including the moment officers are ambushed by the gunman, plus the new york prosecutor who indicted former president trump now taking on a top house republican details on the lawsuit just filed and jailed russian opposition leader alexey navalny s health quickly deteriorating his team raising concerns he may have been poisoned, again investigative journalist who was featured in the film navalny is my guest. let s go, outfront. good evening, america hill in tonight for erin burnett. outfront tonight ambushed. we re getting our first look at the moment when police arrived at the louisville bank, where gunmen killed five people this week. the video is perhaps not surprisingly hard to watch. what you re about to see, though, is an officer running toward the gunman. when he s ambushed.
amplify navalny s message to the world? reporter: well, wolf, i think the real hope that navalny s family have and that the filmmakers who spend so much time with him is at the very least this oscar win and all the publicity that comes with it will go some ways to keeping his name in the headlines and affording him a measure of protection from further retaliation from the kremlin, from president vladimir putin. they re hoping that as long as people are talking about navalny, there won t be further punishments against him. because let s be very clear, the situation for alexei navalny right now, who is in solitary confinement, maximum security penal colony, according to his lawyers, has lost more than 20 pounds, has debilitating stomach cramps. his lawyers tell us that apparently he s been prescribed incorrect antibiotics that are very strong, that have really destroyed his digestive tract, and there have been very real
cnn won its first oscar for the documentary film navalny, which follows the brazen poisoning of russian opposition leader alexei navalny. his wife julia spoke about his brutal confinement in a russian prison in her very moving tribute at the awards ceremony. my husband is in prison just for telling the truth. my husband is in prison just for defending democracy. alexei, i am dreaming the day when you will be free, and our country will be free. stay strong, my love. cnn chief international correspondent clarissa ward features prominently in the film. she s joining us now. clarissa, thank you so much for all you ve done. thanks for joining us right now. amid a very dark time for russia, how far does this win, this academy award win go to
concerns about his health. and so the hope is that this oscar win will go some small way to trying to give him, as i mentioned, some kind of protection. let s hope. what was it like, clarissa, to work with navalny himself as you investigated his poisoning, along with bellingcat, and your team? i think some people perhaps who haven t seen the film and you do get a sense of this when you watch it wouldn t be aware that he has a very mischievous sense of humor, that he is very down to earth, very funny, but also incredibly determined and very stubborn. there were a lot of people around him who said, alexei, if you go back to russia now, you will almost certainly face incarceration. and yet he understood those risks and decided to go ahead and do it anyway. and when i pushed him on this issue, his reply was simple. he said, i am a russian politician, if i don t serve the russian people, then who am i?
believed to be about 9 years old and named kim ju ae who more and more often is being seen at her father s appearances. south korean intelligence recently said kim also has an older son who hasn t been seen in public. it may be the older brother who s being groomed, but not yet unveiled until he s more of age. and then they may roll him out with indications of how brilliant a military strategist he is. reporter: but if kim jong un s daughter or his sister were ever to be put in place as the supreme leader, would the north korean people accept a female at the top? when it comes to this family, it s more important to be a kim than to be male. brian todd, thank you very much. just ahead, the cnn film navalny takes home an oscar for its inside plot to kill a kremlin critic. experience the exhilaration of the performance linine