leave behind to the russian people? >> oh, come on, daniel, no, no way. like you're making movie for the case of my death. like, again, i am ready to answer your question, but, let it be another movie, movie number two. like let's make a trailer out of this movie and in the case i would be killed, let's make a boring movie of memory. ♪ [ speaking foreign language ] ♪ >> alexei navalny is stepping back into another showdown with the kremlin. >> what to do with navalny presents a conundrum for the kremlin. let him go and risk looking weak, or lock him up knowing could turn him into a political martyr. ♪ [ applause ] >> are you not scared, alexei? >> what do you expect in moscow? >> navalny! navalny! >> unexpectedly vladimir putin has a genuine challenger, handsome 41-year-old lawyer alexei navalny who has chosen one of the most dangerous occupations in the world, running against the man who controls the kremlin. >> more than any other opposition figure in russia, alexei navalny gets ordinary people out to protest. >> if i want to fight putin, if i want to be leader of a country, i have to do something practical about it. well, i have to kind of organize people. [ speaking foreign language ] >> i was banned from everything, television banned. newspapers blacklisted, rallies, forbidden. i realized i can do a lot on my own with the support of my wife yulia, just small group of people i can rely on. zero money, a lot of work, internet and that's it. >> his youngest fans have turned to tiktok which has been crucial in spreading the word. >> navalny's posted hundreds of videos about his corruption investigations, and they are wildly popular. >> the kremlin hates navalny so much that they literally refuse to say his name. [ speaking foreign language ] >> our offices were raided, and they just confiscated everything, everything. they splashed a toxic liquid into my face, and my first thought was jesus, i will be kind of monster until the end of my days. as i became a more and more famous guy, i was totally sure that my life became safer and safer because i'm kind of famous guy, and it will be problematic for them just to kill me. >> and, boy, were you wrong. >> yes. i was very wrong . >> so we went to siberia to make a nice movie about local corruption. i expected a lot of police. i expected a lot of people who tried to prevent our filming, confiscate our cameras or just break our cameras or try to beat us. i expected that sort of thing, and i was very surprised like, hmm. why is nobody here? why is there a -- i even have the strange feeling like -- like a lack of respect. seriously i'm here. where's my police? the whole trip was the smoothest trip i ever had. i'm the kind a slave of thursdays because on thursday i have my online youtube show and then weekend i can spend with my family before another trip to another region. i was going home, and then i died. >> passengers on his flight from siberia heard alexei navalny cry out in agony . >> other passengers filming just after the plane makes an emergency landing in siberia. navalny then rushed to the hospital where he was put on a ventilator. his spokeswoman saying navalny was poisoned. >> his wife raced to be by his side . >> imagine that. 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[ speaking foreign language. >> to have your dad, an opposition leader being poisoned by we don't know what, we don't know how, we don't know when and just be in a random hospital. it was just -- it was surseal. it was literally like a book. >> hello. >> the doctors can't say anything about his brain. he will recover even if they manage to wake him up. many millions of navalny supporters are trying to figure out how to help. we in berlin are a small team. we have to dive into actually like getting things done. >> we all were very skeptical about investigating alexei's poisoning. as opposed to previous cases, this poisoning took place on russian soil so no one is going to share ctv footage with us. we won't have videos from the airport where they poisoned his flight in and out, and as much it is a hard to admit while putin is in power we'll never find out the truth. >> julia, how is your husband this morning? [ speaking foreign language ] >> it was so crazy, like it's putin's signature poison . >> we just started to tell him his story. alexei. don't worry. your poisoning was a murder attempt. putin tried to kill you with novichok, and he opened like his blue eyes wide and looked at me and said very clear -- come on, poisoned. i don't believe it. like he is back. this is alexei. putin is supposed to be not so stupid to use this novichok. his wording, his expletive. his international. if you want to kill someone, just shoot him, jesus christ, like real alexei. it's impossible to believe it. it's kind of stupid. the whole idea of poisoning with a chemical weapon. what the [ bleep ]? this is why it's so smart because even reasonable people, like they refuse to believe, come on, poisoned. seriously. 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[ speaking foreign language ] the russian media didn't find anything, and german investigators didn't have the jurisdiction, so we realized there's nobody was going to actually actively investigate this. unless we jump into this. we knew that the poison was novichok, and novichok we had proven in the previous investigation is only manufactured in this facility called the signal institute. the signal institute in moscow works under the guise of a r & d center that develops advanced form of sports, nutrition drinks. that's the legend, and yet they employ for this work 12 scientists whose only experience and background is in chemical weapons. our hypothesis, this is the entity that actually provides the poison for the killers which travel around the world poisoning people with novichok. so what we did is we bought from the russian black market. the phone records for the head of the signal institute. we looked at numbers that only appear just before the poisoning of navalny, and those were suspicious, but once we have a suspicious number, you go through a number of russian apps that allow you to see how that phone number is listed in other people's phone books, so, for example, i put in my number, and it would show up as kristol the journalist from bellingcat because somebody would have put my name into their phone book and that description would be shared. first number i showed up alexei, doctor from fsb. that was interesting, doctor from fsb, alexei. couldn't place a real person behind this name and looked to see if that number shows up in a car registration database. that alexei owns a car and then you have a real person with his birthday, look up his passport file and see his face and you repeat that many times with the other suspicious numbers and then you have a short list of interesting people, and these became our prime suspects. now we knew when navalny had traveled to siberia. we had the actual passenger manifest of six different flights that had flown where navalny flew from moscow on the day before, during and after the day on which he arrived there. so we wanted to see if any of those suspicious people traveled to siberia at the time of the poisoning, and we found an overlaps. we found a nest of wasps we didn't know existed. it's a domestic assassination machine on an industrial scale. i was absolutely shocked that this was so fast and the whole plot disentangled so quickly so i reached out via twitter and said alexei, i think we may have found who poisoned you. >> after i went out of the hospital, i decided to move into the black forest and live in some small village. you can just walk for hours and not meet any person at all. these are my friends, little ponies and friend and donkey is julia's friend and this is routine of our walk. come here, my little pony. isn't he sweet? better than your donkey. >> everybody likes a small pony. it's like usual. >> come to me. you're scaring him. go away. go away. poor guy. donkey. of course, you like me. oh, come on. this is a very -- woman. come here, my horse. road carrots. you will grow big. they are very cute but they are not very smart so they decided for their fence not to provide electricity. >> don't do it. 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