with access to - come on, you re not going t engage and an active nuclear terror lower terrorism i downtown london withou knowledge of the president we begin the open hearing into the inquiry into the deat of alexander litvinenko. in january, 2015, a publi inquiry opened in london it was a victory for marina, who along with her attorneys for an eight year legal battle to make it happen. on the opening day, he attorney argued the evidence leads to one disturbin conclusion which litvinenko himself reach before he died mr. litvinenko came to th awful awful realization that h had been the victim of a political assassination by agents of the russian state. an expert witness testified the polonium that killed litvinenko could only have com from russia. president putin s spokesma declined our request for a interview. and in march, 2015, putin gave lugovoi a metal.
killed litvinenko to embarrass russia retired mi6 analyst trenear harvey says that s nonsense. if for no other reason because mi6 would never use such a expensive weapon to kill anyone if the british wanted t kill him, they were he would v followed out of the hotel room he would ve been place in fron of a car we wouldn t we would ve spel $12 million in a slightly more cost-effective fashion you would ve made it look like an accident indeed. things are done less extensively, more cost effectively. the old fashion bullets an bodies, work rather effectively, quite cheaply. why not to shoot him? i didn t say they would v then could possibly we can do that sort of thing also remember litvinenko was working for mi6 and it was lugovoi at hi partner dmitry kovtun who left a radioactive trail all over london especially at the pine bar
of russian diplomats and operatives have been killed or died under mysteriou circumstances around the world in march, 2017, the u.s. senat held hearings on russian involvement in the election. the american people need to fully understand the threa that we face and what we mus do to protect ourselves in the future the former fbi agent clin watts was called to testif before the committee follow the trail of dea russians there is been more dea russians in the past three months that are tied to this investigation, who have assets in banks all over the world. they are dropping dead, even i western countries. so much of this intrigue an violence may seem very far away that when nbc news consultan paul joyal was shot just a few miles from the capitol, he and his wife immediately thought i was a hit. a big reason the timing it s four days after of
he was once a kgb agent, bu turned into a local critic o russia when he was poisoned an london and made headline around the world a lethal toxin in a cup of tea it was a dirty bomb why was he killed to unravel the mystery, we follow the tail of a darke conspiracy are you threatened for your life we will meet and confront the prime suspect. did you put - in the teens and now, is the dange coming closer one man said shoe temp. an attack on the expert helping us with the story. people say this is neve going to happen here i know it can happen, here because it happened to m husband. hello, and welcome to dateline former russian agent alexander
person he was just a piece of rubbish vladimir zhirinovsky told u that here in russia, litvinenk made plenty of enemies going back years back in the 1990s, russia wa in chaos after the collapse of the soviet union it was a time when enormou fortunes were created an outrageous crimes committed, sometimes by the very people sent to investigate them back then, alexander litvinenk was a young fsb agent wh claimed to be disturbed by wha he saw litvinenko specialized in organized crime investigations but became obsessed with wha he believed to be corruption within the fsb crimes committed by the cops he compiled a dossier, complet with flow charts, detailing hi allegations. and presented it personally to the head of the agency and the result was opposite. surveillance on your family exactly