RT News - June 30 2024 (17:00 MSK)

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange takes his first steps back on Australian soil, reunited with his family after a grueling 14 year-long legal battle. That’s after a judge accepted a plea deal struck with the US government which offered Assange little choice but to agree. Australian lawmaker, Andrew Wilkie, slammed Washington for setting an alarming precedent. President Macron’s centrist alliance could be dealt a major blow by Le Pen’s Eurosceptic opposition party as snap elections in France are in full swing today. His willingness to send both troops and weapons to Ukraine has not helped the coalition’s falling poll numbers.