we begin in the us, where time is ticking for tiktok. the chief of the social media app shou zi chew was grilled by us lawmakers over a range of issues, mostly related to the company s chinese ownership. his appearance before the congressional committee comes after the biden administration threatened to ban the social media app if the company s chinese owners didn t sell their stakes. tiktok is wildly popular in the states it has 150 million american users, which includes almost five million businesses. well, our north america business correspondent michelle fleury has been following the story in washington dc and sent this report. it was never going to be easy but from it was never going to be easy but from the moment the committee chairman opened the hearing. committee chairman opened the hearing, calling for tiktok to be banned in the united states, there be banned in the united states, there was be banned in the united states, there was no let up. the tiktok ceo
hello and welcome. the chief executive of tiktok has been defending the chinese owned video sharing app in the face of hostile questioning at a us congressional committee hearing. shou zi chew denied tiktok is a national security risk and played down the company s connection to china. but many in congress are not convinced, as nomia iqbal reports. 150 million americans. even before he arrived, shou zi chew was on tiktok, arguing for its existence. and even before he started speaking, lawmakers made it clear how they felt. tiktok has repeatedly chosen the path for more control, more surveillance and more manipulation. your platform should be banned. shou zi chew hit back. bytedance is not owned or controlled by the chinese government. but politicians and many parent activists here don t believe that. former president donald trump was suspicious. we re looking at tiktok. we may be banning tiktok. ..and now, in a rare moment of bipartisanship, presidentjoe biden and congress a
it was meant to cement a newly warm anglo french relationship but the planned three day visit by king charles and the queen consort camilla to france this weekend has been suspended at the request of president macron, because of escalating protests and some violence over the french government s proposals for pension reform. more than a50 people were arrested on thursday, and am members of the security forces were injured during the most violent day of protests since the start of the year, according to the french interior ministry. more than one million people took to the streets that day to protest against the retirement age being raised from 62 64. from paris, here s our royal correspondent nicholas witchell. tear gas. riot police. this is paris at the moment. there are piles of uncollected rubbish in the streets and angry demonstrators on the streets. furious with president macron over his plans to raise the state pension age to 64. matters appear to be deteriorating and
will be on your own over the weekend, before we recess i need to remind you of the following instruction. please do not. studio: 5pm in utah. they are wrapping up the trial for the day resuming on monday morning. this is the trial with hollywood actress gwyneth paltrow giving evidence for the past few hours in the case sparked by a ski accident in utah in 2016. a 76 year old man terry sanderson is accused gwyneth paltrow of causing a collision that left him with brain damage and broken ribs. giving evidence saying that mr sanderson is not telling the truth is that he is seeking $300,000 in damages for the incident. gwyneth paltrow denies that she was responsible. she is counter suing seeking damages of $1 in damages. she was asked by her lawyer who hit who. ms paltrow replied mr sanderson hit me. her lawyer asked do you feel empathy for him? she said i really do. it seems like he had a really difficult life that i did not cause the accident. so gwyneth paltrow has been questi
live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in the morning in singapore and 2am in moscow, where president putin has wrapped up talks with chinese president xi jinping for a second day. the two leaders have been discussing what s been described as a peace plan for ukraine, put forward by beijing. president putin has also warned that if the uk goes ahead with a plan to supply ammunition to ukraine, then russia will be forced to respond. our russia editor steve rosenberg reports. take two world leaders. ..a dash of kremlin choreography. ..and you get this. the symbolism was clear. on the world stage, xi and putin, china and russia, are coming together to forge what they claim is a strong partnership. the talk at the table was about expanding cooperation, but equal partners they are not. russia, under pressure over its war in ukraine, is increasingly dependent on china. and vladimir putin is increasingly critical of the west. later, he slammed the