this is the news live from facebook friends australia without notice the social media is news content from its australian platform. says the government. to make. journalism on the program spanish police face a 2nd night of. the release of. terrorism and insulting the royal family. humanitarian emergency signal the

european union store still talks to the refugees stranded. with croatia hears from forces who say. perseverance paid off the space agency prepares its rovers for the most daunting. task control will be 70 minutes of terror. i'm from welcome to the program. facebook has blocked access has blocked a news content from its platform in australia the latest twist in a heated dispute with the government australia is considering legislation to force tech companies to pay for the journalism they carry facebook and google have been fighting the proposals because they say they don't reflect the way the internet works but facebook's action came just hours after google reached

a deal with australian news companies. many australians woke to a surprise this morning facebook at unfriended them suddenly they couldn't access local and international news through the social media site it's a dramatic escalation of a conflict over australian efforts to force tech giants to pay for journalism. i think facebook when the news is terrible. like you say it's a free account and i can get all my news in the one spot so believe me. congress said the ban on news had a huge community impact $17000000.00 australians visit facebook every month it's even being called an assault on democracy. facebook was wrong. facebook. sections were unnecessary they weigh heavy handed and they will damage it's reputation here in australia frydenberg said facebook gave no warning of the new shutdown. camber wants to table

a law that would require online giants to negotiate payment for news outlets content or have fees set for them some experts have their doubts about the law and say it needs to be reevaluated the story is a bit more complicated than just saying that's our platforms kind of steal the content from and they benefit from it it's kind of a mucho benefit so then you probably would also need to ask whether. news outlets will need to pay facebook and google. has fought for will then 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 9 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 into this with tom lever who's

a professor of internet studies at curtin university in perth in western australia is also vice president of the international association of internet research is welcome to day w what do you make of facebook's actions. i think face that was trying to make a point that if the logo is 3 and they do have to pay for news that they may indeed block news on the services but to do it in advance is one thing but when they deployed the block this morning they didn't just capture traditional news they also catch the whole lot of other things as well including services including health sites and i think that overreach has made what was happening part of the strategy go terribly terribly wrong because the main thing that people noticed was that it wasn't just the news that was disappearing but things that they relied on every day through that platform including things like covert information and emergency notifications when there's. one end of the country and floods of the other.

facebook is a commercial company what does it say about it all when a commercial company says yeah i'm going to remove some of my services and we get in such an uproar over it well it is it is certainly true that facebook is a commercial platform and has every right to do what it wants with its platform but at the same time there was a reasonable expectation that users will have some idea of what facebook is doing and i think to completely withdraw portion of what facebook does without any prior notification to uses was incredibly abrupt and showed a lack of respect for users of that platform so i think facebook is a commercial estate but it exists because it has a relationship with uses and for many users in a struggle like they were abusing that relationship today why do you think google went one way and reached a deal where facebook. buton. i think google

had a strong sense that they they were going to. that there was no way to escape paying something for making chinese content shastra i think it was there across the country the code was basically ready to go and i think google realized that if they struck some deals themselves they would still have a level of control over those deals that it would be more directed to their to news showcase product rather than all of gold and that they would have the capacity to put some of their own clothes in and not be fully subjected to this code which i think that there was incredibly important i think facebook clearly has gone the other direction it does not want to pay and has every right to. from accessing use but of course the value of facebook is a plus. as with that. portion of the service missing means that facebook is lucky to start shedding users pretty quickly talking to thank you so much for joining us professor professor thomas lever from curtin university and. a 2nd

look at some other stories making news around the world now starting protests against the military government on strikes of many government offices and the civil servants of walked off the job and thousands be fired all forces to join nationwide rallies police in the capital used water cannon against protesters demanding the release of elected leader aung sang suu kyi. 2 journalists have been jailed in belarus for violating public order i can see arena of eva and dahlia were arrested in november during live coverage of a protest in minsk against them for tearing the it out xander looking shanker the u.s. has called for their release. nigeria's president has ordered security forces to organize a hostage rescue operation after gunmen stormed the school and kidnapped 42 people among said were teachers relatives and students who were sleeping in dormitories

one student was killed. italy's the new prime minister mario draghi has survived his 1st a vote of confidence in the senate is that he says now that he will do whatever it takes to lead the country out of the pandemic and rebuild the economy as the drug is expected to win a 2nd confidence vote in the love house of parliament. but especially where police arrested around 50 people after overnight clashes with thousands of protesters demanding the release of a jailed musician wrap up public was convicted of glorifying terrorism and insulting royalty in his songs and tweets he was sentenced to 9 months in prison unrest erupted in several cities including madrid and barcelona. demonstrators in pavlo as those hometown of utah marched to the jail where he is being held. i think see his detention as an assault on free speech. in nearby barcelona violence flares

those protesters and set barricades a blaze and police fire rubber bullets i. i. and similar scenes in madrid as demonstrators fight against what they say amounts to censorship i. don't there's no doubt about it it's a shame. because it's a significant setback for rights and freedoms within the european union and another step towards detect tauriel and fascist state. based on. to me a blatant injustice and absolute lack of respect for fundamental rights for freedom of expression the facts speak for themselves and they. as you know was arrested after he barricaded himself in the 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 steal international says his detention is unjust and disproportionate high profile celebrities have also joined calls for his release ministers have responded to the furor by relaxing restrictions on free speech the government's junior coalition partner is pushing for the rapper to be pardoned. the european union's migration commissioner is heading to bosnia as border with croatia in an attempt to resolve a worsening humanitarian crisis the e.u. is critical. is fighting to re house hundreds of migrants after makeshift accommodation at least but down last year correspondent brianna strauss travelled to the leaper camp to meet refugees and local administrators who blame the for

leaving them in the large. whole life in one backpack. the spirits. of. the. khan and his friends are resting because it's raining at boston hospital with play shop and because their feet are hurting they tell us a christian border forces have. yes prevented them crossing but firing warning shots in the air sometime maybe does good good time he can not beat us he. he'd take about me by the foreign money and bag and their bun and things and push back against. the dream of reaching the european union has brought 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. from bosnia and herzegovina because other european states

have made it increasingly difficult to enter. a few kilometers further north east in boy several families mostly from afghanistan a living in the bandit 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 this. afghan people 1st and taliban and didn't die is. afghanistan is because no security is not save you are not serving our country. there's only one place where she sees a better future for herself hoskins and her 2 boys. that. are. these families are staying here because they're

just a few meters away from the creation border but there are also official refugee centers in the region one is leapai a may only camp which made headlines when it burned down last december the military has since set up new tents my parents you know have 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 un 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. and. that's just sending money without looking into a solution for the problem and it's not the ride way. to put this problem. is not only abroad but also our.

fudge so if i get. there we'll set off again and direction of the. inshallah dry up again and again they go bag again he was ready to go again. it will be their 5th to 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. well simon campbell has spent a lot of time and i have to roundly praise the field coordinator for the grassroots organization border violence of monitoring network welcome to day w and what do you believe they can use responsibility in this is well thank you for welcoming them to the show i think there's a clear responsibility on the behalf of you and the member states that are involved

in these push backs. as a network we recorded 1800 people being pushed back last year from croatia into the last year involving high levels of violence so the precarious situation people find themselves in in camps like and in the border areas of western bosnia is directly being contributed to by the east policy of x. and y. orders and the way that member states have a free rein in carrying out all of violence collective expulsions we're seeing as you reported mentioned people being threatened with weapons officers discharging guns in the border area we also have many many cases of disproportionate use of force against people and this is also very against minors and children bilocation point which was mentioned by mareena has over 100 people many of you know fam.