From the Daily Ods. I'm Lucy Tassel, I'm Zara Seidler. It's Thursday, the twentieth of November. Here's what's making headlines this evening.
Australia will not host next year's UN Climate Change Summit COP thirty one after months of back and forth with Turkier. This year's summit COP thirty will wrap up on Friday after two weeks of talks in Belem, Brazil. Negotiations to confirm next year's host nation have been ongoing since twenty twenty two, when Australia submitted a bid for Adelaide. However, Turkish authorities also put forward a bid to hold the summit. Prime Minister Anthony Albanizi wrote to Turkish President Erdwan last
month refusing a proposed co hosting arrangement. Today, Federal Climate Minister Chris Bowen announced that Australia had withdrawn its bid after reaching a compromise with Turkyer. Australia will instead host a pre COP summit in the Pacific. While Bowen will also be appointed COP thirty one president, The role will see him managed negotiations on the ground at the Turkish summit in twenty twenty six.
Meta has announced it will roll out a social media ban for under sixteen year olds on its platforms a week ahead of federal legislation coming into effect. From the fourth of December, Meta will start deactivating accounts of Facebook, Instagram, and threads users aged under sixteen. The government's nationwide ban comes into effect on the tenth of December. Meta has notified users between thirteen and fifteen years old of the change by text, email, and in app messages, impacting an
estimated three hundred and fifty thousand of its Instagram users. Snapchat, TikTok x, YouTube, Kick and Reddit are among the other platforms included in the ban. Social media sites found in breach of the restrictions could face fines of up to fifty million dollars. Talking to the media this week about the upcoming band's Prime Minister Albanizi said quote, what we want is for young people to be kids.
US officials are in the Ukrainian capital Kiev as part of renewed efforts to end the war. According to a report by global news outlet Reuters, Ukraine is considering surrendering some of its land and weapons to Russia through a US led peace plan. The revised ceasefire proposal from the US comes after twenty six people were killed and more
than one hundred were injured by Russian strikes in western Ukraine. Yesterday, Ukrainian President Vladimezelenski posted to x saying that quote only President Trump and the United States have sufficient power to make this war come to an end. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that both sides would need to quote agree to difficult but necessary concessions to end the conflict.
And today's good news. Long lost classical music pieces by renowned composer Johann Sebastian Bark have been performed for the first time in three hundred and twenty years. Researchers discovered two undated and unnamed organ pieces in the nineteen nineties and have worked ever since to confirm their origin. The works are believed to have been written by Bach in seventeen oh five, during the early stages of his career.
This week, they were performed for the first time at a church where Bark is buried in Leipzig, south of Berlin. Germany's Culture Minister will from Weimarch called it quote a great moment for the world. Of music and a source of great joy for many many music lovers around the world.
And that is the latest from the Dallyios newsroom. If you are looking for something else to listen to on your way home, check out today's deep dive explaining the neo Nazi protests that prompted new laws from the new South Wales government.
We'll be back tomorrow morning with another deep dive, but until then, have a great day. My name is Lily Madden and I'm a proud Arunda Bungelung Kalkotin woman from Gadighl country. The dli oz acknowledges that this podcast is recorded on the lands of the Gadighl people and pays respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island and nations. We pay our respects to the first peoples of these countries, both past and present.