screened properly before the flights are started. 35,000 people should be on the way back today, but how many brits have been inconvenienced. how the prime minister can secure british lives at the egyptian airport before he allows the flights to be restarted. the secretary did say, christine, he wants flights up and running by tomorrow. he seems optimistic to deal with the security concerns. max foster, thank you. egypt is insisting the airport is still safe this morning. i want to bring in senior don t ben wedeman. he is live in cairo. ben, from your experience, your vast experience in egypt and region, what is security like at sharm el sheikh international? reporter: i think if you speak to anybody who has
do this without an indication. it s just like a crime scene. everybody goes back to the tapes. that s what the intelligence does. they go back and review any available imagery and talk to anybody who might have had any insight and see what they can come up with. there s something there that they re not telling us. isis did claim responsibility for the crash. that was dismissed. now it s being given serious consideration. does isis have the capability to do this, and if they did, how did they pull it off? yeah. okay. second part first. they probably pulled it off by recruiting someone at the airport to do this. that wouldn t be hard to do in egypt. if you look at the isis anil yat in egypt, these people didn t come from syria or iraq. these are egyptians. other groups, there s an al qaeda affiliate that that has
about any intelligence, specific intelligence that downing street may have about the crash? well, wolf, the british are being very tight-lipped here. they re not giving away any information about the specific intelligence that they received regarding this crash. but we did hear two interesting things today. firstly, we heard from egyptian president el sisi at the end of his meeting with cameron. he said ten months ago british authorities sent a team to sharm el sheikh airport to look at security procedures. he said that visit went well. but certainly, wolf, it s fair to say this isn t the first time the british authorities have been looking at security at the sharm el sheikh airport. now, the second thing that we re hearing today comes from easy jet. this is one of the airlines, a low-cost budget airline that will be helping to evacuate those roughly 20,000 british citizens from sharm el sheikh tomorrow. what they have said is that no passengers will be allowed to
british authorities are suspending flights while they review safety procedures at the airport. there will be no uk passenger flights out to sharm el shake from now. a key piece of evidence in the crash investigation is the cockpit voice recorder. a source told the russian news agency that the device captured sounds that were uncharacteristic and ind it kaed a nonstandard energy. kyung lah has more details. reporter: a u.s. official tells cnn chatter overheard after the crash suggests isis planted a bomb on the russian plane. investigators looking for proof focusing their attention on this, the plane s black boxes. the flight s cockpit voice recorder says an unnamed source to russia s interfax news agency
traveled there frequently, it is relaxed. you don t get the feeling that security is very high unlike many other airports in this part of the world. it is normally an exclusively tourist destination and many people going there expect things to be relaxed. the searches are not particularly intrusive. there is not much in the way of questioning of people who are getting on flights. in terms of the security measures in place behind the scenes that you would not normally see. it is difficult to say. there is this british delegation of aviation experts or airport security experts there trying to determine how safe the airport is. obviously now that the eyes of the world are upon that airport, security is going to be very tight, but going forward, the question is the worry of the egyptian officials is that the impact on the tourism industry