Listen to the Webcast Korean tension at dangerous levels and do the exercises.

2. Listen and decide “who is who”?

C – Comprehension Test 1

B – Comprehension Test 2

Part 1

1) What do lawyers for Julian Assange fear of in case he is sent to the USA?

2) What are US prosecutors busy doing in the USA?

3) Where did Julian Assange appear on the night of the report?

4) What was he fighting against?

5) What kind of charges he’s facing in Sweden?

Part 2

Here's Europe correspondent Emma Alberici.

(sound of cameras clicking)

EMMA ALBERICI: The world's media were out in force to greet Julian Assange as he arrived at the high security Belmarsh ______________Court.

The WikiLeaks founder was before the judge for just ten minutes. His defence team was granted permission to hand their 35 pages of legal argument to the media.

District Judge Nicholas Evans also told Mr Assange that he could stay in London during his ___________hearing next month, instead of having to ________________ three hours to Norfolk each night, where he's under house arrest as a condition of his_____________.

JULIAN ASSANGE: We are happy about today's outcome...

Part 3

EMMA ALBERICI: Julian Assange has raised the________ of American authorities after publishing thousands of classified US government ___________through his WikiLeaks website.

US prosecutors are now thought to be building a case against him after demanding details about the _______________accounts of Mr Assange, his supporters and Private Bradley Manning, the army intelligence _________ ____in custody who's suspected of supplying WikiLeaks _________ the secret documents.

JULIAN ASSANGE: Our work with WikiLeaks continues ________________and we are stepping up our publishing for matters related to ____________________.

Part 4

EMMA ALBERICI: Swedish authorities are attempting to have the 39-year-old whistleblower _____________on sexual assault charges.

Included in the legal arguments against extradition, are ________________that one of the women who claims she was ______________ by Mr Assange sent a text message stating that she was half asleep when she was forced to have sex with him.

The other woman in the case is said to have written a blog explaining how to take legal ______________against an ex lover.

Part 5

Primarily the defence documents argue that the case is a _______________ for a criminal prosecution in the United States, which has the prospect of landing Julian Assange in an electric _______________.

His lawyer Mark Stevens says Sweden has a history of sending people to foreign jurisdictions, where they then face ________________.

MARK STEVENS: America still is in the ____________________state of affairs of having the death penalty and we haven't got an undertaking from Sweden that they won't extradite him to the United States of America and so in those _____________________ it becomes very unfair to ask him to go to Sweden for questioning.

Part 6

EMMA ALBERICI: If, as Mr Assange______________, there's no case to answer here, why doesn't he just go and get questioned in Sweden?
MARK STEVENS: The Swedish authorities haven't yet given any_________ commitment that they won't render him or permit him to be rendered either to Guantanamo Bay or some other place of America's choosing, which puts him beyond the ____________________of proper justice.
EMMA ALBERICI: Julian Assange recently signed a $1.5 million publishing deal to write his __________________.
This is Emma Alberici in London for AM.

A – Comprehension Test 3

Speak about Julian Assange case as: