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
which will be open to public feet for the first time in living memory. and coming up on the bbc news channel, history for harry as kane becomes england s leading goal scorer, as they get off to a winning start to their euros campaign against italy. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the head of the education watchdog, ofsted, says school inspections in england will continue, despite some calls for them to be paused, after a headteacher in reading took her own life. ruth perry s family say she had found the pressure of an inspection intolerable. the chief inspector of schools, amanda spielman, says ofsted s work is important to parents, though she added there is a legitimate debate to be had about changing the grading system. tim muffett has this report. she was an exemplary leader at a wonderful school, according to a statement from her family. headteacher ruth perry took her own life whilst waiting for the publication of an ofsted report, a report that dow
there were more expensive. but it is possible for companies to have compensation for all the workers saying, either you will get made redundant or can we talk about flexibility within the job. what we re seeing on the platform is that flexibility is incredibly important to the over 50s. the women we surveyed, it is 16 times important than traditional status, and i think these companies have really wised up to the fact that the companies are ready to have a conversation about pay and hours. they want the job to fit around their life. the other thing that is really important is having a purpose in doing something that feels worthwhile. the women i have seen who have left theirjobs have seen who have left theirjobs have just got to the point where they don t want to play a corporate game any more. they don t want to play a corporate game any more- game any more. given that these algorithms game any more. given that these algorithms may game any more. given that these algori
hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk, on pbs in the us or around the world it was meant to cement a newly warm franco british 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 1 million people took to the streets that day to protest against the retirement age being raised from 62 to 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 ove