US Congress passes bill that could ban TikTok nationwide
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
The proposed legislation would force a Chinese tech giant to sell its stake in the app but its fate in the US Senate is unclear. Also: Israel says it is investigating a strike on a UN food distribution centre in Gaza; and a US man who spent most of the past 70 years in an "iron lung", dies aged 78.
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| 0:00.0 | Where to be a woman is the podcast celebrating the best of women's well being. |
| 0:05.0 | Listen now wherever you get your BBC podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Thursday, the 14th of March, |
| 0:19.0 | these are our main stories. |
| 0:20.0 | China has described a potential US ban on Tik-Tock as an act of bullying. |
| 0:26.0 | Israel says it's investigating a strike on a UN Food Distribution Center in Gaza. |
| 0:31.0 | The Dutch populace leader Gert Wilders has abandoned his bid to become Prime Minister |
| 0:36.7 | despite his party's dramatic victory in last year's election. |
| 0:43.4 | Also in this podcast, that's the way I'm the only person in the world that's the way I do it. |
| 0:50.9 | Tenacious and brave for seven decades, one man's life well lived in an iron lung. |
| 0:57.0 | The US House of Representatives has passed a bill that could force the Chinese owners of |
| 1:04.9 | Tik-Toc, the social media platform, to either sell the app or be banned in the US. |
| 1:10.8 | The measure received widespread bipartisan backing. |
| 1:14.0 | It now goes to the Senate where some lawmakers say they will oppose it. |
| 1:18.0 | The vote increases tensions between Beijing and Washington over who controls technology that could affect national security |
| 1:25.9 | and free speech. |
| 1:27.3 | The leading House Democrat Hakim Jeffries said if the measure is approved by the Senate, |
| 1:31.7 | US consumers will be more protected. |
| 1:34.4 | I don't support a ban on Tik-Tok. |
| 1:36.3 | The legislation did not ban Tik-Tok. |
| 1:39.1 | It's simply a divestiture of Tik-Tock so that this social media platform can be owned by an |
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