 Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you major news developments from around the world. Our headlines, UK judge rules Wikileaks founder Julian Assange cannot be extradited to the US. Israeli prosecutors detail charges against Prime Minister Netanyahu in corruption case, social leaders in form of FARC combatants killed in Colombia, and in our video section we look at the Venezuelan government's efforts to provide public services under the blockade in Caramels. In our first story, a UK court has ruled that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will not be extradited to the United States. The extradition was refused on the grounds that it would be to court, unjust and oppressive by reason of Mr. Assange's mental condition and high risk of suicide. The decision was announced by District Judge Vanessa Baretzer on January 4, that is today. Assange is facing the indictment from the US government on 18 counts. These are related to publishing of classified government documents on Wikileaks between 2010 and 2011. Prosecutors have accused Assange of attempting to hack into the US military databases to acquire information that supposedly put lives at risk. Assange is assertive that the information exposed abuses by the US military and there is no evidence of informants being endangered. His prosecution has been widely denounced as being politically motivated. The judge stated that while US prosecutors met the tests for Assange's extradition for trial, the US was incapable of preventing him from committing suicide. This is related to Assange's likely confinement under conditions of isolation in a US supermax prison. Serious concerns regarding Assange's physical and mental health have also previously been raised by activists and a human rights expert. United States lawyers are expected to appeal the decision within the mandated 14 day period. A full application for Assange's bail is expected to be made on Wednesday. Witesville celebrations broke out following the verdict. However, many also pointed out that the verdict was not a victory for freedom of expression as the judge has accepted most of the prosecution's claims. She turned down the extradition request only on account of the high risk of suicide. In our next story, Israeli prosecutors have released an amended indictment detailing charges in the corruption case against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He has been charged with fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes. A letter released by the prosecution on December 3rd, alleges 315 incidents of the Walla news agency being requested to produce favorable coverage of Netanyahu and his family. Netanyahu was reportedly personally involved in 150 of these incidents. A prosecutor has also alleged that Netanyahu promoted regulations worth millions of dollars to Walla owner Bezek Telecom in exchange. According to the letter, requests were made to promote positive articles about the Prime Minister and his family to lower or remove stories which could be disadvantageous and to change headlines. Requests were also allegedly made for negative coverage of Netanyahu's ribbons. The Prime Minister has denied all these charges and declared that he is a victim of a witch hunt. His style and corruption charges has been initiated in 2020 and is set to resume next month. He will also be facing elections in March, following the dissolution of the Israeli Parliament in December 2020. In our next story, we will go to Colombia where two social leaders and two former combatants, the now defunct revolutionary armed forces of Colombia, have been killed since January 1st. Harad and Leon were killed by armed men in the Meta Department on January 1st. On the same day, the body of Diego Higuera was discovered in the Casanare Department. People close to the latter stated that they had been unaware of his whereabouts since December 30th. Diego Higuera was found with deep knife-cuts on his body and it is possible that he was killed on December 30th itself. Both Leon and Higuera were educators and members of the Colombian Federation of Education Workers or FECODE. January 1st also marked the killing of Colombian peace accord signatory Yolanda Zavala Mazub and her sister Reina Zabala. Zabala was killed in the Antiqueer Department. On January 2nd, former FARC combatant Duvall Galindes was also assassinated in the Cageta Department. Both Zabala and Galindes have been members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia or FARC. The organization was disarmed after the signing of a peace record with the Colombian state in 2016. As a result of these accords, the group morphed into a political party commonly known as the Common Alternative Revolutionary Forces. 251 former FARC combatants have been killed in Colombia till date. FARC has condemned these killings and has accused the right-wing government of Iván Duque for failing to comply with the peace accords. These killings have occurred in the context of increasing persecution of social activists and movements in the country. For a final story, we go to Caracas, Venezuela, where the financial blockade by the United States has restricted crucial imports and access to basic services. Here is Caracas Mayor Erika Farias discussing how the government is coping with the blockade and is providing food, gas and transportation services to citizens. I am going to explain the distribution of gas and all that has to do with the maintenance of the war, what has been what we have done. One is the popular organization, supporting the work that is sometimes complicated with institutions and with the same mechanisms and responses that we must have with the popular organization. In terms of transportation, we have created the mobility tables and alongside the city's transportation, we have generated policies to reorganize and provide a service of greater quality to our people and make changes to the routes that our people normally use to move from a parish, from one sector to another. And we have had to create express routes, routes that connect several areas of the city, outside of what the city center is, to be able to guarantee mobility and, of course, everything that has to do with reposts, parts and parts that the national government is trying to distribute under the criteria precisely of that work that we do between the popular power and the line of transport that is done. In relation to the issue of gas, it is the same, organizing the distribution of gas for the communities is for us, we could say it in some way easy because in 2007 we created a distribution system of food, the local committee of supply and production, product of the rupture of all the commercialization mechanisms and distribution that there was in the public and private country, that is, it was not only here in this blockade and in this crisis, it has not only suffered the public system, it was also perforated distribution mechanisms and commercialization in the private sector and we did an organization, our president Nicolás Maduro asked us to create a new distribution system and commercialization and the local committees of supply and production are born, which is a network that covers all of a spider web, so to speak, in some way, of communities, sparrows, sectors, axes, so that the community comes monthly or every 21 days a food combo to help counteract the crisis, I give you for example a figure in Caracas there are 2,700 communities and 14,500 streets in Caracas are distributed 782,000 food combos every 21 days at a price more than succeeded for our people and complementary to that there are food houses where food dishes are produced for people who have greater vulnerability and there is also a program that in addition to the school food program that works in all the schools in the city we also have the plan to attend to the people who have nutritional deficit that they are already expressing nutritional deficit and well there is a tension there that is not perfect but we are perfecting it in the medium that the popular organization is in charge of located case by case or house by house street by street community by community those families that are being expressed with greater difficulty the blockade of the that's all your time for today be back tomorrow with more news from around the world until then keep watching People's Dispatch