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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. ...

The enforcer of a revolutionary ideology. it's very different. certainly egypt, which is a conscript army, and therefore an army of the people. that's not the case here. this is an army which has been the principal strict for carrying out the revolution. and so it's a -- it's a system which is much harder to dislodge than the case of any of these other countries you've seen. certainly then compared to egypt where there's a big difference between where the state is a kind of separate entity. here there's very little that hasn't been fully absorbed into the libyan revolutionary ideology. >> it's...

Situations a lot of dynamic elements. the protesters we spoke to last night were incensed by what they viewed as a violent action against them. here is the action that they follow through with, actions that led to the death and injuries of others. so that's made them angry, and last night they said they'll continue but the government appears to have a very strong hand to play here. it is a relatively small island, a relatively small population. they have a military and police force that's prepared to do their bidding. this is not a conscript army. the police force. of them or at least a signif...

Unpredictable. everybody agreed when the shah of iran left, most iranians were happy about that. it is what followed where the problems arose. the french revolution getting rid of louis xiv was something a lot of people could agree on, getting rid of the czars in the 1917 revolution in russia. so the point is what follows that kind of moment when everybody agrees on getting rid of the hated monarch or dictator. we just simply have no idea. the fact that the army is a sort of conscript army means that it has connections to the population. it does have some legitimacy particularly because of its...

Coup. what they said, we are meeting to consider and study the situation in order to protect the higher interests of the egyptian people. no mention in that communique of the president. and in the president's speech, there was no mention of the army. so there seems to be something of a split. not on the surface, necessarily. but certainly, the rhetoric would indicate that. >> all right. ben, thank you so much. we're now going to be join by a blog here has been at the protests virtually all week. she will join us via skype. what sense do you have about what's being organized through the social ...