Britain is to begin repatriating thousands of its nationals stranded in Egypt today. It follows theBritish government's decision to suspend flights to and from the resort of Sharm El-sheikhafter a Russian passenger aircraft crashed. Mark Lowen is in Sharm El-sheikh. Those flying willbe subject to additional security measures, allowed to carry only hand luggage with biggerbags checked in on separate flights. It is part of a review by British security officials, who havebeen here assessing the airport in the light of the government's view that last week's crash of aRussian jet from Sharm El-sheikh to St. Petersburg may have been caused by a bomb onboard. This Red Sea resort worries its popularity could be shattered if the allegations provetrue.
The BBC has learned that the British investigators in Sinai believe a bomb was put in the hold.They based their assessment on intercepted messages. Here is Ran Gardener. Investigators atthe government’s joint terrorism analysis center have spent several days assessing what couldhave caused the plane to fall out of the sky. The working assumption is that someone withaccess to the aircraft's baggage compartment was able to insert an explosive device inside oron top of the luggage shortly before the plane took off for St. Petersburg. The Britishdefense secretary Michael Fallon says that if Islamic State militants are found to have broughtdown the plane in Egypt, it will strengthen the case for carrying out British airstrikes in Syriawhere the group controls large swathes of territory. The government has deferred plans to calla voting parliament fearing that it does not yet have enough support.
A final day of campaigning is under way in Myanmar. The opposition National League forDemocracy led by the Nobel peace prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to make majorgains on Sunday. She is barred from the presidency, but she has told supporters she will runthe government if the party wins. As Jonah Fisher now reports. Yesterday, she gave a pressconference here in Yangon where she said she would be above the presidency because shecannot become president, of course due to the constitution that is potentially problematicbecause the constitution stipulates the president as the highest authority in the land. Whatshe was trying to do is deliver a message to her supporters that if they vote for the NLD, theyare gonna get Ms. Suu Kyi in charge. So it was a rally in calling her supporters. But I think theremay be those certainly amongs opponents who look and then say, what do you mean morepowerful that the president, that does not really fitting with the way the constitution is set uphere.
A dam holding toxic sludge from an iron ore mine has burst near the town of Mariana insoutheastern Brazil and gulfing villages down stream. Aerial pictures show rivers of fake redmud and houses destroyed are buried to their roof tops. Officials say at least one person hasdied. But a local fire chief said as many as 40 people may have been killed. World news from theBBC.
An investigation has been launched into whether the American oil and gas company Exxon Mobilmisled the public and share holders about the risks to the business from climate change. TheNew York attorney general has demanded to see public statements made by the company aswell as emails and financial records to establish whether investors were deceived. Laura Becca isin Washington DC. Environmentalists claimed that Exxon's own scientists raised worries aboutglobal warming decades ago, but were ignored by company executives. They say Exxon, alsoknown as Esso, has acted like the tobacco industry in obscuring data that would be dangerousto its business. Exxon said it had included information on the business risk of climate change inreports to shareholders for many years. The New York Times claims investigation could beexpanded to include other oil companies.
The Prime minister of Ethiopia has said the international community must press for change inEritrea if it wants to prevent Europe's migrant crisis from worsening. Hailemariam Desalegn saidthe Eritrean government’s policies were causing large numbers of young people to flee. It is themisguided policy of Eritrea regime that makes the youths to flow out. It is simply because theirregime is putting all the young people into concentration camps and military camps in thename of military service. This has to stop. Europe has to be very sensitively work, help tochange the policies in Eritrea.
A rare Picasso painting has sold at auction in New York for more than 67 million dollars. Thecanvas, a nude portrait of a cabaret performer is unusual because it has another painting onthe reverse, a body depiction of Picasso's art dealer, which was only discovered duringrestoration work in the year 2000.That's the latest from BBC world news.
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