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KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. And you're watching CNN's special continuing coverage of the aftermath of the

terror attacks in Paris.

It is a new day in France after one of the darkest weeks in the country's history and a moving display of unity.

Now people from all walks of life turned out for Sunday's anti-terror march, more than three-and-a-half million nationwide. And together,

they've denounced the acts of Islamic extremists who slaughtered 17 people in a string of attacks.

And at the front of that march in Paris, a stunning show of solidarity: 40 world leaders standing by the French president's side.

Now the French prime minister says the threat is not over, and France is boosting security: 10,000 troops and 8,000 police are to be deployed;

and more than half of those officers will be protecting Jewish schools.

Now the only remaining suspect from last week's attacks is still on the loose, the partner of Amedy Coulibaly who attacked those inside a

Jewish supermarket on Friday, she may have fled to Syria.

Now CNN's Hala Gorani was out in the crowds during that massive unity rally experiencing it all firsthand. She joins us now live from Paris.

And Hala, on Sunday, a huge and incredible show of solidarity there in the French capital. What was it like?

HALA GORANI, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, it was an exceptional historic moment. You really felt it when you were there. The

hundreds of thousands of Place de la Nation, which was the end-point of the rally.

You got the sense that it was a historic day. This message of unity really drowning out all types of divisive speech, some of which we heard in

the days after the attack. That wasn't the case at all.

You saw it among ordinary French citizens, but also with world leaders making the trip to Paris. You had Angela Merkel, the chancellor of

Germany, you had the prime minister of Spain, the prime minister of the United Kingdom.

There was some talk about why President Obama, for instance, hadn't participated in this unity rally, or why you hadn't sent the secretary of

state. Those were some of the questions out there.

The Elysee Palace, though, is saying they're not disappointed by that at all. In fact, that they were quite happy with the show of support from

President Obama with a phone call on Wednesday, one of the first from a world leader to Francois Hollande after the attack on Wednesday as well as

you'll remember the U.S. President's visit to the French embassy in Washington, D.C.

So, the Elysee Palace very much putting out that line that they are not disappointed, even though there have been conversations and questions

raised about why the U.S. did not have higher level representation, Kristie.

LU STOUT: All right, so the French are now -- officials saying that they are not disappointed, that there was no top level U.S. official

interlocking arms with the French president in Sunday's rally.

Now the marches, they are now over. France is pushing ahead with the investigation into what happened last week. What's the latest on that?

GORANI: I'm having a bit of trouble hearing you. I think the question is about the investigation, so the latest here is what we're

hearing from the prime minister who spoke to French media saying he believes that probably, most probably Amedy Coulibaly, the man who

authorities say was responsible for that supermarket attack in which four hostages lost their lives, that maybe that man had an accomplice or

accomplices.

The question is what is he basing that statement on? Of course, the investigation is ongoing. You can imagine that intelligence services in

this country are scouring through the -- whatever they can find in the residences of the suspects in these horrific attacks at Charlie Hebdo here

where we are and also at that kosher supermarket.

Could it be some of the videos that have been posted online after the death of Coulibaly? That is one of the questions out there that some of

our experts are telling me could provide clues as to whether or not another person may have been involved, if not operationally at least post the

attacks and putting out some videos.

So, those are questions out there as well.

The other big outstanding question is this presumed girlfriend of Amedy Coulibaly. We understand according to Turkish authorities that she

made her way from Madrid to Istanbul and is now believed to be in Syria.

How did she escape the attention of investigators after the Charlie Hebdo attack, which was on the 7th of January if, indeed, she did make the

trip into Syria on the 8th of January.

So those are all questions out there as well, Kristie, that in due time people here certainly hope will be answered, because the big fear is

what if something like this happens again?

LU STOUT: Untangling the Paris attacks, the suspects, the links, Hala Gorani reporting live from Paris. Thank you, Hala.

GORANI: Now one man maybe responsible for recruiting the three terror suspects killed on Friday. Arwa Damon has more on a French terror network

suspected to be behind the attacks.

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ARWA DAMON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The network was nicknamed after where its members worked out: this park in Paris, Buttes-

Chaumont, with an aim far from its tranquil setting: to send French nationals to fight American troops in Iraq.

Magali Serre, an investigative journalist formally with France 3, spent months on a documentary, delving into Buttes-Chaumont back in 2005.

MAGALI SERRE, INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST: So, three dead in Iraq, you see.

DAMON: One of them, according to her reporting, in an attempted suicide attack against U.S. forces along Baghdad's notorious airport road.

And that was Cherif Kouachi's aim: to be martyr in Iraq.

He, like the others, was not particularly religious and yet drawn into, Ser (ph) explains, radical Islam and then to war by this man: Fareed

Benetu (ph).

SERRE: He told them you have to discover your identity, your roots. You have to know who you are, you know. And it's why they were listening

to him, you know, because it was like a prophet for them, you know, somebody who knew more the Koran.

DAMON: Benetu (ph) spoke about the abuses committed by U.S. troops in Abu Ghraib to recruit. Kouachi never made it to Iraq. Detained, along

with six others, including Benetu (ph) in 2005.

All as seen in court documents obtained by CNN in conjunction with L'Express (ph), charged with conspiring to commit acts of terrorism.

The common link among them, Benetu (ph).

According to the documents, three of the men had already traveled to Fallujah in 2004 when it was under the control of al Qaeda in Iraq's leader

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Kouachi told the court he was relieved he was detained. And according to Serre's interview with Kouachi's social worker, finished with so-called

jihad.

But in prison is where the real radicalization began.

JEAN-CHARLES BRISARD, TERRORISM ANALYST: They were in prison with other hardliners, including a central figure in the al Qaeda networks in

Europe, Jamal Begale (ph).

DAMON: Algerian-born Begale (ph), jailed for plotting to attack the U.S. embassy in Paris in 2001.

BRISARD: And he in prison became the mentor, spiritual mentor, continued the work in some way initiated by Benetu (ph) and maintained

these links between them in prison, radicalized them even more because he was in direct contact -- we should not forget about that -- he was in

direct contact with the highest ranking members of al Qaeda at the time.

DAMON: This terrifying attack on French soil, carried out not by returnees from Syria, not by foreigners, but by two brothers born and

radicalized here in France.

Arwa Damon, CNN, Paris.

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LU STOUT: Now France is still recovering from last week's terror attacks. And let's bring in political commentator Christian Malard for

more.

And Christian, Sunday's massive and historic rally, what does that day mean for the people of France?

CHRISTIAN MALARD, INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC CONSULTANT: Well, everybody attended what we would call a landslide for democracy, for

dignity, unity, national unity. And I think it probably was an electroshock working up everybody against these terrorism, barbaric

terrorism we had to face during these last few days.

So everybody now said what next? We have really to fight now hard against these cells, these Muslim fundamentalist cells we have in France.

We have many of them.

And we have a lot of discussions here in France: the public opinion, the government, all the political parties say it must not be like before

January 7th. We need to change, to reform our way of tackling terrorism.

So, first, as you probably alluded to, we are going to have 10,000 soldiers all around the country to let's say fight against terrorism in the

very sensitive areas. All the Jewish establishments of the country are going to be really under scrutiny by special services.

And one of the problem, which has been focused upon today is we need to strengthen the cooperation between our intelligence services, which

failed between the United States, France and other European countries, because France, United States and other countries knew about the doings,

goings of these two brothers and Coulibaly, the three terrorists -- barbaric terrorists.

We could have prevented certainly this tragedy, this barbaric terrorism.

So, it's a lot -- we put everything into question again and definitely the meetings between secretary of interiors yesterday from all over Europe

where judiciaries people here -- judicial people are necessary for the future.

LU STOUT: All right, and Christian, on that point of strengthening cooperation between France and the United States, I have to ask you about

what we did not -- or who we did not see at the rally on Sunday. We saw the French president locking arms with world leaders, but there were no top

American officials there.

French officials have told CNN that no matter -- well, Obama has still has been present from the very beginning, has been very supporting as

France has been dealing with this -- these terror attacks and this crisis, but does that no-show, the fact that there were no top level American

leaders there at that march on Sunday, does that weigh on the minds of the French people?

MALARD: No. No, no. I wouldn't say that, Kristie.

I think definitely we had the U.S. secretary of Justice, but certainly the French authorities would have preferred to have one John Kerry, because

we had Lavrov on the Russian side and we had even the prime minister of Turkey, which is a very controversial country with its president Mr.

Erdogan.

But anyway, now it's time to work together more and more against this Muslim fundamentalist terrorism. And everybody is aware of that.

And even, it's probably going to lead to a change of the law against terrorism in France, which will give a lot of work to our Secretary of

Justice Madam Taubira which has been considered as being too lenient, not enough firm against terrorism.

So, everything is going to be put into question. This electroshock must be useful for the struggle against terrorism. This is what everybody

is expecting in this country with all the political parties, with all the French public opinion, it's a new way of struggling against terrorism,

which we expect in this country and all over the world -- the United States and inside Europe, too.

LU STOUT: In this struggle against terrorism, it is time to work together. So how does France move forward to take this moment of unity and

move forward to introduce perhaps new policies to better protect its citizens from future terror attacks?

MALARD: Well, it's clear that there area lot of meetings going on, what we call crisis meetings between the French president, secretary of

interior, Prime Minister Valls and the Secretary of Justice Madam Taubira, which is focused by many people as being responsible for -- have several

reform which is not good enough.

We have 60 percent of the prisoners inside our jails who are Muslims. The other day, one of the people you heard on CNN, Jean-Charles Brisard,

told us at least he knows that 15,000 people in the Paris area are sympathizers for ISIS.

So, we need to fight all that. We know that we have many Muslims fundamentalist or Islamist cells around the country. We have to clean all

that. And I think we are at war.

Finally we said for the first time here we are at war with radical Islam. Who said that? President Hollande, Prime Minister Valls.

It's time we realize that we were too much asleep, too much let's say aloof considering that it was not a real problem and now we have to face

reality. And reality is there, a struggle against Muslim fundamentalism. And we are at war against this radical Islam.

LU STOUT: All right, Christian Malard reporting and giving his analysis on the new reality for France in the wake of the terrible events

that happened last week. Christian Malard, many thanks indeed for joining us here on CNN. Thank you and take care.

Now you're watching CNN. And coming up after the break we are live again in Paris where the country remains on alert. Thousands of troops and

police are now being called out. We've got the details ahead.

And we are following Boko Haram's deadly rampage. Amnesty International is calling the militant group's recent attack in northern

Nigeria the worst ever. We'll have a live report from the capital of Nigeria.

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LU STOUT: Welcome back.

Now France is ramping up security nationwide. The government is calling up 10,000 soldiers to strengthen security at sensitive cites across

the country, another 8,000 police are to be deployed as the national security alert is raised to its highest level.

Now meanwhile, the only surviving suspect connected to last week's deadly terror attacks is still at-large. The partner of Amedy Coulibaly

who attacked those inside a Jewish supermarket on Friday, she may have fled to Syria.

Now across France on Sunday, millions rallied against terrorism in this historic and unprecedented solidarity march.

Now for more on that rally and the investigation that's underway now, let's bring in our senior international correspondent Jim Bittermann. He's

monitoring developments live from Paris.

And Jim, on Sunday, again it was an incredible sight. Millions taking part in a huge anti-terror rally. Your thoughts on that historic march.

JIM BITTERMANN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, it was amazing, Kristie. It was really something to see in the streets. And when

you talk to a number of people who had never marched in that kind of thing before, we have marches here in France all the time, but nothing like

yesterday. And it was interesting to sort of talk to some people who had never marched before, but felt that they should go out in the march

yesterday.

Now the one thing I would say that from the perspective of this morning, that was kind of the feel good moment yesterday was that march.

Today, the reality hits the road. And I think that we've seen this morning already there's been a big security pow wow at the presidential palace.

There was also even as the march was going on yesterday there was some of the interior ministers were meeting here. And the government is trying

to come to terms and grapple with the security situation going forward.

As you mentioned, the defense minister came out this morning, said there's going to be 10,000 more troops on the streets. This means that

there will be in total now 28,000 French army troops patrolling the streets of the country. There are almost twice as many people patrolling inside

the country as there are troops overseas at bases overseas.

So, it's an amazing situation to sort of see the military out there.

The question is, of course, to a lot of people's mind is whether or not these military are out there to provide reassurance for the French

people or whether they can really do something to sort of patrol against a terrorist threat.

Obviously, if somebody comes along with a bomb or an assault weapon or something at the Eiffel Tower, there are going to be French troops around

who will be able to stop them. But the question is will they do anything in terms of deciphering the codes and the phone calls and the

communications enough to get an advanced word of what an attack before it may happen.

In that regard, the prime minister told us this morning that in fact he's going to be cracking down -- they want to have a crack down on the

Internet -- Internet sites that provide information to terrorists and spread the propaganda and spread the recruiting message and that he's going

to call for something that hasn't been seen here for years, and that is a crackdown within the Schengen Group, these are the countries of Europe

which cooperate, allow people -- to allow free passage over borders -- a crackdown now on the external security of the group of 26 nations that are

involved in Schengen, but also internally. In other words, we might start to see in some countries borders, once against coming alive. These are

borders that haven't existed since 1985 within some of the members of the Schengen Group.

So it's a multifaceted response basically to crack down on every way that can be -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: Yeah, security being beefed up in a very significant way in Paris and across France.

The unity rally is over. And we have the investigation as French authorities are pushing ahead with that, we have one possible suspect still

at-large. What's the latest on her?

BITTERMANN: Well, the Turkish media are saying this morning that she, in fact, crossed over the border between Turkey and Syria on the 8th -- so

after the attack here at Charlie Hebdo -- and made it to Syria. And if so, she's basically in safe territory. They won't be able to reach her there.'

There are reports that in fact her family -- members of her family -- may have been picked up or came in voluntarily to provide information about

her.

This is kind of typical in France. When any of these terrorist suspects have been identified, the police go out and round up relatives and

friends and everyone else trying to get as much information as they can about the people involved, hoping to get a lead that will help them walk

back to the actual person involved.

So, I think that they're on the trail, but -- and they are on the trail, but -- and they also raided an apartment that she and her boyfriend,

Coulibaly were sharing and found a lot of weapons there. So, they are following all the leads up, but it's a question of whether they're going to

strike gold.

And also, the other question is are they going to be able to foil ongoing attacks? We heard over the weekend that terrorist cells -- sleeper

cells in France had been alerted. So it'll be another thing we'll have to see over the next few days -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: All right, Jim Bittermann with the latest on the investigation and what could come next. Thank you very much indeed for

that, Jim.

Now you're watching CNN. And still ahead, a weekend of terror in northern Nigeria where young female suicide bombers are behind the latest

attacks. We're live from the capital next.

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LU STOUT: Welcome back.

Now an escalating campaign of terror in northern Nigeria -- and increasingly, female suicide bombers are being used to carry out attacks.

Now in the city of Maiduguri on Saturday, explosives strapped to a girl reportedly as young as 10 years old detonated, killing at least 20

people at a busy market. Now the following day, two female suicide attackers killed at least three people and injured dozens more in the city

of Potiskum.

And earlier this month, an attack Amnesty International call Boko Haram's deadliest massacre. Officials say as many as 2,000 people were

killed in the fishing town of Bagaa (ph). Now some residents, we are told, were burned alive.

Now, CNN's senior international correspondent Nic Robertson joins me now live from the Nigerian capital of Abuja. And Nic, the scope, the

scale, the nature of the killings truly shocking.

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, these young female suicide bombers are really a standout here. Three of them over the

weekend. And really from the eyewitnesses, police that are talking to us and others, their not really suicide bombers, if you will, they're

unwitting and apparently it seems unwilling vehicle bombs in a way, human vehicle bombs, because these girls merely have the explosives strapped on

them and then the explosives are being detonated remotely.

That's what eyewitnesses are believing that is happening here, a Boko Haram tactic they say of rounding up young girls, young boys from villages

when they attack villages and then using them in this way, to quote one source speaking to us, to do Boko Haram's dirty work in these towns where

Boko Haram can't get in.

But the attack on the town of Bagaa (ph), close to the border with Chad, a significant agricultural -- agricultural and fishing town is

significant because Boko Haram has overrun a military outpost near that town. It is an important sort of crossroads and way to get into Chad on

the border with Chad. Lake Chad, it gives Boko Haram now sort of unfettered access in that area. They burned part of the town down.

These tactics are being described as something new.

But an eyewitness told us as many as 3,000 people could have been killed. He said that early on Saturday morning, the 3rd of January, he

heard machine gun fire, heavy explosions. He thought the army was training. This is the army based near the town, put there to defend the

town. He thought the army was training, then saw the army on the run. Then saw hundreds of Boko Haram fighters show up in trucks and vans.

He said that the local militia tried to fight off Boko Haram. Realized they were outmanned, outgunned. He hid in the bushes by his house

for three days, witnessed some of the killing, witnessed the looting Boko Haram looting the markets, the stores there, setting fire to houses and

stores in the town.

When he got away he said for a 5 kilometer distance he was walking past and over and around bodies lying at the side of the road.

So for him he said he thought perhaps as many as 3,000 people killed, 30,000 put to flight, 7,000 to 8,000 according to international aid

agencies may have fled across the border to Chad -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: Yeah, new and disturbing tactics being used in this killing spree by Boko Haram, including the use of a 10-year-old girl as a suicide

bomber, absolutely chilling.

Nic Robertson reporting live from the Nigerian capital of Abuja for us. Thank you, Nic.

You're watching CNN. And still ahead on the program, the hunt is on for the lone surviving suspect in last week's terror attacks in France as

the nation steps up security.

Plus, a Pakistani school is reopening its doors less than a month after a massacre. We speak to a student who survived the attack.

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LU STOUT: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. And these are your world headlines.

Now French officials say Sunday's anti-terror rally was one of the largest gatherings in the country's history. 3.7 million people turned out

and they turned out nationwide all in the wake of last week's attacks that left 17 people dead. Now France remains on high alert. Thousands of

security forces have been deployed.

Now an Indonesian official tells CNN that AirAsia flight 8501 exploded after crashing into the sea, that's according to a preliminary analysis of

the debris pattern. Now meanwhile, search teams have located both of the plane's black boxes. Now the flight data recorder is on its way for live

analysis, while the cockpit voice recorder has not been pulled out of the water yet.

Now in northern Nigeria as many as 2,000 people are feared dead in a massacre by Boko Haram. Now residents say hundreds of bodies were left

lying in the streets after the radical Islamist militant group attacked the town of Bagaa (ph). Amnesty International describes it as the deadliest

assault in the group's bloody history.

Now a Pakistani school has reopened for the first time since it was attacked by the Taliban. At least 145 people were killed in the December

16 massacre, most of them children. Now military officials at Peshawar's army public school have since increased security around the building.

Now let's return to Paris now. Our chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour is there. She is covering the aftermath of the terror

attacks in France and joins us now live. And Christiane, first let's talk about the unity rally on Sunday we saw so many people there, but also world

leaders holding arms with the French president, but no top level American official president. What do French authorities make of that?

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, I think this is a bit of a storm in a teacup. And it's a very political storm in

the United States.

I spoke to the Elysee Palace officials close to President Hollande told me that they very much appreciated President Obama being out front and

center very early on, was one of the first leaders to call President Hollande back after these terrible attacks that started on Wednesday. They

note that he went and delivered what they called an emotional moment of solidarity with the French by visiting the French embassy in Washington,

D.C.

So there's no complaint about who was represented here at the march from the French government itself.

Having said that, this was an amazing, amazing outpouring. You know, nearly 4 million people all over France did turn up yesterday. And we're

told it was unprecedented. Not even after the liberation of France after World War II were this many people in the streets.

And now, of course, the question is what happens the day after. What happens after this show of national resolve and unity? And part of the

answer is from Prime Minister Valls today in which he has announced the deployment of literally thousands and thousands more police and military to

guard not just iconic landmarks around this city, but also mosques, Jewish schools, newspaper offices, centers of transportation. It's a huge

security effort that is underway now as at the same time they look for what they believe might be a suspect still on the lamb -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: So what happened on Sunday, no political slight there at all. This was a major show of unity and of solidarity.

Now Christiane, this afternoon, I understand that you'll be speaking to the French prime minister. It'll be his first face-to-face

international media interview since the attacks took place last week. What do you hope to learn from him?

AMANPOUR: Well, we obviously -- everybody wants to know more about who was this cell? What do the French know about them now? How much more

evidence or information is there about who funded them, who sent them out, if anyone at all, or were they you know inspired by overseas terrorists and

yet did they just radicalize here in France. These are some of the questions we want to ask.

In other words, is there a bigger cell around this?

What about this person still on the run? Is there -- is this person, do they believe, Hayat Boumeddiene who now, according to Turkish officials,

have moved through Turkey and into Syria, or is it somebody else? Was it Amedy Coulibaly who had the accomplice or was it the Kouachi brothers? How

linked were the two attacks?

And those are some of the questions we want to ask.

But beyond that, there is, you know, a political situation here in France, too. It's a very polarized society not just the majority of French

Muslims who are peaceloving and peacekeeping, but many of them live in deplorable conditions, consigned to really outer city slums, ghettos. And

what happens to them, many of them are on sort of watch lists and people are very concerned about them.

I spoke to the grand rector of the grand mosque here in Paris this morning who says -- and obviously condemned unequivocally the attacks on

the journalists and on the Jews at the Kosher market, but also said we need urgently a reform in Islam, as he said, to remove this mutation that is

radical extremism which is the vehicle for any number of people's rage and struggle against whatever they think.

He want to separate politics from Islam, separate the mosque and the state, so to speak.

LU STOUT: Yeah, and what happens to them really depends on whether or not there will be new policies introduced in France.

And in the wake of these terror attacks is there now an appetite for major policy changes there for new policies against jihadism and

radicalization in the country?

AMANPOUR: I think there is.

You know, a poll over the weekend said that 81 percent of the French people right now is ready to mobilize. So by that they mean mobilize in

terms of vigilance, in terms of trying to figure out how to combat this cancer that is in the midst of not just here in France, but in western

Europe as well.

You have societies that have now apart from this radicalization and fears that many, many more plots are being arranged according to the head

of the British intelligence MI5. They're very concerned that Syria-related plots are underway. They say they've already stopped many of them, but

that a mass casualty attack could take place anywhere in the west, in Europe or the United States. They're very concerned about that.

So people really are ready now, having seen the danger in the heart of this city of light. And light is not electric light, light is the values

of the enlightenment -- of freedom, democracy, and all of that. They want to preserve those values. And they realize that they're under attack.

But also that society here needs to be repaired and tended to and knitted back together.

LU STOUT: All right, CNN's Christiane Amanpour reporting in Paris for us. Many thanks indeed for that, Christiane.

Now, Jewish communities in France are mourning those killed in Friday's deadly attack on a kosher grocery store.

Now Jewish and Muslim leaders paid their respects while holdings hands as a symbol of unity and a symbol of peace.

Atika Shubert reports.

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ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Sunday in Paris and the city tries to return to normal life. But the bullet holes are still there

for all to see at the kosher supermarket. The makeshift memorial nearby continues to grow. Heavily armed police keep a watchful eye, removing

suspicious packages, alert and on guard.

On Sunday morning, the Jewish community gathered here for prayers.

(on camera): Now it's been like this all day. People have been streaming in to the site from across all different communities to bring

flowers, light candles, but also with this message, (speaking French), it means "I am a Jew" or "I am Jewish." It's the French rallying cry for

people here to show support for those Jewish victims specifically targeted in this attack.

(voice-over): Israeli politicians also came. Naftali Bennett, the controversial right-wing leader of the Jewish home party, shook hands with

Jewish Parisians at the scene, comforting those who came to mourn with an offer to immigrate to Israel.

NAFTALI BENNETT, ISRAELI MINISTER OF ECONOMY: If they decide to make (inaudible), to come to Israel, we will accept them and with -- and embrace

them. If they decide to stay here, we will continue to make sure that they're secure. The world has to wake up.

SHUBERT: Many French Jews we spoke with are now seriously considering that offer. This man told us the Jewish community is no longer safe. The

attacks against Jews are now sporadic and completely irregular. It's on the weekends, every day, there are anti-Semitic attacks against the Jews in

France and across Europe.

This woman told us, I envisage that I will leave for Israel when I have a good moment because, unfortunately now, here, I'm afraid.

France's chief rabbi says leaving France is an individual choice but it won't solve the problem for the whole community.

HAIM KORSIA, CHIEF RABBI OF FRANCE: We have an (inaudible) but my problem is a problem in France. It's a - we have a (inaudible) that's an

old (ph) one. But I think we need to say it again, this (SPEAKING IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE) happy like a Jewish in France. So we need to be in France

where Jewish people can be happy and I think we can do that together only when we are together (inaudible) France.

SHUBERT: On Sunday, Parisians rallied in solidarity with their Jewish neighbors. But this week's targeted attack may convince some French Jews

that France is no long a safe place to call home.

Atika Shubert, CNN, Paris.

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LU STOUT: Now search crews for AirAsia flight QZ8501 have made a critical discovery. Now one of the plane's black boxes has been pulled

from the sea. We got live to Jakarta for the latest.

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LU STOUT: Now starting on Tuesday, the French defense minister says an additional 10,000 troops are to guard sensitive sites across the

country. It is the latest move by a country rattled by terror attacks in its capital. And the hunt continues for the last surviving suspect from

last week's deadly attack.

Now a Turkish news agency says she passed through Istanbul before heading to Syria.

Meanwhile, Sunday saw a historic outpouring of support as world leaders lead more than a million people in Paris who came together to march

against terrorism.

Now let's go back to one of our top stories here in Asia.

Now Indonesian officials say they have located both of the black boxes of AirAsia flight QZ8501. Now divers have retrieved the flight data

recorder from under a wing of the jetliner.

Now the other black box, the cockpit voice recorder, has not been recovered yet. But officials say they know where it is and they are

confident they can retrieve that as well.

Now this is a crucial breakthrough in the search for answers in the deadly plane crash.

And CNN's David Malko has been following the developments for us. He joins us now live from Jakarta. And David, this is such a breakthrough,

but what will this reveal the data from the flight data recorder?

DAVID MALKO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Kristie, the pieces of this puzzle certainly coming together on day 16 of this search two weeks after the

flight crashed into the Java Sea.

Kristie, when you see the pictures of the flight data recorder being brought on shore and then transferred from one bin of salt water to

another, this was really good news for the investigation -- the investigating officials here saying that that black box is in great

condition. It doesn't appear on the outside at least to have suffered any damage from fire, from water, from the impact.

Kristie, that black box is now here in Jakarta in the lab of the National Transport Safety Committee. They are the ones running the

investigation. They are the ones that will be pulling the data off the flight data recorder.

When they are in relatively good shape as this one appears to be, investigators say, getting the data off of it is a lot like plugging a USB

stick or a flash drive into your computer. The head of the NTSC saying it may take two or three days to download the information and then a bit more

time to start piecing together the puzzle.

Critically, that flight data recorder records hundreds of parameters - - how fast the plane was going, the altitude, the temperature outside, the heading as well as a lot of information that will tell us about the final

moments of flight 8501 and certainly, hopefully, give families and Indonesia some answers.

LU STOUT: Yeah, we'll be getting a lot of information, a lot of answers in just a matter of days, but what can you tell us about the other

device, the cockpit voice recorder? And when will divers, investigators be able to retrieve that?

MALKO: Yeah, one top investigator here, Kristie, saying they are sure, 100 percent sure they know where it is. It just depends on how long

it takes. And weather conditions this afternoon out in the Java Sea, you know, kicking up again those strong underwater currents that we've been

talking about for the past two weeks preventing divers from even getting back into the water.

The head of the search and rescue operation here, Mr. Solisteo (ph) also confirming some new information just coming in that there were pieces

of engines found in the same general area as the wing section, as the flight data recorder, critically confirming though at this point the

fuselage where bodies are believed, up to 100 to remain, has not been found at this point -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: David Malko reporting. Thank you very much indeed for that.

Now students at the army public school in Peshawar, Pakistan, they are returning to the scene of terror. Now classes are being held for the first

time since the December 16 massacre. Pakistani Taliban gunmen killed at least 145 people at the school, most of them children.

Now the school building has since been washed and repainted, but survivors say they cannot erase the trauma of that day.

Now Michelle Stockman spoke to one of those survivors just before the school reopened.

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MICHELLE STOCKMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This is where the bullet went through your shirt into your back and this is your blood?

SHAHRUKH HUSSAIN, SCHOOL SHOOTING SURVIVOR: Yes.

STOCKMAN: So, tell me why did you decide to keep this?

HUSSAIN: The (inaudible) it's like my mapping of that day, of my shocking day that I survived.

STOCKMAN: Wounded in body but not in spirit, at least not that he'll say outloud.

15-year-old Shahrukh Hussain was shot in the back while protecting two classmates from Taliban gunmen on a murderous rampage in his school's

auditorium.

Shahrukh saw close friends die in the most gruesome and horrifying way.

HUSSAIN: Mostly one of my friend was shot on his face and he was barely recognize...

STOCKMAN: Shahrukh shivers when he tells me about this moment.

He and other survivors have turned to social media to share memories of those they've lost.

At least 145 people, 132 of which were children, were killed in just a few hours. The majority of Shahrukh's 10th grade class was wiped out. But

he says he's excited to go back to school, a decision echoed by his proud, defiant mother.

"He's very brave, my son," she says. "The Taliban is spreading fear and terrorism, but we are not afraid. God willing, my son will go back to

the same school and he will fight against them one day. I don't want to make my child afraid."

That's the goal of military and school officials, too, to shore up security but make the campus seem normal again.

Behind me you can see some of the efforts that are being made to get the school ready for the students to come back. There's a medal detector

that's been set up. The walls are being fortified. Barbed-wire is being strung up. We're also seeing a huge security presence, checkpoints on

either ends of the road.

And inside the gates, there are memorials set up for the students. And we're already seeing parents bringing their children to go inside the

school to see what has happened here.

This son lost his mother in the massacre.

Tahira Qazi (ph) had been the principal of the all boys' school for two decades. She was shot in the head fighting against the militants to

the very end trying to save her pupils. And in his grief, outrage, that to settle scores with the military the Taliban killed innocent children.

AHMED QAZI, SON OF ARMY PUBLIC SCHOOL PRINCIPAL: They were harmless. They weren't doing harm to anybody. They were just there for their

education.

STOCKMAN: As the wounded school heals, it has become a symbol of resolve for a wounded nation battered by terrorism.

Michelle Stockman, CNN, Peshawar, Pakistan.

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LU STOUT: You're watching CNN. And still to come, Palestinians gather in support of France, condemning last week's terror attacks there.

We look at other rallies held around the world to show solidarity with the French. That's next.

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LU STOUT: In the wake of the terror attacks in France, the show of support has become global. On Sunday, Egyptians gathered outside the

journalist syndicate in Cairo to condemn the extremist attacks and support freedom of expression.

Now thousands came to a vigil in Berlin to honor the victims of the attacks in France. They left flowers and candles in front of the French

embassy.

In London, landmarks were lit up with the colors of the French flag in a gesture of solidarity.

Americans show their support as well in demonstrations in several U.S. cities. Now the familiar Je suis Charlie signs appearing in French and

English above the crowds.

And in French-speaking Montreal, Canadians flew French flags and sang France's national anthem. As many as 25,000 braved the cold to join the

march.

Now award-winning photojournalist and Paris resident Peter Turnley used his camera to capture the emotions and diversity in the French capital

on Sunday.

Now take a look at what he witnessed in his own words.

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PETER TURNLEY, PHOTOJOURNALIST: I've lived in Paris for 40 years and have covered many of the most important international news stories of these

past several decades. On several occasions today tears came to my eyes as I saw the sights and heard the voices and songs of the largest rally in

French history since the liberation of Paris.

Today, France spoke with a unified, loud voice and said no to terrorism and yes to freedom of speech, liberty and democracy.

In the crowd of possibly 2 million faces, one could see people from all background, ethnic groups, religions and walks of life, and together on

many occasions they collectively shouted "vive la France."

I've seen it places like Berlin, Beijing, Prague, Bucharest and South Africa the power of people when they stand up and hold hands and take a

stand for what is right. Today, France stood together with millions of voices and hands together, express their pride and love for the values of

freedom and love for each other and for their country and for life itself.

Today's rally offered a vision for the entire world in the midst of recent days of tragedy and terror of how beautiful and wonderful life can

be when people stand together unified against violence and in defense of freedom.

I've now lived for more than half my life in Paris, having arrived here myself when I was 19 years old. And today, like millions of others

around me, I was Charlie and my heart was French.

Vive la France.

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LU STOUT: Beautiful photo montage there.

You're watching CNN. I'm Kristie Lu Stout. And do stay with us for more special coverage of the terror attacks in France.

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