the, the, this is due to be news live from berlin. julian massage is a free man, which he likes found or plead guilty to us charges of disseminating secret information. and the deal that stares him further. present time is legal battle with us government now over. he's expected to fly home to australia in the coming hours. also on our program violent class, just as 1000 storm continues parliament with several protesters opposing tax increases, shot dead president rudo, halsy and rest a threat to national security, which he vows to restore order. and fans from under dog team celebrate as their

countries advanced. the knockout stage 024, your insurance, the hello and welcome to our show. i'm speaking to the in berlin, which he weeks founder julian massage is a free man again. after ending his legal fight with us government over leaks, documents. under deal with us, prosecutors massage was released from prison in britain and flown to the us pacific territory where he pleaded guilty in court to violating american laws by publishing classified military files on his wiki leaks platform. following his day in court, a sanchez now expected to fly home to his native australia. it won't budge on a list or 2 little assaults and just the cold house inside fence smiling.

she knows she will leave the building as a free man. at the close though, hearing some, she pleaded guilty to a felony, charge of violating us. s b a national ripley is part of the deal. he's truck with us, prosecutors, his prison sentence is come to us. further, as you can easily imagine that his spirits have lifted and he will be able to spend quality time with his wife, stella and his 2 children. and be ever to walk up and down the beach and feel the same to his tires in winter. the lovely to i'm the of to learn how to be patient and play with your children for a couple of hours and all of the great beauty of what was like

a song spent more than 5 years in bell mush prism in the u. k. where she for extradition to the united states intensive to him, he's company we can weeks publish classified military files, which divide this public opinion around the world about what sounds really east a traits, a lot of free speech worries. and while his actions are likely to remain controversial, julian hassan sporting here legal saga is finally coming to annette. dw reporter joe delroy has been following the story for us from sydney. joe, help us understand what happened in the court room today. a dramatic it into a 14 year old legal. so i gotta join assigned to these free. the court released him after accepting his guilty plea to one count under the espionage active receding and publishing state secrets. the judge said that she took into account the fact

that he had been i have already said 5 years in the british legal system. and also she took into account the case of chelsea manning. now, chelsea mounting not remember was the us ami with some blow who actually gave the documents to wiki lee expense as honestly to release. now as mountain manning has her sentence to muses by president obama and the judge. so taking that into account and the fact that sanchez spent so much time in prison, that she was allowing him to walk free before he was released. he told the court what he had done. he had done so as a journalist that he believed that his actions would be protected on the us constitution under the 1st amendment, which protects the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press. but the case was just too difficult to mount against a and that he would kind of the he that's the reason that he was accepting the play deal. um he walked out of the quote, a free man. he didn't take any questions from reporters. he got into a car and drive away. there's a plane waiting for him that's expected to take him to convert

a stray to his capital, where he does indeed enjoy a degree of sympathy. politicians from all sides of australian politics have lobbied for his release. even those who don't agree with what you do that which he likes believe that he has suffered enough of this case and just gone on for too long. and joe, this has been a years long saga now essentially add an end or the issues here really settled the well, the car under the play deal. all the pending cases against him has been dropped. so he's not under any kind of investigation anymore. that's a window, but it's not really a waiting for journalism because the journalists curbside that the says a dangerous precedent because it shows that any journalist can be prosecuted for essentially doing the job of exposing state secrets. and that we should all be worried that this could send a chilling effect that has sent a chilling effect across the all types of journalism for assigned himself. he's got

a long recovery prose. that's a head too long for many years, concerns about his, his mental and physical well being and he's going to have to of course, spend time recovering. but at least he gets to do so on home soil with his family and with his children who he has actually never seen outside of prison. sounds a symbol of free speech is free speech rather to many, but he's certainly a lightning rod for both sides of the political spectrum. why has, besides, the individual been so controversial? while he really pioneers new types of online journalism involved gathering huge amounts of data and documents and just releasing them us and to his heroes. he is, um, is a hero because he helped expired state secrets. he helped expose misdeeds by the us and interact in the war on terror. his critics say that he endangered lives because he didn't to redact names out of those documents. but it should be noted that there would be no proof in cases of how i haven't been linked to the wiki leaks released

roberts, it's the government environment. principally the united states, outside the court, his lawyer said that assigns which weeks would continue to be a voice of freedom and transparency. so i doubt that this is the last time we'll hear from julian this arch, right? dw reporter joe delroy and sydney. thank you. a genius president william rudo, has condemned the storming of parliament as a threat to national security. and he's vowed to restore order of thousands marched on the building in the capital and i. roby in protest of tax increases, demonstrators broke into the chamber and several people were shot during violent clashes with security forces. other national leaders have called for call it was the day of the printer. so the phone, the most on rec to cell phone can use government in decades of to several failed

attempts. thousands of protesters finally reached condiments. they fools that way inside one side, the building and set parts of it on file. know, make is who had voted to raise taxes, fled through underground tunnels as police, the through t, a gas will to kind of, i mean, live, i'm you, mission, killing several people and wounding dozens. move in a national address can use president william router condemned the protests. i assure opinions that we shall provide it for effective and it's but the shelves response. it took 2 days to some us events who made no mention of the bill, which it prompted the rage. the launch, the young protest to say the tax hikes will increase the cost of a central products and services. quit putting them economically. in response to the

original outcry, the government had already scrap several planned increases, including those on basic food stuff like bread and oil. that for the protest, as the concessions weren't enough, they said the government should plot it's 2.5 b in euro deficit by reducing spending instead. and they filed to punish william rudo. c to my, my president a van to get to i bought that he was the we, we may not be amending we have yet to read the it's the by time do 6 the between themselves midway, maybe percentage of signals and then we're seeing and 12, but you see the 5th 3 position there was another help that said some help to the government. we don't do that. we're going to show you that we did the job due to now have 2 weeks to sign. the final bill in 2,

a dw steel exploring a is in a robi and has been following the protests on the streets. this road, the way i am funding, is that, or did that, or no more locations would be flowing with the traffic. but as you can see, what happens today is that protest as body k did the roads, this is one of the main road. the lead leading into the central business district shop was closed for the better part of the dates and protests of kept pushing and pushing towards parliament. now, there was a tassel between protest as and for least a number of protest of what inside it might do. so savvy sees weren't able to attend to some of the ends that protested, but some of the protests as lost their lives. and one of the protest, those who lost his life is a brother to a policeman. so the police model is just the crying next to the body of the brother . and he was saying that this enforced that he walks for is the same for that as

now to his brother. so it was, it was a side to side faces, but kind of kept pushing and kept pushing. and some of the protests of actually monday it's to get into parliament buildings. now the action in parliament was crazy because a part of parliament was put on file, but was immediately the file was immediately put out by the staff. a problem in buildings and the members of parliament had discomfort for safety. they had to run on the underground tunnels. so that leads to a problem. and some of them have actually just been taken up by top of that for a landing on top of can not the international conference center. now the amount of destruction that has taken place today has been crazy just behind us these police vehicle. but one of the police vehicle that was actually bonds to the next to find

them. and there was another police truck that was bonds and a number of establish, there's actually caught fire. uh there was a lot, a lot of destruction people wide removing the roadside by the kids. and all of that was processed as expressing that in graphs at mismanage mental funds by parliament . they're not not wake or up showing. and i use that have been for that, that means the will for yeah. or they, i don't people feel exploring of their covering those protests in a row before us. let's have a quick look now. some of the other stories making headlines around the world canyon police have arrived in haiti to help restore order to the caribbean country . a plane landed in puerto prince carrying around 200 officers. as the 1st u. n backed foreign police force, eighty's army has struggled to oppose violent gangs, which have taken control of 80 percent of the capital and left hundreds of thousands homeless. the leaders of frances 3 biggest parties of sparred and a tv debate ahead of sunday's 1st round of voting and snapped parliamentary

elections. the main topics were immigration and the cost of living. the whole show the far right level showed on board a law winning the most seats, but short of an outright majority. it says brazil supreme court has voted to decriminalize the possession of marijuana for personal use. to move could help brazil reduce its mass of prison. population legal amounts of marijuana for personal use has yet to be determined. and public consumption and sale of the drugs were main legal. let's go to sports now we're austria stage a surprising group. when of the european football championships here in germany, the teams celebrating a 32 victory over the netherlands, that berlin's olympic stadium, austria has only once before topped a group at a major tournament. this was the team's 1st win over the dutch in more than 30 years. one of the title favorites france stumbled against poland. after 11 draw the

finish group, the in 2nd place. the netherlands will also progress as one of the best 3rd place teams. meanwhile, the final 2 matters of the tournaments group. cecil no goals scored england finished at the top of the table in march coming in 2nd, which means they'll face germany and then knock out face and there was joy to for slovenia and fans. they advanced the next round for the 1st time. ever. oh wait. i've always been a perfect score and it's a great evening to look at people. all right, here's a reminder of our top story we're following for you. we keep a standard. julie assigned is a free man after pleading guilty to violating espionage laws and the us court in the south pacific. the deal spared assange further prison. time is now expected to

fly home to australia in the coming hours. that's it for now. we'll just soon with more headlines. in the meantime, check us out online. com, watching the people in trucks in judge west trying to see the city center the straight screen, the around the world. more than 130000000 people us we of mine because.