Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

In many Arab countries, if a man kills a female family member for some perceived immorality,

the punishment is lax.

It's called an honor killing, but a better word is murder.

We ask why support for them remains and look at pockets of resistance.

And when people called Chick Korea a jazz fusion pioneer, he didn't really understand.

He was simply having a blast pouncing across musical boundaries.

We look back on his life helping jazz break out of smoky bars and into wider culture.

But first... A dispute between Australian lawmakers and American tech giants took a dramatic turn this week.

For months, the government has been debating a new media code that would force the likes

of Google and Facebook to pay traditional news outlets when linking to their content. The code was

approved on Wednesday by Australia's lower house of parliament and is expected to pass in the Senate

next week. On the same day, Google announced a three-year deal with News Corp, the

Rupert Murdoch-owned conglomerate that has a big presence in Australia's broadcast market.

Google's decision to pay up, in line with the proposed legislation, was seen as a move to placate

lawmakers. But Facebook took a different approach. Australians waking up yesterday to see the news wouldn't have actually seen any news if they

get their news from Facebook because on that day Facebook decided to block all news articles

in Australia.

Tom Wainwright is our media editor.

Facebook tried to ban just news websites. That was the intention, but it used some kind of machine

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