King Charles addresses US lawmakers + Trump’s ‘designated survivor’
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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.
What historical significance does King Charles's address to US Congress hold?
One person in that presidential line of succession is designated the survivor and that they are actually kept out of Washington itself. They might go to one of the underground bunkers that the U.S. government maintains.
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.
Standing here today, it is hard not to feel the weight of history on my shoulder because the modern relationship between our two nations and our own peoples spans not merely 250 years, but over four centuries.
Morning, Sash. And like you heard, we're starting in the US this morning where King Charles is, as we record, making a historic address to US Congress. He started his speech by acknowledging the US's upcoming independence anniversary, getting a standing ovation.
On behalf of the Queen and myself, to thank the American people for welcoming us to the United States to mark this semi-quincentennial year of the Declaration of Independence. And for all of that time...
Yeah, well, all right, get your thesauruses out. But he also spoke about, in serious news, he also did speak about the latest assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
We meet too in the aftermath of the incident not far from this great building that sought to harm the leadership of your nation and to ferment wider fear and discord. Let me say with unshakable resolve, such acts of violence will never succeed.
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.
Back home and US tech giants have come out to slam the Australian government's new laws designed to get them paying for local news. Yesterday, Anthony Albanese announced details of the new media bargaining incentive, which would see platforms like TikTok, Facebook and Google pay for Australian news content on their sites.
Your work needs to have a monetary value attached to it. It shouldn't just be able to be taken by a large multinational corporation and used to generate profits for that organisation with no compensation.
The proposed laws would see the tech companies slap with a 2.25% tax on local revenues if they don't sign deals with newsrooms.
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.
Yeah, Australian news companies are welcoming the announcement as a critical step in securing the future of local journalism with the new rules to generate up to $250 million in revenue that will be entirely distributed to newsrooms here. Now, interestingly, I kind of have skin in the game here because a lot of my early roles in journalism were funded by these deals that different newsrooms had brokered either with Meta or with Google. I know my job before this was a a meta-funded role. My job here, my initial role here at Southern Cross Austeria was a Google-funded role.
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