New details from the Sydney siege

NEW INFORMATION ABOUT THE SYDNEY SIEGE FROM HOSTAGES AIRED ON NINE, SEVEN TV SPECIALS.

* Cafe workers Jarrod Morton-Hoffman, 19, and Joel Herat, 21 were armed with scissors and a Stanley knife, and at one point considered attacking gunman Man Haron Monis.

* After the first group of hostages escaped, Monis "made a deal" with those remaining that for every subsequent escape, someone would be killed.

* Monis fired at a group of fleeing hostages in the early hours of December 16.

* Hostages gave conflicting reports about whether siege victim Tori Johnson was made to kneel before being executed.

* Hostage Fiona Ma bravely provided her mobile phone to other hostages so they could call their families.

* Some hostages felt like they were abandoned by authorities during the ordeal and complained to police via telephone