We start with the social media app tiktok because its ceo has vowed to keep on fighting after the us House Of Representatives passed a bill that could see the app banned in america. Shou zi chew released a video on tiktok threatening legal action and warning that if the bill becomes law it will mean the end of tiktok for its 170 million users in the us. Well hearfrom him injust a moment, but first, heres our us Business Correspondent erin delmore who has been following developments on capitol hill. The houseboat sets the stage for what could become an ultimatum to tiktok Chinese Owned Company bytedance. Selby avenue or it will be banned. There is a way to go between here and there. It needs to go through this and it faces an uncertain future. The Senate Majority leader has been noncommittal about whether he will bring it up for a vote. Some studies are only about to vote against it. If it does move through the senate, President Biden that he will sign it. Components of the bill argue t
killed two children, happened in pakistan near the iranian border in the belochistan region. iran said it was targeting two bases linked to the group. in the early hours, they said that there was an explosion after an air attack that it blamed on iran. this would make pakistan the third country in a matter of days to be hit by an attack by iran after it s also hit syria and iraq. now, the explosion happened in a pakistani village is located in the border regions of pakistan and iran, and that an area known as belochistan. pakistan s largest but least populated region in the southwest of the country. earlier on, state media from iran said that the military had used drones and missiles to hit militant groups in the area. those reports were subsequently removed without explanation according to the news agency, ap. the group have said that they were targeting at the time, the newsagencies had said that they were targeting a militant group call which translates as army ofjustice,
the problems with horizon and the adverse impact these had had on prosecutions across the uk. in september 2020, supported by crown office, and with information provided by the post office, the scottish criminal cases review commission wrote to 73 individuals who may have been convicted in scotland on the basis of unreliable evidence from the horizon system, with the purpose of inviting the application for their case to be reviewed. to date, to the best of my knowledge, and individuals have come forward to the scottish criminal cases review commission, and of that 16, the commission has made seven such referrals to the high court, four of which have resulted already in convictions being overturned. in addition to those individuals who had been written to by the commission, in recognising the role it can play in the system s commissions were, the crown office, separate from the list identified by the post office, identified a potentially affected cases with a view to identifyi
in the last few minutes, prince harry has withdrawn his libel action against the associated newspapers. hello, i m matthew amroliwala, welcome to verified live, before we turn to the headline stories, i want to show you pictures coming from japan. in the next 20 minutes, we are going to see if all goes well, japan is set to make a latest attempt at a soft touch down on the moon. it is the smart lander investigating the moon, it is known as slim, it is hoping to touch down in about 20 minutes time. it is very difficult to land on earth s natural satellite safely, about half of all attempts have succeeded. now slim is set to begin descent manoeuvres from an altitude of about 15 kilometres about now, that process is supposed to be starting now, and if all goes well the craft will touch down on the lunar surface in 20 minutes time. we will take you through all of that here on bbc news in the next 15 minutes, so do stay with us and we will have plenty more on that attempted land