In a high security penal colony. Western governments and human Rights Groups universally condemned it but there is little they can do to help him. Having already allegedly poisoned him with nerve agent, it seems the kremlin intend to silence him forever behind the highest walls in the country. His treatment during imprisonment has been grim hes been subject to sleep deprivation, there have been long stretches of solitary confinement, he has even been forced to listen to Vladimir Putins speeches repeatedly. And he has been Hunger Strike. The Alexei Navalny on our screens today is a pale shadow of the man that was arrested two years ago. In the last hour or so following his extended sentence,we heard extended sentence, we heard from navalny in a post on x, the app formerly known as twitter. He told his almost Three Million followers 19 years in a maximum security penal colony. The number of years does not matter. I perfectly understand that, like Many Political prisoners, i am sitting on
this is new day and it will be an historic day in the u.s. congress. you re looking at live pictures of the u.s. capitol where later this morning, we do expect final passage of the $1.9 trillion relief package. this is a monumental piece of legislation that will have a huge impact. a new round of direct payments, the largest ever to americans, but it does much much more than that. child tax credits, more money for schools and health care on and on. the president will sign it ahead of his first prime-time address to the nation tomorrow night. and then he ll hit the road to sell the plan, which may not be that hard. we have a brand-new cnn poll which shows strong bipartisan support for the bill and especially what s inside it. the president s prime-time address will mark one year since the official start of the pandemic. today, nearly one in ten americans have been fully vaccinated, but there s still a along way to go for herd immunity. and public health officials say peopl