made in israel. >> at mossad?erstand it, these walkie-talkies went into a tactical vest that a soldier would put on, and then this would go in the pocket. >> correct. >> near the heart. >> yes. >> so israel sold this device to hezbollah. hezbollah paid for this -- this weapon that was to be used against them. >> they got a good price. >> a “good price” that couldn't be too low or they'd be suspicious. in the end, hezbollah bought over 16,000 of these exploding walkie-talkies that israel then didn't activate for ten years, until three months ago. how did you convince hezbollah to buy this? >> well obviously they didn't know that they were buying it from israel. >> who did they buy it from or think they were buying it from? >> we have an incredible array of possibilities of creating foreign companies that have no way being traced back to israel. shell companies over shell companies who affect the supply chain to our favor. we create a pretend world. we are a global production company. we write the screenplay. we're

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now, former agents from isreal�*s mossad intelligence agency, speaking anonymously, have told the bbcossibilities of creating foreign companies that have no way of being traced back to isreal. shell companies over shell companies who affect the supply chain to our favour. we create a pretend world. we are a global production company. we write the screenplay with the directors, with the producers, with the main actors, and the world is our stage. the agents explained how over the past decade, mossad had sold hezbollah thousands of pagers and walkie—talkies booby—trapped with tiny amounts of explosives. they were only detonated years later, last september. if you push the button, the only one that will get injured is the terrorist himself. even if his wife or his daughter will be just next to him, he is the only one that is going to be harmed. the agents said they tested the devices on dummies to measure the force of the blasts. but in fact, dozens of people were killed in the attack, including civilians and children. thousands more were maimed and injured. the united nations human righ

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. >>> on 60 minutes we heard from the mossad agent who led the attack against hezbollah with pagers.7 were killed and thousands injured. 60 minutes" correspondent lesley stahl spoke with the agent who says the plot started ten years ago with walkie-talkies and phase two kicked in in 2022 with pagers. >> to make it into a bomb we have to enlarge it a little bit. >> in order to put explosives inside, but not too much. using dummies mossad conducted tests with the pager in a padded glove to calibrate the grams of explosive needed to be just enough to hurt the fighter but not the person next to him. >> if you push the button, the only one that will get injured is the terrorist himself, even if his wife or his daughter will be just next to him. he's the only one that's going to be harmed. >> did you test for that? >> yes, we test everything trip it, double, multiple times in order to make sure there's minimum damage. >> could you use it as a tracking device? did it have intelligence capability? >> oh, no. this is a very stupid device by nature. this is the reason they're using it. there's

as i mention the books on his de tactics of the israeli mossad. >> so they are actually learning fromtrying to replicate the way in which they target the upper echelon. >> they are learning from their mistakes. as i have said, so far we have not seen the collateral damage we see in some of the bombis. >> do you think it is possible to do all this without some help on the inside? >> absolutely impossible. ukrainian intelligence does have a network of agents and sabbath visors deeply embedded inside russia -- sympathizers deeply embedded inside russia. there is a number of russians, a small minority perhaps that are deeply opposed to putin's war in ukraine. that feel the ukrainian cause is the right cause and they are willing to risk arrest and death to help the ukrainians. some of these russians have gone over to ukraine to join the ukrainian military. many others are engaging in not just assassinations but acts of sabotage such as explosions on railways. just the other day we saw a russian fighter jet being torched in russian airfield. these acts of resistance within russia are becomi

. >> when israel's mossad pulled the trigger, managing to decapitate most of hezbollah's senior leadershipn israeli war planes dropped more than a dozen 2,000-pound bombs. on the building where hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah was meeting with his senior leaders. a little known unit of the israeli defense forces played a key role in labeling and mapping the data used to track these targets. >> i won't put in the details what they were involved in but generally speaking, they were involved. >> unit 9900 diverse soldiers on the autism spectrum to find mistakes in computer code and look for the proverbial needle in a haystack. >> unit 9900 is the intelligent unit that is responsible for all the satellite images, any kind of image, plane image, drones, whatever. >> a veteran mossad agent founded watching the horizon. a subunit of 9900 which trains israeli soldiers whose autism would have barred them from military service in the past. >> i won't use secret weapon. good people are doing what they have to do. >> american tech entrepreneur peter can't read about this special israeli intelligence

so i think israel, i think the mossad, the intelligence apparatus, the whole idf right now needs to waittion. i don't think there's a lot of trust right now with the biden administration. bibi needs to wait until the 20th, let trump get in there nice and smooth, and then i think those conversations about going direct to threat which is right to that nuclear reactor, i wouldn't be surprised if that happens sooner than the later but only once biden is out and trump is in. david: and p aaron to, we've only got 15 seconds. what about the hostages? the israeli hostages and the american hostages still being held by a hamas. any chance of getting them out? >> well, yeah, there is. i mean, look, we rescued a number of hostages over the last 13 months. i just don't think that hamas is idea, a hamas doesn't want a deal, david. they never did and they never will. and i think it's about trying to to get as much actionable intelligence to get that counter-terror group to spring on as many targets as possible as soon as they can. that's where i'm at with that. david: aaron cohen, thank you so much. re

a senior israeli delegation led by israel's spy chief, the head of the mossad, was there earlier in the week. it has now returned to israel for discussions with prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the political leadership. what we are seeing is both israel and hamas publicly accusing each other of adding new last minute demands, which they say are slowing down. these ceasefire negotiations. now, it's not unusual to see this kind of bickering in public. it doesn't mean that the negotiations have collapsed altogether. it does mean it is looking increasingly unlikely that we are going to have a deal in place by new yearar's, whi had been the hope. there is, though, a general sense of urgency right now generated by president elect trump, who said that in his words, there would be, quote, hell to pay if a deal was not in place by the time of his inauguration on january 20th. i'll send it back to you. thanks, raf. all right. well, new at 11. are you dreaming of a gree christmas? well, the city of san francisco has a way for you to recycle your christmas tree. and just like that. so the city

a senior israeli delegation led by israel's spy chief, the head of the mossad, was there earlier in the week. it has now returned to israel for discussions with prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the political leadership. what we are seeing is both israel and hamas publicly accusing each other of adding new last minute demands, which they say are slowing down. these ceasefire negotiations. now, it's not unusual to see this kind of bickering in public. it doesn't mean that the negotiations have collapsed altogether. it does mean it is looking increasingly unlikely that we are going to have a deal in place by new year's, which had been the hope. there is, though, a general sense of urgency right now generated by president elect trump, who said that in his words, there would be, quote, hell to pay if a deal was not in place by the time of his inauguration on january 20th. that was ralph sanchez reporting. and back here at home, president biden and the first lady are on their way to saint croix for a post-christmas vacation. this is their third and final trip to the caribbean island as t

. >> reporter: in order to put explosives inside, but not too much, using dummies mossad conducted teststhe pager in a padded glove to calibrate the grams of expose needed to be just enough to hurt the fighter but not the person next to him. >> if you push the button, the only one that will get injured is the terrorist himself. even if his wife or his daughter will be just next to him, he's the only one that's going to be harmed. >> jericka: you can watch more of lesley stahl's reporting including perspective of those in lebanon at cbsnews.com. well, moving onto weather, it's already treacherous in some places, and that's especially concerning if you're one of an estimated 120 million americans who are traveling this holiday. cbs's rob marciano is keeping track of the big picture for us from north of new york city. rob, what's the latest? >> well, this cold air has been around for the past days. the coldest air we've seen in some places in years. the roads are plenty cold. we just need a little bit of snow and it's going to be slick travel. we've got that on the radar screen. this clippe

there was a senior israeli delegation there led by the head of the mossad spy agency.ip including prime minister benjamin netanyahu and we will see whether this is just a temporary stall in the cease- fire negotiations or it is something more serious. both israel and hamas publicly accusing the other side of making last-minute demands which are slowing down this process. and at this point, it is looking very, very unlikely that we are going to get to any kind of deal before the end of the year which is the hope that the biden administration had expressed. christina. >> all right, thank you so much. >>> for more joining us now is richard hoss president emeritus on the council or foreign relations and senior counselor with center view partiers, you just heard him talking about they're at the point now where the head of mossad has gone back to tel-aviv for consultations in the past couple of rounds, that's really the point where we often see these talks weaking down. where is your take on where the cease-fire discussions are and are you at all hopeful? >> well, again, you

for the first time free of real hezbollah dominates those are both opportunities but to be honest mossad bolus and others have been designated by the president they're going to have to work quickly and engage with the diplomatic skills. >> a new dawning of the middle east could be on the verge of happening. before i let you go austin tice the journalist being held by the regime or its allies for 14 years, graduate of georgetown we are told there is evidence that he's alive his family, could he finally be free, your thoughts. >> it's one of the olive branches that the conquerors need to sees quickly the diplomats need to work on although we don't currently have diplomatic relationships with syria we have a large group of legacy diplomats, any one of whom could arrange or negotiate this and i think the time is almost immediately. >> a chance to free austin tice. congressman darrell issa thank you for your insight and experience. of course. >> was again get him home, new york city police and the fbi releasing new photos of a person of interest in the assassination of an insurance ceo, one p

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off forest fires it worked, and based on the theory of the big numbers, oded ailam, a former top mossadicial, says iran is more interested in casting a wide net than in recruiting skilled operatives. >> and they said to themselves, okay, if we fail here, we'll go to the next one and they don't really care of the outcome. >> unlike previous iranian intelligence efforts in israel, which have largely involved palestinian recruits, the majority of those arrested in the last year have been jewish israelis, many of them new immigrants, according to the police. they were also often poor or had criminal histories. people like slava gushchin, who lived in this apartment and was allegedly part of the haifa cell. for neighbors like riki and moshe, who saw him struggling and had given him food and clothes, shock, shock, no, one, no one could believe it. >> people here that know him, that also brought him food and everything. >> they want to kill him. >> a sense of betrayal for the accused spy next door. and iran did not return a request for comment about the spying allegations. as for azis nisanov,

the defense minister, foreign minister, chief of staff, mossad and myself, small group. we discuss something and we have no idea what you will decide in the end. assad didn't know that we had found this very secret. the defense minister from syria had no idea, chief of staff, no idea. only his small black game. doesn't know that we found it, no idea we are attacking it. even i will produce the best ship that can read what people think, my agent will put it in his bag, and it will transmit through satellites to tel aviv to my headquarters, i will not have the answer, because he is not thinking about it. anyways. to your question -- >> that is a good bit of history, though, folks. >> for a nuclear bomb, you need three ingredients. enriched uranium, a platform to launch a missile, and the weapon itself, the bomb. the two thirds they have, they have enough fissile material, for eight or nine bombs. they can convert it to 90% within 10 days, so it is behind us. if i am where the head of intelligence today, if i would speak with my friend, bill burns, i would recommend concent

israel was behind the attack, which was a joint operation between israel's intelligence service, the mossadd the israeli military. the lebanese government condemned the attack as criminal. israeli aggression. number five police in illinois releasing body camera footage of the deadly police shooting of sonia massai in july. the 36 year old black woman had called 911 for help to report a possible prowler at her home in springfield. >> i heard somebody outside. >> w nobody's out here. >> the body ca footage continuing to interact with massai. but things take a turn when she pot the stove. >> your hot, steaming water away from my hot, steaming water? >> yeah. oh, i would rebuke you in the name of jesus. >> i shoot you in the name. you better not. i swear to god, i' shoot you in your face. okay. i'm sorry. drop the top and drop the pot. >> three shots were fired, killing massai. no intruder was found. the deputy was fired from his job and charged with first degree murder. he's pleaded not guilty. at number four on the list, the presidential historian who correctly predicted nine of the last ten

israel was behind the attack, which was a joint operation between israel's intelligence service, the mossadd the israeli military. the lebanese government condemned the attack as criminal. israeli aggression. number five police in illinois releasing body camera footage of the deadly police shooting of sonia massai in july. the 36 year old black woman had called 911 for help to report a possible prowler at her home in springfield. >> i heard somebody outside. >> we didn't see nobody. >> nobody's out here. >> the body camera footage shows the deputy continuing to interact with massai. but things take a turn when she goes back to check on a pot on the stove. >> hot steaming water away from the hot steaming water. yeah. oh, i rebuke you in the name of jesus. >> i shoot you in the navy. you better not. i swear to god, i'll shoot you right at your face. okay? i'm sorry. drop the pot and drop the pot. >> three shots were fired, killing massai. no intruder was found. the deputy was fired from his job and charged with first degree murder. he has pleaded not guilty. at number four on the list, the pr

israel was behind the attack, which was a joint operation between israel's intelligence service, the mossad and the israeli military. the lebanese government condemned the attack as criminal. israeli aggression. number five police in illinois released body camera footage of the deadly police shooting of sonia massai in july. the 36 year old black woman had called 911 for help to report a possible prowler at her home in springfield. >> i heard somebody outside. >> we didn't see nobody. >> nobody's out here. >> the body camera footage shows the deputy continuing to interact with massai, but things take a turn when she goes to check on a pot on the stove. >> your hot, steaming water away from my hot, steaming water? yeah. oh, i rebuke you in the name of jesus. >> i shoot you in the name. you better not. i swear to god i'll shoot you in your face. okay. i'm sorry. drop the puck! drop the puck! >> three shots were fired, killing massai. no intruder was found. the deputy was fired from his job and charged with first degree murder. he's pleaded not guilty. at number four on the list, the president

>> it worked, and based on the theory of the big numbers, oded ailam, a former top mossad official, says iran is more interested in casting a wide net than in recruiting skilled operatives. and they said to themselves, okay, if we fail here, we'll go to the next one and they don't really care of the outcome. >> unlike previous iranian intelligence efforts in israel, which have largely involved palestinian recruits, the majority of those arrested in the last year have been jewish israelis, many of them new immigrants. according to the police. they were also often poor or had criminal histories. people like slava gushchin, who lived in this apartment and was allegedly part of the haifa cell for neighbors like riki and moshe, who saw him struggling and had given him food and clothes shock, shock, no no, no one could believe it. >> people here that know him, that also brought him food and everything, they want to kill him. >> a sense of betrayal for the accused spy next door. and jake iran did not return a request for comment about these spying allegations. as for aziz nisanov, the alleged l

there was a senior israeli delegation by the head of the mossad spy agency who just returned yesterdayefore the end of the year. it looks like this crisis, this war will spill over into a third calendar year and that is devastating for palestinian civilians in gaza and for the families of those hostages, i think nobody thought when this all started on october 7, 2023 that we would be going through a second christmas and hanukkah period with the war raging and so many of these hostages still not home. in terms of how christmas is being marked, we spent part of the day in bethlehem yesterday and yamiche, this is literally the birthplace of christianity and it is the birthplace that describes itself as the capital of christmas on a normal year. you have a towering tree dominating the main square in bethlehem, but this year it is a quiet and somber and sad, festive season and you have both faith leaders and just ordinary residents really kind of grappling with how to mark the christmas holiday when there is so much bloodshed going on still in gaza. we spoke with one christian woman. she ha

the israeli negotiators led by the israeli spy chief, the head of the mossad, have returned here to israelnjamin netanyahu about the next stage of these negotiations. israel and hamas both publicly blaming each other saying that they are setting up new last-minute demands which are slowing down these negotiations, but i can tell you everybody is feeling the pressure from president-elect trump who has said there will be, quote, hell to pay if a deal is not in place by the time of his inauguration on january 20th. >> that's right, but i mean that's just around the corner. is there -- this rhetoric coming out doesn't sound like it's potentially good news to make that deadline. what are people thinking? are they going to get it done in time? >> by january 20th? possibly. by the end of the year, which was the biden administration's hope. it's looking increasingly unlikely. the fact that both sides blaming each other publicly in the media, not necessarily a sign that talks are breaking down inside of the room. it may be they're trying to create external pressure on the other side, trying to extr

yeah, no offence, a win, but i think mossad might have bigger fish to fry. this is your saturday night showdown . and discussing all tonight's topics with me are my brilliant panel topics with me are my brilliant panel. joining me tonight are dating expert kezia noble and the broadcaster and model precious muir. will have more from them in a moment. but first, let's get your latest news headlines from joe caspar. >> good evening. it's 8:02. i'm joe caspar in the gb news room . joe caspar in the gb news room. well, this evening the prince of wales has met with us president elect donald trump in paris. william had travelled to france earlier today for the ceremonial reopening of notre dame cathedral . following a fire in cathedral. following a fire in 2019. mr trump gave william a pat on the shoulder before the two shook hands and spoke for a few seconds. william was greeted in the rainy french capital by president emmanuel macron and his wife brigitte. his plans were disrupted by storm daragh. he had originally been scheduled to meet mr trump before the cathe

the very detailed and technical discussions, along with the leaders of egyptian intelligence and mossadcial familiar with the discussions today, who's described the negotiations as entering a final and decisive phase — this would be around the three phase process we've been talking about before, in which you would see about before, in which you would see a release of some hostages in return for palestinian prisoners, and a temporary cease—fire in the first phase while they work out what comes after that. phase while they work out what comes afterthat. i phase while they work out what comes after that. i think what's changed here are a couple of things — first, significant softening by hamas of their demands — i think that's because they've been so badly militarily degraded, but also lost alliances in the region over recent weeks and months. they've seen those eroded too. of the other things about what the americans are doing here, because they are able to apply more leverage now, to be able to say, "there'll be a change of administration on 21 january, donald trump coming on." the biden