mariana islands and gave us this update earlier. they said he will be landing in australia wants to hearing wraps up. his plan is committed to depart inside three hours time, that he would land around 6:1i1pm australian eastern time. that is later today. our correspondent shaimaa khalil was at the northern mariana islands and gave us this update earlier. julian assange is in the us district court house behind me where the final steps of the legal proceedings for his guilty plea are under way, his pleading guilty for one felony thatis pleading guilty for one felony that is illegally obtaining and disclosing classified national security material, no for him because as for the deal that was agreed the usjustice department, he will get credit for time served in the uk. he is here because crucially, this is here because crucially, this is continental usa, julian assange refused to go to mainland us because he deeply distrust the us government. in the past, he accused him of plotti
after spending the majority of the last decade behind bars or inside the ecuadorian embassy in london. speaking outside the court, julian assange s lawyer, barry pollock, said the prosecution of the wikileaks founder was unprecedented . in the hundred years of the espionage act, it has never been used by the united states to pursue a publisher, a journalist like mr assange. mr assange revealed truthful, important and newsworthy information including revealing the united states had committed war crimes and he has suffered tremendously in his fight for free speech, for freedom tremendously in his fight for free speech, forfreedom of tremendously in his fight for free speech, for freedom of the press, and to make sure the american public and the world community gets truthful and important newsworthy information. we firmly believe that mr assange never should have been charged under the espionage act and engaged in exercise that journalists engage in every day and we are thankfu
like the nhs, they are acutely aware right now the country depends on it. and there it is, that smiling baby. and that means depending on carers like rejoice. she is gorgeous! she is. she s from malawi, but is in peterborough with a family on a work visa. this country needs people like me, someone that can put their heart out there and help someone from the heart. outside of this place, do you feel appreciated? not by the country, no, because they think we are numbers, but we re not numbers, we re human beings. but as migration numbers boosted the population here, research from the institute for fiscal studies shows peterborough receives less funding for policing, local governments and public health than it should do according to need. what impact has immigration had here? i think it s made the city grow very quickly. this is sarah s experience. the increase of population does not measure up to the increase of services for people. where are the pressure points? at the hospita
initially, there were two other medical camps set closer to the central business district, with volunteer medical personnel taking care of the injured people, giving them emergency treatment before referring them here, but those have now been closed. we saw earlier the general service unit getting into one of the camps that was at the all saints cathedral and asking the medical providers to pack up and leave, and also everybody who was in that compound was asked to leave, so this is now the main area where casualties and people injured from the protests are coming to get treatment. mercy has also been out on the streets, where protesters continue to march. she sent this short update. quite a busy day in the nairobi central business district today, with thousands of the anti finance bill 2024 demonstrators lining up every major street in the cbd. they are making antigovernment and anti finance bill chants. we reject, we reject! ..but in equal measure, there are dozens of p
abroad. good evening. a fifth conservative figure is now being investigated by the gambling commission over alleged bets on the timing of the general election. the conservative party has withdrawn its support for two candidates, craig williams and laura saunders. now russell george, a conservative member of the welsh parliament, is being looked into as well. and labour has suspended one of its candidates, kevin craig, who admitted he had bet against himself losing in a suffolk constituency. and now a cabinet minister has said he was joking when he told the bbc he d won more than £2,000 on the timing of the election. more on that in a moment, but here s our political editor chris mason. this is craig williams, a friend and parliamentary aide to the prime minister, he turned down my request for an interview but said this on social media this afternoon. i remain on the ballot paper on the 4th ofjuly and i hope to secure your support after years of delivering. i committed an err