Assange arrives in his native Australia after a 14 year long legal battle
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Julian Assange returns to Australia a free man after a court appearance on a remote Pacific island. Also: American journalist Evan Gershkovich has gone on trial in Russia on spying charges, an Islamist rebel is found guilty of war crimes in Mali and who is filling the Legend slot in this year's Glastonbury festival?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.2 | I'm Nick Miles and at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday the 26th of June, these are our main stories. |
| 0:09.7 | The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has arrived home in Australia after being freed by a US court in a remote Pacific Ocean Territory. |
| 0:19.0 | The espionage trial of the American journalist Evan Gerskovic has begun in Russia. |
| 0:25.0 | A former Islamist rebel from Mali has been found guilty of war crimes and crimes against |
| 0:29.9 | humility at the International Criminal Court. |
| 0:33.0 | Also in this podcast, |
| 0:35.0 | the extremes are very dangerous. |
| 0:39.0 | Once they are in the power, they are there to stay. |
| 0:42.0 | They will change things so that we won't be able to get them out. |
| 0:46.5 | A stark warning about the perceived risks of the far right winning the upcoming French election. |
| 0:53.0 | The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is back on Australian soil at the end of a 14 year long legal battle over the release of classified US |
| 1:05.8 | defence documents. Our correspondent Katie Watson was at Canberra Airport |
| 1:10.0 | when he stepped off the plane. He's finally made it onto Australian soil. |
| 1:16.0 | He's there waving to the media and to the supporters who've come here |
| 1:21.0 | to see him land on Australian soil. This is a big moment. |
| 1:25.0 | Three cheers for Julian. |
| 1:30.0 | He's waving to everybody here as he walked into the airport building. Of course, he's here, |
| 1:38.0 | his family will be here. It looks like he's heading in his family who've come to see him, his father, his wife, who've come to the airport. |
| 1:47.0 | And this is a moment that so many people just did not seem, you know, did not think would ever happen and finally |
| 1:56.7 | he is here for his supporters for the government who've lobbied so hard to see him |
| 2:03.0 | and he's now given a for the government who's lobbied so hard to see him. |
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