helo most of his guys across much of the middle east we have seen a bit of cloud of them also pushing into sudden sections of pakistan just going to the north as well and we could see one or 2 scottish isles maybe even a thunderstorm over the next couple of days some of july is not too bad in kabul at 25 celsius and very nice to the eastern end of the med so 28 and by. rumors and on thursday very little change that rain staying well to the west of turkey we'll see a bit more cloud really just a covering much of the central areas of pakistan that we have farther to the south no less a guess in the heat nor indeed with the humidity so feeling very sticky and we'll have that you know on a wednesday one or 2 more shots where sheens the west and the south of yemen they begin to drop a little bit by thursday and elsewhere no real change in fact if anything they'll be a hawse in doha with a high of 40 celsius and talking of heat it is been very warm across much of the south africa and not much in the way of rain showers but we could have some rain certainly into capetown a wednesday into thu

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and we will now take you to helo where the german interior minister hosts a hopeful is giving a press briefing. that is the scene in hell as we speak german interior minister. about to give a press briefing. we were expecting at the top of the hour really it was delayed as we were told by our correspondent on the ground. the interior minister missed as a whole for had been delayed he'll course has been engaging with people in hell a community members as well as local lawyers he's they expected to now address the media it's not clear whether he will take questions at this stage also remind you that in the last hour or so we've also heard from the chief. prosecutor here in germany who was able to put us up to date to what we know so far in fact i'll bring in all cars political correspondent thomas sparrow here in now to perhaps put us up to speed with what we know so far and perhaps what we can expect in hell it is important press conference coming up now with germany's interior minister and as you say we are expecting some more details not only regarding the investigation but also abou

helo's. kurt volker the former u.s. envoy to ukraine has been testifying in the security floor of the u.s. capitol where reporters are not allowed he's been there for almost 3 hours now as soon as we hear any information about what he's telling these committee members will bring that to you but he does have the potential to be a very important witnesses to democrats in their effort to push forward this impeachment inquiry volcker has had just resigned from his government position on friday that was only hours after the whistleblower report named him as part of the trump ministrations efforts to put pressure on ukraine to open that investigation into joe biden according to that whistleblower report the day after trump's phone call with the president of of ukraine who volcker met with a lot of near zelinsky in person as well as other ukrainian officials to try to help them navigate trump's demands now the big question never kratz want answered is why i trump was withholding close to 400000000 dollars in u.s. military aid

helo turkey has shrugged off new u.s. sanctions to press on with its military offensive in northern syria 7 turkish soldiers have been killed since it began a week ago while the kurdish led syrian democratic forces say 37 of their fighters were killed in just the last 48 hours meanwhile the russian backed syrian army has now entered men but as a key city that turkey wants to capture it appears a shot of assad's forces are moving in to fill the void left by america sudden withdrawal russia's envoy to syria says his country is patrolling the dividing line between turkish and syrian government forces to prevent any direct confrontation and the un's human rights office wants to work its a launch an independent investigation into possible war crimes it's gathering information about videos that appear to show summary executions. by fighters allies to ankara still turkish president says the offensive has been a success so far has been addressing a meeting of turkey countries in azerbaijan. we are on the 7th day of the operation

of representatives vote which overwhelmingly condemned the withdrawal of american troops from syria helos he says she believes donald trump was shaken by the number of republicans who voted to oppose his decision to pull the forces out atika hain has more from washington d.c. . u.s. president donald trump is trying on a new label for his withdrawal from northern syria strategically brilliant in 2 appearances with the italian president trump went on to list a series of false hoods quickly dismissed by senators from his own political party kurds who are much safer right now one of the things that i think we could tragically see emerge as the potential for ethnic cleansing and against kurds now if you look at the kurds and again i say this with great respect then no angels i want to express my gratitude to the kurds. they were great fighters. we had a terrific alliance with russia wants nothing to do with isis russia is tough they can gel isis just as well to rely on russia and iran to protect us against a rise of isis is quite frankly and saying we may know more about how the president fram

they own a selfie app, and indian social media platform called helo.y uchg 1.5 million users u.s. based tick tock sells branded hash tags for chipotle or guess, and is experimenting with in app ads. despite half a billion down loads of tick tock, the company faces significant risks. content creators can create sponsorships or be ticked by fans but they don't share ad revenue the same way youtube does, which raises risks that creators could leave the platform for youtube, one reason that twitter's vine shut down two-and-a-half years ago. plus the issue of tick tock chinese ownership, the fact it censors ideas critical of the government, prompted marco rubio to call for government review of their ownership of tick tock they have been fined nearly $6 million to settle allegations it illegally collected personal information from children, it is an area the company promised to ramp up protections in order to avoid more regulatory scrutiny back to you. >> julia, thank you for bringing the latest >>> tech is a big part of today's gains. trade hopes whip chips

helo on the attack and this is al jazeera live from dire also coming up nearly 100 people killed and thousands displaced as ethnic violence in eastern democratic republic of congo intensifying. not playing by the rules why a tweet by the manager of an american basketball team has sparked a political fire.

it owns selfie app, face you, duoshan and helo now the company reportedly generated $7 billion in revenue last year. and bytedance says it reaches 1.5 billion users every month around the world now bytedance is pushing into new areas. last month they launched a search engine. they acquired bica.com which is similar to wikipedia and it has lark to take on slack. we'll have more on the company's ad potential here in the u.s. as well as risks to its valuation that's coming up in "squawk alley." >> stay with us. joining us to talk more on chinese influence on tiktok, alex harness here. technology editor for "the guardian." this is a controversial company. i know it has a huge valuation but they're doing stuff that i think at least in the west people are looking at thinking, what is going on here? in part because of the role of the chinese government in all of this >> yeah. i mean, the thing about tiktok is it is owned by a chinese company. the company itself sort of has a strong self-image as a silicon valley startup and it says its chinese owners are just that, owners they don't control it.