Sasha Barbagallo

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Hello, welcome to The Briefing.

Sasha Barbagab with you.

Political violence, while abhorrent, is nothing new.

But it does feel unprecedented that we've seen a third attempt made on the US president's life in less than two years.

And behind the scenes, there's an entire hidden architecture of government that starts moving even before a shot is fired.

A chat about the U.S.

government's succession plan is coming up in the second half of this episode.

First, it is time for the headlines with Chris Spirou on Wednesday, the 29th of April.

Now, this is all part of the monarch's diplomatic visit to the US with Queen Camilla.

Now, it is a bit of soft diplomacy, but it's all been very cordial, very maybe even jovial at times.

They've all seemed to be having a good time so far with Melania Trump and Donald Trump there to welcome them to the White House.

But the Queen and King will be there for four days all up.

Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, has criticised the plan as, quote, government-mandated transfer of wealth and says news companies get value from posting content to its sites voluntarily, essentially saying there's value in it without getting paid, sure.

Google, too, has rejected the tax as unnecessary.

While both say it's not right that platforms including Microsoft, OpenAI and Snapchat have been excluded from this new incentive.

However, that will be among the topics to be brought up in further consultations on the proposed legislation going forward.