special services have been using that kind of substances for killing people that you never will be able to recognize. why do we have to go into some kind of bar and put it in someone s tea cup and everybody is laughing at us? i mean, the state cannot be emboldened. litvinenko s friend paul joyal, who believes he was a target of a botched assassination, agrees that in some ways, litvinenko s killers were indeed clumsy and careless. but he says, that s because they were probably just pawns in a much bigger game. you think that any of them do you want that substance was? you think that they knew that they were giving him polonium? why wouldn t they have known
on the opening day, her attorney argued the evidence leads to one disturbing conclusion. which litvinenko himself reach before he died. mr. litvinenko came to the awful realization that he had been the victim of a political assassination by agents of the russian state. an expert witness testified that the polonium that killed him could only have come from russia. president putin s spokesman declined our request for an interview. and in march 2015, putin gave luke avoid a mental. the order of merit to the fatherland, second class, for his work in the duma. you think russia will ever come clean and this will be known? i believe, one day we will know this. it will be very obvious for people to decide. in the years she has been looking for answers, other questions have multiplied and
in the world. they don t pass that just for the sake of passing it. you have to have somebody in mind. 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 did shed any tears when that happened but last off the notion that the russian state with connected in any way. fourth one simple reason. he thinks russian agents would have done a better job. and surprised that the uk special services and the uk 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 sense to a lot of people that russia didn t kill him. for 100 years, the russian
why if he had died 12 hours earlier wouldn t have made a difference? because they wouldn t have found out. they would ve marked the death certificate, as death unknown. unknown, unknown assailants, turn the page, move on. them it s a key of this murder. polonium 210 was discovered. and now we exactly know what so she was killed by polonium 210. it s an almost perfect murder weapon. polonium has no smell, little taste, and without specialized equipment, it s undetectable. the amount that killed litvinenko slipped into something he ate or drank, was no larger than a grain of salt. that still 1000 times the lethal dose. and that tiny bit of polonium would ve been enormously expensive. eight to $12 million to be able to get the portion that went into him. the who could get hold of such an expensive and exotic weapon. and how did they deliver the fatal dose?
the final cost of this use of polonium is? someone who is washing dishes in the pine bar, or in a hotel cleaning crew? five months after s death, scotland yard issued an arrest warrant for lugovoi. kovtun would come later. the two responded with a press conference in moscow, stating their innocence. [speaking russian] . russia refused to extradite them. so we travel to moscow to find the men who were wanted in connection with litvinenko s murder. coming up the stakes get even higher as we confront the top russian official. when dateline continues. this is koli. my foster fail (laughs). when i first started fostering koli i had been giving him kibble. it never looked or felt like real food. but with the farmer s dog you can see the pieces of turkey.