07/11/2015 BBC Weekend News


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Egypt says foreign intelligence suggesting that the Russian plane

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crash in Sinai a week ago was caused by a bomb has not been

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it believes the airliner was brought down by a bomb.

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And reports in the United States say American agents

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intercepted communications between Islamic State extremists,

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boasting that they had brought down the plane.

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Piecing together the detail, examining the evidence, searching

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the scene, and the picture now is increasingly of an aircraft that was

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deliberately brought down by some kind of bomb. The American

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television network NBC is the latest report on intelligence it says

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supports this. They claim US officials have told them that they

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picked up chatter between ices operatives boasting about taking

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down an airliner. -- Isis. This comes after French officials told

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the BBC that the flight data recorder recorded a sudden

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explosion. And this video is claimed to show militants commending the

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Sinai wing for bringing down the aircraft. And there is now concerned

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in Egypt that intelligence about the crash is not being shared with them.

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TRANSLATION: We are the party which is mainly connected with the issue,

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and we expected to have the information on a technical level

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instead of it being released to the media in this public manner. In

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Sharm el-Sheikh, the wait for a return home continues. Frustrated

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and wanting information. I would like to speak to a human being, a

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phone call, anything. I would like to know what is going on. It is

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looking like it will be Monday, but Monday isn't good enough. Tens of

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thousands of Russians remain in Egypt after the Kremlin also

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grounded flights. They are concerned about the journey home. They said we

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shouldn't take any baggage with us on board, so we have to give it

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somewhere, I don't know where. Today the planned return of holiday-makers

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continues, but it is a complicated process that will last into next

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week. Daniela Relph, BBC News. More tourists are due to return

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from Sharm el-Sheikh later today. The last flight back to Britain

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arrived late last night at Glasgow Airport, and passengers

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spoke about their experiences. In the hotels,

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there was nothing we could do, but the bad thing was,

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when you're lying on your sunbed with nothing much more to do, and

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all you see is planes going over, and all you think is,

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"One of those planes went down." It just turned into chaos,

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where it could have went so smoothly and a normal airport

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that operates on a daily basis could have went so smoothly,

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but it just turned to disaster. But we're home,

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so we're excited to be home! Our reporter Angus Crawford

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is at Luton Airport. Angus, bring us up to date, if you

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will, as to what we think is going to happen today at the airports. The

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situation is fluid, and as we found yesterday, there were cancellations

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of flights and recriminations, but what we believe is going to happen

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today is that a total of nine flights are going to come back from

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Sharm el-Sheikh to various British airports. We believe there will be

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one British Airways flight to Manchester, to Gatwick, two Monarch

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flight to Manchester, two Thomas Cook flights, one to Manchester, one

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to Gatwick, there will be two easyJet flights back here to Luton,

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arriving at 9:30 and 10:30 tonight, and finally two Thomson flights

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coming back to Manchester and Bristol. The one thing they will all

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share in common is that they will only, the passengers, be carrying

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hand baggage. All of the hold luggage will stay in Sharm el-Sheikh

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and be brought back later, and as Downing Street says, this is a

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hugely complex operation. There have been celebrations

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in Sierra Leone ahead of an official announcement

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by the World Health Organisation that the country

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is now free of Ebola. The outbreak there has claimed

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more than 4,000 lives Our global health correspondent,

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Tulip Mazumdar, reports from the capital,

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Freetown. And there we have it,

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after 18 long months of fighting Ebola in Sierra Leone,

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the outbreak is declared over. We've just heard Victoria Yillia

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speaking on the stage, she was Sierra Leone's

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first confirmed case of Ebola, and I'm very happy

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to say she joins us now. Victoria, you are celebrating

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the end of the outbreak tonight. I am very happy for that, that Ebola

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has gone from Sierra Leone. You feel like you have your life

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back? Yeah. We've had the street parties

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overnight, and now it's time

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for the official pageantry. The president is about to arrive

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any minute now. He'll go inside, and

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there he will address the nation. President Ernest Bai Koroma has

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praised the international efforts, particularly the UK response, which

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he says turned this outbreak around. but this is a bittersweet moment

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for Sierra Leone. Here,

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the Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, is strongly

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resisting efforts by the Treasury to make the new universal credit

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benefit less generous. The Chancellor, George Osborne,

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is seeking fresh savings after the House of Lords rejected his

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plans to cut working tax credits. A close ally of Mr Duncan Smith

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said he hadn't threatened to resign over the issue but had made it

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known it was a red line for him. The Government is aiming

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to provide every home and business in the country with

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a fast internet connection by 2020. It says broadband should be regarded

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as a basic service, putting it on a similar footing

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as electricity and water. You can see more on all of today's

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stories on the BBC News Channel. The next news on BBC One

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is at 5:20. Bye for now. Good afternoon. Well, if you feel

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like the weather is a touch out of sync with your

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