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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 ....
hello and welcome. the chief executive of tiktok has been defending the chinese owned video sharing app in the face of hostile questioning at a us congressional committee hearing. shou zi chew denied tiktok is a national security risk and played down the company s connection to china. but many in congress are not convinced, as nomia iqbal reports. 150 million americans. even before he arrived, shou zi chew was on tiktok, arguing for its existence. and even before he started speaking, lawmakers made it clear how they felt. tiktok has repeatedly chosen the path for more control, more surveillance and more manipulation. your platform should be banned. shou zi chew hit back. bytedance is not owned or controlled by the chinese government. but politicians and many parent activists here don t believe that. former president donald trump was suspicious. we re looking at tiktok. we may be banning tiktok. ..and now, in a rare moment of bipartisanship, presidentjoe biden and cong ....
That can halve that time. but the other thing which we need to now do is adapt to climate change. mario carcamo, who s the head of the lab, shows me what can be done with gene editing. one of the characteristics we are looking into, into wheat is their root structure. and typically, wheat will have a very shallow structure, what we see here. but then we do have some other varieties that can go deeper, and they will be better prepare for for climate change because they will do better in the conditions of drought. professor carcamo believes that traditional breeding methods won t be able to produce all the food we need for a growing population in a warming world. the projections show that if we don t bring an acceleration into how we can improve crops, we re going to be struggling to feed the world. the uk is among the world leaders in plant genetics, but that expertise hasn t really been able to take off because of the effective ban on the commercial development of the technology. the h ....
Years of development. but from now, they ll be able to use a new genetic technology in england called gene editing that can halve that time. the only thing we need to do now is adapt to climate change. mario caccamo, who s the head of the lab, shows me what could be done with gene editing. one of the characteristics we are looking into into weeds is their root structure. typically, a weed has a shallow root structure, which we see here, but we have other varieties that can go deeper and they will be better prepared for climate change because they will do better in the conditions. better in the conditions of drought. professor caccamo believes traditional breeding methods won t be able to produce all the food we need for a growing population in a warming world. the projections are showing that if we don t bring an acceleration into how we can improve crops, we will be struggling to feed the world. the uk is among the world leaders in plant genetics, but that expertise has not really ....
Here and so this so longiness becomes an additional problem. these trees may be old, the root structure may go way down in there but when the ground is saturated, it loosens it up, when the trees really become susceptible to the heavy winds. people who get this up morning and say hey my tree didn t fall onto my garage they may have a few more days of worrying about that. we ll stay with you. i want to get on the phone with richard flores a resident of victoria, texas, who did not evacuate. how are you and your family, how are you doing? we re holding on. no electricity, it s really windy. why did you choose not to evacuate, richard? well the evacuation routes are not too good around here and when everybody evacuates all at once it get congested bad and you have tornado threats and i didn t want to be stuck on the road in a tornado and you have flash flooding because we have ....