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. >> 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. >> reporter: it just doesn't make sense to a lot of people that russia didn't kill him. >> for 100 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 somebody's tea cup and everybody's laughing at it? i mean, the state cannot be involved in that. >> reporter: litvinenko's friend paul joyal, who believes he was the 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