you're watching g.w. news live from berlin is time ticking for tick talk president trump threatens to ban the app over concerns about chinese spying so what's the future of the video platform also coming up. democracy deferred elections in hong kong are delayed for a year chief executive carrie lam says a surge in coronavirus cases is to blame. we follow a coronavirus task force in israel and look at efforts to contain covert $19.00 and $1.00 of the country's major hotspots.

i'm all in is a thanks for joining us we start in the united states where president donald trump said he's considering banning the popular video app tick-tock reports indicate he's also considering an alternative forcing the apps owner chinese firm by dance to sell it to an american company u.s. officials claim tick-tock may pose a national security threat citing concerns that china could access the data that collects. with a think $100000000.00 users taught those itself as a digital playground but now it's turning into a box all grown between the u.s. and china. with american suspicious of its owners the be backed up may have exploded in recent years but not everyone is a fun. what do you recommend that people download

that up on their phones tonight tomorrow any time currently if you want your private information in the hands of the chinese communist party the struggle over digital technology is intensifying on the u.s. side facebook twitter and on the chinese site tech talk and the technology giant while we also the targets of a u.s. pressure campaign cartoons lampooning the u.s. have been spreading in chinese media this one depicting uncle sam suggesting the u.s. is threatened by competition but the official tone has been angry. dollar. ban is part of what he calls nations becoming clean countries which is in fact the senate him for double standards. that means. the battle may be over to talk but the war is about vying for tech supremacy at stake not just profit but

power. now let's bring in our business correspondent new york so what power does trump actually have to put pressure on a chinese company like that. well i mean u.s. president donald trump probably could not directly alter to talk or. the other company to sell the u.s. operations for example but as we heard he could say ok we're going to ban talk and then they could decide to sell for example the u.s. operations to microsoft and then maybe u.s. president donald trump would. take this author back so that's probably how the whole deal could work and what is behind the american government's mistrust of this app to talk. well i mean they have charges for quite some time that talk is actually collecting privacy data from its

users so we have those accusations those charges by the way not just in the united states but also in the u.k. or in germany tick-tock of self i'm always was saying that well for example is the u.s. operations all the servers are also u.s. based but still there were some suspicions that even if the service are in the u.s. that does not necessarily mean that data or has not been transferred to abusing. and looking at the business aspect of things here we've heard reports that microsoft might be trying to buy the u.s. shares of tik tok would this be a good deal from microsoft. well let me take talk is incredibly successful was in a very short time span that just recently served 2000000000 downloads also take top at world wide as far as we know there are estimates that tick tock the end

tire operation might be worth about $50000000000.00 so all new to us i pop aeration is would go for less and that is money that microsoft could clearly afford to about on the other side then microsoft also might be right in between those 2 struggling superpowers of the united states and china so we will wait and see if microsoft is really following that path d.w. business correspondent younes quoted in new york thank you 3 people have been charged in connection with the hacking of prominent twitter accounts 2 weeks ago prosecutors say a 17 year old from florida in the us was the mastermind behind the the hack that duped people into making bitcoin donations effected some of the platforms most high profile accounts including former u.s. president barack obama democratic presidential candidate joe biden microsoft

founder bill gates as well as some companies accounts like apple and twitter said the hackers targeted some of its employees who had access to its internal systems. hong kong's legislative elections scheduled for september have been postponed for a year chief executive kerry lamb says the delay is necessary due to a surge and coronavirus cases but opposition lawmakers aren't convinced they accuse the government of using the pandemic as a pretext to thwart the pro-democracy movement there germany has responded by suspending its extradition treaty with the territory. hong kong's election 4 years ago it should happen again in september but instead the poll has been pushed back by a full year not how sailing yet though it was a very very difficult decision to postpone the legislative council election which takes place every 4 years but it's necessary to fight off the coronavirus to

protect people's health and up hold public safety we also have to ensure the election process is fair and open. thing high peace. ironically to curb the pro-democracy protests on const chief executive has activated a rarely used nearly century old emergency power dating from the british colonial times. that allows for short term only delays to elections. the decision to postpone the trainee train to electrical election has nothing to do with politics has nothing to do with the likely outcome of this round of elections. dismayed by the delay the opposition is warning of a constitutional crisis. he said that he said. that one of the. people who are not just these well this is some of those well because it was

this something more. against the basic law against the promises made by outsiders. so eagerly is. around half the 70 members of hong kong's legislative council are appointed by the beijing backed government after a year of often violent protests and the imposition of a heavily criticised security law the opposition had been optimistic. for the 1st time there were hopes of a democratic majority beijing will not let that happen and seize the rising number of coronavirus cases as an opportunity to delay the vote. now to some of the other stories making news around the world. officials in portugal say at least 2 people have been killed and dozens injured after an intercity train collided with a maintenance vehicle hundreds of passengers were on board when the crash occurred

near the central city of colima. hurricane is churning through the caribbean bringing strong winds and flooding in puerto rico and some islands of the bahamas a hurricane warning has been issued for parts of florida where the storm is expected to hit on saturday. british filmmaker alan parker has died at the age of 76 after a long illness he started his career in advertising and later shot to fame as the director of films like midnight express mississippi burning and. parker was awarded a knighthood and the bafta fellowship. let's take a look now at the latest developments in the corona virus pandemic mexico has overtaken britain as the country with the world's 3rd highest death toll behind brazil and the u.s. officials there have recorded recorded almost 40 $7000.00 fatalities british prime minister boris johnson says he's quote putting the brakes on using lockdown

measures and will instead be imposing new restrictions that's after a new spike in the krona virus infection in the u.k. and germany has added 3 northern spanish regions to its list of high risk destinations anyone arriving from those areas will have to produce a negative virus test or gore go into quarantine for 2 weeks with the pandemic closing economies down fall out was expected in europe now it's becoming clear just how devastating the pandemic has been g.d.p. numbers show that many economies that experienced years of growth are now deep in the red this is by some measures the worst recession ever ever to hit the eurozone . cash registers are humming again across europe. iconic landmarks eerily quiet and spring are alive with people once more no one knows for sure how the pandemic will develop over the next few months but what is becoming clear is that the economic damage done in europe between april and june was of

historic proportions. that was the period when strict lockdowns brought large parts of the continent's economy to a virtual standstill the data for that period is now becoming available and the news it's as bad as anything the e.u. has ever seen it means the european economy has entered its deepest recession and post-war history spain's economy contracted by a massive 18.5 percent that compares with a near 14 percent drop in france and a 12.4 percent fall and italy german g.d.p. fell by 10 percent. with covert 9000 cases rising again there are some fears of a 2nd lockdown. even without that the pandemics economic impact is likely to be felt for many months to come here in barcelona beaches normally follow it tourists are far quieter than normal a local rise in infections is keeping travellers away. israel

has suffered a surge of coronavirus cases in recent weeks the city have been a broch as a hotspot it's one of the most densely populated and poorest cities in israel and home to a large ultra orthodox population the municipality has set up a task force to contain the contain the pandemic and tanya kramer went to see how it's going. most of morgan stern is on his way to the main synagogue in the center of the neighborhood home to a large city ultra-orthodox or how the community this synagogue is closed because of the pandemic people have to pray out sight. you know. without marking stern who works as a lawyer manages in this free time the karuna task force. this is stigma and the general public against the ultra orthodox and against been able to be more formally

people seem to have a demon all sick and that they're infecting people that it's evil but it's not true and i don't think there's any other community that keeps the rules as strictly as we deal with the argument that. over 2400 residents are currently infected with call that 19 and their new cases every day in a brac is one of the most densely populated cities in israel and. yes boy. the or to hear the arguments for 20 family members shares 75 square meters and one bathroom one shower if one person gets sick everyone will get sick. on a simple almost patient many don't. have internet no smartphones they can get information online but this information on billboards. a lot of what ot the minister palate he has now set up

a so-called war room to handle the crisis this is modern stern and his team supported by the israeli army work every day of the week except about was some ultra orthodox communities forbid the use of modern technologies morgan's dance team rely on them every neighborhood is monitored to help isolate people who have tested positive for the virus and we check those people who are newly infected and send them out of the city if they agreed to it of course because we believe that the more cases we move out the less karuna will spread in this city. a family of 8 needs to be placed in quarantine in jerusalem they're taken by ambulance to one of the hotels that have been turned into quarantine centers run by the israeli military. morgan stern is back on the road the virus keeps him busy all the time. it's hard it's very difficult and very demanding but i don't give up

someone is watching over us. been a block is taking up the task to keep the virus from spreading further just like the rest of the country which is in the midst of a 2nd wave of the pandemic. thanks for watching. combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and. our corona. 19 special next on d w. people . on the field.