the investigative site bellingcat news says, the experts concluded that the symptoms are most likely the result of intentional poisoning with an undefined chemical weapon. one with an undefined chemical weapon. us official to agency one us official told the reuters agency that the illness was caused by environmental factors, agency that the illness was caused by environmentalfactors, not agency that the illness was caused by environmental factors, not a poisoning, though we don t have details on what those factors might be. let s hear more from our security correspondent, frank gardner. there will be some people suspecting russia or the gru, nobody has claimed responsibility, i am quite sure you will not see russia claiming responsibility for this. alexei navalny two summers ago was poisoned with novichok internally in russia and the conclusion was by investigators outside the country, the russian security service was responsible for that, he survived that and was treated in hospita
was seen a few days after the invasion in belarus trying to broker, as it were, talks between the russian government and the ukrainian government. he has these links to the kremlin but he also has deep links to ukraine and i think there were people who were contacted him on his behalf that thought maybe he could act as a bridge between these two warring factions, and that is what he has been trying to do. what is unknown is the nature of what he has been involved in doing and whether it has actually resulted in anything concrete. that is the unknown at the moment. find in anything concrete. that is the unknown at the moment. and now we have reuters unknown at the moment. and now we have reuters aborting unknown at the moment. and now we have reuters aborting that unknown at the moment. and now we have reuters aborting that one - unknown at the moment. and now we have reuters aborting that one us - have reuters aborting that one us official saying this is perhaps created by envir