the focus of the investigation in te crash of a russian airliner turns to security at sharm el-sheikh airport as holiday makers begin to return home. ♪ ♪ hello i am jane dutton live from the al jazeera headquarters in doha. also ahead a dam burst at a mine in brazil overrunning homes, dozens are feared dead. myanmar reaches a milestone in its transformation from military dictatorship to democracy. campaigning draws to a close ahead of sunday's historic election. and we report on the

refugees trying to reach a better life in europe via the arctic circle. ♪ ♪ outbound british flights from sharm el-sheikh egypt are said to resume among tight security. britain suspended all flights to and from the resort town on wednesday. investigators are looking in to the possibility that a bomb may have been placed on a russian plane at the airport. all 224 people on board were killed when the metro jet aircraft crashed on saturday. u.s. president barack obama has said there is a possibility that there was a bomb on the russian airliner that crashed. the white house is reviewing what step to his take. >> at this point the united states has not made our own determination about the cause of the incidents. however we can't rule anything out. including the possibility of terrorist involvement.

obviously i heard the announcement from the british government about steps they were taking to insurance the safe test british traveling public and currently the obama administration is reviewing a number of different steps that we can take. >> both russia and egypt have said it's too early to draw conclusions the egyptian president says that he is doing everything to insure the safety of tourists and passengers. he's been in london for walks it the british prime minister david cameron. >> translator: we are ready to cooperate further we are any procedures and insure all of our friends of the security measures in place at sharm el-sheikh are enough. and that the airport is safe for a good standard. >> let's cross to paul brennan who is in london. what are you hearing about the investigation, paul, anymore details? >> reporter: no her we details coming out from the russian side and they are in the driving seat in relation to all of this. don't forget they are the ones that have the black box data recorders, but in the absence of definitive reasoning, as too

what exactly brought down that metro jet plane, there is a lot of intelligence chatter and reports and frankly speculation about the exact cause. as far as the british are concerned, we heard david cameron who spoke with president sisi on thursday, he says that it's more likely than not that it was a bomb which brought down that aircraft. president barack obama the president of the united states also said i think there is a possibility that there is a bomb and we are taking that very seriously. and reports are suggesting that there was chatter between members of isil. suggessuggesting that an attacks imminent. it is reported unsourced that those chatters -- that chatter was picked up by the u.k. intelligence services and that has led to the ban on flights in nba to sharm el-sheikh and very

stringent restrictionses now being placed on the out band flights which those stranded tourist are having to endure. >> you are talking about flights coming to and from europe, right? >> reporter: yes, that's right. it's interesting to see there is a variation between countries as to their preach in the wake of the bomb attack. the italian carrier is operating as normal. russian aircraft, you would have thought the russians would be the first one to his pull their aircraft away from sharm el chic. iel-sheikh, but they are operating anomaly the austrian carcarrier is flight and it's considering whether or not that play plane should go ahead. in contrast to that rather relaxed approach. the british operators, easy jet, and monarch and british airways,

they are basically not operating any flights in no sharm el-sheikh until friday of next week and are sending passengers back from sharm el-sheikh on rescue flights effectively without their luggage, they are saying they are carry small amounts of hands luggage, car keys, house keys, passport, cash, credit card, but that is it. there will be no checked including luggage, no hulled lue they are promising the government couriers will bring back the suitcases there are very tight restrictions in the absence of the definitive cause for the crash and the huge amount of suspicion that it was a bomb placed in the hulled. they are not take anything chances. >> all right, paul, thank you. myanmar has reached another important milestone in its transformation from military dictatorship to democracy. campaigning is officially drawing to a close in the country's historic lex. opposition leader has promise today form a reconciliation

government in her party the nld wins sunday's poll but there are allegations of threats and intimidation in the run up to the elections florence l on. oism sent this update. >> reporter: this election is being seen at an opportunity for myanmar to continue it's a path to reform a process that was started five years ago when a military dictatorship handed overpower to a semi civilian government. now, there are already several issues surrounded sunday' ballot. the first is whether or not the election process can be considered to be prix and fair. the main opposition party, the national league for democracy, has already said that there are irregularities in the voter list and alleges that it could be anywhere between 30 and 80% and has said that it's concerned about this. then another issue is whether or not you can ever consider an election that does not allow 25% of seats to be contested to be considered free and fair. now, the contusion guarantees that the military will take 25%

of seats in both the lower and upper houses of parliament. so which was party gets to form the next government will have to i can that in to consideration the mill tier i's continued role in politics in myanmar. and of course, the third issue is whether or not the fact that these polls will not be open to everyone in the country will mar the electoral result. the ongoing fighting in ethnic areas means that polls in several townships and hundreds of villages across the country will be closed. you have a group of hundreds of thousands of people who will be disenfranchised temporary i.d. cardholders who were given the right to vote and then had the right revoked because of anti-muslim sentiment in this country. these are clouding the historic election in myanmar. the number confirmed to be killed in a factory collapse is

32. 40 are still missing in the rubble. some witnesses at the site say the building was fully constructed and an investigation will begin after the recovery effort. at last one people killed and 45 others missing in brazil after a dam burst flieding a mine and nearby home people have been hold to move to meyer ground. >> reporter: this village did not stands a chance against the thick torrents of mud that truck through it. after a damn holding waste wine burst. dozens are injured. the thick mud stretched over two-kilometers from the damn to the village. about 600 people live here. and most of them are miners. some homes have have been swept away and others fell to the roof with mud. thereof no power as electricity lines were brought down by the strong current. firefighters say the number of people missing may rise and it's unlikely to find survivors under the toxic mixture. rescue workers struggled to

reach people as all roads are blocked by the deluge the company running the strike says it's trying to figure out what happened. >> translator: at the moment we have not confirmed the cause and extends of what happened of a number of victims, i repeat our focus at this critical moment is to preserve people's well being and the edge viral. >> reporter: the site is operated by a mining company and owned by larger companies from brazil and australia. they say they are doing all they can to help people. >> translator: the brick was did he -- the break was detect third degree afternoon and we needed activated our medical plan, mobilizing with civil defense forces, the fire brigade, military police and other competent authorities. all the necessary efforts to prioritize the treatment of people living there. >> reporter: the army and national civil defense teams are helping and it looks like it will need all the help it can

get. al jazeera. protests against corruption in romania have continued for a third night. 20,000 people rallied in the capital bucharest prime minister victor resigned on wednesday after the first has demonstration. the rallies were sparked by a fire in an unauthorized nightclub which killed 32 people. at least two people have been killed is and several others serious injured after a tram rammed a truck in the german stayed of bavaria it was carrying a u.s. military vehicle and may have got the en stuck on the track. the drive and lory drivers were both killed in the crash. no end insight for europe's refugees crisis 3 million people are due to arrived by 2017. and refugees are finding new ways to reach the continent even braving the bitter cold of the arctic circle. this remote region might be

freezing but it's far safer than the barbed wire fences and strict border police that hundreds of thousands are face on his their route to europe. hundreds have crossed the russian board never to norway. many crossing on bicycles or motorcycles because local laws mean they are not allowed to cross on foot. >> translator: there is no other option for us in afghanistan. we have to go to norway. i don't know any other way. there isn't one. we nba moscow also they don't provide us with documents. they so go away. they don't give us documents or work. there is nothing good left for us in afghanistan. there are many taliban there. they mess with us every day. >> rory challands is in moscow for us. talk us through this extraordinary route, rory. >> reporter: it is interesting, isn't it. it's a story that we have been having a look at for the last couple of weeks or so and there are a number of intriguing elements to t. first. all it's the method of transport

bicycles these men and women are hopping to little rickety bikes and pedaling a is who the border because there is a check air at this of this particular border crossing which means that no foot traffic is allowed. second of all, you've got the remoteness of the whole thing. these people are going round the back way in to the backdoor of europe. we have seen all these pictures of hundreds of thousands of refugees trying to get in europe's front door these guys are going all the way up to the arctic circle. and trying to get in that way. in t may seem extreme, but there is a logic to it. the lodge i think is that it is first of all cheaper and second of all much safer than going through the balkans are trying to cross the mediterranean. and yourself this question, if you are trying to find a better life in europe, which would you rather, would you rather pay thousands of dollars to a people smuggler and run the risk of

drowning in the mediterranean or would you rather hop a train up to northern russia and then get on a bike and cycle across the boarder? i know which one i would. >> fair enough. are these countrie countries prr them any in way? >> reporter: well, norway has shown [ technical difficulties ] about this flow, it is still being hospital pillable and still letting a number of refugees in, but it is becoming un -- well, unwelcoming for a number of refugees, the ones who it believes have been living for quite sometime in russia. norway is seeing a lot of refugees come across their border, they are they are not fleeing from syria directly but might have been living in other other countries say russia for as log as 12 years we have been hearing. they also think that the russian

government the russian security services have been managing this flow of refugees in some way. of course, that is not something that the russians have said they are doing. but the norwegians have asked sergei lavrov the russian foreign minister for an explanation. >> intriguing. okay, rory, thank you. still to come on the program. police and protesters face-off at a million mask march in london. saving money and saving the planet the revolutionary way plastic bottles of being reused in south africa.

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held going, the top tore stories on al jazeera. outbound british flights are set to resume among tight security. warning of traveling because of the record town because there are fears a bomb brought dawn the russian airline ore saturday. does ends are feared dead after a dam burst in brazil. homes in a town state were engulfed by a massive mudslide. campaigning is officially drawing to a close in myanmar's first openly contested apartmentlpalament. are you elections. but there are allegations of corruption. what exactly caused the plane to crash in the sinai peninsula has overshadowed a visit by gyp's president to the

u.k. el-sisi met dave up cameron from drowning street. we have a report from london. >> reporter: it was a highly's mated visit. egyptian's sisi finally arrived in downing street on thursday but his trip started with unwelcome news that the you can had suspended all flights too and from sharm el-sheikh a popular destination for hollandy makers. outside downing street hundreds of protest is gathered to denounce the visit. their view that a man they hold responsible for killing thousands of civilians and arresting over 40,000 people should never have been invite today the yo u.k. >> we are saying very clearly that sisi has committed crimes against humanity. he should not be welcome in britain and that he is a threat to security and stability in egypt and elsewhere. >> reporter: some demonstrators dressed in body bags? & nooses lay down outside the prime minister residents blocking the

entrance, a symbolic protest to detect the hundreds sentenced to death or killed since the 2013 coup. they were eventually forcibly removed and arrested by the police. >> we have brothers and sisters in egypt they are killing them every day. >> reporter: the egyptian embassy in london also mobilized people on the other side of the road those in support of sisi gathered. their message, the former general is the only man who can protect-y gyp. cameron has come under a lot of criticism for inviting sisi. the head of the opposition in the u.k. said the visit showed contempt for human rights, it was no surprise then that this press conference was tightly controlled by downing street. al jazeera was not allowed to attend. instead, we were forced to ask our questions from across the street as sisi left. mr. sisi, when are you going to release the 40,000 political prisoners? mr. sisi, when will you release the journalists in jail?

mr. sisi, when will you release the political prisoners in egypt? mr. sisi, why don't you want to answer these questions? unfortunately, as you can see, the issue you of human rights in sisi's visit to the u.k. has not been at the forefront of that agenda. rather prime minister cameron and sisi have chose phone focus on security issues, trade issues and other things and that's what has caused a lot of anger amongst a lot of people oppose today this visit. >> david cameron shouldn't have left him walk out of the door of number 10 without talking to human rights, they are key too security and egypt is waging a counter terrorism campaign that doesn't differentiate between peaceful protesters and members of armed groups. >> reporter: sisi is expected to return to cairo on friday. he may view this trip as he is a [ inaudible ] he's visited. opposition to his presidency is

also clearly widespread. jamal, al jazeera, london. a leaked report by the world's chemical weapons body confirms mustard gas has been used in syria. the opcw says it was used in august during a battle between isil and another rebel group. it's the first confirmation that champion kl weapons have been used since the government agreed to destroy its stockpile in 2013. a senior fellow with the arms control association in the united states says the source of the mustard gas is unclear and he's concerned that isil may have found a way to manufacture chemical weapons. >> there is obviously concern about isil from a number of perspectives. but one of the great achievements of getting rid of this very large arsenal of assad's chemical weapons was

that we great will he reduced the dank that an danger that ane parties in the syrian civil war would have access to or be able to use these very lethal chemical weapons. so although the hope was that these agents have been removed from the table, if that is not the case, if isil has either found some way to get the remaining government stockpile or has figured out a way to manufacture it. that's a new element which will make this awful and bloody conflict even more deadly. the u.n. is backing its outgoing special envoy to libya amid allegations i've conflict of interest. bernadino leon will move for a new role in the united arum emirates which which is seen as a supporter of one side in the conflict the u.n. says he worked

tire ilsley for peace. >> reporter: the outgoing u.n. envoy to libya giving his last briefing to the security council on the fragile political situation in the country. >> while i have always remained hopeful about the chances of libya's leaders reaching a peaceful agreement. >> reporter: but it was unexpectedly overshadowed by leon himself. he spent just over a year trying to bring about a power sharing agreement between the two self declared legitimate governments but at the same time, he was negotiate be a high-paying job with the united arab emirates the key backer of the house of representative government in the talks with air rival the general national congress or g.n.c. it's called in to question leon's impartiality and the president of the g.n.c. sent a letter for the secretary energy ban ki-moon which says in part the timing of the envoy's new job while he is asking to accept

his suggestions as fair and unbiased shows disrespect for the libyan people and their sacrifice, this new job puts at risk the destruction of the political process. we asked leon about exactly that. the gmc sent a letter to the security council questioning your impartiality giving your upcoming job with the e.u. a and go so far to say that it could put in jeopardy the political process that you have worked so hard to get in place. >> i assume my part of wh what s going on, and i don't want to focus the attention on other elements. as i said, if the optics of what happens are not the correct ones here i am very humble to go say maybe i could have done things in a different way. >> reporter: the u.n. is backing leon and says the secretary general expects all of his special envoy to his avoid conflicts of interest when pursuing outside employment.

>> does the secretary general feel he needs to give some sort of explanation to the g.n.c. and do the libyan people in general? >> i think mr. leon's tireless and unending work to try to reach an accord on a government and national accord in libya speaks for itself. throughout this process he has been criticized strongly by one sides or another. >> reporter: leon leaves his post as the agreement is in its final stage but as a new special envoy takes up his job in the next couple of days the first step could be to repair the credibility of the process at a most kit corral time. gabriel elizondo, al jazeera, at the united natio nations. violent flow tests in london. a police car was set on fire and at least 28 people were arrested. neave barker has more from

london. >> reporter: for an organization with no discernible hierarchy, no discern' am leadership the popopularity of anonymous has grown globally. here there are thousands that have marched under that banner the mask of guy forbes who back in 1605 tried to blow up the houses of parliament and kill king james, but this has very much become a symbol of resistence, political resince tense. there are many peopler who representing different campaign groups from around the country. similar marches were also taking place globally as well. they are hoping that this will be a million man masked march around the world. they are representing lots of different things when it comes to animal rights, where it comes to being against digital surveillance and so on and so forth. but in recent years anonymous has take own the likes of the ku klux klan, the likes of isil, also and for all of those people here they are very much united very much under one banner, this

one. a new way of buildings schools in south africa is helping to ease the shortage of classrooms and save the earn viral. recycled plastic bricks are replacing the traditional clay and cement once, we have more from prix tour prix tour i pre. >> reporter: soon they won't be having their meals cooked and served outside. it may not look like it but the kitchen being built behind them is made from recycled plastic bricks there is a shortage of classrooms and school buildings some in of south africa's poorest communities. [ inaudible ] >> reporter: plastic bottles north biodegradable and end up in landfills but they are molded in to recognize take you lahr brick like shapes and sold to the public for quarter bottles for nearly 50%. the kitchen is nearly complete.

a wire mesh keeps the play anything bricks in place, those behind the problem say it's a way to save the environment and uplift local communities. >> we supply the schools with without their become part of the bottles for the family. we get those battles back because the controlled environment as such. once we get them back they automatically become a brick and then take those ask do structures like these you see behind me. >> reporter: another school in the city will have an interesting structure, the brick are able to stack like lego bricks here is how you i want lack them. it takes about 15 through of these to build the structure and this will be a kitchen. the builders say it will be very fast it took them roughly three hours. this 1,000 square meter youth center opens in january. officials at the bottlal to build schools i miles an hour tiff say depends on this finishes used it's 40% cheap tore build with plastic than clay or cement bricks. >> there are loads of people

benefit fax you are skeptical comment me and i will show you it's real. >> reporter: initial concern about the bricks catching fire. >> no, i didn't believe it because i thought [ inaudible ] the whole kitchen will bend, but no, it won't. >> reporter: more than 20 school buildings and youth facilities have been built using recycled plastic bottles so far. it's hoped this low cost and greenway to build will one day be used across africa. a terminally ill star wars fan has been granted big dieing wish to watch the force a wangs. daniel fleetwood from texas got to see an early cust new star wars movie after a social media campaign called force for daniel went viral. the 31-year-old has an

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