turned into a vocal critic of russia,. when he was poisoned in london, it made headlines around the world. a lethal toxin in a cup of tea. it was a tiny little dirty bomb. it s nuclear terrorism. why was he? kilter unravel the mystery, we follow the tale of a dark conspiracy. are you frightened for your life? will me and confront the pain prime suspect. did you put polonium in the tea? and now, is a danger coming closer? we re two men may think waiting in the bushes. one man said shooting. an attack on the expert helping us with this story. people say it s never going to happen here. i know that can happen here, because it happened to my husband. , dateline . former russian agent, alexander litvinenko former russian agent jim alexander litvinenko was a four critic of the russian government. but in his world, existent formation could make you a very rich man or a dead one. his murder set off an international investigation to discover who wanted in silen
welcome to the bbc news at six. thirteen hostages kidnapped in the 7th october attacks in israel are to be released tomorrow. the group, all women and children, are just a fraction of the nearly 240 people abducted by hamas, which is designated a terrorist organisation by the uk government. they re due to be freed from gaza tomorrow afternoon, with a four day ceasefire scheduled to begin in the morning. there were hopes they would be released today. a number of palestinian prisoners will also be released from prisons in israel. our senior international correspondent orla guerin is in tel aviv this evening. orla. israel has received a list of names of those who are due to be freed tomorrow, and theirfamilies have been informed. they don t know what condition their loved ones will be in. when they are brought back eight israel, they will be brought directly to hospital for medical checks. six hospitals are on standby, with specialist teams and social workers. standby, with spec
the biggest, al shifa, is not functioning at all, according to the world health organization. al shifa s head of surgery has told the bbc that a third premature newborn baby has died because of a lack of power. there are reports that gaza s second biggest hospital, al-quds, has run out of fuel. the situation at the al shifa hospital is intensifying as suppliers are not getting through. gaza s hamas run health ministry says at least 2,300 people are still inside al shifa, in an update shared by the who. officials say premature babies have had to be moved out of their incubators. it s now five weeks since hamas, designated a terror organisation by the uk government, and killed more than 1,200 people in israel, and took more than 200 hostage. since then, hamas officials say well over 11,000 people have been killed in israeli attacks on gaza. in this special report, our international editor jeremy bowen assesses what could happen next, in gaza and in israel. the beds were full wh
please go to cnn.com/violentearth. i m liev schreiber. thanks for watching. good night. [narrator] previously on secrets & spies. [tim naftali] he sells their souls to the soviets. he sells their lives. aldrich ames is voluntarily killing people. [aldrich ames, on recording] [sir david omand] gordievsky knew that they had surreptitiously entered his flat, and that his flat was bugged. [oleg gordievsky] [alexander vassiliev] so, what do you do to officers who betray their own motherland? you execute them. [crowd cheering] [narrator] this is the unseen story of the cold war. fought not by politicians. but by secret agents. [jack barsky] there was complete misunderstanding on either side. it s very difficult to determine whom you can trust. [narrator] as the soviet union faces off with the west in the early 1980s. two spies play a dangerous game from the shadows. they seek to win the upper hand while the world stands on the brink of nuclear war. these are their stories in their
please go to cnn.com/violentearth. i m liev schreiber. thanks for watching. good night. [narrator] previously on secrets & spies. [tim naftali] he sells their souls to the soviets. tiously entered his flat, and that his flat was bugged. [oleg gordievsky] [alexander vassiliev] so, what do you do to officers who betray their own motherland? you execute them. [crowd cheering] [narrator] this is the unseen story of the cold war. fought not by politicians. but by secret agents. [jack barsky] there was complete misunderstanding on either side. it s very difficult to determine whom you can trust. [narrator] as the soviet union faces off with the west in the early 1980s. two spies play a dangerous game from the shadows. they seek to win the upper hand while the world stands on the brink of nuclear war. these are their stories in their own words. testimony pieced together from interviews over the years. [oleg] after 11 years of secret work, maybe i develop paranoia. .and never-before-