Severe flooding in the italian tourist city. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in washington where President Trump has again denounced the impeachment inquiry into him as the first public hearings got under. It started with testimony from the acting Us Ambassador to ukraine. Bill taylor said it was clear to him the white house was making both military aid and a visit to washington by the ukrainian president conditional on ukraine launching an investigation into mr trumps democratic rival joe biden and his son. Our north america editor jon sopel has been watching. History in the house. This is like the super bowl for politics, the day the impeachment hearings go public. And coast to coast, all the Us Tv Networks are gearing up for the unfolding drama that could be the decisive moment of the trump presidency. And early this morning, in the white house residence, the light is o
It is also the kind of immigration we have got. We want people coming here who want to contribute but we have to control the costs. The labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn refuses to confirm whether or not Free Movement of people from the eu will be included in the partys general election manifesto. My instinct is to recognise that the economies are interdependent around the world, that we all benefit from people moving to and working in different societies. The government and the armed forces are accused of covering up illegal killings by british troops in afghanistan and iraq. And in half an hour the bbcs Technology Programme click looks at the perils of the gig economy. Prince andrew has categorically denied having any sexual contact with a woman, who says she was forced to have sex with him when she was 17. He told Bbcs Newsnight he could not have been with Virginia Roberts on the day in question in 2001 as he was at home after spending the afternoon at a Pizza Express in woking with his
Hello and welcome to bbc news. 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 info
Hello and welcome to bbc news. 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 its owned by a chinese company, bytedance, and its 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. Heres 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 informati