hello and welcome. new zealand s government has become the latest to ban tiktok on devices with access to its parliamentary network, due to security concerns. this is because of fears that the chinese owned app passes information about users to the chinese government, something the owners, bytedance, deny. earlier on thursday, the uk followed the united states, and the european commission, in banning the app from sensitive government devices. china says it s a politically motivated decision, not one based on facts. our news reporter, azadeh moshiri, joins us now. why governments are so worried? given by lbs is a chinese company that owns tiktok, governments are concerned that user could be violated and uses personal information can be passed on to the chinese government bytedance. but bytedance and tiktok deny this, saying there is nowhere the chinese government can get its hands on the data, but this is why governments are so concerned, it is because the extent of data t
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hello and welcome to bbc news. dmytro kuleba, ukraine s foreign minister, has warned that countries which mistreated ukraine during the darkest moment of its history will be held to account after the war ends. in an interview with the bbc, he also warned western allies that delaying the delivery of weapons will cost the lives of ukrainian soldiers. he has spoken to our diplomatic correspondent, james landale. the battle for bakhmut is now the longest of the war. more than half a year of bloody fighting for control of what is little more than rubble. but ukraine s foreign minister told me holding the city was vital, and notjust for the damage it s causing to russia s army. defending bakhmut is emotionally very challenging, because people find it hard emotionally to take, carry the burden of this death, loss of human life and destruction. it s a struggle to save those who are behind bakhmut from that same destiny as bakhmut is now suffering from. he said what ukraine needs