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	Podcast:		The World This Week
	Episode:		Biden: stick or twist? Tiktokkers and teargas
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:46:51
	Publish Date:		2024-06-28 18:41:12
	Description:		This week has seen the first presidential debate between President Biden and Trump, protesters taking the streets in Kenya against government plans for a finance bill, and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange freed and returning to Australia Sticking with Biden? Democrats in panic after TV debate It was a bad week for President Biden after an at times confused and incoherent live TV election debate against Donald Trump. Critics question his age, so too do some of his own party loyalists, after what has been described as the worst Presidential candidate performance in recent history. While Donald Trump sent fact checkers into overdrive, with several fictitious assertions of his own success. We will talk about how much of a difference TV debates make to voters? Kenya's parliament stormed in finance bill protest It has been a week that has seen the Kenyan Parliament set ablaze by Protesters railing against government plans for a finance bill, and in the attempted storming of the building, at least 20 people were shot dead by security forces. Days later President Ruto cancelled the bill. We will look at why the group dubbed ‘the Gen Z demonstrators’ and the ‘TikTokkers in Tear Gas’ are credited with overturning the planned law. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange freed in plea deal And it has been a week that has seen Wikileaks founder Julian Assange return to Australia - a free man after a plea deal with the US. It has been 14 years either in prison or in hiding at the Ecuadorean embassy in London. His lawyer called the deal a “criminalisation of journalism”. Washington says his data dump of classified information put lives at risk. So, A criminal or a hero ?
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