he left belmarsh prison in london on monday. he is then driven to stansted airport before boarding a flight. the guilty plea is due to be confirmed on wednesday when mr assange will appear in front of a court in the northern mariana islands, a us territory in the pacific. he is then expected to return home to his native australia. julian assange spent seven years held up inside the ecuadorian embassy in london as washington tried to extradite him over the wikileaks files which disclosed confidential documents about the iraq and afghanistan wars in what turned out to be one of the biggest leaks of national security in american history. he was arrested in april 2019 over a breach of his bail conditions, and had spent the last five years inside a london prison, fighting his extradition to the united states. last month, a uk court ruled last month that he could appeal this decision after mr assange argued that he would not receive a fair trial. our north america correspondent,
the production company podot. also with us is lewis goodall from the news agents podcast and tony pastor, the man behind goalhanger, which is the podcast production company he set up with gary lineker and makes all sorts of hit podcasts, including the rest is history, the rest is politics. there s something very intimate about listening to a podcast i mean, in many ways, a bit like radio where people have their headphones on, they re cooking, they re commuting, they re walking the dog and they get very, very close to the people in theirears. they develop a relationship with the people they re listening to on a regular basis. and we find that when we do live events, a lot of the audience comes up to our hosts and treats them like friends, like they already know them and we have to sort of remind ourtalent, our hosts, that, you know, to expect this and it s just one of those quirks that, in part, i think it s the nature of the way you listen to the shows. here s a quote to
forward peaceful and i want to tell them we are going to engage them, we are going to have a conversation so that together we can build a greater nation. in answer to the public outcry, mps will be debating a revised version of the original bill, which was first read in may. having withdrawn some of the least popular hikes, including a 2.5% yearly tax on vehicles and a 16% vat tax on bread. but for many protesters, this is not enough in the face of the rising cost of living. live to nairobi now and our east africa correspondent merchuma. hello to you. tell us more about this huge shift for the government and what the outlook is now. a, government and what the outlook is now. , ., ., ., is now. a very good morning from nairobi. is now. a very good morning from nairobi. yes, - is now. a very good morning from nairobi. yes, today- is now. a very good morningi from nairobi. yes, today the bill is being debated in parliament, this is a controversial finance bill 2024, and is g
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