05/11/2015 World News Today

Hello, I'm Christian Fraser with BBC World News.

Our top story - the US and the UK both say the most likely cause of

The British Prime Minister discussed cooperating

on security with the Egyptian President, after deciding to suspend

the end of 2017, as waves of people continue to flow into Greece.

The Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema is questioned

over possible complicity in an attempted blackmail case.

And Nasa is due to reveal new information about Mars'S atmosphere

And Nasa is due to reveal new information about Mars's atmosphere

and the possibility of life on the red planet.

Let's start with the talks in London between Prime Minister David Cameron

and Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

A meeting that followed Britain's decision on Wednesday to suspend

flights to and from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

Mr Cameron said intelligence suggested it was

"more likely than not" that a Russian plane,

which crashed on Saturday after leaving the resort,

The Prime Minister said he had been forced to put the security

No doubt a decision that will have frustrated his guests.

Reportedly, the decision taken while Mr el-Sisi was en route to Britain.

In that terminal behind you, lots of people still queueing, frustrated by

some of the security provisions put in place? Yes, absolutely, actually

people do not know when they are going to go back home. Security

measures have been extremely tight and here, inside the terminals and

outside the airport. On our way here, we saw checkpoints manned by

police and army forces, heavy military presence around the airport

and insight we have seen long queues of passengers waiting to go back

home, most of them Russians. Security measures and checks taking

longer, so they have to wait quite some time. I have spoken to some

British nationalists stranded here, and they told me they came to the

airport but flights were cancelled sort they had to register names to

be taken to a nearby hotel, where they will stay, but they do not know

how long, and the biggest concern is when they will be able to go back

home. They complained a lot about the lack of information.

At the airport, we had practically no information.

There was a few members of the Egyptian staff,

We have been to Sharm eight times in the last seven years or so, a place

very dear to our hearts, we know a lot of people here. I worry more

about the people here and the impact this will have on the local economy

and people we know. Actually, this crisis is a heavy

blow to tourism in Sharm el-Sheikh, and it's heavily depends on British

tourism. The fact that a lot of British people will be reluctant to

go to Sharm el-Sheikh within the next couple of days, as I have heard

from people here, will be a major blow to this tool is -- this tourist

sector that is already struggling. Thank you.

Still no word from Westminster whether some flights will be able to

take off tomorrow. I spoke to Rob Watson and put it to

him the Prime Minister had done more than other leader than pointing to

terrorism. He was pretty unequivocal. It is interesting,

David Cameron has said when at Downing Street he understood he

would not be super popular with the Egyptian Tudors and industry, with

visiting guests, the Egyptian president, with British tourists

stuck in Egypt and holiday-makers looking forward to a few days in the

sun. He said to do this because of security concern. He went quite far,

it was based on intelligence, what his advisers had said. On balance,

it seemed more likely than not it was a bomb. Britain going further

than any other country. And I was saying to Sally that the concern for

British authorities is with baggage handlers. And according to a press

conference, ten months ago, they were sent to Egypt to look at that?

Yes, fascinated, when the Egyptian president was asked if Britain had

jumped the gun and had it acted too hastily, he revealed, and we were

not expecting this, that Britain had expressed concerns about security at

Sharm el-Sheikh ten months ago. Downing Street are not keen to spell

it out. But fear to see the centre around the safety of flights, the

security of baggage handlers and screening of passengers. Who gets

near the planes, and who gets on them.

London not spelling it out, nor indeed Washington.

Security correspondent has looking at the intelligence that led Britain

to make this decision. The smouldering wreckage

of Metrojet Flight 9268. This was filmed just two hours

after the Russian airliner fell from the sky into the

Sinai Desert on Saturday. The tragedy has overshadowed

the first official visit to Britain The red carpet was out for him

at Number 10 today, To others,

he's a beacon of stability. And, to the Prime Minister,

he's an important ally. But why, says Egypt,

did Britain have to go and announce its fears about what

brought down the airliner before I act on the basis of advice

that I get. Of course, I cannot be sure,

experts cannot be sure, that it was a terrorist bomb that

brought down the Russian plane. But if the intelligence is,

and the judgment is, that that is more likely

than not outcome, then I think its right to act

in the way that I did. TRANSLATION: Ten months ago,

we were asked by our British friends to allow teams into Sharm el-Sheikh

Airport, to make sure the security procedures were sound.

We responded immediately. They checked security

and were happy with it. While investigators came through the

crash site, Britain has sent a team So what measures have

they been looking at? They've been auditing

the security system, which means looking at baggage screening

procedures and passenger handling. As well as background spot checks

on staff. While over here,

other leads are being followed up. For the past five days,

Britain has been conducting its own independent investigation

into the Russian aircraft, here at the Joint Terrorism

Analysis Centre inside MI5. It's pulling together the expertise

from people from the Department of Transport, with intelligence

clues such as intercepted chatter. Now, whatever the new piece

of intelligence was the government got yesterday,

it didn't come from Egypt's The Egyptian investigation may yet

come to a different conclusion. In Sierra Leone,

celebrations have begun in the lead up to declaring the

country free of Ebola on Saturday. But medical workers say up to 80%

of people who survived the virus The BBC Correspondent

Tulip Mazumdar is in Freetown. This time last year, 500 new

infections were reported every week in Freetown, showing how far this

country has come, but this is a bittersweet moment for the country.

Practically everybody here lost on the new and key legacy of the

outbreak be its survivors. It's the moment they've

all been praying for. At midnight tomorrow,

the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone But many challenges remain for

the thousands of Ebola survivors, traces of the virus can linger

in the body and cause problems. Many at this survivors' clinic are

reporting joint pains, It leaves a scar in our heart

because we cannot feel fine. When you see all of us

as a peer group, enjoying themselves, social activities,

we are still having that in the back We were given exclusive access to

the Chinese run labs analysing Scientists are trying to establish

which bodily fluids could still carry fragments of the virus

and whether they could We are learning more and more

about what this disease can do, how it can linger sometimes,

how it can even reactivate This is what we would call a low

probability, high consequence risk. But did a reactivation or relapse

of Ebola cause this death? What we didn't know when we filmed

here in January is that this person I don't know if you remember me,

but I was here on a very difficult Yes.

Do you remember? Today, the inconsolable grief

is replaced by total confusion. TRANSLATION: I really want

to know what killed my father. Was it Ebola or not?

We need to know. The outbreak may almost be over,

but for families like these, the uncertainty

and anguish is never-ending. There are still so many unanswered

questions about this I pray, which has been seen as a key priority for

the international committee, non-governmental organisations, aid

organisations, and the government of Sierra Leone, all encouraged to help

survivors set up clinics to come and talk about their problems, too few

are comfortable, but also so we can use this unprecedented outbreak with

an unprecedented amount of survivors to learn more about this and help

survivors. The wave of migrants reaching Europe

illegally is likely to reach 3 million by the end of 2017. There is

a population increase in the EU of 0.4% predicted by the European

Commission. Richard Galton has this report from the Greek island of

Lesbos. Protesters outside the main refugee

camp in Lesbos after the Greek Prime Minister arrived with the president

of the European Parliament. Aid workers demanding immediate action

to stop so many refugees and migrants drowning in their attempt

to reach Europe. Inside the camp, Alexis Tsipras and they head of the

European Parliament assess conditions and the speed with which

people are being registered. But both leaders believe the quickest

most effective way of tackling this crisis now is to get Turkey to stem

the flow of refugees and migrants from its jaws. -- -- shores. We need

the Turkish authorities to keep refugees in Turkey and to give them

treatment on the side of the country itself. What he did not see on his

brief visit was this. The official count is so thrilled that hundreds

have to sleep rough on the ground outside. They are mostly Afghans.

Last night, it was bitterly cold. And despite the onset of winter with

temperatures dropping rapidly there is no sign the numbers of refugees

and migrants making the dangerous journey from 30 years to Lesbos are

decreasing, in fact they are at peak levels. A few miles away, we met

this man, a fisher man all his life. He told us how his life has changed.

TRANSLATION: Day and night, we are rescuing refugees from the sea. We

set out from Lesbos in his boat. The Turkish mainland is in plain sight

just a few miles away. Sure enough, within minutes, we came across a

refugee boat in travel, drifting, the engine broken down. Once again,

he comes to the rescue. And there is no end in sight to this mass

movement of people. The United Nations estimates another 600,000

will arrive in Europe over the winter.

Returning to the main story that the Russian airliner in Egypt was most

likely a bomb. France has advised against travelling to Sharm

el-Sheikh, where the accident happened. Irish, Dutch and German

airlines have also cancelled flights.

With me is independent aviation and defence analyst Howard Wheeldon.

We are still in the dark as to what the US and UK governments are

looking at, clearly significant. Can you speculate? The UK and the US

have a large system of intelligence gathering. We have a number of

allies across the Gulf area, Saudi Arabia being a major one. A lot of

collecting points of information. I would imagine they are working from

a combination of different people, their own agencies, and the

governments of the allied countries, who have picked up

information which cannot be ignored. Presumably allied countries are

France, Germany involved in the Airbus company? Indeed, but Saudi

Arabia, Kuwait, by Oman, and that is why we have a close and tangible

relationship with them, it is not one-way trade, but also binding, as

in previous situations, such as the Gulf War in 1991, real collaboration

and working together of those countries who support the West.

Obviously speculation on the Internet, rife at the moment,

particularly on the professional pilots website, let's have a look at

some pictures that they have been looking at there. We hope to put

them up. Victor is showing the metal of the aircraft fuelling outwards,

and puncture marks in the metal. -- pictures showing. Yes,... You can

see that from those red arrows. These are not detailed or

professional photographs. When we get into more closer detail. And

that is the puncture wound. The was suggest, from experience, those used

to looking at these situations, not the first time we have had a bomb

exploded in an aircraft, a lot of information out there, it suggests

there was an explosion in turn lead of some kind. Whether it was a bomb

or other forms of weapon, maybe a nail bomb, or larger one, sufficient

to do damage like that? Whilst no explosive may have been fined, or of

explosive nature, they could be looking at nail bombs, so I am

speculating on that. It is definitely something from the inside

and exploded outwards. A collection of evidence pointing to that? Yes,

it will take time, and the Russians and Egyptians are as keen as they

are, no suggestion they are keeping things from us. And talking to the

Egyptian president, to David Cameron, saying they are going to

far, I understand that, in a sense we would perhaps do the same if it

was reversed situation, but I think the government was right to do what

they done. Howard, thank you. I head of the Egyptian President's

visit, the family of an Irish teenager has called on the prime

Minister to help them be released. Ibrahim Halawa was arrested during a

siege of a mosque in Cairo in 2013. If convicted,

he could face the death penalty. Relatives say he has been tortured

whilst in custody. CHANTING: Free, free Ibrahim!

Free, free Ibrahim! Frustrated with officialdom,

Ibrahim Halawa's family has tried, through internet videos,

to raise the profile of their Although he was raised in a deeply

religious family, his father is many who know Ibrahim describe him

as a typical Irish teenager. Yet he was arrested in Cairo

during one of the biggest There's no words that can describe

what we went through, Ibrahim and his sisters were

visiting family in Egypt when the democratically-elected

president was overthrown. They decided to join protests

against the military coup. During the violence that followed,

they took refuge in a mosque, Armies just kept coming towards us

and actually wanted to attack us, so the only place, safest place we

felt at this time would have been the mosque, because no way would

it have crossed our minds that The internet campaign to free him

began after his sisters were Ibrahim's friends

and teachers remain baffled He is accused of murder, accused

of explosives, accused of I think a list the length of your arm, along

with the 490 other people, so to me, there is nothing in his character

that would match any of that. Ibrahim has been kept

in what have been described He could face the death penalty

if convicted. They are not conditions

fit for a 17-year-old, or 19-year-old Irish teenager,

never mind any human being. He shares a cell with

a number of other prisoners. He described how

he would be regularly beaten. He described how, in the mornings,

he was awoke by the sound Egypt's ambassador to Ireland

didn't want to do an interview and dismissed claims of beatings and

torture in the prison as propaganda. The mass trial,

which began in March, The Halawa family has now called

on Britain's Prime Minister, David Cameron, to intervene

on their brother's behalf. Some of the other News for you. The

French President has announced he will deploy an act aircraft carrier

in the Persian Gulf to assist the fight against the Islamic Street

group in Iraq and Syria. -- Islamic State. The US Defence Secretary has

visited an aircraft carrier in the South China Sea was back to contest

in what is seen as a signal to China of America's stabilising presence in

the region. In Rome, mafia bosses, politicians and businessmen have

appeared in court at the start of the biggest anti-corruption trial

for decades, accused of rigging contracts for public services over

many years, causing the Italian capital's finances to come close to

the point of collapse. The Real Madrid striker,

Karim Benzema, has been placed under formal investigation for

complicity in attempted blackmail involving his French international

teammate, Mathieu Valbuena. He has not been charged

by the French authorities, but is being questioned over a conversation

he's said to have had with Valbuena last month, in which he mentioned

a sex tape that got into Benzema's lawyer, Sylvain Cormier,

says the football star - who has been named three times the French

Player of the Year - is innocent. TRANSLATION: Karim Benzema has not

admitted anything. It's outrageous to read

such things in the news. He proclaims his innocence,

he stands entirely by his friend Mathieu Valbuena, who has

also dealt with the same attempts. He did not take any part, I repeat,

any part, in the blackmail, Some stunning images to show you

from Nasa.. This is of the Sun taken by the space-based telescope. It

took a high resolution image of the sun every 12 seconds. Each

wavelength highlights a different temperature. It has given a

different colour. Quite extraordinary, the giver of

life, the sun, there. And Nasa have also released -- have also released

images from Mars. They have discovered the atmosphere was

stripped by solar winds. We will look at a lot of different processes

that can take place in removing the atmosphere, focusing largely on the

ability of the solar wind to strip gases away. If we can roll the

second video, we are looking at the solar wind as it impinges on the

planet, it is streaming out from the sun at about 1 million miles an

hour. It can grab ions from the planet, strip them of way, or knock

them into the planet at high speed and knock other stuff off.

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