The European Unions Foreign Policy chief, josep borrell, Accused Israel of using starvation as a weapon of war, a claim israel rejects. Heres what us Secretary Of State Antony Blinken said a short time ago. According to the most respected measure of these things, 100 of the population in gaza is at severe levels of acute Food Insecurity. Thats the first time an entire population has been so classified. We also see again, according to, in this case, the united nations, 100 the totality of the population is in need of humanitarian assistance. Our state Department Correspondent tom bateman is in the philippines travelling with mr blinken, he filed this update a little earlier. After this visit mr blinken will head after this visit mr blinken will head to after this visit mr blinken will head to the middle east. On to cairo to media head to the middle east. On to cairo to media gypsy leadership. The point of this to media gypsy leadership. The point of this is to media gypsy leadership. Th
House on wednesday voted overwhelmingly in favour of a bill that could force tiktok s chinese owner to sell their stake in the platform, orface a nationwide ban. President joe biden urged the senate to take swift action to pass the bill. Lawmakers say the app poses a National Security threat as its Parent Company, bytedance, is based in beijing and is subject to a law requiring it to share data with the Chinese Government. Tiktok has told lawmakers that it has taken steps to ensure the data of american users isnt compromised by employees in china. Nevertheless, the legislation should head to the senate next. Its fate there is uncertain. Following the house vote, tiktok urged its 150 million users in the us to lobby against the bill by calling on them to contact their members of congress. Tiktok influencers also protested against the bill outside the white house. Heres what they told our correspondent. I am aware that im giving my data, right. Im aware. Im ok with it. Let me make that d
Or be barred from the us. Their concerns centre around the Chinese Military being able to access american users data. Heres tiktok s shou zi chew. Over the last few years we have invested to keep your data safe and our platform free from outside manipulation. We have committed that we will continue to do so. This legislation is signed into law will lead to a band of tiktok in the United States. Will put more than 300,000 americanjobs at states. Will put more than 300,000 american jobs at risk and will take away your tiktok. The suggestion that tiktok could be shut down in the us has already started to raise concerns among influencers, who use the social media site to pursue their careers. Here are the thoughts of Beverly Hills based tiktok star, macy eleni. I dont know why politicians are going after it the way they are. It feels to me like they are. It feels to me like they are focusing on things that i weigh less important than all the things they should be focusing on. It doesnt fee
Much. You bet. The news continues right here on cnn its friday, march 15, right now on cnn this morning decision de for the da, a judge in georgia about to rule whether fani willis will be kicked off Donald Trumps Election Subversion Case, plus a deadly attack on civilians waiting for food and water in gaza. He israelis insisting they had nothing to do with it. Wow. Oh my god wow breaking news, deadly tornadoes sweep through ohio and indiana were tracking that destructive storm all right, it is 05 00 a. M. In the east and that includes randolph county, indiana, where they are waking up to this reports of Tornado Damage in the area roughly between indianapolis and dayton, ohio police in logan county, ohio are reporting to People Killed were gonna get much more from our weatherman, Derek Van Dam are coming up later on in the hour as the sun starts to come up their good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to be with you on this friday. We made it in the next few hours. Uh, jud
Ambassador Riyad Mansour at the un in new york, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure to have you on the programme. Ambassador, do you have any hope left that talks can achieve a stop or at least a suspension to the war in gaza . I still have hope. And thats what drives me to work harder with all of my colleagues, to succeed in putting an end to this war, to have a ceasefire, and to be able to send humanitarian assistance up to the needs of the people in the gaza strip and to prevent a forced Mass Transfer to egypt. I mean, nobody would doubt that, for the two million and more palestinians who live in gaza and of course the 100 or so hostages who are being held in the tunnels in gaza as well, every day is a day of extreme suffering. The problem is, if one looks at the talks and what is being said about the talks, there appears to be very little ground for optimism. For example, the israelis say no way will they even countenance a stop to their Military