so scotland yard took a hard look at the two russians, lugovoi and kovtun. when detectives retraced their steps, they found polonium contamination everywhere. we see the same fingerprints of the polonium in multiple places where they were. business offices, hotels, a hookah bar, a strip club, a soccer stadium. and the millennium hotel s pine bar where they last met litvinenko? that s were investigators hit the jackpot. these 3-d graphics put together by scotland yard, show the entire pine bar was contaminated with polonium with extreme hot spots on a table and chair. and the levels found inside this teapot? off the charts. paul joyal wonders how many people were unwittingly exposed. do we know, ultimately, what the final cost of this use of polonium is?
it turned out he was killed by something far more lethal than common rat poison. it s polonium. polonium 210 to be exact, a rare and deadly radioactive isotope. the news shocked the world, even though most people weren t exactly sure what polonium was. but paul joyal knew what it was and what it could do. that his friend effectively burned to death from radioactivity. it s a horrible death. it s a gruesome death. he lived longer than he than any man normally would under those circumstances. and he lived just long enough, within 12 hours long enough, for them to finally determine that it was polonium versus something else. why, if he had died 12 hours earlier, would it have made any difference? because they wouldn t have found out. they would have marked the death certificate as death unknown. he would have been put in the ground, and it would have been
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
mr. litvinenko came to the awful realization that he had been the victim of a political assassination by agents of the russian state. reporter: and in march 2015, an expert witness testified the polonium that killed litvinenko could have only come from russia. president putin s spokesman declined our request for an interview. in march 2015 and in 2015 putin gave lugovoi a medal, 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. reporter: in the years she s been looking for answers, other questions have multiplied, other deaths have been recorded. there was boris berezovsky the russian oligarch litvinenko said he refused to assassinate. another prominent critic of putin.
in there without you noticing? translator: no. why don t you think the polonium may have been put there into the cup after our meeting the next day or by a guy from mi-6? he brings the polonium and pours it into the cup. that s agatha christie stuff. mi-6 is british intelligence. lugovoi says perhaps the brits killed litvinenko to embarrass russia. retired mi-6 analyst glenmore trenear-harvey says that s nonsense if for no other reason because mi-6 would never use such an expensive weapon to kill anyone. if the british wanted to kill him, then he would have fallen out of a hotel window. he would have been placed in front of a car. we d have spent $12 million in a slightly more cost-effective fashion. you would have made it look like an accident? indeed. things are done less expensively, more cost