in digital detective work. he is bellingcat s lead russia investigator and the cause of serial embarrassment to the kremlin with his revelations about the poisoning of alexei navalny and other russian military and intelligence operations. he says he follows the facts wherever they lead but what s his motivation? christo grozev, in washington, dc, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me on hardtalk. it s a pleasure. alexei navalny famously described you once as just a bulgarian nerd with a laptop. since he said that, you have become the joint winner of an oscar, you are in the international limelight as an investigative journalist. does all of this attention make yourjob harder? not necessarily. i was oblivious of any attention before all of these awards and i m oblivious of it now. i like to work from cafes so i get a lot more people approaching me and asking for a selfie but that is about the only disruption. you, until very recently, were based in vienna but you re tal
Seeing them on id write next robert f. Kennedy jr. Is here with me in studio live as his Campaign Says, he now has enough signatures to appear on the ballot in north karolina, another Battleground State that has both biden and trump nervous tonight plus another suspected case of the mysterious brain injury known as Havana Syndrome. Im going to speak to invest so get a journalists Christo Grozev. He singles out a specific russian Intelligence Unit as the possible culprit. Also out front of retired us official based advantage, who is widely considered be patient zero and trumps Net Worth Plunging today by 1 on paper. Why . Lets go out front good evening. Im Erin Burnett Outfront tonight. Dont call them a spoiler. Robert f. Kennedy jr. Saying he is in the race to win in november as he reaches yet another milestone tonight is Campaign Says kennedy now has enough signatures to get on the ballot in North Carolina, which is of course, a crucial Battleground State. And in just a moment, im goi
Our international editor, jeremy bowen has the latest. A few minutes after the attack, the building in irans diplomatic compound in a well off central area of damascus seems to be on fire. The israeli strike destroyed the iranian consulate. It was a Precision Attack against a Senior Commander who will have worked hard to keep his movements secret. Despite that, Israeli Intelligence must have tracked general Mohamed Reza Zahedi to the meeting he was having in damascus. He was the Senior Iranian general in syria and lebanon two countries iran regards as critical parts in what it says is its system of forward defence, the so called axis of resistance. In damascus the syrian Foreign Minister said the general and others who died were killed by israel. Translation we strongly condemn this Criminal Act L carried out by the zionist enemy. These attacks can only be met by further steadfastness, further support for the Palestinian People and further resistance whether in iraq or in southern leba
Crew rolling. Crew were rolling, daniel. Daniel roher ok, were going, guys . Both yeah. Daniel roher ok, so alexei, i want to talk about something that we sort of touched on this morning. And you might hate this, but i really want you to think about it. If you are killed, if this does happen, what message do you leave behind to the russian people . Alexei navalny oh, come on, daniel. No, no way. Its like youre making a movie for the case of my death. Like, again, im ready to answer your question, but please let it be in another movie, movie number two. Lets make a thriller out of this movie. And in this case i would be killed, lets make a boring movie of memory. [suspenseful music] [speaking russian] reporter Alexei Navalny is stepping back into another showdown with the kremlin. Reporter what to do with navalny presents a conundrum for the kremlin let him go and risk looking weak, or lock him up knowing it could turn him into a political martyr. Reporter mr. Navalny, arent you afraid