based russian agents including anna chapman. a flotilla of humanitarian aid ships carrying supplies to gaza depart from greece it's reportedly made up of ten vessels with some five hundred activists on board israel warns that its military is gearing up to intercept the eight armada but has dropped earlier threats against journalists that they could be banned or deported for covering the events. has the latest now forced from. israeli government says it is rethinking how it plans to handle foreign journalists that are on boil board that freedom for its attitude as its exiles from european waters and heads towards god that later this week what we do know is that earlier the israeli government personnel for said that any journalists on board would face arrest would face detention and would also face a band of up to ten years they would not be able to return to israel for at least a decade we are now hearing that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu first heard of this only this morning monday on the news and he is said to

managed to flee the country before the scandal unfolded last summer but led to ten agents including anna chapman being arrested and swapped for thought u.s. spies after his government i thought about joins us live from moscow for more on this and let's talk to her now and a high card here so the verdict is in for the last we know about this high profile case. a very little because of course this very high profile case has been deemed top secret and classified so most of the proceedings that took place in moscow as military force were held behind closed doors and every shred of evidence and witness statement that was submitted read the course of the trial was also classified and top secret but we do know that alexander has been stripped of all of his military ranks. achievements and found guilty of treason and sentenced to twenty five years in prison of course at the moment that really doesn't affect his life that much because of course he's not in russia according to the court he's most likely hiding somewhere in the united states and he left for the united states just a little over a year ago a

alexander party have fled the country before the scandal last june which saw ten agents including anna chapman arrested at his governors are about has been following proceedings. this very high profile case has been deemed top secret and classified so most of the proceedings at that place in moscow as military force were held behind closed doors and every shred of evidence and witness statement that was submitted throughout the course of the trial was also classified and top secret but we do know that i'm excited by see it has been stripped of all of his military ranks and achievements and found guilty of treason and sentenced to twenty five years in prison of course at the moment that really doesn't affect his life that much because of course he's not in russia porting to the court he's most likely hiding somewhere in the united states and he left for the united states just a little over a year ago and according to information voiced in the court room that was a complete surprise to everybody including his wife she found out that her husband had deserted her family and her country from a text

brought unnecessary and unwanted attention to many people in the profession of course including anna chapman perhaps the most famous person out of that ten person ring she is currently in russia living and working in politics so basically a lot of attention was drawn to the case we know that xander actually left the country just before the russian president went to the united states with his visit and prior to leaving himself he managed to send out his wife and children so he was definitely preparing according to most sources to do this to leave the country we know that his wife has since come back and she managed to give evidence in the court on his behalf that the reason for her return or the whereabouts of the ex colonel himself or his family are still unknown. thanks very much indeed for bringing us the details of this case because we are all mine from moscow. to other stories now senior of an israeli officials have denied that the country's president of the chartists has cancer this comes after reports citing a u.s. intelligence source saying the scantily anti-american leader is in a cr

the fact that anna chapman. one of the alleged spies deported from the united states found guilty of being a unregistered foreign agent actually recognised objects on the flights here and puts him out of a photo lineup we also know that it's on the cards here who previously was assumed to have sent out his family before leaving the country and so has not done any such thing and in fact the news of his departure was as much a surprise for his wife and family as everybody else he sent a message to his wife when he was already on the way to the states saying mary i hope you understand and forgive me i'm not leaving for a while i'm leaving for ever so big surprise for his wife who did however come to testify on his behalf in the moscow military court judges are reading the verdict as we speak and we are expecting more information on that in the nearest future those units are reporting there from moscow as we do stay with r.t. for all the updates on the spy saugus soon as we get them. after a killer carrying humanita

the double agent who betrayed his ring of ten sleeper spies, including anna chapman, had to make a runfter his identity was revealed. >> how about this, with russian agents hot on his heels colonel alexander patoyev fled to the u.s. his wife found out only after receiving a text message which said he was leaving not for some time, but forever. >>> a new salmonella outbreak has triggered a warning from federal health officials. >> the fda says alfalfa sprouts and spicy sprouts by evergreen produce could possibly be linked to 20 cases of salmonella poisoning. officials are warning people not to eat the vegetables. but so far they've not been recalled. people have been sickened in idaho, montana, new jersey, north dakota, and also in washington state. >> some stories make me hungry. that one not so much. >> not so much. it was probably the sprouts and the salmonella part. >>> here is your tuesday forecast. this might make you feel better, or not. stormy in the east with showers, thunderstorms, and periods of heavy rain from new england to florida and across the deep south. showers out wes

. >>> that new world famous russian spy anna chapman, she's back in the headlines.as been charged with outing her. ♪ [ slap! slap! ] [ male announcer ] your favorite foods fighting you? fight back fast with tums. calcium rich tums goes to work in seconds. nothing works faster. ♪ tum tum tum tum tums >>> two major rulings out of the u.s. supreme court today, both favoring free speech. lisa sylvester is here, she's monitoring that, and some other top stories in "the situation room" now. big decisions from the highest court. >> that's right, wolf. it was a big win for the video game industry. the court in a 7-2 ruling striking down a california law which would have banned the sale of violent video games to children, saying it goes too far. manufacturers argue they provide parents with the energy needed to decide whether a particular game is appropriate for their child. but the state maintains it has a legal obligation to protect children. >>> the court also threw out an arizona law providing extra taxpayer funded support for political candidates who have been outspent