which -- of the kremlin, part of moscow overrun with security cameras. the paper dresses this particular detail. begin see the -- you can see the walls of the kremlin. there are several security cameras. instead of cameras, they are guns. the left-leaning paper in france is also critical of the russian president today. you can see him holding a smoking gun a funeral wreath, and shedding what seems like a crocodile tear. it says he is saying they killed him to destabilize me, so quite a critical cartoon. >> in france, papers are focusing on upcoming local elections. >> these are local elections scheduled for march 22. lots of focus on one party in particular that is expected to do quite well. that is the far right national front party. take a look at the front pages. once again, the national front is favored to win the election. the national front has been doing well in recent local elections. it has carried out a voting intention pull and points out the party is going to come out first with 33% of the vote, six points ahead of the conservative party, 14

this is what is happening in the center of moscow right now. thousands of people rallying and marching in memory of boris nemtsov and just in the last hour, we can see how the numbers of people have been building. >> yeah. many thousands here expected his call was for 100,000 and not sure if that number will show you up tens of thousands expected. the former russian deputy prime minister was a fierce and outspoken critic of vladimir putin and gunned down late friday as he walked home from dinner. there is still a manhunt for his killer. >> as you continue to look at these pictures, i'm seeing reports there are organizers district posters with his pictures and they are carrying signs with slogans that read he was fighting for a free russia and those shots were in each of us, but we nor they are going to march from the center where they are in moscow to the site where he was gunned down. 55-year-old died there on the street as he was walking and there is already a huge memorial that has built up at that site. flowers and condolence letters as wel

an opposition rally in moscow. instead, it's turned into a march of mourning after the outspoken critic was gunned down on a bridge steps from the kremlin friday night. more than 1,000 people are expected to attend the event. fred is live in moscow where the event is set to begin in about a half hour. i see people are already starting to gather. >> reporter: yeah absolutely george they are gathering. the interesting thing about the rally is it was sanctioned for up to 50,000 people to attend. it's unclear how many are going to attend. the number of people attending the rally is going to be a benchmark for the state the opposition is in in this country. it was interesting last night when thousands of people came to the place boris nemtsov was killed. the bridge is a place the rally is going past. again, it's a benchmark for the opposition how many people are going to attend the rally today. one of the things we have to keep in mind is before boris nemtsov was killed many oppositional figures were marginalized. if yo

>>> right now, it's 10:00 in moscow. we'll take you there live for the funeral of boris nemtsov, one of russia's most outspoken critics. >>> also coming up a war of work zone between the u.s. president and the prime minister of israel. >>> and a man killed on the ground. we'll hear a witness explain what he saw. >>> hello, everyone, i'm errol barnett. eye welcome hello, and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, this is "cnn newsroom." >>> we begin this hour with the latest information out of moscow at this moment. mourners are gathering to pay their final respects to boris nemtsov. you're looking at some footage that just came if to us moments ago as people gather around his open casket this morning. a memorial service has just begun for the prominent opposition activist. he was shot and killed while walking across a bridge near the kremlin on friday night. our senior international correspondent, matthew chance is there at the memorial and joins us now with more. just set the scene for us as t

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in the moscow march. what did the rally really say about the strength of opposition to president putin? >> you know, it was an impressive gathering for the op thinks, their biggest in three years. the protesters say that 50,000 people showed up, the police say 20,000. in any case, tens of thousands of people were out. some of them were there to protest against the russian president but i think many of them were there simply to pay their respect to the leader of the opposition. many average russians who remembered him as deputy prime minister and opposition perhaps activist as well. to what extent people say this is galvanizing the opposition, to what extent that's true. it's difficult to say and will have to wait until the next demonstration to see whether this is a trend to any real threat of russian president's popularity which is at an all time high. guy: give us the story on ukraine the rest of the day. >> well i'm in eastern ukraine , at the ukrainian police headquarters picking up press badges becau

>> thousands rally in moscow after the murder of the lead be opposition figure. >> hello from doha. this is the world news from al jazeera. >> a new push for peace in mali, a deal is agreed. looking a establish greater autonomy. >> the egyptian court brands a on organization terrorists. >> these people live in fear that a member of their family will be kidnapped in afghanistan. >> they are braving the cold is moscow today in the thousands in memory of a man they never met. this is a vigil for boris yelsnof, killed friday night. the rally is passing through the center of the russian capitol and will pass by the exact spot where he died. rory challands is our correspondent in moscow following this story. >> it has surprised many people that this demonstration that even been allowed to take place right in the heart of russia's capitol, moscow. normally opposition demonstrations are kept way on the outskirts of town. maybe the kremlin feels that this demonstration because it is for in mourning is different and that sorrow and grief are more manageable public emotions than political ange

matthew chance, cnn, moscow. >>> matthew, thank you very much for that. my next guest interviewed boris them seve several times and most recently in 2013 and michael weiss. let me begin with this. i know that you spoke in estonia with nemtsov two years ago and he said that putin is part of a mafia. we all know how he felt about president putin, but was it to the point where he was worried about retaliation and some are saying this is clearly political and putin is saying we have nothing to do with it. >> i think he felt a certain degree of impunity up until recently. he's confided in people that he thought putin might kill him in the last year or so. he was being surveilled 24/7 by the russian security forces and it's also important to understand, being anti-war, opposed to the russian invasion of ukraine and the annexation of crimea is an extremely dangerous opposition and there are opposition figures who try to straddle the line and nemtsov was one of the most vociferous critics in ukraine. and wasn't like he had been escorting a young ukrainian compani

the top story, mourners in moscow pay respect to murdered boris nemtsov. his voice will not be silenced. >> he stood for freedom of speech and liberty. >>> israel's benjamin netanyahu will fight to the heart of washington. >>> 500 parents being arrested in pakistan who refuse to have their children vaccinated against polio. >>> look at those teeth. a goblin shark caught off the coast of australia. >>> hello and welcome to the program. mourners and dignitaries in moscow are paying their respects to boris nemtsov who was shot dead close to the kremlin. a number of european politicians say russia refused many to attend the funeral. we are among the mourners. >> reporter: there are hundreds and hundreds of people here looting through the park and up the main road. people have come carrying flowers and candles. they pay their respect to boris nemtsov, a man who people are telling me was a man full of life full of energy. a young politician who burst on to the scene in the 1990s and really changed politics here in russia or helped to change politics here in russ

murder in moscow. just days after one of the kremlin's biggest critics was shot and killed his assassins remain at large, and russia remain loyal to those who are becoming too powerful. who is left to take on vladimir putin. our special coverage begins right now. tonight, special coverage of the new cold war has taken yet another ominous turn. up till now, cost michael okwu its standing in the form of credit down grades and demonization of the west. killing of boris nemtsov just steps from the kremlin, nemtsov said to be close to releasing a report revealing startling details of russia's involvement in the ukraine. placards read, i am not afraid. rory challands is there and has the report from moscow. >> nemtsov's face was everywhere. the bullets that killed him said this banner were meant for all of us but also present were thousands of russian flags, in an era where russian leaders are vilified as traitors and fifth columnist, such a huge rally is allowed to take place right in the center of moscow.

president. >>> let's get you to moscow now. investigators are pursuing multiple leads into who may have gunned down prominent opposition activist boris nemtsov. we're hearing from a snowplow driver who witnessed the moments after friday's killing. a russian tv station released this surveillance video saying it shows the shooting as it happens. now in this video we've got it circled for you, that snowplow is seen slowly approaching two people who appear to be them son and his companion. moments later what you see there, the truck stops, and someone's seen running to a car been the snowplow -- behind the snowplow. the driver of the snowplow told a russian tv station he didn't actually see the shooting. >> translator: i got on the bridge looked into the rearview mirror and saw a man on the ground. i realized he didn't feel well. i drove a little bit further and pulled over. i stopped the engine got out, and started to walk around from the left. a girl was running to me. she was wearing a white coat. i asked her what happened. does

metal detectors, i think we are looking at as people enter the period in moscow to merm boris nemtsov. rory challands -- to remember mement. rory challands has -- remember boris nemtsov. rory challands reports. >> all day people brought candles and flours. >> it's a tragedy for the country. people like him are important who wan lead ours and follow their views and are honest. trrnalts >> translation: it's hard for me to talk about it. i feel sorry for him as a person. he was murdered. i don't know if it was a provocation, it doesn't matter. this person was part of the history. for some he was a positive figure for some negative. this for the man thought to be the predecessor for boris yeltsin. boris yeltsin chose a little-known spy chief, vladimir putin, and boris nemtsov opposition. one more difficult to be heard from >>> this was no low-level domestic job. ambassadors came with a message that the way russia investigates the crime will be watched in capitals far away. >> we gather with the u.n. ambassador to pay release at the site of the killing of boris yeltsin. >> translation: why

it's a different moscow every time i come here. the '80s-style go-go capitalist conspicuous consumption see who can spend the most money disco-techno thing i encountered when i first came here in 2001, it's still going strong. in fact, these days moscow has one of the highest concentrations of billionaires in the world. but as never before, it's imperial russia now, a one-man rule. all power emanates, every decision must consider this guy. ♪ russia is full of characters with murky pasts and shadowy connections. one of them i've called a friend for more than a decade. >> tony! wow. >> i guess i'm switching to vodka. zamir. how are you, brother? >> now, my concern is back in the day, this place was famous for all of the rooms were bugged. >> not anymore, i'm sorry. >> oh, really? i'm really sorry about that. >> times change. >> poor zamir, my long-time crony. he tries to be at least diplomatic about these things. i mean, he's got to live here, right? he doesn't want prussic acid on his blintzes. >> given the forward-thinking russia

tony is with bloomberg news in moscow and joins us now. what do you know this morning about who killed mr. mentsov? 's guest: good morning. it's difficult to narrow down the range of theories that are being presented about mr. nemtsov assassination to a single group or cause. there's a great sense of shock among then russians that someone of his stature could be so brazenly gunned down in the shadow of kremlin's walls but no one has narrowed it down and the range extends from a claim he was some sort of sacrificial lamb by the opposition to another claim he somehow was the victim of islamic extremists because of his sympathy for the victims of the charlie hebdo shooting. >> have we learned being famous is no longer a way to protect yourself as a russian dissident? >> i think that's the core of the shock here. i think russia's opposition has operated previously under the assumption that while they risk imprisonment for standing up to the kremlin, no one was likely to kill them. now it's not clear that's the case at all. while people in the

let's go to moscow and bring in correspondent matthew chance. what do we know about the model walking with boris nemtsov when he was murdered? what did she see? anything helpful for the investigation? >> reporter: apparently not. she has been questioned by the

. >> thousands turn out in moscow for boris nemtsov's funeral. some european politicians are barred from attending. you're watching al jazeera. also on the program: >> iraq's army says its making gains from isil in the battle for sadaam hussein's hometown. >> my speech is not intended to show any disrespect to president obama. >> netanyahu says his differences with the white house are political and not personal, as he prepares to address the u.s. congress. >> nowhere to go, thousands left homeless as fire ravage's one of manila's poorest districts. >> thousands of people in moscow cue cued up to pay respects to russian opposition leader boris nemtsov who was shot dead near the kremlin friday. polish and latvian officials who wanted to attend were denied entry to russia. >> long queues at the center as people pay respect to boris nemtsov. several european politicians and critics have been barred from attending the funeral. >> he is a reformer. that is how he will go in history. already has. over the past years when boris could not tolerate what wa

let's bring in matthew chance live from moscow. there was supposed to be a rally led by nemtsov, but once he was killed he was no longer able to be there. >> reporter: that rally was on the outskirts of moscow and against the war in ukraine and the economic indication in the country. once nemtsov was assassinated on the bridge a short distance from the kremlin -- that's red square behind me -- those plans were abandoned and a mourning march was held here right through the official center of the russian capital. tens of thousands of people turning out to pay respects to lay the mountain of flowers that have been placed to nemtsov on the spot where he was killed. the crowds have essentially disbursed now. it is monday here in russia local time. people are still streaming through trickling past to lay more bowuquets. in death, it has sparked concern and political debate in the country about the distributionrection russia is traveling. >> with the death, is there any sense this is a moment for the protests to galvanize? the approval ra

. >> i'm rory cha llands in moscow moscow where they expect a quarter of restaurant to close in the capitol of 2014. find out why. >> in nigeria, 51 people have been killed, and more than 110 injured in multiple attacks. three blasts hit the market and bus station. the worst attack on the city since boko haram fighters seized the state capitol at the end of january. we speak with abandoning ahmed idris. what more details have been emerging about it? >> well, so far the security forces have cordoned off those areas, especially along the markets and bus stations, a some form of calm is returning with the incident of this morning and afternoon in the city. people are saying that more people are being evacuated and still a search and rescue operation tried to recover those who might have been injured or killed by the blast and are still hidden or covered by debris in those locations. >> these attacks of don't seem to say that they're turning the tide of box attacks. >> yes the last few weeks they've had some form of cooperation from niger chad and cameroon, and they recaptureed territory former

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he was shot in moscow on friday. rory challe challands has the latest. >> reporter: long, long lines of people waiting outside the center here in moscow. the they are bringing flowers and candles waiting to get in to the building where they can leave their offerings at the coffin of boris nemtsov. not just ordinary people here, of course, but a very high level delegation coming from all 28 countries of the european union. i saw john major the former british prime minister arrive here a short while ago. we have heard that the polish senate leader was barred entry to russia, because of being on the russian sanctions list. but as i say representatives of all 28 european union countries here. after the memorial service the body of boris nemtsov will be taken to a cemetery also in moscow where he will finally be laid to rest. now, as to the investigation itself the investigative team are saying things like they are examining cctv footage, they have confiscated various pieces of evidence and they are opening various lines

. ♪ hello and welcome to the news hour and i'm join in doha and thousands turn out in moscow for a funeral but european politician politicians are barred from attending. one of the most senior military commanders is helping to direct assaults in i.s.i.l. in tikrit. >> my speech is not intended to show any disrespect to president obama. >> reporter: netanyahu says his differences with the white house are political, not personal as he prepares to address the u.s. congress. and no where to go thousands left homeless as fire ravages one of the post districts. ♪ thousands of mourners are paying respects to russian opposition leader boris shot dead near the kremlin friday and cues that moscow center where people filed past his coffin and looking at a live picture coming from there now and several european politicians and one of vladimir putin's critics have been barred from attending the funeral. and rory has the latest from the russian capitol. >> reporter: long long lines of people waiting outside the center here in moscow and bringing flowers and candles waiting to get in the building where

thousands rally in moscow after the murder of a leading opposition figure. also a push for peace in mali a deal is agreed but excludes the tuareg's. >>> and a relaxed one child policy - the rules if china after an easing of them >>> and the magnificent men in their flying machines - how they became the world's first fighter pilots >>> they have broken the cold in their thousands in memory of a man they had never met. this is a scene in moscow a vigil for boris boris nemtsov, opposition and vocal critic of vladimir putin, shot and killed near the kremlin friday night. the rally will pass through the center of the russian capital, culminating at the spot he died. thousands on the streets. rory challands is our correspondent keeping an eye on things. as you have been saying it is something in and of itself that this many people are out marching in the middle of moscow and a politically charged moment. >> absolutely. for the last 2-3 years or so it's been incredibly difficult for opposition movements in russia to organise rallies right in the heart of moscow. ge

in october, the moscow times suspended its comment section after the vitriol that the coverage attracted. >> a lot of websites closed the sections, not necessary for legal reasons, but there is to much mate and abuse that it was productive. >> this is when this kind of policies work. that leaves the discussion on line, the possibility of people to have their open mind. and that is exactly in the line of what the authorities wish. >> for those trying to connect with audiences, every discussion abandoned is an opportunity for the government in moscow much every report questioned is a battle run. the kremlin's army marches on >>> more voices on the download do. >> the russian government used a series of restrictive legal measures, extremism and the mandatory registration of popular bloggers with the media watch dog and more to kerr stale the freedom of independent voices to operate in the media landscape and increasing its own voice making the government voice the loudest and strongest in russia's media landscape. >>> before the fall of viktor yanukovych and the ensuing war over ukraine, th

let's go to moscow and bring in correspondent matthew chance. what do we know about the model walking with boris nemtsov when he was murdered? what did she see? anything helpful for the investigation? >> reporter: apparently not. she has been questioned by the russian investigators and she has given her witness testimony. something along the lines of we were walking back from a restaurant. she and boris nemtsov. she has been his girlfriend for a couple of years. they were having dinner on red square. she said somebody shot boris nemtsov in the back. he went soft and fell to the floor. she didn't see the killer. she didn't see the car which the killer made his escape in. the police have questioned her. she has now been handed over to consulate officials from the ukrainian embassy. she is now, we understand back in ukraine. she has left russia. there's not much more i don't think, that she is going to be able to add in terms of clarity to how the killing took place. >> the kremlin saying this was a provocation to stain the reputation of vladimir p

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going to take you live now to moscow. we have been following the thousands of mourners and dignitaries lining up to pay their respects to the murdered opposition leader boris nemtsov. while at the service, the coffin has been moved from the center of moscow. it is now at a cemetery taking place there is the funeral service and what you can see right now, the burial of the opposition leader. just to remind you, he was gunned down ton a bridge near the kremlin on friday. so far, police have come up short. they do not have suspects. they don't have a murder weapon. there are no reports of the car as well. apparently the attacker was in. we are not hearing much on the investigation. thousands of people lined up today to attend the funeral. let's bring over a reporter following this for us from our moscow bureau. we are able to see these live pictures. are people in russia watching them at the moment? is this being broadcast live on television too? >> well they had some short live introductions. it's not broadcast live. on the

two days after the murder of a prominent kremlin critic thousands of people have marched in moscow carrying banners proclaiming that they're not afraid. he had been due to lead a protest on sunday against the war in ukraine. >>> the march passed off peacefully but a ukranian politician was detained on suspicion of being involved in a fire in ukraine last year that killed four russian protesters. >>reporter: maurice nimsov hoped the rally would be -- certainly it was vast. but he was not here to see it and his murder arguably is the main reason so many people came. we came to protest because they killed a man, a man who was telling the truth. we think the authorities actions are a travesty of justice. a man was killed for telling the truth. >> i came because boris was killed and not only because of that. because we need to fight. we cannot live like this. i look around and i want to shout, people i love you. >>reporter: his face was everywhere. the bulletses that killed him said this banner were meant for all of us. but also present were thousands of russian flags, a statement itself. it's s

there is simply no replacing him. >> he was gunned down on a bridge in the center of moscow on friday night in what appears to have been a contract killing. many opposition supporters believe the kremlin was behind his murder. boris nemtsov was a staunch critic of the vladimir putin. for many russians, he's become a symbol of resistance to government oppression and intimidation. >> our correspondent is standing by at the funeral and joins us live from there. you have been talking to some of the mourners. what have they had to say? >> the atmosphere at the funeral was ready subdued. many of those who came bringing flowers to the grave of boris nemtsov had tears in their eyes. many of them have told us that by murdering boris nemtsov, one of the most important voices maybe the voice to call for another russia without corruption connie capitalism, without vladimir putin have been cited -- have been silenced forever. >> is there a sense that this loss can be made some way by finding the culprits? is there a sense the case will be sold? >> among those who had been at the funeral this day,

we became good friends in moscow. we spent time on a sofa in my living room. i got to know him and sobell. the thing that strikes me as important is that they were not spying because they were trying to help an ally of the united states fighting fascism. they were spying because they were dedicated to communism. and because they believed the soviet union was building a utopian state and they believed the united states was a fascist state. they believed after the second world war that the military conflict between the united states and soviet union was inevitable, and they wanted to help the soviet union. that is the way i see it, and i think that is a critical thing. onto non-nuclear technology. a word about this. this is julius rosenberg's communist party registration card. i don't know if you can see it, but the critical thing is it is from 1940. anyone who was a member of the communist party in 1940, at a time when the soviet union was allied with nazi germany, that tells you about his allegiance and dedication. anyway, moving on julius , rosenberg's primar

. >>> and moscow mourning. thousands marched to remember a kremlin critic shot dead on the streets. >>> and who says it's march? icy conditions snarled travel on the ground and in the air in large pars of the united states. >>> a warm welcome to all of our viewers wherever you may be watching. i'm zain asher. >> i'm errol barnett. this is "cnn newsroom".." >>> arrogant that's how one of the most senior democrats on capitol hill is describing the israeli prime minister ahead of tuesday's speech before congress. >> benjamin netanyahu arrived in washington sunday evening, but his address to congress about ongoing nuclear talks is already getting a mixed reception. >> reporter: since he is coming i intend to go. >> reporter: benjamin netanyahu's trip to the u.s. is nothing if not controversial. an apparent break with the obama administration the israeli leader will address congress tuesday. he's calling for tougher sanctions against iran and doesn't want a planned nuclear deal with the country to go through. more t

rory challands, al jazeera moscow. >> fred weir joins us. it is the case that indemnify was very much portrayed certainly by the state media as a traitor against the kremlin. >> yes and we have had a real whipping up of patriotic feelings. the society has become extremely polarized and people who even just a few years ago were considered to be maybe opposition critics or something now are considered enemies. and this is quite explicit on tv, in newspapers and so on. people like nemtsov sort of morphed into traitors and enemies in the official, you know, view and that's what most russians get. so yes this extreme polarization is a product of kremlin politics. we also have this war it's a secret sort of war but it's clearly going on in ukraine and russian volunteers ultranationalists are going coming back with that combat experience and with their own expectations. we saw this before when we had wars in chechnya. the whole society becomes brutalized as in the murders in the past such as anna politskaya, the war that's happening just under the

♪ thousands turn out in moscow for boris nemtsov's funeral and some politicians are barred from attending. ♪ story making the news on al jazeera jazeera, one of iran senior military commanders helping to direct the iraqi army assault on i.s.i.l. in tikrit. nuclear negotiations continue in switzerland as the prime minister prepares to make his case against a possible deal. plus. >> i'm nicole johnston in afghanistan where helicopters are finally starting to reach the region that has been cutoff from avalanches. ♪ thousands of mourners paying respect to russian opposition borris nemtsov shot dunwoody on friday and long cues at the center where people fired past his coffin and several european politicians and one of vladimir putins critics has been barred from attending the funeral and we will go live to rory live in moscow and we know that nemtsov was known internationally for his activist who is attending his funeral? >> reporter: well a number of high-profile dignitaries from the european union. when i was down at the center earlier where his body was being laid out in a memorial serv

rory challands, moscow. >> rory, hi, there. vast numbers out on the street. as you say, >>> to take the wind out of the sails. now one of those pieces of legislation, specifically targeted freedom of assembly. what it does is if you want to have a protest that's bigger than one person, you have to get this specific approval of the city authorities and clearly, if you are wanting dog something that the authorities don't want to happen, it's unlikely you are going to get that protest approved or what they might do is shouldn't you out to someplace on the outskirts of town. that's what was going to happen to this protest before the death of boris nemtsov. now, obviously since he was killed, the authorities had a change of heart and decided that maybe it was prudent to allow this particular event, a kind of one-off perm miss to be held right in the sentcenter of the capitol. >> rory how has the killing and the march today been covered by the russian media? >> reporter: sfwls a vorax of speaking ill of the dead. what you are not hearing at the moment is anything p

that's a live picture come to us from moscow. he was shot in the back in a drive by shooting in central moscow on friday. >>> the leaders of russia, ukraine, france, and germany have they would held a telephone coughings on the crisis in east turn ukraine coming off john kerry warned if the kremlin and pro-russia separatist fail to fully implement a ceasefire. fighting has killed more than 6,000 people in less an than a year. john hendon reports from rebel-2ke8d anheld donetsk. >> reporter: the machinery of war keeps rolling through a fragile ceasefire the silence is broken daily by small arms fire and mortars. that's hours he says. >> translator: in principle the ceasefire is holding but there is regular small arms fire so complete ceasefire can't exist before you arrived here several small shells landed on our side. before we fired back, there were grenade launchers fire at us. >> reporter: as occasion volleys routinely violate the tenuous ceasefire, a report released monday by the united nations found 6,000 people have died so

molly: thomas lowe reporting from moscow, thank you for that. the pending execution of two australian citizens -- they could be put to death within days. it has ramped up diplomatic tension between the countries after repeated pleas for mercy were ignored. protesters took to the streets in indonesia, calling for the exit is to go through -- the executions to go through. australians are among a group of 11 convicts -- the australians are among a group of 11 convicts to be put to death. tony abbott says he will do -- says his government will do all it can to stop the executions. >> my thoughts are with those two young men on death island in indonesia. i want to assure people that, even at the 11th hour, the australian government is doing everything we humanly can to let the indonesian government and people know that it would neither be in their best interest or best values for these executions to go ahead. molly: in france, a project building a dam in the southwest continues to stir controversy. critics say it will destroy biodiversity and favor o

bbc news, moscow. katty: you are watching bbc world news america. still too common, ebola has delivered a devastating blow to west africa. in liberia, things are looking up and the road to recovery will not be easy. tony abbott is sending people to help with the training missions in iraq and said it was still to be decided when the troops will go. >> 12 years after the war, more australians are heading back to the middle east with a different enemy. >> the decision marks the next phase of australia's contribution to disrupt degrade, or destroyed the death coltult. we require support to build capacity and hold territory. >> the 300 regular army soldiers are expected to join commandos who are already helping to train local government forces. they will work alongside 140 new zealand troops who had their deployment announced last week. the government says that none of them will be involved in combat roles. australia recently removed -- there is little public appetite for the country to become embroiled in another war. katty: the families of some of the

tens of thousands rallied on the streets of moscow in one of biggest demonstrations in protests against vladimir putin, four years ago. rory challands reports. >> reporter: boris nemtsov hoped sun's -- sunday's rally would be a re-energizing of the opposition. boris nemtsov was not here to do it. his murder arguably was a reason why they came. >> we came to protest because they killed a man, a man telling the truth. a man was killed for telling the truth. >> translation: i came because boris was killed and not only because of that because we need to fight. we cannot live like this. i look around and i want to shout. people, i love you. >> reporter: boris nemtsov's face was everywhere. the bullet that killed him was meant for all of us. also was thousands of flags, a political statement in an era when leaders like boris nemtsov were vilified on tv as traitors and fifth columnists. it surprised many that such a huge opposition rally has been allowed to take place in the center of moscow. usually these are kept on the outskirts of town. maybe the kremlin are thinking grief and sorrow are m

nemtsov was then killed, shot dead in the center of moscow. alexei navalny had been sent to a police detention center for 15 days because handing out those leaflets was considered a political act, an unsanctioned political act. therefore, he was serving 15 days the. he had said at the time that he believed that was simply to keep him away from that opposition rally. now, when he emerged, he came out to make a brief statement. he talked about the murder of boris nemtsov. he said that that wouldn't stop his political activity. he called it an act of terror but said it hadn't achieved its aim and he would go on with his political activity. of course, he is now the most prominent, the most vocal, strident critic of the kremlin, of president putin, and the most popular one there is here in russia today. >> and of course very much still in the spotlight, isn't he in terms of that profile that he has. >> yeah that's right. and i think it's interesting, because alexei navalny is from a new generation of opposition figures here. boris nemtsov was very

the echo of moscow released footage of the boris nemtsov on the day he died. he spoke to the radio station hours before the shooting about the policies and what it was like to be an outspoken critic. >> vladimir putin started a mad aggressive policy deadly for the country in the car against ukraine. it's a documented evidence. i don't hide the fact that there's pressure on the opposition. lies have been spread. truth is stronger than all the services, all the protests and flow of lives. the truth is 100% stronger. >> the bridge is the site of memorial to him. there has been notes and supports on the bridge near the kremlin. >> tens of thousands have been marched through moscow. he hoped that plan the rally. and rory challands is in moscow for more. >> boris nemtsov hoped the rally would be a re-energizing of the movement. the crowd was fast bigger than an anti-kremlin march. boris nemtsov was not here to see it and the murder arguably the main reason many came. >> translation: we came to protest because they killed a man, a man telling the truth. we think the

well sara joins us now from moscow, how did this news come out? >> reporter: there are a group of human rights activists here in moscow who are allowed to visit detainees in prison and check on their conditions. this information came out from one of those visits which took place yesterday. the person in charge of this particular visit has since published his statement, in which he says he saw what he called signs of torture on the bodies of several of those key suspects in the murder of boris nemtsov. he spoke to the suspects. he talks particular lyly to zaur dadayev who initially confessed to the murder and tells this visitor he was tricked into making a confession and told by those who interrogating him, if he confessed, his friend would be released. we don't know what happened to that friend and hopes when he came to moscow to court he would be able to explain the truth but never given a chance to explain in court and talks about having a hood over his head and talked about being shackled his hands and legs chained up. another suspect also talk