Explosives forced the plane to change route. Again at least 55 passengers on board. The countrys president saying that this was not related to terrorism. Msnbcs Ayman Mohyeldin is on the phone with us. We hear this might have been something to do with a terrorist event, but egypt government saying not the case. Reporter the initial indication were getting both from the Cypriot Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as the initial reporting there, that this did not have any political motivation behind it. In fact the man who is believed to have been the hijacker identified at seif eldin mustafa hijacked the plane motivated by whats being referred to as a personal matter. This is a flight that took off from alexandria heading towards cairo, should have been a very short flight, not a lot of passengers, about you was redirected towards l aisarnaca cyprus. We understand from the egypt presidency they were following it closely. Egypt air was providing and reported that all of those that had be
Calling itself nation marched into the city. This just a day after a solidarity march in response to tuesdays terrorist bombings was canceled due to security concerns. An estimated 400 to 500 marchers headed to a memorial site in central brussels carrying antiterrorism and antiisis banners. Minutes ago, police used Water Cannons to disperse the group as some onlookers cheered. Ayman mohyeldin joins me. Describe what happened when this group, not only came into the square, but were separated by police from what i could see from people who came out for that unity march anyway. Yeah, i mean, the scene here since tuesday has been a very peaceful scene. This was a makeshift memorial on the steps of the historic Stock Exchange in the center of brussels. A common tourist area. For the past several days a lot of people by the thousands, families, different walks of life, coming, laying wreaths, flowers, candles, flags in the heart of it all. Today, there was supposed to be a large march known
Images this morning, these are from inside the attackers socalled bomb making safe house in an apartment just outside of brussels. Authorities raided that apartment shortly after the bombings, they say they found bomb making materials inside that includes chemicals, nails, bolts, each an isis flag. And in france meanwhile officials there say that police have foiled another terrorist attack plot, one was that was at an advanced stage of manage they say. Authorities raided a home just outside of paris after arresting a french national. Lets go live to brussels and nbcs bill neely and chris jansing. Chris, we will start with you for more on that u. S. Based brother and sister who we now know were killed. Were saying u. S. Based i guess we are still not sure if they are american citizens, we know they were living in new york. What more can you tell us . Reporter it really does put faces and names to the tragedy that has happened here. The pinczowskis, young, full of life new yorkers, excit
Their people to stay at home or inside builds as they continue to monitor the situation. The u. S. Embassy in brussels has ordered police not to use Public Transportation this morning. This happened days after Salah Abdeslam was arrested in brussels. Lets go to Alastair Jamieson who has been following this as well. We talked about the first explosion at 8 00 a. M. Followed by the second one at 8 30. Besides the optics of a coordinated attack or coordinated explosions by whoever may have been responsible, have question gotten any indication from the federapolice or the belgium government theyre labelling this as a multiple coordinated terrorist attack . Reporter nothing yet. The authorities havent said that, we do expect them to be giving an update on the situation in the coming hour. But at the moment, nothing is confirmed about a link between these two. But, you know, very clearly, it follows the hallmarks of other similar coordinated attacks that have taken place, all were being prep
He went on becoming belgiums ambassador to the united nations. Keir, for those tuning in this morning, please reset the scene of what happened for about 45 minutes today in that square in brussels. Thats right, joy. For a while, it was close to running battles between rightwing protesters and the police. We were in the middle of it at one stage. Just down along the street here, they were trying to push the protesters out of this square, when they were firing water cannon to try to move them along. Riot police pushing them along. And then the protesters returning fire, if you like, with missiles, anything, it looked like they could find in the street. In some cases, flares. As we pushed along the street, they got about a half mile along there to the train station. People were on the ground being arrested. Some clearly injured. Finally, they got into the train station. The principle was, the aim was clearly to get them there and get them back on trains. It all began in the square, which