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| Hello. TikTok has been under increasing pressure in the US, and today we're looking at its potential ban approved by the Senate on Tuesday. We're also covering the upcoming legal battle between a Brazilian rural community and a British-owned mining company. And over the morning, a "number" of Buckingham Palace horses went on the loose, causing chaos in central London. | |
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TOP OF THE AGENDA | US Senate approves potential TikTok ban | | The bill banning TikTok had widespread support from senators, with 79 voting for it and 18 against. Credit: Reuters | US President Joe Biden is expected to sign into law on Wednesday a $95bn (£76bn) foreign aid package that's been approved by the Senate. The wide-ranging bill includes military support for Israel, Taiwan, and $61bn in military aid for Ukraine, which the Pentagon said can start being delivered "within days". It also contains new sanctions on Russia, Iran and China. But one provision in the package will have more domestic consequences for the estimated 170 million US users of TikTok. The popular social media app's China-based parent company has nine months to sell its stake and find a US-approved buyer, or see it shut down across the US. Lawmakers argued the Chinese government could invoke security laws to compel ByteDance to hand over personal data of its US users. TikTok has repeatedly said it has not provided, and would not provide, its foreign user data to the Chinese government. The legal wrangling could take years.
More context: How would a TikTok ban work? Our technology reporter Liv McMahon answers all the questions.
War in Ukraine: The package will help provide Ukraine with the missiles and shells it says can stop Russian forces making gains on the battlefield. Here are the figures behind military supply to Kyiv.
Israel's arsenal: $17bn has been allocated to Israel - data shows the US is a major supplier of weapons to the country. | |
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| Legal fight against a British iron mine | Brazil Iron, a UK-owned, self-described "sustainable" mining company, is accused of damaging the environment, health, crops and water supplies of local communities near its Brazilian mine. The company strongly denies the claims, which are being put before a UK court. |
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| | Ione Wells, South America correspondent |
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| | In a small community deep in the remote, lush mountains of Bahia, Brazil, Catarina Oliveira de Silva points down at what used to be a lake. "After the mine started extracting there, waste came down. It fell into the spring. It buried this entire lake. Three metres of silt and ore sludge." Catarina says dust from this mine covered crops she owned, including coffee bushes and banana trees, until she could not produce them anymore. Brazil Iron denied its research had impacted the environment or community and said its "doors are always open" to mitigate any problems. Catarina and her family live in a traditional Quilombola community, descendants of Afro-Brazilian slaves whose rights to their land and way of life are protected under Brazilian law. Now, their fight against a UK-owned mining company is set to move to a top court in London. |
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BEYOND THE HEADLINES | An ill-fated 'sex festival' |
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| | | A similar event featuring Japanese adult actresses, which had very little publicity, was held last year in South Korea. Credit: Playjoker | The distribution of pornography is banned in South Korea. And when a producer of legal erotica flew in the stars of Japanese adult films for a "sex festival", he faced a backlash both from authorities who argued it was "morally harmful" and women's rights groups accusing him of exploitation. Jean Mackenzie explains how the event was cancelled at a day’s notice. |
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SOMETHING DIFFERENT | Remote adventure | Fans of US national parks tend to skip the one in American Samoa. | |
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And finally... | An eerie orange haze has descended over Athens on Tuesday. It was caused by an occasional weather phenomenon carrying dust from the Sahara desert to the northern shores of the Mediterranean, sometimes all over Europe. It makes for beautiful pictures - take a look - but also causes some respiratory issues when dust reaches extreme levels. | |
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