You're listening to the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.

This edition is published in the early hours of Friday the 24th of March.

American lawmakers take aim at TikTok,

accusing it of being a tool of the Chinese Communist Party.

Israel's Prime Minister delays a scheduled trip to Britain amid increasing turmoil at home.

And world athletics issues are new ruling on transgender athletes.

The council has agreed to exclude male to female transgender athletes.

From female world ranking competitions from March 31st.

Also in the podcast, why Europe needs to up its game or risk losing out in the space race.

And the campaign in New Zealand help youngsters navigate their breakups.

TikTok is a tool of the Chinese Communist Party,

which allows China to decide what American children see on their phones.

That is the charge US lawmakers have been putting to the TikTok boss at his first ever committee hearing in Congress.

Joe Zichu faced hours of hostile questioning over the effects of the app on young people's mental health and the data it harvests.

This was the chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Republican Kathy McMorris Rogers.

TikTok collects nearly every data point imaginable from people's location to what they type and copy,

who they talk to biometric data and more.

Even if they've never been on TikTok, your trackers are embedded in sites across the web.

TikTok surveils us all.

And the Chinese Communist Party is able to use this as a tool to manipulate America as a whole.

Your platform should be banned.

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