Ankur Desai

The people you can hear behind me, a lot of children as well,

are residents who've been driven down to the river to escape the fighting.

We see a column of smoke going up from where those detonations were.

All this fighting has escalated because both sides, the army and the KNU, the Karen insurgents, say they're trying to shut down the scam compounds that have proliferated all along this river.

The KNU has taken over these two, Shunda and Baoli,

and driven out the scam workers.

There are many who refuse to leave but they're trying to shut it down.

The army has taken over other scam compounds further north.

We can just see in the distance KK Park, one of the most notorious of all of them.

In the last few weeks the army has been making very public its demolition of buildings in there and its claim that it's shutting it down.

There are good reasons for scepticism about the military's claims because it is the warlords who are allied to the military junta who have been mainly profiting from this business and protecting it.

Many people think that's just a show.

The KNU has disowned the scam business and is looking for international sympathy, but it's now involved in this area in a full-on territorial fight with the military that has come right up to the Thai border and all of these people...

have been displaced by it.

Jonathan Head reporting.

The tech giant Meta says it has begun to remove the accounts of under-16s from its platforms in Australia, ahead of the country's social media ban for children.

The new law comes into force next Wednesday.

Katie Watson is in Sydney for us.

We're talking about 350,000 Instagram users affected, 150,000 Facebook users.

And they were sent text messages, emails saying that basically as of today, the process would begin.