it will probably be solved very sppm. we will find out more about what this is-- very soon. we will find out more in time to come >>> hard to find out about these people, but if you release men, women and children, i guess what he is saying he is not an evil person who wants to blow up a plane and take this in a worse direction than it is going, but i do have a line in the sand and i do want to talk to people because i do have demands that i want to be met. >> reporter: it seems more of a call to be taken seriously. if he is requesting political asylum, it would probably help him more to try and be as diplomatic as possible, to see how much he can get. these negotiations have now been going on for a while. we, obviously, don't have immediate access to the information and authorities in cyprus are being cautious about the information that they are releasing so far, but certainly negotiations are underway and that so many of the passengers have been released and leads us to think that at least some positive steps have been achieved >>> thanks very much. we bring in an aviation