in gaza every day as israel continues its bombardment of the territory. speaking at the un security council, catherine russell said the numbers sourced from gaza s hamas controlled health ministry should shake council members to the core. israel says it is targeting hamas, which is designated as a terrorist organisation by the uk and other governments, following the attacks of october 7th that killed moo people and saw more than 200 taken hostage. israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu has rejected calls for a ceasefire in gaza but ms russell urged the security council to press for one. i implore the security council to immediately adopt a resolution that reminds parties of their obligations under international law. it calls for a ceasefire that demands parties allow safe and unimpeded humanitarian access, demands immediate and safe release of all of the children and all parties to four children the special protection to which they are entitled stop. live now to amman whe
files with disclose information about afghan and iraqi operations by the us, place lies it risks. we are judged by nomia iqbal. there was about the agreement. although he has been injail in the uk since 2019, the actual story ofjulian assange has been running for more than a decade, hazarded? his wikileaks website rose to prominence in 2010. you mentioned this bridge that the american it was the largest of its kind in us military history. wikileaks military history. wikilea ks released military history. wikileaks released more than 90,000 classified military documents on the afghanistan war and also released more than 400,000 secret documents on the iraq war and he has long been accused of putting american operatives lives at risk. as you mention, almost all the charges that he faced were under the espionage act and he won t spend any time in the us, once again, the plea, expected to be finalised later this week, because it is roughly equivalent to the amount of time that he
serve, allowing mr assange to return to australia, his home country. i mjoined by return to australia, his home country. i m joined by our north american correspondence. looks like this long running saga could be coming to conclusion. us more. we received conclusion. us more. we received the conclusion. us more. - received the breaking news in the last couple of hours and there are so many layers to the julian assange story. to recap what you said there, it looks like he will be a free man at some point this week, striking a plea deal with the us. he spent the last five years in a high security prison, belmarsh prison, in the uk. remember, he has been long accused by the us of exposing sensitive secrets about the war in iraq and afghanistan through the wikileaks website, the whistleblowing website. and they claim it put american operatives in danger. and almost all the charges he faced, by the way, 18 charges, were under the 1917 espionage act. but he, now, this plea deal
talks in washington, i spoke to our north america correspondent peter bowes. these are very wide ranging discussions. mr galante is on a several day visit to the united states meeting his us counterpart in about 2k hours time. in the last few hours, focusing on his meeting with antony blinken. this issue of trying to avoid further escalation has certainly been uppermost in their discussions. and really avoiding escalation on two fronts, escalation of the war in gaza between israel and hamas, but also concern about the skirmishes that we have seen on the northern border with lebanon with his brother over the last few days. and there is very real concern that those skirmishes could turn into something more serious and escalate into a wider middle east conflict. we understand that antony blinken has been putting some pressure on mr gallant to seek some sort of diplomatic resolution to that situation on the northern border to see the return home of lebanese families. so concerns
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