WEBVTT - Meta’s billion-dollar court defeat 

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<v Speaker 1>Today's biggest News from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with

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<v Speaker 1>the Front's afternoon headlines. Meta has been ordered to establish

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<v Speaker 1>a multimillion dollar fund to reverse harm to young people

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<v Speaker 1>who use its products, including Facebook and Instagram. A judge

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<v Speaker 1>in the US state of New Mexico made the order

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<v Speaker 1>after a jury found the tech giant failed to protect

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<v Speaker 1>young people online. Meta will also be forced to pay

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<v Speaker 1>hefty civil penalties, taking the total amount to more than

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<v Speaker 1>one point three billion Australian dollars, and an act a

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<v Speaker 1>raft of safety features on its products. Metas profits took

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<v Speaker 1>a big hit in the past financial quarter due to

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<v Speaker 1>already hefty legal bills and mass staff layoffs. Saudi Arabia

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<v Speaker 1>is preparing for an escalation in hostilities by Iranian proxy

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<v Speaker 1>militias by signing a new defense pact with Pakistan and Turkey.

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<v Speaker 1>The agreement will be signed in the Saudi Arabian city

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<v Speaker 1>of Jeddah on Friday. It comes a midi faltering negotiations

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<v Speaker 1>of a ceasefire deal between Iran and the US, and

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<v Speaker 1>as the Gulf States are increasingly drawn into the conflict,

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<v Speaker 1>which began when the US and Israel struck Iran in

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<v Speaker 1>late February. Thousands of travelers were stranded at Sydney Airport

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<v Speaker 1>on Friday due to staff shortages in air traffic control.

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<v Speaker 1>Some people waited up to ninety minutes to disembark from planes,

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<v Speaker 1>while departures were pushed back by several hours. Quantus, Quantuslink, Jetstar,

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<v Speaker 1>Rex and Virgin Australia said as many as one hundred

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<v Speaker 1>flights were caught up in the chaos, with some airlines

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<v Speaker 1>bussing water and snacks to aircraft stuck on the tarmac.

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<v Speaker 1>Check out those stories live right now at the Australian

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<v Speaker 1>dot com au and come back to the front first

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<v Speaker 1>thing in the morning for oh, look at the conversation

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<v Speaker 1>that's blowing up pop culture and whether our concern for

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<v Speaker 1>Ariana Grande is making everything worse. That's right here, Saturday morning,