want the election scrapped calling it a sham. welcome to the programme. we start with the international row over tiktok. china has accused the us of overreacting after federal employees were ordered to remove the app from government issued phones. tiktok is owned by the chinese firm bytedance. and on monday, the white house gave government agencies 30 days to remove tiktok from their phones. the us calls the guidance a critical step forward in addressing the risks presented by the app to sensitive government data. chris derusha is the federal chief information security officer. he said the guidance is part of the administration s ongoing commitment to securing our digital infrastructure and protecting the american people s security and privacy. china disagrees. here s a foreign ministry spokesperson. the ministry spokesperson. united states, the rhodes one the united states, the rhodes number one superpower, is so afraid of a mobile phone application to young people like so
on so many innocent people. hello. welcome to what is the last edition of outside source. but it s no different to all the ones that have gone before. we re going to have a detailed rundown of some of the biggest stories of the day. and we ll start in russia, because a court in moscow has ordered that a us journalist is kept in custody over spying charges. americanjournalist is american journalist is kept in custody over spying charges. american journalist is kept in custody over spying charges. the journalist in question is evan gershkovich. he works for the wall streetjournal. russia s security service the fsb it says the journalist was acting on us instructions. and that he had collected information constituting a state secret about the activities of a russian defence enterprise. the wall streetjournal denies he has done anything wrong. we ve heard from the kremlin too. translation: this is - the prerogative of the fsb. you already had a statement about this from the
ready to form a new executive. a new election will be called at one minute past midnight if no executive is formed that s 2a weeks since the last poll. in other news: the oil giant shell reports quarterly profits of nearly $9.5 billion its second highest on record but pays no windfall tax in the uk. and now we know the title of prince harry s much anticipated and controversial memoir. it s called spare, and it documents his move to america. the elected assembly which runs northern ireland is hours away from collapsing, over the region s post brexit trade arrangements. politicians have until one minute past midnight uk time that s around five hours from now to restore a power sharing agreement before a new election is called. political parties met at stormont today in a last ditch effort to try to form a new executive nearly six months after they were elected. procedures though are being blocked by the democratic unionist party the dup which objects to the no
Pakistan became independent from britain, we will speak to an indian Film Director. Welcome to Outside Source. Our top story. The red cross says more than 200 people have been killed with many more are missing after landslides in sierra leone. This happened on the outskirts of the capital, freetown, which has been hit by heavy rain in the last two days. It is understood the worst of the disaster happened in the full side region. Snatched video on a mobile phone shows a torrent of mud and water carrying away everything in its path. This driver risked his life on a bridge all but overwhelmed by the flash floods. Freetown is an overcrowded coastal city. About 250 bodies have it has few defences against heavy rains. They come every year but not usually with quite such ferocity. Around 250 bodies have been recovered so far, the authorities fear there could be many more trapped in the ruins of houses. A bbc reporter is there. I went down to the spot myself and you could see people using thei
Broke out in syria and the war has caused untold loss of life. Millions and millions of people are being displaced both inside syria and outside of it and it has led to the greatest Refugee Crisis since world war ii. A truce between the government and rebel groups is nominally in place but it is continually broken. After six years of conflict, the government is now backin of conflict, the government is now back in control of all the major cities in syria and we will focus on a few of them. The bbc has been looking at 2a hours in the life of several people across the country. We will start in hospital. The the syrian army and its allies drove all rebels from aleppos old city last year. That part of the city last year. That part of the city was almost completely evacuated. Sinners, some residents have returned and here is one of their stories. Just south of aleppo is a place called. The attempts to go on as normal include football games. Finally, we will return to the old city of the cap