around the iraq and afghanistan wars endangered lives. wikileaks, founded in 2006, claims to have published more than 10 million documents in what the us government described as one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the united states. assange and his lawyers have long claimed that the case was politically motivated. i spoke to nomia iqbal. nomia, you have been following this. tell us about the agreement. it is interesting. although he has been injail in the uk since 2019, the actual story ofjulian assange has been running for more than a decade, hasn t it? so his wikileaks website rose to prominence in 2010. you mentioned there this breach that the americans said was the largest of its kind in us 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 s long been accused of putting american operatives lives at ris
yes, sadly, this is a statement that has come in from buckingham palace within the past hour on this incident, as they put it, yesterday evening at the home of princess anne, the princess royal. it reads: the princess royal has sustained minor injuries and concussion following an incident on the gatcombe park estate yesterday evening. her royal highness remains in southmead hospital in bristol as a precautionary measure for observation and is expected to make a full and swift recovery. the king, of course, her elder brother, has been kept closely informed and joins the whole royal family and sending his fondest love and well wishes to the princess for a speedy recovery. we understand the princess was walking on the perimeter of her gatcombe park estate yesterday evening when she came into some kind of contact with some horses on the estate. it is understood that that contact, perhaps from a horses head or legs, caused minor head injuries and concussion. she had her husband wi
a digital travel certificate the eu suggests a way for holiday makers to prove they ve had a covid vaccination. the former downing street adviser dominic cummings describes the department of health as a smoking ruin in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic. and, why this is so unusual the bird that s now so rare in the wild, it s forgotten how to sing its own song. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. a damning report into child sex abuse in football says the football association failed to do enough to keep children safe after the scale of the problem came to light. the independent review found the fa was too slow to put protection measures in place following the high profile convictions of abusers in 1995, and identified significant institutional failings , as our sports correspondent, natalie pirks, reports. this is the day survivors have been waiting for, to see black and white what they have always known, the fa should have done more to keep them safe.
divided between those expressing sympathy for the couple and those calling for them to be stripped of their titles. we ll be looking at the latest royal rift and asking if anyone comes out of it well. also this lunchtime. millions of children in england go back to school borisjohnson describes it as an important first step towards a sense of normality . we all need to get back to some sort of routine. i have every confidence in the school and the way this has all been set up, and how it is going to get tested regularly. holding hands at last care home residents in england are now allowed one person who can visit them indoors, but no hugs yet. on international women s day we look at new technology being introduced to help female athletes perform better. and coming up more on the bbc sport study which finds the majority of sports now offer equal winning prize money to men and women but the biggest gaps remain in football, golf and basketball. good afternoon, and we