wants to silence, fighting for his life tonight in a brutal russian penal colony. putin opposition leader alexei navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent and miraculously survived, an assassination attempt that cnn helped trace back to a russian intelligence unit. i understand that putin hates me, and i understand that these people who are sitting in the kremlin, they are ready to kill. i ll speak to his daughter, dasha, about what she s hearing from her father and why her family was ready for this fight. if he didn t go back, i would say, you need to go back and fight. plus, i ll be joined by christo grow excessive, an investigative journalist who helped crack the case on navalny s would-be assassins. and i ll alexei navalny is far from alone. wile have a special report on putin s other political enemies. good evening. i m erin burnett. welcome to navalny and the cost of standing up to putin. for top opposition leader alexei navalny, it nearly cost him his life, a
he s the man vladimir putin wants to silence, fighting for his life tonight in a brutal russian penal colony. putin opposition leader alexei navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent and miraculously survived, an assassination attempt that cnn helped trace back to a russian intelligence unit. i understand that putin hates me, and i understand that these people who are sitting in the kremlin, they are ready to kill. i ll speak to his daughter, dasha, about what she s hearing from her father and why her family was ready for this fight. if he didn t go back, i would say, you need to go back and fight. plus, i ll be joined by christo grozev, an investigative journalist who helped crack the case on navalny s would-be assassins. and i ll talk to daniel roher. director of the award winning, oscar nominated cnn film navalny. alexei navalny is far from alone. we ll have a special report on putin s other political enemies. good evening. i m erin burnett. welcome to navalny
destroy a children s playground. ukrainian official posted this picture showing a large crater at the site. all comes after russia suffered a humiliating blow when an explosion damaged a bridge to crimea. president vladimir putin blamed ukraine for that blast, calling it a terror attack. we ll go to first fred pleitgen live at the scene for us in kyiv. fred? reporter: hi there, max. the scene of one of these explosions we had a rude awakening when we had massive explosions we heard i would say at around 8:15 local time, which is 1:15 on the east coast of the united states. multiple places were obviously hit. i m at the scene of one of these explosions. you can see behind me there s people sort of working that scene over there. there s several buildings that were damaged around this area. you can see several cars there also severely damage there as well. those cars burned out. the latest that we have from the authorities here in kyiv so far, it s always important to point
now that s a great idea, nailed it good morning. you were alive in the cnn newsroom, america hill in for jim acosta 80 years ago today, the course of world war and democracy changed forever president biden joining other world leaders at this hour as they mark this milestone anniversary of d-day, the allied invasion of normandy. you see there of course, the french president emmanuel macron, as well as ukraine s president volodymyr zelenskyy. this morning, mr. biden meeting with a handful of the last remaining us veterans stormed those beaches, are parachuted behind enemy lines. as the men today, they re all around 100-years-old, making this anniversary, especially poignant as a world pays tribute to this greatest generation the man who, fought here became heroes. not because they re the strongest and toughest job or fiercest although they were. but because they re given an audacious mission knowing everyone on the new the probability of dying was real. but they did it anyw
They did. that was not the point here they are today. it is so moving. it really is. and erika, when you look at the faces of these gentleman and a few ladies out there who, who served during that time, you really see not only a pride in what they did, but also that s stoicism that i think was part of the way they did things. and in my personal as far as my family is concerned, my dad served in world war two as an army and ceo with that particular point in time. and he was in the intelligence business. he was a signals intelligence operator and one of the things that happened as d-day was basically evolving as it was unrolling on the shores of normandy. all the radio traffic from the germans, from the british from some of the resistance forces in france, in belgium, all of that radio traffic increased exponentially