US to prevent TikTok and WeChat downloads from Sunday

From Sunday the US Department of Commerce will prevent people in the United States from downloading the messaging and video-sharing apps through any app store on any platform, but people will still be able to use TikTok until 12 November, when it could also be fully banned, unless a sale of its US operations is agreed.

Also in the programme: Israel begins a second national lockdown to curtail the spread of the coronavirus, and Winston Groom, the author of Forrest Gump, has died.

( Photo: The TikTok logo pictured outside the company’s U.S. head office in Culver City, California. Credit: Reuters/Mike Blake)