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palestinians and one israeli soldier. gilad shall late is free after being held for five years. officials handed him over to the egyptian authorities a couple hours ago. egypt is expected to transfer shalit on to israeli custody. israel set free hundreds of palestinians held in its jails today, tuesday. a total of a thousand are expected to be released as part of this exchange in two groups. an initial group of 477 palestinian prisoners are going free on tuesday in exchange for sergeant major shalit. matthew chance is at the border crossing in gaza. he joins us live with the latest. ...

Like japan's should bounce back. we shouldn't see a huge economic crisis other than the human and economic devastation in the area of concern. >> and if i'm right, the prefecture which is the geographic or this sort of governmental unit where these tsunami hit and where the power plants are, only constitutes 2% of the total japanese economy. so it's a reasonably small number and the overall expanse of an enormous japanese economy. >> yeah. we've seen estimates up to 7% or 8% of the aekt iff affected are. it is shocking. it's heartbreaking what we're seeing. but the japanese economy as a whole ...

They pulled out the israeli businessmen. a source in foreign ministry told me they would wait and see before they pull out the diplomatic mission from there inside egypt in cairo. talked to a keen observer, moment of history in tehran in '79 when the shall fell. the shaw was also an ally of israel and he said the iranian revolution feels like the egyptian revolution. we know how the iranian revolution ended up with the ayatollah taking over a hardcore right wing islamic state in iran. that is not something that israel wants on the southern border. a dangerous situation. >> harris: you mention ...

But there is that mythology that props up this notion that, you know if we rise up, then god will do the rest. and i am not so sure, therefore, that we can make strong parallels between what's going on in places like egypt and what could be reignited in iran. >> there are other totalitarian, autocratic regimes in the middle east, of course. what is going on in saudi arabia, is there fear within that kingdom that somehow this revolution that began in tunisia is spreading eastward is going to make it as far as saudi arabia? >> i think it's a mistake to even think in geographic terms. like it's s...

Parallels between what's going on in places like egypt and what could be reignited in iran. >> there are other totalitarian, ought doecratic regimes. what is going on in saudi arabia, is there fear within that kingdom that somehow this revolution that began in tunisia is spreading eastward is going to make it as far as saudi arabia? >> i think it's a mistake to even think in geographic terms. like it's spreading this way or that. that's part of the ageographic world of facebook and the internet and so forth. and so a more relevant question is look at the other countries that seem similar. yeme...