With the Chinese Government. Tiktok has told lawmakers that it has taken steps to ensure the data of american users isnt compromised by employees in china. Nevertheless, the legislation should head to the senate next. Its fate there is uncertain. Following the house vote, tiktok urged its 150 million users in the us to lobby against the bill by calling on them to contact their members of congress. Tiktok influencers also protested against the bill outside the white house. Heres what they told our correspodnent. I am aware that im giving my data, right. Im aware. Im ok with it. Let me make that decision, you dont need to make that for me. You know, thats where i stand. To be quite honest, everything on the internet is a Security Risk and so, this may be have a Parent Company that is foreign, but we have just as many Security Risks with Domestic Companies as well, and so i would love to see our lawmakers spend this much time and energy to pass more Data Protection overall, for all americ
going to feel when president biden signs it next week. and author salman rushdie, attacked on stage and air lifted to the hospital. we ll tell you what we know about his condition this morning. and inflation is cooling, gas prices are dropping, but the cost of other items remains painfully high. what the new numbers say about the current state of the economy. welcome to your weekend. it s saturday, august 13th. we are grateful to be with you. good morning, amara. good morning, boris. so good to be with you. feel like i ve been missing boris in my life. nice to be here. pleasure to be with you, as always. thanks, boris. we begin with new details this morning on what led the fbi to execute and unprecedented search warrant on former president trump s home, according to court documents unsealed friday, investigators removed 11 sets of classified documents from mar-a-lago, including some material that were marked as top secret, sci, which stands for sensitive, comp
A hole in the ozone layer over antarctica, thats fuelled by smoke from Wildfire Events in australia, is exposing wildlife to protentially damaging levels of uv light. Scientists from the University Of Wollongong say animals and plants are having to put more energy into avoiding the rays. Heres our science correspondent victoria gill. The ozone layer that protects us from the suns most harmful rays is healing gradually. But in antarctica, in cold high atmospheric clouds, a hole in that layer still appears every year. That Ozone Thinning or loss used to peak in september or october, when animals and plants are tucked under winter snow and marine animals are protected by sea ice. But its now lingering until december, well into the antarctic summer, when wildlife is much more vulnerable. Researchers say thats been driven in part by smoke from the australian wildfires in 2019 and 2020, which were fuelled by climate change. The researchers found evidence that antarctic plants might have to p
Are at risk from the rays. Welcome to bbc news. President zelensky has renewed his appeal for allies to provide ukraine with more air defences, after another night of russian bombardment caused serious damage to Energy Infrastructure. He called for decisive action, saying the world could shoot down every missile and drone launched by, what he called, russian terrorists. Four power plants were hit in three regions, and Gas Infrastructure was also struck. An oil refinery in occupied slavyansk was damaged. Reports indicate a second oil refinery was also hit, and video has emerged of destruction at an airbase. A little earlier i spoke to victoria vdovychenko programme directorfor Security Studies at the centre for defence strategies, a Ukrainian Security think tank. The most important is the time space and that is very important also, our allies understand that the shortage of the weapons on the ground, in the field, on the ukrainian battlefield in particular, therefore, it was so timely,