in brutal trench warfare. get in here and get down. those two russian shells that have just come in, i think it s tank fire. and tier gas and dozens of arrests in paris as protests across france against plans to raise the pension age continue into a ninth day. live from our studio in singapore this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 8am in singapore, and 8pm in washington, dc where the boss of tiktok has been in the hot seat, defending the social media app during a us congressional hearing. around the globe, an estimated 1.5 billion people use tiktok every day and more than a 150 million of them are in america. several governments and even big companies have advised their staff to take care when using it. shou zi chew insisted data would never be given to the chinese communist party, but did accept that data is currently accessible to staff in china. it led to some angy exchanges on capitol hill as nomia iqbal reports. even before he arrived shou zi chew was on tikto
liberty experts.- experts as well as civil liberty experts. that s right. the real concern liberty experts. that s right. the real concern is - liberty experts. that s right. the real concern is about. the real concern is about whether this is infringing upon children s privacy, the fact that parents can actually now have access to what they are saying, there are concerns about free speech and some experts have said they are wary about communities that could be generally isolated nc social media as a resource for them and away where they can find some sort of belonging. groups such as the lgbt community, some of these kids growing up in being communities that don t totally understand them or don t accept them and they find solace and find that social media can help them in that way. when i spoke to a representative, a spokesperson for meta, facebook s parent company, they said that they are doing everything they can to make sure that children feel safe and have already worked with la