we reevaluated the story is a bit more complicated than just saying that's what platforms kind of steal the content from insults and they benefit from it it's going to move child benefit so then you probably would also need toss whether. news outlets will need to pay facebook and google for traffic that is bought through them to their pages google initially also refused to pay for news content and threatened to pull all services from australia then in a surprise move the internet giant struck deals with australian media firms such as channel mine rupert murdoch's news corp and 7 west media. australian social media users will be hoping that facebook has a similar change of heart. let's get some more perspective on the story now we can speak to journalist for shall harrison plus she's in sydney hi rochelle good to see you and this is a pretty bold move from facebook here and we saw what the australian treasurer had to say but what are other lawmakers saying about this thing. absolutely well the

australian prime minister scott morrison said this move was disappointing and arrogant in a statements ironically posted to facebook actually. authorities saying that they were absolutely blindsided by these measures with with the news blackout coming at around 5 30 am local time here in australia scott morrison also saying that sir australia would not be intimidated by big tech and that they will push on to get this contentious media bargaining code legislated and implemented in and pushed through to to become law. we also heard from the treasurer josh frydenberg as you mentioned he called the move heavy handed and wrong he also concerned that he'd spoken to the facebook chief mark not about this

day and said that they'd had. constructive discussion and that they'd buy the grader to find a part way forwards or so what about australians what do they think about what facebook's going here. i well it's pretty safe to say there's been. an outcry across the board this is a time when people need reliable and credible information more than ever especially during a global pandemic and as you may know australia is also on the ball of a 900 vaccine rollout of those jobs are said to be administered on monday. with a stray news is being blocked from sharing or even seeing credible and trusted news credible and reliable news sources this is come as a big shock to everybody and obviously it hasn't received

a lot of criticism and there were some concern as well that it wasn't just news pages that were shut down here also some emergency services can you tell us what happened there. absolutely well the facebook blackout not only affected news organizations as you mentioned they also shut down the facebook pages of the weather bureaus of the bureau of meteorology charities. fire and emergency services which you know was quite dangerous when for example western australia a part of western the state of western australia was going through bushfires recently they shut down the the facebook pages of emergency services they also shut down the pages of. charities i think i mentioned and health services government health services so like i said earlier at a time you know during a global pandemic when people are lying on facebook to to get their

trusted news that news on health is not available that is very very worrying indeed journalists are shall harrison plus speaking to us from sydney thank you so much for bringing us up to date. now a 7 month journey by nasa as new rover comes to a thrilling climax later today there were over will attempt to land on mars the most intense part of that landing is the 7 minutes that come after perseverance hits the martian atmosphere and must slow down to land on the surface nasa describes those moments as 7 minutes of terror. 10 minutes to touchdown. the perseverance rover must separate from the spacecraft that has brought it to mars next it must position itself to enter the martian atmosphere the friction of which will heat up its thermal shield to temperatures as

high as 1300 degrees celsius. while the mars rover inside the shield will only reach room temperature. when perseverance and speed reaches 6500 kilometers per hour. its parachute will deploy the new range trigger technology will improve the spacecraft's ability to hit a landing target 20 seconds later the heat shield will detach from the entry count still. allowing the rover to find a safe landing site. at about 2100 meters or 7000 feet above mars surface perseverance will separate from its parachute and ignite its jet packs 8 engines. further slowing the research

money for tory m.p.'s. the sky crane maneuver will lower the rover down to the surface i'm not alone tethers. next perseverance must reposition its legs and wheels right after touched. down it must detach from the tethers mission control will only find out whether the mars rover landed successfully 11 minutes after the fact. and whether it will be able to explore or just 0 crater it's flora was home to an ancient lake delta system about 4000000000 years ago which left a layer of sediment a promising site in the hunt for microscopic consuls. the united arab emirates we'll also explore mars its space probe hope and to the

red planet's orbit on february 9th and is scheduled to start work this summer. hope will examine the martian atmosphere for 2 years observing weather and seasonal changes. the chinese have big plans for their 1st mars mission they also want to land a spacecraft something only the americans have so far succeeded in doing china's tionne when one probe has been orbiting the red planet since february 10th it will reach the surface where the landing device and research vehicle in may and send data gathered on mars back to her. next the probe will examine the types of minerals on mars and make maps of resources such as for deposits. planetary researchers are looking forward to hold the new data.

well we can talk back to us scientists involved in perseverance and joel hurwitz is an associate professor of geosciences at stony brook university in new york jolla good morning to you there in new york nasa already has a rover on mars it's called curiosity which has been operating since 2012 why is it important to have another one. so this new rover perseverance is jam packed with a whole bunch of new technology that is designed to get up close and personal with the rocks that we're going to be examining and crater in order to address the sort of very detailed science questions we're asking about whether or not mars was both a habitable place and potentially whether or not it was in fact inhabited 3 and a half 1000000000 years ago well we heard that all eyes now will be on perseverance especially this tricky landing especially that last part where it needs to slow

down it's been called the 7 minutes of terror as we said what will be going through your mind during the landing what will you be looking out for. so i'll be watching the landing with my friends and colleagues from the from the perseverance mission and i think we're all going to be you know there with our fingers crossed hoping for the best we know that the engineers who put that landing system together and done a remarkable job so i'm not sure it's all going to go according to plan well you also played a part here here on a team that's provided one of the key instruments onboard this rover we're going to take a look here it's the planetary instrument for x. ray like the chemistry or pixel for short at this what we're seeing right now is an artist's rendering joel if you can in the simplest terms possible what is pixel and what makes it so interesting. yes so pixel is at its most basic level it is a chemical analyzer it reaches out it gets right up close to the rocks and it tells

us what those rocks are made of and we can use that information to tell us something about the environment that was present when those rocks were being formed and whether or not really there are fossilized bio signatures in those rocks the kind of telltale clues that microbial communities will leave behind in iraq after they are fossilized in place so that's what we'll be using that instrument for now right so a lot of important scientific scientific knowledge that can be gained from this and we heard that we can also find out more about what mars sounds like what are you most curious about there haven't been really looking forward to hearing the sound of the wind on mars i've been working on mars rover missions for some time since i was a graduate student actually and we always get these fantastic visual panoramas of the scene out in front of the rovers on mars but we never have the sounds to go along with those panoramas so so having the sort of extra sense sensory sensation

i guess of of hearing the wind here in the rovers and motors sort of whirring away in the background i think it's going to add a really interesting dimension to our exploration well it's an exciting moment good luck to you and your team there thank you so much for joining us tell her what's of stony brook university in new york thank you very much. let's check in now on some other headlines from around the world nigeria's president has ordered security forces to organize a hostage rescue operation after gunmen stormed a school and kidnapped 42 people among them were teachers relatives and students who were sleeping in dormitories one student was killed. protesters have gathered in myanmar as biggest city young gone for new demonstrations against the military coup that deposed the civilian government activists are demanding the release of elected leader aung san suu kyi hundreds of thousands have defied the authorities

to join nationwide rallies. 2 journalists have been jailed in belarus for violating public order. were arrested in november during live coverage of a protest and men's against authoritarian leader alexander lukashenko the u.s. has called for their release. to spain now where police have clashed again with thousands of protesters demanding the release of a news ition jailed earlier this week for his lyrics cut a long rap or pablo has said he was convicted of glorifying terrorism and insulting royalty in a songs and tweets on restaurant did and several cities including madrid and barcelona. demonstrators in pavlo as those hometown of you marched to the jail where he is being held. see his detention as an assault on free speech. in nearby barcelona violence

flares as protesters set barricades a blaze and police fire rubber bullets. and similar scenes in madrid as demonstrators fight against what they say amounts to censorship. norms is not on your part it's a shame because it's a significant setback for rights and freedoms within the european union and another step towards dick tech tauriel and fascist state. of you are you place yourself. under several meters thius the opposition as to me a blatant injustice and absolute lack of respect for fundamental rights for freedom of expression the facts speak for themselves today. as though he was arrested after he barricaded himself in a university along with his supporters. the rapper refused to turn himself in to

serve and 9 month sentence for tweets and lyrics that prosecutors say glorify terrorism and slander the monarchy. was a. time to stay international says his detention is unjust and disproportionate high profile celebrities have also joined calls for his release. ministers have responded to the furore by relaxing restrictions on free speech the government's junior coalition partner is pushing for the rubber to be pardoned. the european union's migration commissioner is heading to the bosnian border with croatia in an attempt to resolve a worsening humanitarian crisis the e.u. has criticized bosnian authorities for failing to reach house hundreds of migrants after makeshift accommodation burned down last year due to be a correspondent marie nash house travelled to the camp on the border she met

refugees as well as local administrators who say the e.u. has left them in the lurch. a whole life in one backpack. record. the students. feel. calm and his friends are resting because it's raining a border with croatia and because their feet are hurting they tell us it creation border forces have just prevented them crossing paths firing warning shots in the air some e.b.u. does. he. he move by the foreign money and bag and. things and push back the goose and the dream of reaching the european union has spurred thousands of others to disport a region since 2018 many refugees of migrants have chosen to enter the e.u.

that you can see here so croatia from bosnia and herzegovina because other european states have made it increasingly difficult to enter. a few kilometers further north east in born are several families mostly from afghanistan a living in the bend of houses these families here belong to has a group which is considered one of the most oppressed in afghanistan going to sun is not peaceful. for me for all of his. afghan people 1st the taliban and. is. going to soon as is no security is not safe you have your no signal you know it can't. go have us suffer said das says there's only one place where she sees a better future for herself haha spends and her 2 boys.

these families are staying here because they're just a few meters away from the border but there are also official refugee centers in the region one is sleep a male only camp which made headlines when it burned down last december the military has since set up a new tense my currency you know half heating and 3 meals a day but 30 of them have to share attend many have to stand in line to be treated 1st babies are not the only reason why most of the young men here are preparing for the next trial to enter the u. so local authorities are the more frustrated because they feel abandoned by the year. just sending money without looking into a solution for the problem it's not the ride way. to put this problem.

is not already abroad but also our. fight again. they will set off again and direction of the year. inshallah dry up again and again they go bag again here we go again it will be their 5th attempt to get into creation and from there into italy maybe germany they don't know what will await them there but they're certain their future will be better. now to the corona virus pandemic let's check in on the latest developments there authorities in hong kong have relaxed a social distancing rules after a sharp drop in new cases dining in gyms will be allowed to reopen police in northern mexico have arrested 6 people for allegedly trafficking fake vaccines for

around $2000.00 a dose u.s. authorities have seized more than $10000000.00 counterfeit masks they say the fake safety gear could have put hospitals and medical facilities at risk and china has recorded 11 new infections up from 7 a day earlier authorities say all cases originated overseas. now the availability of covert 1000 vaccines is chilling discussion in many countries on vaccination strategy who should get the shot 1st the elderly or should health workers and other front line workers be prioritised if you're in the russian capital it doesn't matter the kremlin is promising that anyone who wants a shot can get one. reports. ever seen with the potential to save lives. russia's a weapon against the coronavirus pandemic be a tear in our food in our use on her way to get vaccinated at a good moscow's luxury shopping mall. first she has to list any preexisting

conditions and show her id then she is ready mean is that action is not i'm not afraid i had covert 906 months ago i was sicker than i've ever been luckily i didn't have to go to the hospital but i don't want to get that sick again so now i'm getting vaccinated. since the vaccination campaign was rolled out here 2 months ago almost divides have been offered as you can be shot people can get vaccinated at a one of a 100 clinics but shots are also being given at large shopping malls and an opera house that's for the russian developed a vaccine are visible all over the city which unlike a lot of people come here with their whole family if russians didn't have confidence in the vaccine there wouldn't have been such a run on the center since it opened up. between one and a half and 2000 muscovites are becoming infected with covets 19 every day and over the last of the city has lifted many restrictions mainly for economic reasons

theatres clubs and restaurants have reopened it seems to the russian state is relying more on the vaccine then on restrictions the vaccination campaign in moscow is in full swing that's a good thing because of the russian capital evidently needs moscow leads russia why is corona statistics more than. number of deaths no where else in russia so many people dying from it's 19. similar to its western competitors which have recently been approved the russian vaccination requires 2 doors is administered 3 weeks apart according to manufacture us off sputnik he only asked for 1000000 russians have now been vaccinated and around top of those have already received their 2nd dose but independent experts down to these figures they say this statistics i embellished and that's creating at dangerous situation. the dozen years of it. that affect people's behavior it makes them careless or it. also lose their sense

of danger if you think millions of people around you have already been vaccinated words you might be careful about protecting yourself if you sort of interesting fact that the better. e.t.a. kateryna forney muster on at the department store she's about to get her 1st a dose of the vaccine and hopes it might bring her a little closer to the normality we all had before of at 19 she does not stay. in $21.00 days i'll get my 2nd dose of the vaccine a few days after that it's my birthday and i'll be able to celebrate without being afraid to get sick invite friends over and we'll have a drink. but even those vaccinated can still get infected later sent to evidence suggests sputnik the protects against serious illness but doesn't mean someone can't pass the virus on. she's done on her way out you can't hear enough for me and i get a chuckle that i scream she's told she has to be careful for the next 3 weeks

because only then will she have produced and nothing antibodies for complete protection against a coronavirus infection many here are hoping that this post vaccine ice cream may be the 1st step to enjoying life to the fullest to once more. to sports news now the tokyo 2021 picks organizing committee has named it japan's a limp it minister as its new president seiko hashimoto will leave the government to take up the world is a 7 time olympian who competed in speed skating and cycling she workplaces yoshida morty who resigned after making sexist comments she'll be tasked with regaining support for the games they're scheduled for july but a face widespread public skepticism because of the pandemic. in tennis naomi osaka is through to the final of the australian open after ending serina williams hopes of a record equalling 24th the grand slam title osaka powered past williams in

straight sets and a repeat of the 2018 u.s. open final which osaka also won the japanese player will face another american jennifer brady in the australian final she'll be going for her 4th grand slam title . up next our show focus on europe looks at the fight for equal rights for the roma people stay chip to. commit.

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above the result mosque that can be done play. make up your own mind cut above the law. hello everyone and welcome to focus on europe with me conor dillon it's nice to be here with you today we begin with a pretty difficult story out of germany here right wing terror is on the rise and just a year ago that fact was made clear in

a horrific attack in the city of hama there are a right wing extremist wandered through the city and deliberately killed 9 people all of them from immigrant families the question is why didn't police stop the perpetrator sooner it's a question asked not just by the relatives of those who died one of those relatives is chatty and grew to who lost his brother in that attack he and his family have been left to wonder how this act of violence could have happened in a country like germany which is where they immigrated to from turkey one answer from experts is that right wing extremists are organizing more and more professionally and have weapons at their disposal and that was the case in hono were a mass murderer was able to walk around on a shooting spree unhindered leaving behind a trail of tragedy just in the night it's called going to have returned to the place in honolulu where one year ago the brother and uncle google took

a was murdered double digits like my brother's body was under their departure sockets. blessing blue lights people everywhere at 1st we didn't realize what had happened to us it's just checked in and mart hurried to the crime scene shortly after the attack on for every 19th 2020 toby's had already merger's 9 people on a farm to send. then he killed his mother and took his own life 37 year old was one of the victims. since then life has been very different for the ghouta can finally. his mother that depends on medication to cope with her loss. soon after google's death his father lost his battle with cancer. his brother chetan and his son are too traumatized to work. their good. luck. isn't says we have lost our bedrock. the walls are

swaying so to speak and bond market moment was like for the past year there has not been a single night that i slept through. you can no longer sleep because when you put your head down on the pillow at night when it's dark coming down the consumed by questions present the family home ok did near one who can died soon became too much for them to bear so they moved. now shares a room with us fighter jets and condiments. of all of us they couldn't deal with it and in our old apartment i look and see. completely empty that's what i need to share in this. and that's enough. for sorrow is mixed with a growing feeling of anger. here of even venting or anger i think expressing our

anger to the day but nothing has been achieved even if nothing really can save the complex something it's let us know we're absolutely nowhere and the politicians just look at us and smile. the bereaved to say that it's not enough they've teamed up with supporters to set up the february 1000 initiative they want the german authorities to accept responsibility for the attack why the mentally ill attacker have a firearms license why was the police emergency line apparently not sufficiently staffed on the night of the crime neither has its interior ministry know how police were willing to talk to us about the attack unlike the german police trade union. foreign for the for the pulitzer i did not see how the police could have for granted as if they had done something differently such i do not see them as being responsible. in hindsight it is easy to say the police should have had previous knowledge checked in code to concerns he no longer feel safe in germany he's scared

to walk through her like night and worries when his son comes home late because right wing extremist attacks experts say are on the rise in germany. ziad loyally he very clearly needs strong prevention against right wing extremism victims that means dealing with the issue early. preventively for boyband and. you have to be ahead of the situation so to speak and not just in all those things are something we can do in law enforcement and security work after something has happened and now the med. right wing extremist attitudes are there beforehand and they then motivate people to join written a zation it's. going to scarring on people to show solidarity i remain vigilant and help me in mine in turkey or destroyed my life it took everything from me. and this

victim. of i never harmed anyone that is why this past year we have been fighting together for justice and for a proper investigation. after this was filmed the police told us that they do plan to increase police presence throughout the city so that they can detect potential acts of violence as quickly as possible it was a political earthquake in the netherlands prime minister mark rutte and his entire cabinet resigned just a few weeks ago the reason tax authorities were targeting thousands of parents parents like janet ram asar unjustly they accuse these parents of having illegally obtained child benefit payments for years well that turned out to be false but by then these families have been plunged into financial chaos they're now demonstrating in the hague what they're demanding is help and also reparations.

has come because she's lost almost everything like so many others here. so i'm very nervous it's not something you do every day but there are i expect that they will listen to us roger derek's is also doing what he can to encourage himself and the others will be stopped and. spills we want to know where we stand. so we want to do this for all of us. under children roeser direction johnette rum as they are joined forces to organize this demonstration they are among thousands of parents who have unjustly suffered financial hardship and shame because of the dutch finance authorities following a number of fraud cases measures will increase to crackdown on people suspected of making illegal benefits claims including janet and roger

a look back roger derrick's remembers the morning 11 years ago when his doorbell rang and a debt collector was standing outside as you see here we have an amount of what they are asking back from us 35000 and that was one of our 1st letters we got. and we thought her over what is this i don't know if you have 30000 on your bank account i didn't. so yeah there was a guy standing at my door with a letter and he said you know can you pay derek's couldn't pay and tried to prove his innocence the authorities accused his family of defrauding them of 60000 euros in child benefits and took harsh action. they claim 40 percent of your salary every month they can take away your car when you're driving on the highway at a certain point there is no way out you start doubting each other that you fill in

the tax papers good average day to struggle with the money so. the intensity of the of the pressure. of everything at certain point that it's not not to control anymore being prosecuted in stigmatized as the fraudster also destroyed john nash roma star's life she too was to pay back thousands of euros in child benefits as a single mother she often had to survive on just 25 euros a week what i was doing was i didn't eat 1st because my son he needs to eat i didn't eat and when i started to eat i couldn't digest my food because my body was rejecting everything. 2 years ago 2019 when i took my son from me also is no you can't take care of him and i was like yeah but there is a reason it's the tax office losing your child because of the government this

shouldn't have been with anybody after a long period of depression she is now allowed to see her son for just 2 and a half days a month but she's regained the strength to take action in november 2019 a group of parents went to the tax office and they said they demanded their follows i saw that the images of the people in the news and i was like hey good that's my story. dandle became public shortly afterwards the dutch authorities responded to a inquiry saying due to a combination of strict legislation and severe anti-fraud activities by the dutch tax authorities thousands of parents ended up in financial problems this never should have happened the government apologized and promised to compensate each of those affected with 30000 euros but many parents have yet to see the money now they have had enough and demands for answers are growing among other questions why were families of migrant backgrounds principle targets in january the pressure on the

government reached such heights that prime minister mark little resigned he now remains in office as caretaker pm and try to explain why the compensation payments are taking so long. that they have in many cases debts. to the electricity company etc and if we give them the money that's money immediately. people. get. only the money. but also to make sure that they can make a new start. route invited some of the families to his official residence the meeting lasted 6 hours. his star was one of the last to leave. they really listened to us and they understand things much better now so i think it was

good that we were here. son had the chance to vent his own pain in frustration and johnette can look forward to future meetings she says now she wants to look ahead and find happiness again. there between the ages of 15 and 27 they're successful and they were even invited to the women of the world festival in london last year that's pretty cool even cooler though the fact that their style of music rap music is just it's not something female musicians are supposed to do where they're from. they're roma from serbia and in their very traditional society where men are often brutally suppressed but these singers are now helping to give women a voice much. there's. no man. they were not deep enough for her.

she gave. her. someone's opinion on the lips of. the members of the girl band pretty low or young proud and determined to take their futures into their own hands to sing and grapple voted to kishon equal rights and forced marriages in the world that left behind. at all among missing it's well known that roman lead very traditional lives below that and on that that women aren't supposed to work or go to school because they narry stay at home clean and raise the children. no job no education that are the illiad also organization qual are. but sisko once more she's 19 and a law student she and her sisters are inseparable hardly any wonder they haven't

had it easy their father lives in germany with his new family and their mother abandoned the girls so they grew up with their grandparents who give them the freedom to make their own life choices. and. it was diligent at the age of the menace of art my grandparents mean everything to me i love them so much and i'm glad we live with em both. mr gates replied and not only are you going to. be a lovely thank you but in order to be accomplished. you could make a pretty loud began in 2014 and serve as a social project aimed at giving going room over them and the same rights and freedoms as remote men enjoy the women sing in 3 different languages romani serbian and english their biggest success so far was their appearance at the women of the world festival in london it's. become. the biggest

thing to join us. to have confidence and look beyond their family for their role models they find them on the internet social media are also changing room a society europe's largest ethnic minority even so nothing is more important to god than family almost every day she takes her nieces and nephews off for a last day to are growing up without a mother a quarter of their walking through was poor but sift says she likes it here the communities tightly knit the people help one another. on. the scene as the morning he goes. there quarter the mojados plays a big role in this video it's easy for young people to lose their way here as a roma on the edge of society they are the big disadvantage drug use is rampant

honestly because of the the problem what i wish for most from my quarter or at least what i would change is to get rid of the drugs here little gun on someone.