Sarah rainsford reports and a warning some viewers may find some of the images in this distressing. They shouted his name. A Final Act Of Support for Alexei Navalny as his coffin arrived at a moscow church. Its the name Vladimir Putin refused to utter. Navalny, being buried today, was putins greatest political rival. So this funeral was a show of defiance, too. By those who queued to say their last goodbye in their many thousands. For them, navalny was the hope of change. A chance for a different russia. Supporting him is still dangerous, but that didnt stop this crowd. A woman said she was scared at first, even hid herflowers, but she couldnt stay away. This man describes navalny s death as a personal loss. Its very hard, he says. Western ambassadors came, too, to pay their respects. Those who have condemned navalny s treatment, the silencing of a critic. In life, too, Alexei Navalny could bring out the crowds. Charismatic, courageous, he was dangerous to the kremlin. The men he calle
Welcome to the programme. Here in the uk the left wing maverick, George Galloway has won the rochdale by election. Mr galloway who won by almost 6,000 votes made his support for the palestinian cause his dominant Campaign Theme in the constituency, which has a large asian muslim community. 0ur Political Correspondent peter saull reports from rochdale. I do hereby declare that George Galloway is duly elected. George galloway is nothing if not persistent. 37 years after he was first elected as a labour mp, he is on his way back to parliament determined to be a thorn in his former partys side. This is going to spark a movement, a landslide, a shifting of the Tectonic Plates in scores of parliamentary constituencies, beginning here in the north west. In the west midlands, in london, from ilford to Bethnal Green and bow, labour is on notice that they have lost the confidence of millions of their voters. Hes always divided opinion, though. George galloway you want to burn our future that pro
The deaths are caused by a crush of lorries running people over. Our Special Correspondent working with bbc verify has spent the day piecing together more details of what happened and i should warn you, this contains distressing images. Shots cracked through the night. People start to move. Then run to get away. In this section of the crowd there is panic. As casualties streamed into local hospitals, the testimony of witnesses. Translation situation was unimaginably crazy. I if aid is going to come to us in this way, we dont want it. We dont want to live on the blood of our children. The israelis say that at 4 40am, the convoy left here under an israeli tank escort and began to move towards the crowds waiting for food. The army supplied Drone Footage but there is no way of telling the sequence of the images because there is no timestamp. At 4 16, the israelis say, crowds began to surge around the tracks. In this sequence, bodies can be seen lying on the ground. So others can be seen cr
Shot into the crowd. The israeli army, which has released this overhead Drone Footage, admits its soldiers opened fire but claims most of the deaths were caused by a crush, or aid trucks running people over. The United Nations reported friday that a large number of people had been found with bullet wounds. Un secretary general Antonio Guterres is calling for an immediate investigation into what happened. Earlier we asked his chief of staff, stephane dujarric, how thats possible. At some point they will need to be an investigation. A credible investigation. They will need to be accountability for what happened. It is obviously challenging, to say the least, to conduct one in the midst of a conflict and this is one of the reasons that we want to see a humanitarian ceasefire as quickly as possible. At the end of the day, we had more than 100 people dying because they were dying to get food. And in the end, they were killed either by bullets from the israel army, trampled by others in a m