so now, what is your worry about egypt? because egypt has been that stabilizing force. and if now egypt is being taken over a territory, being taken over by this terrorist group, or being targeted in a very large way, how influential is that now? what kind of tone is that setting for the entire middle east? >> well, remember, hosni mubarak, the previous leader of egypt that we worked closely, was one of the strongest counterterrorism fighters we had. he kept track of islamic extremists, put many of them in jail. he was always focusing his security services on that risk. when egypt had its democratic change, had the tahrir square demonstrations, the focus of egypt's leaders changed. and they didn't have the wherewithal and the extreme focus on fighting terrorist organizations. that's how this organization in the sinai grew, because nobody was minding the store. if that's changed now -- >> -- be made of saddam hussein and moammar gadhafi, that they, too, were able to keep counterterrorism groups at bay or at least strangulate them to a certain degree. they're no longer th

he's a threat to egypt and the international community. because his policies of repress have encouraged extremism and violence, and i expect that we are going to see more insecurity and more instability in egypt. under his rule. what he is doing is painting repress. over the last 2.5 years we have 40,000 political prisoners, thousands killed, peaceful protesters whose have been shot. we have seen disappearances, torture in prisons. these are the words of himman rights organizations. this does not bring stability, he's a liability. ultimately the policies of repress create instability, that is the message we are sending to mr cameron. there are abdul fatah al-sisi supporters, as there are in egypt. those that opposed him oppose him on the grounds that egyptians are are theed for rights and -- are ready for rights and freedoms and will not accept torture. we have torture and rape in the prisons, those that say no to abdul fatah al-sisi, and stand with us in british society, from across the political spectrum are saying the egyptian people ar

let me just quickly go to egypt. this is egypt now. the military is trying to some sort of constitutional cover for its soft coup. in egypt they're is no pretense. we had the arab spring and there was so much hope for liberty and democracy and all of that. things have become grim. and that is because the military is absolutely intent on taking away any notion of liberty in egypt because from their perspective they are securing people. and so this is just one example, 529 muslim brotherhood people sentenced for killing one officer. now, i said earlier and don't have enough time to untagged but the moment you say muslim brotherhood for many that is guilty as charged. they must be involved in terrorist activities. activities. that is absolutely not the case in egypt at least because the majority of them among the vast majority had been moderate, but the moderation may not stay for long because in a situation like this within six to seven months you had thousands of people killed at protests and hundreds and thousands of people arrested so

all flights to egypt because of last week's plane crash. i'm lauren taylor this is al jazeera live from london. israeli police shoot a woman at the a gas station and say she was trying to kill soldiers. her family says she was filling up her car. >>> two dams burst in brazil filling a village with mine waste. and peter gresesser returns to the city he was based in before he was jailed. >>> russia's president has ordered the suspension of all flights to egypt. the suspension mount there is was a bomb in the hold. there is already chaos and koon confuse at the airport as the uk try to bring stranded citizens back home. egypt stopped another eight planes flying to pick up more. they say flights were limited by the airport's capacity. >> reporter: there is a major exodus away, theyinglying be joined by 40,000 rugz tourists. the uk said they were suspending flights that coinicided awkwardly by the egyption president and endorsed by the kremlin's intelligence chief. they have described the uk flight suspension as premature but what changed the kr

what he called for was for flights to egypt to be suspended. he considered it expedient to suspend flights until the true cause of the sinai air crash can be established. he said that there was the utmost importance in being completely objective and looking at all the data. now remember that this is something that the u.k. has already done, and following this decision of the united kingdom to suspend flights to the sinai, the russian response to that was incredibly critical. there was a senator on thursday in russia who said that this was a political decision. it wasn't a decision that had any security bases, well, it's a discussion that the russians now seem to be on the very many of making themselves. i should stress that this has not been actually put into place yet. it is at the moment still just a recommendation, but a recommendation from a very important man. >> we are just hearing from a kremlin spokesman that president putin ordered the government to draft a mechanism to get russians home from egypt. clearly they're very concerned about

to all airports in egypt. and given that, there are many, many tourists who are stranded in egypt, in sharm el sheikh, for instance, where we can go now live to our own ian lee who is standing by there. ian, talk to us about the situation as this memorial service continues here in st. petersburg, there are many people who would like to get back home, to get back to russia. but there aren't many flights right now. >> reporter: that's right, george. we've been watching this airport behind me cholosely throughout e day. there have been a few airplanes come in and take off. really, what they're trying to do right now is evacuate the people who are wanting to leave. there are tens of thousands of foreigners stranded here in sharm el sheikh egypt. a lot of them, many british, many russian and the governments have been trying to find some sort of security arrangement where they can be brought home safely. there are two planes coming in today from the uk. from monarch airlines. they'll be ferrying passengers back. it

anchor: pressure announces it is suspending all flights to egypt. frustrations arising as they were trying to make their way home. i am still american, nothing less and nothing more ♪ takes oneorge takei broadway east on his experience in the second world war. welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around globe. russia has suspended all flights to egypt on security grounds .fter one of its planes crashed the decision follows the british move earlier in the week to suspend flights to the egyptian resort. there is confusion as tourists trying to get home without enough aircraft to take them. we will have the latest on the investigation and restrictions put in place by the u.s. the first, this report. ticking under the hood at the entrance to the airport. locals tell us it is not always like this. michaela came to celebrate her birthday in egypt with her mom, mia. inside long queues for security check. >> i would say it is different. last time -- i do not think the security was very good. it was a must like going on a bus. >> pass

because egypt is responsible the plane went down in egypt, they say and that egypt would have to give the russian government the authority to speak and reveal analysis that they are getting on the ground at the moment. russia is giving it self-wiggle room and a caveat to say hey, we can't talk about it. egypt has to talk about it first. the silence and refusal so far to knock it down, knock this whole thing down, i think it is very telling, anderson. >> it was interesting, the fact that it was, you know, the british prime minister talked about this publicly and this didn't come publicly from egypt, even though there are allegedly the ones leading this investigation into the crash. >> sure, i mean, the fact that david cameron's office said this while president el-sisi is in london, this would normally be a huge political embarrassment. you get the impression that the russians are saying hey, every to you equipment and get and egypt isn't getting ahead and putting out what others are now beginning to see. i think our understanding here from the people we talked to in russia is that if t

let me just quickly go to egypt. this is egypt now. the military is trying to some sort of constitutional cover for its soft coup. in egypt they're is no pretense. we had the arab spring and there was so much hope for liberty and democracy and all of that. things have become grim. and that is because the military is absolutely intent on taking away any notion of liberty in egypt because from their perspective they are securing people. and so this is just one example, 529 muslim brotherhood people sentenced for killing one officer. now, i said earlier and don't have enough time to untagged but the moment you say muslim brotherhood for many that is guilty as charged. they must be involved in terrorist activities. activities. that is absolutely not the case in egypt at least because the majority of them among the vast majority had been moderate, but the moderaon may not stay for long because in a situation like this within six to seven months you had thousands of people killed at protests and hundreds and thousands of people arrested so t

let's go to the center of this investigation in egypt. cnn's erin mclaughlin joins me live from sharm el sheikh where this doomed flight took off. what's the status of the investigation there? what are the egyptian officials saying? >> reporter: at the moment egyptian authorities are not commenting on the u.s. intelligence assessment. today we did speak with the egyptian foreign minister who says it's too soon, too premature to draw any conclusions. he pointed to this ongoing investigation, egypt's civil aviation authority says they're in the process of analyzing the black boxes. in terms of the flight data recorder they've managed to download all the information from that. they're combing through that. no conclusions on that so far. in terms of the docockpit voice recorder, they say that has been damaged. that analysis could take longer. worth noting, jake, from the outset egyptian authorities have been downplaying the possibility of terrorism. >> erin, does airport security there appear to be lax or at least not as intense as it is in e

that crash has dealt a severe below to egypt's tourism industry. paul brennan explains. >> this month should have been the start of egypt's peak tourism season. instead, the loss of more than 220 lives in a suspected airline bombing is shaping up to be a financial disaster, as well as a human tragedy. russian and british tourists are the backbone of the egyptian market. both countries have imposed travel bans and several other countries have followed suit. >> immediately, the russian market, which is about 3 million people a year, i think will be very, very hard hit and of course, an awful lot of holiday makers from britain, germany and italy are going to be very worried about the message that they send out. >> tourism makes you the nearly 15% of egypt's economy. around 12% of egyptians work in the tourism sector. recent years have been tough opinion in 2010, egypt saw 14.7 million tourists, but in 2014, that had fallen to $9.9 million. tourism revenues peaked at $12 billion in 2008. 2015 is unlikely to he can exceed $7 billion. russian tourists bo

at all airports in egypt. and that's more to reassure people as opposed to being based on conclusions from the investigation. >> erin mclaughlin, thanks very much. we'll check back with you. in the meantime let's get more now. joining us former ntsb managing director, our cnn aviation analyst peter goelz, paul cruickshank, our aviation correspondent richard quest and former head of security for israel's el al airlines. paul, isis is taking responsibility, credit in their word, for this. they're doing so publicly. they won't say how they did it. why would they be coy? >> well, i think the reason they may be being coy if it is indeed them is that they've perhaps recruited an insider at sharm el sheikh airport to help them infiltrate this device on to the aircraft. and they didn't want to expose this mole or somebody they paid off at the airport. they were very, very coy indeed in their statement. an audiotape released today saying we're not going to tell you how we did this, it will be up to you to find out. eve

egypt's government says freedom of expression is guaranteed under the law but egypt has more journalists in its presence than ever before. hopes of finding any survivors from thursday's massive mudslide in brazil are quickly fading and rescue crews searching for more than 28 people after two dams burst and hundreds of homes destroyed when a huge wall of mud hit the village of bento rodriguez. germany says up to 113,000 passengers had flights cancelled on monday because of strike action and carrier grounded 930 flight z as a week long walk out entered its third day and popular brand of noodles is back on sale in india after a five-month band and noodles ordered after the shelves after food experts reported dangerous levels of lead in samples and they proved the instant noodles are not a health hazard and we have more on the story. >> maggie noodles was a well selling product and could find it in small stores like this one through the country, in the southern tropical parts to up north and hill stations by the himalayas and it was cheap, about 20 cents a serving but in june the product was

and the evacuations. >> well, yes, russia, an ally of egypt, and continuing to be an ally of egypt there is no love loss in safety of russian tourists there in egypt, russia has said that it wants all of the nearly 80,000 russians to depart. although there is confusion was to how quickly that repatriation will takealatio take place. then we hear from the association of russian tour operators who are told that 93 aircraft would be on route within two days. we've had problems from the british point of view because they've been able to get the aircraft on friday. to repatriate britains. how 93 aircraft are going to arrive in two days, that's an open question. certainly there is going to be a big exodus of tourists. it's going to hit the egyptian economy hard, but the arrangements of how these aircraft are going to get in and out, they're still going to be worked out. >> live from london. news is emerging about a separate independence involving a plane. a british passenger plane came in to land that came within 300 meters back in august. it involved the plane carrying 189 passengers from lon

that wouldn't be hard to do in egypt, because if you look at the isis affiliate in egypt, these aren't people that came from syria or iraq to become isis. these are egyptians. members of the muslim brotherhood that came of the sinai in 2013. other groups, there's an al qaeda affiliate that has now defected to isis. these people are egyptians. they know how to work the system. they live there. and the sinai has just been a real hot bed for islamic fundamentalism. for them to recruit something in sharm el sheikh is not out of the question. >> well, bombs on planes, unfortunately is nothing new. there have been at least a dozen well known attempted bomb attacks if you go back to 1933. randi kaye now looks back at some of the more recent foiled plots. >> reporter: december 22nd, two months after the 9/11 attacks, american airlines flight 63 with 197 passengers and crew suddenly in kroubl. a passenger was attempting to detonate a plastic explosive. he's concealed it inside his shoes. passengers pounced and the flight headed from paris to miami was safely escorted by fighter jets to boston's

there is a sense that egypt is being under siege, egypt is being punished for the russian proximity, the u.s. and west are not happy with what russia is doing in syria. this narrative has been instilled in egyptians not for the last two years, but 50 years. people want to undermine egypt and its greatness. this narrative is going to be challenged more and more by reality, and there's the repressive element. if you are a journalist and you don't want to go to jail and get tortured and disappear for lord knows how long, then you put the statement out that the governmenta wants you to >>> in this past week two egyptian journalists were reminders of that. this one here was arrested and questioned before being released. this lady of the state owned channel was also taken off the air. both had been critical of the cc government on stories unrelated to the plane crash - sisi. however the narrative coming out of cairo that it wasn't a bomb took a major hit from an unexpected source, moscow when the russian government came to the same conclusion that london and washington did, that it was pro

airlines serve egypt right now. so in this announcement today about certain precautions at last point of departure airports, we should note that it's those -- it's those destinations in the middle east and possibly elsewhere that they're focusing their attention. the u.s. transportation security administration does have standing operations in many of those airports already. so you can depend on them having changed or toughened up their procedures and they improvised day-to-day. even if they did have any specific procedures to toughen up right now, we wouldn't know from day to day, and it really would be up to the passengers to notice any kinds of changes, if at all. >> tom ackerman in washington, d.c. thank you. >>> now, the u.s. has rejected a contentious $8 billion oil pipeline project from canada to the gulf coast. president obama said the keystone pipeline would not make a meaningful long-term contribution to the u.s. economy. it would have carried 830,000 barrels of oil a day from alberta to texas. the move is

there is a sense that egypt is being under siege, egypt is being pushed for the russian proximity, the u.s. in the west are not happy with russia is doing in syria. >> this narrative has been instilled in egyptians not just for the last two years since the military coup, but for the last 50 years, that people want to undermine egypt and its greatness. as events like this piles up this narrative is going to be challenged more and more by reality and there's the repressive element. if you're a journalism and you don't want to go to jail and get tortured and disappear for gold knows how long, you put out the statement the government wants you to >>> two egyptian journalists were reminded of that. one was arrested and questioned before being released and this lady of the state owned channel was taken off the air. both had been critical of the sisi government on stories unrelated to the plane crash. however, the narrative coming out of cairo that it wasn'ta a bomb took a major hit from an unexpected source, moscow, when the russian government came to the same conclusion that russia and lond

egypt as president abdel fattah sisi. but nobody in egypt has ever been held accountable for this. the 2013 massacre of hundreds of unarmed protesters as they gathered in the capital cairo. and since then, according to international human rights groups, 10s of thousands of opponents of sisi have been impressed. hundreds sentenced to death. she and her three siblings were amongst those detained. she spent several months in jail before being released however her brother who was only 17 years at the time remains behind parts. >> i can't understand it. more than 40,000 remain behind bars, i am able to talk about my brother today, but other people are not. >> reporter: she is amongst hundreds of protesters who gathered outside downing street on the eve. sisi's visit to london. she says prime minister david cameron should never have invited the former general. >> knowing that the u.k. caring for human rights yet the man who arrested my brother and put him in jail for two years, over two years and a half, he is invited to the u.k. >> reporter: london isn't sisi's first state visit to euro

i'll speak with egypt's foreign minister who says the u.s. and britain are not sharing their intelligence. >>> and u.s. troops in sinai, did the growing isis presence in this important region a threat to u.s. peace keepers, are hundreds of american troops at risk right now? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> horrifying new images of smoking wreckage surface, president obama's now weighing in saying there is a possibility a bomb brought down the russian airliner over egypt's sinai peninsula. the u.s. is taking that very seriously. the british prime minister david cameron says it's, quote, more likely than not a bomb is to blame. that echoes u.s. officials who say intelligence suggests isis or its affiliates planted a device. they say the specific nature of chatter monitored after the crash drew their scrutiny and that other clues point to the possibility that an airport insider helped get a bomb on that plane. thousands of foreign tourists they're stranded right now in the egyptian resort town

egypt accused britain of prejudging the results of an ongoing investigation. a technical fault hasn't been completely ruled out. >> an aviation industry consultant said it's too soon to tell what caused the crash. >> looking from the pieces of the wreckage, the photographs released by the media, it does look like it's either a bomb or a structural failure of some sort, but to conclude it as one way or the other at the moment seems premature. i think the foreign minister just decided to take precautions in public interest, rightly or wrongly, but yes, it can be misunderstood as in they conclude that it's likely to be a bomb. we look at the photographs, there are signs that it could be, but then to confirm it would be to look at the investigators find out whether there were traces of explosives that was involved. >> the syrian government says it's taken control of a strategic road into the divided city of aleppo, but lost ground on another key supply line in the north. we have more on the battle for vital territory. >> this is one battle in a war focusing on syr

he is in cairo, egypt. first, ben, it seems those stranded tourists will get to fly out of sharm el sheikh. what can you tell us? >> yes, natalie, we're expecting the first flights from the uk to arrive in sharm el sheikh noon local time. that's about two hours from now. we understand there may be as many as 25 flights to take out around 4,000 tourists who are currently there. of course, they will not be able to take check-in luggage, only hand luggage on those flights. their check-in luggage will be taken back to the uk, perhaps by the royal air force some time within the next week. now this is happening after british airport security investigators went to sharm el sheikh, looked at the security procedures there, made recommendations which egyptian officials say they did carry out. now we're also learning this morning that klm, the dutch national carrier has declared that flights leaving cairo for amsterdam will also not be allowed to -- they will not alu passengers to bring check-in luggage as well. only

is egypt secure." the message from egyptian officials is yes, please do not forget egypt, but they will have a tough sell. least: in other news, at 36 people, including women and children, have been confirmed dead after cargo plane crashed in the south sudanese capital of juba. alive fromre pulled the wreckage. the aircraft was not error-worthy. it did not undergo proper servicing and -- was not air -worthy. propernot go under servicing and maintenance. 100 refugees arrived in cyprus last month. they have been told that their asylum claims must be processed by cyprus, not the united kingdom. ed thomas is on the base with this report. is happening inside this british military base, the camps erected in protest. the bbceo was sent to from the people being held here, mostly from syria and lebanon. all are desperate to leave. >> we don't need to stay here. they have been given a choice by the british government, claim asylum in cyprus or go home. many want to move to countries like germany. for now, they a

and other countries should suspend aid to egypt. talks in egypt especially after the massacres, our position was there should be investigations, there should be an independent fact-finding and accountability and until that takes place mentally government also accepts responsibility for these killings, there should be a suspension of the provision of any arms or tools of repression for many country in the world, not just talking about the u.s. military assistance. ofany resumption of the sale weapons or tools of repression to the egyptian government must be conditioned on accepting the retraining and provision of new tools, but the business should not continue just as usual when it comes to egypt. amy: that was hossam bahgat democracy now! on democracy now! two years ago. sharif, as we wrap up, where you left off. what message this sends to you and to other journalist, to egyptian society, yes, hossam bahgat has been released, but he was also held and that is a strong message. >> he was held and has been intimidated. we don't know ye

and egypt's foreign minister is saying, the international community did not heed egypt's call to seriously deal with terrorism. we're also learning that this is not the first time a passenger jet has been threatened in those skies. just last august, a thompson airlines plane narrowly avoided a missile when heading into sharm el sheikh. the day the department of homeland security in this country says it'll tighten security for u.s.-bound flights from cairo, iowa man, and kuwait. let's get to our coverage now, nick robertson in st. petersburg, russia. ben we'dman is at the conference in egypt. and ben, you, there appeared to be frustration expressed a that the news conference. explain what happened at that moment. >> reporter: well, that was a question asked by an egyptian journalist there who was asking why there were not other members of the investigating team at that press conference. there was just one person, who's the head of the investigation, and he suggested that there was some sort of disagreement within the committee and quickly jumped to the conclusion that there was some sort of

eight crafts in total. >> egypt said it couldn't cope with more than that. >> egypt will cooperate with the u.k. authority to bring back those tourists. we want to make sure they come back safety and the planes are dealt with in a great way. >> the search is continuing. scattered on the ground. lives cut short, books, a jewellery chain, what has not been found is definitive blame, and the range of options is narrowing >>> rory is following developments for us from the russian capital moscow. >> the question of what changed the minds is one that doesn't actually have a definitive answer, but clearly their minds have been changed because it was, as recently as thursday, russian politicians were publicly saying that the british decision to suspend the flights to sinai was politically motivated and premature. now the russians topped the british by suspending flights for sinai and the whole of egypt. we know the russian investigators had access to the black boxes, and also samples from the crash site are currently being analysed in moscow, looking for traces of explosives, whether it influen

on the ground in egypt at the moment u.k. i've chris experts were flown in on british military aircrafts and they are there to put in short-term measures. [ audio difficulties ] popper will he screened and security protocols are in place. they have also changed the travel advice in and out of sharm el-sheikh airport advising british nationals to avoid all but sensual travel. they say the security rating for the vacation spot that the 20,000 british nationals there at the moment are safe in their hotels and their resort. it's obviously a big decision to sus spent flights in and out. at the moment we don't know when they will resume. the minister was saying possibly friday. but some airlines have canceled all of their plates until november the 12th. now, at the same time, we are still waiting for the evidence from the flight black box recorders. we know the voice cockpit recorder was very badly damaged. the other one is being analyzed. and as soon as more details come out, of what was on those black boxes we'll bring that to yo

egypt said they couldn't cope with anymore than that. >> egypt will cooperate to bring back tourists. we want to make sure they come back safely and that the planes are dealt with in a professional way. >> the search of the sinai desert is continuing. scattered on the ground, the debris of lives cut couragely short. children's books, a jewelry chain. that hasn't been found is a definitive blame for the crash but the range of options is narrowing. >> let's go live to rory challands in moscow. has any further information emerged about how the rugs made the decision to suspend the flights from egypt? >> that's a question that still has no firm answer, bub clearly something has changed the minds of russia's leaders. we don't know what that is, but it was only object thursday that we were till hearing from russian politicians that the u.k.'s decision to suspend flights to sinai was politically motivated and premature. now russia that suspended flights to the whole of egypt. what made them do that? russian investigators have been looking at the black boxes and there have been numerous analy

and egypt, but much of that press conference dominated by the crash of that russian airliner in egypt sinai desert and britain's decision to suspend all flights to and from egypt siting security concerns. britain and the prime minister reiterated this at this press conference, believes that a bomb may have caused that russian airliner to crash. something which the egyptians want to make sure has happened and much more cautious than the british. let's bring in jamal outside on downing street for us. the crash of the russian airliner dominating the discussions. there was a bit of tension going into this meeting between al-sisi and david cameron, over this crash. did that tension dissipate? it is all over now? >> well, at least they have fried to show some sort of a united face and make out like it has gone away. but sisi is an embattled president. he had promised that through the military coup and his rise to power that the economy would be better, that egypt would be better off, and therefore, he is very much in need of any form of foreign currency that comes into the country. the susp

egypt will be rate ph rated. --e patriated. he announced the suspension after the head of the security service said there should be no flights until the cause of the crash is confirmed. >> let's get you the angle from russia. covering is unfolding story for moscow. good to see you. britain saying there was probably a bomb planted, the u.s. corroborating that. does russia suspending all flights means it has changed its mind? >> russians are smart enough to consider any option, they say, and to weigh the official investigations. which is strange after president putin made his decision to suspend all flights. following a suggestion from the russian secret service. putin is planning to bring back all tourists and others currently stranded in egypt. russian authorities have not confirmed the bomb. as the cause. -- the bomb theory as the cause. it took long to consider the crash of the airplane, longer for putin to express his condolences. >> what has president putin's reaction been to these intelligence investigations

the effort to bring tourists out of egypt will continue. at sharm el-sheikh airport, the scene has calmed down considerably. thousands of stranded tourists are told to wait in the resort and not come to an airport until a plane becomes available. the foreign minister of hungary has been in cairo saying that eau egypt is not off limits. >> these decisions can have serious consequences. currently what i see is that no-one has provided us with any kind of evidence that would have made me to put the travel ban on egypt. until i'm not provided with any kind of such an evidence, i will not make that kind of decision. you can be sure about that. >> reporter: but there is much we cannot be sure of. questions still to be answered about what happened to this plane, missing wreckage must be found, complex analysis conducted and if it was a bomb, those responsible must be identified. paul brennan >>> more than 40 planes to egypt bring back stranded tourists. moscow suspended all flights into the country earlier this week. tourists can only bring hands

egypts from egypt, russian, france and germany are investigating the crash. representatives where the plane was registered are also involved they finished inspecting the crash site and are now focused on the black box recorders. a sinai armed group affiliated with isil said it shot down the plane. but the egyptian government has denied that and said that the security situation in the region is under full control. emma hayward, al jazeera. >> we can now get the latest from peter sharp, who joins us from the russian capital in moscow. peter, any reaction, any word from russian officials to the suggestion by the british government that the crash in egypt might have withi been caused by an explosion of some sort? >> no, just silence. but we would expect that at this time of night. and i'm sure there will be a robust response in the morning. i think russia and egypt share one thing in common in this, both countries are not in any way suggesting that this aircraft was shot down or blown up for differing reasons. the coverage you're getting on that was very much tha

that crash of that russian airliner over the skies of egypt. stay with us. ♪ >>> egypt's president promises to work with other countries to protect foreign tourists after the sinai plane crash. ♪ >>> i'm lauren taylor this is al jazeera live from london. the u.n. warns 5,000 refugees will try to cross from turkey to greece every day over the winter. >>> and the disappearing coastline of louisiana, hit by rising sea levels and environmental destruction. ♪ >>> hello. egypt's president says he is ready to work with what he described as all of our frebs to ensure the safety of foreign tourists after the sinai plane crash. he has been meeting with the british prime minister in london. hundreds of people have been protesting nearby at president sisi's human rights record. cameron says britain is working with egypt to restore normal flights to sharm el sheikh as soon as possible. >> but role is to keep british citizens safe and secure and put their safety first. and i act on the basis of intelligence that i receive, and advise that i get. of cou

in 2009, egypt air crashed. in 1999, egypt air crashed off of nantucket. the united states declared that it was suicide. the ntsb. the egyptians refused to accept that. so this is a critical moment for the egyptians. >> okay. and michael, lastly, if this does turn out to be an isis attack, let's say, what does that mean? i think a lot of people in the u.s. are wondering, is it something that could possibly happen here in the u.s. was this something from isis central, this was a front team. we know there's isis followers here in the u.s. what's your take? >> well, it's actually quite frightening for the last year and change we've been focused on the caliphate, right? where isis has control of its infantry and operatives from mosul to raqqa. and soil. now the alliance, the provinces where the caliphate has been established seem to be coming on to their own. they set up shop in egypt. they're in yemen. and indeed they've been in sinai. the line of sinai got into a threat of security forces. they were using tank missiles and sophisticated materiel. and we've k

for vacation, and then to get as many people as we can out of egypt. and then the second issue, of course, is how or whether this is related - russia has been doing in syria. >> has russia... >> there the question... >> has russia made itself more vulnerable... >> pardon me? >> has russia made itself more vulnerable to attacks because of its involvement in syria, if so, what does the incident mean for the military actions in syria? >> sure, so i think the answer is clearly yes, they have made themselves more vulnerable. i think vladimir putin knew that when he sent in troops, but - pardon me, started the military action in syria. i don't know that he would have envisioned this necessarily, of course. there are one of two possibilities, one is withdrawing, and the other is intensifying. what will happen is we'll see intensifying of russian actions in syria, rather than a withdrawing once the period of mourning is over. i do think it's significant that, you know, the russians, after initially saying we can't assume this was a bombing, it could be a mecha

will egypt let the u.s. see any evidence? i'll ask egypt's foreign minister. >>> isis threat -- the isis affiliate in sinai is known for high-profile attacks using insiders. they're led by a mysterious cleric, violent jihadist. did he direct an attack on the airliner. >>> white supremacist plot. two virginia men arrested for allegedly blowing up black churches and synagogues, planning acts of violence against jews. we have details. >>> ben carson's self-described violent past, including a knife attack, playing big in the republican campaign. will it actually help him? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> let's get right to the breaking news. egyptian security has investigated every person involved with the metrojet airliner before it took off on its doomed flight over sinai that word from an egyptian source who says investigators are seized all cameras, sensors and related information at sharm el sheikh airport. egypt has not publicly embraced the idea this was a terror

and egypt continues to maintain that it is still too early to know that a bomb caused the crash. aal jazeera's jaimental jazeerae reports from the pentagon. >> moscow droppeddists criticism of britain cancelling its air service to sharm el sheikh and putin followed suit, oox at the same time french television quoting european investigators reported the plane's cockpit voice recorder captured the sound of an explosion that was not consistent with an extent. in his most recent comment on the crash, president obama told a radio interviewer there was a possibility that there was a bomb on board but the white house is still not saying what u.s. intelligence agencies have learned. >> at this point the united states has not made our own determination about the cause of the incident. however we captain rule anything out, including the -- can't rule anything out including the possibility of terrorist involvement . are singular the u.s. is joining other countries in taking steps to beef up aviation security, security that would most being likely follow an attack rather than an accident. je

>> not with egypt involved. in fact, if we look at the past investigations where we had the egyptian aircraft that left the east coast and went down in the atlantic, the fbi worked that along with the egyptians and started leaning towards the copilot flying the aircraft into the ocean, the egyptians started backing off and were not forthcoming. it's unlikely that the egyptians are going to ask for any outside help to come in and take care of this. they don't want it. >> or not just ask for it, allow it. anthony may, thank you for your expertise. nice to have you on. >> you're welcome. >>> shocking new details about the double life of an illinois police officer who staged his own suicide. sex, money, a murder plot, just some of the troubles on and off the job. our rosa flores is on the story. >> the file also explains in detail how a deputy found lieutenant gliniewicz completely passed out in his truck on the side of the road, the engine still running, his foot on the gas full throttle. it would take two deputies

who is visiting from egypt? who is coming from anymore in the middle east and we need to do thorough background checks on these people even if it delays their entry into the country. we need a threat assessment in the airports for domestic flights, but i think really that we need to try to target it and i like the frequent flier program. it's made traveling better in our country and thousands and thousands of businessmen and women are not a threat. get them out of the line so your actual attention being paid to threats you can spend more time. the frequent flier program is a good program and made it easier. >> you're talking about the prescreen or global entry but that's done by the tsa. how would a private contractor, for example, do that kind of screening? >> you can have any of this. we still have some airports that do have private screening. so i guess it's just a question of who does a better job? the reason i tend to distrust government is they are not good at doing a lot. for example, we're talking about

and british intelligence, russia suspends all flights to egypt.

every year, and the suspension of those flights is going to hit egypt hard. not only because it is going to effect its economy, but sisi is already an embattled president. he has failed to deliver on the many promises he has made since taking over power, particularly in terms of trying to improve people's lives in terms of trying to combat violence and extremism as he says it. in fact the opposite has occurred over the past two years. violent attacks interest tripled sin the military coup that he lead. this latest incident has proved another blow to his presidency. >> and so -- i mean the crash was obviously high on the agenda, but what else have they been talking about? >> reporter: well, in terms of the public statements they have spoke -- >> we seem to have lost jamal for the time being. hopefully we'll get him back a little later on. >>> in the meantime the first funerals of saturday's plane crash have been taking place in russia. >> reporter: the first of the 224 victims to be buried. as investigators in the sinai increase the search area, britain has re

be reasonablewill to suspend all russian tourist flights to egypt. until we determine the real causes of what happened. at the same time, we have to cooperate with egyptian authorities and continue the joint investigation into the causes of this plane crash. the kremlin had until now dismissed western suggestions that a bomb in the whole was responsible for the death of 224 people, wendy airbus came down over the sinai last saturday. putin's future and suggest that russia could be changing its mind, despite the huge logistical challenge of repatriating the tens of thousands of russian citizens currently in egypt. the plane debris that is thought to hold the key to what happened is scattered across 16 square kilometers of egyptian desert. an international egypt-led investigation will use this as well as evidence gleaned from human remains to form the basis of their theory. a sinai-based group affiliated with the islamic state organization has claimed responsibility for the crash. russia and egypt from which stand to lose millions of dollars from the t

>> egypt concerned obviously as russia suspending flights into egypt which relies heavily on tourism. tell us more about a close call with another plane traveling to sharm el sheikh airport. >> reporter: that happened on the 23rd of august. it was a thompson airways plane coming from standstead in the u.k. as it approached sharm el sheikh national airport, the co-pilot saw what looked like a projectile heading in the direction of the airplane. he took evatisive action. nothing happened. the british ministry conducted an investigation to the incident. it said it appears it was not a targeted attack but was connected to routine exercises by the egyptian military in the area. this incident which really does raise a lot of questions -- what on earth are military exercises being conducted near a civil airport. this will probably come up, as well, when we go to the press conference by the minister of civil aviation this afternoon. george? >> ben wedeman live for us in cairo, egypt. thank you very much for your reporting. now let's turn to cnn's nic robertson, standing by in st. petersburg,

egypt said it simply couldn't cope with more than that. >> egypt will cooperate to bring back those tourists but we want to make sure that they come back safely. and that the planes are dealt with in a professional way. >> reporter: the search of the sinai desert is continuing. children's books, a jooumary clain, what hasn't been found is definitive blame for the crash. the range of possible options the narrowing. paul brennan, al jazeera. >> douglas laird is the former head of security for northwest airlines. he says if there was an explosive device to take down the plane it is likely an employee got it on board. >> it is more important, probably the easiest avenue would be an inside, an employee of an airline or the airport. that basically bypasses, they don't go through security like passengers do. that is problem pretty much throughout the world. i've heard all the media reports that various countries are going to upgrade their security for flights leaving certain airports in egypt and the mid east. there's only so much you can do. the real effect of things take years to implement and pa

>> the british government said that the egypt plane crash could have been caused by a bomb. i'm lauren taylor. this is al jazeera live from london. romania's prime minister and government has stepped down as protesters blame the government for a fire that killed 30 people. >>> rescuers continue to seven for survivors of a collapsed building. justin trudeau follows in his father's footsteps as he's sworn in as canada's prime minister. >>> it is suggested that saturday's plane crash was caused by a bottom. it suspended all flights until further investigations are completed. the russian operated airbus a 321 was carrying holiday makers from the resort to st. petersburg when it came down. 224 passengers and crew died. this is an area that is normally busy with flights serving egyptian airports and over flying on international airports. but as you can see there are very few flights over the sinai. let'let's go to neave barker. what are they telling you about this decision? >> well, you're right in saying that a few hours ago the decision was made to suspend flights between london

egypt saw 14.7 million tourists. but in 2014 that had fallen to 9.9 million. tourism revenues peaked at $12.8 billion in 2008. but 2015 is unlikely to exceed $7 billion. russian tourist who is booked for egypt are being offered alternative holidays in turkish results. the knock-on impact is enormous. >> tourist agencies will suffer losses because they cannot sell egypt any more, and because they'll have to invest in the alternative. and egypt in a shock of the whole because they're losing business the situation is very difficult. >> 2015 was supposed to be a turning point for the egyptian tourism industry. this past week should have seen the launch of a global pr campaign. a three-year deal to promote egypt in 27 global markets. instead the campaign has been sheffield. the launch events canceled. >> even though in many of these cases i can speak for jordan, tunisia and egypt, the situation on 99% of the time is very safe and very enjoyable and there is no sense of any security issue. but people's perceptions change. for a tour operator who they spend a long ti