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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 hap

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i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program belarus and president alexander lukashenko has rejected calls to hold a new election and says moscow is ready to step in to save his country speaking to supporters in minsk lucas franco said the opposition protest of being steered from abroad and accuse nato of deploying military forces near the country's border the alliance has dismissed that claim but says it is closely monitoring the situation in belarus undeterred tens of thousands of opposition protesters are also holding a massive rally in the capital called the freedom march it's the biggest debt. and so far because disputed election victory. we know now to do to reduce amnesia and who's following the developments in belarus for us from moscow emily what can we make of president because accusations against nato well nato has firmly denied that there there is a true build up at the belarus and border they've said that they're monitoring the situation. seems to be kind of trying to turn what is essentially an attorney internal political conflict into some kind of a geo political crisis we'v

i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program and president alexander lukashenko has rejected calls to hold a new election and says moscow is ready to step in to save his country speaking to supporters any means clucas shanker said the opposition protests of being steered from abroad and climbed to nato is deploying military forces near the country's border the alliance has dismissed that claim but says it's closely monitoring the situation in belarus undeterred tens of thousands of opposition protesters are also holding a man. rally in the capital of freedom on chips the biggest demonstration so far those disputed election victory victory. and we can go now to do good news in the show and who's following the developments in belarus for us from moscow and the supporters of lucian because we just heard have gathered in the capital and address them tell us a bit more about what he had to say what we saw today from alex on that was really a defiant speech to his supporters which he painted as the majority he addressed the opposition's calls for him to leave he said that that would be lead

i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program some 20000 people from all over germany descended on the capital burning on saturday to protest coronavirus restrictions particularly the use of mosques police moved in to break up the march early citing the lack of social distancing and face coverings the protest comes amid a spike in cases in germany. which has already he's concerned over an imminent 2nd wave of the virus. free people chance this crowd during the coronavirus pandemic they say wearing a mask and hearing to restrictions is violating that freedom and it seems thousands agree the mixture of conspiracy theorists far right he gives and citizens concerned by the economic effects of the law took to the streets of berlin to say the coronavirus has been a false alarm. that's just plain scare tactics i don't see any danger i don't know any sick people i knew many sick people in march skiis vacationers there was really something going on in february and now there's no sick people anymore. i've got a friend who is 93 she's in a care home in her room totally isolated there's no corona

i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program thousands of people have gathered in minsk for another day of protests against the valorous in government defying a police crackdown following disputed elections huge crowds have gathered to commemorate the death of a demonstrator earlier this week so far security forces appear to be holding back from intervening in europe a. union says it will sanction officials who repress dissent meanwhile embattled president alexander lukashenko has today called on russia to support him and his claim to have won last week's elections. i'm joined now by journalist hanna liver covert in minsk how what's the atmosphere in minsk like today. as you mentioned thousands of people immense crowds got. at this venue at this location or where it person was killed on the night turn so they came so to meet. this man. well it was peaceful and where oh that's sad i would say that the also time well many people cried. flowers this place basically was kind of. feel it standing with flowers but also many people demanded justice demand response different to find those who a

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i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program hong kong may be a time when jimmy lai has denied colluding with foreign governments he made the statement after being released from prison on bail why was arrested last monday under a new security law imposed by beijing during an interview with dave w. he said he expected resistance to china would continue in hong kong. venturing campaigner jimmy lie has been detained many times but this was the 1st time he was taken away in handcuffs litel g w that although he expected his arrest. he was surprised that it came so soon and that his sons were also targeted. this time the edge so maybe because they have this so cheesy i was actually shocked and that makes it more scary especially when when when they take your tram me it was what you do i think this is a very effective intimidation to the community. and i says his most emotional moment this week was when he was surrounded by supporters after he was freed on bail during his foresee our detention police showed in interviews he did with foreign media pads and some social media posts as evidence of

rebecca ritters is looking into that. she is here at the big table with me. non is already a country in crisis, now it is a country in desperation. how are they being helped? rebecca: we cannot stress what a bad situation lebanon was in before this disaster, but a lot of grassroots organizations were already operating in the country, organizations that can now mobilize and expense to incorporate people who were affected by the explosion. one example is an organization helping vulnerable people throughout the economic crisis and the coronavirus crisis, mainly handing out food packages but lots of other things as well. they are expanding their operations and turning every bit of available space -- warehouse, shop space, into sleeping quarters for the people that were made homeless. i am watching them on instagram. they are doing amazing stuff, but one out of many. anotother thing i h have seenen popping up u under the hashtag #ourhomesareopen is this map, some 300,000 people believed to have been rendered homeless, so that is a useful resource. outside of these