consulting firm. he and litvinenko have bee talking about doing some business together in london. the two had met several time over the past year this time, lugovoi brought along a buddy. a man name dmitry kovtun he s the one in the blac turtleneck it was a quick meeting litvinenko drink just half a cup of tea then left around 5 pm, he caught a rid home that night, he fell ill. and three weeks later, he wa said so, who slipped litvinenko poison that day? putting his murder into motion litvinenko told scotland yar detectives before he died, h didn t know when or who ha poisoned him but he had no doubt that one o more of the man he had met tha day, the two russians or the italian, was his killer. naturally, we wanted to talk t all three. coming up - we track down the first suspec litvinenko named are you frightened for your life when dateline continues or an unbearable itch. this painful, blistering rash can disrupt your life for weeks. it could make your workday feel impossible.
the order of merit to th fatherland, second class, fo his work in the duma you think russia will ever com clean and this will be known i believe, one day we wil know this. it will be very obvious fo people to decide and there years she s bee looking for answers, other questions have multiplied, other deaths have been recorded there was boris berezovsky, th russian oligarch litvinenk said he refused to assassinate another prominent critic o putin. in 2013, he was found dead i his london home. originally called a suicide, a judge said he couldn t rule ou murder the way he killed himself - he hanged himself with scarf? a scarf, in the bathroom. and the fact that his bodyguar was not there. it raises questions. in february, 2015, anothe putin critic, boris nemtsov, was gunned down in the shado of the kremlin the victim was about to lead a major rally against putin.
to call his business partner a former russian spy master. i warned him, i was shot. so, if you re warning you russian business partner tha you ve been shot you clearly didn t think the this was a botched robbery o car jacking? you thought this was related t your work? related to your russia connections? i don t think there s any doubt. someone had tried to kill him, just like the other guy i london the other guy a former kgb agent and frien of joyal s killed three months earlier in london. assassinated with a weapon s frightening and exotic investigators almost missed it a weapon that raise the specte of state sponsored murder. coming up - we trace the steps of mysterious attack from bus t barr, to deathbed. he was going throug unspeakable torment. when dateline continues in a few minutes will lan in london s heathrow airport we don t know why and who was behind it. american intelligence exper
paul joyal eventually recovere from his near fatal shooting in january 2015, he traveled with us to london to tell us the story of what happened t an important contact of hi just a few months before joyal was shot he was join me in the finish 24 hour challenge. start by cooking a lasagna.
duma leader, zhirinovsky certainly did shed any tears when that happened but last of the notion that the russia state with connected in an way. fourth one simple reason he thinks russian agents would have done a better job and surprised that the uk special services and the u court accuses russia that with a bag of polonium they came to london and we re just throwing it around. it just doesn t make sens to a lot of people that russia didn t kill him. for 100 years, the russia special services have been using that kind of substance for killing people that yo never will be able t recognize. why do we have to go into some kind of bar and put it i someone s tea cup and everybod is laughing at us? i mean, the state cannot b emboldened litvinenko s friend pau joyal, who believes he was a target of a botche assassination, agrees that i some ways, litvinenko s killer were indeed clumsy and careless but he says, that s becaus