07/11/2015 BBC Weekend News

Investigators in Egypt have said the Russian passenger plane

which crashed last weekend suffered a sudden and catastrophic break-up.

They've also confirmed there was an unexplained noise

on the plane's voice recorder, at the moment the disaster unfolded.

French investigators have told the BBC they believe that to be

Our correspondent Mark Lowen is in the Egyptian resort

First from Egypt there was denial and then anger and today acceptance

that something untoward may have cost the crash of the flight to St

Petersburg. The other warranties gave detail of the investigation

currently under way. Journalists were not allowed inside Charm al

Sheikh airport. This is a nervous country wary of a negative image,

but perhaps the damage has already been done.

They remembered. Russian soldiers laying tribute

at the sight of their nation's worst ever air disaster.

It is becoming clear something sinister cause the crash.

Egyptian officials today said debris was scattered over 13 kilometres,

pointing to an in-flight break-up. The autopilot was engaged

until the end of the black box recording and there was a sudden

sound on the data recorder. A noise was heard in the last

second of the CVR recording. A spectral analysis will be carried

out by specialised labs in order to identify the nature of this noise.

An American TV network says US officials have reported they

picked up chatter between Isis operatives boasting about taking

down an airliner. The Egyptian government today

hit out saying intelligence was not being shared.

TRANSLATION: We are the party that is mainly

connected with the issue and we expected to have the

information on a technical level instead of it being released to

the media in this public manner. That is refuted by the British

ambassador here, insisting there has been constant co-operation

and Downing Street is reviewing security on a daily basis.

The situation going on is very frustrating for everybody involved

because it is an attack that has caused great human tragedy.

I personally have been in contact with the Egyptian government round

all the information available and explain to them the basis of our

decision-making and I am sure every government is doing the same. The

travel chaos continues. British planes are flying elsewhere in

Egypt. The current assessment is that it is safe. The airport is

struggling to cope with this logistical challenge but it could be

overwhelmed as Russians try to leave after Moscow's dramatic decision to

suspend all flights to Egypt. The backlog of people trying to fly from

year will last for days. That is the worry for this man and his family,

waiting for news of their flight to Luton, delayed for three days.

Regular calls to easyJet have given him no update, just huge phone

bills. They are getting tired of living out of suitcases and want

clarity on when they can head home. We are out of money, out of clothes.

We have three young kids that are getting clued up on what is going on

and getting panicked. The frustration for passengers goes on

but for Egypt, which depends on tourism, it is critical. If a bomber

infiltrated this resort bringing down a plane the impact will be felt

far beyond these shores. Our diplomatic correspondent

James Robbins is here. James, what have we learned

from the Egyptian investigators? It was very interesting that the

head of the investigation team, an international team that involves

French and German and Russian and Irish investigators, said the

wreckage was spread over an area about 13 kilometres or eight miles

in length which is consistent with the plane breaking up and very great

height and consistent with what we knew already. The other thing is

that the autopilot apparently was engaged right until the end of

recording. We know that from the flight data recorder which shows

that the pilots never took back manual control of the aircraft which

they would have done a they had had any notice of impending disaster.

The most telling thing came from the cockpit voice recorder which

recorded in the last second an unexplained noise. That noise can be

spectrally analysed. Experts we have spoken to said it is very easy to

establish weight quickly from that sort of analysis what that noise

was, what caused it, whether it was for instance a fuel tank exploding,

something falling off the aeroplane or a bomb exploding on board.

Although the Egyptians say they will not draw any conclusions they seem

to be suggesting that this may well have been a bomb.

Sierra Leone has been declared free from the Ebola virus by the World

Health Organisation, after six weeks without a case of the disease.

The WHO said the country would now enter a 90 day

period of "enhanced surveillance" to detect any new cases.

Nearly 4,000 people have died from Ebola in Sierra Leone.

Two police officers in the American state of Louisiana have been charged

with murder after a six-year-old boy was shot dead.

Jeremy Mardis was hit by five bullets when officers opened fire

Six-year-old Jeremy Mardis was strapped in his father's are. It is

thought they were being chased by police. It is not known why. Soon

after their car back to -- into an Ali shots were fired. Five hit

Jeremy in the head and chest. He died at the scene. His father was

badly injured. No weapon was found in his vehicle. I am not going to

talk about it but I am going to tell you this. It is the most disturbing

thing I have seen. That little boy was buckled in the front seat of the

vehicle and that is how he died. Late last night two police officers

were arrested. Individuals described as having tarnished the police

badge. The officers are charged with murder and attempted murder. The

six-year-old with autism was described as a delightful child who

loved everything and everybody. Investigators have vowed to continue

their inquiries wherever they me late.

The Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, is said to be

resisting efforts by the Treasury to make the new Universal

The Chancellor, George Osborne, is seeking new savings after

the House of Lords rejected his plans to cut working tax credits.

A close ally of Mr Duncan Smith says he has not threatened to resign over

the issue but had said it was a "red line" for him.

Every home and business in the UK will have access to a fast internet

It says broadband should be a legal right,

Our Business Correspondent Rob Young has more.

Once an essential service, water, certainly, gas and electricity too,

now the government is adding broadband to the list, but for many

In some rural areas downloading can take ages.

Some still use painfully slow dial-up connections.

About 2 million homes don't have access to fast internet.

The minimum speed most homes need to watch streaming video for example

The government says everyone will be given the legal right to request

that type of fast connection no matter where they live.

This is for the most hard to reach premises and businesses,

people who as it were are in the very last 5% in very rural areas.

This will give them a guarantee that over the next few years they will

be able to get the kind of broadband speeds that many people living

in towns and cities have got used to.

Critics say previous digital promises have come to little.

Technology experts argue the government's proposed speed is

In five years, many parts of the countryside will be surfing at

The British government have been out of touch with reality

Famously in around 2010 they said Britain should

have the best superfast broadband in Europe by 2015.

Clearly we have not met that objective and it is hard to see

whether or not this one is going to stand up to the test of time.

The government is already spending ?1.5 billion extending superfast

Connecting the rest will not be easy and is likely to be expensive.

Andy Murray has reached the Paris Masters final for

the first time after a straight sets victory over Spain's David Ferrer.

He wrapped up the match 6-4, 6-3 and will meet either top seed,

and defending champion, Novak Djokovic or Stan Wawrinka

Murray will finish the year second in the world

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