let's bring in journalist abigail fryman rouch in london abigail what can you tell us about the condition of circus cripple and his daughter. you know good morning this is a good script well and you really are quite into their lives they spent another night in intensive care and they are in a critical condition so says told the b.b.c. yesterday that they were treating symptoms not the cause and that's not a good direction to be going in now this is because they have not yet been able to identify the substance that poisons cripple and his daughter what are investigators concentrating on today so this morning the home secretary amber route is chairing a meeting of the government's emergency committee cobra meanwhile toxicologists military to search for bridgette porson down which is nestles very well raising its time to try to identify the substance that of course and sergei scribblings daughter this really is key and however other sources say there are other factors all tickets may think involved in in that it is syria in the health but meanwhile police also have widened to narea that they

and for the latest on the story let's bring in journalist abigail fryman rouch in london hi abigail first of all can you tell us more about the condition of circus cripple and his daughter at this point well they just that we know is that it really is not very good news at the moment the pair are described as being in a critical condition and sources at the hospital told the b.b.c. last night that they were treating symptoms and not causes because they still don't know what the substance was that has caused this reaction in them we know that mr script is a former russian spy what can we tell what can you tell us about his daughter. so you know it's thirty three she was in moscow but she travels question frequently between britain and russia and that she started in moscow and she's worked for several multinational company things using pepsi and haughty in and she thought that she may have been just seeing britain around this time to support her father on the anniversary of her brother his son's death which people are looking at with . that it placed a question mark over and one day six cou