station. scare mel la said he wasn t hungry. they parted ways after lunch. at 3:48 p.m. he was caught on another security camera talking on his cellphone. he then walked to his embassy hotel. it was literally right across the street from the u.s. embassy. it s that modern looking building over there. this is one of the most secure neighborhoods in all of london. one of the hotel s security cameras recorded litvinenko arriving in the lobby at 3:59 p.m. he was there to meet andrei lugovoi, another former fsb agent, seen here wearing a black leather jacket. lugovoi had his own security consulting firm. he and litvinenko had been talking about doing some business together in london. the two had met several times over the past year. this time lugovoi brought along
effectively. old-fashioned bullets in bodies work rather effectively and quite cheaply. why not just shoot him? i didn t say they would have done. they could possibly. we could possibly have done we we don t do that sort of thing. also remember, litvinenko was working for mi-6 and it was lugovoi and his partner dmitri kovtun who left a radioactive trail all over london especially at the pine bar. lugovoi is hardly hiding here in russia. he did our interview in one of the restaurants that he owns. he s a member of parliament. and he s even become something of a pop culture icon hosting his own tv show. the program, appropriately enough, is called traitors. it names and shames individuals who are supposedly enemies of the russian state. lugovoi s high profile here is just one reason that many people who suspect him of murder don t think he acted on his own. another reason? all of the polonium 210 in russia is under the control of the state. it s impossible to use a
get him in trouble? he said they will kill me or they will arrest me. he was jailed for nine months. but that billionaire he d warned, berezovsky, bailed him out and helped litvinenko and his family flee to london. there litvinenko kept up the drumbeat of criticism against the russian government. he even wrote a book accusing the fsb of starting a war in chechnya for political reasons. in response, russia branded litvinenko a traitor. his image used for target practice by russian special forces. this wasn t just symbolism. in march 2006, eight months before litvinenko s murder, the russian parliament passed a law authorizing the liquidation of enemies of the state anywhere in the world. you don t pass that just for the sake of passing it. you have to have somebody in mind.
the fsb, crimes committed by the cops. he compiled a dossier, complete with flow charts detailing his allegations and presented it personally to the head of the agency. and the result was? opposite. surveillance on your family? exactly. an outraged litvinenko now did the unthinkable. he led a nationally televised press conference. a group of agents, several of them in disguise, claiming the fsb had become corrupted by russian mafia money. not only was it absolutely extraordinary, but as you see from the picture of that news conference, he did not have a mask. litvinenko even claimed he d been ordered to assassinate a prominent billionaire, boris berezovsky, but instead warned him that his life was in danger. the essential motivation of this very simple man was his feeling that his country was being betrayed by the leadership. he believed he didn t do anything wrong. he was a good officer. and he didn t think it would
seven months after the law was passed, someone was liquidated. a prominent russian journalist, shot in the head outside her moscow apartment. she was a friend of litvinenko. three weeks later, litvinenko himself was poisoned with polonium 210. duma leader zhirinovsky certainly didn t shed any tears when that happened but laughs off the notion that the russian state was connected in any way. for one simple reason. he thinks russian agents would have done a better job. translator: i m surprised that the uk special services and the uk court accuses russia and lugovoi that with a bag of polonium they came to london and were just throwing it around. it just doesn t make sense to a lot of people that russia didn t kill him. translator: for a hundred years, the russian special services have been using the kind of substances for killing people that you never will be able to recognize. why do we have to go into some kind of a bar and put it in