from paris to the u.s. and underwear bomber was on a flight from amsterdam to the u.s. what do you think of the selection and do they go far enough? unfortunately, victor, whenever there is an act of terrorism or suspicion of terrorism. airport security decreases the level of disruption for passengers also rises. this is what terrorists want. they want to create this chaos that exists on the network of infrastructures to do with all the airports. the thing that worries me the most is that it s not ncessarily the passenger that is the concern. it is the people doing the security at the airports. fr there is this growing increasing fear that at sharm el shaikh airport there was collusion at the airport that allowed a potential explosive device to get on board that plane. that is something that will need to be looked at in the future. what is their background. do they have an ideological
the summit in singapore is largely symbolic with no agreements being signed there. the world health organization says sierra leone is now ebola free. since the outbreak started nearly two years ago, the country has had far more cases of the virus than its neighbors. one aid worker says this is the beginning of freedom. european investigators say the black boxes from metrojet 9268 indicate that a bomb brought that plane down. cnn affiliate france 2 also says the recorders don t reveal any signs of mechanical malfunction. a report says an airport worker may have placed that explosive. more than 400 tourist from the u.k. who have been stuck in the sharm el sheikh airport could fly home on saturday. the so-caled rescue flights of the international airport started on friday. it s estimated 20,000 britons are in sharm el sheikh, and it could take ten days to get them all out. cnn s phil black has this report.
on to a plane in the united states, for instance. okay, isis has sympathizers in egyptian security forces, it also has hundreds of people in sinai working with it. so, you know, this is, that was a relatively easy target of opportunity for them. i don t think it was a particularly sophisticated operation to do this. all right. we appreciate it so much. thank you. he is speaking with us, by the way. we will be talking about changes to airport security and flights coming to the u.s. in just a moment as well, security now heightened because of the egyptian crash. what you will be seeing at an airport potentially to keep travelers safe. plus, a different ben carson, firing back against the media for questions about his past, but could this help or hurt his run for the nomination? there is a desperation on behalf of some to try to fine a way to tarnish me because they have been looking through
this investigation. our senior international correspondent, ben wedeman, standing by live for us this hour at cairo, egypt, and we understand in the coming hours, we will hear a statement, a news conference from officials there. what more do we know about what we could hear? reporter: at this point we don t know what we re going to hear. the news conference by the minister of civil aviation will take place at 5:00 p.m. this evening at the ministry. so far, no hints of what he might be saying. obviously as you mentioned, the press conference by the egyptian foreign minister expressing frustration that intelligence has not been shared with the egyptian authorities. that intelligence was shared with the russian authorities by american officials yesterday. and that s what precipitated the decision by russia to suspend flights not only to sharm el sheikh but to egypt as a whole, as well. now this comes with this news
and a big point has been made of that here. equally, the point has been made that it must be the egyptians who come out first and talk about the findings of what has been discovered. it seems that russia has become impatient for egypt to put out what is now appears to be apparent, and i think we can interpret from russia s actions suspending flights it takes equally seriously as the british do that flights into egypt this time, particularly sharm el sheikh, are not safe. it increases the russian perception, russian government perception that the terrorism threat, terrorism angle in all of this appears to be the most likely one. george? the investigation continues, nic. certainly a lot of people have a lot of questions. at this point where you are, there are a lot of families that are grieving. great loss. nic robertson live in st. petersburg, russia. thank you, nic. as this investigation