Protests against austerity brings the italian city of rome to a standstill for a second consecutive day. Nine lebanese men are to return home, freed by syrian rebels. The group will cross Southern Turkey from syria. Rebels captured the men in may, who said they were returning from a religious trip to iran. Theres hope two Turkish Airline pilots abducted in bair ute in august will be released. We have correspondents in both countries. Well hear from turkey in a moment. First, Andrew Simmons is live in beirut. What is the situation there . Any word on when they might arrive . Thats the question. No one knows when this will happen. Theres a positive air here that it will happen before long. Im in a suburb of south bair ute, a shia area. All of the pilgrims came from the area, and some of their relatives have been talking to us earlier. Theres a widespread presence of lebanese media and a few International Media waiting for the event to take place. We spoke to a woman who is married. To on
Why this violin is worth a titanic million dollars. Welcome to the program. 11 hostages are waiting to go home as part of a complex deal involving turkey, lebanon, Syrian Rebels and the syrian government. Among them two Turkish Airline pilots, kidnapped at gunpoint two months ago while at a stop over at beirut airport. Nine lebanese hostages have been released. They were freed on the continue that damascus would release 200 prisoners. Andrew simmons is live at beiruts international airport. There seems to be a delay to this very complex hostage exchange. Take us through what has been happening there now. Right now the mood is different to two hours ago. There was a lot of information suggesting that the whole process as under way. But there was a hold up. I have spoken to the foreign minister mansour and he told me definitively that the two turkish pilots are in the hands of turkish officials and are heading to the airport and will get on a plane which will take off to return to turkey
Muizzu's verbal attack on India has upset his countrymen and opposition parties, who believe the Maldivian President should not have gone so far as to call New Delhi a 'bully'.
Maldives news: Qasim Ibrahim, leader of Maldives Jumhooree Party (JP), has urged Maldivian President Mohammed Muizzu to apologize to PM Narendra Modi and the people of India over his remarks after the China trip.