raised in san francisco is tomorrow. and as if the star power of actress awkwafina is not enough, there are brand new features for the year of the dragon and what would you do? abc's popular hidden camera series is back for a new season, and the bay area's own w kamau bell will put people and humanity to the test. but first, president biden delivers on his promise and today announces more

than 500 new sanctions against russia after the death of vladimir putin's critic alexei navalny. you're watching, getting answers. i'm kristen sze. thanks for joining us. president biden was in the bay area yesterday when he said details of the new sanctions would be released today. they now back in washington after he met with the wife and daughter of alexei navalny in san francisco. so he had this to say to justify the action two years ago, shortly before dawn, russian troops marched across the border in ukraine, and putin believed he could easily bend the will and break the resolve of the free people of ukraine that he could roll into ukraine and he would roll over them. >> two years later, he remains wrong. that's why i'm announcing more than 500 new sanctions and response since putin's brutal war of conquest

in response to alexei navalny's death. >> joining us live now to discuss what is being imposed and what the impact might be. stanford political scientist and the author of russia resurrected its power and purpose in a new global order, doctor catherine stoner. doctor stoner, thanks for your time today. >> thanks for having me. who and what do these sanctions target and what is their objective? so as you said earlier in in the lead in the 500 different sanctions uh- a bunch of different targets from from individuals to some of russia's biggest companies that are assisting in in the in the war. one of which is big shipping company. um, the problem is treasury. as soon as they announce the sanctions, then they announce exemptions to them. so you know, they're pretty blunt tool. um, in terms of actually stopping the war.

and that's not the goal. um, they're the intention is to try and hurt russia's economy because the problem has been since the imposition of sanctions, two years ago over this, um, this full invasion of ukraine that that happened starting two years tomorrow. um, it, uh, it really hasn't slowed the russian economy. the russians have been able to adjust. and so we need new tools . um, but ukraine in particular needs weaponry. um, as much as as these sanctions. >> all right. well, i want to talk about what tools might work in just a little bit, but i want to just refresh our viewers memory of who alexei navalny was. he was 47. he was the main putin critic, if you will, in opposition leader. the kremlin tried to poison him. he survived that, but ultimately could not survive being in that penal colony in the most remote part of russia, where he was often in solitary confinement, neglected medically and finally died last week. why has his death prompted

such a huge response from the us ? so everything you said is right is 47 years old. >> um, he, um, really began to be active in russian politics in , in 2011, 2012, the, uh, he led huge protests with another assassinated russian opposition leader, boris nemtsov, who was assassinated in 2015. so almost, almost exactly the same time of year, actually, in 2015, as navalny has died and the fear for putin is that he's capable, he's charismatic, he's smart, he's funny. um, that is navalny and he's capable. he was capable of bringing out hundreds of thousands of russians onto the streets, yelling things like russia without putin. and so, uh, the regime systematically kept him off the media for, um, had him under arrest. and as you mentioned, there was an attempt to kill him in august of 2020 with novichok, uh, which is, uh,

you know, toxic. um, and only held by, uh, some military in russia is one of those, um, and he survived. and as he would have said, he accidentally survived. he returned to russia in january of 2021, knowing that he would be imprisoned. he had been in germany for treatment from the poisoning. he was. and he released one of his most, uh, devastating and witty videos on putin's corruption, called a palace for putin, brought again tens of thousands of people out onto the streets. and then we see, you know, in the lead up to the war in ukraine, a huge crackdown on russian civil society. um, so his death has brought a strong response because cause, um, the regime has killed him. um, whether it was it was done directly and immediately. it was in, in this penal colony that he was, uh, sentenced to. he was serving a 30 year sentence in total, um, 19 years for extremism and 11

years for trumped up charges of, uh, fraud and corruption. um, and so, so the intention was to kill him slowly, to make it torturous and, um, and so that is that's what's happened. >> dona, is there anyone who who can rise up and take his place? um. of course, his widow. right um, yulia, whom president biden met with yesterday when he was here in the bay area, had said she would step up and, you know, she would take up the fight. but really, what are the challenges and could she be that person to continue that spark? >> like she's a very capable woman. she's actually buzzing around our area right now because we at stanford have a very special connection to alexei navalny's family. his daughter is a senior here. uh, also brave young woman who met with president president biden yesterday. um, so, yes, she's capable of taking up, uh, you know, his foundation, the anti-corruption foundation, but she lives in germany because she will be arrested herself should

she return to russia. um, there are the other leaders of the russian opposition are in jail or dead. um, so we have to think in terms of the arab spring. um, when there were no obvious leaders who rose up against, uh, dictators across the middle east and, and so this, you know, is what we have to hope for in russia. unfortunately, doctor stoner, now, i want to circle back to talking about what might be effective sanctions. >> right. we talked about the fact that some were imposed when the war against ukraine started two years ago. you said they haven't been that effective. the goal of any sanctions is that you hope you punish them without punishing yourself. but there's usually a loss on this end as well. not to mention you don't want to punish the russian people economically and they're already suffering. so what do you think might be the strategic thing to do? >> i'm not sure. we don't want to punish the russian people. um, because, you know, the idea with mr. putin is most the most important thing for him is, is social stability. uh so what he

the reason he didn't like alexei navalny and navalny was so dangerous to him was because, as putin himself said in an interview in 2017, do you want that? do you want constant, uh, challenges to stability? do you want coups? do you want another maidan? uh, and he was referring to maidan square uprising of 2014. in neighboring ukraine. so um, russians for the most part, especially in big cities, have not suffered terribly from the war. it's more, you know, this is a huge country of 140 million people that spans 11 time zones. so mr. putin's been quite careful to make sure that the soldiers who are just being sent into battle and mowed down at times throwing bodies literally at the ukrainian military, three are from outer regions of russia. so i would say some russia, many russians have been inconvenienced, but they are not suffering, uh, from our sanctions to answer your question more directly, though,

sanctions are what we have. they're a blunt tool at best. but, um, and we could certainly ratchet them up by not creating exceptions, as we sometimes do. um, and we could, of course, lower the price cap on, on oil, which is, uh, which was part of our sanctions regime. the other thing is, of course, we haven't done very, very much to convince other countries where russia is selling its energy, in particular natural gas and oil, um, to stop buying it. and we haven't created alternate lives for them. so in particular, this is india and china. yeah >> and there are countries that don't really have any alternatives either. right. so russia is still there are always alternatives. >> they're always are alternatives. but we have to make the alternatives attractive. and cheaper. and we're not really doing that in terms of hurting our own economy. we don't buy energy from russia really anymore. and certainly europe has decreased. how much it buys from russia in the last two years. so that's

all good. russia has had to go and look for new markets. the problem is they found them. um, and um, you know, this is this is problematic. what we care about in the united states is, um, is rising global oil prices because that will affect us. and we did see that at the beginning of the war. >> doctor catherine stoner, really appreciate you coming to on talk to us about these new sanctions imposed today by president biden against russia. thank you. >> thanks, larry. thanks for having me. >> we're going to shift gears because it is the main event of lunar new year festivities in the bay area. the chinese new year parade in san francisco. it's happening tomorrow, and we'll talk to the director of the parade to get are living in the moment and taking ibrance. ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor is for adults with hr positive, her2 negative metastatic breast cancer

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and tomorrow is the culmination of the celebration period with the chinese new year parade in san francisco. joining us live now to talk about this year's festivities is the director of the chinese new year festival and parade, harlan wong. hey harlan, happy new year. >> happy new year, christian. how are you? i'm good. thank you for having me. >> oh, my god, i'm sure you're super happy because. what? what is this? no rain, perfect weather. what exactly? >> uh. uh, just before prior to, uh, this weekend, you know, we were all concerned about. oh, it's going to rain. it's supposedly, as you know, there's a the storm that, uh, hit us, uh, last week. uh, but fortunately, yeah, the forecast is going to be sunny and bright. >> it's very auspicious. i checked the forecast with a meteorologist. tomorrow night seems perfect, and it's the year of the dragon. uh, that's very special year in the 12 year cycle, isn't it? >> totally. uh, the dragon is

the most powerful sign in the chinese 12 year zodiac. not only is it the year of the dragon, it is the year of the wood. dragon wood? uh, we associate wood with tree and the color green and it represents growth and a new beginning. >> i know these fantastic celebrations have been taking place in chinatown for the past couple of weeks, but for tomorrow, you're really going to pull out all the stops because it is year of the dragon. it is so special. so tell us about some of the biggest highlights. >> well, i'm sure everybody all by now already aware of our grand marshal, awkwafina, the, uh, golden globe award winning actress for the movie, the farewell and, uh, she and crazy rich asians and that's right, nora from queens and so many awesome movies and tv shows. and she's gonna be voice a, uh, new animation coming out, uh, kung fu panda four. oh yeah. >> yeah. so she's going to be

the grand marshal. okay, how about i heard about a disco dragon? >> oh, already out of the bag. yeah, that's a dragon going to be on the floor. uh we really proud of it. it's become a lot of mirror, a lot of reflection, a lot of light. so, uh, i think everyone gonna really enjoy looking at this dragon. i'm looking at it. >> look at that. whoa that must have taken a long time to put together. it's amazing. how about floats? how many floats you got? >> we got 19 floats total, 19 float. a lot of community float a lot of community support. >> i know i saw one was the apapa one right where they commemorate the chinese railroad workers. that's really cool. what about the marchers and participants? how many you got? and i know there's students groups from all over the bay area, right. >> so definitely we uh, every year we got over one hundreds of, uh, units participate in our parade. we have marching band, as you indicated, uh, uh, performing arts, uh, and, uh, dance studios. uh, and this year

, our opening number is going to be by, uh, lisa uh- performing arts. uh, they are the ones that who did the warriors halftime show. one time. >> oh, wow. yeah. they're fantastic. and there's you know, martial arts demonstrations. it's so much going on visually. it's a feast for the eyes. how many people do you expect expect to attend the parade? >> hundreds of thousands. hundreds of thousand. we expect this year's parade going to be the largest crowd ever. >> yeah. all right, so let's show people the parade route. i think we have a map of that. so i'm going to put that up. um, and kind of you tell people ends. it starts and where it >> sure. as uh, the map indicated, the parade starts at second a market street. uh, go down. gary,urn on the power on power street. and then come down post and then hit, uh, kearny and go all the way to the end of, uh, kearny and columbus. >> so it's a long route, but where ishe bt viewing? >> oh, the any point in the

river is great. uh, butf course, if you are lucky enough that would be the best. you will sitting down, but unfortunately, the bleachers is sold outut. two weeks prior to operate day. what? >> it's like the taylor swift tickets. hard to get your hands on. you got to ask fast. next year. um, okay, but that's okay. even if you're not in the grandstands, you still can get a great view. correct right. um, do you have any advice on how early to get there to kind of snag a prime spot? sure sure. >> i think people start lining up as early as, you know, uh, white afternoon time and then. right after lunch, they they'll come out and they try to, uh, uh, secure a great spot along the parade route. >> um, i always want to get a spot along, you know, where there's a good restaurant nearby, like. and there's so many along the route. so what time does it start? and where can people get more information on that? >> the parade steps off at second and market at 5:00. uh,

but the official advice is start at six. >> okay. and where to go for more information, uh, go to our to our website, chinese parade.com chinese parade. >> com and there is the website. >> okay. harlan wong, director of the chinese new year festival and parade. thank you so much. go see have a great parade tomorrow. >> that's why sunday in five locks and in hong. thank you. >> oh, lucky. auspicious things. all right. thank you. harlan >> bye bye. >> bye. bye coming up, oakland comedian, commentator, author and tv host w kamau bell is joining us to talk about joining the hit abc hit and camera series. what would you do? don't

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celebrations going on all right, checking in real quickly with my producer, as do we have our next guest all right. we're still working on getting w camille bell, who is amazing and on the new abc or new season of abc's what would you do? it is back for its 17 season on sunday nights. and you know, the hidden camera shows hosted by john quinones. it is a social experiment that explores how people behave in everyday situations. it holds up americana and sometimes the reflection is just a little uncomfortable. it is a pleasure to see you, julian. >> are you ready for sunday? i am getting so ready and so excited for all of the fun that i know we're going to have on sunday. >> taylor, you've been doing this for several years now. abc seven. this is our second year streaming the black joy parade. what's your favorite part of the black joy parade? maybe black joy weekend? >> oh, black joy weekend is full of community events. we have

hella plants market. we have uh- that's having a big black planters party. that's a part of the black joy parade lineup. we have a comedy show hosted by king langbank at kinfolk. so really the whole weekend is just a celebration of joy, good times, and my favorite thing is learning about all of these amazing dope orgs and businesses that are right in my backyard. >> and that's the thing. it really is. the community coming together. so many businesses that are in the town doing things for the people of the town. we also got the bar crawl, the brunch happening tomorrow, black vines on saturday as well. so many events, right? let's talk about the parade for a second. what can people expect if they haven't been out there before? if they haven't watched it with us before? >> oh, you're going to expect dancing. you're going to see magic, you're going to see costumes, you're going to see kids older people getting together a lot going on. >> you can see it's going to be great. that sunday in oakland, of course, we're going to be streaming that, covering that

with our ama daetz and julian glover. so and zach fuentes. so do check that out. in the meantime, something else on sunday to tell you about. and that is the 17th season of the hidden camera series on abc called what would you do. here's a little clip. >> what will people do when they witness this kind of job discrimination? >> i'm very professional and my hair is clean. i don't understand how you expect my hair to be uh. >> oh, she's getting a better angle. >> this has nothing to do with my experience or my qualifications. >> it's like it's dinner and a show. >> suddenly you may recognize that commentator voice you just saw. that's oakland's own comedian, tv host, author, and social political commentator w kamau bell. and this season, you'll see him as a guest correspondent on what would you do? and since we're his favorite local station and getting answers, this. his favorite local interview show, what would he do? he would pop in and chat with us. hey, kamau. >> hey, how are you doing? and

now we're coworker. we're coworkers. now we're all on the abc family. do you know how long i waited for this moment? >> this is awesome. but you know what? i should have known you would join. what would you do? it's kind of a perfect fit, right? >> yeah. i mean, when, uh, john quinones reached out to me and asked if i would be a part, i was overwhelmed. it's one of those shows that we all know. but you don't think about it being associated with anybody other than john. and he felt like i could add something to it. and it does seem very adjacent to the work i've done. uh, less less scariness and more just awkwardness. >> it's okay. yeah i've seen your other stuff. i wouldn't say scary, but it's always thought provoking and now you kind of do it in a funny way. and so the show sets up a situation, right? it's usually a moral ethical dilemma. you got the cameras going and then, you know, bystanders do nothing or they do something and then you kind of go chat with them. so tell us about that little scenario. we saw that clip. one of your first assignments was that about a job applicant, maybe a her hair or comments about it. tell me about that. right. >> yeah. well, first of all, that's the first i've seen a clip of the show. i was like,

oh, look at me. um, so yeah, that was about related to a story that's in the news now. it's about the fact that a lot of times people want to tell black people how we can and can't do our hair based on nothing other than their own racist preconceived notions. so that was about this white woman who was a great actor. she's not really like this telling this black woman that their hair was not neat enough for two or not or not need enough for the job. even though her hair was perfect. and you know, there's a story in the news right now of a black of a young black man in high school who's being told his hair is not appropriate for high school. so it's an issue that black people, all people of all races, parents, a lot, but certainly black people do. and the crown act has been, uh, created to address that. yeah. >> it's a really important issue, actually, even though it's wrapped in, you know, some funny moments. but i want to ask you, do you sometimes feel i don't want to say sorry, but all the time. >> right. whatever you say. i feel it all the time. kristen. whatever you say. >> you know, like the people caught on camera, right? not necessarily doing the right thing or what we think is the right thing. do you sometimes

feel for them? because i always wonder, like, would i do the right thing in the moment? >> like a lot of times people don't want to jump in because they might get in trouble, you know what i mean? >> yeah. i mean, i think it's not even so much doing the right thing. i think a lot of times because i don't begrudge anybody who, like, doesn't want to get involved in a problem. you have your own life. it's really catching people in the act of actively doing the wrong thing. when you sort of like feel like, well, why would you not? if you could do a little bit to make this problem better, why would you do it? or would you at least i understand going. i don't want to get involved, but i think sometimes we catch people doing something that you'd feel like that's not kind, but really overwhelmingly the show. and i don't know what they're going to show on on the show. but overwhelmingly people do the right thing, or the very least don't do the wrong thing, which is important too. oh, good. >> so good wins most of the time, but can i just turn the tables on you, like, just for the next 30s that we have? because i like doing that to you. okay uh, okay. so what would you do, carmo bell in a situation like this? okay so this one is making the rounds on social media today. a woman on a recent flight posted a video on tiktok. she says, oh, this girl just shoved my seat forward because she was reclining and said, i'm not allowed to recline

for my ten hour flight because it's too much for her. what do i do? she says, come on, what would you do? is this a bystander situation? what if you're the woman? what would you do? >> i feel like not letting somebody recline their seat on an airline should be a federal. a federal crime. it should be a treasonous act. it should be held to the highest court in the land. the only thing you get on those flights is this much going back. that much you should be able to get that. so that is certainly what would you do situation. someone who flies all the time. i would get involved with that. >> see, that is such a reasonable take. thank you for defending my right to recline. i appreciate that it's the least we got. >> we're losing so many freedoms in this country. can we at least not recline on a on a on a plane? >> i know, but can we talk to the airlines about making the leg room ever smaller? every single year? okay. i don't need to talk to you about it. you're six five, right? yeah, something like that. yes yeah. okay. come on. we got to go out of time. but everybody watch. what would you do on sunday, kamau bell, thank you so much. we'll take a short break and be right back

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area world news tonight with david muir is next, and i'll see you back >> david: tonight, several breaking stories on this friday night. u.s. fighter jets scrambled over the u.s. the high-altitude balloon intercepted flying over this country. the balloon spotted over utah flying above the u.s. at 40,000 feet. where is it from, who is behind it? mary bruce standing by with late reporting at this hour. also breaking as we come on tonight, the jury's decision just in in the case of the nra and its longtime former leader, wayne lapierre. the jury's decision now in. tonight, d