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iran's foreign ministry spokesperson said five americans who would be imprisoneded in iran are expected to be leased today as part of a wider u.s./u. u.s./iran deal. the u.s. government designate all five americans as being wrongfully detained. joining me now is international diplomatic editor nic robertson. it's a complex deal, isn't it, nic? >> reporter: it is a very complex deal. and it seems to be open to a variety of interpretations that we've heard from the iranian prime minister over the last week. what we're hearing from the iranian foreign minister today as he says, we wilhopefully and what he's referring to there is $6 billion of frozen iran accounts that are being

currently under the control of south korea. and that money would arrive in an account. now, the foreign minister says, in a regional state. but we understand that account, that new account that iran would have access to would be in qatar, but the implications are here that this expected arrangement that would allow for these five americans being held, one of them has been held in jail since october 2015. so almost eight years. but would expect to allow them to be freed. and this money prorch assets, if you will, would be put in an account, but iran would not have free and complete access to. there would be controls over that account. the account would be for iran to use for humanitarian goods, medicines, for the population, that sort of thing. and this is what brought the

contention from iran's president last week speaking about it, saying iran essentially in essence would have access to that account. the iranians are expecting five iranian prisoners to be released from a u.s. jail as well. so, the headline from the foreign minister, the iranians now expecting that money to end up in the account, apparently in qatar. and they would, therefore, have controlled access to it. just setting out some of the sort of language around what the process that's been happening over the past week. and the united states wrote a waiver, the white house wrote a waiver, allowing access to these accounts a week ago today. let's listen to john kirby, a national security spokesman in the united states who laid out some of the framework. >> well, i can't tell you everything that we're doing and everything that this is, i can certainly tell you what it's not. there's not going to a ransom payment.

there's not going to be sanctions relief. there's no u.s. dollars applied to getting these americans home. the $6 billion without getting into the details of the negotiations, i think there's a little confusion what this account is all about. this is part of a system of accounts that were set up in the previous administration that allowed some countries to import iranian goods, nonsanctionable goods. and that the iranians could pull on those accounts, those payments, through a special system only used for humanitarian purposes. and that's what we're talking about here. it's a pre-existing account that was set up in the previous administration which they allowed other countries to set up, that has not been made accessible to the iranians. they'd be able to have access to it, but only for humanitarian purposes. >> reporter: so, i think you get a sense there from john kirby about how contentious the political decision it is for the white house, for iran to get access to these the cans. but it does seem to indicate from the foreign minister, if this goes ahead, that the five

americans detained in iran could well be on their way to freedom. >> if we could just drill down a bit on that, you know, you've addressed this, and kirby's slightly addressing it as well or trying to address it there. obviously, the money in the account isn't american money, but they did have some control over it. they're calling the prisoners wrongly detained. others calling them hostages. and other people saying that this is iran payments which would allow the hostages abdomen more hostages to be taken. >> reporter: i think it's for americans and others detained by iran that it is financial inducements, access to what iran considers and many international community their finances that have been frozen, because of sanctions on the country. so, it is a contentious issue. but i think if you look more

broadly, beyond the release of prisoners from iran, that iran has detained on accusations, some of these five essentially have been attained on accusations and convicted on about indications alleged on espionage. of working with foreign governments. and the idea that iran gets a financial reward for better international good behavior goes beyonded that. i mean, we can look at the recent situation, between iran and saudi arabia that was broken by china has led to the houthis in yemen who would being supplied with weapons and cruise missiles from iran, abating their war with saudi arabia. so, part of that deal sees better economic ties between saudi arabia and iran in the future development, you know, business connections between the two countries. so, i think you get the sense here, more broadly, that what

iran wants as a price to do what the international community's been asking it to do, whether it's sort of stop terrorist activities around the world. or release people that they've wrongfully detained. it always seems to have a financial inducement, max. >> if there's one thing that isn't disputed today, this is wonderful news for the families of people being released. you get a sense of that today, it's been an incredibly hard time for them. >> repter: well, i think they wi, look, one of the detained, his father went to iran to try to get him released. and he was detained too. it's the families of the those detained in iran who had done the heaviest lifting. these are people whose families could be four square behind

them, trying to get their loved ones released. they're people that the united states has been publicly working to get released. and the mechanism to deliver it has been in public view over the past weeks, max. >> nic robertson, we'll get more detail as the story unfolds. u.s. president joe biden will kick off a busy week ahead. the main event will be this week's united nations general assembly, he'll be meeting with world leaders including benjamin netanyahu. later in the week, he will sit down with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy who will be attending the general assembly and pushing for more support with ukraine. on the international stage, mr. biden is facing a number of challenges in washington. that includes the possibility of a government shutdown later this month. and an impeachment inquiry launched by house republicans. cnn's arlette saenz has more from washington. >> reporter: president biden will put his diplomatic skills to the test this week as he

attends the united nations general assembly meetings in new york city. he arrives there sunday and on monday, he's going to have fund-raisers whether diving into it on tuesday. and officials say he will talk about america's visit for leadership in the world and make the case that countries need to work together in order to solve of the world's biggest problems. this is coming as the president is trying to highlight his alliance building come into the 2024 election. but there's also a lot of attention eye who will president will be meeting he'll meet with lou lula desilva. and it does come at a time when there have been questions about whether such a meeting would even can you after the white house has expressed criticism and frustration with netanyahu's government moving to make some

judicial reforms in that country. now, the president wraps up in new york city, he will head back here to washington. and on thursday, here at the white house, he will host ukraine wran president volodymyr zelenskyy who also will be making the rounds up on capitol hill. this will give the men a chance to speak in person about the counteroffensive that's under way against russia. but the meeting also comes at a time when biden is pushing congress to pass more aid for ukraine. that that is meeting significant resistance from republicans in the house. arlette saenz, cnn, the white house. >> ukraine wran president volodymyr zelenskyy will be attending for the first time on tuesday, that far he will head to washington to meet with u.s. president joe biden and other leaders on capitol hill. mr. zhelenskyy is pushing for more support with long-range military and artillery and making gains on the battlefield. on sunday, ukraine liberated a

key city south of the city of bakhmut. this is really around the fact that there are u.s. politicians who think the progress isn't good enough. and what they're spending on the war isn't going far enough? >> you're absolutely right, max nap is one of the key things that president zelensky is worried about. while the biden administration may be supportive of this funding for ukraine, there may be those on the other side of the house that are not. that is why he's also meeting with senators at capitol hill. to really explain why u.s. funding is so key. we've been seeing a lot of announcement. really recently about ukraine recapturing areas as part of this counteroffensive. part of that messaging is showing they are making progress and where the u.s. money is going. this money they're putting in, this military equipment, this training, all of this is worth is what zelenskyy wants to demonstrates. we've seen they've captured another village on the eastern area of the front line and even

before that another area. these areas aren't big. >> they're just villages, aren't they? >> exactly. these aren't big areas, but what they're trying to demonstrate, there are still progress, this isn't still a front line. they're making progress. and what they need is more weaponry, more ammunition, more support from the united states. this is why we've been seeing this referencing of long range weapons, long-range missiles. particularly this kind of weaponry can get behind key lines, infantry and structures. areas not just the front line, repairing ships like they targeted last week in the crimea. these areas are key for russia's war effort. what zelenskyy wants to show, if they give more weaponry, this counteroffensive may go faster. it may speed it up and a breakthrough which is all of them want and they desperately need. particularly as we head into the winter months where the fighting will get even more challenging. >> in terms of zelenskyy, in

terms of his smartness, she's expecting them to say it's going to slowly and he is going to counter that. >> he flips it around saying we are making more progress, but really it's on the united states. >> thank you, katie. benjamin netanyahu is expected to address the general assembly on friday but before that, he's set to sit down with u.s. president joe biden and elon musk. it's interesting when we talk about ukraine, it does take a lot of the headlines, doesn't it, but there's the likes of netanyahu who also made headlines? >> yeah, this is not going to be the type of trip, i think, to the united states that benjamin netanyahu would have really wanted to play up. let's start according to the schedule, he's actually still in the air right now. he's on his way to san francisco where he will land and meet with-a amongst others elon musk.

with musk he's going to discuss artificial intelligence as well as trying to convince him to invest more in israel. interestingly, they're going to sit down on what is deemed to be a live conversation on live/twitter today at 12:00 p.m. eastern. there is expectation, especially here in israel, that benjamin netanyahu will address that he's allowed elon musk to flourish on the platform. especially in recent years benjamin netanyahu has really branded himself as sort of this crusader of andy semitism around the world. next, he will fly to new york where on wednesday he'll be meeting with u.s. president joe biden. this will be the first face-to-face meeting since netanyahu took back power late last year. that has been a long time coming because usually an israeli prime minister meets with the u.s. president, they're supposed to

be great allies, they meet pretty quickly. but this will be the first face-to-face meeting since netanyahu took power. and notably, it's not at the white house, it's going to be on the sideline of the u.n. that's a clear message from the white house, especially how joe biden has viewed the benjamin netanyahu with the far right government and the massive protests against the judicial overhaul going on here for nine months, president biden had been very clear about how his government feels about the judicial overhaul that is still pushing forward, despite the protests not only from israelis here in israel but also from allies. the protesters are actually planned to be at every single stop that netanyahu will be at in san francisco and in new york as well. actualically right before netanyahu got on his plane late last night, he actually accused the demonstrators of joining forces with iran and plo. and very interestingly actually that was conveniently not in the

remarks just released to the media, sort of the press release about the remarks before getting on the plane. those sentences have been taken out, that's a notable omission. that has riled up the protesters, they say they will be at every single stop and that benjamin netanyahu will be able to hear them. >> hadas in jerusalem, thank you for that. we'll have more after the break including the latest on the u.s./iran prisoner swap. good thing there's resolve. love the love. resolve the mess.

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breaking news out of iran. iran's foreign ministry spokesperson said five americans who had been imprisoned in iran are expected to be leased today as part of a wider u.s./iran deal. he skes on a news conference season on state-affilied u.s. president tv a short while ago. a source briefed on details the matter sell cnn a qatari jet is on standby in iran to bring five u.s. citizens and two relatives to doha. they've been negotiating this. stay with cnn for details as they become available. cleanup continues in libya

from deadly flooding that went through the city of derna just over a week ago. still unknown how many people died but the united nations has revised a previous death toll of 11,000. they've cited 4,000 lives lost. some 9,000 people are still considered missing. and treacherous conditions have been made search conditions difficult. and cnn's jomana karadsheh is on the ground. >> reporter: libya and international teams have been working tirelessly out at sea, trying to recover the bodies of thousands of victims of last week's catastrophic event that hit the city of derna. we have seen libyan teams here trying their best to try to get out to sea to try and reach the bodies of those victims. but what we're hearing from the international teams that have been working on this for days

now is that this has become a near impossible mission. one team told us that they were able to recover more than 60 bodies since they got here. but right now they are not able to do this anymore. this one team said they spotted the bodies of about 300 people but the conditions are so challenging out there for them, they say that they don't have the right equipment. to reach these really hard-to-reach areas, coves where these bodies have ended up, shallow waters where their boats can't go. they just don't have the expertise, the manpower to deal with a situation like this. and what they're telling us is, while they did spot these bodies over the past couple of days, right now, those bodies have

disd disint disintegrated. for survivors here in derna who tell us all they want is to find the bodies of their loved ones, their remains to give them a proper burial. this one international team we were speaking with earlier said that they have dealt with accidents in the past with migrant boats capsizing. they have dealt with search and recovery operations where they've managed to pull dozens of bodies in the past, but never have they had to deal with a situation with something on the scale before. where they're looking for hundreds and thousands of bodies. jomana karadsheh, cnn, derna, libya. >> cnn's larry madowo joins me from kenya, on this, the chaos in libya. the governments effectively have

come together, they're working together try to resolve this. what do you make of the progress they've been making there? >> reporter: i think this tragedy has been exacerbated by the division in libya between the tripoli government recognizing the international community and the eastern parliament back under the rebel leader, they are doing what they can to respond to the crisis. to, you know, ship people away from derna which has been worst affected. but there's been some criticism saying if they were taken seriously the alerts the level would be higher, maybe lives would be saved. probably not avoided the catastrophe. but there should have been lessons learned from this, he says, telling cnn there need be to be some accountability of what happened here. part of the problem is the infrastructure in derna was crumbling. these were due for maintenance,

but that just didn't happen. even right now, 4,000 people have been displaced, according to the u.n., as they're moving, they're exposed to land mines and explosive order order pant thats of war. and the libyan disowned 11,300 people dead. the u.n. revising that number now, citing to the world health organization closer to 4,000. it's a tragedy that's unspeakable. listen to this one volunteer who has been trying to try and help find survivors or pull out some of the bodies in the rubble. >> translator: as a libyan, when i pull out bodies i swear i cry, i can't handle it. it's god's will. there was a body divided in two parts just before us. what you can zwro these men have come all the way from tripoli

which is 1500 kilometers away. >> reporter: the immediate needs right now, food, shelter and water. some of it is coming but because of the chaos, the extent of this devastation, they need just a whole lot more, max. >> larry in nairobi, thank you for that. that's a huge, huge project. we'll be back in just a moment with the latest on those u.s. prisoners being released from iran. viruses and bacteria float all around us. unlike air fresheners, only new lysol air sanitizer kikills 99.9% of viruses and bacteria in the air. because scent can't sanitize.

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♪ welcome back. to "cnn newsroom." i'm max foster if you're just joining us, updating abreaking news story out of iran. five americans imprisoned in iran are expected to b as part of a wider u.s./iran deal. he spoke at a news conference stone on state affiliated press tv a short while ago. the u.s. government had designated all five americans being wrongfully detained. a sour with details on the matter said a qatari jet is on standby to bring five u.s. citizens and two relatives to doha. do stay with us for the latest on this. i'm told now i can speak to becky anderson who is in doha.

and i gather the deal has been effectively been done. so, this is about to happen. >> rep max, it certainly seems like this the beginning of the end of a years' lon nightmare for five american citins wrongly detained from iran who are expected to be ming hour.e to qatar in the according to that source briefed on the details, the acadt is currently on the tarmac in hran. and this deal is to release three and two others n identified as being mediated at qatar, and the deal frees up the seizing of $6 million inds. have now been successful ource here in qatar. bank accounts

so qatar effectively then acting as a guarantor in the deal going forward. deal also includes the release of five iranians imprisoned in the united states, the sanctions busting. and the americans will be greeted by the white house middle east enjoy. special presidential enjoy for hostage affairs carsons and the u.s. acting special enjoy for iran. now, look, there's going to be relief from all of these hostages and indeed all of their family members, the mother ion the plane as well as is the wife of marad. but, of co, is is a huge the longest held american as

prison. spionage charges date to 2015. earlier this year, went on ven-y hunger strike in the n notorious prison to protect from being abandoned lie said by president biden. appealing to the president in an unprecedented life from a prison to get him free. we are in the xt hour, timg still a little blurredmax. but we're expectin see those prisoners here in qatar being transferred in theirst instance to doha, om tehran, and then if all goes to plan, they will be onward from here, en route to the united states. max. >> becky, back with you in just a moment. but nic, just a bit more about this money, because, you know,

there is a lot of speculation online suggesting this is a hostage payment for the americans being held in iran. but it isn't actually america's money. it is iran's money and they're prisoners. >> they're prisoners, the money is iran's money. it was frozen due to sanctions on iran. this is giving iran some controlled access to that money by taking it from one account where it has been absolutely beyond their reach, frozen, into another account where they will be able to access that money, but the white house has been very clear that this is for humanitarian goods only. the white house says we don't ever apply sanctions to stop people frommet gooding food, to stop people from getting medicine, for humanitarian goods. but we've heard, over the past few days a degree of pushback from iranian officials, notably, the president of iran, speaking

about this issue, saying, i think we can listen to him here, saying that iran will spend it on what they see fit. >> translator: this money belongs to the islamic republic of iran. and naturally, we will decide, islamic republic of iran, will decide to spend it wherever we need it. humanitarian means what the iranian people need. so this money will be budgeted for those needs. and the needs of the iranian people will be decided and determined by the iranian government. >> so, that was an interview given to u.s. broadcaster nbc in the past couple of days including the questions raised. because we heard earlier in the show john kirby laying out the u.s. views on this.

the money, is it paying for the release? that's certainly if you stand up and take an objective view, that is what's happened. iran is moved by financial inducements. this is a regime that is weak, that it is unpopular. the country is going through huge economic hardships because of the sanction, and they turn to many avenues in response to those financial inducements. we spoke earlier about saudi arabia, they stopped houthi in yemen who were iranian-provided cruise missiles. so financial works with this iranian leadership right now. i think you just have to read it, the situation, what's happening in that context. >> and presumably, the leadership in iran have to say those sorts of things for the domestic audience. isn't just suggesting he was saying it to nbc, it's more

about making iranians feel, isn't it, that they've got a good deal? but actually huge restrictions on these funds, it's the qataris who will control it effectively? >> qataris have the account and there's a mechanism by which iran -- as we understand it at the moment, and we only have the broadest of details but iran has said they would like to use the funds to do x, y and humanitarian needs. and that will then be examined, analyzed. and access to the funds if it's found to have merit. now, both sides, in any negotiation, in any deal, need to walk away from the table feeling that they've got something. the iranians are talking about five iranian prisoners in u.s. jails who will be released and go back to iran. so, the iranian leadership needs to be able to sell this as a success. so, it is not with surprise that they would say this is our money and we're getting access to it

but for the critics of this or others would say, look what you're doing maybe is giving iran money for humanitarian goods, but that will free up that money that this -- >> that would have been spent. >> on the people keeping them in leadership on other areas. again, though, the financial inducement, certainly from a saudi perspective with iran at the moment do seem to be working. >> very briefly, it does make a bit of a mockery of the sanctionses s system. this is a blatant work-around for the sanctions? >> i don't think there's a short answer to that. just last week, the uk, france, germany said they will continue their sanctions on iran. over their failure to uphold the nuclear deal. the nuclear watchdog at iaee have inspectors in iran checking to be held to account to what they say they'll do.

criticizing the iranian leadership for blocking one-third of their inspectors from access to the country. there's been no shortage of criticism of iran and its actions. indeed, additional sanctions last week on 25 members of the iigs, iran's main bpower body, ahead of prisons and criticisms the way iran is handling the anniversary of the brutal murder. >> we'll go back to becky, she's in doha. becky, you referred to this earlier on, what isn't disputed here, that this is a huge relief all this time.milies campaigning how did you expect tod to play out? what will we see? >> reporter: yeah, it' interesting, isn't it, certainly, as a sort of background to this is that ere'been eight rounds of talks betweean and u.s.

mediated by qatar. these talks started back in march 2022. the first, as we understand it, the focus on t nuclear file. and then shifted to a prisoner for funds agreement. that's loosely termed, prisoner for funds agement. so, months of negotiation culminating on what we will on the tarmac here in a couple of hours. it's a couple-hour flight from qatar. as soon as we detand, that qatari jet is in the air'll find out where ty are out of irn airspace. ight to arrive here sortf an hour, an houd a half after that we're looking at least two hours from now, as we understand it. and you can see the american

negotiators brett mcguirk was part of the anegotiation back in 2015. so, a man not unfamiliar with the negotiations and with briefing prisoners, those wrongly detained off a flight from tehran. so, that's what we understand. and the details are not clear office yet what happens after these five prisoners arrive here in doha. and those five will be, as i say, greeted by the american negotiators. and then as we understand it, they will be en route to the united states after that. but we at present do not have the details as to when that flightological happen, max. >> becky, thank you. interesting to see the role that qatar is playing in all of this, stepping up to the global peacemaker role. how would you describe it? >> absolutely. being sort of a middle man here. i mean, this was something that

the owemenis under the late suln there, really, they did have a positive role being a middleman. and qataris are definitely stepping up to that. yes, i think we can expect others in the region, particularly saudi, to want to have that role with iran in the future because of their rapprochement and their closeness to the united states. that would be expected. sort of a detail pertinent to today that becky is speaking about here, just to add to what she's saying, that this day may not be without a couple of small rdles. i'm thinking about radcliffe, the british native who was released not so long ago from detention in iran and freed to travel back to the uk. she was arrested in april of

2016. what happened to her at the airport, after the carefully structured release? well, she was held up there for quite a period of time. it wouldn't be untoward for iran to perhaps have hiccups and delays on the tarmac in tehran today. i do think this will go through. >> the money has arrived, isn't it? >> everything is set up for it. but don't be surprised if the iranians do something that gives them extra publicity and sale fract tore their public on what they've done here. >> becky, you've been reporting on these five prisoners for a very long time. are there other prisoners? i mean, what comafter this? >> reporter: well, as we understand it, these are the americans who have been wrongfully detailed according to the u.s. administration.

their departure from tehran if that indeed what happens in the next couple of hours will see the end of those wrongly detained, american citizens, dual iranian amecan citizens. but we do know there are other europeans and other dual citi of iranian europe backgrounds who remain in iran. as far as lationship between iran, tehr and the west including europeans, there's still much work to do. let's be quite clear, you , thgs have changed significantly since 2015 when the obama adration negotiated that deal. that the trump admation then pulled out of in 2018, so ile this hopefully, according hose who are briefed in these negotiations, may provide, say, and this iwhat

they're hopefu a path potentially to some sort of negotiations down the route. which is why this is just this prisoner swap. i think we have to be very clear about where relations and tensions stand between not just the united states, but european capitals with tehran at this point. >> becky and doha, thank you. back with you throughout the day. also nic who is here watching things from london. we'll have more on the breaking coverage of the five american prisoners expected to be released from a notorious iranian jail today. skip the rinse and load your dishes. 24 hours later when your dishwasher is full, let finish quantum clean your dishes. ♪ try finish quantum. unbeatable clean. unbeatable price.

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- [announcer] do you have an invention idea but don't know what to do next? call invent help today. they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. ♪ welcome to "cnn newsroom." i'm max foster. if you're just joining us, updating a breaks news story out of iran. iran's spokesperson said five americans imprisoned in iran are expected to be released as part of a wider u.s./iranian deal he spoke on affiliated press tv a short while ago. the u.s.overnment has designated all five americans as being wrongfully detained. a source telling cnn a qatari jet is on standby in iran to bring five u.s. citizens and two

to doha. we're speaking to becky in doha but nic in london. becky, it's a hard story to cover, isn't it? it's ammensely complex deal that you can'tt encapsulate in a sentence? >> reporter: you'rsolury right. deal.is complex, complicated the the bottom line is, max, least five years, in one nt, at nearly eight, five american citizens wrongfully detained by iran now expected to be finally headed home. their nightmare expect to be er. let's just be que clear who we are talking about here. this deal toelease these hosta hostages as deribed byhe united states, siamak namazi, emad shargi and morad tahbaz.

and two not identified yet. have been mediated by qatar, eight rounds of negotiation and sees the unfreezing of $6 billion of iranian funds. in now, funds that have been restricted in an account in south korea, under the u.s. sanctions policy. ccessfully transferred to nkn accounts in qatar. 's k to this deal, tha the qatarie mediating , that the qataris will be responsible for strictly controlling what the funds are spent on. because under the terms of the deal, the americans have stipulated these fund, the6 billion work of funds, iranian money at the end of the y, but these funds mustspent on nitarian goods, too. and we will know how much that

is needed that is needed in iran rese. the deal also including the release of five iranians who are imprisoned ithe united states for sanctions busting. and most all of those prisoners evendmitted to by tehran this morning, actually looking to return to irantwo expected to return here. two expected to stay in the united states. and one expected to go to a third country. the americans -- t american citizens will be greeted here in doha by the american negotto and there will be relief, obviously. relief for what has been mental and physical aui and torture, bh r those who have been incarcerated over the years. in iran. and indeed, for their family memberwhhave tried so rd over successive u.s. administrations, barack obama's administration, donald trump's

administration, and now joe biden's administration to get these wrongfully detained american dual citizens out of tehran and home. max. >> okay, bexcky. nic robertson is here. what do you know about them? >> very few details. we understand they're based on sanctions busting activities, obviously, many, many sanctions on iran. they've been jailed in the united states on account of that. but we don't know how long their sentences are. where they've been spent. we don't know the evidence. >> we won't find out, will we? >> not immediately. i think once their identities become known, if that becomes known in the iranian media or if that's in the interest of iranian leadership because they control the media pretty much, then we won't know more about them. i think it's just kind of, just to flip back to the money, because the money is going to be contentious.

it was contentious where the united states has effected other princer releases from the iranians. and it's going to be contentious again. it's also contentious or important on the iranian side, they are seen to have access to their monies, not controls but we heard from the foreign minister, we'll run that clip in a second, the foreign minister saying we will use it in proportion to our requirements. this is what he said. >> we are hopeful that today, we will see full access to our money. and this will be transferred to an account iran has announced in a regional state. and iran would be able to transfer that completely. and proportionate to requirements we can spend that money. on the basis of the latest information i have, the prisoner exchange will also takes place on the same day. five iranians prisoners will be released from the american

prisons. two nationals on the basis of their own willingness will come back to iran. one of them, given presence of family elsewhere will travel to a third country. two other iranian prisoners incarcerated in america have said they want to stay in the u.s. right now. the five iranian prisoners will be freed today. and in change, five nationals in iran on the basis of their own request will be extradited to the u.s. side. these agreements will be completed on the agreement in place. >> the takeaway there the assets will be put at the disposal of the administration of iran to be used in proportion -- >> it's for them -- >> not as we understand it, the deal is they'll be only able to 70 on humanitarian assets. >> and qataris are policing that? >> well, with others, what's the arrangement for policing it and what's the involvement.

iranians saying we want $1.5 billion let's say for project x, y and z, what's the process to authenticate that, what's the feedback on all of that? so, those are the sort of areas that will come under scrutiny and they're also the sorts of areas we may not get more details about because both sides are trying to play this back home as a win. and not them kowtowing to the other side, in essence. >> we'll expect to see them arrive in qatar and in the u.s. as well. it's a big personal moment for the families. >> i think you can expect to see when they arrive back, there will be additional family members greeting them in the united states. we don't know quite what to expect in terms of numbers, family members, eventually being there in qatar. this is huge. it's not just families, the iranian expatriate community in the united states and other places is galvanized by this.

they see what iran does. >> okay. thank you so much. we'll be following every twist and turn of this throughout the day here on cnn. i'm max foster, thanks for watching "cnn newsroom." casey is going to pick up now with "early start." ♪ the sleep number climate360 smart bed is the only smart bed in the world that actively cools, warms and effortlessly responds to both of you for up to 44 minuteses more restful sleep per night. save $ $1500 on the sleep numbr climate360 smart bed. shop now a at sleep number.co. air wick. air wick's limited edition fragrances are infused with natural essential oils for authentiseasonal scents that fill your home with warmth and cheer.

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