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Hello, I'm Matthew Price.

This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.

Every day we ask one big question about one big story.

Today what should we think of Julian Assange? So this is the video that so many people remember.

It's black and white, there's time codes at the top, there's crosshairs in the middle, and it's taken from, I think an Apache helicopter flying over Iraq and it's looking down on some

streets there are two-story buildings, pavements, lamp posts, you can see satellite

dishes on the top of the roofs as the helicopter swings round there you see a

man's head above the wall now they're swinging around to get him in the

crosshairs and then you start to see them there's a group there's a couple of men

and you see three, four emerging from behind a tree. They're standing on a street corner. There's a group that's about 8, 9, 10 men standing there. and then this is it this is the moment the helicopter fires on them.

Come on fire. And this was footage that shocked people around the world. This was the American military

firing on a group of men standing on a street corner in Iraq, some of them apparently were holding weapons

and others weren't.

And this was the video that made WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, world famous, because they got their hands on it it was

top secret the American military didn't want anyone to see it and yet WikiLeaks made it front page news. They put it out there for everyone to

see. And it's why a lot of people in the world love Julian Assange, it's why he sees himself as such an important figure calling out the powerful,

confronting them with their crimes, and it's equally why the US government hates him.

They've accused him of stealing secrets like this footage, of hacking into their computers to get

hold of it.

And over the years, he's become an even more complex figure.

There have been rape allegations against him made in Sweden.

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