what evidence do you have? because i know there was a report in the insider and leaked documents. as you know, anti—corruption foundation, very famous, our anti—corruption and other investigations, so it's very important for me. you know, i would like to come with the whole picture of what happened, notjust with the random documents. because there were documents, leaked documents, to the insider that appeared to show that he had sharp pains... there were some, but as i told, i would love to show how we can do the whole picture of what happened. and it's very important for me to come with this investigation. probably it will take a lot of time because, as you said, everything happened very far from everything. he was in prison. he was in this cell alone. so, of course, it's

very difficult to investigate all this. he writes in his book, "there's one specific madman "named vladimir putin and sometimes something "twists in his brain. "he writes a name down on a piece of paper "and says, kill him." when you say president putin answers for your husband's death, is that what you mean? that president putin ordered... of course. ..this? i mean that he ordered this. and we've seen this situation with poisoning in 2020 and investigation had showed pretty clear that my husband was poisoned by secret service from russia. so there are no doubt that it happened again because he wasn't. .. even from prison, he was very loud, and he was the strongest opponent of vladimir putin. your husband was reported to have been, the plan was that he would be part

of a prisoner exchange, a prisoner swap, that did then go ahead after his death. and i saw an interview that president putin gave where he said essentially, he'd agreed to it, that, yes, someone had come to him and said, "we should swap "alexei navalny." and he said, "i agree." and, you know, he says it's unfortunate. when you saw what president putin said, what did you think? that he lies, because he always lies. er... and also, as you quoted my husband, you never know now what is in his mind. er... whom he wants to poison or whom he wants to kill, or when he wants to start the war. he thinks that he can do anything. and it's very important to remember about this. that's why all my, all the time, all my thoughts, that when i see vladimir putin, that he lies.

and did you at the time know that alexei might be part of a prisoner exchange? did you know anything about that? of course i knew about these negotiations, and i knew that he could be part of this prisoner exchange. and did he know? no. no, he didn't know. and do you think the reason why he died is because vladimir putin was not ever going to let him get on that exchange? i think that... ..it could be so. you never know what's in putin's mind, but i think that one day he decided that he would never release my husband. now, the book contains diaries that alexei wrote in prison while he was still allowed to have a pen and paper, because i know it got harder and harderfor him to even write. these diaries have never been seen before, certainly publicly. when did you first see them?

how did you feel reading your husband's prison diaries? there were some kind of days in the first year when i got from time to time these diaries, and i appreciate that they are with us now. but still we exchanged, when it was possible, a lot of letters. so i knew about his conditions much more than all people around. and i knew even before the diaries that he was tortured. he was in awful conditions in prison, and he was starving. and in the book... ..we read about him spending 295 days in solitary confinement.

can you explain, 295 days is a very, very long time to spend in solitary, and the impact that that would have had on him, that did have on him physically and psychologically? it's difficult to answer how it influenced on him physically and psychologically because, er, since february 2022, i never had the possibility to talk with him. but... they cancelled his visits? they cancelled everything? yes. but you are right that all these conditions were just awful. and usually, the normal practice is punishment just for two weeks, and it is the most severe punishment. and my husband spent there almost one year. and itjust very small room, two or three square metres. er...

there is nothing in it. the, er... you are not able to use the bed during the day, so you're not able to lie. and everybody knew that my husband has problems with his back. there is just one stool, and he was allowed to keep one book and he was allowed to spend, the last year, he was allowed to spend less than one hour a day writing letters and working with documents.

what's incredible in the book, in the excerpts, is how he manages to keep his humour. he really, truly laughed at this regime and at vladimir putin. that's why vladimir putin hated him so much. and he even manages to make jokes when he's writing the book about how it will sell more, sell better if he dies. i think it's his superpower to laugh at all these people,

to laugh at the regime, to be stronger, even from prison, to be stronger than they are. and yet he was clearly brutalised by a system, you know, getting harsher and harsher. and do you worry that in the end, that system would have crushed him or did crush him? i never worry about him. i am absolutely confident. that is the point why finally, they decided to kill him. because theyjust realised that he will never give up. that's the reason they wanted to change him mentally. they wanted to beat him mentally again, keeping him almost one year in this solitary confinement

to show him that everybody forgot, forget about him, that he is alone. but he knew that a lot of people support him. if we go back in time a little bit, you mentioned it earlier, alexei was poisoned with novichok, a nerve agent, in siberia, back in 2020. i think actually, that was the first time i was aware of you, that you were fighting the russian authorities in that hospital. we saw you so strong, coming out to fight for him. thank you. he was eventually evacuated to a german hospital for treatment and you decided, the pair of you, once he was better, the decision was to go back to russia in january 2021. i know you've been asked this question many times,

but you went back, even though he knew the regime had already tried to kill him. just explain why to people watching, why did he go back? it's not about we decided. it's about that... ..you believe the person with whom you live so many years, you believe in this person, you believe in his beliefs, you know that he is doing the right things. and at that moment, you just realise that there couldn't be any discussion. you just need to support him. i knew that he wants to come back to russia, i knew that he wants to be with his supporters. he... i knew that he wanted to be an example for all these people with his courage,

with his bravery. but i never asked him to stay. i understand that it sounds sometimes very strange because i am his wife. but i knew this from the time when he was in hospital that he will come back. applause i really wasn't scared. and it wasn't for me something uncertain. it was for me about coming back home. just talk to me about what you were, what you were thinking, what you were expecting. are you just not allowing your brain to go to a place which says, "we might land here, we may be, he may be "arrested, and they may

kill him because they've tried "already?" are you not even letting your brain get there? er... i never let my brain think that he might be killed. of course, i knew that possibility that he could be imprisoned... ..in the airport or very soon. this possibility was rather high. he was funny, as usual. and the thing is, i'm very happy with this feeling. i don't want to cry. i don't want to be sad while i watch at all these...

she sighs his pictures, his videos. if he smiles orjokes on this video, it makes me smile and joke. it's a good memory. i'm happy that he lived such a life, that he left a lot of such memories about him. what shines out for me from this book, one of the many things, is his love for you. he does talk about a time when you did meet, when he was in prison, and you're talking, i think, in a corridor or somewhere, so nobody can hear and the cameras won't catch it.

can you remember that and how you felt? i do remember. and i think... ..the great thing is that he remembered about it. it wasn't difficult for me to say this to him. it wasn't like these words, they were not just supporting words. it was really like i felt.

and he's imprisoned and, er... ..of course, i thought that, less at that time, more when they transfer him to this arctic prison, that he, that they might kill him, and they did it. bell tolls i'm very grateful to all these incredible people who obviously shared his views, who obviously shared his beliefs and who are still inside the russia and...

..in some cases, different cases, doing everything they can to make this regime fall as soon as possible. and you've now taken on the role that your husband had in the anti—corruption foundation. you face arrest if you go back to russia. can you see yourself returning while putin is in power? when putin is in power? for sure, not, unfortunately. because i want to live in russia. i was born in moscow, our children were born in moscow. we spent all the... i spent all my life, my family, with alexei, spent all our life in moscow. it's very important for me to come back. of course it's not possible while putin is in power. but i hope one day all this regime will fall and i will come back.

putin is capable of anything... and do you see yourself as a politician now in the way that alexei, your husband alexei navalny was? can you, do you want to try and garner the kind of support that he did? yes, i do. er, and there are a lot of people who support me, and i want also to be supportive to them back. there are a lot of... despite a lot of people are in exile. of course, millions of alexei supporters, they are still in russia, they live under huge repressions, oppressions, and it's very important for me to keep a kind of connection with them, because those people didn't afraid to come to the funeral.

didn't afraid to come to my husband, to come to my husband's grave every day, still after eight months or later. there are a lot of flowers and people come every day. how can change happen in russia? unfortunately, i'm not a magician. unfortunately, i don't know the special secret. i think that if anybody in the world knew the right thing, what to do to make these changes, changes happen as soon as possible, somebody would use it. but my message is that we need to do... if you are not able to do more, everybody needs to do small things every day and then more people will do these small

things every day, then sooner these changes will come. and can you see yourself standing ever to be president of russia? is that your goal now? my goal is to do all this and to help to make all these changes happen. if i will come back to russia, i will participate in the elections. as a candidate? as a candidate. and are you confident that your name is out there, that alexei's name is out there? because many people living in russia, you know, it seems as if, because of the clampdown and because he's been killed, actually, you're not visible in russia any more. it's not about me, it's not about that my husband was killed. there is no politics in russia right now.

nobody is visible. the people who are visible, they are just... ..supporters of vladimir putin's regime. you can happen to be on tvjust if you support vladimir putin. i don't want to call him enemy. i think that he doesn't even deserve it. but my, er, political opponent, of course, is vladimir putin, and i am trying to do and i will do everything to make his regime fall as soon as possible. and let's talk about president putin on the world stage. do you think the international community's response has been enough? if you're asking about the response, i don't think there was any response. to alexei's death? yes.

there were some sanctions on some prison guards from this arctic prison. and i think it's a kind of a joke to his memory. what did you want to happen? what do you want to happen now? what would make the difference? i would love the best way, which i'm waiting for, putin will be in prison. i want him to be in prison. not somewhere in the hague. i don't want him in prison somewhere abroad with computer, nice food, enough food, sitting just in a room, clean room. i want him to be in prison, in russian prison. and it's notjust about... i want him to be in the same conditions like alexei was. but it's very important for me. it's also very important for me that he will see one day how...

..what conditions he brought our country. and it's his fault because he just took this power and for almost 25 years, we don't have any changes. but are you saying the international community could put him in prison? is that where you think that will come from? or what do you want from the international community? what can they do? i think that they need to be, they need to be less afraid of him. i think that, still, they think that there is... ..a way that putin do something even worse. that's why they sometimes too afraid to be too strong with him. i don't think it's a point. if to speak about sanctions...

..they should be turned exactly to putin and his inner circle and to the government which exists now and which helps putin to help all this regime, which helps putin to continue this war with ukraine. in the documentary made about your husband, he was asked what his message to the russian people would be if he was killed. and he says — not give up. do you have a message for the russian people? it's very difficult to find the other words which, er... ..which alexei said in the movie.

yulia navalnaya, thank you so much. thank you. hello. we've had a real mixture of weather to start off the weekend. across east anglia, south—east

england, a lot of cloud, an odd spit of drizzle. we had a weather front that brought some rain to northern ireland and scotland, delivering 22 millimetres into the highlands, the wettest place in the uk, but then we had this slice of sunshine stretching from east scotland down towards south west england, where we had 8.5 hours of sunshine in camborne in cornwall, and an 18 celsius heat in dorset in bournemouth. now, looking at the weather picture at the moment, week weather fronts are moving southeast, just a lump of cloud by the time it reaches east anglia. that cloud keeping temperatures up at around seven degrees or $0. otherwise, it's going to be quite a cold start to your sunday morning, with temperatures three to five degrees pretty widely. it might be chilly, but it's going to be a lovely start to your sunday morning as well. now, we'll keep the sunshine all day across england and wales, but for scotland and northern ireland, a weather front is on the way through the afternoon, bringing cloud and rain in. it's also going to turn quite windy, with gusts running into the 40s of miles an hour. our temperatures on sunday afternoon running close to average for the time of year, ranging from around

11—15 degrees, north to south. now, that rain across northern areas of the uk through sunday night pushes southwards, whilst weakening those fronts again, moving in towards higher pressure. and so, as we look at the forecast for monday, it's going to be quite a dull and damp day for england and wales, some mist and fog patches up over the high ground. a bit of drizzle to start the day in scotland and northern ireland, with extensive cloud, but it should turn at least a little bit drier and perhaps a few bright spells around. a bit milderfor northern areas, temperatures coming up to 15 in belfast and glasgow, but not a great deal of sunshine around. now, into tuesday, high pressure starts to move in across the uk. it's quite weak initially, and there's going to be extensive cloud beneath that area of high pressure. so for tuesday, it's a grey day, a few spots of morning drizzle. in the afternoon, one or two brighter spells, but predominately, it's a cloudy looking day on tuesday. temperatures, 14—16 degrees, and so on the mild side of things for this time of year. that area of high pressure continues to build across the uk through wednesday

and thursday, so there should be a few more breaks in the cloud developing, particularly close to the centre of the high pressure towards england and wales, so the weather turning a bit brighter. across northern areas of the uk later in the week, it is set to turn colder, and we might even see some rain or wintry showers across the far north of scotland.

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