And china will continue to be a market for decades to come for us companies as a place that they can flourish. we think that business from us companies in china continues to be a stabilising factor in this us china relationship. and you can watch more about the us china trade war on talking business this weekend on the bbc news channel at 15:30 on saturday here in the uk and in the rest of the world on bbc world news where the first airing is at 22:30 gmt on friday british government ministers have been banned from using chinese owned social media app tiktok on their work phones and devices on security grounds. the government fears sensitive data held on official phones could be accessed by the chinese government. cabinet minister 0liver dowden said the ban was a precautionary move but would come into effect immediately.
Described as a precautionary. it is worth saying that this was widely expected because lots of other countries and institutions have asked for this kind of restriction. we have had it from the us, canada, european union, and so the sense was that the uk government had to be seen to be doing something itself in terms of that narrow group of its own devices. the terms of that narrow group of its own devices- terms of that narrow group of its own devices. . , ., ., . ., own devices. the fear is data could no to the own devices. the fear is data could go to the chinese own devices. the fear is data could go to the chinese government. i own devices. the fear is data could | go to the chinese government. that is the accusation go to the chinese government. trisgt is the accusation against tiktok, that in theory all of that data that is in collected could go to the chinese covenant. in a sense of tiktok doesn t suck up more data than a lot of other apps that people use but the difference is the only ship is ultimately chinese. the company is adamant that has not happened and could not happen, but it is the concern over data collection and potentially the influence of tiktok has because it is so popular and widely used and the influence that could potentially offer to other countries, that that has led to this concern and this restriction and it really does need to be seen in the context of that
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Ian kirwan, 53, was attacked near the supermarket in redditch on 8 march after challenging some boys for messing about in the customer toilets. three other teenagers were cleared of killing mr kirwan but were found guilty of violent disorder, while a fifth boy was cleared of all charges. the environment agency has declared a major incident in somerset due to the risk of flooding. it said the move was precautionary . local authorities are using a number of extra pumps in the somerset levels in an effort to reduce the water levels. 0ur west of england correspondent danjohnson has more from northmoor green. this is the effort by the environment agency to drain water from the somerset levels. they declared a major incident to alert people but not to alarm