I'm Carla Zeus at the CNN Center.

We're taking off the month of April with the subjects of digital copyrights and clouds of pollen, but before that were explaining a milestone involving the Dalai Lama.

It has now been 60 years since the Buddhist leader fled from his homeland.

That land is Tibet.

Officially, it's an autonomous region of China, meaning Tibet has the authority to govern itself.

But it's still ultimately ruled by China.

The Dalai Lama is Tibet's spiritual leader, and he used to be.

It's physical leader to.

That changed in 1959 when the Dalai Lama left the region to live as a refugee in India.

In fact, today, he jokes that he's the longest guest of the Indian government.

At 83 years old, the monk has said age and exhaustion are the reasons why he's cut back on travel recently, and questions about who the next spiritually dir will be and how the position will be filled grow with each passing day.

The current Dalai Lama is the 14th in Tibet's history, the titles traditionally given to the highest ranking leader among Tibetan Buddhists, and millions of them see the Dalai Lama as a living god.

But China's communist government has strict controls over the practice of religion in the country.

It says the Dalai Lama must comply with Chinese laws and regulations and follow religious rituals and historical conventions.

That's why China wants to fully control the appointment of the next Dalai Lama.

Many Tibetans living in the region and abroad are not willing to accept that.

And the current spiritually leader says if China chooses the next Dalai Lama, Tibetans will neither trust nor respect the person, so uncertainty clouds the future of this highly influential role.

It's been 60 years since the Dalai Lama last set foot in the land of his birth, Tibet.

He was identified as the new Tibetan leader by a delegation of monks when he was only a child and he was given full status.

Is Dalai Lama at the tender age of 15 process that was sped up as Chinese troops marched over the highlands into Tibet to take control.

In 1950 Chinese leader Mao Zedong offered autonomy but demanded obedience from people in the region.

The Dalai Lama took part in a series of peace talks with communist officials.

But then there was an unsuccessful armed uprising against the Chinese in Lhasa on March the 10th 1959 and the same year this photo was taken, showing the Dalai Lama on his throne in Lhasa.

He fled across the Himalayas into India.

Since then, the Dalai Lama has lived in exile in northern India.

In 1989 he won a Nobel Peace Prize for his dedication to the non violent liberation of Tibet.

The Dalai Lama has always said he has on Lee ever wanted enough autonomy to protect traditional Buddhist culture in Tibet.

Chinese authorities insist he is a separatist trying to establish an independent Tibet, calling him a wolf and monks robes.

Beijing says that Tibetan region has been China's territory for centuries and denies and the oppression since 1950 saying living standards have greatly improved for the Tibetan people.

In 2008 there were days of demonstrations which turned into riots in Lhasa that led to a crackdown, which Chinese state media says 20 people were killed.

Tibetan exiles say it was more like 150 in 2011.

The Dalai Lama announced plans to devolve his political power to an elected leader of the Tibetan exile movement.

A few years later, in an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, he explained.

Might you be the last Dalai Lama possible?

It's right.

I feel I personally feel better.

Oh, the people.

Beijing says any new Dalai Lama chosen in Tibet would have to be approved by the communist government, leading the current Dalai Lama to speculate his successor could come from outside of China.

In 2016 CNN's Matt Rivers was one in a group of journalists who were able to make a rare visit to Tibet on a state controlled trip.

Buddhism is one of five officially recognized religions in China, but under tight government supervision and surveillance.

And that is very much the case for the 6 to 8 million Tibetan Buddhists.

Many who have left the region 10 seconds.

Trivia, which of these nations is not currently a member of the European Union, Hungary, United Kingdom, Lithuania or Switzerland?

Switzerland isn't a member of the European Union, though it does have trade agreements and ties with the U.

About a week and 1/2 ago we told you how the European Union had hit Google with another fine for hindering competition.

Will technology companies, including Google, could wind up owing more money to the U under its new copyright rules?

When it comes to books, songs, art and movies, a copyright gives a person or a business permission to make copies of the work or publish and sell it.

Media companies and artists have said that you needs to update its copyright protections for the Internet age and make sure the copyright holders are fairly paid for their content.

But critics of the new You rules say they're too vague, and they could lead technology companies to block too much content in an effort to stay out of trouble.

European officials say it could take two years to implement the rules.

The U is poised to deliver a major blow against big tech with new measures that could place an enormous responsibility on tech platforms when it comes to taking down copyrighted material.

And this isn't the first time that the U has been on the forefront of regulating big tech, whether its data protection, antitrust violations, tax violations on all those that you has led the charge on cracking down on tech companies, and this is illegal under you antitrust rules.

But critics are arguing that these new regulations are not just a blow to big tech, but also to Internet freedom by potentially chilling the average user's ability to create and post content.

The rule is called the European Union Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market and aims to protect copyrighted content on the Internet.

Sounds good in theory.

But various parts of the directive are proving to be controversial.

One of those components would make online platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Reddit all liable for copyright infringement on their platform.

Now this provision is extremely vague, so no one knows exactly what it will look like in practice.

But what it suggesting is that online platforms use content recognition technologies to examine every single piece of content that's uploaded to their sights.

That is an enormous task for YouTube alone.

That means filtering the more than 500 hours of new video uploaded to the site every minute.

It's not just video even Means could potentially get these sites into legal trouble, since the images used in names are often sourced from copyrighted contact supporters of the new law.

Point out, that means Air actually protected because a MIM is a parody, which the directive still permits.

But critics argue that it's unlikely that these automated content filters are going to be able to tell the difference between a copyright infringement case in a parody case, which could mean that a lot of content used legally may get caught in the crossfire.

And that's not just theoretical.

It happens all the time.

2016.

Ironically enough, YouTube's content filter mistakenly took down a speech made by the EU trade commissioner, and that video was even uploaded by a member of the European Parliament.

So the goal of this provision is to make sure that the original copyright holders are paid their fair share.

But for a law that's meant to shift some power away from big tech, it might actually end up helping them.

That's because right now building an automated content filter requires a lot of capital capital that only big tech companies might have access to.

Google alone has spent more than $100 million for YouTube current content i d filter filter that still miss labels, videos, all the time for those platforms that don't have $100 million to spend.

The consequences of the rule change are unclear.

But what is clear is that companies like Google already have an upper hand in this space, so we don't know how exactly this will play out.

But what we do know is that this has the potential to change the Internet as we know it around the world, not just in Europe.

Eyes the season for some sneezing.

And if you find pollen Apollon, you're gonna hate this.

This video was shot from a helicopter passing over the woods.

The clouds, you see, are the pollen, the masses of yellow fertilizing grains that the helicopter is blasting off the pine trees.

Those of you with allergies or thinking fly higher.

This was shot recently in Georgia, where allergy levels are high, and that's not helped by this low flying chopper.

If your eyes are water in that Tenet attends a bust, allergic Sinuses and noses all flare up in a cloud of dust.

It's unjust.

In Augusta, a tissue for us is a must springtime everywhere gets in your hair and coach your throat and crust.

You can trust that when the rain comes, your head becomes aware.

It grounds the pollen down.

It's bound to finally clear the air.

I'm Carlos.

He's taking a deep breath, own CNN.