to tracing attack to putin, 2018 attack in salisbury, england. the kremlin claiming to have nothing to do with the poisoning of sergey. he was poisoned by the military nerve agent novichok. it actually starts switching off your nerve connecters in your body one by one. if it s done properly, it will just turn you off as a body. within hours, any trace will disappear. so, it will always forever look like it was a natural death. and this is why it appears to be the preferred form of killing for people whose death will be under public scrutiny, such as navalny. there was a lot of pressure for us to start investigating.
12 scientists whose only experience background in em whic chemical weapons. our hypothesis, this is the entity that provides the poisoning for killers to travel around the world poisoning people with novichok. so, we bought poison from the black market. we look at numbers that only appear just before the poisoning of navalny. and those were suspicious. but once we have a suspicious number, you go through a number of russian apps that allow you to see how that phone number is listed in other people s phonebooks. so, for example, i put in my number, and it would show up as crystal, the journalist, because somebody would have put my name into their phonebook. and that description would have been shared into this app. first number i looked up showed up as alexei, doctor from fsb.
[speaking foreign language] it was so crazy. it s putin s signature poison. we were actually so shocked that he didn t just decided to murder him but to poison him. but novichok is like leaving his signature on the crime scene. when you come to a room of a comatose patient, you re starting to tell him the news, telling him his story. alexei, don t worry. you were poisoned. there was a murder attempt. putin tried to kill you. it was novichok. and he opened his, like, blue