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>> united states of scandal with jake tapper, back-to-back premieres tomorrow at nine on cnn >> hello, and welcome to all our viewers watching around the world. i'm anna coren live from hong kong ahead on cnn user, us president joe biden says putin will pay the price but his role in the deaths of russian opposition leader alexey navalny's for the emboldened and seemingly unstoppable russian leader what does western response look like? disgust >> plus donald trump is sounding off foster a massive $355,000,000 hits to his fortune. >> the former >> president campaigning in michigan where he railed against the civil fraud ruling and airstrikes hit multiple cities in central gaza. israel says it was targeting hamas, but doctors on the ground claimed dozens of civilians were killed there is continued

and growing outrage over the death of russian opposition leader alexey navalny. russian prison officials say navalny died friday after a walk. >> that many >> western leaders, including us president joe biden, say vladimir putin is responsible for navalny's death i've heard several things that haven't had confirmed, but the matter is responsible whether he ordered her to, he is responsible for circumstances. could that section of who he is cannot be tolerated. i said we would be oppressed he is paying the price already well, this was the saying in moscow saturday as police took a heavy hand against public tributes to navalny across >> russia, more than 400 people have been detained while

attending vigils. >> are >> demonstrations supporting navalny. those numbers from ovd info and independent russian human rights group in st. petersburg, more detentions with people being placed on buses it's not clear how many of those people have been released. a spokeswoman for navalny says, he's supporters need to keep fighting for change in russia. even though he's gone alex, it was a symbol of hope and a symbol of courage for many russian people. and now the feel like this idea of hope, abandon them but that's not true. we all know what to do it was what alexey told all of us that we have to keep fighting. and this is how this is what helps us to cope with what's going on former cnn moscow bureau chief nathan hodge joins us now, live

from london. nathan, we know navalny's mother and lawyer have been denied access to navalny's body. what more are you hearing from navalny's team? >> well, ana, we just don't know the whereabouts of aleksey navalny's body right now. as you said, navalny's mother and his lawyer went to the morgue where the prison authorities. it told them that the body would be examined. and essentially we're were turned away and navalny's followers are now urging that his body be handed over to the family. then it's a very important reason why back in 2020, navalny fell ill and slipped into a coma while on a flight from civilian city of tomsk going back to moscow. >> and if, if >> it had not been for the swift action of the pilot, his life might have been lost navalny was then evacuated to a hospital in germany and german authorities subsequently announced that he had been poisoned by the nerve agent novichok, a cnn investigation

together with the investigative group bellingcat, subsequently revealed that navalny had been tailed for essentially three years by us a team of russian security services that specialized in nerve agents but despite this, navalny returned to russia in early 2021, he had vowed to return so that he could remain committed to russian politics. he opted out of what could have been a very comfortable x tile. and this was an incredibly bold move. and now we can see that this was a bolden near suicidal move. given that he has now died in russian prison. and knowing that prison conditions in russia are meant to be punitive the russian prison system is essentially set up in a way to essentially crush people. but yet, even in recent days, navalny had managed to keep his sense of humor posting humerus posts make poking front

of the conditions on him yeah, he certainly paid the ultimate sacrifice for the cause nathan, we've shown those images of people in navalny supporters laying flowers holding vigils within russia. i mean, that is such an act of defiance against the authorities. >> yeah, you're absolutely right >> even before the full-scale >> invasion of ukraine two years ago, conditions were extremely difficult for russia's incredibly marginalized opposition. yet in the face of consistent official crackdowns navalny had managed to rally thousands of people around russia to go take to the streets and protests what they saw as a regime that was kleptocratic and corrupt and they would repeatedly face arrest beatings by the authorities. yet now after the war, the full-scale invasion of ukraine fain russian civil society has been pushed even further to the margins with new

and draconian media laws that essentially restrict free speech and make even the criticism of the war in the military calling a war, a war illegal ana nathan hodge, so important to get your deep analysis. many thanks for joining us from london. >> well, joining me now is catherine built-in >> reported for the washington post? she's also author of the book, putin's people, catherine great to have you with us. the world appears to be dealing with a very emboldened vladimir putin. it would seem a lot is going his way right now >> yes, i'm afraid. so i mean, even before the death of his chief political opponent, putin was thinking everything is going his way because already we have the west tied up there's paralysis. paralysis in the us congress. there's a huge gap in the hose pipe of weapons going to ukraine, and

that's already translating into victories for russia are on the battlefield. ukraine was forced to retreat from the strategic town of, avdiivka, just yesterday. and really this is, the biggest boost to putin's power. if he wins in ukraine, if you can hold onto territory there, this boosts him in the eyes of russians and enables him to maintain his very, very tight grip on power katherine, why was navalny who was behind bars and the arctic circle such a threat to putin. i mean, what sort of threat did he pose from prison? well, that's a good question you know, it didn't we wouldn't think that he could pose any threat at all, but navalny was a very powerful figure. he was a very uniting figure. he had charisma that appealed to all walks of russian life from liberals, two guys on the street read he made his anti-corruption message very, very strong, and he had

called for russians to come out and protest on the day of the election. he wanted everyone together at noon on the day of russia's presidential elections in march we don't know how many russians would have actually responded to that. cool, given the very draconian new laws that nathan was describing. the fact that now you can get thrown in jail for 15 years if you criticize the regime. nevertheless, it looks like the authorities may have not wanted to leave anything to chance. we don't know how he died. of course, we know that he was kept and increasingly severe conditions in these isolation chambers, solitary confinement. and it may be that he just didn't hold out, but it certainly looked at everyone that a day before he died, he was in very good spirits. >> yeah. laughing, smiling, making jokes. >> catherine, do >> you see this as a warning to

dissenters of putin, any opposition movement considering the elections next month certainly it sends a very chilling signal to everyone. yes, of course, we've seen a political opponents of putin disappear or get killed before, but it's always been in a way that putin, even whether you believe them or not, can keep his distance amino again, we don't know exactly how navalny died, but he died while he was under the care of the state. and that makes it much more difficult for putin to keep his distance. and it sends a warning very clearly to anyone else who wants to cross him before if you were opposing putin, you face the risk of jail and over longer jail sentences. but people thought, well, we'll get out at the in the end, but now it seems you possibly risk dying in jail as well. >> us president joe biden said a little bit earlier that vladimir putin will pay the

price and is already paying the price. what do you think he means by that? and how can the west respond >> it's difficult to know how putin can pay the price because probably the only way that the west can respond, right now, because it's very difficult for putin has made his political system shift fortress. it's very difficult to do anything inside russia but probably the only way the west can responders to step up and provide adequate arms to ukraine. the mood in russia is very different right now compared to before the counter offensive. then members of the elite were very nervous us they'd watched ukraine take back her son, her to kyiv. and this a delta huge blow to putin's legitimacy. most members of the elite were against the war. they saw it as catastrophic and they would mumble and matter privately about the need to replace putin. and they would say, well

well, if russia continues having military losses, then it's possible putin will be replaced. they were speaking about how every first or second leader of russia is removed illegally. but after the counter offensive, the mood in russia really really did change because they saw the west had been too timid and supplying ukraine with weapons that hadn't received adequate amounts of weapons. and you could see playing out what putin had predicted that the west would terror of the war that western democracies were weaker than his authoritarian regime. and that time was on his side. and you think he really believes that and you can see that reflected in the disarray and paralysis in congress today. >> yeah, russia obviously playing the long game. i know we are talking about examples of putin acting with impunity, but couldn't navalny's death

be a political problem for putin >> where yet to see, i mean, at the moment, that putin is definitely trying to make sure his name doesn't get much airing in the media. there have only been very brief mentions of his death on russian tv he's mentioned his desk, don't even describe him as a politician his name is quickly mentioned and then they move on to russia's strategic victory in d of car. and we've seen the very, very heavy police presence on the streets trying to prevent anyone laying down flowers and the valleys memory. and this is a very far cry to what we saw even three years ago when after navalny's arrests people poured onto the streets in the thousands in protests that some people compared to the protests in belarus, which had nearly toppled the belarusian president. now, it's a much more for muted response. people have very, very fearful. putin

is going to hope that fear and indeed apathy will continue because there's kremlin propaganda machine is now working at full tilt and people really believe that the war in ukraine is in fact a war in the west and they must do their patriotic duty catherine belton in london, great to get your insights. thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you >> russia's defense minister says the eastern ukrainian town of defka is now under full russian control. this takeover was imminent. ukraine's forces were greatly outnumbered and had suffered daily assault since october. >> but us >> president joe biden says the fall of the city is a consequence of russian obstruction in congress against more aid for kyiv. cnn's priscilla alvarez has more president joe biden on saturday underscoring the stakes of

getting additional funds to >> ukraine following a phone call with ukrainian president zelenskyy earlier in the day. this, as ukraine has had to withdraw from one of its towns ceding ground to russia because ukraine is low on ammunition, something that president biden tied directly to congressional inaction here in washington now, this scenario of ukraine having to withdraw because because they are low on ammunition has been a top concern for us officials and something they have warned about if additional aid is not urgently sent to ukraine and the president indicating on saturday that he is not confident that other towns won't fall if that aid isn't sent to ukraine >> there is another city to fall right after this the conference i'm not. >> no one can ukrainian people fought so bravely and for raleigh put so much on the line. the idea that now run out of ammunition, walk away. i

find serve find it. now. >> the funds that the president is referring to here are ones that date back to october when the white house and abroad national security supplemental request asked for $60 billion in additional funding to send to ukraine now that funding has been stalled amid infighting in congress, but it didn't make some progress in the senate. when the senate passed a foreign aid package earlier in the week that includes those $60 billion for ukraine. but the house has gone on recess for two weeks, and house speaker mike johnson has said that he doesn't have any plans to put this package on the floor, leaving all of these funds on certain in the meantime, the president and the vice president, or trying to reassure allies that they will stand by ukraine and they will not see ground to russia. all of it made all the more difficult without that additional funding sent to ukraine priscilla alvarez, cnn, washington donald trump hit the

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27, but he is expected to be here quite often in the coming months. michigan is one of the top battlegrounds for the 2024 election. steve contorno, cnn, waterford township michigan coming up refugees in gaza hope to find safety in a neighborhood that ended up being another target, israeli airstrikes the latest in a live report next plus israeli protesters say their government is more focused on winning a war that on releasing hostages from gaza. we'll look at the state of negotiations in a scene in an exclusive interview >> her so much more than just a landowner your gardener a groundskeeper a landscaper because you, didn't settle for ordinary. same goes for your equipment. versatile, powerful,

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refer have already fled. elliott gotkine joins us now from london. 1.5 million people now in refer, where are they supposed to go with this imminent ground invasion offensive, although it would seem strikes have already begun i don't think the wall came to refer in the early days of the war, and it has come to it in the form of airstrikes ever since. and now of course, we're talking about the possibility of this ground operation and there's a bit of deja vu in the sense that when israel began its ground operations in the gaza strip in the wake of the hamas terrorist attacks taper the seventh, we were waiting weeks, we expected it to be imminent and it didn't take place or didn't begin for several weeks. now that may be something similar now, certainly last week you'll recall prime minister benjamin netanyahu said he had instructed the idf to come up with a plan that would enable the one-and-a-half million people in refer to evacuate to safer areas north. he now says that that plan is it has been

done and he seems determined to enact it. >> michelle. tell him normally turn-only for bit of fear. >> whoever is telling us not to operate in rafah is telling us to lose the war. i won't give it a hand >> there was a lot of space to the north. the rafah. soon we will end the operation and khan yunis. so there is a place to evacuated i'm a kubelet. >> three big concerns about a prospective ground operation by israel first and foremost, is the possibility of further casualties among non competence and making the dire humanitarian situation even worse, we are around 29,000 deaths according to the hamas-run health ministry figures which don't distinguish between competence and civilians, but which the authorities say are conclude a majority of women and children. so there's concerns about additional deaths. there's also concerns, of course, about the fact that these these potential for a ground operation is happening when we're still

hoping for a breakthrough in hostile negotiations to get the more than 100 israeli hostages that were abducted on october the seventh freed in exchange for palestinian prisoners held in israeli jails. now the qataris say that those talks are not looking particularly promising right now, but there are concerns that a ground operation could chi bosch those talks completely. and i suppose the final concern is egypt. egypt does not want to see a spillover of thousands of palestinians into its territory. but just in case that happens, it has now built, it is building or it has built a two mile wide area on its side of the border, creating kind of buffer zone. two house. these potential palestinian refugees from the gaza strip. if they do end up spilling over the border. so there are a lot of concerns, but prime minister netanyahu, even in conversations with president biden, has said that this rafah ground operation will go ahead, but obviously it won't go ahead. he said last night until such time and as the civilian

population has been evacuated, ana elliott gotkine, joining us from london. many thanks >> we'll meanwhile talks very hostage deal appeared to be at an impasse. many israeli officials agree that hamas is demands are unreasonable on saturday, cnn's alex marquardt spoke with spoke about that with gal hirsch, israel's coordinator for the captives and the missing. >> take a listen >> what is your understanding right now of where the negotiations stand for a hostage deal? >> well we want to do very much and we know we need to pay prices but hamas demands are disconnected from reality delusional. >> and we hope >> very much the day will come much closer to the zone of potential agreement. >> prime minister netanyahu has also called the hamas proposal delusional. what specifically about what they are? asking for is just completely out of bounds for israel. >> now let's really bold.

their response. was far, far away from reality and they know that. and my concerns is who's in the other side of negotiations? whom are we negotiating with? >> we wanted the deal very much. >> but in the other side, we needed proof. that is someone that can deliver. >> are you implying that those hamas officials are not in touch with the hamas leaders who are actually on the ground and gaza, i will very much want to see and such proof can be, for example, show us that the medical support that >> was sent to a hostages has arrived to its destination. this is very important because it will show us that there is someone there that can really deliver and release our hostages. >> are you willing to release a large number of palestinian prisoners, many of whom would have carried out attacks in israel, who have life sentences. are you willing to release them

>> we showed that we are ready to pay prices show that we mean that. but we want to see that in the other side, the reason reliable address someone that can release our hostages you can deliver >> hamas wants to see an end to the war. >> israel >> does not want to end this war because there is still work to be done. netanyahu says to dismantle hamas how do you close that gap in order to get these hostages home? >> well, we showed in the last deal we've made that we are ready to stop warfare doesn't mean stuffing permanently though. it doesn't mean stuffing do more. but we are ready to stop warfare >> that's a lot >> because breaking the momentum of maneuvering it's a big price. it's a big price >> the other ticking clock is the potential offensive by israel into rafah. this is something that the prime minister has talked do you believe that a deal can be agreed to before that offensive will refer he's next, of course, because in rafah, they

are many hostages many, many tour groups actually, hamas is still there. so we do not want to cause collateral damage rafah is many, many people there that hamas use right now as human shields we are doing our best, everything we can, everything is possible to avoid collateral damage but rafat must be next because we must release the hostages. >> so standing here today how optimistic are you that that deal can be? reached? >> real, i believe that hamas needs ceasefire. >> i >> think that hamas wants much bigger humanitarian support to his own people i believe that a deal can be made because we are ready to pay price but it must be closer to zone of potential

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>> and memorials for alexey navalny, the anti-corruption crusader, who died friday after defying vladimir putin for more than a decade authorities have reacted with a heavy hand, but as michael holmes reports they can't cover up what's going on inside russia today >> walking remembrance for a show of defiance >> according to a >> russian human rights group, russian police have detained hundreds of people across the foundry for attending vigils and rallies. following the death of russian opposition figure alexey navalny his supporters, laying flowers at makeshift memorials in cities for moscow to st. petersburg. >> a couple of very important for me to take some action because i was very shocked i would happened and i understood

the only thing i could do was come here today >> '40s aboard the public, not to hold unsanctioned gatherings after navalny's death but still, people are showing up mostly under the watchful eye of police selling, saying, putin is in navalny's kila getting some extra attention >> other >> gatherings of more tense with videos showing police scuffling with protesters, carrying some away by their arms and legs and holding them into waiting police vans. one woman in yucca teran berg, said she was stopped before she even got near one memorial site. >> you'd new video? >> no, i couldn't lay the flowers. i had to throw the flowers in front of them the police gave me ten seconds to turn around and leave >> the grief spreading outside of russia as well with tributes and rallies for navalny held across europe in london flowers

and candles piled up outside the russian embassy. one former russian resident says, he's watched navalny's struggles with the russian government from afar. and thinks his death will continue to empower people despite the fact that he let say, lost this battle as of now, i think that's in the school and it's kind of trying >> a message echoed by navalny's own spot looks person who says the who once led mass anti-government protests himself in russia, wouldn't want people to stay silent. >> well, we all know what to do it was what alexey told all of us that we have to keep fighting. and this is how this is what helps us to cope with what's going on >> michael holmes, cnn the war in ukraine has dominated the munich security conference, which he's going into its final day at the summit. ukraine's

president has been urging leaders to send more weapons. but in washington, additional military aid for kyiv is bogged down in partisan politics. now the house has taken a two-week break, further delaying the 60 package on saturday, volodymyr zelenskyy said, quote dictators do not go on vacation for more on this i'm joined by cnn's sebastian sugar in munich and germany are strong words from volodymyr zelenskyy we're the leaders at the security conference listening and will they step up and provide the aid, weapons, ammunition, ukraine so desperately needs >> yeah. >> i think the messages here in munich, we're always going to be initially focused on the aid to ukraine. but as we were just hearing the news of alexei navalny's death, served as a bit of a bellwether for european defense and security officials gathering here. and i think it coalesced the thoughts of everybody meeting to just and served as a reminder that

look, ukraine needs to need support from its allies and that the message then came from world leaders that president putin cannot go unpunished and i should not only for the death of alexei navalny, but also for the ongoing war in ukraine. so for president zelenskyy, when he turned up here yesterday, his message was clear, i need support, i need ammunition and i need my strongest allies to come to my defense. the biggest issue that ukraine is facing at the moment on the battlefield is a shortage of artillery and ammunition. listen to what we had to say yesterday we are counting on >> this positive decision of the congress, say for us this package is vital. we do not currently look into alternatives because we are counting on the united states. do i believe that this is a bit real? >> know >> because she i do not think

that our strategic partner does war should be can allow itself to not support ukraine i'm sorry, that support even even more prominent right now in ukraine, as ukrainian forces have had >> to withdraw from the beleaguered town of avdiivka, which is a small town just outside the next south of the now infamous city of bakhmut. and i actually been one of the the contentious points on the battlefield since 2014, since russian separatist took control of donetsk. but it represents a major move on the battlefield in ukraine, in favor of the russians, something that the ukrainians are looking to reverse, particularly in light of their failed counter offensive in the summer. and the thing meet as a lenski has said, is we need weapons more than anything else. ana >> so that's shulga in munich. many thanks for joining me now from canberra, australia is

malcolm davis. he is a military analysts with the australian strategic policy institute. malcolm great to have you with us full of defka was a long time coming. i was there with artillery units on the outskirts of the town back in december. they had little ammunition against the russians who as we know with throwing their soldiers into what was called a meat grinder. i mean, russia had more men, more weapons, more ammunition. ukrainians could not compete with this. so you'd have to assume this was the right decision to pull out of abdivka >> that's correct i mean, essentially what was happening was the town was essentially being encircled by russian forces who had worn down the ukrainians ability to resist adding to this was the fact, as you say, they're running low on ammunition. so they are rapidly approaching the point whereby they literally could not defend their positions. and the danger is if they didn't withdraw, then the russians could overrun them and either killed them on the spot, will

take them prisoner and the ukrainian military decided quiet correctly, that the sensible move was to withdraw from that. that location and set up new defensive positions to the west of abdivka and of course, there are reports that ukrainian pows were taken up by the russians as they took over that town. but what does this mean? malcolm to the fight on the eastern front because it would seem that russia has regained momentum well they have regained momentum at a tactical level around that particular location that's true. there are even gained a degree of local control of the year, which i think is important. but they have taken very heavy casualties to achieve their objective of taking this town. and now the question is, can they sustain any momentum going forward to advance on the secondary objectives that are allied to the west of avdiivka i think the assessment is that they probably can't both sides will

stabilize their front lines for a bit the ukrainians will try to build up their defensive positions where they have retreated to prevent the russians from moving further west, the russians will build up their military forces and restock and rearm so that they can try to launch more offensives going into the spring and ultimately into the summer but remember this is one area along a very wide front that extends across multiple regions in ukraine and so the russians are looking at playing this as a long-term game, a long-term strategy to try and wear down the ukrainians counting on a collapse in western support for ukraine, starting with the us house of representatives in congress >> malcolm with the fall of a difficult explain to us now, the ukrainian towns and cities, excuse me that are now vulnerable well, look, i think

that's everything west of defka is vulnerable. ultimately, i think what the russians would like to do would be to extend their reach clustered closer to kharkiv if, if the russians can capture kharkiv, that's a major ukrainian city that would require more than just forces fighting around abdivka. it would require considerable forces elsewhere from donetsk and luhansk. the donbass region. at the same time, they want to advance in the south. recaptured area in zaporizhzhia and kherson. ultimately, what they would like to do is capture kharkiv and odessa in the south they are then in a position to try and impose some sort of peace settlement on ukraine, particularly if ukraine doesn't have the military support coming from the us and europe, that it needs to be able to fend off these attacks. so we're looking at probably a scenario of this of steady advance by the russians that are growing more powerful as the ukrainians grow

weaker over the course of 2024 and into 2025 >> malcolm, this decision by the new general alexander sirsky to pull out of defka. what should we read into this, i guess as he looks? to the overall battlefield and what changes could we expect >> he's, he's making the choice that the ukrainian military is running low on ammunition, both in terms of the ground war. they're running low on artillery shells, for example, or even rifle ammunition. at the same time, ukraine is running being low on, on other types of capabilities, including air defense capabilities because the aid is drying up. so what he's trying to do is firstly avoid the unnecessary surrender or slaughter of his own forces by leaving them in an exposed pocket that is then in but secondly, building up and strengthening his defensive lines to the east of areas such as kharkiv to stop any russian advance for as long as possible

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this will reduce the travel time and costs of current living conditions. >> now, last year, texas officials sued the biden administration for cutting razor wire at the border. >> but >> last month, the supreme court ruled that border patrol agents could remove that razor wire while the state legal challenge plays out, and it's not just the razor wire and the border patrol is access to the border that is playing out in court. the legality of texas's decision to implement a series of buoys on its river border with mexico is still in question and appeals score is set to read we consider an earlier court's rulings declaring the barrier illegal, and abbott continues to send migrants from the border to democratic-controlled cities across the us, which has been at the center of this showdown between the state of texas and the federal government. now, the administration has said that this is a federal issue, but abbott is showing with this latest announcement of a new base that he is not backing down camila bernal, cnn, los

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