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After 14 years, it all ended with a kiss

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on the tarmac. Julian Assange,

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one of the world's most notorious hackers

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and the face of the website, WikiLeaks,

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landed back in Australia, kissed his wife

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and hugged his father. Julian

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should never have spent a single day in prison.

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But today we celebrate because today Julian

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is free. This

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is the man who bunkered up in an

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Ecuadorian embassy, maybe dated Pamela Anderson, and

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got locked up in a British maximum security prison,

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all while being pursued by dogged US prosecutors.

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But who is Julian Assange and what did he actually do? We're

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going to tell you. I'm Alex

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Rhodes, and this is What in the World from

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the BBC World Service. them

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and result in, you

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know, endangering our forces even more than

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they already are. This document

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dump, this exposure of classified

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information, imperils the lives

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of many, many people. Iraqis,

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Afghans, US coalition

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forces. This is not a game. And

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it was followed up with the publication

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of thousands of emails and cables to

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and from US diplomatic staff. Some

6:28

revealed things that were quite serious. One

6:30

cable showed that the United States had been

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trying to spy on top UN figures. Others

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were just, well, quite embarrassing. US

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officials referred to Russia's Vladimir Putin and

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the country's then-president of Dmitry Medvedev as

6:42

Batman and Robin. They called Zimbabwe's president

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Robert Mugabe a crazy old man. And

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they said that the leader of Azerbaijan's

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wife had so much plastic surgery she

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could barely move her face. But

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several months later, it was Assange's

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turn to find himself in the

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news for all the wrong reasons.

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Sweden's chief prosecutor is reopening an investigation

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into rape allegations against the founder

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of the WikiLeaks website Julian Assange. Sweden's

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director of public prosecution said new

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information had come in and there was

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reason to believe that a crime

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had been committed. Her

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view was that the crime was rape.

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Mr Assange, who was questioned by investigators

7:18

on Monday, has denied he did anything

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wrong. Julian Assange was accused and charged

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with two separate allegations of sexual assault

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from when he went to a conference

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in Sweden in August 2010. The

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Swedish authorities wanted him extradited to

7:32

face trial there. He

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denied it and said that this was all

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the pretext to extradite him to the United

7:38

States to face charges over the WikiLeaks releases.

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So what did he do? Before he

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could go on trial, he turned up at

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the Ecuadorian embassy in London and claimed asylum.

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The founder of WikiLeaks has spent another

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night at the Ecuadorian embassy in London,

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while the diplomatic row over what to

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do with him continues. Ecuador

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has said it will grant him political asylum.