and the story is the shape the week a campaign to boycott facebook has launched in a strange trip it's news feed in the country the tech giant made the move over a proposed law to make social networks pay for news content we need to face the issue should facebook profit on someone else's work without giving them some of what biggest problem with facebook is that they're probably going to marry i think this whole social media i guess ecosystem has really spun out of control in terms of how it is monetizing. dozens are left millions without power and water it seems in the southern united states struggle to cope with winter storms.

and to black lives lots activists are arrested for attacking a conservative john lewis who was covering the rally we hear from the reporter. i feel that being conservative media is now very physically threatening to journalists america is descending into something that you know i would never have imagined 3 experience in my life. hello and welcome to our to international live from the snowy russian capital as always good to have you with us. while stopped in itself this hour a campaign to boycott facebook launched in australia this week it's off to the tech giant block to its news feed in the country over the proposed to make social networks pay publishes for content congress has called it an abuse of power auntie's simon wright brings us his take. australia's government is fully coming to

terms with the fact that facebook has told it where to go and there's nothing you can do about it might use what happened social media giant facebook has followed through on a script restricting people in australia from viewing news content streaming you know it's better to someone with an australian accent explain that so this morning if you visit a news science and astronomy side by the social media platform you'll find there are no posts you can view washington news articles. winner is australia could just be there wasn't any news that day so the australian government wants facebook to pay for content which is shared on its platform but made by other media organizations those media organizations make the point and is a good one that they pay to produce the stuff big tech like facebook benefits for free facebook gave a completely b.s. response that making it pay for that stuff would be penalizing him for taking content that it didn't take or ask for which is a bit like finding a bag of cash on the floor and then saying well officer i didn't ask for it or take

it from the bank so i thought i'd keep it finished in a carry on yeah so about that carry on on the other hand media companies do start their own pages and upload their own content of their own accord and as mark zuckerberg says every time his company is accused of ruining life on this planet it's a private company so that's what i believe but the future is private. this whole news blackout thing i'm absolutely i mean who cares almost leave you've got a computer just go on through twitter or google instead. we're anti dot com last news australian ministers are angry because they say facebook is among other things restricting access to health information during a pandemic. to enjoy i say don't get your health information from facebook what's wrong with you it's a not for time not dr quinn medicine woman. australia's prime minister seems

so close to grasping the reality of what's happened here scott morrison said that facebook. thinks they're bigger than governments and that the rules should not apply to them. prime minister they don't think they're big or they know it governments have little to no power over these companies anymore. treasury gets today's events to confirm for all the strings is the market. of the media digital giants these digital giants very very large. in our economy. and on the digital landscape well let's not get carried away here i mean it's only facebook and the only people that use facebook now is your mom and her friends but the bigger issue is what happens when big tech decides to get together and define governments i mean even the protest about this stand to meet facebook is on another social media platform. or.

doctors can do with google that will see his media outlets get paid for their content that's one australian he's really cool and the mark in the brainwashing going you know what there is always. bigger and. while in addition to news posts facebook also blocked a number of a strain in government pages including health departments emergency services and trade unions the company later said those who came accounts had inadvertently impacted m m c international weight and claiming facebook's move on information was consigning and a statement said facebook's willingness to block credible news sources stands in sharp distinction to the company's poor track record in addressing the spread of hateful content on the platform. and canada's back to stranger and it spot after was considering similar legislation to make facebook page news publishers and says it will not be intimidated we put the whole issue up for debate. 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 this content of which facebook reliance on it we have seen a whole clause 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 $80.00 grand plus benefits to write a story when you can get to me on his you know no unfair if by no 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's 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 the time if we all remembered dial up ale well it closed circuit environment where all your dating your shopping your opinions and that 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 will we actually have to make the grown up decisions. on title when to

storm sweeping across the southern united states has now claimed the lives of 58 people and left millions of americans without power. for days texas has seen temperatures plunge and snow as minus 18 degrees celsius for the phos time within 3 decades and led to rolling blackouts and extensive damage to homes. this is this is it. is very they split it. and look at it the other imbra oh it's the total wreck of a pandemic right here for the birds and meanwhile texas senator ted cruz has come on to file to he flew to the mexican resort city of cancun join the does all stuff he described the decision as

a mistake when he returned the next day but that didn't about the 20 stone that followed and he's not the only official and hot water and local mayor was full step down all to his response to residents pleas for help 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 it's texans just came here for a whole other part of the country this would have been a huge issue in the league we've seen mark for this action. so much he. told me that all the water got all the blankets out we 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 far teens in texas

struggle to keep our grades up and running some playing when top lines that completely froze for the disaster others however lay the blame squarely on the government came up well penn reports. without electricity texas residents are resorting to some rather desperate measures in the hopes of staying warm they're firing up the grill on 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 is energy last year have frozen to a standstill 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 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 they pushed climate friendly policies a bit too hard and branding the outcome catastrophic and this 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 blow. superpower but at home it's

a lacking power quite literally all of this critics say are symptoms of america in decline. are seeing new york when i was confirmed this week that around 5000 national guard troops are expected to remain in washington until the middle of next month the decision was reportedly made opening growing concerns of finance has all to america's front from zoc with more. one of the places that i actually lived it 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 could also see to the left of the capitol here in our life that 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 q. and a on members talking underground and sub read it in you know you have a lot of these different you know social media other 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'd have barbed wire fence and 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 $2650000.00 per day to have $5000.00 troops here. while black lives not to have been arrested after attacking a conservative judge inside a demonstration we've spoken exclusive me to the victim her reaction of much more coming your way in just a minute. so

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic development the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. welcome back now to black lines not to activists have reportedly been charged with

harassment an attempted assault footage appears to show them attacking a conservative john lewis who was covering the romney. i go to bed knowing there was something going on that he she rose. from her car who supports her was very true she's a pushover to the border patrol. that translates. as you can see with what had happened to me it is very trying times initially when i saw they were harassing other journalists there and videographers and i went to stand with them as well and they they wanted everybody to be turning off their cameras with our 1st amendment rights which is freedom to the press and also being a public space i kept my camera on and i said no this is public space and i'm reporting the news so my camera will stay on and that's when they started attacking initially or being media and then the 2nd time they came around to attack me when

they identified which media i was i feel that being conservative media is is now very physically threatening to journalists while tara was covering the rally when demonstrates identified her as a conservative reporter they can be hard quoting her a trump support sat out and not see the john lewis who was sometimes email so claims made by police if you will talk about how one point to protest internet has to rob rob a usenet p. and how face. now in order for true peace to occur you need to have people to have that civil discourse it's not it's not true peace when the other side is voices are shut off and so is it may give up a stogie of unity or peace but its act the detriment of you know $75.00 plus 1000000 americans who had voted and do support donald trump at the expense of basically shutting their voices out so that is not true unity when you're 6 taking out your opponent it's not a fair fight america is descending into something that you know i would never have

imagined 3 experiencing in my lifetime i don't condone the violence that happened at the capitol and i can condemn them along with. other republican conservatives because because terrorism and and and destruction and what is going on that has no place in america and i do feel that we are seeing more attacks and violence actually hearing from the left onto the right we see censorship that's going on and it's not even being. occur. well meanwhile in the u.k. new quarantine much is introduced this week might make travelers think twice before heading the. now requires travelers from thought to 3 read the list of countries to pay $1750.00 pounds us around $2400.00 to quarantine for 10 days in specially designated hotels there are tough penalties for anyone who flout the rules fines of up to 10000 pounds for those failing to quarantine on

a maximum prison sentence of 10 years for people who lie about why they've come from dead wood stash he reports from outside one of the facilities. foreign travelers and brits returning home from $33.00 red list countries are now forced to isolate and government mandated hotels in the u.k. for 10 days it's all part of measures to curb the spread of the new coronavirus variants but not only are rivals like elaine involved confined to the 4 walls of a small hotel room they've also got a thought they have to build themselves because. they want to know what we're going to be 2000 on about our i don't know i don't know yet but this couple has not alone many flights being canceled and departure dates change due to complications of the cave at 19 pandemic and it's not just the financial burden that's weighing heavily other rivals tell me the current in policy is no safer than isolating a home. buyer.

i mean i like. being in the speech i bring in. i think one. currently the government has almost 5000 rooms available across 16 airport hotels with another 58000 on standby but as has been throughout the entire pandemic scotland has gone one step further by enforcing hotel currently measures on any international arrivals regardless of which country they arrive from even in exceptional circumstances we were. almost in so it's when scotland. managed. 'd automatically once the 16th and that's. what you would be if.

you can already have. what you were going to england or if you were willing to get in and really in. well. it's just. you know you know we. just you know feeling like captives thousands of arrivals have to wait before getting home to their families are seeing ever more anxiety it's all very interesting times. you k. love. the raging. has published or rather pushed me as most vulnerable to the brink when some facing a daily deila of whether to feed themselves or take care of their medical needs in 2020 the number of people on the breadline grew by $173000.00 while just under a 3rd of autonomy and are now at risk of poverty that's according to the organization for economic co-operation and development we asked people how they're

coping on several troll boy picture all the calls on the my situation has worsened due to the pandemic i'm a small cross man who worked in fairs and since everything is now closed due to the i don't know how to go on i have to pay for some medicines but without anyone's help i often can't afford them between eating and treating myself i choose the former you don't know what you have to pay for 1st between the house bills and medicines you don't really know what to prioritize them so i decided not to treat myself. with the promise of finding it difficult to purchase drugs but cost a lot i can't buy medicines the price of which is increasing more and more we're not talking about a different code very much they're saying there could be a new look down so we don't have a better future to look forward so there is no hope. the new italian government is facing growing calls to change its strategy for dealing with the damage leaving health experts insist the current system of regional restrictions is ineffective

the government scientific committee this week ministers to other european countries in implementing stricter measures has one local pharmacist. hold us about the situation if you want that was to go this year has definitely been a strange one the global pandemic has brought a number of sectors to the knees and among these is certainly the poorest people who are having the greatest difficulties finding drugs and buying and soon many people can't even afford to buy drugs at a reduced price donating medicines brings a smile to the faces of people who can be treated the crisis is devastating and there are people who even have to make a choice between eating and treating themselves. and glamor it's quite high in the year before the pandemic were open 3 days a week but now due to comit we have to open 5 days a week people don't work and can't even pay for medicines we collect medicines and then we give them to people who can't afford them people can't pay for them so we

do what we want for children too we are missing many things and we're also struggling. to find a fast batch of russia sputnik 3 corona virus vaccine has arrived in gaza israel had been stopping the shipment from getting to medical facilities but later relented they initially 2000 shots are intended for people in poor health medical personnel working in intensive care units and the emergency services the following is a translated report from the arabic. after coming under international criticism israel has allowed the shipment of the 1st batch of the russian fax in sputnik v into the gaza strip through the qur'an border crossing and almost. today the 1st batch of the russian black sea has iran it will be great help for all citizens certainly all of us will take the shot for the other badges or arrive in gaza as well otherwise the street will simply crack under the pressure of the

granddad. 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 . a lot of a c. program will get underway on sunday morning in 2 senses in order to cover all the provinces of girls the vaccination campaign will go on until we have 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 in. receipt of other batches something vaccine in the near future which will allow us to inoculate the whole population of the british press our deepest gratitude to russia to its president clinton with people that what they did palestine. the shit that comes after israel prohibited vaccine supplies to

medical facilities in gaza the reversal of the land opens up the prospect for future shipments of the facts into gaza yes to put 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 facts and i said urgently. not so up for this our banks are stuck with us all next here on our . part enjoy. l. look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. i robot must obey the orders given by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the 1st law show your identification should be very careful but official intelligence at that point obesity is to create a trance. like on theories chozen with

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welcome to worlds apart don't trouble ones can fast if she wants to be easy to play cards seriously and yes even to. defeat the 2nd failed impeachment you can. he needs to be the joker in american politics lincoln smartly is likely to determine the future of the republican in the democratic party's both in rugby ukridge by these untruly player so what's on the cars for the next here is in american politics well to discuss that i'm now joined by michael johnson a co-founder of the tea party movement and a former speechwriter for president george h.w. bush mr jones it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time and

pleasure to be with you. i give you a card player by any chance. but really what they play. bridge and you know the games. i don't know if you are aware but it was the american the north american ag game of your career that is responsible for introducing the joker into the modern deck of cards. just in this a ways i think donald trump introduced this new style of politics well by and now that he's out of office do you think his game is over absolutely no and i think he's proven in a transformational worst in american politics. it's true that he has led this movement this make america great again. but it's also true that that movement existed in a lot of ways.