i'm rosemary church. welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. we want to update you on the top stories we're following this hour. french officials say exceptional security measures will be in place for a massive unity rally in paris sunday. it's expected to draw as many as a million people. numerous foreign leaders and other dignitaries will be on hand. as for the investigation into

last week's terror attacks. french police are being told to wipe out their social media profiles and carry their weapons at all times. now, this after word that one terrorist may have instructed sleeper cells to target police. in hamberg, germany, someone tossed an incendiary device at a newspaper that reprinted some of the "charlie hebdo" cartoons depicting the prophet muhammad. we want to go back to paris now where cnn's isa soures is there live reporting. we're all waiting for this unity march, and the big word on this exceptional security being put in place, when you're talking about nearly a million, possibly more people gathering in paris and all these dignitaries

coming. it is an extraordinary exercise. >> reporter: it is indeed. we have seen in the haste week so much sadness and terror. today we'll see so much strength and the unity will be seen in the streets of paris. the french government is aware of the numbers, the amount of people that will be turning out today. up to a million if not more people will be coming here in a show of solidarity against the atrocities that we've seen in paris this week. they'll most likely be holding plaques saying "we are charlie." and many will probably be relating to the attacks we saw on friday at the store. so a show of force, a show of unity, and the french police are not taking any risks. they have so many measures in place. let's have a look at the route

first. it's a long walk, a long march. it's just over three kilometers. that three kilometer route is pretty much straight line. you'll get a look there at the map. the parallel one you'll see is that yellow one. that blue route gets too busy, people can start marching along the yellow route. we're being told that the families of the victims of both those attacks, both "charlie hebdo" and indeed the store, will be leading the march. they will be at the front followed by everyone else. police telling cnn they're not taking any chances. they are -- parking is not allowed along the routes. public transport is free. there are snipers on the roof. police will be checking the gutters and also police officers

along the route, they're dressed so you wouldn't know. take a listen to what the french interior minister had to say in terms of the measured they've put in place. >> sadly, it has become true -- >> reporter: unfortunately, that is not the right sound bite. but in terms of what he said, 1,900 policemen will be on the streets of paris to really oversee this operation, not taking any risks at all, rosy. >> and before this unity march takes police, three hours before in fact, this international minister's meet willing be held. and what are we expecting to come out of that? >> reporter: there is an international ministerial meeting that will happen at 10:30 local, so about 45 minutes

if not an hour. it's about 14 interior ministers meeting here in paris. they will be meeting to discuss various levels of security given the fact that we've had these atrocities here, mostly talking about counterterrorism measures that have been put in place and also how to fight foreign fighters, given the fact that around 600 men, young men have left france, for example, and waged war -- waged jihad going to syria. so once they come back, there are so many questions that need to be answered. one, how can we let them in? should we be keeping surveillance? how long? we heard this week that the kouachi brothers both had training in yemen, with al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. they were tracked for three years and then everyone forgot about them. they slaped o ee eed -- slipped

radar. they will be meeting to talk about how they can work together and perhaps share intelligence. but what we have seen is not just -- it hasn't just been protests against what we've seen with the attacks, but we've seen a lot of people take the streets, different backgrounds, different religions. there is a bit of a discussion at the moment, bigger national debate about the attacks we have seen this week will give way to a rise of islamaphobia. i had a chance to speak to a woman, she's a volunteer at an ngo that looks to bring together the government and the muslim community. take a listen to what she said about that very topic. >> sadly, it has become true, more than 15 attacks against

mosques, against civilians, people set fire to mosques. so this is already happening. i'm very saddened by this, because i think it's exactly what the terrorists and the criminals wanted to happen. they really want to divide. this is why they made it very clear that they did this to protect islam. so i think the best answer that we could give them is to remain united with our strength and unity. >> reporter: rosy, there are 5 million muslims in france, the biggest muslim community in western europe and there is a concern that the attacks will give rise to islamaphobia. we have seen the far right gain ground off the back of this, and it's a huge concern, because you

do not want it to lead to a situation that stigmatization. rosy? >> it has to be said directly after the attacks, people were clear when they got out on the streets that they wanted to make sure that people did not turn their anger on muslims, as a community. that this was just this small group that were involved, these extremists. >> reporter: absolutely. and we saw that yesterday. >> isa reporting there live for us from paris. she will be covering this unity march and cnn will bring you all the details of that once it takes place. thank you so much.

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welcome back, everyone. french authorities are putting extraordinary security measures

in place for a huge unity rally scheduled later today. french authorities are on everyone after word one of the gunman in last week's terror attacks may have instructed sleeper cells to launch more attacks on police. a french police source says amedy coulibaly made several phone calls to contacts before he was killed in the standoff. coulibaly killed four jewish hostages inside that market before it was stormed by police. those victims have now been identified.

many of the people held inside the kosher market have described it as a horrific and terrifying scene. rudy hadad was one of the hostages who survived the shooting and he talked about it with channel 2 israel. take a listen. >> translator: honestly, we were all in shock. then we heard the explosion outside. we heard gunfire. he was there to kill everyone. if we went back up, it would have been a slaughter, i think it would have been a slaughter. >> the search for the partner of the hostage taker is worldwide. authorities believe hayat boumeddiene may not have been in france when that sieged happened. she arrived in turkey on a flight from madrid on january 2. the turkish prime minister's office says hayat boumeddiene

did not take a scheduled return flight to madrid, so her whereabouts are currently unknown. hayat boumeddiene's possible involvement in the paris killings highlights a disturbing trend in global terror. women taking up jihad. cnn's randi kaye takes a look at the motivations of previous female jihadists. >> reporter: look closely. that jihadi is a mother of two. her name used to be sally jones. this photo, with the ak-47, is a far cry from this one, from 2004, published in the daily mail. it shows her celebrating the birth of her new baby. now she's believed to be an isis fighter. she moved there from the uk after meeting a hacker turned militant online. she told the london times that her youngest child is with her, too, and that he's taken the

muslim name hamza. she was quoted saying, my son and i love life with the beheaders. this jihadist is also from britain, a 21-year-old medical student. on twitter, she posted this disturbing image, a woman in a whigt doctor's coat and black burqa, holding a human head, the posting read, a dream job, a terrorist doc. she also praised the yemeni cleric anwr awlaki. in september, terror analysts estimated as many as 15% of isis' foreign recruits could be female, with up to 200 women from at least 14 different countries. experts say the women are motivated by the idea of meeting a jihadist husband, hoping for the prestige that comes with husbands who die as martyrs.

long before isis, the israeli-palestinian conflict gave rise to female terrorists, include thing grandmother. she tried to blow up israeli soldiers in gaza, but died after detonating explosives in her belt. her family reportedly said she wanted to become a martyr. and what about this woman? colleen lerose. she traveled to israel in 2009. she was arrested after returning to philadelphia. she was sentenced last january to ten years in prison. all women looking to make a name for themselves in martyrdom. and the list is growing. randi kaye, cnn, new york. >> and we'll have more on the france terror attacks later. but when we come back, boko

haram's brutality, we will look 589 why the military seems powerless to stop the group.

we turn now to the search for airasia flight 8501. investigators have lifted the tail section of the plane from the depths of the java sea, but divers are still looking for its flight recorders.

>> reporter: this is what it's like to be a diver on the floor of the java sea. this video giving a closer look at the tricky operation to raise the tail section of flight 8501. their pain staking work with ropes, slings, and even giant airbags, finally paying off when a tip of airasia red peeks out of the surface. on a search ship, cheers and applause. but this is no celebration. inch by inch, the tail, what's left of it, is hoigs hoisted on. its appearance, a reminder of the human cost. the view from above reveals a grim reality, where there should be seats and people, there is nothing. one man comes through in a search for the plane's data recorders. they were once there, but he turns up empty handed.

on shore, the commander of indonesia's armed forces says the underwater search will continue? >> translator: i believe the bodies of the majority of the victims are trapped in the main portion of the plane. >> reporter: the other task ahead, to investigate more reports of possible signals from the black boxes, picked up by small boats combing the waters nearby. the batteries on the flight data recorder should last for another 2 1/2 weeks. if the weather conditions allow, divers will head back into the water first thing in the morning. at least 57 people have died after a passenger bus collided with an oil tanker in southern pakistan when the overloaded bus hit a tanker outside of karachi. both vehicles burst into flames.

senior medical officials at the local hospitals say the death toll could rise. and islamist rebel group in nigeria has carried out a massacre. boko haram militants sacked and burned several towns in northern nigeria, killing hundreds, by some estimates, up to 2,000 residents. for more on this, let's bring in the he would of the africa program and he joins me now from london. thank you so much for speaking with us. so we are hearing these horrifying details of these attacks by boko haram. and on top of this nigerians are still waiting to hear word of the hundreds of boys and girls abducted by boko haram and ask why is their government and military unable to fight them. what is the answer to that?

>> i'm asking the question too, why is it that boko haram has been so successful in northeastern nigeria and why we're still waiting to hear about the fate of the schoolgirls and children as you mentioned. the answer, i think, is the ineptude of the nigerian security forces. they are unable to respond to the violence occurring in northeast nigeria. it's a very depressing situation and shows just how dramatically the security forces in nigeria have deteriorated in recent years, that they are just not able to respond to the sort of crisis that we're seeing. >> so if they're not able to respond, why not accept some of the help being offered by the

international community? >> well, you're right. the international community has offered assistance, it has provided some assistance. but in nigeria, at the moment, the situation is so politicized, including what to do about the counterinsurgency, that it's difficult to be effective. my view is, this needs to be de-politicized. there will need to be a rethinking and restructures of the nigerian security forces and they'll need the international support. in the end, it will be an insurgency that will be necessary here, as well as a political process. at the moment, there's just a lot of drift and talking to nigerian security forces, my analysts have found them very demoralized and very

demotivated. >> 10-year-old girls having bombs attached to their bodies and set you have by remote control. there's so much to cover here, but we are out of time. alex, thank you so much for joining us and shedding light on this horrendous story. some 1 million people are expected to pack the streets of paris in the coming hours. they will be part of a massive unity rally in the wake of last week's terrorist attacks. numerous dignitaries from europe, asia and elsewhere will be at the march. the event will see an exceptional level of security. and keep up with all of cnn's coverage of the developments in france. simply go to cnn.com and you'll find much of our extensive reporting from the ground and learn how you can get involved in the global conversation. again, that's cnn.com. i'm rosemary church.

natalie allen is back after a very short break as we continue our coverage of the terrorist attacks in france.

0. welcome to our viewers joining us from the united states and around the world. you are watching cnn live coverage. i'm natalie allen. in a few hours up to 1 million people are expected to gather in the heart of paris. it's being called a unity march. a response to three days of terror that started with a massacre at a french satirical magazine. 1900 police and security personnel are on hand for the three kilometer walk. police are already on