. >> and one of the biggest threats to putin's hold on power is aleksi navalny. the last year he has been held in a penal colony outside of moscow after surviving an attempt on his life in 2020. he was jailed on fraud charges that were trumped up by putin himself and sentenced to an additional nine years in prison on new charges that were widely seen as politically motivated. earlier today i spoke to the executive director of aleksi navalny's anticorruption foundation. >> thank you for joining us. i greatly appreciate your time. i would like to speak with your big picture assessment of vladimir putin's mounting setbacks and diplomatic blunders. because this week alone, you had the sweden and finish governments ignore his warnings and actually begin moving closer towards nato membership. you had the flag ship of the russian navy in the black sea sunk. does vladimir putin realize that he has misjudged the situation in ukraine, do you think? >> well, i think it is important to understand whether mr. putin is a sane person at this point. angela merkel, when she met h

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. >> alexei navalny arrived that the hospital in berlin with his wife yulia. a spokesperson tweeted the struggles for aleksi'sing. here at the hospital both inside and out, he'll be watched. [ speaking foreign language. >> toll have your dad, an opposition leader being poisoned by we don't know what, we don't know how, we don't know when and just be in a random hospital. it was just -- it was surseal. it was literally like a book. >> hello. >> the doctors can't say anything about his brain. he will recover even if they manage to wake him up. many millions of navalny supporters are trying to figure out how to help. we in berlin are a small teal. we have to dive into actually like getting things done. >> we all were very skeptical about investigating alexei's poisoning. as opposed to previous cases this, poisoning took place on russian soil so no one is going to share ctv footage with us. we won't have videos from the airport where the poisoned his flight in and out, and as much it is a hard to admit while putin is in power we'll never find out the truth. >> julia, how is your husband this morning? [ speaking f