Presenter Tara Brown and her 60 Minutes crew have arrived back in Australia after a US$500,000 deal was reached with the father in the botched child abduction case.

The reporter was pictured smiling as she made her way through Sydney Airport on Thursday with producer Stephen Rice, sound recordist David Ballment and cameraman Ben Williamson.

When asked how it felt to be back on home soil, she said 'very good' before being whisked to a black van with the rest of the crew so they could be taken back to their families and friends.

The team walked free from a Lebanese prison on Wednesday along with Brisbane mother Sally Faulkner after her estranged husband, Ali Elamine, agreed to drop the charges.

They had spent two weeks behind bars over the plot to snatch Ms Faulkner's two children from her ex-husband's family on a street in Beirut.

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60 Minutes reporter Tara Brown and producer Stephen Rice are pictured here landing in Sydney on Thursday

Presenter Tara Brown and her 60 Minutes crew have arrived back in Australia after a US$500,000 deal was reached with the father in the botched child abduction case

The reporter was pictured smiling as she made her way through Sydney Airport on Thursday with producer Stephen Rice

Wearing a black top, Brown looked happy and relaxed as she made her way through Sydney Airport

The TV crew had spent two weeks behind bars over the plot to snatch Ms Faulkner's two children from her ex-husband's family on a street in Beirut

They walked free from a Lebanese prison on Wednesday along with Brisbane mother Sally Faulkner after her estranged husband, Ali Elamine, agreed to drop the charges

Brown and her 60 Minutes crew at a Lebanon airport after their release waiting for their flight home

The 60 Minutes crew sparked outrage on social media after posting a picture of them celebrating their release with drinks in an airport lounge before flying back business class to Australia via Dubai.

They went straight to Beirut airport after an investigative judge dropped charges against them over their botched child recovery mission.

But they were warned that they might be ordered back to Lebanon if prosecutors decide to proceed with criminal charges.

Ms Faulkner has remained behind in Lebanon so she could spend time with her children before flying home to Brisbane.

Channel Nine reportedly paid Mr Elamine US$500,000 in the official settlement after he rejected an earlier offer of $350,000, according to News Corp.

Mr Elamine has previously denied claims that he wants compensation, telling reporters that 'money is not an issue'.

An undisclosed amount was also paid directly to Mr Elamine's family to encourage him to drop charges against the 60 Minutes crew, sources have claimed.

He is still pressing ahead with charges against Adam Whittington and Craig Michael from Child Abduction Recovery International (CARI), who allegedly helped plan and carry out the abduction.

They were not freed as part of the deal and remain behind bars.

60 Minutes presenter Tara Brown and Brisbane mother Sally Faulkner (front) were pictured walking free from jail in Beirut on Wednesday

The 60 Minutes crew including Ms Brown were pictured inside the car with Brisbane mother Ms Faulkner

The veteran reporter was pictured walking free from jail two weeks after the botched abduction attempt

Ms Brown (left) flashed a quick smile as she was released from Baabda Central Women's Prison on Wednesday

Mr Whittington's lawyer Joe Karam has released a bank statement which allegedly shows that Nine directly paid at least $69,000 to CARI for the failed kidnapping.

He said that this was just the first instalment and that Nine paid a total of $115,000 for the failed operation.

Brown looked exhausted, but relieved when she left Baabda Women's Prison on Wednesday with Ms Faulkner.

They were pictured smiling and hugging after being reunited with the three-man 60 Minutes crew in a waiting car.

After leaving prison, Brown told 9News she was glad to be going home.

'I had a chance to say 'hi' to [husband] John. I was ordered to call home straight away. But [I have] not [talked to] the kids yet,' the 60 Minutes presenter said.

'I can't wait to speak to them obviously though they have no idea about any of this. It's great to talk to home. It's great to be going home.'

Faulkner in the mini van as she leaves the Beirut jail after her release with the 60 Minutes crew

Ms Faulkner's ex-husband Ali Elamine, 32, agreed to drop the charges against the Australians in a court hearing after reaching a deal in which he was awarded full custody

They have been behind bars for the past two weeks after being involved in a plot to kidnap Ms Faulkner's two children from her estranged Lebanese husband's family on a street in Beirut

The freed 60 Minutes team were seen hugging Ms Brown and Ms Faulkner when they climbed into the car

Australian sound recordist David Ballment and cameraman Ben Williamson after their release from jail

A detail of the legal sentence for the case involving the 60 Minutes crew and Faulkner

Mr Elamine speaks to journalists outside Beirut court after the Australians' release

The breakthrough came after Brisbane mother Sally Faulkner (pictured) and her estranged husband Ali Elamine reached an agreement which gave him full custody in return for her release

Tara Brown (pictured) has been detained on kidnapping charges with a 60 Minutes crew that filmed the 'child abduction' of Sally Faulkner's two children in Lebanon on April 7

The TV crew were released on bail after charges were dropped over the botched child abduction attempt in Beirut - but they were warned they could be ordered back to the country

Wearing a blue and white striped top, Ms Brown looked calm as she was photographed leaving prison to join her three freed colleagues in a waiting car

Ms Brown could be seen laughing and smiling in the car before the group made their way to the airport

The TV crew are expected to fly home on Wednesday night (Beirut time) and arrive in Australia on Thursday

A member of the 60 minutes television crew was seen embracing Ms Faulkner in the car

Ms Faulkner also issued an emotional message to her children after being released from jail.

'I love them and mummy is sorry that it all worked out this way. I tried. I hope I can see them again one day in Australia, I really do,' Ms Faulkner told Nine News.

Sound recordist David Ballment said the group were all 'hoping for the best but prepared for the worst' before their sudden release.

Cameraman Ben Williamson simply said he couldn't wait to 'hug my wife and my kids and tell them I love them'.

The breakthrough came after Mr Elamine agreed a deal with his ex-wife after she conceded to give him full custody of the two children in exchange for her release.

Ms Faulkner's lawyer previously said she has been fighting to get access to her children for nine months.

The lawyer said that Mr Elamine took the two children on a three-week holiday to Lebanon and did not return them as agreed.

But an attempt to snatch them from a suburban Beirut street by a 'child recovery team', caught on CCTV, was ultimately unsuccessful.

The children were returned to their father and the 60 Minutes team were arrested.

Ms Brown was pictured being shoved into a police car on Monday after a court hearing was postponed

Ms Brown was caught in the middle of a frenzy outside a Beirut court earlier this week, but she said it looked worse than it was

Ms Faulkner's estranged husband, Ali Elamine, pictured leaving court on Monday, previously told reporters that he would press charges against everyone 'involved' in the failed abduction attempt

Speaking outside the court, Mr Elamine said his estranged wife can have access to the children.

'I am glad it's over. She is their mother and I don't want them growing up and thinking 'Daddy had the option of letting Mummy off easily and he didn't,' he said.

'It sucks, the whole thing sucks. No one wins here ... I told Sally she can come and go as she wants. She is the mother. The only thing we can do is cooperate to give them a better future.

'They don't know what has been happening these last two weeks ... I couldn't tell them anything.'

Mr Elamine also expressed some sympathy for the crew as many of them have children of their own.

'The judge was saying the crew weren't part of the kidnapping on the ground, it still isn't confirmed that they funded it ... And they have families too, they have children,' he said.

'Being a parent away from your children sucks, and that is another reason I want Sally to be out (of jail) because she has a three-month-old baby in Australia she needs to care for ... I don't want to come between them.'

Ms Brown looked as though she was being manhandled when she was led out of Baabda Palace of Justice on Monday

Tara Brown (right) and Sally Faulkner were pictured being led away in handcuffs from the Beirut court after the hearing was postponed on Monday

Sally Faulkner (pictured) travelled to Lebanon to retrieve her children, Noah, three, and Lahela, six

Ali Elamine, said he would not drop the charges against Sally Faulkner because that would mean everyone else would 'get off'

Police push Tara Brown's head down as she is put into a car outside Baabda Court in Beirut

Channel Nine has announced a review into the botched operation to be led by former 60 Minutes boss Gerald Stone.

Nine CEO Hugh Marks sent an email to staff on Thursday outlining the plan.

'Nine will conduct a full review that will be headed by Gerald Stone, with David Hurley and General Counsel Rachel Launders, to ascertain what went wrong and why our systems, designed to protect staff, failed to do so in this case,' said Mr Marks.

'We will task the review with recommending the necessary actions to ensure that none of our colleagues are put in a similar position in the future.'

'It is important to reiterate that at no stage did anyone from Nine or 60 Minutes intend to act in any way that made them susceptible to charges that they breached the law or to become part of the story that is Sally's story.

'But we did become part of the story and we shouldn't have.'

A policeman holds the back of Tara Brown's hair as he puts her into the car on Monday

Tara Brown was pictured being escorted by police officers from the court in Beirut

Mr Elamine admitted his children 'probably' wanted to be with their mother but hardened his stance against 60 Minutes

Adam Whittington, (pictured) the chief planner of the 60 Minutes botched 'child abduction' in Lebanon, said on Sunday that he can prove Channel Nine paid him more than $115,000 for the snatch

Ms Faulkner's claims her children Noah and Lahela were taken to Lebanon by her estranged husband Ali Elamine (pictured with Noah and Lahela) in 2015 and he refused to bring them back

Sally Faulkner's lawyer has reportedly said she was paid for by the Nine Network and had used money given to her by 60 Minutes to the child recovery agency, Child Abduction Recovery International