you're watching data but the news live from berlin could it be time up for tick tock in the u.s. president donald trump says he plans to ban the out over concerns about chinese spying what will it mean for the video platform and u.s. chinese relations also coming up democracy deferred in hong kong chief executives carry lamb to light elections for a year saying a surge in coronavirus cases is the reason. and a story of birds and beer wine drinkers in a small town in germany and getting their feathers ruffled.

the act. i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program we begin in the u.s. where president donald trump says he plans to ban the chinese owned video app tick-tock u.s. officials are currently looking into the potential for tick tock to be used by the chinese government as a tool for gathering intelligence. to talk with its viral dance routines and political activism videos is a favorite among teenagers worldwide with over $2000000000.00 downloads and $17000000000.00 in revenue last year the app is extremely successful and influential but its exploding popularity has also raised red flags in the u.s. officials are investigating whether tick-tock is a threat to national security there are concerns that the data collect. did by the

app owned by the chinese firm by dance could be accessed by beijing the company denies any connection with the chinese government but donald trump is threatening to ban b.-f. in the u.s. . well look you know we may be betting we may be doing some other things are a couple of options but a lot of things after the so we'll see what happens but we are looking at a lot of alternatives with respect to their. reports on friday indicated that one of the alternatives being considered is an order for bite dance to give up ownership of tiktaalik potential buyers are reportedly already in talks to take over the apps u.s. operations including tech giant microsoft and national security review have to talk is expected to be presented to trump in the coming days its results may further sour already deteriorating ties between the u.s. and china with tensions already running high on trade and the coronavirus pandemic

cyber security concerns are now further straining relations between the 2 powers david korten has been following the story for us from new york. there have been charges against to talk for quite some time that the company actually collects privacy data from their users and if you look at the use of a soft to talk it's basically the younger caroll out and that's why they have been some concerns not just in the united states but also in the u.k. or in germany for instance so let's wait and see if really any kind of deal is going to happen on one side for microsoft to talk would be clearly pretty tricked if was just recently more than $2000000000.00 loads of the tick talk globally on the other side microsoft would be right in the middle between those struggling superpowers the united states and china and i'm quite certain that microsoft will

think twice to have spent billions of dollars and then might be caught in the middle of china and the u.s. . i'm staying in the u.s. and 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 was the mastermind behind the hack the jeep people into making bitcoin donations effective some of the platforms most high profile accounts including former u.s. president barack obama democratic presidential candidate joe biden and microsoft founder bill gates as well as some company accounts like apple and to intercept the hackers targeted some of its employees who had access to internal systems hong kong's legislative elections shuttled for september have been postponed for a year chief executive carrie lam says the delay is necessary to due to a surge in coronavirus cases but opposition will make has accused the government of

using the pandemic as a pretext to thwart the pro-democracy movement germany has responded by suspending its extradition treaty with the territory. hong kong's election 4 years ago it should happen again in september instead the poll has been pushed back by a full year not house saving 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. 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 trente 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 he said that one of the. people who are not just these well this is some of those locals it was this something more to be against the basic law against the promises made oh so so so so these are the leaders of. 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. will not let that happen and seize the rising number of coronavirus cases as an opportunity to delay the vote. and tenants on the other stories making news around the world people have gathered in portland oregon for another night of protests president trying to eat and that the federal agents which were supposed to be phased out this week will remain in the city until local police have finished what he called a cleanup of quote anika ists and agitate is police in zimbabwe have arrested acclaimed author tittie duncan mba during an anti-government protest placed to people turned out in the capital harare to demonstrate against alleged state corruption and the slumping economy authorities said the protest was banned due to the corona virus pandemic. hurrican is says churning through the caribbean bringing strong winds and flooding in puerto rico and some islands of the

bahamas a hurricane warning has been issued to parts of florida where the storm is expected to hit on saturday. british filmmaker alan parker has died at the age of 76 on to suffering 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 if he. was awarded a knighthood and british the british film and television academy's lifetime achievement award with a pandemic closing economies down fall out was expected in europe now it's becoming clear just how devastating the pandemic has been jaideep a numbers show that many a cone a maze that experienced years of growth and i think in the red this is by some measures the worst recession ever to hit the euro zone. 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 on 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 point 5 percent that compares with a near 14 percent drop in france and a 12.4 percent fall in italy german g.d.p. fell by 10 percent. with covert 19 cases rising again there are some fears of a 2nd lockdown. even without the condemning anomic impact is likely to be felt for

many months to come here in barcelona beaches normally forward tourists are far quieter than normal a local rise in infections is keeping travellers away. muslims around the world celebrating. one of the most important holidays in the islamic calendar this year though the 4 day holiday is taking place under the shadow of the pandemic social distancing measures and making it difficult for families to celebrate together i worship as i can do the best when i can be a little furry evil on him or look oh i didn't mean a historic 1st for douglas croke park stadium the home of irish sports and normally a symbol of catholic ireland hosted socially distance prayers for several 100 muslims celebrating eat a lot. for me just reading the diversity integration with what to see today that

you know. you know. it's going to be honest i was just hysterical it is complicating a period where we take a back to. muslims around the world are celebrating a scaled down version of the festival worshippers in war torn yemen perform a prayer in freedom square. the festival of sacrifice is marked by the ritual slaughter of animals which are then shared with those in need in a live and n.g.o.s is distributing meat to syrian refugees. this project is important because there are many families who do not get meat except on and there are families that don't get me to tall not even on eat a lot of there are more families in need then there is sacrificial meat but god willing we will do our best to bring this meat to those who deserve it. and if the

. afghans pray as a 3 day ceasefire between government forces and the taliban begins. many hope this will bring an end to nearly 2 decades of conflict. strict health guidelines in indonesia allowed muslims in the capital of jakarta to attend prayers amid the pandemic. though a quieter affair than usual the spirit of eat ensures across the globe. but now for a story of bird a beer and birds from the german state of bavaria is well known for its love beer and its immense production of the beverage but in one small town their drink is ongoing 1st and all because of a pair of feathery fades. bad paper cold that's larkin's to machine gun fire. or perhaps in this t.v.'s loft

these white storks have made their yearly market treat journey from africa and shares in a place to nest in the small german town of lived in prevaricate. normally it's seen as a sign of good luck a store chooses your roof to nest in but not for this. protected species in germany chose a rather inconvenient spot to nest to this year. we already had one last year in the roof of the brewery now the young storks when they come back they often come back to the same place so they look for a place to build their nest and i did it in the chimney of the brewery. be a production was forced to be suspended and christian needed a special craftsman to carefully move the nest so production could resume but then came the coronavirus lock down. we had already planned that when the nest was built we would be able to raise it but when it was finished we were in full lockdown no craftsman were available.

with no trades person available christian was forced to wait as is being stopped again to run lloyd. for baby storks have since hatched it would covert restrictions slightly lifting the nest could be moved next week. a craftsman is coming next week he's going to build the elevation we hope to be able to start brewing beer in the next week but we have to wait 5 or 6 weeks until the beer is ready so around mid september so there will be a short period of time which will have to find other solutions. while b.m.r. run dry is brewery for a few weeks the storks seem unfazed by the trouble they've caused maybe plotting a return to this spot next year. you're

watching the news live from berlin up next state of news travel program check in with a look at some of germany's loveliest somewhat aside destinations i'll be back next hour before headlines in the meantime you can stay up to date on our web site at state of dot coms i'm rebecca resist converted thanks very much for. combating the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and. our corona up to. 19 special next on d w. w's.