内容摘要："The police have been nothing but heroic these last 24 hours and we don't need this."

"The police have been nothing but heroic these last 24 hours and we don't need this."

Ms Roome said that she was grateful for the support she had from the other bereaved parents. "You do have some days particularly bad - when it's very difficult to function," she said.The families' lawsuit against TikTok and its parent company ByteDance claims the deaths were "the foreseeable result of ByteDance's engineered addiction-by-design and programming decisions", which it says were "aimed at pushing children into maximizing their engagement with TikTok by any means necessary".

And the lawsuit accuses ByteDance of having "created harmful dependencies in each child" through its design and "flooded them with a seemingly endless stream of harms"."These were not harms the children searched for or wanted to see when their use of TikTok began," it claims.Searches for videos or hashtags related to the challenge on TikTok are blocked, a policy the company says has been in place since 2020.

TikTok says it prohibits dangerous content or challenges on the platform, and directs those who search for hashtags or videos to its Safety Centre. The company told the BBC it proactively finds and removes 99% of content that breaks its rules before it is reported.TikTok says it has met with Ellen Roome to discuss her case. It says the law requires it to delete personal data, unless there is a valid request from law enforcement prior to the data being deleted.

The mum of a boy who took his own life said it is “fantastic news” that a petition in his memory will be debated by MPs.

Ellen Roome, from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, found her son Jools Sweeney, 14, unconscious in his room in April 2022, and believes he may have taken part in an online challenge that went wrong.Donald Trump's trade advisor, Peter Navarro, has suggested this week that the US could apply pressure on other countries, including Cambodia, Mexico and Vietnam, not to trade with China if they want to continue to exporting to the US.

The US and China together account for such a large share of the global economy, around 43% this year according to the International Monetary Fund.If they were to engage in an all-out trade war that slowed their growth down, or even pushed them into recession, that would likely harm other countries' economies in the form of slower global growth.

Global investment would also likely suffer.There are other potential consequences.