there's a school of thought, and edward lucas, a british commentator, believes closed societies now have which are preoccupied still with issues around privacy. are free societies in a weaker position? i believe they probably are. iwould... i would agree with that, because we are restrained. we're actually quite restrained by our own rules, what we can do. other countries, maybe not so much. you can look back on a long career at the cia, and a very successful one, but as we've discussed, you've also had to address really difficult issues about responsibility for bad stuff, about knowledge that the cia has done some very bad stuff. and ijust wonder now whether you would say to young americans today thatjoining the cia is an honourable thing to do. it's a big question. the cia has done, as you say, some bad stuff. there is a history where mistakes have been made, some purposely, some not purposely. mistakes have been made. there's probably not another organisation as large as the cia that couldn't say, looking over their shoulder, "yeah, we shouldn't have done that. "that was a bad decisio

>> edward: lucas, thank you. so now what happens? with me now, danny danon, a normer israeli ambassador to the united nations. the u.s. designates hamas a terrorist organization. can you trust hamas to hold this cease fire until all 50 hostages that have been greed upon can be released? >> edward, we cannot trust hamas. it's a terrorist organization being led by a psychopath. that's why every day we will receive a dozen hostages and release the convicted terrorists that we're holding in our jails. >> kevin: so it's day by day. today we were supposed to get the list israel time. it was delayed. we cannot guarantee anything. if they choose too go back to the war before that, we're ready for that. we're paying attention to everything. >> edward: fox news has confirmed that israel has the list of names for the next hostages to be released. you know when that release will happen? is it on the same time frame? >> yes, we got the list including kids. that's supposed to be at the same time frame. today we have a lot of tension to get the hos

lucas, what is the white house saying about this hostage deal? >> edwardd the mayor hoff qatar and the president of egypt. president biden called the leaders to thank them to help get this deal across the finish line and releasing 50 hostages, all women and children, we're told up to three americans and the president is hopeful up to ten americans can come out of gaza along with the rest of the hostages. the president put out a statement saying as president, i have no higher priority than assuring the safety of americans held hostage around the world. i will not stop until they're all released. officials say it was pressure put on israel from the white house helping to get the deal across the finish line. mike pompeo says it was israel's pressure on hamas that got this deal done. >> make no mistake, the israelis must continue their effort. the reason these hostages are coming home, if they do, that's because of the work that the israelis have done to put pressure on hamas leadership the past six plus weeks. >> democratic senator bernie sanders is blaming i

morgan morris extended ospreys' lead, before debutant dan edwards finished off a spectacular try to secure the bonus point. world snooker champion lucavine and the team have been covering the action at the barbican centre for us. two uk champions with us in the studio this afternoon. we were watching someone who would love to emulate your achievements and become uk champion, as well, that was luca brecel. what did you make of his performance today against yuan sijun, the world champion back in this event? glimpses of brilliance and a couple good centuries early on, but some careless errors. hust didn't quite look sharp as he did at sheffield. but he won, he's in the tournament, and you feel that part of the tournament. and yuan sijun stuck with him gamely, taking 4—4, didn't he? indeed, he showed glimpses himself — cue ball is the improvement _ he needs, but didn't score very well. - he made three centuries in his last | match, so he can do it, but today, | he didn't quite have i the white on a string. he hung around, didn't have the best luck, i have to say. _ he had a couple horrible kicks, so he didn't have the best runl of the ba

edward: so the president has been deeply involved in getting the hostages out. he's on his way in about an hour to nantucket, massachusetts. that's where we find lucas tomlinson. what is the white house saying about this deal? >> well, as we await word on the freedom of the hostages. biden speak about the potential deal at the white house. >> we're now very close. very close. we could bring the hostages home soon. i'm not going to get in to the details. it's not done until it's done and we have more to say. things are looking good at the moment. >> so while the world awaits for the hostages being released, some of them, there's another air strike in the middle east. this time in iraq for the first time in a month as the attacks on u.s. forces continue. here's what the pentagon had to say. >> know that iran supports, backs, arms, equips, finally supports these groups. so we're hitting them where it hurts. we're hitting weapons storage facilities and completely destroying them. they're no longer of use. we do want to see this conflict contained. >> so it was a u.s. air force ac 130 gunship like this that carried out the air strike turning its 20 millimeter canno