A British judge rules Julian Assange cannot be extradited to the United States where he would face life in prison in America's supermax torture hellholes.

And Donald Trump seeks to seize power following his loss to Joe Biden.

We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago,

but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to today's episode of In The News, our Tuesday show on the Socialist Program with Brian Becker.

It's January 5th, 2021, our first show of the new year.

This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in the news right now, today, and this week.

We look beyond the headlines and expose the distortions in the corporate-owned media.

I'm Nicole Roussel, here with Esther Ivarim and our host, Brian Becker.

Brian, we're starting a new year.

It's a new year.

It's a new year.

Many, many very important stories.

Julian Assange, of course, ordered by a judge not to be extradited from London to the United States. We have the runoff today in the Georgia

Senate race. Tomorrow, Donald Trump and his supporters will make their, I would have said last gas

effort, but I don't think it's the last gas effort to overturn the election results.

We have a looming crisis with Iran.

We have a lot to talk about, Nicole.

But before we get started, I do want to say, again, we could not be doing this show without the support of those who are donating to us, subscribing to us on Patreon,

who are our patrons, the people who help us get going with the GoFundMe,

a startup money.

We have exciting new plans to expand the show,

which we're going to announce in the next couple days and weeks,

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