The us general manager of tiktok has said the chinese owned video sharing app is here for the long run, after President Donald Trump said he would ban it in the us. Vanessa pappas told tiktok users in a video statement that its staff were building the safest app, amid us concerns about data protection. Tiktok is mostly used to share short videos, usually about 15 seconds long, and it has grown rapidly in the last year, now boasting more than 800 million active monthly users worldwide. But it is owned by a chinese company, bytedance, and it is this last fact that concerns the us security forces. There is in fact a precedent for this us announcement. India has already blocked the app, and australia is also considering a ban. Here is our Technology Reporter chris fox. Well, the app has been decompiled by security researchers. Theyve looked deep into it, and as yet, they havent found a smoking gun. Theres nothing obvious in the app that seems to be sending information back to the chinese.
Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. First, a former conservative minister and current mp has been arrested on suspicion of rape. The sunday times says the allegations were made by a former parliamentary employee and include four separate incidents at addresses in london, including in westminster, between july last year and january this year. The metropolitan police said a man in his 50s has now been released on bail. A conservative Party Spokesman said that all allegations of this nature were taken extremely seriously adding it would be inappropriate to comment further. Lets cross to our Political Correspondent Tony Bonsignore who has more on this. Tony, what do we know . Well, obviously a limited amount we can say at the moment. Let me tell you what we know so far. These allegations against a current mp and former minister according to the sunday times, these allegations mad
Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. First here in the uk, a conservative mp, and former minister, has been arrested on suspicion of rape. He has now been released on bail. According to the sunday times, the allegations were made by a former parliamentary employee, who has accused him of rape, Sexual Assault and coercive control. Lets cross to our Political Correspondent Tony Bonsignore who has more on this. Tony, tell us more about what is known so far. Yes, what we know is these allegations against a current mp and former minister, according to the sunday times, they were made by a former parliamentary employee. Now the paper says that she alleges that the paper says that she alleges that the mp assaulted her, forced her to have sex and left her so traumatised that she had to go to hospital and she is accused him of rape, Sexual Assault and coercive control. Now weve had a st
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