India: Rescue operation to save 40 workers in a tunnel

Today's news: Nepal wants to ban TikTok. Fighting in Myanmar near the border with India. Two deaths also in southern Lebanon from Israeli air force raids. For Korean intelligence, Beijing is directly behind fake news agencies spreading propaganda. Turkmenistan 'turns off' radio and TV signals from Uzbekistan.

INDIA

Rescue operations continue for 40 Indians trapped inside a highway tunnel in the Himalayas. The construction, which is part of a project to allow Hindu pilgrimages on the mountain range, collapsed during construction on Sunday morning. So far, food, water and oxygen have been provided and the rescuers (more than 100) have always remained in contact with the workers.

NEPAL

Nepal has decided to ban the Chinese application TikTok "to preserve social harmony". Communications and IT Minister Rekha Sharma told the BBC that the platform spreads harmful content, adding that "the ban will come into force immediately and telecom authorities have been instructed to implement the decision." TikTok is very popular among 16-24 year olds. According to local media, more than 1,600 cybercrime cases linked to the platform have been recorded in Nepal over the past four years.

MYANMAR

About a hundred Rohingya refugees have reached the coast of the Indonesian province of Aceh after fleeing from Myanmar. A local fisherman said they were "weak and needed food". Meanwhile in the country the anti-coup militias are continuing to carry out their joint operation against the Burmese army: after the capture of two outposts, the Chin National Front is trying to consolidate positions along the border with India.

CHINA – SOUTH KOREA

According to South Korean intelligence, China is behind a series of fake sites that pose as well-known media outlets in the country. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) said Monday that Chinese press relations agencies Haimai and Haixun created phishing sites that resemble those of news agencies and then generated a series of stories it calls “pro-China.” and “anti-US.”

GAZA – ISRAEL

While fighting continues around the al-Shifa hospital, under which according to the Israeli Defense Forces there is a Hamas command and control centre, yesterday two people were also killed in an Israeli attack in southern Lebanon, in city of Ainata, according to an organization close to Hezbollah and fears of an expansion of the conflict are increasing. US President Biden said that al-Shifa hospital must be protected.

RUSSIA

At the Russian Academy of People's Economy and Civil Services, linked to the presidential administration, the training program for "media police" has been opened, in which students will study for four years to learn to distinguish "anti-Russian content" on internet, along with expressions of extremism, crimes against people and much more.

TURKMENISTAN

Turkmenistan is trying to block all radio and television signals coming from Uzbekistan, officially in a plan to combat narcotics smuggling, but in practice to further limit the population's access to sources of information that are not controlled by the Ashgabat government , using special equipment that also blocks phones.