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Today in Focus

A win for Julian Assange and a loss for press freedom?

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

After years in ferocious pursuit, the US has finally agreed to a plea deal with the WikiLeaks founder. But there are fears it may set a dangerous precedent. Julian Borger reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:05.0

Today, after hunting him for more than a decade,

0:11.0

how the US government suddenly reached a deal to free Julian Assange.

0:17.0

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0:26.8

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0:30.7

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0:34.2

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0:37.1

The role also offers good pay and benefits and amazing culture and great opportunities that will

0:42.0

help you feel satisfied and secure.

0:44.0

South Eastern is currently hiring a variety of roles from train driver to on board managers,

0:49.0

conductors, station staff and railway enforcement officers,

0:53.0

plus opportunities in engineering and management functions too.

0:57.0

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0:58.0

CERT Southeastern Criers to apply now. By some measures, the story started here where I'm standing right now, this room on the fourth floor of the Guardian offices in London that came to be known as the bunker.

1:20.0

When 14 years ago, nearly to the day, a lanky Australian with a shock of white hair and a backpack,

1:28.0

entered and got to work.

1:32.0

He had recently transferred four massive files of encrypted data. He was

1:38.1

collaborating with the Guardian and other organizations to study them. They would form first a massive leak of US military videos and documents.

1:48.0

Of course our top story this morning, the White House blasting the release of over 90,000 U.S. military records on the war in

1:55.3

Afghanistan.

1:56.3

Well, this isn't a weaky leak, this is a weaky torrent, a deluge of operational

2:01.0

field report logs from units on the ground in Afghanistan.

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