Officials Share Intelligence News Today

But we also have to step up our activities against isis. to me we have been much too half hard on this. the men and women in the armed forces do a phenomenal job, but they dont have the intelligence on the ground. the only way to get that is with observers on the ground. we have to do much more, sustain it and keep it going. our allies should be doing more. with all these countries involved, were still doing the overwhelming number of air attacks, and theyre not as effective as they could and sh...

His military mission in syria to targeting isis? and on defense. as more questions are raised about his autobiography, gop candidate ben carson is defending his life story and attacking the media. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." breaking news. european investigators who analyzed the black boxes recovered from the wreckage in the sinai desert are now saying flatly that the metrojet crash was no accident. theyre telling cnn affiliate france 2 that the flight data recorder confi...

Lets go live to moscow, our correspondent matthew chance is standing by. everything youre hearing over there, matthew, are the russians now convinced this was a bomb? >> reporter: well, if they are, theyre not saying as much explicitly. but the fact is theyve been listening to that intelligence thats been shared with them by the united states and by the united kingdom. its forced them to do something that the kremlin very rarely does, which is a u-turn. remember, 24 hours ago the russians said t...

And britain, they decided to share intelligence, sensitive intelligence with russia and as a result of that, the russian president vladimir putin suspended all flights with russia and cairo, as well. obviously, russians were convinced by what they learned. >> i think we painted them into a corner because if the next plane that is russian takes off from there and blows up and they ignored what would appear to be great advice from the u.s. and britain, you know, shame on them. so i think that no m...

As russian drones scouring the debris field, focus remains on egyptians sham el sheikh airport where the aircraft departed. british intelligence believe an insider at the airport may have planted a bomb in the planes cargo hold right next to the aircrafts fuel line. >> you have food service workers, baggage handlers, maintenance personnel, all sorts of folks that have legitimate access and if you look statistically, working on those folks, somebody will be bad someplace. somehow perhaps they can...

That hes always had. >> reporter: its a spirit that remains intact and still loveably insecure, even in spectacular 3-d. im turning you over to wolf blitzer in the situation room. happening now, not an accident. investigators who analyzed the black boxes from the metrojet wreckage, they are now certain it was brought down by a bomb. they tell cnn affiliate france 20 that indicators show a normal flight, then a sudden blackout. game changer. with intelligence already suggesting a terror att...

>> we would have liked the u.k. not to make a decision until the full reports concerning the crash has been published. >> reporter: today after u.s. and british officials share intelligence. vladimir putin made the bold announcement russia is suspending all flights to egypt. officials in egypt continue to push back saying its too early to know what caused the crash. we have learned that russia made the decision to pull flights to egypt after it reviewed u.s. and british intelligence. officials i...