Headlines: Australia withdraws COP31 hosting bid

Today's headlines include:

• Australia will not host next year’s UN climate change summit, COP31, after months of back-and-forth with Türkiye. 
• Meta has announced it will roll out a social media ban for users under 16 on its platforms, a week ahead of Federal legislation coming into effect. 
• U.S. officials are in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv as part of renewed efforts to end the war. 
• And today’s good news: Long-lost classical music pieces by renowned composer Johann Sebastian Bach have been performed for the first time in 320 years. 

Hosts: Lucy Tassell and Zara Seidler
Producer: Rosa Bowden

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
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.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
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,

(00:35):
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Minister Chris Bowen announced that Australia had withdrawn its bid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

(00:56):
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.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
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

(01:28):
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

(01:50):
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.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
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,

(02:25):
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.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
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

(03:06):
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.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
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.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
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.

(04:00):
We pay our respects to the first peoples of these countries,
both past and present.