What will it mean for the video platform and us chinese fallacious. And proving youre never too old to learn we need to 96 year old world war 2 veteran who has finished top of his friend to her she climbs. A michael ok welcome to the program here in germany the number of corona virus infections has soared in recent days the countrys leading Public Health institute is warning that people are letting down their guard and not observing social distancing measures maybe its ironic that that in central grooming today thousands of people have been out on the streets protesting against coronavirus Restrictions Police force organizers to call off part of the event early and strict hygiene and. Just were not being that here to the demonstrators who are still there are being told to put on masks and keep their distance or simply go home. Political correspondent later in the sun hum a shiny eased out to protest and she joins me now so laney as we were talking before i mean this protest has been called off at least more than an hour ago but as i look over your shoulder i see that there are still people there what exactly is going on exactly just minutes ago and time minutes ago the police made them out an ounce man saying it would now move in to dissolve the protest and next to me and policemen were moving into the crowd of people that is still got out here to completely right behind me theyve been chanting views and just like we are the people at tri they want a lot of the people i talk to say they will continue protesting they want to keep the approach to life but police are now taking measures after you you said that they the 4 organizers were forced to call the protest off because people were not its here into the rules and the police is now stepping and. Yeah it sounds like the police are stepping in but also now trying to quell this make sure that they dont escalate things. Exactly. And keep quiet keep calm and so obviously they also dont want to escalate the situation there are still thousands gathered behind me police are talking about 17000 people attending this protest the organizers of the protests themselves have talked about 1300000 which i think is definitely 5 saturated spots and yeah definitely several 1000 people have come from all over germany you have taken buses from the south of germany from stuff got one of the organizers is their organization that is organizing is based. Here to demonstrate the governments measures and we talked about earlier have we there have been a lot of verbal attacks on on our on our camera team on the press team calling us calling us. And giving us commons for wearing a face mask you can see tensions are running high and they were country contra protests. Yes you can hear just a protester no this is what has been happening to us all day here tell us a little bit more about who these people are taking part in the protests. Well there is a very wild mix of actuators a lot of the people ive talked to many of them really just concerned about the coronavirus restrictions being put place being put in place by the German Government theyre saying well coronavirus numbers we have a situation here under control theyre not diluting the existence of the of the virus and saying we need to release this we need to these and measures too and they worried about their children not being able to go to school theyre worried about their parents not being able to see people before they possibly but then there are also a lot of people that this protest has been used by other groups spies conspiracy theorists to capitalize on by fire right groups with mobilize for this protest and a lot of people i talked to today were telling me somewhere telling me they are tired of being put in the right wing corner but they also a lot of undermined undermined downplaying the virus poses and saying they are losing trust in the government and its measures lane even hama shine thank you so much for that. U. S. President donald trump says he plans to ban the chinese own video app picked on because of security concerns u. S. Officials are currently looking into the potential for tech talk to be used by the Chinese Government as a tool for gathering intelligence. To talk with its viral dance routines and political activism videos is a favorite among teenagers worldwide with over 2000000000. 00 downloads and 17000000000. 00 in revenue last year the app is extremely successful and influential but its exploding popularity has also raised red flags in the u. S. Officials are investigating whether ticktock is a threat to National Security there are concerns that the Data Collected by the app owned by the chinese firm by dance could be accessed by beijing the Company Denies any connection with the Chinese Government but donald trump is threatening to ban b. F. In the u. S. Were looking at that 5th we may be betting we may be doing some other things are a couple of options but a lot of things up there so well see what happens but we are looking at a lot of alternatives with respect to their. Reports on friday indicated that one of the alternatives being considered is an order for byte dance to give up ownership of tik tok potential buyers are reportedly already in talks to take over the apps u. S. Operations including tech giant microsoft and National Security review have to talk is expected to be presented to trump in the coming days its results may further sour already deteriorating ties between the u. S. And china with tensions already running high on trade and the coronavirus pandemic Cyber Security concerns are now further straining relations between the 2 powers. For more on this so lets talk to dr clear now hes a Senior Research fellow at the university of nottingham in the u. K. Specializing in social media data ethics in regulation and. Whats behind the u. S. Governments mistrust of. So at the source of this its basically concerns around where the data is going because ticked off because owned by byte which is a Chinese Company a lot of the data servers are based in china and National Security law in china means the government can at any point basically require a Chinese Company to get access to the data that they hold at the core the concern is it doesnt really matter whether ticktock as the company intends to be working with the Chinese Government the Chinese Government can compel them to hand over to. So ticked arc is made it very clear that its not political and wouldnt pass user data to beijing your response to that would be essentially it doesnt matter what took dr. Affectively yes it sort of ironic in this is actually that there was a recent ruling in in europe regarding. Concerns around Facebook Holding data on european citizens and the u. S. National security law saying that they can compel access to data of non u. S. Citizens that are being held by social Media Companies so its very similar to the e. U. Has concerns about us social Media Companies the u. S. Having concerns about chinese social Media Companies everybody has concerns about everybody elses social Media Companies so in a word you would say this is not just political that there actually is some credence to this. There is some credence to it social Media Companies collect a lot of data about us its not just the things that we are seeing or posting on them its located potentially location data its data about when and how we use our devices and with kicked off being so popular it can be used potentially by people who might be located at sensitive locations or things like that which is why weve seen the us also demanding that people working in government had to delete have to delete the our prime their devices so that social media a lot of our. Services that we use the whole hold quite rich data about us and our such there is concerns about how they are stored whether there is sufficiently encrypted and who can mandate or compel access to that kind of did. Go clear no really appreciate your insights thanks much thank her at highlighting some other stories now making news at this hour. In ukraine a man who had taken a Police Officer hostage a week ago has been killed by Police Special forces it happened when the man took a new hostage according to government officials the man was found in an uninhabited house outside the central city of poltava the hostage was unharmed. Violence has again erupted in Portland Oregon protesters and Police Clashed at the local courthouse which has become a focal point of the unrest earlier President Trump tweeted that federal agents will remain in the city until local police had finished what he called a cleanup of code and all kiss and agitator. 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Often i was uncertain when i made the decision because i didnt know the environment. And i didnt know the teachers and how they would behave in front of such an old person. Just seppi was born into a poor family in the 1920 s. And was unable to attend university he served in the navy in world war 2 then supported his family as a real way worker. His experience helped him to cope with todays challenges. War 2 strengthened us all of us in my peer Group Everyone whos still alive its strengthened us against covert 19 it hasnt really scared us that much. For years just be relied on his trusty old typewriter but the pandemic changed that. Oral exams were moved online and he had to get a laptop. But. He now plans to devote himself to reading and writing the old school way. Youre never too old and youre watching the news heres a reminder of the top stories were following for you thousands of people have gathered in proving to demand an end to coronavirus restrictions organizers were forced to call off part of the event is hygiene in the distance and were not being it here to the people who are still there or being told to put on masks and observe distancing or go home it comes past the number of new code of virus infections in germany continue strongest. U. S. President donald trump says he will ban the chinese phone video apathetic talk in the u. S. Citing National Security concerns media afford suggest trump is weighing the options of switching the firm white deigns to give up ownership of tech talk. Well have more news for you at the top of the hour you can stay up to date on our website dot com and dont forget to follow us on twitter and instagram and leaves a michael okun in the room then well have more news in 45 minutes life and. 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