Leonid volkov in lithuania, welcome to hardtalk. We need to begin, i think, by establishing what kind of contact you have with Alexei Navalny right now. Do you have any means of contacting him . Now the only way to contact him is that his lawyers, not even the relatives, but the lawyers are allowed to visit him two or three times a week and they dont enjoy privacy during those visits. So its like supervised contact, but still, we manage at least to pass some basic information about, like, whats going on. But to tell that alexei is now orchestrating the protests from his cell is a little bit too much. He actually isnt able to do it. But his political structure, the structure he has built that im now managing, is capable of, at least for some time, of keeping pace, of running forward, along with the directions we discussed with him when he left berlin for moscow a week ago. What kind of condition is he in . Because im mindful that he recovered from a Near Death Experience with the novich
Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny is the most resilient opponent Vladimir Putin has everfaced. Navalny survived attempted assassination by novichok, returned to russia and is now orchestrating anti putin protests from his prison cell. My guest is navalny s Chief Of Staff leonid volkov. The Opposition Movement has supporters willing to take to the streets in hundreds of russian towns and cities, but do they have a strategy capable of forcing putin from power . Leonid volkov in lithuania, welcome to hardtalk. We need to begin, i think, by establishing what kind of contact you have with Alexei Navalny right now. Do you have any means of contacting him . Now the only way to contact him is that his lawyers, not even the relatives, but the lawyers are allowed to visit him two, three times a week and they dont enjoy privacy during those visits. So its like supervised contact. But still, we manage, at least, to pass some basic information about, l
Earnings which will include some hightech bellwether names later in the week. We have apple shares, they lost their opening pop despite top apple analysts saying first day iphone 12 preorders surpassed last years numbers for the iphone 11. That bodes well for the mini and pro max, who Iphone Models that have not taken preorders and ship four weeks from today a couple more big q4 products, the xbox series x and the Sony Playstation 5 will hit shelves verizon and at t this week morelikely with 5g comments Texas Instruments and intel all reporting. Mike santoli joins us now with more well get more of a Critical Mass of earnings hitting the tape the question is is the street going to be more impressed this week than last week in the opening rounds we had an 81 beat rate by the companies that reported last week yet the average stock move buzz down more than 1. 5 in the one day after those results. It suggests perhaps that a lot of investors would think a big beat rate was in the bag for thi
This is the cbs evening news with norah odonnell, reporting from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us. Were going to begin tonight with breaking news on that bombshell federal indictment against steve bannon, President Trumps former chief white house strategist, who was once described as the president s ideological soulmate. Well, tonight, bannon is out on a 5 million bond after pleading not guilty to charges that he used a charity designed to bolster one of President Trumps signature policy goals to line his own pockets. Federal agents arrested bannon aboard this 152foot luxury yacht earlier today after prosecutors filed a damning indictment, accusing him, along with three other associates, of sealing more than 1 million from a Fundraising Campaign designed to build a portion of President Trumps Mexican Border wall. Well, tonight, the president is distancing himself from the former architect of his 2016 campaign, saying he hasnt dealt with bannon fo
Well talk to an influencer and you have no idea how much i want to be an influencer about how she is making money on tiktok. Later, godiva chocolates is remolding its business amid the coronavirus pandemic the ceo will be here to tell us whats working and a lot is working for this company in the consumer space power lunch starts right now thanks welcome back welcome to power lunch. You can see that tech continues to dominate the market today the sector up more than 2 outperforming everybody else thats in large part to apple up 3 today shares of apple are now up about 50 on the year. Its been an incredible run. That brings the companys market cap to 1. 9 trillion and change. Were within tuouching distance of a 2 trillion dollar market cap. Also take a look at nvidia today. Its up more than 85 this year. Nvidia has been a monster. Tesla up about 4 to just under 1500 share. Theres one wall street analyst chasing shares well have those details shortly. Tyler, back to you congressional lead