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Good morning, it's Wednesday, June 25th, 2024.

You well, this is The Papers Podcast with me, Richie Allen and Salford.

Thank you so much for downloading it. Really appreciate it. Very humid this morning. Very humid. It's warm. It's going to be warm today. It's going to be warm tomorrow. But fear not. It's just the summer. And it won't last too long. A few days of it is all we're going to have at least this week in any case.

Temperatures may reach 32 degrees today and tomorrow down south which is not in any way out of the ordinary.

Some of the newspapers running stories today with recommendations from the Red Cross, which you believe it.

Mine got, mine got from the Red Cross, would you believe it? Mine got, from the Red Cross,

you know, warning people what to do in the heat to avoid coming to grief. It's ludicrous.

I will look at the front pages of the newspapers in a moment, but I'm going to start with the

developing story, the breaking news, that Julian

Assange has been released from Belmarsh Prison. This is according to Wikileaks this morning

and his wife Stella. He founded Wikileaks, of course, as you know, back in the mid-noughties,

the early-naughties, and Wikileaks has posted, excuse me, on social media,

a video of him getting on a plane that left Stanssted Airport last night, Monday,

Monday evening.

Now this announcement that he was set free came shortly on the heels of news that he would plead guilty this week

to violating US espionage law, that he had brokered a deal with the US government that would allow him

to return home to his native Australia. US prosecutors in court papers said that Assange has agreed to plead

guilty to a single criminal count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified US national

defence documents according to filings in the US district court for the Northern Mariana Islands.

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