Leonid volkov in lithuania, welcome to hardtalk. We need to begin, i think, by establishing what kind of contact you have with Alexei Navalny right now. Do you have any means of contacting him . Now the only way to contact him is that his lawyers, not even the relatives, but the lawyers are allowed to visit him two or three times a week and they dont enjoy privacy during those visits. So its like supervised contact, but still, we manage at least to pass some basic information about, like, whats going on. But to tell that alexei is now orchestrating the protests from his cell is a little bit too much. He actually isnt able to do it. But his political structure, the structure he has built that im now managing, is capable of, at least for some time, of keeping pace, of running forward, along with the directions we discussed with him when he left berlin for moscow a week ago. What kind of condition is he in . Because im mindful that he recovered from a Near Death Experience with the novich
Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny is the most resilient opponent Vladimir Putin has everfaced. Navalny survived attempted assassination by novichok, returned to russia and is now orchestrating anti putin protests from his prison cell. My guest is navalny s Chief Of Staff leonid volkov. The Opposition Movement has supporters willing to take to the streets in hundreds of russian towns and cities, but do they have a strategy capable of forcing putin from power . Leonid volkov in lithuania, welcome to hardtalk. We need to begin, i think, by establishing what kind of contact you have with Alexei Navalny right now. Do you have any means of contacting him . Now the only way to contact him is that his lawyers, not even the relatives, but the lawyers are allowed to visit him two, three times a week and they dont enjoy privacy during those visits. So its like supervised contact. But still, we manage, at least, to pass some basic information about, l
Im Errol Barnett here with you for the next two hours on cnn newsroom. We begin this hour in egypt where russian investigators are set to began examining egyptian Airport Security in the coming hours. Over the next few days, aplan to order all of egypts major investigators. This is amid suspicions that a bomb took down the jet. A u. S. Official says theyre all but certain but egyptian Authorities Say theyre not sure. Lets go to ian lee who joins us live this morning. Ian, egyptian fishofficials reluctant to put the plam blame bomb. What do we know . Reporter well, we know there was a loud sound on the voice recorder right before it went silent and the plane crashed. There was theories about the sound. The predominant theory is about a bomb. Egyptian officials have been reluctant to say its a bomb. Theyre saying it could be from a mechanical issue or a battery exploding, but what will really determine this is further analysis of that sound, which that help is being offered too not only
Of attacking a womans appearance. Does well, she started it work between a president and a porn star . Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. Despite mass skepticism on capitol hill, President Trump seemed to take the saudi regime at its word again. Tweeting, quote, just spoke with the crown prince of saudi arabia who totally denied any knowledge of what took place in their tushish tons lot. He was with secretary of state mike pompeo during the call and told me he has already started and will rapidly start a full and complete investigation into this matter. Answers will be forthcoming shortly. Then in an interview this afternoon, the president once again standing by saudi denials and lending credibility to their calls for an investigation into what democrats and republicans say the saudis likely ordered. It depends whether or not the king or the crown prince knew about it, in my opinion. Number one, what happened. But whether or not they knew about it. If they knew about it, that would b
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