been settled, and i'm fine with that. >> reporter: just this week, the white house said the president would continue to enforce some workplace protections for gays and lesbians implemented by president obama. abc news has learned there is a proposed draft executive order on. >> freedom circulating inside the trump administration. it would weaken protections for the lgbt community, in part, by allowing companies doing business with the federal government to decline on religious grounds, to provide services for gays and lesbians including adoptions. opponents call it a national license to discriminate. the white house says no action is planned, adding there are many ideas being f

and as for the president's promise to repeal the law that bans churches from endorsing candidates, that would require an act of congress repealing part of the tax code. so far a big endorsement from one important member of the house, speaker paul ryan. cecilia vega, abc news, the white house. >> house democratic leader nancy pelosi is slamming president trump's shake-up of the national security council. pelosi is especially critical about the elevation of the president's chief political strategist to the council calling the move stunning. although she does not mention him by name, it's clear that she is referring to steve bannon. >> what's making america less safe is to have a white supremacist named to the national security council as a permanent member. >> pelosi is also condemning the move to reduce the roles of military and intelligence officials describing their new status as don't call us, we'll call you. president trump also used the national prayer breakfast to ask for a bit of divine intervention for arnold schwarzenegger.

so the president asked everyone to gather in prayer for schwarzenegger. and the dismal ratings on the "apprentice" since the terminator took over. >> but arnold wasted no time in firing back a response. >> they hired a big, big movie star, arnold schwarzenegger, to take my place. and we know how that turned out. the ratings went right down the tubes. it's been a total disaster. and i want to just pray for arnold if we can for those ratings, okay? >> hey, donald, i have a great idea. why don't we switch jobs. you take over tv because you're such an expert in ratings and i take over your job. and then people can finally sleep comfortably again. hmm? >> whoo, those are fighting words. schwarzenegger and the president have engaged in a public war of words since the former governor took over the show. he also announced back in to

voting for the republican presidential candidate for the first time since becoming an american citizen 34 years ago. it's also no secret that arnold schwarzenegger actually wanted to run for president but he wasn't born here. >> exactly. >> he probably does want the job swap. >> all of this will be settled on the wwe raw monday night. >> yes, exactly, for a small fee. >> exactly. we'll all watch. next, we'll dig deep near the protests on several college campuses and the man whose presence sparked them. who is this outrageous and controversial commentator? plus, what he's saying about the protests. >> and later in "the skinny," it is a beyonce bombshell day two. she floods the internet with new pregnancy photos reaching a new level of godness. yes, but first, a look at today's forecast here on earth. >> announcer: "world news now" weather, brought to you by united health care.

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♪ some follow-up to the protest violence that broke out at the university of california-berkeley. the police chief there says the chaos started when more than 100 armed people, some dressed in ninja-like uniforms showed up. >> it started as a peaceful protest against controversial ed breitbart editor milo yiannopoulos. milo called what happened at berkeley politically violence in response to perfectly mainstream opinions in his words and he didn't stop there. we're up "up all nightline" with abc's kayna whitworth. >> reporter: milo continues to fan the flames on fox news.

year. it is one of the biggest research universities, one of the highest ranked research universities but it's turning out graduates who don't do very much. only 47% of the graduates go on to full-time employment when they leave. seems to me a lot of that federal money could be repurposed effectively if they refuse to honor its first amendment commitments. >> reporter: for milo, there seems to be no holds barred for the dropout from cambridge university, a sometime poet, a tech journalist, donald trump supporter, gay catholic and entrepreneur. >> i don't entirely believe in lesbians. >> he says no one should be upset by his jabs. >> if i'm occasionally mean, it's normally because they deserve it. >> milo helping to legitimize a movement of negativity growing on the internet. one of his hot topics is the female physique. >> you're going to go after somebody's body? >> yeah. >> to denigrate their ideas? >> absolutely. >> what grade are you in seriously. that's revolting. >> no, it's not. i'll tell you what's revolting is the body positivivity movement.

what's revolting is this idea now that you can tell women that they'll be healthy at any size. why? it tells women you can be fat and you can be unattractive and you'll be happy anyway. that's a lie. >> reporter: another target the mainstream media. >> it's no surprise i get bad press because my stated enemy is the press. i'm dedicated to the destruction of political correctness and political correctness is the language the media speaks. milo is not the only breitbart provocateur making headlines. there's also steve bannon. >> suddenly breitbart which used to be on the outside throwing stones in is on the inside throwing out. >> reporter: bannon, former head of breitbart, now trump's senior advisor in the oval office, is generating his own share of controversy. >> he is the person that is urging president trump to continue his combative and aggressive tone. go to war with the news media. bannon now formally has a seat at the table in just about all of the critical places. >> we're very concerned with some of the initial executive

we've seen coming out from the white house. we've been very public about our concern about the treatment of refugees, the muslim ban, the religious test. >> a lot of people are very uncomfortable with the tenor of the public discussion. the tenor that reached a pitch at uc berkeley has quieted, a few reminders of what happened still visible. but for now, this divided country showing fewer signs of uniting. for "nightline," i'm kayna whitworth, in berkeley, california. president trump suggesting potentially taking away federal funding from berkeley as a result of those protests. we'll see what happens with that. of course, it's berkeley. it's supposed to have protests. if you're going to get a controversial figuring there in berkeley, guess what's going to happen, folks. >> no surprise. >> absolutely. >> when we come back, why "south park" is laying off president trump. >> and beyonce goes full mermaid. "the skinny" is next. lawn, put up all the decorations.

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♪ skinny, so skinny >> and because it's america's baby, we're going to do day two of the beyonce baby twins. >> can't get enough. >> no, you cannot. she is providing more and more as you might have seen on the internet, beyonce provided more of the pictures of her. >> baby bumps really.

>> exactly. >> one bump, two babies. >> exactly. this was the original. now we saw some new ones. these are all part of some photos that she put out yesterday. what do we make of some of these shots? >> there has to be meaning to some of them especially as you're going to see, there's a car, right. >> >> yeah. >> i don't know if there's meaning we're all supposed to speculate or personal meaning to her. >> one she's underwater. she's surrounded by flowers. she's she's surrounded by -- >> that's cute with blue. i do like that. >> that's a beautiful photo of mother and daughter. by the way, we did an official poll yesterday for the last 24 hours asking viewers -- >> that's the mermaid one. >> that is awesome. is that all her? >> i think it is. >> it's great. asking what the baby should be named. the winner of our poll, lemon and ade by 33% we should mention. > very clever, america. here's the one with the car, of course. >> it's beautiful. it might be a hoopty but beyonce's on it so it's a bentley. >> just keep breaking the internet, beyonce.

>> why do parents do this? >> for me it wasn't like i was trying to break the internet although i'm sure i would have. i just took it to preserve the moment. you know? i wanted to be able to say my husband and i took some shots. this never before seen pictures, people. >> this is an excluesive. this is an abc news ex-cluesive, but yes. we have never posted them or anything like that. >> how far along were you here? how far? i was about like eight months i guess. it was maybe a month before i was due. >> all right. cool. and your kid is truly -- >> i thought this was kind of a funny, this is my baby with beyonce, but this was, he actually -- she asked to hold him and he said no. he turned her down. it was his 2-year-old birthday on that day. the terrific twos began that way. he was like beyonce, no, sorry. >> that's news. >> beyonce wants to hold your kid. >> and he turned her down. lots of fun. something we'll be able to show him years from now. you know, you had your chance.

that -- beyonce still expected to perform at the grammys in a couple of weeks. of course, you can do it with twins because she's beyonce. continuing coverage of our baby watch in the months ahead. we want to move on to "south park" and something of a surprise from the creators of the long running adult animated series. >> they say they're laying off of donald trump. he appeared in an episode of the show last fall right after the election but trey parker and matt stone say there will not be any more of trump when they return this year. >> they say the reason for that is because "satire has kind of become reality so it's hard to make fun of." speaking about the trump administration in a new interview, parker said we just decided to back off and let them do their comedy and we'll do ours. >> because there's is funny enough. comedy central has not yet announced a start date for the show's next season. next up, so much for operation marry harry. we are seeing the best evidence so far that prince harry and

are getting serious. >> we've known they've been dating for a while. new paparazzi photos show them holding hands while walking down a street in london. we would love to show you the photos because they're really brilliant. they're amazing. they look in love. they're great. but us at "world news now" can't afford those photos. >> so you just have to imagine it. >> hand holding. >> just picture harry and meghan. >> friends say that meghan has all but moved into harry's place at kensington palace. i wonder what the queen thinks about that. they claim the couple has been inseparable for the past five weeks. good for them. congratulations. we'll see what happens. >> we can't wait for the engagement. finally when you just have ose up. internet sensation millions have watched this video of the turkish chef known as salt bea elegantly cutting that steak. it's become the first viral food video of the year. >> when leonardo dicaprio saw it happen up close, he couldot

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...lysol that. finally this half hour, to say it's been an intense week of news may just be the understatement of the week. >> there's been no lack of news making from the trump administration. here's some of what we've covered in the last seven days in our "friday rewind." >> you this executive order was mean-spirited and un-american. >> if there are folks that shouldn't be in this country, they're going to be detained. so apologize for nothing here. >> i don't know what to do because i sold my house. i quit my job. my wife had job. and kids left school. >> it's pretty dark here in europe right now but there's something actually much darker, and that is islam.

>> does the president share his chief strategist's an apparent beliefs on islam? >> i think the president has been very clear his number one goal is not to target any one religion but places and areas where we believe there is an issue. >> you never attended a public school, k12 school, did you? >> correct. >> and your children did not either, correct? >> that's correct. >> and you've never taught a k12 school either. >> i have not. >> i cannot vote to confirm her. >> i think she has much to learn about our nation's public schools. >> judge gorsuch has outstanding legal skills, a brilliant mind, tremendous discipline and has earned by partisan support. >> he's come down against employees' rights, clean air, clean water, food safety, safety in medicine and the rest. if you care about that for your children, he's not your guy. >> we will mourn this devastating attack and we will heel heal together. e will heel together. >> we demote that this horror has been >> we know that this horror has been

community. >> good evening, fellow s.a.g. aftra members and everyone at home. and everyone in airports that belong in my america. you are a part of the fabric of who we are. and we love you and we welcome you. >> i think my dad is my hero because he's someone that i look up to every day. and -- my dad. >> i think tom brady was just tearing up. it wasn't a question about donald trump. >> deflategate. >> or deflategate for that matter. of course, the super bowl on sunday. kickoff around 6:30 eastern time. >> you're going to have to probably be asleep, aren't you? >> aren't you coming in early on sunday? >> yeah, i am. >> announcer: this is abc's "world news now." informing insomniacs for two decades.

making news in america this friday morning, planning for penalties, president donald trump is turning up the heat on iran as additional sanctions will likely be issued and his promise to straighten out the world. we're live with the latest. the massacre that never happened. a new interview with adviser kellyanne conway causing confusion justifying the president's refugee ban with a fictional terror attack in the u.s. breaking overnight, an explosive device thrown inside a packed southern california restaurant as people were eating dinner. details just coming in. also happening overnight, tiger woods withdraws from a tournament. why the sudden dropout? good morning,