that was stephen beckett's view of china.tok in the west, other apps have been springing up to try and compete. and chris fox has been looking at some of the alternatives that are available. if you can't get enough of short, hyper—edited videos, luckily there are plenty of apps that have cottoned on to the format. this is triller, which i think is fair to say, has taken a bit of inspiration from tiktok. you can record clips with special effects and share them onto an endless scrolling feed of content. triller seems to have done quite well out of all this uncertainty, at the start of august, it topped the app store charts on both i0s and android and has managed to attract some big—name tiktok stars and celebrities over to its platform, including mike tyson and magician dynamo. another app offering a similar experience is byte, which has also been popping in and out of the app store top download charts. like tiktok, it offers you creative effects for your videos, although it is trailing behind triller, it's been downloaded over

that was stephen beckett's view of china.compete. and chris fox has been looking at some of the alternatives that are available. if you can't get enough of short, hyper—edited videos, luckily there are plenty of apps that have cottoned on to the format. this is triller, which i think is fair to say, has taken a bit of inspiration from tiktok. you can record clips with special effects and share them onto an endless scrolling feed of content. triller seems to have done quite well out of all this uncertainty, at the start of august, it topped the app store charts on both i0s and android and has managed to attract some big—name tiktok stars and celebrities over to on its platform, including mike tyson and magician dynamo. another app offering a similar experience is byte, which has also been popping in and out of the app store top download charts. like tiktok, it offers you creative effects for your videos, although it is trailing behind triller, it's been downloaded over1 million times on google play, whereas triller has had mor

that was stephen beckett's view of china.springing up to try and compete. and chris fox has been looking at some of the alternatives that are available. if you can't get enough of short, hyper—edited videos, luckily there are plenty of apps that have cottoned on to the format. this is triller, which i think is fair to say, has taken a bit of inspiration from tiktok. you can record clips with special effects and share them onto an endless scrolling feed of content. triller seems to have done quite well out of all this uncertainty, at the start of august, it topped the app store charts on both ios and android and has managed to attract some big—name tiktok stars and celebrities over to its platform, including mike tyson and magician dynamo. another app offering a similar experience is byte, which has also been popping in and out of the app store top download charts. like tiktok, it offers you creative effects for your videos, although it is trailing behind triller, it's been downloaded over 1 million times on google play, where

i'm tanya beckett.sent five extraordinary moments in history as told to us by the people who were there. coming up, we meet the scientist to try to find the cure for the common cold. the diver who discovered the lost plane belonging to the author of the little prince. and the african man who ran away as a boy to live in the arctic. but first, it's a0 years since the end of the brutal regime of the khmer rouge in cambodia. around 2 million people are thought to have been killed under its extremist rule. sokphal din survived for years in what became known as the killing fields. a warning, this piece contains some distressing images. the cambodian people are the victims of a hideous experiment in communism that failed. the khmer rouge guerrillas triumphed in the spring of 1975. the man who emerged as the leader of the new cambodia was pol pot. it was a living hell. you cannot imagine. no—one could imagine. for the communist regime, time began when they took over. for them, 1975 became year zero, a time of

hello, and welcome to witness history, with me, tanya beckett, here at the royal academy in london.nt five extraordinary moments from history as told to us by people who were there. coming up, the british alternative to prison that was copied around the world. the moment idi amin expelled thousands of ugandan asians in the 1970s. and the artist couple who wrapped germany's reichstag in fabric. but first, we go back to a defining moment in modern chinese history. in 1989, the chinese army opened fire on tens of thousands of students in tiananmen square in the centre of beijing. they had been demonstrating for weeks, demanding greater political freedom. dan wang was one of the protest leaders. this is his account of what happened. the noise of gunfire rose from all over the centre of peking. translation: someone called us from a phone box in a street near tiananmen square. he said the gunmen had opened fire on the students. i've never thought anything like that would happen. i was in shock. the troops have been firing indiscriminately, but still, there are thousands of people on the s

hello, and welcome to witness history, with me, tania beckett here at the royal academy in london.ay we present five extraordinary moments in history as told to us by the people who were there. the moment eddie amin expelled thousands of ugandan asians in the 1970s, and the artist couple who wrapped the reichstag in fabric. in 1989 the chinese army opened fire on tens of thousands of students in tiananmen square. they had been demonstrating for weeks, demanding greater political freedom. dan wang that was one of the protest leaders. this is his account of what happened. the noise of gunfire rose from all over the centre of peking. translation: someone called us from a phone box on the street in tiananmen square. he said the government had opened fire on the students. i've never thought anything like that would happen. iwas thought anything like that would happen. i was in shock. the troops have been firing indiscriminately but still, there are thousands of people on the streets who will not go back. translation: we immediately organised 200 stu d e nts to immediately organised 200

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amanda beckett has the story at your website. our white women finally waking up? amid nationwide protests, white women are reckoned isn't -- reckoning with racism. guest: amanda becker has been why identityork on and how that is affecting the politics of white women. this is a newsroom where we are centering women. that does not mean we are celebrating women. we are interrogating what it means to be a woman in this democracy and how all women are engaging or not engaging in our politics. reckoning on race, what has been so interesting about this moment and what has made people think we might be in a different moment in terms of talking about race in america is the fact that you do see so many white people on the streets in solidarity with black folks around the issue of black lives matter. so, you have white folks, including white women, again, thinking about what it means to be a white person in america. some of those people thinking about that question for the first time. amanda's excellent reporting in kind of lures them at the beginning of that journey. that,

[applause]t beckett is three. i don't know who you are yet but i'm excited to find out.aughter] but it's so much fun watching your ideas about things. my book is dedicated toed my wi, julie. [applause] it's okay writing good books when you are unhappy that it's better to write them when you are happy so thank you, love. [applause] magazines and oprah winfrey got the word out and usually people read my coffee like i don't kn know. this time last year i was finishing on w the book. now the book is out and i never thought i would be standing he here. we are happy here. outside is the last days of the fill hole but who knows what is going to happen a year from now. any words about the election? not really i'm sort of stunned. thenow here's something that was making me feel better and i guess thatt it was a be kind, everybody. make art and fight the power. that seemed like a pretty good formula for me anyway. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ colson whitehead come in your speech, you referred to the terror that is trump land. were you pretty shocked that was just a couple of the after? >> g

joining me now is will beckett, founder of hawksmoor restau ra nts.you, do you think? actually, we have already taken, we booked for the 13 days in august we have taken 15,000 bookings across the five or six restaurants that we will have open during that we will have open during that period. and you think that is because of this scheme? it's definitely contributed. we are quite busy on the other days and we had bookings beforehand, but it has definitely helped. when we announced our specific deal, we took five and a half thousand bookings in six hours. wow! it just goes thousand bookings in six hours. wow! itjust goes to show that it has had an impact on people's psyche. but in terms of how it will help you long—term, what do you think and how badly have you been hit by lockdown? i think the whole industry has been hit massively, and we are certainly not immune from that. we had no income for 106 days or something, and we have had to borrow to get through that, but iam borrow to get through that, but i am confident we will survive, and in terms of whe

the pandemic is changing how people are being asked to beckett. officials are telling everyone to stay with family or stay in hotels if you can and only use a shelter as a last resort. >> mandatory evacuation. i got a 1-year-old so we are going if they call final preparations by filling sandbags, stocking up on essentials and boarding up windows. hurricane laura is expected to make landfall late tonight or early tomorrow. >>> we want to show you time- lapse video of hurricane laura rick this was posted on twitter by a hurricane hunter for the national oceanic and atmospheric and ministration. the video shows a plane flying into the hurricane. you can see it pass through a beautiful sunrise as well. that is right in the middle of that hurricane. >>> in california, we are doing with wildfires but people on the gulf coast are finding themselves preparing for a very strong hurricane. >>> and what is amazing is how quickly the rapid intensification of the storm, just a hurricane yesterday bear. now we are talking about a category 4 storm by 10:00. you

that was stephen beckett's view of china. them onto an endless scrolling feed of content. triller seems to have done quite well out of all this uncertainty, at the start of august, it topped the app store charts on both i0s and android and has managed to attract some big—name tiktok stars and celebrities over onto its platform, including mike tyson and magician dynamo. another app offering a similar experience is byte, which has also been popping in and out of the app store top download charts. like tiktok, it offers you creative effects for your videos, although it is trailing behind triller, it's been downloaded over1 million times on google play, whereas triller has had more than ten million. tiktok‘s biggest competition may come from instagram reels, instagram's newly—launched rival. it has incorporated many of tiktok‘s core features, including that endlessly—scrolling feed of short videos. just in the past few weeks, mark zuckerberg has appeared at a congressional hearing about big tech companies using their power to neu

amanda beckett has the story at your website. our white women finally waking up?nationwide protests, white women are reckoned isn't -- reckoning with racism. guest: amanda becker has been why identityork on and how that is affecting the politics of white women. this is a newsroom where we are centering women. that does not mean we are celebrating women. we are interrogating what it means to be a woman in this democracy and how all women are engaging or not engaging in our politics. reckoning on race, what has been so interesting about this moment and what has made people think we might be in a different moment in terms of talking about race in america is the fact that you do see so many white people on the streets in solidarity with black folks around the issue of black lives matter. so, you have white folks, including white women, again, thinking about what it means to be a white person in america. some of those people thinking about that question for the first time. amanda's excellent reporting in kind of lures them at the beginning of that journey. that, at the

. >> i haven't gone to -- there was a magazine -- beckett was the magazine that would tell you the differentng. we'd trade them. go to the card shows and do all of that stuff back in the day. >> you never flipped them? you never flipped them did you ever flip them >> i was an investor i made a terrible investment, joe? i bought a case of fleer ultra baseball cards, first year, 1990 or 1991, still also in my parents' basement. i think that i could get more money for selling the cardboard that they were printed on than the actual cards themselves. it was a terrible investment so, no, i was trying to make a buck back then >> yeah. shocker. shocker. all right. still to come on "squawk box," we're going to talk big tech names with gotham asset management's joel greenblatt. >>> the latest on the twin storm systems bearing down where we n'wae want them to bear, w dot nt them anywhere,gulf of mexico states all the oil rigs out there "squawk box" will be right back. instead of buying by the share. all with no commissions. stocks by the slice from fidelity. get your slice today. >>> let's get a check

i'm also a phd student at leeds beckett university. i tested positive for coronavirus 126 days ago.who are suffering for a long time, i think we really need to raise awareness. how has covid—19 changed you as a person? covid—19 has made me less able to do what i love. so, i love running, cycling, and climbing, i love the outdoors. it has been really hard to maintain those things. so, in terms of your balance, of your mental health, not being able to do the things that make you happy has been really hard. you're desperate to get back to work, but what do employers need to understand? i think employers have got a lot to learn about covid because it's not a linear recovery. so you can actually feel better one day and absolutely debilitated the next. i'm giving my energy to my work and then i don't do anything else. it's like, i work and i recover from being at work. yeah, it has really changed my quality of life. are you confident that you're going to make a full recovery from this? you can't help having that worry in the back of your mind, "is this going to affect me kind of for the r

that was stephen beckett's view of china.een springing up to try and compete. and chris fox has been looking at some of the alternatives that are available. if you can't get enough of short, hyper—edited videos, luckily there are plenty of apps that have cottoned on to the format. this is triller, which i think is fair to say, has taken a bit of inspiration from tiktok. you can record clips with special effects and share them onto an endless scrolling feed of content. triller seems to have done quite well out of all this uncertainty, at the start of august, it topped the app store charts on both i0s and android and has managed to attract some big—name tiktok stars and celebrities over to on its platform, including mike tyson and magician dynamo. another app offering a similar experience is byte, which has also been popping in and out of the app store top download charts. like tiktok, it offers you creative effects for your videos, although it is trailing behind triller, it's been downloaded over1 million times on google play,