From New York, this is Democracy Now.

It took millions of people.

It took people working behind the scenes, people protesting on the streets for days and weeks and

months and years.

And we achieved it.

WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, is a free man, home in Australia.

Assange landed in the Australian capital of Canberra and a charter jet from Saipan where a US district

court judge sentenced him to time served after he pled guilty to a single

felony count of illegally obtaining and disclosing national security material.

We'll play excerpts of the news conference with his wife Stella and his lawyers and get response from London, from Canberra and here in New York.

Then at least 22 people have been killed in Kenya

as police opened fire Tuesday on a growing protest movement against a bill to raise taxes.

The government did to deploy a lot of force on us it wasn't good.

Yeah we are not happy about it because they killed our colleagues and fellow youths.

It's not okay. It's very bad.

We are demonstrating push-filled. It's very bad. We are demonstrating peacefully. It's our rights to demonstrate.

Human Rights Group say more than 20 people at the youth-led protests have disappeared since Monday.

We'll go to Nairobi for the latest amendment. protests have disappeared since Monday.

We'll go to Nairobi for the latest.

Among those we'll speak to President Obama's half-sister Alma Obama,

who is tear-gassed at yesterday's protests.

All that and more coming up.

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