want the election scrapped calling it a sham. welcome to the programme. we start with the international row over tiktok. china has accused the us of overreacting after federal employees were ordered to remove the app from government issued phones. tiktok is owned by the chinese firm bytedance. and on monday, the white house gave government agencies 30 days to remove tiktok from their phones. the us calls the guidance a critical step forward in addressing the risks presented by the app to sensitive government data. chris derusha is the federal chief information security officer. he said the guidance is part of the administration s ongoing commitment to securing our digital infrastructure and protecting the american people s security and privacy. china disagrees. here s a foreign ministry spokesperson. the ministry spokesperson. united states, the rhodes one the united states, the rhodes number one superpower, is so afraid of a mobile phone application to young people like so
and a big win for the fantasy adventure film everything everywhere all at once, after a succesful night at the screen actors guild awards in hollywood. good morning and welcome to bbc news. the prime minister and the european commission are due to hold final talks on a new post brexit trade deal for northern ireland today. rishi sunak and ursula von der leyen will meet in windsor to discuss complex challenges around the exisiting deal what s called the northern ireland protocol. there will be a cabinet meeting in the afternoon, where an update on those talks will be given. if a final deal is agreed, the prime minister and ms von der leyen will hold a short joint press conference. rishi sunak would then make a statement in the house of commons. so, what is the protocol and why is it important? it was created after brexit to avoid border controls between northern ireland and the republic of ireland which is an eu member. effectively, it leaves northern ireland within th
with permission, mr speaker, i would like to make a seven on the northern ireland protocol. after weeks of negotiations, today we have made a decisive breakthrough. the windsor framework delivers free floating trade within the whole night kingdom. it protects northern ireland s place in our union and it safeguards sovereignty for the people of northern ireland. by achieving all this, it preserves the delicate balance inherent in the belfast good friday agreement. mr speaker, does what many said could not be done. removing thousands of pages of eu laws and making permanent weekly binding changes to the protocol treaty itself. that is the protocol treaty itself. that is the breakthrough we have made, those are the changes we will deliver, now is the time to move forward as one united kingdom. mr speaker, before i turn to the details, let us remind ourselves why this matters. it matters because at the heart of the belfast good friday agreement and the reason it has endured for a
let s turn to ireland now where us presidentjoe biden has already had a busy day and where in the next hour he s expected to address a joint sitting of the irish parliament. in the past hour we ve seen him arrive at farmleigh house in dublin for a meeting with the irish prime minister leo varadkar. mr biden praised irish values and set out plans for a closer relationship between the us and ireland. . , relationship between the us and ireland. ., , , relationship between the us and ireland. . , , ., ireland. there really is an opportunity ireland. there really is an opportunity to ireland. there really is an opportunity to make - ireland. there really is an i opportunity to make serious progress, notjust because of the accords that we signed 25 years ago, but just accords that we signed 25 years ago, butjust in terms of the way ireland is moving, and the way that it is taking its place in the world, and i just think that it feels so good to be able to have this emerging
and he can make the company profitable once again but that it hasn t been easy. it s been really quite a stressful situation over the last several months. not an easy one. but apart from the pain, i mean, so it s been quite painful. we are expecting president biden to arrive here as you ll see university soon and to address students inside. we have spoken to them already today. a huge sense of anticipation inside the university, it is not often that you have a president in town and is the world spotlight on your country. a lot of expectation around what he will say, the words he will use today. we know he will talk about the good friday agreement, 25 years since that was signed, but there will be lots of people looking at the language that he uses, because, of course, there is no power sharing at stormont here in northern ireland. that is something that, we understand he is hoping to address when he meets political leaders here today. the rain and wind has gone, it has been a