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him in the prison camp that he's in outside of the moscow. so, i haven't had any contact with him and very few people get to have contact with him, but his -- alexey recognizes that this war that putin has started is what's going to define the russian people right now. if russia -- and he stated basically whether russians actually support this war is going to be the defining feature of russia in this century, so he's called upon russians to oppose this war and take to the streets every single sunday. >> yeah. can i get a quick update, what you know about his health? i know that given the poisoning that he suffered through, he was in extremely poor health. you know, recovered, came back and allowed himself to be put in jail because he wanted to come back and be able to protest inside of russia. it was a sign of strength. but do you know how he's doing in general? >> well, there was a time when it was really, really rough. there was a time when he was being denied medical care and
country. >> vladimir, you and i have talked over the past year about your friend alexey navalny and masha speaks from los angeles and does so at great risk. alexey chose to go back in and he close to do that. he knew he would be arrested and he thought that was the right thing to do. >> do you wish that he hadn't? >> it -- when he was first recovering after the poisoning in germany i thought it was my duty as his friend and ally to tell him that he doesn't have to go back to russia. there are different options at least to explain to him that that's not the one-way street, but bwhen i talked to him after he started his recovery and after we exchanged ideas i thought it was really a moot point. the work of his life is in russia. millions of supporters are there. he has done nothing wrong.
>> 8-year-old alexey has brain cans are. he he had been making good progress in kyiv until the war stopped his troomt. he got here four days ago with his mother lida. >> how are you doing? >> it is difficult. because we've gone through such a long way of treatment. we have been getting treatment for a year now. and when we had such a little step left to make to the finishing line, tos happy end, this dream abruptly stops. >> tomorrow she will take alex y by bus to a hospital in poland leaving her other children in kyiv. >> my youngest is three and oldest is 16. they have to stay there and my heart is breaking. imaggravateful we can continue the treatment and help my child who needs it right now but on the other side i'm worried as i leave the other two kids behind. >> that is an impossible decision to have to make. >> yes. but we have made it so far in the treatment.
stopped, there would be no safe place in the continent, that he will go further. poland to baltic states. the recent polls appear russian population is supporting the operation against, the war against ukraine and ask where russia should go next and they answered, poland and baltic states. something not only about ukraine. >> sandra: alexey, we appreciate you continuing to join us and give your updates. hope to see you again soon. >> john: word from france in recent minutes that the president of france held a phone call with vladimir putin during which he said that he was extremely concerned about the situation in the southeastern city of mariupol, which has just been devastated by the bombardment from russia. we have new video, bryan has details on that.
physical wounds. currently an operation being done in the room next to me by the red cross. but these are emotional wounds that will last for such a long time. realistically many people will not be able to work through. so seeing both at the same time, when people carry with them, it's devastating to see and thankfully an incredible amount of volunteers helping people work through it. >> john: repeated so many times, hundreds of thousands, millions of times. thank you, alex. >> sandra: thanks to alex as her reporting. our next guest is taking action by coordinating humanitarian aid through a makeshift volunteer center. alexey is a member of the
week. our chief international correspondent _ week. our chief international correspondent speaking i week. our chief international correspondent speaking to i week. our chief international| correspondent speaking to us week. our chief international- correspondent speaking to us live from kyiv. thank you very much. the number of people arriving in moldova to escape the war in ukraine is so high that every eighth child in the country is a refugee. the moldovan government says its infrastructure is already saturated. it fears a full blown assault on ukraine's third city of odesa, 30 miles from moldova's border, could lead to a humanitarian catastrophe. our correspondent, lucy williamson, reports. sometimes, the long, cold journey from ukraine ends here. in the emergency department of moldova's ignatenco children's hospital. within the last week alexey has fled a war, left family and is living in a new country as a refugee. a high temperature almost counts as normal. around a dozen refugee children arrive here every day, often suffering from dehydration or breathing problems.
cold journey from ukraine ends here. in the emergency department of moldova's ignatenco children's hospital. within the last week alexey has fled a war, left family and is living in a new country as a refugee. a high temperature almost counts as normal. around a dozen refugee children arrive here every day, often suffering from dehydration or breathing problems. tanya came straight here from the border. her daughter sofia caught pneumonia on theirjourney from dnipro in central ukraine. she spent two days in intensive care. "i'm completely broken", she told me. "they were bombing everywhere. "it's horrible. it's why everyone's leaving. " every eighth child in moldova is now a refugee and as the fighting creeps closer to moldova's border, the numbers keep rising. fewer than half the refugees arriving here actually stay
the war in ukraine is so high that every eighth child in the country is a refugee. the moldovan government says its infrastructure is already saturated. our correspondent, lucy williamson, has more. sometimes, the long, cold journey from ukraine ends here. in the emergency department of moldova's ignatenco children's hospital. within the last week alexey has fled a war, left family and is living in a new country as a refugee. a high temperature almost counts as normal. around a dozen refugee children arrive here every day, often suffering from dehydration or breathing problems. tanya came straight here from the border. her daughter sofia caught pneumonia on theirjourney from dnipro in central ukraine. she spent two days in intensive care. "i'm completely broken", she told me. "they were bombing everywhere. "it's horrible.
not just some strangers, but people in your family. >> yeah, i can imagine not just strangers but people in your family is bizarre, alarming and depressing. alexey, during the cold war western media and other independent media the globe wou circumvent with short wave radio broadcasts. in 2022, of course, that strategy needs some updating, especially in a world of social media and digital iron curtains. is there a place for social media videos like the one i just played from arnold schwarzenegger. >> i just checked before our segment. he posted the same video and telegram which many russians do use. i don't expect it to be blocked any time soon because the state propaganda, it's actually using the same infrastructure.
are things like technology that would be helpful to russia. the currency reserve. so one of the things that we've done is we've -- russia built this huge war chest of 600 billion, and everybody was saying, oh, they could weather this war. so, we froze 400 billion of that. the rest is in gold. so -- and we've made it illegal to deal in dollars there. so, all of this is going to have a crushing effect on the russian economy to limit the russian ability to fight the war. but one thing we have to understand is that europe buys gas from russia, and they send over 200 -- well, $300 billion a day -- excuse me, $300 million a day to russia every single day, so it's -- we're hurting them, but we're also fighting against the fact that europe is sending a lot of money every day. >> yeah. you've got to think that alexey himself would want to get these kinds of truths, the reality of the situation out.