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World Service,17 Feb 2021,26 mins

Google to pay News Corp for stories

World Business Report

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Google has agreed to pay Rupert Murdoch's News Corp for content from news sites across its media empire. Meanwhile, Facebook has announced it is banning the publishing and sharing of news on its platform in Australia. This follows moves by the Australian Government to make digital giants pay for journalism. We hear from Peter Lewis, Director of the Centre of Responsible Technology and is based in Sydney.International efforts are accelerating to save huge swathes of the Sahel - a belt of land running across Africa just below the Sahara - from becoming desert themselves. Millions of euros were pledged at a virtual summit last month, focused on creating what environmental activists have called a Great Green Wall. But why has a project that began 13 years ago been so slow to deliver? The BBC's Fergus Nicoll reports.Plus, Ford Europe says that by 2030, their new fleet with be all-electric; we hear from the CEO of Ford Europe, Stuart Rowley. (Picture: Rupert Murdoch, Credit: Getty Images.)

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