i'm going to go after them this is art international soul than could this be the tip of a big iceberg when everyone's way astray has become the 1st country to force tech giants to pay publishes a news content the laws designed to make facebook and google pay a fair price to the media facebook had taken the president and step of blocking news posts in australia until the government made changes to the legislation so that each other's reports. facebook is refreshing australia after a tumultuous month that saw facebook poll news from its platform and protests the tech giant will restore news pages in the country following a landmark agreement with the government experts say more countries may follow the

internet platforms need to comply with the rule of law or if they are doing business in australia australia officially implementing a law that forces tech titans including google and facebook to pay local media outlets and publishers to link their content in news feeds or in search results the whole purpose of the humanitarian crisis has been to give a strong incentive to the digital platforms to do commercial deals with the struggling news media businesses google already striking deals with major australian news businesses in recent weeks including news corp and 7 west media while facebook is promising to pay $1000000000.00 over 3 years to the news industry adding that the social media platform has invested a $600000000.00 since 2018 we're working across the full range of the areas where it is important to make sure that the rule of law applies in relation to all of the things that we do online with the internet and the bipolar vices of modern life this so-called news media bargaining code comes just days after the government

introduced some last minute amendments to the proposed bill after fierce pushback from both google and facebook we've agreed to make some clarifications to the code . when it comes to the designation process by the treasurer of a particular digital platform a one month notice period will be put in place a country's unprecedented new law has been vigorously debated in recent months facebook even shut down news pages in opposition of the legislation last week those actions were completely indefensible after serious back and forth australia's treasurer josh frydenberg and facebook chief executive mark zuckerberg finally came to an agreement will facebook has really friended astray in return facebook agreed to restore the news pages and lift a ban on australians accessing and sharing news australian officials say this new law will ensure news media businesses are fairly compensated for content they generate now many are wondering if there will be similar legislation implemented in

other countries already facebook is exploring potential news licensing agreements in canada while microsoft is working with european publishers to push big tech platforms to pay for news and new york attorney to chavez are to. carry horace and told the new legislation and his view is fully justified. it's very simple it's as if in the old days you publish a newspaper and then somebody came and stole your newspaper put it in their own stand and then added their own ads to it and made a profit and didn't give you anything back for it well there would be a problem there have been always for many many years and lawsuits because of it so clearly it's that time now when facebook has done enough stealing the already steal our data it's worth billions of dollars where i went who i talk to who my friends are who my friends are not what do i eat all of that and i get nothing 0 for them

to sell and resell and resell that data in the united states right now corporations are much more powerful than government facebook wants to own everything its goals are to own everything does facebook want to do york times to be the newspaper of record no facebook wants facebook to be there's no editor in chief of the internet hello you could publish a blog boy if you make it look good it looks like the new york times that people don't know the difference that's been facebook's conceit ever since 2006 it is the largest news organ other than yahoo in the world it's not going away well news in brief so this is brand new in keeping an eye on it to worth bearing in mind what may or may not be happening in georgia thousands of people take in the streets the georgian capital tbilisi to oppose the arrest of an opposition leader he's accused of inciting violence and protests by can 29 take your position says the arrest is politically motivated the calling for new parliamentary elections but quite

a turn out there from that little snapshot japan dealing with fires big one firefighters even military helicopters and to be brought in to put out a huge mountain fire threatening nearby residents more than $200.00 households have been asked to leave the area for their safety weather kind of problems of a very different sort in chelyabinsk central russia here look at the depth of this snow. the problem is that because of heavy snow storms that are bought roads to a standstill more than 600 people have been evacuated they're being housed in temporary accommodation. dealing with the aftereffects of covert now germany's small brewers have been hit hard by the closure of bars and restaurants in the pandemic with many now warning there may not survive peter all of the reports. god whether it's munich's october fest all colognes carnival plays a big role in germany's big celebrations has hit those parties hard as the

need to implement coronavirus measures the scene cancelled and bars and restaurants closed which in turn has had a knock on effect for brewers really bad to the situation off the smaller breweries because say they're off selling their bureaus in restaurants and pops and you know pops and restaurants are closed since november so there is no real sales at the moment for them be a sales of actually being declining in germany for a while now understood to be due to health concerns but over the last year they have gone off a cliff 17.3 percent down on a year on year sales for april 14 point one percent down for november some have looked to diversify to move with the times when it caught in bavaria overturned a ruling banning the sale of alcohol in public spaces last month this brewery in

munich set up a machine as i mean so we have here the mobile tank which was created with 2 other companies and here you have fresh 10 beer and the you can tap using their all the have to do is download the top of your credit card and then if you scan secure code you can type directly through the app and also be a contact less so that is also entirely covered conformant while a brewery near nuremberg saw their lock down creation vaccine the 2000 cans they produced selling out in just over 3 hours cans and bottles they usually the territory of the larger producers the vast majority of germany small brewers sell direct to bars and restaurants all. all of which are closed with no real indication when they'll reopen the german government towers provided financial aid and while it has helped it isn't

a solution over 300 brewers have signed an open letter sent to angela merkel's government warning of an existential crisis in the industry while a lot of the talk has been about getting schools shops and hairdressers open there's no end in sight to covert restrictions on the hospitality industry if i can open i have to take on more debt but i really need an opening date i understand that it's difficult with the situation as it is but if i don't have an opening date i don't know. how much money i will need to until that day and i constantly will need to keep looking for more money somewhere and this is just it's i'm just immense challenge and eventually it will not work any more and eventually water won't make any sense this breweries use the time that they've been closed during the pandemic to upgrade production facilities in order to allow them to sell beer in pounds but that's all comes with extra costs and the extra costs come with extra risks just by

a government support alone it's impossible to survive this so it's just more and more debt and eventually it's already almost impossible to get money from banks because they're seeing the situation as it is and why would they give businesses that are basically bankrupt at this stage why would they give them money so it shows private investors that you rely on that you hope that they were believe in the business believe that they can come back strong the hope is that scenes like these can be seen again by the someone who fears over the variance of covert 19 spreading through germany as many painting a less than rosy image for the remainder of 2020 war which will likely lead to a continuation of restrictions in some form all of which will take a serious toll on germany's breweries peter all over on. to. keep a close eye on what's happening armenia maybe that georgia story we just talked about interest if they do. service bulletins as well for the.

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methods to him to essentially destroy the personality of an individual. by scientific. this is how one doctor's theories were allegedly used in psychological warfare against prisoners deemed a danger to the state that was the foundation of the method of psychological interrogation psychological courtroom. disseminated within the u.s. intelligence community and worldwide among our allies for the next 30 years and other victims say they still live with the consequences today.