stop allowing people to go into facebook now when you look at the country and you look at you know ok facebook why is it that important of a platform for them $53000000.00 people in myanmar about half of them use facebook that is to communicate with people within the country but also outside the country and that along with that go with the messaging platforms apps that are come under the facebook banner so that's a lot of communication that's being cut because they have shut down the page well when say the police filed criminal charges against deposed civilian leader aung san suu kyi coup leaders the keys owning handheld radios that were illegally imported the u.n. is calling for her release saying the arrest is undermining democracy the rule of law. the global alliance to distribute coronavirus vaccine to poorer nations known as the covert scheme says it's on track to supply $2300000000.00 doses by the end of the year most vaccines for the 1st phase will come from the british swedish drug maker astra zeneca the u.s. house of representatives will vote on thursday on whether certain move a repu

allowing people to go into facebook and that when you look at the country and you look at you know ok facebook why is it that important of a platform for them $53000000.00 people in myanmar about half of them use facebook that is to communicate with people within the country but also outside the country and that along with that go with the messaging platforms apps that are come under the facebook banner so that's a lot of communication that's being cut because they have shut down the page. on wednesday the police filed criminal charges against deposed civilian leader aung san suu kyi clearly is accused of owning handheld radios that were illegally imported the u.n. is calling for her release saying the arrest is undermining democracy on the rule of law. the global alliance to distribute coronavirus vaccines the poor nations known as the kodak scheme says it's on track to supply $2300000000.00 doses by the end of the year most vaccines for the 1st face will come from british swedish drug maker astra zeneca and its indian partner the u.s. house of representatives will vote on thursday on whether

ok. facebook has blocked news content from its platform in australia the latest twist in a heated dispute with the government as kamber considers legislation to force tech companies to pay for the journalism that they carry facebook and google have been fighting the proposals which they say do not 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 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 finding this is terrible why do you say so it seems to me i mean i can get all my needs in 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 that way heavy handed and they will damage its reputation h

awareness agents that's not true ok and that's the danger that we have right now because people are going to turn around say who are you what kind of moral authority is facebook or google ok you're not god you're not my church and i don't want to join your cults go ahead. yes of their resistance issue is indeed a very serious one which is why they want to. legislation about domestic terrorism and why they want to make an example of the people who are involved in the capitol hill disturbances so you know normally if you look at what really happened you know you would you charge them with breaking and entering. a resisting arrest whatever they want to settle for less they wanted those on exhibition conspiracy to overthrow the government all sorts of nonsensical charges so that they can hit their own people who just went into nancy pelosi is desk what his feet are on her desk and took them and amuse them below i want to get that guy with some charges then said 25 years in prison. and of course you know it's not just wanted out you know everyone who was involved 'd in the black lives matter arises last year they they were. get a free pass so it's a matter of tryi

that we have to ask ourselves at this point is, whether facebook is actually more important for those publishers than the other way around. brent: okthe latest tonight on the apparent turnaround between facebook and the australian government. thank you. let's take a look at some other headlines. linda thomas-greenfield will become the united states new ambassador to the united nations. u.s. senators voted to confirm president joe biden's nomination for the job. the vote reflected the bite in a administration's wish to reengage with the u.n.. the u.s. congress is hearing testimony from former capital security officials about the massive law failures in the storming of the capital on january 6. officials blamed the failures on poor intelligence and a slow response to back him as a violent mob stormed the capital. a u.s. watchdog has confirmed iran has begun enriching uranium up to 20% purity. the iaea a says -- says the stockpile is 14 times over the limit listed in the 2015 nuclear deal. curbs on inspections by the nuclear watchdog came into force today. the french actor is under investigation for allegedly raping and sexually assau

question that we have to ask ourselves at this point is whether facebook is actually more important for those publishers done the other way around . ok. us with the latest tonight on this apparent turnaround between facebook and the australian government public thank you . let's take a look now at some other headlines linda thomas greenfield will become the united states' new ambassador to the united nations u.s. senators voted to confirm president joe biden's pick for the job which will be a cabinet position the vote reflected the biden ministrations wish to reengage with the u.n. after donald trump's isolationist policies in the u.s. congress is hearing testimony for the 1st time from former capitol security officials about the massive law enforcement failures in the storming of the capitol on january 6th officials blame the failures on poor intelligence and a slow response to calls for backup as a violent mob laid siege and then stormed the u.s. capitol. the un's atomic watchdog has confirmed that iran had started enriching uranium up to 20 percent purity that's a level close to weapons grade the i.a.e.a. also says iran stuff stoc

now australia has gone farther and said basically pay up or else and google said ok we'll pay up we're sick of this facebook said we'll take the else and they called australia's bluff in australia this is a law that came straight out of rupert murdoch with politicians in his pocket it is nothing short of blackmail and bribery of the platforms and it does break the web if you want to tax the platforms war that's a few but the entitlement of thinking that should go to news publishers why wouldn't go to health care or education or internet access well jeff i mean the critics going to come back and say shouldn't we be paying the news outlets for the content that they are providing the content that is being shared on these platforms . that's the fallacy of this legislation in any sane and normal market the publishers would be paying the platforms for the publishers are just putting up a headline or a little bit of a lead so they can send traffic people us to the publishers and that's free marketing. leave the platforms aren't really getting any value out of news in fact a problem i think we're going to discover

now australia has gone farther and said basically pay up or else and google said ok we'll pay up we're sick of this facebook said we'll take the else and they called australia's bluff in australia this is a law that came straight out of rupert murdoch with politicians in his pocket it is nothing short of blackmail and bribery of the platforms and it does break the web if you want to tax the platforms war that's a few but the entitlement of thinking that should go to news publishers why wouldn't go to health care or education or internet access well jeff i mean the critics going to come back and say shouldn't we be paying the news outlets for the content that they are providing the content that is being shared on these platforms . that's the fallacy of this legislation in any sane and normal market the publishers would be paying the platforms for the publishers are just putting up a headline or a little bit of a lead so they can send traffic people us to the publishers and that's free marketing. leave the platforms aren't really getting any value out of news in fact a problem i think we're going to discover

and i think facebook has held out long enough from play hard enough that while they will pay something it's probably a lot less and may not set a priested in the same way that people fear ok i'll come back to the question of president quite in a moment but 1st of all if you look at facebook here there's been a lot of talk about the damage done to its reputation not only in australia but do you think this actually will harm facebook. i think in my how facebook in the short term in astray i think it strengthens we're surprised at how willing facebook was to use them as a political football especially the callous way that it wasn't just news websites but emergency services health departments and other things that got passed on intentionally or blocked all the same so i think it was a stark reminder to australians that facebook really doesn't care that much about them and i think that's something that they will not forget readily but at the same time if it's business as usual within a wage it may not be as much of an impact as they say they would have been if it went for longer ok so given that how do you think this might be a precedent for the way that facebook and other big

question that we have to ask ourselves at this point is whether facebook is actually more important for those publishers done the other way round ok do you have used publish. with the latest tonight on this apparent turnaround between facebook and the australian government public thank you. you're watching the w. news up next 1000 special with all the latest on the pandemic i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news followed by the day i hope to see you then. the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and contacts the coronavirus update 19 special. on t w. every day counts for us and for our planet. ideas is on its way to bring you more conservation. to make see the screen. how can we protect our tests. we can make a difference. good morning to you as the environmental series of the movies from 2000 on t.w. daum on. the for. the full months and then everything goes back to the way of was at least that's the plan in the u.k. where prime minister barak johnson is floating a way out of lockdown. he wants to lift all restrictions by

propaganda misinformation can be and we all know how much time australians spend on facebook so it's a volatile combination ok thanks nick. of all the countries in europe the u.k. has been amongst the hardest hit by cope at 19 it's well into its 3rd lockdown now schools have closed again and teachers are racking their brains for ways to keep students learning the majority of teaching has moved online exposing and exacerbating social inequalities in great britain it comes down to money and technology not everybody can afford the electronic devices and the why 5 packages they need to learn online estimates have more than a 1000000 children being left behind efforts are underway laptop donation campaigns free data packages and the nation's public broadcaster has stepped up but the gap remains a listening post flow phillips now on fears of a lost generation and britain's digital divide. january 3rd 2021 christmas holidays are drawing to a close in the number of coronavirus cases in the united kingdom. the prime minister we have to rates his government's commitment to greet opening the country's schools the same v

facebook this is what has happened. no mystifies book or i am a democratically elected sobering government and you will pay the media for its content. ok 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 time to meet facebook is on another social media platform. or murdoch just can't deal 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. a bigger and. and addition to news posts facebook also blocked a number of key australian government pages including health departments and agencies services on trade unions the company related commented on the issue saying these accounts had been inadvertently impacted and the city international weighed in saying facebook's willingness to control information that people rely on is extremely concerning because i did the movie stood in stark contrast to what it calls t

question that we have to ask ourselves at this point is whether facebook is actually more important for those publishers than the other way around . ok. with the latest tonight on this apparent turnaround between facebook and the australian public thank you. well the golf superstar tiger woods has been hospitalized after being involved in a single car accident that's according to authorities in los angeles here he's seen winning the masters tournament in 2019 the 45 year old woods we understand had to be extricated from his vehicle his agent says that he's undergoing surgery after suffering multiple leg injuries the vehicle sustained major damage was the sole occupant in that car. is a reminder of the top stories that we're following for you one of the 3 men accused of killing. has pleaded guilty to murder the sentenced to 15 years in prison she exposed corruption within. sparked international outrage. that forced the prime minister to resign. business news is up next with. will be right back. when it comes to. you.

we say well what to expect from ok thank you so much for that update from your above the. facebooksays it's ban me and mars military from using its platforms the social media giant says it's a necessary response to the military coup and the violent crackdown on protesters there's a heavy police presence and one gone where some marchers have been arrested at least 3 protesters have been killed in weeks of rallies denouncing this who and demanding the release of the elected leader and songs and she has the latest from across the border in the thai capital bangkok. it will be some pressure because so many people in myanmar get information news from facebook this is part of the reason part of the reason for this is because it was a closed off nation for decades and then once the internet connections and data lines were introduced social media became a platform for news for a lot of people in myanmar so there's a heavy reliance on facebook and other platforms so in that respect it will be a hit to the myanmar military for them trying to get information that they want to now it's interes

facebook this is what has happened. now mystifies book oh i am a democratically elected sobering government and you will pay the media for its content. ok 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 week facebook is on another social media platform was looking for a historical parallel here or might go to the opium wars back in the 19th century where britain got a hold of china addicted to opium basically so it could bribe the government well this time around more than governments are facing the fact that these social media giants are untouchable up in the cloud and they might be more important to the voters than the government again the way of them. or murdoch just can't deal with google that will see his media outlets get paid for their content one australian he's really cool and the mark in the brainwashing going you know what there is always. bigger and. in addition to news posts facebook also blocks a number of key aus

ok the reporter. has been following the story. of facebook. why did facebook make its use. so facebook resume negotiations with the australian government after it was promised that there would be amendments to the proposed code and now under these changes facebook will get more time to negotiate private deals with a media companies also it will be allowed more freedom in terms of choosing which media companies to close deals with and the government said that if facebook and tech giant can prove that they are already contributing enough money to journalism then they will be they can be exempted from from the law so as a result facebook decided to refrained. and it said it will now give access to news articles again in the coming days now that a lot of my friends in the stray you were very surprised when facebook suddenly blocked all of the news links in their seeds what kind of impact did well i mean for us trillion media platforms it was quiet prompt as you said. one day last week without being able to open our to find articles or shared them so the of course that led to a

now australia has gone farther and said basically pay up or else and google said ok we'll pay up or sick of this facebook said we'll take the else and they called australia's bluff in australia this is a law that came straight out of rupert murdoch with politicians in his pocket it is nothing short of blackmail and bribery of the platforms and it does break the web if you want to tax the platforms war that's a few but the entitlement of thinking that should go to news publishers why wouldn't go to health care or education or internet access well jeff i mean the critics going to come back and say shouldn't we be paying the news outlets for the content that they are providing the content that is being shared on these platforms . that's the fallacy of this legislation in any sane and normal market the publishers would be paying the platforms for the publishers are just putting up a headline or a little bit of a lead so they can send traffic people us to the publishers and that's free marketing. they've deployed forms aren't really getting any value out of news in fact a problem i think we're going to discov

absolutely ok so the reason i'm asking is because on facebook in 2011 you wrote i am currently in ashkelon to witness the security problem facing the city to deal with a mass of leaders in gaza and for every missile that falls in our southern towns we retaliate by deleting a neighborhood in gaza by deleting a neighborhood in gaza you also said we have to stop the entry of fuel and electricity in gaza immediately and of course for those who don't know to do these things to deny access to these sorts of resources or to blow up it or delete it are unable to allow it to and so that i would love to be answered with an 11 i want you to answer about what i did and i want to be clear to the audience for those who don't know as i'm sure you do know that this would this would constitute collective punishment which would be a war crime and would be a violation of international law so let me answer that when hamas is deliberately targeting electricity facilities in israel. and threatening our lives there is no reason for us to allow them to continue that and that's what we are actually considering to

ecosystem facebook which people have become dependent on your network for information use free speech as a defense against regulation and yet you respond to attempts to regulate. in the defense of ok to analysts to buy ability with this response sure it gets me to go into out of must you do wonder why facebook a peeved at this law and they acknowledge themselves the news any represents a small share of what it why they worry about this what it is pay options and be done with it. i think it said just to agree with the what julie and courtney were mentioning i think this was just a very bad p.r. campaign and generally speaking i believe the australian bill is a very innovative piece of legislation that aims to do exactly what julie was mentioning earlier to really reduce the balance between smaller news organizations and smaller players and these very large tech companies which are really now dominating the way in which information is being accessed by billions of users what i find particularly interesting is that as you were mentioning earlier news are only a part of the type of speech that we find on these platforms especially social media platforms and what to what really was str

ok moving the program on now a campaign to boycott facebook is gaining momentum in australia it revolves around the tech giant blocking news posts on its platform in the country over a proposed law to make social networks pay publishers for news content the australian government's criticised facebook's decision by we just side of this is a struggle you're going to business here you work according to our rules but the idea of shutting down the sort of sorts i did yesterday as some sort of threat well i know i was trying to react to that and i thought that was a. the not a good move on the part of this morning so we'll see where one of those discussions go on we can find a pathway going forward yesterday's actions by phase were unnecessary they were heavy handed they have generated a very strong reaction here in a strike. in addition to news post facebook also blocked a number of key government pages including health departments emergency services and trade unions the company later commented on the issue saying those occurrence had been quote inadvertently impacted are now being restored j

and facebook has committed to entering into good faith negotiations with the strain news media businesses seeking to reach agreements to pay for content ok reporter. has been following this story so hard federica facebook. why did facebook make its use. so facebook resume negotiations with the australian government after it was promised that there would be amendments to the proposed code and now under these changes facebook will get more time to negotiate private deals with media companies also it will be allowed more freedom in terms of choosing which media companies to close deals with and the government said that if facebook and tech giant can prove that they are already contributing enough money to. journalism then they will be they can be exempted from from the law so as a result facebook decided to refrain and yes and it said it will now give access to news articles i get in the coming days now that a lot of my friends in australia were very surprised when so i spoke suddenly blocked all of the news links. in their seeds what kind of impact. well i mean for us trillion media platforms it was quite a prompt as you said. one day last

hypocrisy stephen bergen in basilan a thanks so much for talking to us ok time to take a look at some of the world needs now. facebook is blocking users in australia from breeding and sharing news stories the social media giant opposes legislation that would force internet companies to pay news publishers for content earlier this week google said it had struck deals to pay to a striving many companies for their news content. us conservative talk radio host rush limbaugh has died of lung cancer at the age of $75.00 brand broadcaster was known for promoting republican causes and politicians during his shows and taunting democrats last year he was awarded the medal of freedom by the former u.s. president donald trump. you were telling prime minister mario draghi has easily survived his 1st vote of confidence in the senate after value to do whatever it takes to lead his country out of the coronavirus pandemic and rebuild the economy is expected to win a 2nd confidence vote in the lower house of parliament on thursday. where european leaders are scrambling to get more dozens of the coded 19 vaccines production bottlenecks

it would have been if it went for longer ok so given that how do you think this might be a precedent for the way that facebook and other big tech giants and social media giants operate globally. so i think it's the president in so much as facebook and google last week have both committed that news is worth something to them it's worth paying for it with paying to keep that on their platform so i think if there is that admission is made then obviously the country is going to be looking at that admission going well you've got canadian news you've got news from other countries as well are you going to pay for that and i think that that gee he's very much out of the bottle on that front but at the same time i don't think the bargaining hurt is quite the template everyone has high people because one of the main things that's happened here is the treasurer has a great not to use the bargaining card if facebook strikes deals before the code becomes law if you could look ahead for us how do you see this relationship between social media companies and news outlets playing out. a look at one of the real challenges here

to break this down the tough and investigative journalist spencer on ok so ben what do we know about this new agreement between facebook and the australian government here yeah sounds like everything kind of points toward facebook got their way centrally facebook for about a week shut down all news on its platform and i'll show you said we're not going to have news because the government there had said for not just facebook but for all big tech companies that they would have to pay media groups and local media whether it be t.v. channels newspapers magazines whatever it is they would have to pay them for posting their content on the platform facebook didn't like that idea because of the clause for arbitration essentially saying look if you post this content let's say from 7 news in australia or from something that is owned by news corp in australia which is those of the real big media entities there if those that content goes up you have to make similar deals with smaller publishers you can't just run their content on your site not pay them anything if facebook didn't like that idea because there was an arbitration cla

stephen bergen in basilan a thanks so much for talking to us ok time to take a look at some other world news now and facebook is blocking users in australia from breaking and sharing news stories social media giant poses legislation that would force internet companies to pay nis publishers for content earlier this week google said it had struck deals with 2 strata and maybe companies for the news content. the us conservative talk radio host rush limbaugh has died at the of lung cancer at the age of 75 brand board broadcast it was known for promoting republican causes and politicians for his shows and democrats he was awarded the medal of freedom by the former u.s. president donald trump. a court in india has acquitted journalists romani of defamation charges brought against her by a man she accused of sexual harassment the verdict is being hailed as a victory by the country's main to and former newspaper editor and politician. had subramanian after she claimed he had pressed the court rejected his claim that you prince philip the husband of britain's queen elizabeth is in hospital the palace sources say he d

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so maybe i don't speak out to the the algorithm or something like that ok she won't she already i have seen people do this on facebook is that they'll they'll screw around with the spelling where you can easily identified it perfectly yeah yeah but i mean this is what it's gotten down to you know you're out i mean maybe you should just have a channel say in praise of nancy pelosi and just put all the stuff you want anyway and everybody all know that's the right place to go because you know they're fake you got everybody should grab let's get going this is serious stuff and i know it's very serious for you. it seems to me that their reaction to us is they're afraid in their week at least in their mindset i mean we're not a threat i mean i really don't think we are i think what we do is we at a healthy add to the healthy way to talk about politics because i stress every time you're on the program and i'm really happy that you're here today is that you and i share a very different viewpoint but the only way we're going to achieve something is it both viewpoints are out there not pertaining to the other one isn't there g

to break this down the coast and investigative journalist ben swan ok so grand what do we know about this new agreement between facebook and the australian government here. yeah sounds like everything kind of points toward facebook got their way centrally facebook for about a week shut down all news on its platform and i'll show you said we're not going to have news because the government there had said for not just facebook but for all big tech companies that they would have to pay media groups and local media whether it be t.v. channels newspapers magazines whatever it is they would have to pay them for posting their content on the platform facebook didn't like that idea because of the clause for arbitration essentially saying look if you post this content let's say from 7 news in australia or from something that is owned by news corp in australia which is those of the real big media entities there if those that content goes up you have to make similar deals with smaller publishers you can't just run their content on your site not pay them anything if facebook didn't like that idea because there was an arbitration cl

yes ok bill things here the idea here is that you know companies like facebook and apple and google what they do is they just gobble up smaller companies and obviously there are a lot of tech companies that are being built for the purpose of acquisitions let's be clear about that it's not as if all these companies are somehow helpless they want to be acquired in fact for a lot of tech startups that is also in their game plan they launch their start up with a plan of what is our exit strategy and how do we get acquired but in this case what makes it a little bit different is that if you think about for instance remember facebook and instagram there's a whole conversation about the fact that when facebook 1st approached instagram back in 2013 instagram's owner said later on in front of congress that he believed that if he did not sell to facebook essentially facebook would would crush them and that's how he felt at the time that's why he went ahead and sold instagram that's what he claimed anyways so the idea here is not that the government needs to do the legwork of trying to figure out w