Lifted the ban on the private messaging Service Telegram russian Officials Say the ban was lifted after the company showed willingness to help with counterterrorism efforts telegram is a messaging company with over 400000000 active monthly users and it had been banned in russia since 20 teen Communications Watchdog odd source said in a statement. The war is dropping its demands to restrict access to Telegram Messenger in agreement with russias general Prosecutors Office now for more we are joined by bus. Juan and Christi I Ben lets start with you why was this ban lifted at this time and was a truly over telegrams founder saying that what he would do or he would do more actually to combat extremism. I think it had been very little to do with combating extremism it had much more to do with the fact that this ban on telegram was completely ineffective and all about 15800000 i p addresses were being blocked out including 8 counts on amazon and google clouds it was severely affecting russia
They crossed the border into china according to Chinese State officials now they say thats where the indian soldiers were met with clubs and rocks by chinese soldiers manning the border and now many in india are calling for a boycott of chinese goods amounting to the billions so joining us to expand on this so rob goup doug he is a senior Asia Pacific International relations policy expert at the institute for china america studies so rob good to see you so 1st can you give us a brief history on this disputed region in the himalayas that india and china have hostilities over. India and china of course all the grief or. Do you. Require relates. Just call the western sector where they have had their they had those statistics up some of this loss of life china has a disproportionate interest you know a core interest then meantime theres also an eastern sector in the s. M. Himalaya as well which is also in dispute which is of course india so they school for a bar in a trade off but this is