1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:10,040 --> 00:00:13,800 It may well turn out that Moscow can indeed mount a nuclear attack 4 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:15,560 in the heart of London. 5 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:19,240 Scotland Yard is investigating the suspected poisoning 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:21,800 of a Russian dissident living in Britain. 7 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:24,960 The former KGB colonel is fighting for his life 8 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:27,120 at University College Hospital. 9 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:31,520 Alexander Litvinenko died at University College Hospital. 10 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:39,240 In 2006 ex-Russian spy, Alexander Litvinenko, was murdered in London. 11 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:41,840 Litvinenko had been given a massive dose... 12 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:45,920 ...of this highly toxic radioactive element, polonium 210. 13 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:47,760 It was like a spy movie. 14 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:52,920 Three times he accused me to be his killer. 15 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:57,320 He'd been killed with a kind of micro nuclear bomb. 16 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:01,640 He said, "Marina I love you so much." 17 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:03,520 But at the end we couldn't save him. 18 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:06,880 His widow Marina has lost a husband. 19 00:01:06,960 --> 00:01:08,960 Their 12-year-old son has lost his dad. 20 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:14,240 The killers left dangerous levels of radiation across the capital. 21 00:01:14,320 --> 00:01:17,240 It's our recommendation that this is a public health issue first, 22 00:01:17,320 --> 00:01:19,000 a police matter second. 23 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:21,920 We didn't know if anybody else had been affected. 24 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:26,120 Am I going to get cancer-like symptoms? Am I going to die? 25 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:29,280 The number of locations were growing by the hour. 26 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:33,760 It looks pretty clear that this was a Kremlin state hit. 27 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:36,880 Vladimir Putin suspected of personally ordering 28 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:40,120 the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko. 29 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:43,680 This was a targeted murder. 30 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:48,120 State-sponsored nuclear terrorism on the streets of London. 31 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:50,120 Vladimir Putin always said 32 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:52,640 he is responsible for everything that happened. 33 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:55,440 And I believe it's his responsibility. 34 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:11,760 Detective... 35 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:15,400 I need to report a murder. 36 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:17,640 Who's murder? 37 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:20,000 Mine. 38 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:28,880 At a central London hospital, 39 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:33,800 a man is in intensive care with an unidentified sickness. 40 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:35,560 He talked very quietly. 41 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:37,160 He described some symptoms he had 42 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:40,000 that he was suffering with quite a lot of pain. 43 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:44,560 But from a medical perspective, we didn't know what was wrong with him. 44 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:46,320 We genuinely didn't know. 45 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:50,160 I remember, very specifically, saying to my colleague, 46 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:54,120 that he looks like somebody who we've just given chemotherapy to. 47 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:56,360 They lose their hair, they lose their eyebrows. 48 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:00,760 He couldn't really speak very good English. 49 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:02,840 He preferred to speak in Russian. 50 00:03:02,920 --> 00:03:05,880 But he had a rather ordinary sounding name. 51 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:07,840 His name was Edwin, Edwin Carter. 52 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:11,400 But, there's a twist... 53 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:14,120 He declares that, actually, he's not Carter, 54 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:17,040 he's someone else. Not just anyone. 55 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:19,400 But an ex-KGB agent. 56 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:24,840 The doctors, I know they do not believe him. 57 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:29,800 But they do not understand. 58 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:31,720 I tried to explain, 59 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:35,280 he actually has a Russian name, Alexander Litvinenko, 60 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:39,840 and he is a former officer of a security service in Russia, 61 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:45,000 and he has a lot of powerful enemies and he might be poisoned. 62 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:47,920 Sasha Litvinenko said to his wife Marina, 63 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,000 "I think I've been poisoned. You know, they've got me." 64 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:54,400 But, of course, this sounded a little bit crazy. 65 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:58,080 I know how this happened. 66 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:02,760 I know when. I know why. 67 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:05,160 A lot was strange to me. 68 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:07,000 Sasha was in his bed. 69 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,040 This moment when police got involved, 70 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:14,480 Sasha realised he might help, 71 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:16,280 and explain what happened to him, 72 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:19,000 and all details would be very important. 73 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:22,520 You have any idea who may have made this order? 74 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:26,160 Yes, I know the man who ordered this. 75 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:33,320 His name is Vladimir Putin. 76 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:39,360 We've now got a very high ranking former KGB, FSB officer 77 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:45,240 who we now look at as suffering from potentially a murder assassination. 78 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:55,160 Scotland Yard is investigating the suspected poisoning 79 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:57,400 of a Russian dissident living in Britain. 80 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:02,280 Mr Litvinenko is being treated here at University College Hospital. 81 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:03,880 He's lost all his hair. 82 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:06,160 He's described as being listless. 83 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:09,880 He became weaker and weaker. 84 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:14,880 And nobody knew how long he would be able to give this interview. 85 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:20,840 He was just starting to tip into critical illness as we call it. 86 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:25,640 So his systems were starting to shut down one at a time. 87 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:32,000 That morning, he was actually in reasonably good spirits 88 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:35,000 and I'd actually helped him sit up 89 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:37,520 so that he could actually be photographed. 90 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:43,040 We have a Russian friend in London. 91 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:46,680 He says we need publicity. 92 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:48,160 I was against. 93 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:51,960 I said, "Sasha you don't want to see yourself like that." 94 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:55,520 But he said, "No, people need to see." 95 00:05:55,600 --> 00:06:00,800 I think it's one of the most astonishing photographs 96 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:02,200 of the 21st century. 97 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:07,320 He's basically accusing Vladimir Putin's regime of murdering him. 98 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:10,640 I see more his strong eyes. 99 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:14,400 He was not begging for his life. 100 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:15,960 No, he sends this message, 101 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:18,600 "I am strong and I will take you. 102 00:06:20,280 --> 00:06:22,200 And you will pay for this." 103 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:33,360 The former KGB colonel is fighting for his life, 104 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:36,280 under armed guard at University College Hospital. 105 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:41,280 We can confirm that there was a dramatic deterioration 106 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:44,400 in Alexander Litvinenko's condition overnight, 107 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:47,080 and that he is critically ill in intensive care. 108 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:50,320 There was constant police presence. 109 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:56,040 And effectively they were saying "This is going to be a crime scene," 110 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:57,880 and they were treating it as such. 111 00:06:57,960 --> 00:06:59,960 I got a phone call from counter-terrorism 112 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:03,880 and they said, "What poison could have been used on this poor man?" 113 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:07,080 So I got my team together, and we went through various things, 114 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:11,440 and we came up, I think, with five, one of which was thallium. 115 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:16,280 And the other one we came up with was internal radiation. 116 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:20,480 A radioactive substance that has been ingested, 117 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:23,600 and actually producing its radiation inside the body. 118 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:26,320 And they said, "Well, how do you test for that?" 119 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,240 This is James Cairns calling from Aldermaston. 120 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:34,360 I have a result for you on the urine sample. 121 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:38,000 They delivered a large volume of urine 122 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:42,040 which could then be analysed by alpha spectrometry, 123 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:43,560 so we could then find out 124 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:48,760 what activity had been potentially taken in by Mr Litvinenko. 125 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:52,800 The sample contains clear traces of the substance polonium 210. 126 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:55,560 Polonium is commonly accepted to be 127 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:58,880 the most dangerous substance known to man. 128 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:06,200 I was astounded. 129 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:10,800 I knew about polonium 210 from my time in nuclear submarines. 130 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:12,560 I knew a little about it. 131 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:15,760 I knew that it was an alpha emitter, 132 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:18,520 and had been used in earlier nuclear weapons 133 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:22,080 as the trigger to make nuclear explosions. 134 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:27,000 Polonium 210 is the substance that gives off alpha radiation. 135 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:30,320 It doesn't travel very far, it doesn't go through walls. 136 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:33,360 But if it gets into the body, it's very dangerous. 137 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,160 Polonium 210 is very toxic. 138 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:38,480 One microgram can kill people. 139 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:43,320 We were able to say, "Yes, look, he's had a concentration 140 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:48,000 that would be lethal to anyone who had that intake of radioactivity. 141 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:54,320 I will die, yes... 142 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:58,200 but I will die a free person. 143 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:09,880 At about ten to nine that evening all the buzzers went off in the unit 144 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:13,120 for a cardiac arrest, and we rushed into his room 145 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:17,160 and, for half an hour, tried to restart his heart. 146 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:23,640 At 9:21, it became apparent that there was nothing more we could do. 147 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:28,800 So we terminated CPR and he was declared deceased. 148 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:32,360 We're sorry to announce that Alexander Litvinenko died 149 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:35,240 at University College Hospital, at 9:21, 150 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:38,080 on the 23rd of November 2006. 151 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:43,320 It really does take me back to a very strange time. 152 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:46,480 The medical team did everything possible to save his life. 153 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:49,120 After he died, it was my job 154 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:52,720 to go and speak to his wife Marina and their son. 155 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:58,480 I remember that she was very calm, very dignified, accepted it. 156 00:09:58,560 --> 00:10:02,360 I think she looked down and nodded her head as I remember. 157 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:04,720 It's something I have a sort of visual memory of 158 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:07,080 because it was a very unusual moment. 159 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:09,560 I remember it was a very young doctor 160 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:11,840 and I tried to think about him. 161 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:13,760 I thought, "Oh my god, 162 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:17,400 how it would be difficult for this young man 163 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:20,520 to say what happened to his patient. 164 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:22,440 He died. 165 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:24,920 And he let me go to see Sasha. 166 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:30,320 Anatoly spent maybe 30 seconds, but it was huge stress. 167 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:33,360 He couldn't believe it was his daddy. 168 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:35,760 He looked different. 169 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:37,160 It was awful. 170 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:41,240 And I stayed as long as I could. 171 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:45,520 I could kiss him, I could touch him. 172 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:48,840 And to say I became as a stone... 173 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:53,480 maybe not, but I just tried to limit any emotions. 174 00:10:53,560 --> 00:10:58,600 Just trying to save you with like a power saving. 175 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:06,160 The discovery of polonium puts this case at the top 176 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:08,040 of the Metropolitan Police agenda. 177 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:10,960 I've called an emergency meeting with the relevant agencies. 178 00:11:11,680 --> 00:11:15,080 We were unprecedented and dark waters. 179 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:18,760 It looked pretty clear that this was a Kremlin state hit. 180 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:23,960 It may well turn out that Moscow can indeed mount a nuclear attack 181 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:28,560 in the heart of London and get away with murder. 182 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:32,280 Tonight police were removing material from the sushi bar. 183 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:34,880 Crime scenes literally started 184 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:39,400 within an hour of Mr Litvinenko passing away. 185 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:41,080 And then it went through the night. 186 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:43,520 I remember it as being very intense. 187 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:46,760 Polonium is involved, radioactivity is involved, 188 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:50,400 therefore you assume the worst case until you know better. 189 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:57,520 Nuclear scientists quickly discover dangerous radioactive contamination 190 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:00,240 in the heart of central London. 191 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:03,320 This is one of the world's busiest cities. 192 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:06,040 Flood the streets with uniform, it can create a panic. 193 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:07,840 Radiation is such a scary word. 194 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:10,400 And you know I did a lot of work in public health 195 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:13,200 and I knew that's a word that frightens people. 196 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:16,600 Could others have been contaminated 197 00:12:16,680 --> 00:12:20,520 by the radioactive material that killed the ex-spy? 198 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:22,680 We knew very little. 199 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:24,400 We had generic plans, 200 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:28,240 but what we had not done, is to anticipate 201 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:33,040 a substantial release of polonium 210 in the centre of London. 202 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:47,720 Death of a spy. He was killed by radiation. 203 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:51,400 The extraordinary twist in Britain's most bizarre murder mystery. 204 00:12:56,680 --> 00:13:00,360 There was huge fear, and people realised he'd been killed 205 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:02,880 with a deadly, radioactive isotope. 206 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:04,880 A kind of micro nuclear bomb. 207 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:08,640 Doctors said Litvinenko had been given a massive dose 208 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:11,720 of the radioactive element polonium 210. 209 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:15,920 It is a highly toxic radioactive element, polonium 210. 210 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:18,280 A lot of things I watched on TV, 211 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:20,960 and I even couldn't believe it's about us, 212 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:24,040 it's about our family and for what happened to us. 213 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:28,760 There was an astonishing death bed statement by Alexander Litvinenko. 214 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:33,960 It's an accusatory, behind the grave attack on Vladimir Putin. 215 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:38,760 "You may succeed in silencing one man, 216 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:42,320 but the howl of protest from around the world, 217 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:48,000 will reverberate, Mr Putin, in your ears for the rest of your life." 218 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:53,280 The problem was it was actually not just about one man, 219 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:57,320 an enemy of Putin, being killed and poisoned in dramatic circumstances. 220 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:02,600 It was also a major public health crisis. 221 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:08,320 It was quite a difficult time for us because we had really no idea 222 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:10,360 what risk we'd been at. 223 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:14,840 People had been very intimately in contact with him. 224 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:17,560 You know, the cardiac arrest, it's a messy business. 225 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:19,080 There's a lot of bodily fluids. 226 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:24,840 When health protection came in, they were wearing full hazmat suits. 227 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:30,720 Many of us saw that and thought, "Am I going to get cancer-like symptoms? 228 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:33,720 Am I going to die?" 229 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:36,320 The places he visited are now being searched, 230 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:40,880 and radioactivity has already been detected at three of them... 231 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:44,840 Police have now confirmed that traces of polonium 210 232 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:47,200 have been found at several locations, 233 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:51,280 including Mr Litvinenko's home in Muswell Hill. 234 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:55,240 The hunt for forensic evidence went on all day today 235 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:57,560 at Mr Litvinenko's North London home. 236 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:05,760 I received a call from police and they said you'd better leave. 237 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:12,080 They gave me 30 minutes to take what I need for two days 238 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:14,760 and take Anatoly, and we left. 239 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:18,680 There was very great concern about the danger of the polonium 240 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:20,720 and whether people could be affected by it. 241 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:22,960 They obviously secured his property, 242 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:26,240 and the sense was that you could get it off the doorknob of the house. 243 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:30,920 There were basically two investigations going on together. 244 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:35,840 One the police investigation, and two the protection of public health. 245 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:43,440 We're here because what we've had is an unprecedented event in the UK, 246 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:46,840 that someone has apparently deliberately been poisoned 247 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:49,280 with a type of radiation. 248 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:53,720 In 2006, Pat Troop's job was to protect the public, 249 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:57,640 from biological, chemical and radiological attack. 250 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:01,160 At the beginning, we just didn't know. 251 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:03,160 We didn't know if anyone else was affected. 252 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:07,160 We didn't know the implications of the level of contamination. 253 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:10,080 The word radiation is so scary. 254 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:13,360 We knew that it would cause a lot of anxiety amongst the public. 255 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:16,480 It is serious enough to have prompted 256 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:20,640 the government's emergency planning group COBRA to discuss the affair. 257 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:25,200 There are people in this room who are keen to start a murder enquiry. 258 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:26,680 It's our recommendation 259 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:29,680 that this is a public health issue first, a police matter second. 260 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:32,520 It was pretty tense. 261 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:33,920 There were so many unknowns. 262 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:36,160 I did feel for Pat Troop. 263 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:38,920 Her radar was flying... 264 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,000 a thousand miles an hour because she saw the danger to the public. 265 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:43,880 Our radar was flying, because 266 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:47,480 we felt there was a serious crime here to be investigated. 267 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:49,520 It's not a public health issue first, is it? 268 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:52,080 That's the recommendation. 269 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:55,120 The police had a major enquiry. 270 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:59,200 Under normal circumstances, they'd have what you call gold command, 271 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:01,080 and everybody else would work to them. 272 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:03,200 But in this one, we were working in parallel. 273 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:06,040 But obviously, some were used to being in gold command 274 00:17:06,120 --> 00:17:07,440 who weren't sure about that. 275 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:11,560 When Litvinenko died, 276 00:17:11,640 --> 00:17:14,080 the Kremlin immediately said, "Nothing to do with us." 277 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:17,480 There's no evidence. This is all just hysteria from the West. 278 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:21,240 But ultimately, Vladimir Putin is very happy to break the rules. 279 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:26,480 He sees international law as meaningless. 280 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:30,600 And more than that, he has a peculiar, 281 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:34,320 and vengeful fascination with traitors. 282 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:36,280 He feels personally betrayed by them. 283 00:17:37,360 --> 00:17:39,280 Stepping up the enquiry, 284 00:17:39,360 --> 00:17:44,520 counter-terrorism police dig deep into Litvinenko's past. 285 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:47,160 Litvinenko was a Russian with a backstory. 286 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:52,000 He actually worked for the FSB, the successor agency to the KGB. 287 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:55,200 And he was someone who had fled from Vladimir Putin. 288 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:58,680 And he fell out majorly with his bosses at the FSB, 289 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:03,120 whom he accused of taking bribes, drug money, corruption. 290 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:08,600 In 2000, Litvinenko fled Russia for asylum in Britain. 291 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:12,640 What Litvinenko did was to swap Moscow 292 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:16,680 for a rather suburban existence in North London with his wife, Marina 293 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:19,160 and their then quite small son Anatoly, 294 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:21,880 or Antony as he became known. 295 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:26,520 When we arrived in London, for me, a former dancer, 296 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:31,360 it was my dream to go to England for ballroom dancing 297 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:33,960 and I couldn't believe one day I would be there. 298 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:38,520 And Sasha tried to make this just like a dream come to real. 299 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:45,040 We took bus tour, we went to London Eye, we went to museums. 300 00:18:45,120 --> 00:18:49,200 But in one month I realised it is not a tour. 301 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:51,520 We need to start another, new life. 302 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:54,320 He just was an ordinary guy. 303 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:58,560 He used to bring his little boy to the football. 304 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:02,520 And he used to turn up in his full football kit, 305 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:06,160 looking like an ordinary dad come to see his kid playing football. 306 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:11,120 But Alexander Litvinenko was no ordinary dad. 307 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:17,080 My name is Alexander Litvinenko. I am former KGB FSB officer. 308 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:21,000 My speech is difficult for me. Can I use translator? 309 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:24,920 This is Litvinenko, speaking in London, 310 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:28,240 just two weeks before he fell ill. 311 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:33,560 He'd come to mourn a close friend, Anna Politkovskaya. 312 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:38,600 Anna Politkovskaya was a famous, crusading journalist, 313 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:40,360 and a critic of Vladimir Putin. 314 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:42,080 She wrote about human rights abuses, 315 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:43,520 the Russian security services, 316 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:46,440 and she was shot dead in the stairwell of her apartment 317 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:48,320 in October, 2006. 318 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:56,080 Somebody has asked you directly, 319 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:58,640 who is guilty of Anna's death? Who has killed? 320 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:04,080 And I can directly answer you. 321 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:06,680 It is Mr Putin, the president of the Russian Federation 322 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:08,200 who has killed her. 323 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:11,840 And essentially before the world, he says, "I can name the killer, 324 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:14,760 he is Mr Putin, the president of the Russian Federation. 325 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:18,640 Vladimir Putin was a KGB officer. 326 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:23,480 He sees the world in paranoid and conspiratorial ways. 327 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:25,240 And first and foremost, 328 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:29,400 he believes that anyone who was a traitor should be punished. 329 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:32,320 And the punishment is well understood. It is death. 330 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:37,080 Barely two weeks after accusing Putin of murder, 331 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:41,960 Litvinenko ingested a lethal dose of polonium 210, 332 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:46,480 a poison now discovered in several London locations. 333 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:48,040 Were there other locations? 334 00:20:48,120 --> 00:20:50,840 What were the implications of the severity of this? 335 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:55,720 A level of contamination, we'd never seen that level of contamination. 336 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:59,720 There'd been a lot of consideration about radiation scenarios. 337 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,880 Particularly in the context of terrorist activity. 338 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:04,360 Dirty bombs, ect. 339 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:08,640 Anybody that thought they had been present in the contaminated sites 340 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:10,240 were able to ring in. 341 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:13,440 They were then offered a test for polonium 210. 342 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:16,400 So we needed to find what we now call contact tracing, 343 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:18,920 test, trace, isolate, in Covid terms. 344 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:23,520 We needed to find the people who had been in those situations and places, 345 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:26,760 and work out whether we could determine if they had been exposed. 346 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:36,200 NHS Direct are fielding hundreds of calls from the public. 347 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:40,360 Many have visited a restaurant in Mayfair 348 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:42,720 which is contaminated with polonium. 349 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:47,480 In the middle of central London, Itsu sushi bar, 350 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:49,000 closed to the public today, 351 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:52,640 where Alexander Litvinenko ate before falling ill. 352 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:57,240 A closure sign blames an international espionage incident. 353 00:21:57,320 --> 00:22:00,920 On the first of November, the day he falls ill, 354 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:05,920 Litvinenko meets intelligence contact Mario Scaramella, at Itsu. 355 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:11,360 Downstairs polonium has been detected around one of the tables. 356 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:16,640 Itsu got a lot of attention because that's where Litvinenko had been 357 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:18,840 and met Mario Scaramella. 358 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:23,480 And the concern was, was that where he'd been poisoned? 359 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:27,720 What's happened was and still is unbelievable. 360 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:35,200 I discovered that, three times, he accused me to be his killer. 361 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:37,400 Scaramella was a person of interest. 362 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:39,720 It had been flagged up by Litvinenko himself. 363 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:41,720 So no way we could ignore that. 364 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:43,760 Litvinenko and Scaramella had met before. 365 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:46,880 They were friends or kind of co-strugglers, you might say, 366 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:49,240 in the battle against the Russian regime. 367 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:52,480 Scaramella liked the sort of trade craft. 368 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:54,040 He liked the spy games. 369 00:22:55,120 --> 00:22:59,120 We met at 3 o'clock in Piccadilly Circus, as always. 370 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:02,560 Then we moved to the sushi bar, 371 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:05,760 and he had his lunch. 372 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:10,040 Scaramella rather theatrically handed over a hit list of people 373 00:23:10,120 --> 00:23:12,840 that Moscow was planning to target 374 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,720 and Litvinenko's name was on the list. 375 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:19,800 It was urgent for me to discuss with Litvinenko this blacklist, 376 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:23,520 considering the first name on it was Anna Politkovskaya 377 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:25,200 and the second was Alexander. 378 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:30,760 I flew back to London on November 24, voluntarily. 379 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:35,080 I offered my cooperation to the British Police. 380 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:37,920 Mr Scaramella, I am Detective Chief Inspector Duncan Ball. 381 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:42,520 We know he had a meeting in the Itsu restaurant. 382 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:46,640 Identified it as a primary site with high readings for polonium 383 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:50,280 and so, suddenly, our alarm bells start to ring. 384 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:53,360 For the first time, I felt not in control. 385 00:23:53,440 --> 00:24:00,320 Seems that Litvinenko was mentioning me as his own suspect. 386 00:24:01,360 --> 00:24:05,440 And so it was important to clarify everything with Scotland Yard. 387 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:08,280 So I insisted on having this talk. 388 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:12,720 Scaramella isn't the only person Litvinenko meets 389 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:14,280 on the first of November. 390 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,160 After eating at Itsu, 391 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:21,840 Litvinenko meets two men at the Millennium Hotel 392 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:23,520 in Grosvenor Square. 393 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:28,880 On the day he fell ill, Alexander Litvinenko met with two men here. 394 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:34,520 One is an old Russian acquaintance of Litvinenko's, Andrey Lugovoy. 395 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:41,400 The second is Dmitry Kovtun, Lugovoy's associate. 396 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:43,360 Lugovoy and Kovtun were childhood friends, 397 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:45,040 but they were also very different. 398 00:24:45,120 --> 00:24:48,520 Lugovoy was more successful, perhaps a bit brighter. 399 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:50,280 Whereas Kovtun was a failure. 400 00:24:50,360 --> 00:24:54,080 He deserted from the Soviet military, was a waiter. 401 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:58,440 Even fantasised about being a soft porn star. 402 00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:00,880 But really nothing ever came of any of his dreams. 403 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,120 They were here on business around oil, 404 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:08,160 and investments around that with British companies. 405 00:25:09,360 --> 00:25:13,880 So I think Litvinenko saw potentially a business opportunity 406 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:17,160 as well as probably renewing and rekindling friendships. 407 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:24,440 In the hotel bar where the men meet, there's more polonium contamination. 408 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:29,000 It's also found in North London, 409 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,320 where Lugovoy watches a football match, 410 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,440 soon after meeting Litvinenko in Mayfair. 411 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:37,360 It does start to paint a picture, 412 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:39,600 because we were able to start to pick together 413 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:41,640 what we considered to be the trail. 414 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:43,280 They called it the polonium trail. 415 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:49,800 The Polonium trail reveals that the first of November 416 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:52,360 isn't the first time Lugovoy and Kovtun 417 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,360 have met Litvinenko in London. 418 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:57,000 So you're using everything. 419 00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,960 Credit card receipts, CCTV, 420 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:04,280 mobile phone siteage, anything you can pull on. 421 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,000 The paper trail leads to a Soho hotel, 422 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:11,080 two weeks before Litvinenko fell ill. 423 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:15,560 Scientists are sent in to investigate. 424 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:19,080 If you're trying to find polonium, 425 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,880 you need specialist equipment to find it. 426 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:25,120 But... that was my job. 427 00:26:34,360 --> 00:26:37,680 This detector is very similar to the type of equipment 428 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:43,080 that we brought up to London with us to find where the polonium 210 was. 429 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:49,000 And this instrument shows me, in counts per second, 430 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:52,320 if there was polonium there and how much there was. 431 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:56,640 When we came into the hotel to look for polonium 210, 432 00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:03,160 we found radiation was up at one and a half thousand counts per second. 433 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:09,640 And so because of that, I sent teams into London, into this hotel, 434 00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:15,320 to check every single hotel room, every corridor, every toilet, 435 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:17,720 the kitchen areas, reception... 436 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:23,160 If you imagine that kind of level of detail and monitoring, 437 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:28,880 you start to get a feel for just what an enormous task this was. 438 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:31,280 So if we look at the front door, 439 00:27:31,360 --> 00:27:35,320 you can clearly see that the door handle was contaminated. 440 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:36,960 Then, once we're inside the room, 441 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:41,520 you can see very clearly where he touched in the room. 442 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:43,480 There's polonium on the telephone. 443 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:45,040 He must have made a phone call. 444 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,040 There is polonium on the curtains. 445 00:27:48,120 --> 00:27:51,280 He must have opened and closed the curtains 446 00:27:51,360 --> 00:27:53,760 when he went to bed and got up in the morning. 447 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:55,800 But then if we go through into the bathroom, 448 00:27:55,880 --> 00:28:00,120 if you look down the plug hole, the U-bend of the sink, 449 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:06,120 you'll see a reading which is now 1,500 counts per second. 450 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,400 That can't have just come off his hands. 451 00:28:09,120 --> 00:28:14,280 So the theory here is that polonium 210 was poured down that sink. 452 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:22,960 Polonium has escaped into London's water system. 453 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:26,120 We understand there were urgent talks between Thames Water 454 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:30,320 and the Health Protection Agency about where it would all end up. 455 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:32,880 Radiation found across London 456 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,920 increasingly points to the two Russians 457 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:39,560 who met Litvinenko on the day he fell ill. 458 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:43,480 I think the case the police were putting together 459 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:45,440 was really convincing. 460 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:48,240 Because the polonium 210 traces 461 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:52,920 and the movements of Lugovoy and Kovtun were totally connected. 462 00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:57,880 Lugovoy and Kovtun had left this billowing, 463 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:01,120 ghostly trail of polonium all over London. 464 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:13,360 A month after Litvinenko was poisoned, 465 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:17,240 dangerous levels of radiation are found in more locations. 466 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:22,440 In the last hour Scotland Yard has confirmed traces of polonium 210 467 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:24,920 have been found at the offices in Mayfair. 468 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,320 They say they're continuing to work with the Health Protection Agency 469 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:30,640 to discover how it got there. 470 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:35,840 25 Grosvenor Street was a key meeting place. 471 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:40,080 Police learn Kovtun and Lugovoy met Litvinenko here 472 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,280 on their first visit to London, 473 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:46,520 two weeks before the ex-spy was poisoned. 474 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:50,720 Lugovoy was saying repeatedly to Litvinenko, 475 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:53,560 "Wouldn't you like some tea? English drink tea all the time." 476 00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,200 But, of course, Litvinenko didn't touch the cup. 477 00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:00,040 Contamination is found inside the building. 478 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:03,760 If you look at the photographs, it's a boardroom, primary site. 479 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:05,240 High readings there. 480 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:11,600 So you start to build a picture here of wherever this guy goes, Lugovoy, 481 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:14,800 there's traces of polonium. 482 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:20,120 This is now a major public health emergency. 483 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:23,320 The clean-up operation after the poisoning was enormous. 484 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:26,560 Huge areas of central London were contaminated and had to be shut off. 485 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:29,840 So our monitoring task was huge. 486 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:36,320 We had a nightclub, we had more restaurants, another hotel. 487 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:38,600 This is such dangerous stuff. 488 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,640 And the fact that we found high doses in places like the Sheraton, 489 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:43,440 you think, well what happened there? 490 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:47,840 At the Park Lane Sheraton in Mayfair, 491 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:52,160 police now discover Andrey Lugovoy was in London, not once, 492 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:54,880 but twice, in October. 493 00:30:54,960 --> 00:31:00,200 The detective said "We found lethal polonium in a hotel room," 494 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,040 and I thought, "My word." 495 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:06,040 Anything involving radioactive material is a true weapon of terror, 496 00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:08,360 just because of the fear it strikes 497 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:11,680 into the hearts and minds of the general public. 498 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,800 There were over 30,000 counts per second found in a bin. 499 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:21,160 A toilet lid, 40,000 counts. 500 00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:26,120 Over 10,000 counts per second on a towel found in the laundry chute. 501 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:28,120 The police officers, I had to advise them, 502 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:29,880 if you're going in to gather evidence, 503 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,560 then you need to wear self-contained breathing apparatus. 504 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,360 In other words, mask with an air tank, etc., 505 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,000 o go in and collect the evidence. 506 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:41,280 Lugovoy's second visit to London is a bit of a curious affair. 507 00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:43,040 He flies in on the 25th. 508 00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:45,200 And he meets with Alexander Litvinenko again 509 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:49,360 in this sort of Chinese-themed downstairs bar. 510 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:54,680 In my mind, he was actually working with 511 00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:58,000 the container of the polonium 210 at that point. 512 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:03,320 So I was aware, perhaps there had been one attempt that had failed. 513 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:05,480 Maybe two attempts that had failed. 514 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:11,840 The trail was absolutely everywhere. 515 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:14,800 And Scotland Yard managed to impound the British Airways plane 516 00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:18,800 that they had flown from Moscow to London with. 517 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:23,640 Tonight, British Airways is at the centre of this dramatic spy story 518 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,360 with detectives apparently investigating 519 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,360 whether a killer carrying radioactive material 520 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:31,560 might have travelled on board. 521 00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:36,160 They knew what seats they'd been in. So they could work on those seats. 522 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:42,920 And they found massive radiation. 523 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,560 Confirm contamination on seat 23D. 524 00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:47,240 23D was... 525 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:49,160 Lugovoy. 526 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:51,600 Increasingly, this trail of contamination 527 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:53,960 looks like the radioactive fingerprints 528 00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:55,640 of Litvinenko's poisoners. 529 00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:02,400 The polonium trail leads back to Mayfair, 530 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:07,000 where police now discover Mario Scaramella wasn't the only person 531 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:09,600 who'd met Litvinenko at Itsu. 532 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:15,720 We know that the victim, Litvinenko, met with Kovtun and Lugovoy 533 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:17,280 in the Itsu restaurant. 534 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:25,240 The police gave me the plan of the sushi bar, 535 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:27,800 asking me where we sat. 536 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:33,560 Radiation was found at a table next to the wall, 537 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:35,920 but Scaramella had sat with Litvinenko 538 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:39,960 in the centre of the room, where no polonium was found. 539 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:45,520 It wasn't until Scaramella was able to describe 540 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:48,720 where he was sitting with Litvinenko, 541 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:52,040 and we were able to compare that with where we found the traces. 542 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:57,480 Then it became less likely Scaramella was responsible. 543 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:00,760 Police are even more convinced, 544 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:04,640 the Itsu contamination came from either Andrey Lugovoy, 545 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:06,600 or Dmitri Kovtun. 546 00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:26,400 Suddenly, Lugovoy called me, 547 00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,640 and he said, "I don't know what happened, 548 00:34:29,720 --> 00:34:34,120 but it's not true, and I definitely will go, 549 00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:38,360 and try to find what is real, what happened." 550 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:40,800 For me it was just a little strange. 551 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,560 Again just try to think why? 552 00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:46,200 What is he trying to achieve, calling me? 553 00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:50,920 What is this part of the game, to take this attention from him? 554 00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:59,200 The police investigation will proceed, 555 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,280 and I think people should know that there is no diplomatic 556 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:05,440 or political barrier in the way of that investigation 557 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:06,880 going wherever it needs to go. 558 00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:09,800 As the investigation starts to take shape, 559 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:14,080 all the evidence is starting to point to these two perpetrators, 560 00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:16,040 Kovtun and Lugovoy. 561 00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:18,400 The next step is to get on a plane to Russia. 562 00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:23,800 British detectives were allowed to ask questions of Mr Kovtun today, 563 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:27,240 at the same hospital where Mr Lugovoy is being treated, 564 00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:29,480 apparently for radiation poisoning. 565 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,520 Obviously the detectives were hoping to get some evidence, 566 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:37,080 talk to the two chief suspects, Lugovoy and Kovtun. 567 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:39,160 Build a case. 568 00:35:39,240 --> 00:35:42,080 When they eventually got in to interview Kovtun, 569 00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:43,520 they were told by the Russians 570 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:45,880 you've now got ten minutes to ask those questions. 571 00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:49,200 Gentlemen, this is Dmitry Kovtun. 572 00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:54,480 I mean it was a bizarre scenario for the detectives to be confronted with 573 00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:58,240 a man who was supposedly Kovtun. 574 00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:00,400 This is Dmitry Kovtun? 575 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,160 Completely bandaged up around his face. 576 00:36:03,240 --> 00:36:04,720 Who knows, still, who that was? 577 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:06,280 You might have thought 578 00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:10,040 that the Russians were giving the police a run around. 579 00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:13,240 When they then went to interview Lugovoy, 580 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:17,200 we weren't allowed to tape it, they were going to tape the interview. 581 00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:21,920 And the final insult was that when they got back to the UK, 582 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:25,560 the key tape, with the key suspect Lugovoy, 583 00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:28,560 had gone missing and there was just blank noise. 584 00:36:41,720 --> 00:36:44,760 The mystery surrounding Alexander Litvinenko's death 585 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:46,920 is more and more complex. 586 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,240 But the grief of a family is easy to understand. 587 00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:58,840 And this was a lot of people. 588 00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:00,480 It was a helicopter. 589 00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:06,480 It was like something out of a film set. 590 00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:11,520 Because there were lots of people who looked well-connected 591 00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:13,800 in some of the security agencies. 592 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:18,040 And that was at a time which I think was very difficult for the family. 593 00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:25,680 It was a special coffin. 594 00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:27,360 A lot of protection. 595 00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:30,800 And discussion for how deep it should be. 596 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,720 His widow Marina has lost a husband. 597 00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:36,200 Their 12-year-old son has lost his dad. 598 00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:39,520 As they walk to the grave, she took his hand. 599 00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:44,760 I remember his first question to me being, 600 00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:47,440 "Mama are you going to be depressed?" 601 00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:54,080 I say I'm not because I wanted him to believe we will survive. 602 00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:00,880 There was a hum in my office, shut the door, 603 00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:04,080 head down, what are our priorities? What are we going to do? 604 00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:08,880 What we don't have is a weapon. 605 00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:10,360 That's what's missing. 606 00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:28,160 A key part of the investigation is to retrace the steps, 607 00:38:28,240 --> 00:38:29,600 not only of the victim, 608 00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:32,560 but also the two who we believe to be the perpetrators. 609 00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:37,640 After discovering two earlier meetings in October, 610 00:38:37,720 --> 00:38:40,240 between Lugovoy and Litvinenko. 611 00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:45,000 the police now focus on Lugovoy's third London trip in early November. 612 00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:48,880 This time, he and Kovtun are staying 613 00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:52,680 at Mayfair's five-star Millennium Hotel. 614 00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:56,080 Tonight, the Millennium Hotel's Pine Bar remains closed. 615 00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:59,720 Police officers say they'll again be working into the early hours. 616 00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:02,160 They believe they're at the scene of the crime. 617 00:39:02,240 --> 00:39:05,040 But all the other key questions are still waiting for answers. 618 00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:13,280 Dots were being joined up, an image was starting to form. 619 00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:17,480 There is some very interesting CCTV footage from the Millennium Hotel. 620 00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:24,360 We see Kovtun, Lugovoy arrive, waiting. 621 00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:28,840 We see Litvinenko coming in on his phone, 622 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:31,600 obviously trying to find out where they are. 623 00:39:32,240 --> 00:39:35,600 Police now reconstruct Lugovoy and Kovtun's movements 624 00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:38,680 in the minutes before they met Litvinenko. 625 00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:41,880 You see Lugovoy, 626 00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:44,840 from above, going towards the gents toilets on the ground floor. 627 00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:48,440 And he's got this kind of really grim expression on his face. 628 00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:51,000 We don't know if it is significant but one of his hands 629 00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:52,520 is tucked into a pocket. 630 00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:57,000 And not only that, but Kovtun goes the same way, 631 00:39:57,080 --> 00:40:00,080 also caught on CCTV going in. 632 00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:04,520 Then when you go into the gents and you then examine it, 633 00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:06,640 there are high traces of polonium. 634 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:11,360 So we found very high levels of contamination 635 00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:12,760 on one of the hand dryers. 636 00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:17,160 And, instantly, the gents toilets in the Millennium 637 00:40:17,240 --> 00:40:19,240 were closed to the public. 638 00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:22,720 But when you put that alongside all the other trail of polonium, 639 00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:26,040 which marries up where these two individuals had gone to, 640 00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:29,480 as perpetrators, it starts to become compelling. 641 00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:34,720 In the Pine Bar, where the three men meet, 642 00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:38,920 police find huge levels of radiation. 643 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:40,760 And there's a bar receipt. 644 00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:46,160 It shows Lugovoy bought drinks, including tea, for the meeting. 645 00:40:46,240 --> 00:40:50,960 I had understood Litvinenko was extremely careful, 646 00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:53,360 and would only normally drink Coca Cola, 647 00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:55,840 with the top taken off in front of him. 648 00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:04,560 But he did drink green tea with Kovtun and Lugovoy in the Pine Bar. 649 00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:11,040 So all the crockery was taken away and tested. 650 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:18,320 Traced all the crockery, all the utensils, and there was loads of it. 651 00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:26,960 And it came up trumps, because lo and behold... 652 00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:34,440 one teapot was alive with polonium. 653 00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:38,440 They had full scale deflection. 654 00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:41,600 The needle couldn't move any further on the rate metre. 655 00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:46,240 The forensic scientists take a reading and they have to retreat 656 00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:48,800 because it is just too dangerous for them to be there. 657 00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:53,920 The killers probably deployed it 658 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:57,280 as a sort of capsule wrapped in gelatin, 659 00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:58,840 dropped it into the teapot, 660 00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:02,200 the gelatin melts, and the polonium is released. 661 00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:08,440 He made a mistake, and he knew this. 662 00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:10,640 He knew he might be poisoned. 663 00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:16,440 Meeting Lugovoy, he was not forcing, 664 00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:19,840 but making it so, psychologically, you just can't say no. 665 00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:24,840 And when he took two sips, he realised he did something wrong. 666 00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:30,440 If it was proved that Russian agents have poisoned Alexander Litvinenko 667 00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:31,840 in this hotel, 668 00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:35,920 then that would amount to an act of state-sponsored nuclear terrorism 669 00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:37,320 on the streets of London. 670 00:42:39,240 --> 00:42:43,280 We were convinced that there was a threshold met for prosecution. 671 00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:46,680 And I think all the evidence is pretty compelling. 672 00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:55,320 Andrey Lugovoy, former Russian secret agent 673 00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:57,200 with close ties to the Kremlin, 674 00:42:57,280 --> 00:43:01,440 and the man today charged with murdering Alexander Litvinenko. 675 00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:05,160 I was pretty angry with the people that had done this. 676 00:43:05,240 --> 00:43:08,800 Not only had they committed a terrible murder, 677 00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:12,920 but they had potentially put a lot of other people at risk. 678 00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:19,440 In 2007, a warrant is issued for Andrey Lugovoy's arrest 679 00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:21,880 and extradition from Russia. 680 00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:23,440 It was the most audacious act 681 00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:26,320 I would ever have witnessed in my time as a police officer. 682 00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:32,440 But Moscow denies everything, and resists the extradition request. 683 00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:38,120 Lugovoy and Kovtun went back to Russia and nothing happened. 684 00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:41,160 Lugovoy stands up and denies it all. 685 00:43:41,240 --> 00:43:44,720 Did you kill Alexander Litvinenko? 686 00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:46,440 I didn't kill. 687 00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:49,080 And yet there's an arrest warrant out for him. 688 00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:56,640 The dissident Russian spies' widow has fought for 8 years for this, 689 00:43:56,720 --> 00:43:58,800 her day in court. 690 00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:02,880 Today the public enquiry began into her husband's murder. 691 00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:06,920 Marina Litvinenko is one of the warmest, kindest, 692 00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:08,920 most compassionate people I have ever met. 693 00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:14,880 Mr Lugovoy and Kovtun deliberately administrated polonium 210 694 00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:19,280 to Mr Litvinenko, intending it to kill him. 695 00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:23,840 What happened to her husband, the politics of it for sure, 696 00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:27,120 but also on a personal level, drives her campaign for justice. 697 00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:34,760 The 2015 inquiry finds damning evidence against Andrey Lugovoy. 698 00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:38,880 The whole world, even Russia, know he is a criminal. 699 00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:40,880 He is a murderer. 700 00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:44,120 But could this man have given the order 701 00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:47,960 to exterminate Alexander Litvinenko? 702 00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:50,240 The charge is an onerous one. 703 00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:53,640 Vladimir Putin suspected of personally ordering 704 00:44:53,720 --> 00:44:56,600 the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko. 705 00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:02,640 Your president, probably involved in the killing of a former agent. 706 00:45:02,720 --> 00:45:05,600 Of course, it is pure propaganda. 707 00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:11,880 If anybody can furnish any conversations, logs, papers, etc., 708 00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:15,000 proving that I was acting on Putin's orders, Kremlin or whoever, 709 00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:17,440 then I will say bravo and applaud. 710 00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:21,160 We have to recognise that Russia says this is not true. 711 00:45:21,240 --> 00:45:23,680 There was no Kremlin plot. 712 00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:25,200 But it was astonishing. 713 00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:28,040 The evidence ran to hundreds and hundreds of pages. 714 00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:30,920 All of which lead a judge to conclude 715 00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:34,280 that Vladimir Putin had probably, personally, 716 00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:36,120 ordered Litvinenko's death. 717 00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:39,480 He was poisoned here in Britain. 718 00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:42,520 A hit that was probably ordered by Putin. 719 00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:44,440 We have a finding, we know what happened, 720 00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:46,160 but we still don't have justice. 721 00:45:46,240 --> 00:45:49,480 The suspects are still in Moscow, beyond the reach of British law. 722 00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:53,480 And the man who sent them, Vladimir Putin, is still Russia's president. 723 00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:57,760 Have you a seen any crime suspect that says "Yes, I did it"? 724 00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:00,680 No, of course. What's he going to say? 725 00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:04,160 This is politics. Deny anything. 726 00:46:04,240 --> 00:46:06,080 If you saying you invade Ukraine, 727 00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:08,040 you say, "No, we won't invade Ukraine." 728 00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:10,600 If you say you killed this... You say, "No, we didn't." 729 00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:14,200 Vladimir Putin always said, 730 00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:17,680 he is responsible for everything that happened. 731 00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:20,200 And I believe it is his responsibility. 732 00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:51,680 Subtitles: Lily Ray plint.com