president biden the power to ban tiktok overfears president biden the power to ban tiktok over fears it is a potential security risk. and thinking out loud. the singer ed sheeran opens up about using music to cope with depression. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello, and welcome to the programme. the head of the fbi has claimed it is most likely that covid i9 originated from a leak from the chinese government controlled lab in wuhan. china has accused the fbi politicising the investigation into the origins of coronavirus and says there has been no new scientific evidence to support the theory. other us agencies believe the virus developed naturally. 0ur north america correspondent john sudworth has more. suspicions have long swirled around wuhan s laboratories. now three years after the start of the pandemic, they have burst out into the open once again. the fbi has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most
something one member of that team acknowledged in an interview for our upcoming podcast series. it is difficult to know where the science ends and where the politics starts. so you can have a heated debate about a lot of different details and you do not know if there is political influence. while the lab leak theory. china, it is clear, never wanted journalists asking questions about the origins of covid and there appears to be very little hope of further co operation with international efforts to look for answers but in america there is renewed interest. the biden administration has given the lab leak theory fresh impetus and a new republican controlled congress has willingly picked up the batten. the select committee will come to order. this is an existential struggle over what life will look like in the 21st century. despite the fbi s public comments, the us intelligence agencies remain divided. with little hard evidence, many fear one of the biggest questions of our time where di
will rest a balance between the branches of government. our middle east correspondent yolanda knell is injerusalem. with stun grenades and horses israeli police try to drive protesters back. but here they break through the barricades. on the country s busiest motorway between tel aviv and jerusalem, traffic came grinding to a halt. demonstrators believe sweeping judicial changes will undermine the independence of the courts and threaten democracy. they will allow the government to overturn supreme court rulings. but the prime minister and his new hardline government call the protesters anarchists. translation: the freedom of protest is not a license i to reduce the country to anarchy, to chaos. a sovereign state cannot tolerate anarchy. today, amid rowdy scenes, a parliamentary committee pushed new legislation through an initial vote. supporters argue their plans restore balance between the branches of government.
but the size of the latest protests and the authority s tough response showjust how split israel has become. yolande knell, bbc news, jerusalem. the us house foreign affairs committee has voted to allow preston joe committee has voted to allow prestonjoe biden the power to ban tiktok, along with other apps, believed to pose apps, believed to pose a security risks. the chinese owned social media app is currently used by more than 100 million americans. earlier this week, the white house ordered government agencies to wipe tiktok off federal devices within 30 days. this comes after the european parliament and canada banned the video sharing app from staff phones citing security reasons. earlier, i spoke to dr miah hammond errey the director of the emergency technology programme at the united states study centre at the university