that's right but forms of steel that content from the news all plots and they benefit from it it's kind of a mucho benefit so then you probably would also need to ask whether the. news outlets will need to pay facebook and google for traffic that has fought 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 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 was welcome to day w what do you make of facebook's actions. i think face but was trying to make

a point that if the logo is 3 and they do have to pay for news that they may and date 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 sites they also cache the whole lot of other things as well including an agency's services sides including health sites and i think that overreach has made what was happening part of the strategy a terribly terribly wrong because the main thing that table noticed was that it wasn't just the news that was disappearing but things that i relied on every day through that platform including things like ag covert information and emergency notifications when there's bushfires that one end of the country and floods and the other. facebook is a commercial company what does it say about it or us 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 use it was incredibly abruptly showed a lack of respect for users of that platform so i think facebook is a commercial but it exists because it has a relationship with uses and for many users in australia 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. there was no way to escape paying something filmmaking to news content shastra i think that the appetite was there across the country the code was basically ready to go and i think google realised that if they

structure deals themselves they would still have a level of control over those deals and that it would be more directed to a dick 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 be and from accessing use but of course the value of facebook is a platform for australians as with that. portion of the service missing means that facebook is lucky to start shooting users pretty quickly talking to thank you so much for joining us professor professor from the university thank you. second look at some of the other world news now protests and strikes against me and mass military governments have paralyzed many government offices civil servants of work walked off the job and thousands have defied all thorgils to join nationwide

rallies police in the capital napier to used water cannons against the protesters demanding the release of elected leader sounds a change. nigeria's president has ordered security forces to organize a hostage rescue operation after gunmen stormed a school and kidnapped 42 people including teachers relatives and students who recently in douma trees one student was killed. in the northern german city flensburg has reacted to the rapid spread of highly contagious coronavirus variance by imposing a nighttime curfew the town near the danish border has also introduced stricter social distancing rules and says it will not follow the rest of the region in reopening schools later this month. shortages of covert 900 facts into fueling discussions on vaccination strategy in many countries so who should get the 1st shots the elderly or maybe health workers or other front line workers well if you're in the russian capital it doesn't matter the kremlin is promising that

anyone who wants a shot can get one as the euro shatter reports. ever seen with the potential to save lives vs russia as a weapon against the coronavirus pandemic. enough food in our is on her way to get vaccinated and to go moscow's luxury shopping mall. first she has to list any preexisting conditions and show her id then she is ready is that ashton is not i'm not afraid i had covered 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 ads for the russian developed

a vaccine are visible of the city. 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 moscow bites are becoming infected with cover to 19 every day and over the last of the city has lifted many restrictions mainly for economic reasons see at risk clubs and restaurants have reopened it seems that the russian state is relying more on the vaccine then on restrictions the vaccination campaign is in full swing that's a good thing because of the russian capital absently needs it. for the number. deaths nowhere else in russia so many people dying from cod it's 19. similar to its western competitors which have recently been approved the russian vaccination requires 2 doses administered 3 weeks apart according to manufacture us off sputnik

almost 4000000 russians have now been vaccinated and around town of those have already received their 2nd jobs but independent experts down to these figures they say this statistics i embellish and that's creating at dangerous situation. the dozen years of lives. that affect people's behavior it makes them careless of. course or they lose their sense of danger if you think millions of people around you have already been vaccinated words like yours careful about protecting yourself if you sort of issues go back to the guy that. katerina for minister on at department stores 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 it 19 which it is not stated it is that only in $21.00 days i'll get my 2nd dose of the vaccine in 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 the evidence suggests sputnik the protects against serious illness but doesn't mean someone can't pass a virus on. she's done on her way out here enough or not get ice cream just don't she has to be careful for the next 3 weeks because only then will she have produced and nuff antibodies for complete protection against a corona virus 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. european union's migration commission is having to bosnia its border with croatia in an attempt to resolve a worsening humanitarian crisis the e.u. has been critical of boston or thought his for failing to rehabs hundreds of migrants after makeshift accommodation at lipa burned down last year k

w correspondent marina strauss travels to the labor camp to meet refugees and local administrators who blame the e.u. for leaving them in the lurch. a whole life in one backpack thank god. the students. feel. the shan 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 creation border forces have just prevented them crossing paths firing warning shots in the air sometimes the view does. be does he. hear me by the foreign money and bag. things and push back against you 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 crazed 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 are living in abandoned houses these families here belong to her sorrow a group which is considered one of the most oppressed in afghanistan going to sun is not peace for. for me for all of. afghan people 1st. day. is. afghanistan is is not 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. and i hope. these families are staying here because they're just a few meters away from the question border but there are also official refugee centers in the region one is sleep r m a only camp which made headlines when it burned down last december the military has since set up a new tense 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 k.b.'s not the only reason why most of the un men here are preparing for the next trial to enter the year so local authorities are the more frustrated because they feel abandoned by the e.u. . just sending money without looking into a solution for the problem is not the ride way. to put this problem.

community is not only you brought but also our. mission to. fudge so feigin decision concepts without clean drinking water. too cold in some brave to lone icy drives to get their loved ones to a warm shelter be spared the chair shop in houston has a generator to keep the lights on the owner is letting families stay overnight. or 30. in the trailer there's no installation anything like that as quarter of their week we can't we can't afford to have them freezing not being able to feed freedom hughes grow for propane canisters to power gas stoves or grills to cook because millions of homes still have no electricity.

but the unexpected cold snap crippled the power grid. of the every source of power that the state of texas has has been compromised whether it be renewable power such as wind or solar but also as i mentioned today. access to coal generated power access to the gas generator power at systems for hours and equipment failed energy companies used rolling blackouts to conserve electricity. water pipes best in the blistering cold texas officials warned residents to boil tap or to the for drinking it claiming damage to water infrastructure. with low temperatures expected for a few more days many texans have no choice but to struggle on.

a 7 month journey by nasa's new rover comes to a thrilling climax later when it attempts to back down boss the most intense process of the landing is the 7 minutes after. the motion atmosphere and slows down to land nasa describes the 7 minutes of terror. 10 minutes to touchdown. the perseverance rover must separate from the spacecraft that is 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 30100 degrees celsius. while the mars rover inside the shield will only reach room temperature. when perseverance and speed reaches 1600 kilometers per hour. it's 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 most attention from the entry counts. allowing the rover to find a safe landing site. at about 2100 meters or 7000 feet about mars surface perseverance will separate from its parachute and at night it's jet packs 8 engines to play there slowing the research laboratory unbeknownst. to. the sky crane maneuver will lower the rover down to the surface and nylon tethers. next perseverance must reposition its legs and wheels right after touchdown 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 its floor was home to an ancient lake delton system about 4000000000 years ago which left a layer of sediment a promising site in the hunt for a microscopic apostles'. the united arab emirates we'll also explore mars its base probe hopes enter 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 and when one probe has been orbiting the red planet since february 10th it will reach the surface with a landing device and research vehicle in maine and send data gathered on mars back to our. 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 the new data. sounds like it's getting quite crowded up that let's take a closer look at this site race to mars with caitlin johnson she's deputy director fellow of the aerospace security project a center for strategic and international studies in washington d.c. welcome to the w. is there more to these national missions than just science. for the mars

program science is definitely the priority and luckily in the international community. science missions are extremely collaborative and so i think we're all hoping to see a lot of data sharing and information gathering from the mars missions which you know could enable future you know crude mission sending humans to mars right now china is due to land on last soon as well what sets best space program apart from site nasa is. obviously nasa has a long history of landing rovers on mars this is the fit as well as several other martian experiments in the spacecraft that have been sent this is china's 1st they are having covered 2 part mission the 1st is to monitor the atmosphere very similar to the u.e.s. hope mission but the 2nd and more technically complicated is the landing.

system on mars which will happen this summer and then sending the 1st data back to china from a chinese system they've had great success on the moon recently as well and so this is just one more step in growing their civil space program as a desire to get shed as well the chinese data. it dies there are some complications at least between the united states and china there's a law in the united states that were strikes cooperation between nasa and the chinese space program but china does share and distribute that data with other scientists are on the world and there is a little bit of collaboration between nasa and china and has been and what their motivations and hopefully we can use these new side missions to just keep growing that relationship and cooperation between the 2 nations so who runs the know it's

a weird question but it's cite china all the u.s. discovers valuable minerals of that and decide they want to exploit them does anyone else get a say or does become like the sort of like the wild west who has got the biggest guns gets to keep as much as they can carry it a little bit wild west there is a. treaty from the united nations in 967 called the outer space treaty which kind of lets it's kind of finders keepers so if you find materials i a celestial body you can keep it send it back to your you know your whole nation to study but other than that it's pretty vague and it's something that i don't asset is working on. developing for there are regulations or international consensus around you know what the process might be like for future missions and quite

interesting the other 5 does keep as having made it's on to the international statute book because it's not just government says it private companies looking to moscow as well like iran musk's space x. so how are they likely to affect these exploration efforts. i think it adds. a lot of complexity to an already complex issue and frankly the legislation for the space community and fractions in outer space is pretty date and pretty outdated it was developed mostly in the sixty's and a lot of it is tied to the regulations but i ask the marshall companies looking to the moon and to mars for both human exploration but also their own marshall purposes i think we really need to think hard as an international community of what will best protect those planets and and preserve.

the integrity of the error of of the planet itself so we don't just have a bunch of people out there mighty mars how are you know that. they could swing and that could be the case something for the lawyers to figure out all right good talking to thank you so much for joining us ok lynn johnson of the center for strategic and international studies caroline's a sport will start with tennis in a series of the final of the australian open after ending serena williams hopes of a record equalling 24th grand slam saka powered past williams in straight sets in the repeats of the 2018 u.s. open final japanese player will face another american jennifer brady in the final as she goes for her 4th grand slam title meanwhile defending champion novak djokovic has reached the men's final here overcame a spirited performance from the russian qualifier as line carets have to win in straight sets. 20 twentieth's lympics organizing committee has named japan's

olympic minister as its new president psychohistory moto will leave the government to take up the role was as your boater is a 7 time olympic who competed in speed skating and cyclic she knew places you sure are more a who resigned after making sexist comments she'll be tasked with be gaining support for the games which is scheduled for july but have faced widespread public skepticism because of the depth. as if you're up to date more at the top of the hour up next on we look at what whether joe biden's america is too damaged to lead the democratic world with the.

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