The drug. Britains foreign secretary says there is a significant possibility that isil did bring down a passenger plane in egypt. The British Government is hosting egypts president right now on an official visit. But has sent its own ive jags experts to assess the security of the airport in sinai. It has suspended all flights between the u. K. And the egyptian resort and says it will not resume until the assessment is complete. Egypts foreign minister has reacted angry saying any decision before the official investigation is complete is premature. All 224 people on board were killed when the russian operated air bus a321 came down. Neave barker reports now from london. Reporter since saturday search teams have been scouring the site where flight 9268 came down. And where 224 people were killed. Its a difficult task with wreckage strewn across a wide area of desert. Russian investigators are using drones to try to identify anything that could answer questions about why the air bus 8321
They were5 a. M. , informed that Traffic Control lost contact with the plane. A Ukraine Interior Ministry spokesman, they feel it was shot down by rebels. The rebels deny that at this point. According to Ukrainian Air Traffic Control, the plane was flying at almost 34,000 feet, and so it would take a fairly sophisticated surfacetoair missile to do that. Members,ngers, 15 crew a total of 295, according to the Ukrainian Government, all of them have been killed. There is an unconfirmed report that 23 of them were americans. Again, no confirmation of that. United states had closed the airspace to u. S. Carriers in april, and why the europeans did not close it, they made a basically offlimits, telling pilots because of the war zone they should avoid the area, so that was a question why the plane was in the area at the time. Russians say they close the airspace because they have to fly into russia out of the ukraine. Ukrainian see the airspace was open today. That is the very latest. We are
Good everything, thanks for joining us i am joie chen. This hour our continuing special coverage of the two big developing stories amping up tensions in two conflict zones, in Eastern Ukraine breakaway donetsk section. And who shot a malaysian passenger jet out of the sky and why. The International Civil Aviation Organization says it will send a team to help in the investigation. Despite the territorial dispute over donetsk. They say ukraine is in charge of the probe. European observers were briefly allowed at the crash site but armed rebels kept them from doing their work. The first one there was al jazerras Scott Heidler who brought us an exclusive report from the scene. Reporter as the sun rose, it revealed the scope of just how difficult the recovery and investigation will be for flight mh17. The debris rests in a vast area around these wheat fields, a circumference of at least 10kilometers. Translator there was an explosion in the sky above the house. I came out to see what happen
Have retrieved the black boxes from the downed Malaysian Airliners. They say they will help to establish the truth. Washington claims to have circumstantial evidence that the rebels shot down mh 17 with a russianmade missile. A say their access to the crash site is being restricted by m a, investigators say. Restricted by gunmen. Haslinda amin is kuala lumpur, and she will be telling us what things are like their on the ground in the malaysian capital. In fact, we can go over to Haslinda Amin now. Is like. Hat it it is pretty somber. If you access social media, you see facebook, and an outpouring of grief, sadness, disappointment, shot. You see comments about, why did it happen . How can it happen again . Is. It mh 17. So this is a nation grieving, just one week to the monthations following one of the fasting month. You can hardly feel any form of celebration. No one is in the mood for that. Theround the city, speak to people in kuala lumpur, they are in a state of shock. How it is abo
Banks cut back. The royal bank of scotland will be stashing staff numbers and in japan. Hello. Welcome to countdown. We will beming up, live in paris. Conferenceal tech which brings together leading companies, innovators and startups. We have exclusive interviews through the morning starting with le webs founder. Markets are in focus after us a lot and equities yesterday. Policymakers on short loans. Of parliamentary elections and the Russian Central Bank also meet in the next 24 hours. I will start with greece. What a day. The biggest oneday decline since 1987. That tells you something. Something very interesting happened in the bond market. I will focus on this later. The yield on the threeyear bond went to the yield of a 10 year bond. It is an inverting yield curve. That is a worry because that means greece will not have access to Capital Markets and will face difficulties raising money in the future. The asset markets in greece are flashing red right now. It all came on the same da