Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Saturday 11 Feb 2017

1. Donald Trump considers signing new travel ban

Donald Trump says he may sign a "brand new" executive order to revive his travel ban - a day after an appeals court ruled it should remain suspended. Speaking to the media aboard Air Force One, the US President said his administration has "a lot of options" to push through its aim of restricting immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries.

2. Boris: let's continue Saudi arms sales despite massacre

Boris Johnson encouraged Liam Fox to continue exports of arms to Saudi Arabia after the bombing of a funeral in Yemen last October that killed more than 140 people. Correspondence between the ministers shows that the foreign secretary wrote that "the 'clear risk' threshold for refusal … has not yet been reached". Fox warned that there were "risks inherent in making this decision".

3. Corbyn won't sack Labour's Brexit rebels

Labour frontbenchers who rebelled against Jeremy Corbyn in the Commons Brexit vote will be sent a formal written warning. Although the Labour leader imposed a three-line whip to back Brexit, 52 Labour MPs rebelled, including 11 junior shadow ministers, and three whips. The rebels will not be sacked even though convention dictates that members of the leader's shadow team should go if they defy such an order.

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4. How locum doctors are ripping off the NHS

Stand-in doctors are fleecing struggling hospitals by demanding fees of up to £4,000 a day, an NHS watchdog has said. The Times reports that hundreds of locums are paid a quarter of a million pounds a year, as the NHS "throws money" at doctors to plug staff shortages. NHS leaders say that locum doctors are pocketing £300m a year that should be used for treating patients.

5. Putin 'may hand over Snowden to Donald Trump'

Moscow is considering sending Edward Snowden back to the United States as a "gift" to President Donald Trump, according to a US Intelligence report. Trump has called for the execution of the whistleblower, who he describes as a "spy" and a "traitor" who deserves to be executed. A US intelligence official told NBC News that a Snowden handover is an attempt by Russia's President Vladimir Putin to "curry favour" with Trump.

6. Charity demands plastic-free aisle at every supermarket

Supermarkets are being pressed to create a plastic-free aisle in every store to prevent tons of waste packaging ending up in the oceans. Although around 300m tons of plastic are produced globally each year, just 12% of it is recyclable and much of it is washed into the seas where it harms wildlife. Marine conservation charity Plastic Oceans Foundation will meet with Britain’s major supermarkets next week.

7. Apple's Tim Cook says fake news is 'killing minds'

Apple boss Tim Cook is calling for governments to launch a public information campaign to fight the scourge of fake news, which he says is "killing people’s minds". Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, Cook said that the epidemic of false reports "is a big problem in a lot of the world" and requires a crackdown by the authorities and technology companies.

8. Ohio delays executions as legal challenge continues

Ohio has delayed eight upcoming executions as a row rages on over the legality of the state's execution process. Governor John Kasich says he is confident that the state will win its appeal and resume with the scheduled executions, after a magistrate judge declared as unconstitutional a three-drug process the state had proposed. One prisoner was set to die next week.

9. Why Brexit is bad news for Britain's newts

Britain’s great crested newts may be thrown into peril by Brexit as ministers prepare to axe rights afforded to them by European legislation in a bid to speed up development projects. Speaking to the Financial Times, government figures say that the EU habitats directive is among measures set to be repealed, citing the "excessive" protection given to the amphibian as a reason to change the law.

10. Wenger tells Wright his reign is 'coming to the end'

Arsene Wenger has told Ian Wright his time as Arsenal boss is "coming to the end", claims the former striker. The French boss has managed Arsenal since October 1996 and won the last of his three Premier League titles in 2004. "I get the impression that that's it," Wright told the BBC. "He looks tired. You just feel that he looks winded. I feel that he will go at the end of the season."