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Donald Trump was not pleased at the latest US court decision - a finding that the suspension of the travel ban on visitors from seven mainly Muslim countries would continue. What the decision by the panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in California means is that visitors from those countries can proceed as normal. The judges said the U.S. government hadn't pointed to any evidence that anyone from the countries named in the executive order had committed a ``terrorist attack'' in the U.S. They said; `Rather than present evidence to explain the need for the executive order, the government has taken the position that we must not review its decision at all. We disagree'. Reporter Peter Bowes joins us from California.

Banking regulation has been one of the areas Donald Trump's supporters in the financial world have been keen for him to get working on - and now we may be in a position to know what is going to change. A leaked memo from the chair of the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee, Jeb Hensarling, sets out the key points. They include weakening the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, scaling back stress tests, and easing the rules for companies looking to raise capital. So what exactly is it about US banking laws, that President Trump doesn't like? We ask US economist Irwin Stelzer.

It was supposed to be the Trump effect that was going to save Twitter - the fortunes of the beleaguered social media site were supposed to have been transformed by the way in which the US president had made it his main medium of communication. Surely now new users would be flocking? It hasn't turned out that way - the latest figures from Twitter show its fourth quarter losses have nearly doubled to $167m with advertising revenue slightly down, and only a small increase in its active users to 319 million. So why did Donald Trump's adhesion to Twitter not lead to Twitter's success? Peter Shankman, a New York-based social entrepreneur and author on new media, gives us his view.

All this and more discussed with our two guests: August Turak, entrepreneur and author of The Business Secrets of Trappist Monks, in Raleigh, North Carolina and Madhavan Narayanan, journalist and former senior editor at the Hindustan Times, in Delhi.

Photo: Syrian refugee Baraa Haj Khalaf, (C), holds the American flag as she walks with her husband Abdulmajeed (L) and father Khaled Haj Khalaf as she leaves O'Hare International Airport on February 7, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. Credit: Getty Images.