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 do you think this was important? >> it's a brutal murder and we are appalled by the killing. we expect the russian authorities, of course to find the culprits and bring them to justice. >> the investigation which vladimir putin pledged to take a close interest in isnd way. political murders in russia have a habit of going unsolved. police examined an abandoned car expected to have been used in the shooting. as for motive it's been suggested that he may have been killed to weaken the public state. >> currently the investigation is looking into several lines of inquiry, it is the possibility tha

and he spoke about yeltsin's greatest mistake of selecting vladimir putin and turning russia back into the sorted past. >> a kgb guy in those days. >> putin was a kgb guy all day at the time head of kgb then prime minister as you know yell yeltsin's choice for a successor, boris yeltsin was bravest of all of us, he was the most vocal critic of putin's regime he released several reports that revealing indemic prescription -- corruption. violation of human reports. all reports were about putin. and report he was about to release, that is why i believe they immediately seized his computer the reporter was about to release aimed at ukraine eastern ukraine. it was about present of russia troops in ukraine. neil: is it obvious for putin to call out a hit when the whole world would say when you say he could be set up. >> who cares that is -- dictators don't ask why they into why not putin confiscateed if you can use the word annexed part of a neighbors country then started a war in another part, he is not hiding his agenda to destroy ukraine state hood. this is -- whether -- >> he has a netwo

this was a man once considered to be a potential successor to former president boris yeltsin. instead yeltsin chose a little-known spy chief, vladimir putin, and boris nemtsov's future was one of the opposition. but the opposition he fought hard for had recently found it harder and harder to make itself heard in a patriotic and anti-western russia. >> vladimir putin offered condolences and ordered a full investigation into boris nemtsov's death. those that knew the opposition leader say the government did nag to protect him when he refused threats. before he decide boris nemtsov was working on a report that he said believed proved russia had been directly involved. he criticised what he called the government's inefficiency and corruption. the opposition wants a march planned for sunday to be a rally, as a voice attempting to hold the government accountable >>> to give context to the murder of boris nemtsov, we were joint earlier by a guest who speak to michael eaves. >> i'm not sure that it was vladimir putin-ordered murder. it's someone that thinks vladimir putin would probab

there were other kangs in yeltsin's entourage.e was one of the leaders of a very good democratic party, bright leaders in that party. it collapsed very soon after putin came to pour in 2000. russia is a pioneer country that observes laws that speaks english and understands the enemy but part of its own civilization. >> has been 15 years in russia really is not going that direction at all. >> nina crus chef at the news school here in new york thank you for your inside which youskruschev at the news school here in new york, thank you for your inside which yous the fight between government groups and separatists delivered aid to people in potsana. it's been battered by heavy shelling despite despite a two-week old cease-fire agreement targeted by pro-russian fighters. the residents who remain say they are struggle to go make ends meet. >> this is the first time this year that we received something. i have seen two wars. back then we were convoyed from western ukraine to here we were brought here and now we have to run away from here.

he was first deputy prime minister under elliot elliot scin yeltsin and a favorite. when he talked about boris yeltsin's grave mistake of choosing putin instead of him 40 minutes later he was dead. >> the crime scene was hosed down just after the murder and boris nemtsov's home was raided and his computers seized juts a few hours -- just a few hours later. >> coming up a look at right wing naftali bennett. >> and some of the guantanamo detainees starting a new life in uruguay. struggling for a new life. >> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm antonio mora. >> i'm stephanie sy. coming up in this half hour of international news. six guantanamo bay detainees who were released and settle in uruguay. we begin with stories making headlines around the world. in bangladesh. taken to jail on monday officials say rachman admitted to. >> joint military drills involving south korea and the u.s. south korea's military says the missiles were fired from the city of nampho and flew about 300 miles before splashing into the sea of japan. threats of violence towards south korea. >>

with yeltsin, i was ashamed he ran my country. but putin represents strength. that's important. i'm not ashamed anymore. >> vladimir putin cut a very different figure than his ailing predecessor. he was cast as a macho man of action from the very start. stunts like this helped his support ratings soar over 80%. but it's driven by policy, too. like the annexation of crimea from ukraine, condemned as an illegal takeover by the west here it's seen as a triumph. 15 years after he first came to power here vladimir putin remains so popular, that young designers actually choose to print his face on clothes like this. the reason that many russians give for mr. putin's enduring appeal is the fact that he's given them back a sense of national pride. so even chocolates are political these days. mocking western sanctions of ukraine and encouraging buyers to eat the heads of state behind them. a long economic slump could well reduce support for mr. putin, but so far, many blame the west for that and not their president. >> well of course we earn less but we don't care since it's a question o

how many people knew the angle of the camera could follow boris yeltsin from the restaurant, and was moving walking across the bridge to his house. there were so many dark spots. i know where he lived, if you wanted to kill him, there were so many opportunities, it's the most videotaped place on this route. people who did it. they believed they would not be caught. >> the kremlin say there'll be a thorough investigation. having said that i suspect you don't agree that. how do you believe, will you go about having a thorough j investigation of what happened. >> we will not. everything vladimir putin promised was falls. he keeps lying about everything that russian folks have been doing. how can we trust this man when he talked about his personal enemy. >> you can watch more of my interview tomorrow 9:00pm eastern on al jazeera america >>> today in kiev protesters called on russia to release a ukranian airport pilot. the demonstration was viewed as a free day. she was accused of being involved in a military strike. she denies the charge and claims to have been kidnapped in east ukraine

in 1998 then president boris yeltsin named him the first deputy prime minister.tically changed in 2003 when putin took over. he was booted from government and he really embraced political opposition groups. he was arrested a number of times for hopely criticizing the government. in recent years he returned to his hometown of sochi. he led a major study and a look into the funding of the 2014 olympic games. he blasted the sochi olympics saying most of the money was embezzled. >> the most expensive olympic games in the history of mankind. this is the most corrupted olympic games in the history of mankind, my estimation is they steal about $25, $30 billion. boris nemtsov spoke last year with our anthony bourdain, as i just mentioned and they discussed the threats against him and a lot more. coming up after the break, the bourdain interview special, boris nemtsov. micro clean formula works in just 3 minutes, killing 99.99% of odor causing bacteria. for a cleaner, fresher, brighter denture everyday. you can call mbut,allow... i have a wandering eye. i mean, come on. n

the young boris was once thought a successor to boris yeltsin. when vladimir putin came to power, he became a critic. his girlfriend was the last person to see the politician alive will stop in her only interview, she says he was shot behind her. whoever pulled the trigger, it is a point pushed daily. >> i should kill him and there would be a begin. the question is -- [indiscernible] reporter: the mood is one of sorrow. there is also fear and worry. people tell me they are concerned about a climate of hatred here in russia. ever since the crisis in the ukraine, the patriots have become more prominent. they point at a western plot to cement regime change and are convinced that what -- that is what happened in kiev. vladimir putin gave him a medal last year for patriotic for. he told me that it exists here and he said that boris was chilled by the west. >> boris was not from the fifth column. he was not fathering anyone. it was done by specialists to re-stabilized the situation in moscow. >> the crowd were is the threat is closer to home. they are

in the back before jumping into a car. 55-year-old-- served as deputy prime minister under boris yeltsin. he was known as the voice of dissent. the opposition leader had received death threats tried to a report he was preparing on russia's military involvement. >> even if the kremlin was not behind the killing, they are responsible for the wave of nationalism here in russia whereby anyone who speaks out is a target. clarissa ward, cbs news, moscow. >>> paralyzed and dropping towards earth at 100 miles per hour. he says it was the scariest moment of his life. christopher jones was making his 5th solo sky dive jump in western australia. everything was going to according to plan until he suffered a seizure midair. he was unconscious and spiraling out of control. his sky diving instructor came to the rescue. >> he flew to me like superman and grabbed me and pulled the chute and i'm here to tell the tale. he probably saved my life. >> reporter: it did save his life. after the parachute was released. he regained consciousness and glided to safety. >>> he attempted to throw a brick through a wi

francine: he was effectively the other man, the man boris yeltsin almost picked.d be different under him. guest: he was a driven reformer a democrat, a market reformer vibrant, full of ideas. some of them didn't work out. i think there's lots of blame for the problems of the yeltsin era. the west had some blame. maybe the reform policies were and well thought out. but in the end, yeltsin i think was a decent human being and had the right kind of ideas for russia. guy: do you think this will -- how does this murder manifest itself when it comes to western policy? if minsk sticks and we don't get new sanctions put on, do you think this will act as a reason in the back of some policymakers' heads to give this a little more time? does it change the dynamic in terms of policy formulation? guest: we certainly don't know who did it. if there was a clear evidence of who was involved, that may shape some of the action for the west but there is a bit of a track record. there is live and i go gaia -- there is litvinenko, politkovskaya. guy: if you look at the case the lines

yeltsin liked him a lot, brought him in. they say it was kind of like his son that he didn't have that relationship. and he was a big, you know, kind of western-style personality and politician in that he knew how to speak, he knew how to be funny, he knew how to speak to big audiences. at the end of the day, it is alleged that yeltsin decided he wasn't ready yet to be president and wanted putin as somebody who would keep his family secure after he stepped down as president. >> okay. you have said, sir, that when you were ambassador there, often there were death threats against you. they almost always came from the hardline nationalists. there are a lot of theories i'm sure you're familiar with now that are being floated, including a few seemingly unlikely ones from the kremlin. what do you think was the most likely motive in this assassination? >> i really don't know, and i don't want to speculate about the facts, right. i hope that putin is true to his word and will have a thorough investigation. but what i can tell you, f

you think back to chris jeff yeltsin had a a similar sort of interest. other russian soviet politicians did. is not an expert on germany according to german to talk to him, but that is because he really doesn't show very much interest in any aspect of how societies work or how systems work. though he does, as fiona pointed he and the pointed out, study very closely the russian mind in order to appeal and when popularity and figure out the slogans and themes. that is that is very different than understanding the social dynamics that are going on. so this goes on. and so we felt like we needed to try to ask the questions how much does he know and what are his misconceptions. that leads to the question of what do we know about him and his -- i think the question that really is on so many people's mind all the time to asking themselves and telling themselves we don't know the answer. all too many people seem to think they know the answer. what is the all about? all of this alternative proposals a pathological is avarice, greed. the great phrase you always wa

not just an opposition leader one of the presidential hopefuls in boris yeltsin's time could be murdered. what could be expected from others, who do not have the same protection of fame and not politically connected to people both inside and outside of russia. it's a moment where many of my colleagues were still free because many of them are behind bars, or outside a country in exile. they realise that it's a moment where everybody has to make a tough choice. if you are standing tall as vladimir putin, you should be ready >>> i.s.i.l. targets are being attacked in an attempt to cut off supply lines. i.s.i.l. fighters have attack on tikrit and along the tigris river. iraq's prime minister is trying to oversee the military operation against i.s.i.l. >> i came here to recommend and announce a start of the operation to liberate the province for the tyranny of the terrorists. the priority we have is to secure the safety of our civilians. i instructed our security forces to make sure that the safety and security of our people is first and last. we have a large numbers of residents of the areas

. >> boris nemtsov, a former russian deputy prime minister under boris yeltsin was shot four times in. >> nemtsov of one of russian president vladimir putin's fiercest critics. >> this is the exact spot where boris nemtsov was shot dead, and we are literally just steps away from the kremlin. >> jon: wow. steps away from the kremlin does seem like a convenient place for the kremlin to murder someone. ( laughter ) you know, for the kremlin, they've got to be thinking, why schlep all the way across town? it's the same reason you get lunch at the deli next to your office even though you're pretty sure they make all their paninis a month in advance. i'm kidding, of course. putin could not murder an adversary. george bush looked into his eyes and saw i had soul. how could such a soulful, trustworthy man-- that photy is a bit unfair. let's get a different photee-- okay. well, how do we know the government was involved? >> russian state-own television airing this video they say shows the moment of nemtsov's shooting. a snow plow conveniently blocking the view. >> >> jon: not to be a stickler

also exerted enormous political influence -- for example, to use one of their words, guaranteeing yeltsin`s reelection by -- they also controlled the media, and so they poured huge amounts of money into yeltsin`s campaign and were rewarded for that. c-span: and you suggest this all came after `89, 1989. >> guest: yes. c-span: fall of the wall and the whole change and glasnost and all that. >> guest: yes. c-span: what is it -- what`s the impact, though, in that country? when i was reading it, i was thinking about this -- our own country, that in the early days, there were a few that had all the money... >> guest: yes. c-span: same thing, as they get through -- they got onto democracy. is this working in russia? is democracy working at all? >> guest: well, this is tricky. i mean, some of the oligarchs now -- you know, they actually -- their role models are the carnegies. they say that, you know, we used to be robber barons, but now it`s time for us to -- a few of them have actually turned to philanthropy, and i think that`s a great thing. it`s a complicated question whether -- what the stat

a former deputy prime minister and once thought to be a potential presidential successor to boris yeltsin. and now, he joins a list of kremlin critics to die in dramatic circumstances. a renowned russian journalist critical of the kremlin's policies in chechnya shot dead in her apartment elevator. alexander litvinenko, former russian intelligence officer poisoned with tea laced with radioactive polonium in london in 2006. nemtsov made it clear repeatedly he feared for his life because of his outspoken view periods president putin, jim, and he was supposed to lead a peace really against russia's involvement in ukraine on sunday. instead, a memorial march will be held in his honor tomorrow. >> axelrod: charlie d'agata reporting for us tonight from our london newsroom. charlie, thank you. now to the brutal winter we have been having and a narrow escape for a youth hockey team outside boston. they were practicing at this rink in canton when the roof began to buckle under the weight of the piled up snow. everyone made it out before the collapse. meanwhile, boston could break its record for mos

he was deputy prime minister under yeltsin and today is one of putin's most vocal critics.ke us in, but the chef is a brit, so maybe he has less reason to worry. >> first course, gentlemen? >> ah. >> at yornik restaurant they are serving their own versions of dino-era russian classics. a modern riff on borscht. typically a chunky hearty beet and cabbage broth with chunks of meat, here it's a puree with a more elegant, shall we say, deconstructed presentation. critics of the government, critics of putin, bad things seem to happen to them. >> yes. unfortunately, existing power represent let i say russia of 19th century. not of 21st. >> critics of putin, beware. oligarch mikhail khodorkovsky accused putin of corruption and wound up spending ten years in prison and labor camps. alexander litvinenko accused state security services of organizing a coup to put putin in power. he was poisoned by a lethal dose of radioactive polonium. and viktor yushchenko the former ukrainian president poisoned, disfigured, and nearly killed by a toxic dose of dioxin. i'm not saying official russia

prominent opposition leader but a former deputy prime minister one of the presidential hopefuls in yeltsin's time. he could be murdered. what can be expected from others who do not have the same protection of fame and not politically connected to people both inside and outside of russia. it's a moment where many of my colleagues who are still free because many of them are either behind bars or outside of our country in itself exile, they just realize that it's a moment where everybody has to make a very tough choice. but if you are standing tall as boris did against vladimir putin, you should get ready for the gravest danger of all >>> yemen's president has accused his predecessor from conspireing with iran. the comments came as yemen signed a new deal with iran allowing up to 14 flights a week between their capital. the first such flight landed earlier on sunday. the shiite rebels who control the capital are said to be backed by iran and some politicians feel the flight could be used to the president ewe rain yum weapons and fighters to yemen. >>reporter: today, the official announcement of

>> in the early days, when i was working with the president gorbachev and president yeltsin on that terribles of the economy, hoping to get a market economy started, he was one of the young, wonderful, honest leaders of the country. he stayed that way all along. others became corrupted by what is an awfully lawless system sometimes. but boris was always telling the truth. he knew in recent weeks that telling the truth could cost him his life as he told people just before his death. he thought that putin might go after him. it's unbelievably tragic and dangerous what we are seeing. >> what is his legacy for the opposition in russia? >> he will be recovered as one of the bravest figures of reform, and the call for democracy and the call for economic freedom as well. he was a wonderful person. >> will reformers be hesitant to speak up, or does this embolden them to do more? >> i don't know if anyone is emboldened. everyone is frightened. the situation is not good, and it's dangerous. it's never going to be put down entirely. russia by itself has put itself in a dangerous position. it's also ree

>> a prominent politician back to yeltsin. a reformer who would bring russia to the worst ern fold, and make russia's civilizeed country as we used to say, when putin was elected in 2000, and he became an opposition leader argue that russia is not taking russia -- that putin is not taking russia to civilizeed world but taking it back to the stone ages. kennedy: nemstov, his mother said, she is scareed that putin could kill me for all of my statements, in real life and social network, was his mom right? >> i don't think he was killed by vladimir putin but he was killed by a -- that putin created, everyone who is seen as an opponent to the state, the state is popular, putin has an quick approval rate -- 86 approval rating, so his mother of right, in a sense that everyone, my mother is afraid. i am not important, however, do write things about putin he may not like her his people may not like, my mother is afraid. it is say problem to be in that position. it is dangerous. kennedy: you say, this was not a political hit but that pu

boris was one of the potential successors to boris yeltsin.he fact that he was killed within steps of the kremlin where there are so many cameras. it's a sign saying we can do whatever we want and there's nothing that can stop us. >> in some of the cases that i mentioned at the end of that intro, perpetrators have been caught. although there's a general sense that the people responsible for these deaths have escaped justice. there is now a movement in the united states congress led by ron johnson and another calling for strong action after the murder of boris nemtsov. they're calling for a swift and transparent investigation, further aid to russian activists. but the likelihood of anything transparent going on in putin's russia is very pie in the sky. >> chrysler was charged with a violation back in 2001 when i moved to russia. they charged them with being involved with corruption. russian authorities said this is a legal document only in your country. >> that's amazing. >> the impunity is brazen, although impunity always is by virtue of its d

there are some who suggest vladimir putin is behind this but there was a yeltsin correction, becausee worked for him, right? >> yes. >> some are suggesting ukrainians are behind this? >> mr. putin went on air shortly after the murder and offered the so-called official central line and that was it was an attempt to discredit him, his government and to sow chaos in russia. and the state-owned channels went into overdrive trying to -- >> has it created chaos? >> it has created much anxiety primarily among the opposition folks, who feel this is a whole new era of repression and crackdowns? russia. >> there have been wild speculation, talk about isil -- -- a muslim islamic group being involved in this or a love triangle true right? >> yes. >> that's the other thing that this young woman -- >> a disgruntled lover -- >> right. >> who finally caught up to the man. >> all right. so aside from the speculation, we don't know what happened but what does this crime mean for russia right now? and how important is it to what is going on in the politics of the country? >> well i think the other vers

. >> reporter: each flower was left for a man considered to be a successor to boris yeltsin, but he chose a little-known spy chief vladimir putin, and boris nemtsov became opposition. an opposition that found itself difficult to make itself heard in a russia that is ever more patriotic and anti-western. this was no level domestic political hit job. european ambassadors and dignitaries came with a message that the way the crime would be vetted came from -- investigated came from far away. >> we came to pay respects and lay flowers at the site of the killing of boris nemtsov. >> reporter: why do you think this is important. >> it is a brutal murder. and we are appalled by the killing. we expect the russian authorities to find the culprits and bring them to justice. >> reporter: the investigation that vladimir putin pledged to take a close interest in is underway. political murders in russia have a habit of going unsolved. police examined an abandoned car expected to be used in the shooting. motive is that boris nemtsov may have been killed to weaken the russian state. >> currently the inves

. >> the deputy prime minister he was under boris yeltsin. years later he was a thorn in the side of vladimir putin. >> reporter: boris nemtsov received death threats before but he brushed them aside saying if he was afraid he wouldn't be leading the opposition party. friday even he was killed near the kremlin, shot four times from a passing car. >> he was big handsome bright and talented. the kind they kill. we needed them very much. >> translation: this is a new spiral in russia's does sent. the master mind of the crime is obvious, a political murder of a bright politician. >> he was killed two days before he was supposed to lead an opposition march. now there's anger within the movement and some call his death an assassination. this was a man once considered to be a potential successor to former president boris yet sin. instead, he chose a little known spy chief called vladimir putin, and his future became one of opposition. but the opposition he fought hard for had found it harder and harder to make itself heard in an increasing patriotic

soviet leaders boris yeltsin and others are buried there. >>> hundreds of thousands took to the streets of brazil to demand impeachment of their president. they are upset with the country's sluggish economy, rising price is and corruption. it was one of demonstrationness cities and towns all across brazil. the president is now in the third month of her second, four year term political observers say it is unlikely she will resign or face impeachment proceedings many opponents are calling for. >>> ten health care workers with the boston based monday nonprofit organization are being evacuated from sierra leone to the you had after one of their collogues was infected with ebola. four of the workers will be treated at nebraska medical center in omaha, the others will be monitored at hospitals in the atlanta and maryland. >>> well, the president of the pacific island name of vanuato says his country must start off a following a cyclone that destroyed 90 percent of the buildings on the main island. >> can you imagine, australia with new zealand and france will also, rescue relief help at this

home to graves of former soviet leaders khrushchev and yeltsin. >>> in the u.s.kup truck crashed into a kitchen where the dad has been feeding the baby. >> the high chair parts were in the living room. >> happened yesterday. outside philly. the parents and the baby are all okay but they had to move out of the house for now. cops say they arrested the driver who may have been drunk. >>> we're learning more about the thousands of e-mails hillary clinton's office apparently deleted from the personal account she used when secretary of state. secretary clinton said she turned over more than 30,000 e-mails but her office reports it deleted 30,000 others claiming they were privity. hillary clinton's spokesman says staffers read every one of those e-mails before getting rid of them. secretary clinton made her first appearance today since holding a news conference last week, and ed henry was there, and now he is here on the knocks -- fox news deck. i understand the secretary is trying to shift the focus. >> the clarification that came last night was the fact they put out

he was at one point considered to be a successor of boris yeltsin, then it went to putin.going to send a clear message irrespective of who pulled the trigger or gave the order to all opposition in russia if you stand in putin's way, you're likely to be crushed, likely to be killed and this is a very dangerous and dark times for that country. >> buck sexton, we have to leave it there. thank you very much. appreciate it. >>> disaster strikes a sky diver. a medical emergency leaving him helpless and plummeting toward the earth. we'll explain how he was saved next. your daughter has a brilliant idea for her science project. and you could make it happen. right? wrong. because you're not you you're a cancer hospital and your daughter... she's a team of leading researchers... and that brilliant idea is a breakthrough in patient treatment that could save thousands of lives. which means you need a diverse team of advisors helping you. from research data analytics all the way to transformation of clinical care. so you call pwc. the right people to get the extraordinary done. ♪♪ buil

wooden scaffolding somehow ignited, the soviet leader there and russian's force president boris boris yeltsinuried there. >>> hundreds of thousands demanded impeachment of their president. they are upset with the economy, rising prices and corruption. they marched with dozens of demonstrations in the cities and towns across brazil. president is now in the third month of her second four year term. political observers say it is unlikely she will resign or face impeachment. many opponents are calling for that. we will keep an eye on that. >>> ten health care workers with a boston based non-profit organization are being evacuated from sierra leone to the u.s. after one of their collogues was infect with ebola. the the workers will be treated at nebraska medical center in omaha, others monitored in hospitals in atlanta and in the state of maryland. >>> the the president of the pacific island nation of vanuato says his country must start off following a cyclone that destroyed 90 percent of the buildings on that main island australia new zealand and france is providing rescue and relief help. six pe

president put's predecessor boriséya yeltsin would disappear for drinking binges and health problemstin has been missing. ashley winster -- i cannot talk today -- >> you've got it. >> i think putin is doing something he shouldn't be doing. >> if you believe the rumors, there's all sorts of things. but i can tell you that onboard air force one today reporters asked whether the president is being briefed on exactly where mr. putin is, and white house spokesman said that he has a hard enough time trying to keep up with one world leader but he is operating under the assumption that the russian leader is alive. earlier this afternoon the state department deflected questions about mr. putin's whereabouts. >> there was a report that russian president vladimir putin has not been seen in public for a week. does the state department have any idea where he is, what he is up to? >> i believe the kremlin has spoken to this, so i would point you to that. >> you don't have any reaction. >> i don't have information no. >> in the meantime, the rumors about why mr. putin is m.e.i.a. is rampant, everyt

. >> reporter: boris nemtsov, a former russian deputy prime minister under boris yeltsin, was shot fourck while walking with his 23-year-old ukrainian model girlfriend. the killing caught on surveillance camera. you can see the couple here walking along the bridge right in front of the kremlin just before midnight. a snow plow passes in front of them. that's when out of view investigators believe a man shoots nemtsov, then runs into a getaway car. president putin ordered an investigation and quickly condemned the killing. in 2014 nemtsov, a prominent russian opposition leader compiled a detailed report on alleged corruption at the winter olympics in sochi. >> this is the most corrupted olympics games in the history of mankind. in my stemt >> reporter: more recently ukrainian president poroshenko said nemtsov was about to reveal information that would prove russia's involvement in the conflict in ukraine. saying that quote, someone was very afraid of that. some mourners believe that someone was putin or his supporters. do you believe that mr. putin, president putin, is responsible for th

. >> even russian president boris yeltsin seems comfortable on the dance floor. >> kick it. >> not allst ask karl rove. ♪ tell me what is your name >> mc rove. >> i saw this one live, i'm afraid. it was even scarier to watch karl rove rapping in person than on the tv. he's got some of the movements that only dick cheney could manage. >> mc rove. ♪ our dnc is what they're calling me ♪ >> colin powell is equally musically challenged. here he is singing at a security meeting in indonesia. and bad boy blagojevich is caught on camera taking on elvis. ♪ >> yikes. don't quit your day jobs, fellas. oh, wait, never mind. perhaps they should have made a speedy escape like president bush tried to do after this press conference. >> this was one of the famous episodes with george bush looking like he didn't know what he was doing because he didn't even know where the door was. >> i was trying to escape. >> and talk about wanting to escape, who can forget vice president dan quayle exercising his spelling expertise in front of the cameras. >> add one little bit on the end. potato. you wrote phonetica

then boris yeltsin named himself the first deputy prime minister. everything crashed when putin took over. he was booted from government in 2003 and that is when he really embraced political opposition groups. he was arrested a number of times for criticizing putin. in recent years, he rurpd to the hometown of sochi to study the funding of the olympics h el blasted the olympics saying most of the money was -- >> this is the most expensive games in the history of mankind, the most corrupted olympic games. my estimation is that still about 25 to 30 billion u.s. dollars. >> he spent are spent decades and suddenly just yards from the kremlin. he left behind four children. >>> we're going to talk about mo about him, also we're going to play you some of the interview that he gave just showers before he was shot and killed. it's more than the cloud. it's security - and flexibility. it's where great ideas and vital data are stored. with centurylink you get advanced technology solutions from a trusted it partner. including cloud and hosting services - all ba

. >> hes was the first deputy prime minister under the yeltsin government. he was one of the sort of very ra-ra of the liberalization of russian politics and he believed in democracy and a pro-western orientation for russia. so it's true that over the last decade his star has dimmed and others have brightened and alexei who is now seen as the de facto leader of the opposition and that said you couldn't go to a western capital. you couldn't go to a conference about european security without running into nemtsov. he was very popular. he was very prominent in the work that he had done spearheading this corruption investigation. >> and he just wrote this big study, investigation into the ukraine investigation and also what he called major fraud about the sochi olympics. >> right. he didn't quiet down. >> the sochi olympics report was huge and a lot of people paid attention to that and if you look at the u.s. treasury sanctions against russian officials and the response to the invasion of ukraine and the biographies and the dollar amounts that nemtsov had written

everyone knew that they were looking at him for his health, which is sort of what it was like when boris yeltsinpower. stephanie: is this a nonsense meeting? he is having this meeting with the head of kurdistan, but maybe he should have gotten up to the podium and talked about where he had been. >> the president said awkwardly, all of these rumors about the president's health not only is he walking but he is talking. he growth the around. it was all a bit strange. you can see vladimir putin sitting there, kind of sweating -- not entirely comfortable with the fact that even though he was talking with the leader of another country, all that anyone caret about -- care about is where have you been? stephanie: technically speaking, what is up with you? joe: is it about his image that he cannot say he was sick? rather than letting speculation swirled around, why not say he had the flu? stephanie: it is vladimir putin. he is superhuman. >> i don't know, you're asking me to speculate. he is 62, has been in exceptional health. stephanie: we have seen him topless. >> maybe it is sort of the cult of the ma

intelligence officer in the kgb in what became the separate foreign intelligence service during the yeltsin era. he was given access, in connection with others. the 11 notebooks he was able to smuggle out of russia eventually after he moved to london, are now fully accessible online at the cold war international history pro -- project website. another collection, which fortunately is now fully deposited at the cambridge university, the churchill archive center is the archive of a kgb archivist in charge of the archive in the late 1970's and early 1980's. he transcribed and made notes from a lot of documents and now, his notes and other papers are accessible. i went there in september and they were made available only in july. i went there in september, and photographed the materials pertaining to, among other things, the united states. they do add new information even though i didn't see anything directly connected with the rosenberg case. there is a great deal of new information about the extent of soviet espionage in the united states. finally, one other thing, then i will get to a couple

the other thing is that nemtsov was a rifle to putin in the 1990s, they both worked for president yeltsinirs and nemtsov has been leading a small embattled democracy party since then. so those are the pockets here. he was clearly someone that the kremlin detested but, again, i think the tragedy is we're not likely to know the truth because the kremlin is not about the ruth. it's going to sweep thinking under the rug if it uncovers evidence. >> there's a question of whether this man and life wound up being in vain because it's supposed to be a call to the legitimacy of the situation is but when you look it's very difficult with the internet and the media even as it exists in rufks to explain how the russian people could not know that russia is so heavy handed in ukraine right now. does vladimir putin's popularity signal that they don't care that russia is in there banging up ukraine is this. >> that is part of the rob. since putin invaded crimea a year ago his popularity has sword. there is a rising tide of russian nana ligslism. he has never acknowledged putin, that he has intervened mili

kiddingly i reminded a friend just today that yeltsin used to disappear regularly and of course he pointedhe was a drinker. with putin you never really know given his background. but he certainly has everyone worked up in the markets. alix: yeah. you live, breathe, and sleep russia. how unusual is this for putin? >> very unusual. in the past 15 years he's rarely gone without public, a public appearance for more than a day or two. his public image in russia is very carefully cultivate today always present him as strong vigorous guy so if he is sick for a couple days he may wish to stay out of the public eye. the fact there is so much speculation about it is a symptom of the fact it is a relatively authoritarian system based on one guy. that one guy is gone peam get worried. >> he of course there's been a lot of buzz about potential opposition. i even use that word very carefully. is there even more of a need to control the message after the shooting of his sort of political nemesis snveragets the opposition in russia is extremely weak even before the shooting so i'm not sure that is particu

he was a very prominent figure in yeltsin's leadership. vladmir putin's power. he didn't want to compromise on his principles. he wanted to see russia free and he didn't want to be part of vladmir putin's repression regime. and he moved eventually to run opposition and became the most vocal critic of putin's regime, talking about corruption and vladmir putin's en gijment in the most prominent cases that led to the violation of human rights. >> he alleges that billions were stolen because of the winter games there and also he's a strong and tough critic and has been, i should say of what's happening in eastern ukraine as well. and there is a rally scheduled for this weekend that he was going to headline. >> yes. absolutely. we know that he was about to release his new report to prove the presence of russian troops in eastern ukraine. borris was the fiercest critic of forces in ukraine and i think that makes putin angry. >> do you think that vladmir putin gave the order to kill him? >> i believe in presumption of innocence, that if it's not

into a car. 55-year-old ep nemtsov served at the deputy prime minister under former president bourse yeltsin. under putin's rein an intolerant society. just hours before killed nemtsov was on russian radio encouraging people to attend an opposition protest scheduled for the next day. according to nemtsov's lawyer the opposition leader had received death threats tied to a report he was preparing on russia's military involvement in ukraine. president putin has called the execution a provocation, and has ordered an investigation, but those close to nemtsov say even if the kremlin wasn't behind the killing, they're spoons forresponsible for the wave of nagsism, anyone who speaks out against the official narratives is a target. gayle? >> thank you, clarissa. >>> the justice department could release its investigation of ferguson, missouri this week. the report alleges widespread racial discrimination. "new york times" says the report faults police for dispo portion knitly ticketing and arresting blacks. the city relies on the fines to balance its budget. the deadly shooting of black teenager micha

back to boris yeltsin presidency, one of the vocal liberal politicians at the time had a very promisingcs and did have a very good career in politics. when vladimir putin came in in 2000 as president, he turned his voice to criticize the kremlin rather than to support it but he was very well known. i knew him well enough spent some tough political time together. it is a great, great loss for russia for the opposition force. it was a terrible loss shows that russia is falling into abyss quickly. >> it seems so far with ukraine and a number of things putin is pretty much the teflon leader. do you think this will effect him politically in the long term? >> predicting his falling down a long time. it seems no civilized nation should behave the way russia behave or has been behaving and putin the last few years, especially the last year with ukraine. now with that death happening next to the kremlin, suddenly they cannot know who the killer is already, you can't sneeze next to the kremlin without being arrested so that's already a bad sign there. i think putin will use this death very much i

. >> reporter: nemtsov, a former russian deputy prime minister under boris yeltsin, had long been a vocal critic of putin and of what he called his crony capitalism. so the question is why now. ukrainian president poroshenko said nemtsov was about to reveal damaging information regarding russia's involvement in the conflict in ukraine, saying quote, someone was very afraid of that. >> should i be concerned about having dinner with you? >> reporter: in a 2014 interview with cnn's anthony bourdain nemtsov said he knew he irritated the kremlin but felt his popularity would actually protect him. >> there is precedent that critics of the government critics of putin, bad things seem to happen to them. >> i'm well-known guy and this is a safety because if something happens with me it will be scandal not only in moscow city but also in the world. >> reporter: now, a little bit of news we just got. the girlfriend of nemtsov, the ukrainian girlfriend we are just hearing from ukrainian foreign ministry's twitter feed that she has returned to kiev after three days of questioning, after staying under

yeltsin used to do this when he got drunk, he would just disappear for several hours. he would stay on his plane or disappear for a day or so. i don't see how putin comes out of this without seeming somehow weaker because there is no explanation for it. what was it was it an illness? was it an internal power struggle? was it a wag the dog situation where he was trying to take attention off of the economic problems of the country the war in ukraine? was it stress? was it depression? was it related to the nemtsov assassination? >> he comes back and the next news item we have is the 40,000 troops exercises. it's a bit like you're right, that he's seen as weaker so what does he do in response to that? he orders a massive troop exercise in response to show his strength here. that's a little worrisome. >> i think that's right. and remember this is in tandem with a lot of other exercises. sending bombers near to british air space. there's a lot of kind of nationalist feelings. he's a popular figure in russia and he keeps squeezing that. he keeps squeezing the power of russia

this is starting to feel like russia post yeltsin and rough and tumble days.uation actually hard core decision about what's going to happen. you have to be far more decisive about what kind of bonds are you going to buy in european banks. this is very very different than the last ten or 20 years. >> wonderful. thank you very much. >>> to the bonds market. rick santelli tracking the action at the cme. ricky, over to you. >> well thank you. michelle is absolutely right. traders just can't wait to see all the specifics and the focus with regard to bond buying. sometimes traders say there could be a real shortage of the types of securities that they're looking to purchase. looking at an intraday of tens. we're at eight basis points, and fives, tens 30s. foreign exchange is the big market. today you see the intra day and the euro versus dollar you have seen it go down 112. this is important. look at the range since the ecb meeting on the 22nd. we continue to look as though we're breeching this congestion. when it comes to corporates, there's no bigger deals hardly

other world leaders that have addressed congress in the past, boris yeltsin, nelson mandela, cora zonever happened before but this is obviously comes wrapped in a bunch of political enigmas. john, your thoughts on this as we watch the prime minister begin to enter the room? >> reporter: i think, carl it's a dramatic moment. talking about a situation where israel is a staunch ally of the united states the united states was the first country recognize the state of israel when it was created after world war ii 11 minutes after it declared independence bipartisan support and yet a situation just before his election the israeli prime minister is coming at the invitation of the president of the united states political ader are sairries in congress to make a speech opposing the president's policy his pursuit of the nuclear deal with iran. that is something extremely unusual. i don't -- i can't remember having seen a circumstance that's parallel so there's drama in that drama in what the prime minister's mess am is going to be and as we saw from his speech yesterday, he is expressing the exois