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TikTok UK government ban

The use of Chinese-owned social media app TikTok on UK government phones has been banned.

We hear analysis from the BBC's Asia Pacific Regional Editor Celia Hatton and Cyber Correspondent Joe Tidy as the use of Chinese-owned social media app TikTok on phones and other devices issued to government ministers and civil servants has been banned in the UK. We also get reaction to the ban on voice messages.

As the fallout from Storm Freddy continues across Southern Africa and particularly, Malawi, we'll get the latest updates from our correspondent Rhoda Odhiambo, who's been speaking to people there. Local Malawians also tell us how the devastation has affected their lives personally.

We continue to hear from Asian Americans about their experience of life in the US following the success of the actors Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan at the Oscars recently. Danh and Hung Ti Nguyen and their daughter Thuc Doan Nguyen are originally from Vietnam, but in the mid seventies when the Vietnam War had ended and the country had become a communist state, they decided to escape in a small boat to America in search of a safer life. They tell us about their harrowing journey and their hopes for representation in America in the future.

Our correspondent Piers Edwards gives us the latest from Rwanda's capital Kigali where football governing body FIFA's 73rd congress gathering is taking place. Football fans give their thoughts on what the body should be focusing on in the coming year.

(Photo: TikTok on a mobile phone. Credit: Getty)

50 minutes

Last on

Thu 16 Mar 202316:06GMT

Broadcast

  • Thu 16 Mar 202316:06GMT

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