The Albanese government targets social media algorithms

0:00The Albanese government is preparing a major crackdown on social media algorithms, proposing $100 million fines for platforms pushing users towards harmful content. However, the coalition is warning the plan could cross into censorship, taking aim at what young Australians are being taught online and in the classroom. The scrolling seemingly never stops. One video becomes another. One extreme idea, quickly becoming a feed full of them. Now, the Albanese government is putting the algorithms that drive that spell in the firing line. We know that young people are being exposed to violent material, a misogynistic material online, particularly young men, and we think that that's a problem. Burning the Australian flag could land you behind bars under a fresh coalition, push to make, desecrating the national symbol, a serious crime. The opposition also plans to enshrine January 26 as Australia's national day into Commonwealth law. The reforms

1:07are part of the coalition's bid to claw back support from one nation voters. Opposition leader Angus Taylor says the act goes beyond being a political statement. People are welcome to make political statements on Australia and they can criticise Australia all they like. But burning the flag goes a step further. To see it being burned is unacceptable to most Australians. It's certainly unacceptable to me. And I think it's appropriate that a penalty of up to a year in imprisonment is established. Victoria Polisa, appealing for help to find the man at the centre of a major man hunt after allegedly attacking three people in rural Victoria with an axe. Polisa have released images of the suspect, 48-year-old Peter O'Ryand, who has not been seen since the alleged attack. He allegedly assaulted three relatives, an elderly man, a woman and another man. A major hunt is underway and police warn he may be armed with an axe. The victims,

2:09a 76 and 47-year-old remain in critical condition while the 74-year-old woman remains in a stable condition. Russia's president Vladimir Putin has hailed the peace talks with US envoy as beneficial. Steve Wyckoff and Jared Kushner met Mr. Putin to discuss a fresh proposal from President Donald Trump to end the war with Ukraine. The Kremlin is Adamant Keeve should seed the four regions claimed by Moscow and abandoned its plan to join NATO. The American representatives will travel to Ukraine after meeting the Russian president. I know that you are planning to visit Keeve after Moscow. In any case, regardless of what happens next, contacts of this kind are undoubtedly always beneficial. And, of course, the quality of the mediation and the trust placed in those facilitating it are crucial. I would like to say that working with you is a comfortable experience for us and we certainly place a high level of trust in you throughout this process. A judge in the US has declared a mistrial in the case of Lindsay Clancy, the mother and former nurse

3:14who admitted strangling her three children. After a week of deliberations and a last minute move to have a jury replaced, the jury remained deadlocked. Washington correspondent Jonathan Kursy reports. More than three years after Lindsay Clancy killed her children and a five-week trial, this was the moment the former nurse found out it's not over yet. And I'm being declared a mistrial. Outside court, her defense team declared, this is not a time for gloating, bragging, expressing victory. It's a very sad case. But then, absolutely. Can you hear something you would do differently with the second trial? Why would I? I won the case.