A looming election joining me Steve Clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u. S. Politics and society on aljazeera. Are there im josh rushing welcome to the stream home edition im sitting in for the bear replaceable to me ok today broadcast and to you live from my home lets start off where on you tube right now right youre watching this check out that box over there and join me in this discussion give me some questions to ask the guest today id love to have you be a part of the show now let me ask you this have you heard of this app called tick tock its a social media app here check out some videos its mostly like you know short fun videos dance challenges cooking tips make up to i love what cat anytime i see a workout like the way these guys dance i dont personally have tech talk but im looking at this thinking maybe maybe i should this seems fun it Streams Streams there will look this app i have to tell you its actually grown into a behemot
Closer to the public but over the past few years specially this year it has been increasingly overshadowed and mired by protests comes at a very precarious time this is one of the last state of the nation address of the president is supposed to step down in 2022 it comes as the biggest Media Network in the country has been shut down forcibly shut down by congress that did not renew its franchise calling in and according to activists anti terror law has taken into effect and just a few days ago when for example local journalists in the southern philippines received Death Threats and another independent online use site north of manila has been raided by police so you know here at this point what theyre saying basically it remains to be seen what the president is saying but they are not very confident that the things that these going to be saying that she needs are real achievements that effect change on the ordinary people the philippines is still struggling to deal with the pandemic sau
Increasing to run twice the rate seen in late june. Just after 10 am in vancouver 11 pm and 8 in the evening here in moscow base friday july and this 17 welcome to r. T. International. Russia has rejected britains accusations of election meddling and tucking research the u. K. Foreign secretary said the government is almost certain that russia sought to interfere in last years poll. Taylor breaks down the claims. 2020 the year just keeps on giving a pandemic but social awakening and now russian interference the government has concluded that it is almost certain that russian actors start to interfere in the 21000. 00 general election through the online amplification of illicitly acquired in League Government documents whilst there is no evidence of a Broad Spectrum russian complain against a general election and any attempt to interfere in our democratic processes is completely unacceptable and elected to parliament the u. K. Foreign secretary said to his partys historic triumph at the
Investigation looking at whether they have achieved such a major monopoly that they are now legally stifling their much smaller competitors because of the crown of virus pandemic these testimonies are being carried out virtually and the line up includes the c. E. O. s of alba betting Google Facebook apple and amazon now each of these companies have been accused of manipulating their platforms and search results to promote their own products and interests google users know that any time they search for a product the 1st several results are typically advertisements but today the topic of conversation included how google has benefited from those results. What is the value of the part that you do use the google ads form and its a substantial part of your business whats the actual going 2cb3cb. Of revenue its i dont 100100 plus 1000000000. 00 but thats a lot of money mr. Now facebook was quick to defend its size and its acquisition of instagram and whats up by claiming china is also looking
You can see the mountains and the sky. I love the blue sky. Steve, says its going to be sunny after some of the clouds go away. It looks like theyve already gone away in san jose. One direction fans celebrating the 10th anniversary of when the boy band was formed. We have one person in the newsroom who is all fired up about this. Some other people are too. They have gone on to solo careers. You know that you know one direction. They launched an anniversary website with interactive playlist and more. Because this is the way goes the site crashed within the first few hours of its launch. Speaking of music its a good day to be at a taylor swift fan. Shes releasing the album tonight. She posted on social media the entire video shoot was overseen by medical inspector and everyone involved wore masks and practice social distancing. I think thats going to be a trend as we need to remind people that this was done safely so people dont start asking questions. Look, im glad the music is mrs. Get