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Tensions remain high in the Caribbean after the U-S seized a tanker carrying Venezuelan oil last week and issued fresh sanctions on the country.

It's a further escalation of the Trump administration's months-long pressure campaign on President Nicolás Maduro ... with thousands of troops moved to the area and strikes on suspected drug boats.

Meanwhile, details have emerged of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado's daring escape from the country, a covert journey to Oslo, where she received the Nobel Peace Prize last week.

• Guest: Renata Segura, Program Director for Latin America at the International Crisis Group
• Producer: Pip Cook

State and federal police are continuing to investigate an attack at Bondi Beach overnight that killed 15 people, as well as one of the gunmen and saw many more injured.

The incident follows a spate of antisemitic attacks in recent years, which have devastated the Australian Jewish community

Allegra Spender is the Independent member for Wentworth on the Bondi Beach attack.

The government has announced a deal to keep the Tomago Aluminium Smelter in New South Wales open is being finalised after the company said in October it was struggling to see how operations would remain commercially viable beyond 2028.The announcement comes ahead of the release of a government review into Australia's gas market, which is expected within weeks.

• Guest: Dan Tehan 
• Producer: Isadora Bogle 

Days after social media restrictions were implemented for children ... one of the banned platforms has announced it will challenge the laws in the High Court.

Apps like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok have set up age verification software to comply with the ban for kids under 16 years of age.

But in a notice on Friday, discussion forum Reddit said the law was unconstitutional - and it's been wrongly included.

It's the second challenge to the laws ... With two 15-year-olds listed as plaintiffs in another case backed by advocacy group the Digital Freedom Project.

The group that organised the event at the centre of the attack at Bondi Beach yesterday was Chabad-Lubavitch ... the international Hasidic Jewish movement

Its spokesperson, Rabbi Motti Seligson, joins from New York

• Guest: Rabbi Motti Seligson, spokesperson for the Chabad-Lubavitch Movement
• Producer: Grace Stranger

Federal and state governments remain locked in dispute over health funding this week.

Ministers met in Brisbane on Friday ... with the federal government topping up its $20 billion offer for hospital funding over five years.

But states say it's not enough ... amid growing concerns, thousands of older Australians and patients with disabilities have become trapped in the public hospital system.

Deep in the archives of Australia's National Library, you'll find a copy of every book published since 1968 - a yearly haul that would stretch 2-and-a-half kilometres laid end-to-end.

Now the most precious items of that rich archive are being put on display, not just books but everything from William Shakespeare's first folio of plays to a digitally preserved Wiggles website from the 1990s.

The 'Treasures Gallery' is now open in Canberra.

The federal government has abandoned plans to establish a permanent artificial intelligence advisory body - despite growing calls for stronger oversight of the technology.

Responding to Senate Estimates questioning, the Department of Industry, Science and Resources confirmed the AI advisory body - proposed and funded in last year's federal budget - will not go ahead.

Toby Walsh is Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of New South Wales AI Institute - he was also on the temporary advisory group.