and the heidi joe castro has more from washington dc, the iphone apples, signature products, and the best selling smartphone in the world. is that the center of the us government's anti trust lawsuit? we allege that apple has consolidated its monopoly power, not by making its own products better, by making other products worse. as examples, the last 2 points to the apple wallet payment system and the apple watch. those interface only with the iphone. well, competitor watches and digital wallets face apple imposed barriers, and when it comes to apples messaging service, the company is accused of coming up photos and videos exchange with non apple devices and 2022. apple c. e o is asked whether applewood fix iphone to android messaging. the questionnaire are added quote, not to make it personal, but i can't send my mom certain videos, close quote, a capital c, a c, e o responded by your mom and i phone. the department of justice has been investigating apple since 2019, and so this lawsuit was long anticipated. apple has largely thought off previous complaints of anti trust. but this la

now it's become the largest big tech company to face us government scrutiny. heidi joe castro algae 0 washington. you can find more stories and analysis on a website that's out there at the news continues here on. those are off to $11.00 thing the in the group of poland to search for clues. this dusk falls in eastern time and the targets. how does a suppose then you might think these are the lesson hunters wild elephants here. have a dept hiding and sleeping in the day foraging at night. there are numerous appetites, true in the mass of the forest and on to phones while they trying to avoid contact with humans. when they do meet, the result can be disastrous. my neighbor was working that night and came across the elephant and couldn't get away in time. the elephant ended up scuffling him to death in a report from the villages of a disturbance on the edge of the community to samuel imaging. during takes off 2 distinct shapes. the elephants will adjust a 150 meters down the track. we can have them still a thing in the darkness, as the volunteers showing the lights that attend them, they

joe castro elgin 01 they sent out a stories were covering on algae 0 on our website out to 0 dot com, the very latest on all of our top stories on that. that's the news for now. i'll be back with more news after africa direct to stay with us. thanks so much. the critical debate. pony farmers are angry, people are starving, and we actually have to experts all good because we need money to buy informed opinions. the relevance of the security council is diminishing with every passing day. frank assessments, for addition to the highest level, they've been using games for the policy for the economy service. and course the arrivals inside story on al jazeera, the the last week and a bunch of days before sent for them up for c and faulty love. any you folks who don't adult, they remodeled to office to couldn't was okay my to premier the most frequent through those indicated usually by the federal suitcase. when you deal with you guys in the car. uh, did you buy the bedroom? if i show for christmas, i thought i'd sit there for them is all use of it and brush and clue, or somebody's out for a

joe castro. out to 0, washington. okay, before we let you go, take a look at one of the most beautiful sights in japan at the moment. tokyo's famous cherry blossoms, though they were expected to appear on the 24th of march, but they are blooming earlier than usual. thousands of visitors flock to the city to see the spectacle that lasts for around 3 weeks. major ologist say climate change is responsible for their early parents this year. right, that does it for me serve any up next on alpha 0 is one. 0 one east. i'll be back in 30 minutes with more of the days that you asked for can narrative from african perspective to base on the from to short documentary spine african filmmakers. and that's going to be the special for the taste of the sun from madagascar and football from new series of africa direct on our the few staunchly catholic east timor priests, a y, g repeated during the young nations bloody struggle for independence. they played a crucial role, protecting resistance fighters and those

we're going to talk to heidi joe castro is live for us in washington dc. talk us through about what we've heard from michael, coming to rob. this is the us as top commander in the middle east. so his words are significant and he was facing a major question from senators on this armed services committee. that being whether the u. s. military efforts to contain ended her these continued attacks upon us troops and against merchants in international waters by a ryan proxy groups, whether those efforts to contain them or working. and his answer was quite frank to this committee. he said that any rock and in syria that yes, there in fact have not been any detected attacks against us forces in those countries in the last 32 days that are significant. and given that before this, it was a near daily attacks facing us troops. one that even lots of the deaths of 3 us soldiers. what nathan, difference the top us commander said that it was the us air strike that killed the top commander of the cuts. i hezbollah group in syria, in iranian proxy militia. he so since then

joe castro, l g 0 or the chinese foreign minister is visiting australia for the 1st time in 7 years, australia or in china rebuilding ties following a period of strange relations of the camera called for an independent investigation to the origins of cobit 19. in response spacing, imposed terrace on impulse of australian goods. the trade times cost australia is economy in an estimated $13000000000.00. don't you from ticket want to do is the past twists and turns over the decade leaves us with lessons to draw on as well as valuable experience. i think that fundamentally it's about staying committed to mutual respect. china never into fee as an australia is internal affairs. we respect the system and the path of stretching it has chosen and when it comes to china is offering to dignity and legitimate concerns. so we have to cause hopes that australia will continue to abide by the commitments made at the establishment of diplomatic ties. and since then, to provide your respect and proper hands, electrical. each other's foreign minister has emphasized that it is in all of our interests t

will now be labeled a criminal by the state of texas. heidi joe castro elgin's era for my brazilian president, i both an arrow has been charged with the criminal association on full supplying his own cobit 19 vaccination data is the 1st indictment to be in battle. politician is facing several criminal investigations. he's accused of putting false information into the public health data base to make it appear that he received the corona virus vaccine, along with several people in the circle. during the pandemic, bolts in our was open the skeptical of vaccines, unfounded health restrictions. monica, you're not getting as more now from re edition that right? of the most serious of all the inquiries going on right now are about his a legit role in masterminding. the january 8th uprising? uh in brazil. you have the capital. uh what's the matter supporters? storm congress, the supreme court, and also the presidential palace one week after the current president, really nice to live up to but took office in january 2023. and the reason was that they believed a allegations made bible sonata wong with

all right, that's out here is heidi joe castro live in houston, texas. thanks so much heidi. as few as has traditionally been locked in a 2 party system, the democrats and the republicans. and according to some pulse this year, there's growing dissatisfaction among voters about a lack of choice. so i'm are drawn to 3rd party candidates and some are unsure about who to vote for if any. there are 3 prominent independent and 3rd party candidates casting a ballot for them during general. elections is often seen as a protest vote against the mainstream parties and their stances. this year, during the primaries button is facing a new challenge. what's been called an uncommitted vote. this allows voters to exercise a party vote without selecting a candidate last month in the battleground state of michigan. 13 percent of democrats voted uncommitted because of bite and support for israel and its war on gaza. that's over a $100000.00 votes, and there are real concerns among the democrats of bite and will be able to win the state come november. and the 2020 election by the narrowly defe

joe castro, out to 0 washington so powerful storms have had 3 central us states causing huge tornadoes that killed at least 3 people. that confirmed deaths were all in the state of ohio, where tornadoes shredded houses and down trees. storms also produced foresters in the states of indiana and kentucky forecasters in indonesia say more extreme weather is expected in the coming days. several parts of the country experienced natural disasters this week. jessica washington reports from jakarta, the aftermath of days of to intervene in with just a mattress flash floods, implants lives damaged, thousands of houses only of this week. dozens of people died. i have to the media that the worst that came. so to me at 4 am, it came off to know why all my belongings were swept away. we've had floats before, but not like this. extreme weather event. so taking hold of many parts of the engine asia as a transitions from the month to into the dry season. it probably go in east java heavy rains cause a reset to overflow flooding. hundreds of houses authorities move defected families to, to.

joe castro elgin's era. the colombian government has resuming military operations against the fog ripple faction following an attack on an indigenous community. present. gustavo, pinterest, of the shooting was a violation of a $65.00 deal. as i listened to run pnc reports from bogota, the attack is a blow to the president's pledge to end one of the world's longest running complex vicious attack on an armed civilians. members of a rebel dissident group, open fire on this indigenous community in the western county region that sunday, when local to resisted the arms groups attempts to forcibly recruit a young student. at least 3 people, the wounded when renowned indigenous so tori was killed, leaving her community long ravaged by a conflict once again in disarray and things have to medical and there's a lot of uncertainty, anxiety, and fear regarding desperate they're 12000 people in the indigenous reservation and people are stuck in that house is kids and not going to school. everything is still because we don

now it's become the largest big tech company to face us government scrutiny. heidi joe castro, elder 0 washington scientists and to islander restoring reef was carl brad in laboratories. i know a release of spam and eggs from consisting reese is collected and then groaned and lives for 5 years before being released onto the c bed. more than 4000 reef colonies have been restored. i'm going to be back in a couple of minutes, but moving all these stories on robots and stay with us on august the in china, this is a summer. the bathroom for the father was killed. boys and girls as young a 6th learned to handle firearms and develop insurance to be ready to protect the country. i would make your run so hard to $1.00 oh, $1.00 east visits china as military camp for kids on out to 0. the number of elephants bath and losing, he paused, has increased in the last several decades. officials attribute these to you gun does protection efforts, but there's another challenge. a big problem here is human. one life conflict. ellison's are increasingly going into villages is search of pastor and what ha

now it's become the largest big tech company to face us government scrutiny. heidi joe castro alger 0, washington or catherine trying. acosta is the director of policy and advocacy at the electronic frontier foundation. she says it is concerning that apple has been forcing up since you mr. earnest fix to its our eco system. and paula, if you send a, if you use a message to message, someone who doesn't have an iphone, which is a lot of people, it's in secure and apple does not let you use another messaging system to make an ibex, which secure between those 2 and mail it you download a 3rd party app, but just using that app and making that up secure is not a choice that you are able to make. and so apple, in this case cares about privacy and security when it will lock people into their ecosystem, but not for everybody else. there's always a concern in the sense that a lot of times legislation on technology is a little bit behind where the technology is. but that's not exactly what this lawsuit is about. this lawsuit is about practices that apple is doing that is anti competitive. and so

thank you very much for that. heidi's ro, castro lived in houston, texas. a sign 2020 joe biden won an overwhelming 92 percent of the black vote. but what's been usually a demographic advantages? now seeing a shift to the right for black americans expressing a potty preference, the democratic lead over republicans has drawn by about 20 percent in the past 3 years. as a record low for support among brand folders for the democrats, the gallup polling firm says the party now is that it's weakest position among minorities. in the past quarter century, the same poll indicates that hispanic voters are also dessert during the democratic party. in large numbers, the party only has a 12 percent. 12 points lead over the republicans compared to refer to one point leading 2021. that's the fast black voters and now make up 14.7 percent of total eligible voters. black voters are at 4014 percent and asian americans just about 6 percent. while i speak to christian ramos about this is a democratic strategist joining us from washington, d. c. thank you very much, christian f