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. it s the name vladimir putin refused to utter. navalny, being buried today, was putin s 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 didn t stop this crowd. a woman said she was scared at first, even hid herflowers, but she couldn t stay away. this man describes navalny s death as a personal loss. it s 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.
abu ali and his family fled their town, they say, because of the israeli shelling. they moved several times before settling here. translation: we moved four or five times before arriving here. do i expect to return home? god knows. but unfortunately, there are no signs on the horizon. nothing. if it wasn t for the war, fatima would have been now at school in grade six. translation: i was supposed to enroll for the school year i when the war started. my father came home one day and told us to prepare to leave. we were packing our stuff and crying at the same time. i miss everything back home. and this hotel turned into a displacement centre. into a displacement centre. people refer to each other by the number of their rooms. and behind each door, there s a story of a border town. this is bintjbeil and so on. a different room, a different story. this woman doesn t even know if her house still stands. translation: no one has access to the village now l because of the situation