It could hinge on a Board Meeting after the fa cup final. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Prosecutors in sweden have dropped their seven year long investigation, into allegations of rape against the founder of the wikileaks website, Julian Assange. Hes been a fugitive, living at the Ecuadorian Embassy in london since 2012, avoiding extradition. Mr assange has always denied the allegations, saying theyre politically motivated. Lets go live to richard lister, whos outside the embassy for us this afternoon. Clive, it is four years and 11 months to the David Julian Assange took refuge at the Ecuadorian Embassy. He has remained behind those net curtains ever since. He never left. At today, as the news came out from sweden, he tweeted a Smiling Photograph of himself. That is the only comment he has made an todays developments. As Caroline Hawley reports, he remains a wanted man. Victory as howard Julian Assanges lawyer described todays news. The wikileaks founder tweeted t
Aus north korea as a brutal regime after a us student that was imprisoned there guys. Stay hydrated, as the uk heatwave continues. Imprisoned there guys. Imprisoned there has died. Good morning. Its tuesday 20th june. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The Serious Fraud office has charged barclays and four former executives including former chief Executivejohn Varley with fraud over the banks dealings with qatar at the height of the financial crisis. Barclays raised Emergency Funding from qatar in 2008 to avoid a government bail out. Now barclays has become the first bank to Face Criminal Charges for actions during the financial crisis. With me is ben thompson. The first Senior Executives to face charges over alleged activities in that period of the financial crisis. Tell us more period of the financial crisis. Tell us more about what the charges are. You have two turn the clock back to 2008, the height of the crisis. Three of the biggest banks said they we re three of th