The us House Of Representatives has passed a bill that would require the tiktok owner bytedance to sell its stake in the Social Media Platform or face a total ban in the country. During the debate, lawmakers repeatedly said that tiktok has links to the Chinese Communist Party Something denied by both tiktok and bytedance. Party something denied by both lets hear some of the debate in congress. Our intention is for tiktok to continue to operate, but not under the control of the Chinese Communist party. I want to emphasise this bill does not ban tiktok. It simply would require the Chinese Communist Party Affiliated bytedance to sell tiktok and divest their interests. Live to washington and our correspondent nomia iqbal. Nomia, given what has happened, how likely is it that tiktok will be banned in the us . I likely is it that tiktok will be banned in the us . Likely is it that tiktok will be banned in the us . I would be staggered banned in the us . I would be staggered if banned in the
On Craig Robertson at his home in utah, just hours ahead of a planned visit to the state by mr biden. Our North America correspondent, nomia iqbal, shared this latest update from washington dc. The details that we have so far is, as you mentioned there, the suspect s name was Craig Robertson. We understand he was 75 years old. And there was a criminal complaint that had already been filed in the District Court of utah regarding serious concerns about him. So one of the charges that he was facing was threats against the president ive got the criminal complaint in front of me but fbi agents conducted surveillance of his home back in march. They wanted to talk to him about his Social Media Posts. He told them, according to the complaint, to come back with an Arrest Warrant which they did. Now, when you look at the criminal complaint and the evidence that they had compiled against him, it included Social Media Posts that hed put up. And theyre very dark messages. They show violence towards
Hello, youre watching bbc news, this is a sportsday, heres whats coming up. England kick themselves back into six nations Title Contention, beating ireland at the death at twickenham. There are tears ofjoy for the azzurri italy celebrate a rare six nations win in rome, as the scots titles hopes are dashed. In the late winner for arsenal, their back on top of the Premier League for at least 2a hours. Another late winner. But its all over for englands cricketers a 4 1 test Series Defeat as they disintegrate in dharmashala inside three three days. Also coming up on sportsday. Teenager 0llie Bearman makes history by becoming the youngest briton to start an f1 race. And after a knockout win for anthonyjoshua, hes gunning for fury or usyk. I think both of them are very credible fighters and i would love the opportunity to face them at some stage. Welcome. Wow, its been an incredible day in rugby unions six nations, and the championship is going down to the final weekend. That certainly wasnt
Charges. After the judge dismissed some of the counts against him. So what does it mean for the prosecution as district attorney, fani willis waits to learn if shes thrown off the case. Also, this hour, President Biden takes his Battleground State toured a crucial wisconsin just hours after he and donald trump both clinch their partys nomination. Ill discuss the state of the race with an influential, an independentmin ded democrat, us senator joe manchin, and a bill that could ban the very popular social media app tiktok in the United States is heading to the us senate after overwhelmingly passing in the house were tracking the legislation and the impact on 100 million tiktok users in this country welcome to our viewers here in the United States and Around The World. Im wolf blitzer, a urine the Situation Room first tonight, new questions surrounding the trump election subversion case in georgia. After the Presiding Judge threw out a total of six counts, including three. Thats cited th
To help priced out renters find somewhere to live . In sport, theres no stopping liverpool as they hit five in europe against Sparta Prague including a stunner from in form darwin nunez. Including a stunner good morning. A good deal of dry weather on the cards today, some will say sunshine but they will be a cold easterly wind blowing. I will have all the details for today and for the weekend throughout the programme. Its friday the 8th of march. President joe biden has used his state of the Union Address to criticise donald trump his likely opponent in the election and to claim that freedom and democracy are under assault around the world. President biden also announced that the us military will construct a port in gaza to allow the delivery of more humanitarian aid to the territory. Tonight, im directing the us military to lead an Emergency Mission to establish a temporary pier in the mediterranean on the coast of gaza that can receive large shipments carrying food, water, medicine a