Ankur Desai

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.

It's a big task because they may have to make sure that by December the 10th, which is when the actual ban comes into force officially, companies have to make sure that there will be no under-16s on their platforms.

There'll be no way of them getting vaccinated.

getting onto those platforms if they don't comply, if they don't take reasonable steps, which is what the legislation says, then they could risk fines of up to 50 million Australian dollars.

That's about 33 million US dollars.

But we've been speaking to some teens about what they feel about the ban.

Personally, I don't think this ban will work.

Reason being, lots of us are pretty dependent on it.

It would be a shock once it's taken away.