granger for the ones who get it done? the situation room with wolf blitzer didn t night at six, cnn cnn, breaking news. good morning and thanks for joining us on this friday. i m erica hill with omar jimenez in new york, poppy and phil are off this morning we are following the breaking news out of russia. hoon critic alexei navalny has died in prison. that is according to the country s prison service. navalny was 47 years old as for the cause of his death, that is a mystery at this hour. navalny was serving a 19 year prison sentence. at a penal colony near the arctic circle on charges of extremism have one of course, led nationwide anti-kremlin protests for more than a decade. he had run for office to challenge the russian establishment expose a lot of what was happening there survived several poisonings he spoke to our christiane amanpour in 2020 why do you want to go back? and i guess do you think you ll be safe when you go back? well, i don t think that i can h
cnn breaking news good morning, everyone. i m erica hill with omar jimenez in new york, poppy and phil, our office this morning we begin this hour with the breaking news out of russia, the russian prison service reporting opposition leader alexey navalny has died in prison. again, this information coming from the country s prison service navalny was 47 years old. the cause of his death at this hour is a mystery. we do have team coverage for you this hour we want to begin with nick paton hey, walsh, who was in munich. you are there for the munich security conference. this will likely change a lot of those discussions before we get to that impact though, nic just give us a sense of where things stand this morning given that we are learning from the prison service, that alexey navalny has in fact died we don t have independent confirmation, but frankly, given how information function putin s russia is close to it, as you might expect, the prison service itself from the regio
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