PM

A $500 million brown coal to hydrogen project led by a Japanese consortium is to start in Victoria's Latrobe Valley. The gas will be exported to Japan and energy experts say the successful capture and storage of carbon is the key to the project's success.

Has Australia taken too much for granted in the relationship with an expanding and increasingly assertive China, and in its ongoing dominance in the South Pacific? Peter Jennings speaks to PM.

The Prime Minister concedes there are tensions between Australia and China in the wake of the proposed new foreign interference laws. But Malcolm Turnbull says Australia's relationship with China will improve.

On Thursday's program: Malcolm Turnbull has conceded today the relationship between Australia and China is tense; During a second day of questioning, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg avoided giving a commitment to government regulation; and Indigenous artists say they've been prevented from selling and promoting their art around Commonwealth Games venues.

A group of wild orange-bellied parrots is hitching a lift to their winter feeding grounds. The birds were taken into captivity in Tasmania before the migration and they've been given a luxury ride instead after many birds died in earlier migrations.

Thermomix has become a kitchen appliance in many homes across Australia, but the company has been found to have made false or misleading representations about its product and ordered to pay more than $4 million in fines.

The US and its allies have been weighing options for a strike against Syria, after President Donald Trump pledged America would respond to the alleged used of chemical weapons on Syrian civilians in Douma, but so far no US bombs have fallen from the sky.

Two Reuters journalists who're in jail in Myanmar have failed to win their freedom after a judge rejected a request for the case against them to be dismissed.

Frank Pasquale joins PM - an expert on the law of artificial intelligence and someone who has himself given congressional evidence to exactly the same committee Mark Zuckerberg is to appear before.

Mark Zuckerberg gives testimony to Senate committees in light of revelations that Cambridge Analytica used Facebook data to influence US voters.