the government of australia slams facebook for abusing its power of the social media giant block as its news feed in the country. millions of texans are still without power and heat already struggling to cope with crippling winter storm. says this is. one of the 1st 2000 shots of russia's covert about you know robin gaza into israel lifted its blockade on the ship.

from moscow thanks for joining us tonight here on 3 international hawkins welcome to the program. government has accused facebook of a pew of abusing its power saw for the social media giant blocks its news feed in the country. through the latest story. start to the day if you are a news junkie or a millennial and facebook is the open in the morning because on sunday all of a stray be a wake up to find that it's go to news platform how to pull the plug on any and all right cool and international stories not overseas spot shop but also outrage well this is all because mogs not a fan of proposed legislation in the country which would force tech and social media companies to pay news publishes to reposed that content facebook says this is on fire i'm not willing to negotiate and so on this really bold blank. move which

has infuriated the australian government facebook sections were unnecessary they're way heavy handed and they will damage its reputation here in australia their decision to block the strains access to government sites were completely unrelated to the media code which is yet to pass through the senate facebook's actions to unfriend australia today cutting off essential information services on health and emergency services. as they were disappointing i am in regular contact with the leaders of other nations on these issues we will not be intimidated by big seeking to pressure our parliaments as he votes on our important news media bargaining code so what we just heard that and this is what's really got people tugging on facebook now the proposed legislation is about news but facebook has gone beyond the meetest here and it's blocked pages that really can and do affect people's lives so the bureau of meteorology blocked far and much and services which

post updates about deadly bushfires they've been taken down to charities including women's shelters or legal services for aboriginal people as well as very crucially state health departments which play a really big role of course in the ongoing pandemic now some of those pages have been restored but it's too little too late straight to like ah this is preparing its code that 19 facts in roll out and now hospitals are worried that they will not be able to get out information to the people extremely concerning to find this morning that since vincent's melbourne's facebook page has been blocked these during the pandemic and on the eve of crucial covert vaccine distribution we hope this situation can be rectified very shortly now a facebook spokesperson said that the banning of no news organizations was a mistake but some would argue that the reputational damage has been done already this is just one example we've seen. over the past few months governments and big

tech facing off again and again but is this just sort of adding fuel to the fire well absolutely particularly stateside how many times have we seen mark zuckerberg being pulled into those endless hearings and facing accusations that his platform doesn't tackle harmful content enough that it's engaged in censorship that it doesn't react quickly to allegations of abuse facebook in these circumstances often raises its hands and says you know what it's easier said than done it's a very difficult almost impossible task while the astray and situation now shows that actually it is that easy whereas apparently removing the live stream of the christ church massacre in new zealand wasn't for many this was the icing on top of the cake for a long time big tech face says allegations that it wields too much power at the banning of course of the democratically elected president of the united states donald trump being the latest case in point so this latest situation just another

example of silicon valley overreach and these actions will only confirm the concerns that an increasing number of countries are expressing about the behavior of big tech companies who think they are bigger than governments and that the rules should not apply to them they may be changing the world but that doesn't mean they run it but what today's events do confirm for australians is the immense market. of these media digital giants these digital giants loom very very large. in our economy. and on the digital landscape the hash tag delete facebook trending people are asking is it compatible with democracy some thought that facebook was too big to fail but looking at the anchor reactions it might well have triggered its own downfall here. carrie harrison professor rural studies markel rockton of all time political commentator lauren chen gave us their take on the story. although i don't

like facebook by any means i also don't blame them for trying to put a stop to what i think is a very bad policy that in the end well only end up hurting smaller independent and perhaps even dissident sources in favor of a larger more establishment media sources these news organizations are disappearing that's really what's at stake and they really don't have any choice because they're not generating the kind of revenues necessary to run these news. content of which facebook reliance on it we have seen a whole cloth disruption of paid you know professional journalists guys that spent 30 years cutting their teeth and there are a lot of jobs because who's going to pay him 80 grand plus benefits to write a story when you can get to me on his you know no unfair if i know real credentials in journalism typing out something and make more money on those clicks so the question is for democracy is what is the threshold where people deserve to

have real information and should they have to pay for it should facebook profit on someone else's work without giving them some look you can understand facebook's desire not to give in and start paying for news stories like google did once the box opens there's $200.00 other countries surely saying we want some to facebook but you do to their shareholders right if we start saying all right facebook will have to pay to feature news articles and news links what's stopping other forms of content from doing the same this whole social media i guess ecosystem has really spun out of control in terms of how it is monetize and actually a i think more equitable if i can use that word solution to this would be to start talking about ways to break up the monopoly that facebook does have on advertising and also on user data basically the biggest problem with facebook is that they're utterly controlling that narrative and they're completely shutting out news that

doesn't obey the narrative miss and this goes for almost. every issue down the line that of the importance today let's remember back in around 2007 i happen to be one of those lucky ones who interviewed this guy who started facebook he was a nobody was still on my space my space everywhere and he said that he wanted to create an ecosystem similar to a a well at that time if we all remembered dial up you know well it closed circuit environment where all your dating your shopping your opinions and but basically people who weren't able to have real friends in life could have thousands of friends make believe friends and call them their friends and you would never have to leave that world and it would do everything for you well that dream has come true and now all of us are sitting in the middle of it going well wait a minute it's either all capitalism where anything goes and we can all charge for everything or it's part capitalism or it's something but we're at that time of growth now we actually have to make the grown up decisions. millions of americans

are still without power days off the crippling winter storm swept across southern states texas has seen a record broken with temperatures plunging to minus 18 for the 1st time in more than 3 decades it's led to vast blackouts and extensive damage to homes. this is this is a. very nice play to. look at is the other imbra. gave you 2 to 2 to wriggle appear in being here for the birds and. despite the cold texas senator ted cruz is feeling the heat that's off the photos emerged online showing him flying to the mexican resort of cancun during the crisis cruise has since flown back to texas and apologized but the story has caused a massive backlash on social media and he's not the only politician in hot water.

was forced to step down after his response to pleas for help from locals. no one owes you or your family anything nor is it the local government's responsibility to support you joining trying times like this sink or swim it's your choice the city and county along with power providers or any other service owes you nothing it's pretty bad that you know us texans you just can't be here for whole every other part of the country this would have been a huge issue any leak we'd see much for this action. is likely. to fold. over you got all the blankets out would try to all sleep together to keep us warm and then today when we got up there was no water we have no real update of when it's going to come on our phones barely work. while authorities in texas struggled to get the power grid back on line some of blaming the reliance on wind turbines

for the disaster after they froze to hold others though are laying the blame squarely on the local government and i'm open reports. without electricity texas residents are resorting to some rather desperate measures in the hopes of staying warm they're firing up the grill and the generators and some of the even tried to use their cars to heat their homes resulting in several deaths and over 300 cases of carbon monoxide poisoning people are dying from carbon monoxide poisoning we have had so many calls in so many incidents that we can't even track them all the major oil refineries of the state has shut down due to freezing weather that bright new future of green energy isn't working out so well in the present the wind turbines that accounted for almost a quarter of texas' energy last year have frozen to a standstill every source of power 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 gas generator power also have been compromised alternative energy sources have been a key aspect of the democrats' push for ecofriendly policies a key plank of our build back better recovery plan is building a modern resilient climate infrastructure and clean energy future that will create millions of good paid union jobs critics are blaming joe biden and the democrats saying that they pushed climate friendly policies a bit too hard and branding the outcome catastrophic shows how the green new deal would be a deadly deal for the united states of america in the last few days if proven and the thing that we need oil and gas relying solely on renewable energy would be catastrophic many of these sources have proven to be unreliable the united states may be a global superpower but at home it's a lacking power quite literally all of this critics say are symptoms of america in

decline. aren't seeing new york staying in the u.s. it's been confirmed around $5000.00 national guard troops are expected to remain in washington until the middle of next month they've been stationed there in the wake of the capitol hill riot auntie america's foreign friends has more. one of the places that i actually lived in was a news anchor was an el paso texas where you had fort bliss that is the 2nd largest army post in the country when we pulled up to the gates here this morning it looks like i was walking into fort bliss there is a there's a whole street that's blocked off here that goes right into a checkpoint you'll see that these cars they go in they get checkpoint by police by national guard and you see this is all happening literally just you know maybe 2 football fields away from our u.s. capitol you can also see to the left of the capitol here in our life we have almost like these little trailers that have been put on we have a lot of these members where they're actually staying there was 26000 troops here

during the inauguration the numbers starting to go down but they want to have 5000 troops here scheduled again like you said till march 4th because you have a lot of cuban members talking underground and in sub read it in you know you have a lot of these different you know social media outlets and they're going to talking about possibly coming back again on march 4th believing that trump will be reinstated as the president again the fence looks like it goes down for miles now it goes all the way to the reflection pool in front of the capitol you know this is the people's house kids come here on their snow days to slide down the hill and now it's completely occupied by the national guard here i want you to look at the fencing right now normally you have barbed wire fencing you have barbed wire fencing outside of federal prisons this is razor wire this will kill you if you try to breach this fence here ok that fence that goes all the way around the perimeter of the capital $50000000.00 now again there's talks of having the national guard stay here until the early fall it's it's going to cost american taxpayers 2650000

per day to have 5000 troops here. russia russia. has arrived in gaza israel how to been preventing the shipment from getting to medical facilities in the area that initial 2000 shots are intended for people in poor health and medical personnel working in intensive care units as well as a motion to service is the following is a translation report from also is the shuttle. after coming under international criticism israel has allowed the shipment of the 1st batch of the russian vaccine sputnik v into the gaza strip through the qur'an border crossing and almost. day the 1st batch of the russian black sea has arrived it will be great help for all citizens certainly all of us will take the shot other badges or arrive in gaza as well otherwise the street will simply crack under the pressure of the wind damage. according to the health ministry the 2000 doses which have been shipped are

intended for individuals in poor health and medical personnel dealing with coronavirus infected patients in intensive care units and emergency services staff but a lot about the program will get underway on sunday morning in 2 senses in order to cover all the provinces of gaza the vaccination campaign will go on until we run out of jobs the health ministry affirms that the russian vaccine is one of the best and most effective among international analogs the russian vaccine will help cope with the consequences of the pandemic affecting medical facilities due to a lack of capacity. receive other batches of the vaccine in the near future which will allow us to inoculate the whole population express our deepest gratitude to russia to its president governments and people that was what they did palestine. the shipment comes after israel prohibited vaccine supplies to medical facilities in gaza the reversal of the ban opens up the prospect for future shipments of the

facts into gaza yes or for more. people in gaza call israel's decision to hamper the delivery of sputnik vivax into gaza blackmail and that's amid thousands of sick people including children who need to be vaccinated urgently. for goldman sachs banker richard sharp as officially been confirmed as the nutriment of the b.b.c. is that as a man or as a man with. missions and an impressive list of contacts sharp as a background in finance and has worked for some notable institutions in the sector is also known for backing the ruling conservative party by donating have to sums besides that he's also been an unpaid adviser to the u.k.'s finance minister during the pandemic and worked for current prime minister boris johnson when he was matter of london. chairman of the b.b.c. is a position appointed by the queen on the recommendation of the government mr sharp will take home $160000.00 pounds per year that's around $220000.00 for working 3 or

4 days per week british journalist and author francis beckett gave us his thoughts on the important position you see is the. one who. tries to maintain its independence and planes and prices. it has to animate so its relationship with governments that continually compromise its independence and it tries to pretend on no new former prime minister has used the power of control. of control of the german inquiry actually overtly political weight boris johnson has just used it the trouble with the appointment i think is not that it is a branch but that it is a banker with close ties to the conservative party and a banker. can at least be a jew all of having having

a political agenda that is in line with the comments the point of the. so-called mass protests continued in spain in support of the arrested castle on sell these were convicted of slaughtering the crown uncool trying to terrorism more nuts off for a short break. the aim . is. to.

show small seemed wrong wrong just don't call. me. yet to shape out just being educated and gain training as equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. choose to look for common ground. welcome back large protests continue in spain over the arrest of catherine rapper publisher of a cell who's been jailed for slandering the crown and glorifying terrorism the

musician was arrested on tuesday at the university of late where he and his supporters had barricaded themselves inside hundreds of public figures have spoken out in support of the artist amnesty international described as the tension as an excessive restriction on his freedom of expression well protests in support of the 32 year old have been taken place across the country resulting in riots and clashes with police. i. i i. back in 2018 her cell was convicted by a spanish court over tweets calling the former king a mafia boss user accused police of torturing and killing demonstrators and

migrants herself fell foul of legislation covering spiny its right to freedom of speech dubbed the gaggle or by critics a court ruled spanish law prohibited such expressions of opinion. in the meantime a member of the cabinet our national assembly told us suppressing free speech is inexcusable. this bunny over many is their secret being the fundamental rights act is their right to free speech and free free creation through government is they call themselves the most progressive government in the history for spain also for them and their case all florida has been wrong because is a clear sign that this is not true or not this is one of the reasons why we only need and it's not because we want to build a new a new contract with a more open and free laws we want to know more open system the

system which i accept. the killed and creation like the one i sell or others like. so of course we need this this change so we are fighting for this for a more free. 3. after the fall out from last month's trading frenzy over game stop the american gaming company one of the key players in that story keith gill has been testifying to u.s. congress about the jaw dropping surge of the retailer shares that's after a lawsuit was filed against him accusing the investor of violating numerous industry rules here earlier laid out his defense the idea that i use social media to promote game stop stock to unwitting investors is preposterous i was abundantly clear that my channel was for educational purposes only and that my aggressive style of investing was unlikely to be suitable for most folks checking out the

channel. well the lawsuit against gill was filed in massachusetts earlier this week it claims he hid behind the status of an amateur while having licensed security credential furthermore the suit accuses him of money put it in conduct harming the integrity of the market now the trading frenzy around game stop or up to back in mid january the company was having a rough time because of the pandemic that saw traditional investors betting on it stocks dropping however on share traders on social media instead stoked interest in the company that sent its prices soaring. very own financial guru max kaiser thinks the whole story shows what exactly has been wrong with wall street. what keith gill may or may not be involved with allegedly involved whether wall street bets that that's a symptom of a much bigger problem the collusion between the central bank had funs citadel

capital which is a big fund with major players connected to the federal reserve bank and they're engaged in massive fraud so this is a bit of a show trial with keith kill to distract and deflect attention from the massive fraud that's ongoing citadel central bank can griffith and others aren't involved in a racket and they are defrauding the american public they're manipulating stock prices and they're undermining the american economy which is why so many people find themselves in such dire straits why the infrastructure in texas as and been built and people are freezing to death because the money's been stolen and given it can graph it who's just bought a 250000000 dollars apartment in park avenue where that money come from comes from ben bernanke he sits on his board former fed chairman feeding him inside information it's not debate it's no debate about it it's clear we can see through the trading track record this is exactly what's going up. all money and more to the

death on wednesday of 70 year old conservative shock shock rush limbaugh some left leaning set of routines on twitter users are celebrating and insults have been trending on a social media platform never speak ill of the dead the poet tells us but the truth demands of recognition of some fux besides murdoch there's be no more destructive a practitioner of the big life of profits in u.s. history cancer to cancer r.i.p. rush rottenberg terry i would like to extend my deepest sympathies to the point of all who will know don't have to spend the rest of eternity with rush limbaugh. well meanwhile many can say i was in front of patients and pundits have paid tribute to the old cos that with many cool and one mention that. rush limbaugh had a strong influence in republican political and media circles and was have any criticized by liberals for his controversial views he was best perhaps known as the idea host of the rush limbaugh show and was awarded the medal of freedom by former

president donald trump as he will analyst and radio host dave parkins funny speaking of the dead as much deeper roots than politics he did not say things that were new to people he said things that people already believed and were kind of desperate for other people to say in public and in media so they could say yes yes that's me they flock to him because he said what they believe that as through the idea of dancing on his grave and celebrating his death that to me is a side effect of this collectivism that when you want groups to prosper and when you care about groups and you're all of a groups you must necessarily divest yourself of concern for individuals because individuals standing out is always a problem to the collective and so what we have now is a country where people step up publicly say publicly right on social media things like he's getting the tour of hell as we speak not a minute too soon i'm going to get punished for this but my 1st thought was thank

god rush limbaugh is dead it's awful and if you ask me it displays the destructive power of collectivism to a culture and we've gone so far down that road now so many people are so willing to abandon respect for the individual and speak ill of the dead as quickly and loudly as possible i'm a little concerned this culture has gone off a slope that we're not going to be able to come back from. boom bust brings the latest economic news including the taking of the u.s. by china as the e.u.'s biggest trading partner plus but coins new dizzying heights that's all the couple of moments that even i'll back in half an hour with the latest join us again that. it's been decades since the fall of spain's fascist regime but old wounds still

haven't healed. the. me from you know. me new to the bench of the scene. of newborn babies were torn from their mothers and given away and forced adoption. to this day mothers still search for grown children. for their parents. we are now at a point where we cannot manufacture the basic foundational components of the 21st century economy we are literally taking ourselves out of the game by throwing the keys to the economy to private equity groups wall street hedge

funds financier's and money and now it's too late. this is the one business show you can't afford to miss in washington. to read it fueled game stop stock saga is taking center stage in washington as he flayers testify in front of congress want to bring you up to speed on what happened on capitol hill last facebook is restricting the sharing of news stories on the social media. we'll tell you why and later saudi arabia is planning to ramp up oil output but how will the move affect prices in these turbulent times will welcome an expert in the field for a forecast with a packed show today.