Page 2 - Course 100 News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

>> reporter: a british inquiry found russian agents administered the fatal poison. the kremlin has consistently denied any involvement in litvinenko's death. alexei navalny, another putin critic, nearly suffered the same fate years after speaking at this protest against vladimir putin. in august of 2020, navalny was poisoned and nearly killed, allegedly by kremlin agents using the nerve agent novichok. he fell ill on an airplane and he explained to cnn's clarissa ward. >> i went over to the flight attendant and said, i was p poisons. >> reporter: remarkably he survived. an investigation reveal...

>> tomorrow we'll set up a phone with fake i.d. so if we can call them through this number. >> yes. >> we can try to confront them. >> yes, of course. >> navalny will call personally these poisoners one by one. and we will record this. >> hi, this is navalny. you may remember me from trying to kill me. >> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> they say great to see you. thanks for coming. >> is it your contention that vladimir putin must have been aware of this? >> of course. 100%. it could have not happened without --

The successor to the kgb, that tracked and followed navalny for years before the poisoning. >> is it your contention that vladimir putin must have been aware of this? >> of course. 100%. >> reporter: cnn's clarissa ward and her team confronted a member of the fsb's toxin team at his apartment on the outskirts of moscow. >> clarissa ward. cnn. my name is clarissa ward. i work for cnn. can i ask you a couple of questions? was it your team that poisoned navalny, please? >> reporter: five months after his poisoning, navalny returned to russia, knowing what awaited him. >> i will go back. i'm russi...

Treatment. a joint investigation by cnn uncovered a team of agents that had tracked and followed navalny for years before the poisoning. >> is it your contention that vladimir putin must have been aware of this? >> of course. 100%. >> reporter: cnn's clarissa ward and her team confronted a member of tsb's toxin team. [ speaking russian ] my name is clarissa ward. i work for cnn. can i ask you a couple of questions? [ speaking russian ] was it your team that poisoned navalny, please? >> reporter: five months after his poisoning, nalny returned to russia knowing what awaited him. >> i will go ba...

Convicted of embezzlement, a conviction which he called trumped up, that would prevent him for running for president against putin in 2018. two years later, in august 2020, he boarded a flight to moscow. soon, his cries were heard throughout the cabin. navalny knew exactly what had happened. >> over to the flight attendant and said, i was poisoned. i'm going to die. >> reporter: he had been poisoned with a chemical nerve agent called novichok, flown to germany for treatment. an investigation uncovered the team of agents from the fsb, the successor to the kgb, that had tracked and followed nava...