sure now another couple of her marks on our show this week about economy and markets now first is benjamin june said good show i agree that the economy is not as robust as many economists would like everyone to believe and truth say verse seven says dow down three hundred the cracks are beginning to show and you've been saying this for a while now so i guess the question is how big are those cracks that are beginning to show. a little bit more sort of cautious here i think the real economy is actually doing fairly well. where two hundred forty five thousand jobs trend over the last three months we've actually had the best year in jobs growth at the trend since one thousand nine hundred. you know it's ok the real question is how much longer can this go on and. how are those valuations in the market going to be compared to where the prospects of the economy are and that is a very good question of the next is let's get through these very christianson who really like john aspera fokus and we do as well he says is my favorite boom bust guess he doesn't sugarcoat and is clear and concise on the europ

in june 2010, shalit's parents joined protesters who marched to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu'saw attention to his cause. finally, october 18th, 2011, israel's native son is freed. in exchange, more than one thousand palestinian prisoners are released. prime minister netanyahu smoke about the price paid for securing shalit's freedom. >> on this day, we are all united. in joy and pain. >> reporter: gershon baskin helped broker the exchange. but says goldin must not become another shalit incident. >> there is not going to be another prisoner exchange. israel will not leave gaza without that soldier, dead or alive. and this is a sad reality for that soldier. israel is not going to back itself into a situation where it's being held hostage. >> i think from a palestinian perspective that. >> look at this and they think it is a little bit of leverage. >> reporter: initially, israel tried to rescue shalit immediately following his papandreou capture. the country's military doing all it can this time as well. >> it's crucial to make a maximum effort at the initial stage because if you h

huge victory back in june when the presbyterian church voted to exclude three companies working in israel from its investment portfolios in response the prime minister of israel benjamin netanyahu has called this movement an outrage saying it's anti-semitic and an assault on the jewish state but netanyahu is sentiment here may not be enough to quell the movement as the conflict in gaza rages on and washington amir david ortiz. ukrainian police forces are working to clear out the remaining protesters at kiev's independence square reports of approximately one hundred or so people are still remaining at the square and have occupied the space for the past seven months some may know them as the maid and self-defense activists they initially laid siege to the square in protest a venue korean president viktor yushchenko which is plans to bring ukraine closer to russia and away from the e.u. and the theme of hitting nations in the pocketbook continues here as well ukraine is now threatening to block off russia's oil and gas supplies to europe they can have government had already cut off their own russian ties no longer receiving energy gas or oil from russia since the conflic

june 12th to gaza. he is responsible for this. we are ready to stop this war, and we want a cease-fire. >> israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu much different perspective. he says the israeli military operation, quote, will end only when quiet and security is restored to the citizens of israel for a lengthy period, end quote. we continue to hear messages from both israeli and hamas leaders, but we want to focus on just the day-to-day life for the people living through this conflict on both sides. wolf blitzer just returned this morning, all the way from jerusalem after spending the last month covering that conflict. so wolf blitzer, first just welcome home. >> thank you. >> and second of all, when i think of you and your time over there, and all the interviews, i have the visual of you climbing in that tunnel. tell me what that was like. what didn't we see on camera? >> you know, it was pretty amazing when you think about it, because we heard about these tunnels. i didn't know much about them. all of a sudden they became a big issue. so we got permission. the israeli military took us down there to see this tunnel and you coul