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called pit tongue. the my name is melissa chant, thanks for joining us. the government of the policy has banned the global lead, popular social media app, tick tock. it explained that the app was, quote, disrupting, social harmony. local creators and influencers are furious. the paul is just the latest country in asia to impose either a full or partial band on tick tock in india and afghanistan. there is a blanket ban. indonesia blocked the app. social commerce function pakistan has c saud banning. then lifting them over the last 3 years and in taiwan tech talk is not allowed on government devices. that's because the software is owned by chinese tech, dying to fight dance, critics say sensitive user data risk falling into the hands of the chinese

government. or that paging might manipulate the algorithms, but to craters, the more immediate risk is losing a major source of income. the cooking of this tasty dish doesn't seem subversive to monday to mon under. she sees it as celebrating the pole and its cuisine and her videos, our money makers, monday to earned $1500.00 us dollars a month as a content creator before the pulse, sudden tick, tock, pan, no business. my business has been completely have had invested in scaled my business thinking of both instagram and take talk. also have everything planned one month in advance and clients for permits their post will make it. and these platforms within these times all of which is known symbols. now, would answer, do i give my client's name? she's not alone in her outrage. nepal has an estimated 2200000 to talk users.

many the police have turned their accounts into income streams or depend on the app for advertising businesses. and they want the ban reversed me the because we have gathered to you because the government hasn't been tick tock. now friends, relatives, parents now use have old gathered here to protest the band imposed by the government. don't take talk to the doctor. and the post prime minister push the, come out the hall said the decision followed link the debate and intended to quote, curb social ills. and in our key took talk responded in a statement saying, as a global platform, we have thousands of people across the globe were tick tock operates for, going to maintain a safe environment for our users. other asian countries have banned the app due to

beijing's potential influence over the china base platform and the danger that poses to users. but that's a for us worry for many tick tock fans here in the paul to see the ban as last opportunity. let's bring it in our east asia correspondent, james tater. james. our country is making these decisions against tick tock for similar reasons. or have there been different explanations? what's going on here? well, as you already mentioned, say talk has been bonds um completely in a number of places around the world i've done this, done find it last year. so when it quoted kind of contravention of islamic values, india, bonds of the course in 2020 of the concerns about national security. and for the same reason, several countries around the world including australia, new zealand, as well as here. and so i want to find the up on government devices specifically i'm of course, there been many questions about its relationship with china,

but i think in this instance with in the pool there are concerns as bond was being used in some ways to suppress free speech and organizing as a country deals with protests against the governments. another interesting example from recently is indonesia. last month it binds tape talk shop, which is an e commerce, i'm sorry, of their company because the government says it was engaging in credit, true price practices. the move was a separate sites, it said more than $60000000.00 small and medium sized businesses. so it will have to say you see per packet really in a number of different areas as that's concerned about his relationship with china. the concerns on, on behalf of governments, perhaps concerns with the survival of i'm having this kind of free flowing information society, but also concerns about the scale of this company. since in this capacity to skew local economy is what is take talks, relationship to the chinese communist party if there's any. that's

what this really is. the big question is of the hall to so much political wrangling in the us at the moment. of course, the key context really is it takes holds parent company is bite dogs, bite dogs is a china based inside that company. and there are concerns that because by doing this is based the that the chinese communist party can use it to access it. take talking uses dates and we saw this fee on full display in march to see when say, talk, see or with girls by us. go making sort of a 6 a 6 hours, many little make is it not hearing me quoting for them to be come, let us come completing by saying it couldn't assure its independence from the chinese communist party. this is something to take, talk vigorously denies it, denies that has any connection, sir, to ccp. and the company has actually put a lot of resources into trying to clear out what it calls, misconceptions and missed about the company. if you look on his websites, they have a kind of a whole section dedicated to clearing up midst of this,

what they call midst of this nature, including that it's headquartered in l. a. and the sing if we're not in china, and the company is not owned by china, but by global investors. and beyond that, it's supposed to put $1500000.00 us dollars into a projects a project by project texas. and that fits this to us, uses days in the us. um, but on this end we had a report by cnn saying that one for me, executive did say that the ccp did have supreme access. and so that is concern that say talk really cons, shake this connection with the chinese communist policy because of his relationship with bites on the mosquitoes are small but deadly. and with climate change, they are expanding into new parts of the world. that means the spread of diseases such as dang a fever. now scientists have come up with a new way of combating deadly mosquitoes by infecting them with a naturally occurring bacteria. caldwell back here in trial is conducted in

indonesia and columbia bugs carrying this bacteria effectively prevented the spread of dang gate and what's called the world mosquito program has been sending out these specially equipped mosquitoes across 11 countries. ever since, here's dw corresponded georg mathis reporting from indonesia. it's just a small plastic bucket, but it can make a big difference. in dr. carter in central java, residents are preparing to release tens of thousands of most key those right next to their homes. so audio torrini has been involved in the fight against thing fever for over a decade. she has specialized fighting mosquitoes. with mosquitoes, we release force male and female netscape goes with about the same proportion so equal. busy proportion with the thinking that it really leaves male and female mosquitoes then once they are in the nets at all happy days because met with the

mosquitoes in the population, researchers discovered that mosquitoes infected with walls box here, a wide spread and harmless bacteria can no longer transmit the dangerous thing, the virus once introduced into a mosquito population, the bacteria infected type gradually replaces the native species. the good news is that the bacteria not only blocks the dinky viruses from replicating in their host . but scientists believe the bacteria can be used to combat other mosquito borne diseases such as c gotcha. and yellow fever. in one of these most, tito is lazy about a 100 x. so from a fox like this, the scientists can have a stop to a 1000 x, and they're ready to hatch from a few days to several months of to be like dr. coda used to be a constant hot spot for dingy outbreaks, and it is particularly children, like this little boy cried risk. but after 3 years,

the control trial found that stinky cases and treated areas decreased by 77 percent . now the trial will be expanded to include structure across surrounding provinces, winning the support of local residents has been key. it's a 2 got defined. initially, the community was full of questions. why i'm gonna ask you to love it kept next to us. the result is that more mosquitoes now enter our houses, but it's all, but the good news is then we can kill the ones that get in our stat quote. and i the own for the release of all buffy amaskita is and dropped her car to begin after 2 years of collaboration with communities and approval from the provincial government. there are millions of things the cases in indonesia, every year. a little white bucket could help change that task. that game with metal balls, you see old, french,

or canadian men play in the part is also popular in a country half a world away in south east asia. in thailand, players there are so competitive about it. they won the last world championships. here's a look at why the thailand has become a pretence powerhouse the guy, now i'm on the national team. it takes hours of practice and discipline to reach the elite levels of the sport. and for so we could even mean a pathway of poverty. may see, they said this young people can play potomac like the apple they have the chance to go to school. so the legal says that is why they're motivated. more dsl tech. it's very, very powerful for young people. them go solution by thailand's baton production line. even extends to the equipment with one of the few officially approved bowl

making factories outside fronts. but the on the international success. the most thing to island, the lu repentant, is the simple level of the game. thanks for watching and good bye. the runs for a robot vacuum, one giant leap for exploiting the ocean floor. cutting edge technology is unlocking the potential of deep sea mining. but this time, a research team will study the possible risk in order to minimize the we have an opportunity to to get it right before we start

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a fund worth 60000000000 euros meant to finance the countries transition to renewable energy has been ruled unconstitutional by the country's top court. at the heart of the court's decision is the best break a mechanism that's meant to limit the government following the ruling has triggered the budget crisis and force the government to freeze pending on new projects until the end of the year. germany's governing coalition will now have to find a new funding sources. the finance minister has already announced plans to lift the debt break for 2023 to ease pressure on the budget. earlier this week i asked, i am f steve casino guild givea. what the budget whole means for jeremy's government going forward? well, it is a tough task for the minister of finance here in germany to figure out how to sustain investments in digital and green that, that critical for the future of growth. and i, i can federal.