The wife of the Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, says she’s elated that he’s left jail in Britain, but remains worried that his fourteen-year legal battle is not yet over. Mr Assange has left the UK as part of a plea deal with American prosecutors to avoid extradition to the United States. He’s due to appear in court in a remote US Pacific territory, where he’ll plead guilty to a single charge under the Espionage Act. We’ll hear from his wife and ask whether Mr Assange’s work was necessary or damaging?
Also in the programme: part of Kenya’s parliament complex has been set on fire and several people have reportedly been shot dead during huge protests against planned tax rises; and Israel’s top court has told the military to end an exemption for ultra-Orthodox religious students straining the coalition government led by Benjamin Netanyahu.
(Picture: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange disembarks from a plane at Bangkok Don Mueang International Airport in Thailand. Credit: Wikileaks via Reuters)