:00:07. > :00:08.Hello, I'm Christian Fraser with BBC World News.
:00:09. > :00:12.Our top story - the US and the UK both say the most likely cause of
:00:13. > :00:16.The British Prime Minister discussed cooperating
:00:17. > :00:19.on security with the Egyptian President, after deciding to suspend
:00:20. > :00:36.the end of 2017, as waves of people continue to flow into Greece.
:00:37. > :00:38.The Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema is questioned
:00:39. > :00:42.over possible complicity in an attempted blackmail case.
:00:43. > :00:45.And Nasa is due to reveal new information about Mars'S atmosphere
:00:46. > :00:48.And Nasa is due to reveal new information about Mars's atmosphere
:00:49. > :01:00.and the possibility of life on the red planet.
:01:01. > :01:03.Let's start with the talks in London between Prime Minister David Cameron
:01:04. > :01:06.and Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
:01:07. > :01:09.A meeting that followed Britain's decision on Wednesday to suspend
:01:10. > :01:15.flights to and from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
:01:16. > :01:19.Mr Cameron said intelligence suggested it was
:01:20. > :01:27."more likely than not" that a Russian plane,
:01:28. > :01:29.which crashed on Saturday after leaving the resort,
:01:30. > :01:37.The Prime Minister said he had been forced to put the security
:01:38. > :01:46.No doubt a decision that will have frustrated his guests.
:01:47. > :01:48.Reportedly, the decision taken while Mr el-Sisi was en route to Britain.
:01:49. > :02:02.In that terminal behind you, lots of people still queueing, frustrated by
:02:03. > :02:09.some of the security provisions put in place? Yes, absolutely, actually
:02:10. > :02:13.people do not know when they are going to go back home. Security
:02:14. > :02:20.measures have been extremely tight and here, inside the terminals and
:02:21. > :02:26.outside the airport. On our way here, we saw checkpoints manned by
:02:27. > :02:30.police and army forces, heavy military presence around the airport
:02:31. > :02:34.and insight we have seen long queues of passengers waiting to go back
:02:35. > :02:39.home, most of them Russians. Security measures and checks taking
:02:40. > :02:44.longer, so they have to wait quite some time. I have spoken to some
:02:45. > :02:48.British nationalists stranded here, and they told me they came to the
:02:49. > :02:54.airport but flights were cancelled sort they had to register names to
:02:55. > :03:00.be taken to a nearby hotel, where they will stay, but they do not know
:03:01. > :03:04.how long, and the biggest concern is when they will be able to go back
:03:05. > :03:08.home. They complained a lot about the lack of information.
:03:09. > :03:10.At the airport, we had practically no information.
:03:11. > :03:12.There was a few members of the Egyptian staff,
:03:13. > :03:28.We have been to Sharm eight times in the last seven years or so, a place
:03:29. > :03:32.very dear to our hearts, we know a lot of people here. I worry more
:03:33. > :03:38.about the people here and the impact this will have on the local economy
:03:39. > :03:48.and people we know. Actually, this crisis is a heavy
:03:49. > :03:52.blow to tourism in Sharm el-Sheikh, and it's heavily depends on British
:03:53. > :03:57.tourism. The fact that a lot of British people will be reluctant to
:03:58. > :04:02.go to Sharm el-Sheikh within the next couple of days, as I have heard
:04:03. > :04:09.from people here, will be a major blow to this tool is -- this tourist
:04:10. > :04:14.sector that is already struggling. Thank you.
:04:15. > :04:21.Still no word from Westminster whether some flights will be able to
:04:22. > :04:26.take off tomorrow. I spoke to Rob Watson and put it to
:04:27. > :04:31.him the Prime Minister had done more than other leader than pointing to
:04:32. > :04:36.terrorism. He was pretty unequivocal. It is interesting,
:04:37. > :04:40.David Cameron has said when at Downing Street he understood he
:04:41. > :04:46.would not be super popular with the Egyptian Tudors and industry, with
:04:47. > :04:52.visiting guests, the Egyptian president, with British tourists
:04:53. > :04:57.stuck in Egypt and holiday-makers looking forward to a few days in the
:04:58. > :05:03.sun. He said to do this because of security concern. He went quite far,
:05:04. > :05:08.it was based on intelligence, what his advisers had said. On balance,
:05:09. > :05:13.it seemed more likely than not it was a bomb. Britain going further
:05:14. > :05:19.than any other country. And I was saying to Sally that the concern for
:05:20. > :05:23.British authorities is with baggage handlers. And according to a press
:05:24. > :05:32.conference, ten months ago, they were sent to Egypt to look at that?
:05:33. > :05:39.Yes, fascinated, when the Egyptian president was asked if Britain had
:05:40. > :05:45.jumped the gun and had it acted too hastily, he revealed, and we were
:05:46. > :05:49.not expecting this, that Britain had expressed concerns about security at
:05:50. > :05:55.Sharm el-Sheikh ten months ago. Downing Street are not keen to spell
:05:56. > :06:00.it out. But fear to see the centre around the safety of flights, the
:06:01. > :06:03.security of baggage handlers and screening of passengers. Who gets
:06:04. > :06:07.near the planes, and who gets on them.
:06:08. > :06:11.London not spelling it out, nor indeed Washington.
:06:12. > :06:14.Security correspondent has looking at the intelligence that led Britain
:06:15. > :06:18.to make this decision. The smouldering wreckage
:06:19. > :06:20.of Metrojet Flight 9268. This was filmed just two hours
:06:21. > :06:23.after the Russian airliner fell from the sky into the
:06:24. > :06:25.Sinai Desert on Saturday. The tragedy has overshadowed
:06:26. > :06:28.the first official visit to Britain The red carpet was out for him
:06:29. > :06:34.at Number 10 today, To others,
:06:35. > :06:43.he's a beacon of stability. And, to the Prime Minister,
:06:44. > :06:45.he's an important ally. But why, says Egypt,
:06:46. > :06:49.did Britain have to go and announce its fears about what
:06:50. > :06:52.brought down the airliner before I act on the basis of advice
:06:53. > :06:56.that I get. Of course, I cannot be sure,
:06:57. > :07:00.experts cannot be sure, that it was a terrorist bomb that
:07:01. > :07:05.brought down the Russian plane. But if the intelligence is,
:07:06. > :07:11.and the judgment is, that that is more likely
:07:12. > :07:15.than not outcome, then I think its right to act
:07:16. > :07:17.in the way that I did. TRANSLATION: Ten months ago,
:07:18. > :07:23.we were asked by our British friends to allow teams into Sharm el-Sheikh
:07:24. > :07:26.Airport, to make sure the security procedures were sound.
:07:27. > :07:28.We responded immediately. They checked security
:07:29. > :07:33.and were happy with it. While investigators came through the
:07:34. > :07:35.crash site, Britain has sent a team So what measures have
:07:36. > :07:43.they been looking at? They've been auditing
:07:44. > :07:45.the security system, which means looking at baggage screening
:07:46. > :07:49.procedures and passenger handling. As well as background spot checks
:07:50. > :07:55.on staff. While over here,
:07:56. > :07:57.other leads are being followed up. For the past five days,
:07:58. > :08:00.Britain has been conducting its own independent investigation
:08:01. > :08:04.into the Russian aircraft, here at the Joint Terrorism
:08:05. > :08:08.Analysis Centre inside MI5. It's pulling together the expertise
:08:09. > :08:11.from people from the Department of Transport, with intelligence
:08:12. > :08:17.clues such as intercepted chatter. Now, whatever the new piece
:08:18. > :08:19.of intelligence was the government got yesterday,
:08:20. > :08:21.it didn't come from Egypt's The Egyptian investigation may yet
:08:22. > :08:28.come to a different conclusion. In Sierra Leone,
:08:29. > :08:39.celebrations have begun in the lead up to declaring the
:08:40. > :08:42.country free of Ebola on Saturday. But medical workers say up to 80%
:08:43. > :08:46.of people who survived the virus The BBC Correspondent
:08:47. > :09:07.Tulip Mazumdar is in Freetown. This time last year, 500 new
:09:08. > :09:13.infections were reported every week in Freetown, showing how far this
:09:14. > :09:18.country has come, but this is a bittersweet moment for the country.
:09:19. > :09:20.Practically everybody here lost on the new and key legacy of the
:09:21. > :09:24.outbreak be its survivors. It's the moment they've
:09:25. > :09:27.all been praying for. At midnight tomorrow,
:09:28. > :09:32.the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone But many challenges remain for
:09:33. > :09:43.the thousands of Ebola survivors, traces of the virus can linger
:09:44. > :09:47.in the body and cause problems. Many at this survivors' clinic are
:09:48. > :09:49.reporting joint pains, It leaves a scar in our heart
:09:50. > :10:00.because we cannot feel fine. When you see all of us
:10:01. > :10:02.as a peer group, enjoying themselves, social activities,
:10:03. > :10:06.we are still having that in the back We were given exclusive access to
:10:07. > :10:15.the Chinese run labs analysing Scientists are trying to establish
:10:16. > :10:24.which bodily fluids could still carry fragments of the virus
:10:25. > :10:26.and whether they could We are learning more and more
:10:27. > :10:31.about what this disease can do, how it can linger sometimes,
:10:32. > :10:33.how it can even reactivate This is what we would call a low
:10:34. > :10:45.probability, high consequence risk. But did a reactivation or relapse
:10:46. > :10:52.of Ebola cause this death? What we didn't know when we filmed
:10:53. > :10:55.here in January is that this person I don't know if you remember me,
:10:56. > :11:05.but I was here on a very difficult Yes.
:11:06. > :11:08.Do you remember? Today, the inconsolable grief
:11:09. > :11:18.is replaced by total confusion. TRANSLATION: I really want
:11:19. > :11:21.to know what killed my father. Was it Ebola or not?
:11:22. > :11:23.We need to know. The outbreak may almost be over,
:11:24. > :11:26.but for families like these, the uncertainty
:11:27. > :11:47.and anguish is never-ending. There are still so many unanswered
:11:48. > :11:53.questions about this I pray, which has been seen as a key priority for
:11:54. > :11:58.the international committee, non-governmental organisations, aid
:11:59. > :12:02.organisations, and the government of Sierra Leone, all encouraged to help
:12:03. > :12:09.survivors set up clinics to come and talk about their problems, too few
:12:10. > :12:12.are comfortable, but also so we can use this unprecedented outbreak with
:12:13. > :12:20.an unprecedented amount of survivors to learn more about this and help
:12:21. > :12:25.survivors. The wave of migrants reaching Europe
:12:26. > :12:34.illegally is likely to reach 3 million by the end of 2017. There is
:12:35. > :12:39.a population increase in the EU of 0.4% predicted by the European
:12:40. > :12:49.Commission. Richard Galton has this report from the Greek island of
:12:50. > :12:56.Lesbos. Protesters outside the main refugee
:12:57. > :12:59.camp in Lesbos after the Greek Prime Minister arrived with the president
:13:00. > :13:03.of the European Parliament. Aid workers demanding immediate action
:13:04. > :13:08.to stop so many refugees and migrants drowning in their attempt
:13:09. > :13:12.to reach Europe. Inside the camp, Alexis Tsipras and they head of the
:13:13. > :13:17.European Parliament assess conditions and the speed with which
:13:18. > :13:22.people are being registered. But both leaders believe the quickest
:13:23. > :13:26.most effective way of tackling this crisis now is to get Turkey to stem
:13:27. > :13:37.the flow of refugees and migrants from its jaws. -- -- shores. We need
:13:38. > :13:44.the Turkish authorities to keep refugees in Turkey and to give them
:13:45. > :13:49.treatment on the side of the country itself. What he did not see on his
:13:50. > :13:52.brief visit was this. The official count is so thrilled that hundreds
:13:53. > :14:01.have to sleep rough on the ground outside. They are mostly Afghans.
:14:02. > :14:04.Last night, it was bitterly cold. And despite the onset of winter with
:14:05. > :14:11.temperatures dropping rapidly there is no sign the numbers of refugees
:14:12. > :14:16.and migrants making the dangerous journey from 30 years to Lesbos are
:14:17. > :14:21.decreasing, in fact they are at peak levels. A few miles away, we met
:14:22. > :14:30.this man, a fisher man all his life. He told us how his life has changed.
:14:31. > :14:37.TRANSLATION: Day and night, we are rescuing refugees from the sea. We
:14:38. > :14:42.set out from Lesbos in his boat. The Turkish mainland is in plain sight
:14:43. > :14:47.just a few miles away. Sure enough, within minutes, we came across a
:14:48. > :14:53.refugee boat in travel, drifting, the engine broken down. Once again,
:14:54. > :14:58.he comes to the rescue. And there is no end in sight to this mass
:14:59. > :15:01.movement of people. The United Nations estimates another 600,000
:15:02. > :15:10.will arrive in Europe over the winter.
:15:11. > :15:19.Returning to the main story that the Russian airliner in Egypt was most
:15:20. > :15:22.likely a bomb. France has advised against travelling to Sharm
:15:23. > :15:27.el-Sheikh, where the accident happened. Irish, Dutch and German
:15:28. > :15:28.airlines have also cancelled flights.
:15:29. > :15:31.With me is independent aviation and defence analyst Howard Wheeldon.
:15:32. > :15:38.We are still in the dark as to what the US and UK governments are
:15:39. > :15:44.looking at, clearly significant. Can you speculate? The UK and the US
:15:45. > :15:52.have a large system of intelligence gathering. We have a number of
:15:53. > :15:57.allies across the Gulf area, Saudi Arabia being a major one. A lot of
:15:58. > :16:03.collecting points of information. I would imagine they are working from
:16:04. > :16:08.a combination of different people, their own agencies, and the
:16:09. > :16:13.governments of the allied countries, who have picked up
:16:14. > :16:19.information which cannot be ignored. Presumably allied countries are
:16:20. > :16:28.France, Germany involved in the Airbus company? Indeed, but Saudi
:16:29. > :16:32.Arabia, Kuwait, by Oman, and that is why we have a close and tangible
:16:33. > :16:38.relationship with them, it is not one-way trade, but also binding, as
:16:39. > :16:43.in previous situations, such as the Gulf War in 1991, real collaboration
:16:44. > :16:47.and working together of those countries who support the West.
:16:48. > :16:51.Obviously speculation on the Internet, rife at the moment,
:16:52. > :16:58.particularly on the professional pilots website, let's have a look at
:16:59. > :17:05.some pictures that they have been looking at there. We hope to put
:17:06. > :17:10.them up. Victor is showing the metal of the aircraft fuelling outwards,
:17:11. > :17:23.and puncture marks in the metal. -- pictures showing. Yes,... You can
:17:24. > :17:27.see that from those red arrows. These are not detailed or
:17:28. > :17:37.professional photographs. When we get into more closer detail. And
:17:38. > :17:43.that is the puncture wound. The was suggest, from experience, those used
:17:44. > :17:48.to looking at these situations, not the first time we have had a bomb
:17:49. > :17:52.exploded in an aircraft, a lot of information out there, it suggests
:17:53. > :17:59.there was an explosion in turn lead of some kind. Whether it was a bomb
:18:00. > :18:05.or other forms of weapon, maybe a nail bomb, or larger one, sufficient
:18:06. > :18:11.to do damage like that? Whilst no explosive may have been fined, or of
:18:12. > :18:18.explosive nature, they could be looking at nail bombs, so I am
:18:19. > :18:23.speculating on that. It is definitely something from the inside
:18:24. > :18:30.and exploded outwards. A collection of evidence pointing to that? Yes,
:18:31. > :18:35.it will take time, and the Russians and Egyptians are as keen as they
:18:36. > :18:42.are, no suggestion they are keeping things from us. And talking to the
:18:43. > :18:47.Egyptian president, to David Cameron, saying they are going to
:18:48. > :18:53.far, I understand that, in a sense we would perhaps do the same if it
:18:54. > :18:56.was reversed situation, but I think the government was right to do what
:18:57. > :19:14.they done. Howard, thank you. I head of the Egyptian President's
:19:15. > :19:15.visit, the family of an Irish teenager has called on the prime
:19:16. > :19:19.Minister to help them be released. Ibrahim Halawa was arrested during a
:19:20. > :19:22.siege of a mosque in Cairo in 2013. If convicted,
:19:23. > :19:26.he could face the death penalty. Relatives say he has been tortured
:19:27. > :19:29.whilst in custody. CHANTING: Free, free Ibrahim!
:19:30. > :19:32.Free, free Ibrahim! Frustrated with officialdom,
:19:33. > :19:34.Ibrahim Halawa's family has tried, through internet videos,
:19:35. > :19:36.to raise the profile of their Although he was raised in a deeply
:19:37. > :19:42.religious family, his father is many who know Ibrahim describe him
:19:43. > :19:49.as a typical Irish teenager. Yet he was arrested in Cairo
:19:50. > :19:52.during one of the biggest There's no words that can describe
:19:53. > :19:58.what we went through, Ibrahim and his sisters were
:19:59. > :20:04.visiting family in Egypt when the democratically-elected
:20:05. > :20:07.president was overthrown. They decided to join protests
:20:08. > :20:11.against the military coup. During the violence that followed,
:20:12. > :20:14.they took refuge in a mosque, Armies just kept coming towards us
:20:15. > :20:25.and actually wanted to attack us, so the only place, safest place we
:20:26. > :20:28.felt at this time would have been the mosque, because no way would
:20:29. > :20:31.it have crossed our minds that The internet campaign to free him
:20:32. > :20:36.began after his sisters were Ibrahim's friends
:20:37. > :20:38.and teachers remain baffled He is accused of murder, accused
:20:39. > :20:48.of explosives, accused of I think a list the length of your arm, along
:20:49. > :20:52.with the 490 other people, so to me, there is nothing in his character
:20:53. > :20:57.that would match any of that. Ibrahim has been kept
:20:58. > :20:59.in what have been described He could face the death penalty
:21:00. > :21:09.if convicted. They are not conditions
:21:10. > :21:11.fit for a 17-year-old, or 19-year-old Irish teenager,
:21:12. > :21:13.never mind any human being. He shares a cell with
:21:14. > :21:18.a number of other prisoners. He described how
:21:19. > :21:20.he would be regularly beaten. He described how, in the mornings,
:21:21. > :21:23.he was awoke by the sound Egypt's ambassador to Ireland
:21:24. > :21:29.didn't want to do an interview and dismissed claims of beatings and
:21:30. > :21:34.torture in the prison as propaganda. The mass trial,
:21:35. > :21:36.which began in March, The Halawa family has now called
:21:37. > :21:42.on Britain's Prime Minister, David Cameron, to intervene
:21:43. > :22:01.on their brother's behalf. Some of the other News for you. The
:22:02. > :22:06.French President has announced he will deploy an act aircraft carrier
:22:07. > :22:10.in the Persian Gulf to assist the fight against the Islamic Street
:22:11. > :22:19.group in Iraq and Syria. -- Islamic State. The US Defence Secretary has
:22:20. > :22:25.visited an aircraft carrier in the South China Sea was back to contest
:22:26. > :22:33.in what is seen as a signal to China of America's stabilising presence in
:22:34. > :22:37.the region. In Rome, mafia bosses, politicians and businessmen have
:22:38. > :22:42.appeared in court at the start of the biggest anti-corruption trial
:22:43. > :22:47.for decades, accused of rigging contracts for public services over
:22:48. > :22:48.many years, causing the Italian capital's finances to come close to
:22:49. > :22:51.the point of collapse. The Real Madrid striker,
:22:52. > :22:53.Karim Benzema, has been placed under formal investigation for
:22:54. > :22:56.complicity in attempted blackmail involving his French international
:22:57. > :23:00.teammate, Mathieu Valbuena. He has not been charged
:23:01. > :23:03.by the French authorities, but is being questioned over a conversation
:23:04. > :23:06.he's said to have had with Valbuena last month, in which he mentioned
:23:07. > :23:09.a sex tape that got into Benzema's lawyer, Sylvain Cormier,
:23:10. > :23:19.says the football star - who has been named three times the French
:23:20. > :23:25.Player of the Year - is innocent. TRANSLATION: Karim Benzema has not
:23:26. > :23:27.admitted anything. It's outrageous to read
:23:28. > :23:29.such things in the news. He proclaims his innocence,
:23:30. > :23:33.he stands entirely by his friend Mathieu Valbuena, who has
:23:34. > :23:36.also dealt with the same attempts. He did not take any part, I repeat,
:23:37. > :23:59.any part, in the blackmail, Some stunning images to show you
:24:00. > :24:03.from Nasa.. This is of the Sun taken by the space-based telescope. It
:24:04. > :24:10.took a high resolution image of the sun every 12 seconds. Each
:24:11. > :24:13.wavelength highlights a different temperature. It has given a
:24:14. > :24:58.different colour. Quite extraordinary, the giver of
:24:59. > :25:05.life, the sun, there. And Nasa have also released -- have also released
:25:06. > :25:10.images from Mars. They have discovered the atmosphere was
:25:11. > :25:15.stripped by solar winds. We will look at a lot of different processes
:25:16. > :25:21.that can take place in removing the atmosphere, focusing largely on the
:25:22. > :25:26.ability of the solar wind to strip gases away. If we can roll the
:25:27. > :25:31.second video, we are looking at the solar wind as it impinges on the
:25:32. > :25:38.planet, it is streaming out from the sun at about 1 million miles an
:25:39. > :25:43.hour. It can grab ions from the planet, strip them of way, or knock
:25:44. > :25:47.them into the planet at high speed and knock other stuff off.
:25:48. > :25:55.I Galactica end to the programme. That is all for now. -- and that the
:25:56. > :26:02.lactic end to the programme. Stay with us, we will have the sure
:26:03. > :26:05.planes -- a very galactic into the programme. Stay with us, people
:26:06. > :26:08.happy headlines shortly.