Russia, Britain ramp up to return tourists

Moscow sending 44 planes to repatriate 80,000 people while London starts flying out 20,000

Moscow and London were ramping up efforts to pull out thousands of stranded tourists from Sharm el-Sheikh on Sunday, after Egypt said it was too early to know whether a bomb brought down a Russian plane.

Britain and the United States suspect a bomb exploded on board the Airbus minutes after it took off from the Red Sea resort en route to St Petersburg, killing all 224 people on board.