Guy Hedgcoe

On the 18th of January, a high-speed train derailed in southern Spain, colliding with another one travelling in the opposite direction, causing 46 deaths.

The investigation into the accident is focusing on a cracked section of track.

Two days later in Catalonia, a trainee driver was killed when a collapsed wall caused a local train to derail.

The striking drivers are demanding increased investment and maintenance and the hiring of more staff.

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Well, when he presented this measure, he talked about how he sees the state of the digital world and in particular the social media companies that are operating.

And he describes that whole environment as being akin to the digital Wild West.

He said that social media had created an ecosystem in which laws are ignored and crimes are tolerated.

And so he said his government wants to create an environment that's safe, democratic and respectful for all Spaniards, but in particular for young people.

So he unveiled this plan to ban social media for under-16s.

That would require social media companies to introduce age verification systems that would obviously have to be effective.

And he's looking to push this through pretty quickly, isn't he?

He said that this is going to be approved at the next cabinet meeting, which theory is next Tuesday.

Now, it's not entirely clear how this will be implemented and exactly when, but it seems that the government's keen to get it through soon.

And from what we understand, this is going to be added on to an existing digital law that's going through Parliament at the moment.

And I think the government feels that that will be a way of making sure that this goes through at express speed.

It's still quite soon for that.

I think they're still waiting to find out when and how exactly this span would be implemented.

We have heard from Elon Musk.

And he's talked in very strong language about this ban on his own platform X. And he's described Pedro Sanchez as a tyrant and a traitor to Spain and called him a fascist and so on.