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It's Wednesday, the fifth of November. Here's what's making headlines this evening.
The Federal Government has confirmed platforms Kick and Reddit will be included in its Social Media Band for Under sixteens, which comes into effect next month. Kick is an online platform launched in late twenty twenty two which allows users to watch, broadcast and comment on live streams. Co founded by Australian billionaire Edward Craven, its content guidelines are less
stringent than competitors like Twitch. Earlier this year, the e Safety Commissioner accused Kick of failing to meet online content standards following the death of a man on a live stream in France, threatening a forty nine point five million
dollar fine. The US platform Reddit is best known for its communities of subreddits, forums based on specific interests, where users share opinions and give it Both Kick and Reddit allow visitors to view most of their content without creating an account, but you cannot comment or interact with any posts without one. From the tenth of December, both platforms will have to verify Australian newser's age when they create an account or face millions of dollars in fines.
Zoran Mamdani has been elected mayor of New York City, with US outlets calling the election in his favor less than an hour after pole's closed. Aged thirty four, Mamdani is the youngest person elected New York City mayor in more than a century, the first Muslim to hold the position, and the first South Asian person. He ran as a Democrat and identifies politically as a Democratic socialist, campaigning for
free buses and free childcare across the city. Mamdani defeated former New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an independent after losing the Democrat nomination, and Republican candidate Curtis Sleewer. Incumbent Mayor Eric Adams dropped out of the race following allegations of corruption, but his name was still
listed on the ballot. Mamdani is one of three Democrats elected today across the US, with Abigail Spanberger becoming the first female governor of the state of Virginia and Mikey Cheryl elected as the governor of New Jersey.
The United Nations Environment Program has released its sixteenth annual report evaluating nations progress towards limiting global warming to one point five degrees. It found nations have worked to fulfill their obligations under the Paris Agreement, a global packed to limit carbon emissions so global temperatures don't rise more than one point five degrees above levels recorded from eighteen fifty
to nineteen hundred. The UNAP now projects Earth will warm by two point three to two point five degrees celsius this century, which is cooler than last year's projections, but still far from the one point five degree target. It estimated global emissions need to be reduced by a minimum of fifty five percent in the next ten years in order to limit warming to the Paris Agreement line, calling
the goal quote extremely challenging to reach. The Australian government has legislated a goal of reducing emissions by forty three percent on two thousand and five levels by twenty thirty In September, the government accepted advice from the Independent Climate Change Authority to aim to reduce emissions by up to seventy percent from two thousand and five levels by twenty thirty five.
And today's good news the biggest supermoon of the year will be visible in the sky tonight. Supermoons appear three to four times a year and are the biggest and brightest moons of the year. According to NASA. They occur when the Moon is at its closest point to Earth during its orbit around three hundred and sixty thousand kilometers away. Tonight, the moon will be full and will be at its
closest point to Earth all year. You can first spot it as it comes up over the horizon in the east after sunset, and it's expected to hit its peak around midnight. If you do, we end up missing tonight's moon. No stress. The next and final supermoon of the year is a month away in early December.
That's the latest from The Daily O's news room. But if you are looking for something else to listen to, you can check out today's deep dive on the controversies surrounding free birthing.
We'll be back tomorrow morning with another deep dive, but until then, have a good one. My name is Lily Maddon and I'm a proud Arunda Bunjelung Kalkotin woman from Gadighl Country. The Daily 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.