Malala Yousufzai posts emotional message on facebook after trump's refugee ban

A "heartbroken" Pakistani Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai on Saturday urged US President Donald Trump not to turn his back on the world's "most defenceless", hours after he signed an order calling for "extreme vetting" of people entering America from seven Muslim-majority nations.

"I am heartbroken that today



President Trump is closing the door on children, mothers and fathers fleeing violence and war," the 19-year-old Pakistani education activist, who survived a near-fatal attack by the Taliban, said in a Facebook post.

Her statement came after Trump ordered "extreme vetting" of people entering the US from certain Muslim-majority countries and banned the entry of Syrian refugees until further notice, as part of new measures to "keep radical Islamic terrorists" out of America.