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The latest intelligence suggests a bomb planted by isis or an isis affiliate brought down that russian passenger jet in egypt killing all 224 people onboard. our cnn international correspondent phil black is over at number 10 downing street in london. phil, british officials i take it they've reached a similar conclusion? >> reporter: that's right, wolf. earlier today the british government announced that they were concerned that an explosive device may have brought down this aircraft. what we've seen since then and they've announced this publicly what we've seen since then is a strengthening ...

Officer believed to have been killed in the line of duty. officials now say the man hailed as a hero had been embezzling money from his department for years. and his death was in fact a carefully staged suicide. did he use his police skills to cover up his crimes? we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." we're following the breaking news. very disturbing new intelligence on that russian plane crash in egypt that killed 224 people. a u.s. official familiar with the matter now telling cnn the latest intelligence...

Kingdom. that was just supposed to happen for today but now looks like it will take place indefinitely for some days at least. they've got a team on the ground of british aviation experts who they say are working with egyptian authorities to assess the security situation there. and only when they are satisfied will flights resume, will they look at putting on specially secure flights to ensure all the british tourists who are there able to return here to the uk as well. in response to all of this the response from the egyptian government was, well, surprise it said, but also it was dis appoint...

Course of the evening but not discussing the source or the nature of this information. the egyptian government isn't happy about the statements from the british government because it's quite extraordinary for britain to go out oh head of the investigating country, egyptian in this case so quick to dismiss terrorism throughout the time since the accident, but the british government making the point it has seen information, intelligence that the egyptians have not. the question is to what degree that information will be shared, wolf. >> phil black, thank you. we're back with senator lindsey grah...

Right, back to square one. >> tom, it appears to be an act of terror from the information we're getting. if it is, wouldn't you expect the egyptian government to invite your former employee, employer, fbi to come in and join in this investigation? >> no, i wouldn't expect them to invite the fbi and i think the fbi will make the offer to provide assistance. i don't think it will be acre cemented. i think the egyptian government, you know, will be trying to look at a political angle in terms of this. they are not going to be happy if that turns out to be true, an insider at the airport caused a ...