along with his business partner, khodorovsky he was -- khodorovsky was convicted in 2005. both sentences were widely condemned by the west, seen as being politically motivated. khodorovsky had been due for release in august of next year, amid rumors of a third trial related to money laundering. for that case, though, the door now looks to be shut. >> i spoke to our correspondent in moscow, joshua. i asked him what was behind putin's surprise decision. >> the surprise for all of us forthat putin was holding for almost four hours as part of his press conference with journalist. he did not speak at all about the issue of the pardon. he talked about khodorovsky briefly, but did not mention his early release. it was only after that four hour with journalists in a kind of informal session with a few correspondent on the floor of the hall when food and had finished, -- when vladimir putin had finished, that is where he suggested, again come out of the blue, that khodorovsky had submitted a letter for pardon, and that he was planning on signing it. a shocking turn of events. it ha

we are going to cover khodorovsky first two days of freedom and berlin. russia's most famous prisoner. now the most famous exile. >> thank you. both in berlin. apple fighting to get a market share in china with a new deal. they will be able to sell the iphone through china mobile starting next year. they have almost 800 million users, twice the population of the united states. let's get to beijing. >> good morning. they were talking about 2.5 years of negotiations to get that political prisoner out of russia. apple has been negotiating with china mobile for about six years to get into this market. it seems like all those years of hard work have played out and does come to fruition. a multi-year deal but we do not have the financial terms. it is quite significant for both parties. it'll give apple access to china's bigs wireless network in the biggest market in the world. subscribers inn addition to those already using iphones over the rival networks, china telecom and china unicom. they have offered it since november of 2009. telecom has offered to send a

russia's supreme court has agreed to review two sets of convictions against berlin critic and oil tycoon khodorovsky. his supporters have said his trials for fraud and tax evasion were politically motivated. it is the latest good news for the former richest man in russia after a release from prison last week. >> this is the news. it seems like nobody wanted to t-mobile. a u.s. subsidiary is the fourth largest wireless provider. two companies have their eyes on the telecom. >> dish network has already is sad is considering making a bid but they could end up in a war with sprint. >> outgoing boss has reason to smile. he may be about to finally offload t-mobile usa. selling could garner $14 billion euros. the sale is not a done deal to spread to stop in view of the cell phone market, it doesn't make business sense. alone, sprint and t-mobile are being outpaced by their competitors. verizon and at&t dominate the u.s. cell phone market and each have over 100 million customers to -- customers. there is no guarantee any merger would pass a competition probe with flying colors. u.s. regulators might stifle

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