independent journalist assad begg i recently interviewed from the ground in rangoon mainland sharm sorry in rangoon burma recently wrote about the woman who are be being taken hostage by the burmese government knowing evidence suggesting the military is keeping these women as sex slaves so important that more visibility is given to this crisis before. countless other innocent people die. and finally i want to talk about guantanamo bay prison currently ninety three of the prisoners were just more than half of the inmates at the prison camp have now joined a hunger strike that is reaching the end of its third month the source of the frustration among need pennies is a realization that congress and the obama administration have fully turned their backs on the idea that get motion be closed the detainees at the camp half of whom have a declared innocent and cleared for release are losing hope that they will ever be set free and they're literally killing themselves right now so please help. to add insult to injury us corporate media has also completely taken the same position as obama choosin

wind airlines airbus a three twenty that was returning to russia from the egyptian resort city of sharm el sheikh at the time our reporter who has been watching developments to see this story's been coming in over the last couple of hours tell us a bit more about what we know about what happened to the plane hi there well of course a lot of conflicting information but here's what we know so far about the situation as you mentioned it was a norway and airbus a three twenty we know that it had landed safely in its destined destination which is the city of cazan in one of the russian republics that was leaving the resort city in egypt as you have mentioned. and what we know from officials so far here in russia is that the jet faced some sort of danger but it's quite unclear at the moment exactly what that was as you had mentioned there have been some conflicting reports about potential missiles but that is not something that we've been able to confirm whatsoever at the moment all we can say is there was some sort of an incident and according to russian officials the pilots themselves had r

i got to travel to zurich and stay at a chalet and spent three weeks in sharm el-sheikh in cairo and alexandria. in a $3 million mansion in el alamein on the mediterranean. and her father wanted me to stay there. >> reporter: osama khalifa was very successful. chairman of bechtel egypt. he sat on several egyptian government boards of the then dictator hosni mubarak. and he still runs his financial and banking consulting firm near the family apartment building he owns. but one thing osama khalifa did not have was a grandson to take over his empire. >> he wanted grandsons. >> oh, yeah. he had four daughters and six granddaughters and no male children. >> reporter: but that changed soon after nermeen and michael were married. >> come. >> reporter: adam shannon was born on february 2nd, 1997. the first male grandchild of the khalifas. nermeen's mother came over for the birth pf pictures show a beaming mother, father, and grandmother. there was even time for a family visit to cairo. michael shannon says his father-in-law was so overjoyed to have a grandson. he offered michael a job and a

i got to travel to zurich and stay at a chalet and spent three weeks in sharm el-sheikh in cairo and alexandria. in a $3 million mansion in helalamaine on the mediterranean. and her father wanted me to stay there. >> reporter: osama khalifa was very successful. chairman of bechtel egypt. he sat on several egyptian government boards of the then dictator hosni mubarak. and he still runs his financial and banking consulting firm near the family artment building he owns. but one thing osama khalifa did not have was a grandson to take over his empire. >> he wanted grandsons. >> oh, yeah. he had four daughters and six granddaughters and no male children. ♪ >> reporter: but that changed soon after nermeen and michael were married. >> come. >> reporter: adam shannon was born on february 2nd, 1997. the first male grandchild of the khalifas. nermeen's mother came over for the birth pf pictures show a beaming mother, father, and grandmother. there was even time for a family visit to cairo. michael shannon says his father-in-law was so overjoyed to have a grandson. he offered michael a job and a

telling us the north wind and lines airbus a three twenty was on route from the egyptian resort city of sharm el sheikh back to russia the plane has since returned safely to russia no injuries have been reported so far now earlier it was suggested the pilots had maneuvered the plane somehow with two hundred people on board so that two missiles fired from the ground exploded midair frightening scenario will. a live report coming up on this developing story in the next hour here on r t mean time now would spend responsibility for the incident but previously the syrian rebels had repeatedly threatened russians over what they claim is most support for president assad the opposition's also widely believed to possess anti-aircraft weapons this recent video here for example proportions show members of the free syrian army mally a gun and decided to target what they believe is a commercial airliner then fired shots in the direction of the plates not known if the plane was actually hit it's simple and something certainly we've not heard about today in damascus itself serious problem ministers survived