the picture here is the russian agent anna chapman, part ofa the russian agent anna chapman, part of a 20105 -- 2010 the russian agent anna chapman, part of a 20105 —— 2010 spy swap which saw of a 20105 —— 2010 spy swap which 5aw sergei skripal come into the uk. and mothering sunday, as we have been talking about, cards going gender neutral. a supermarket i5 sending gender neutral mother's day cards as retailers reduce the use of the m word, as the sunday times put5 it. to make today's celebration more transgender inclusive. the front of the sunday telegraph, the main picture here. we will be discussing this in sport later. england crashing out of the six nations. the main story, corrupt russian i5 facing a uk visa ban. all of this is fallout from that scar —— spy scandal. and what that could mean for russians living in the uk. and ju5t for russians living in the uk. and just down the bottom a5 for russians living in the uk. and just down the bottom as well, accident and emergency chao5 lead5 to ambulance meltdown, a5 paramedics are forced to withdraw some crew5 amid a shortage of ar

with the famous anna chapman, was pa rt with the famous anna chapman, was part of a sleeper cell in thed states. somehow he was viewed as an essential asset, and some of the papers are reporting he was the second most important after the other russian defector. it was obviously worth something, and he provided various details of various russian espionage activities. i suppose coming back to the point is how do we stop any of this. you can't really, because they only have to be right once, and we have to be right all the time. that is the problem when you are dealing with it. we would probably want to say to the russians, two can play at this game but i am not sure whether that is really a british response was top we wa nt is really a british response was top we want to go around bumping people off moscow? probably not.” we want to go around bumping people off moscow? probably not. i say probably for stop we had a very robust response after it was established that litvinenko had been poisoned on the orders of the kremlin, ultimately, as the inquest established. we couldn't really have do

involving actually where anna chapman the infamous russian sleeper agent who had been sent the u.s. was also a part of now and since then we're told that he's lived a rather quiet life in england actually issue in the spotlight and just trying to stay out of the public eye even as police are urging caution bereket this is an unusual case how is england reacting. well of course the newspapers and old media are full of speculation and people are thinking about alexander litvinenko who died in two thousand and six not far from where i am here in central london he was poisoned and there was a trail of polonium all across central london basically that police were able to trace he was somebody who had worked for the russian intelligence services he had done time to be a critic of the kremlin and sort asylum here in london but he was poisoned and in two thousand and six and later an inquiry ruled that he was probably ordered by the kremlin and by blood to be killed now we also know that buzz feed which is a u.k. news outlet has had an investigation recently and they said as many as fourtee

the ten accused by the us of espionage — among them, anna chapman — were flown from america and, in thetions, the two parties of spies crossed on the tarmac in austria. asked about who might have betrayed this american spy ring, president putin vented his fury publicly. translation: traitors will kick the bucket, trust me. these people betrayed their friends, their brothers in arms. whatever they got in exchange for it, those 30 pieces of silver they were given, they will choke on them! as for skripal, he flew from vienna to britain, where he began a life in exile. police were today securing the house in salisbury where the former russian intelligence officer has lived in recent years. mark is here now. give us a sense of who this man is. people who have met him talk about a tough ex—paratrooper, special forces, very proud of that who gravitated towards russian military intelligence. if you believe the court case that was heard against him back in 2006, at some point in the late 1990s, he began working for mi6 at a time when it was very hard to penetrate the gru. i talked to western spi

was freed us part of a high level spy swap the trade included the now prominent russian agent anna chapman who tried to cozy up to u.s. power brokers script and his daughter are still in hospital where doctors are working against the clock to find out what has made them ill. well of britain's foreign minister boris johnson questions in the house of commons about the case here's what he had to say. though i'm not not pointing fingers forgive me carol this is because your sound bite fingers i say to governments around the world that no attempt to take innocent life on u.k. soil will go either unsanctioned or unpunished. the british foreign minister all right now to some of the other stories making news around the world. reports say at least sixty eight people have been killed as the syrian government resumed airstrikes on eastern whole time near damascus a cease fire was agreed last month but it's only in place for five hours a day the russian military has offered rebel safe passage out of the area the rebels have turned it down. on a russian transport plane has crashed in syria killing all

anna chapman had a go on twitter today which seems to be her preferred method nowadays, and of courseof the people on the hit list were also swapped for.|j us who some of the people on the hit list were also swapped for. i take, the sunday telegraph, and what we are talking about possible action here but we have to say that this has been written, we don't know yet if it is russia, we don't have any, you know, talking about someone action that might be taken. this is action that might be taken. this is a good point, before we can actually do anything, we have to have pretty conclusive proof who is behind it. so we are making assumptions, russia, it sort of looks like russia but we don't know. certainly, no sanctions can come into play and till that has been satisfactorily be improved but the idea is we joined the us and canada which is obviously much better if we do proper sanctions and the kind of things they are talking about is these bands, stopping certain russians coming here with their money, freezing the assets in this country of which there is quite a bit —— visa bans i would l

was freed is part of a high level spy swap the trade included the now prominent russian agent anna chapman who tried to cozy up to u.s. power brokers spree paul and his daughter are still in hospital where doctors are working against the clock to find out what has made them ill our correspondent very good mostest tracking this story for us from london and joins us hi barbara i there have been some developments in the story tell us more. well we now know that it was the alleged spy and his daughter were who are pretty in critical condition also they are still in hospital. trying to find out what it is that poisoned them apparently what is the substance that made them so critically ill this is of course crucial for them to find out if there is any treatment for them we also know that two police officers had also been admitted to hospital they are now apparently out of hospital and the police told to saying that that the general public is apparently not not harmed. and who is. this a former russian agent. so from all we know he is somebody that used to spy for the he used to work for the russ

the ten accused by the us of espionage, among them, anna chapman, were flown from america, and in theld war traditions, the two parties of spies crossed on the tarmac in austria. asked about who might have betrayed this american spy ring, president putin vented his fury publicly. translation: traitors will kick the bucket, trust me. these people betrayed their friends, their brothers—in—arms. whatever they got in exchange for it, those 30 pieces of silver they were given, they will choke on them. as for skripal, he flew from vienna to britain, where he began a life in exile. police were today securing the house in salisbury where the former russian intelligence officer has lived in recent years. mark urban reporting. dr michael carpenter is former deputy assistant secretary of defense with responsibility for russia and was also director for russia at the national security council. he joins me from washington. the police here in the uk not giving many details, at an extraordinary set of circumstances. what is your reaction? this is chilling news. 0bviously, russia has violated internat

in return for ten russian sleeper agents, including the infamous anna chapman, who had been operating in the u.s. in salisbury, the town where skripal had settled, witnesses say he and a woman companion collapsed on a bench on sunday. >> it was a couple, an older guy and a younger girl. she was sort of leaning on him. it looked like she passed out maybe. he was doing some strange hand movements, looking up to the sky. >> reporter: the couple was rushed to the hospital suffering from what police say is exposure to an unknown substance. meanwhile, hazmat teams scoured and then cordoned off an area in salisbury's town center. so far the police say this is not a counter-terrorism case. but all britons will recall the 2006 murder of another russian intelligence officer, alexander litvinenko, in london. he was poisoned by radioactive polonium in what british intelligence believes was a russian state ordered execution. >> glor: liz, why would russia potentially target skripal now after all these years? >> well, if he was targeted, and that's still a big if, jeff, obviously, but he was a very

the trade included the now prominent russian agent anna chapman who tried to cozy up to u.s. power brokers spree paul and his daughter are still in hospital where doctors are working against the clock to find out what has made them ill all right let's take you now to london where we can speak with bill browder he is a former banker who lived in moscow ran a successful hedge fund there but he's become a prominent kremlin critic and wrote a book calling himself putin's number one enemy to believe his lawyer was murdered by russia's government a very good evening sir before we talk about this very disturbing incident can you first tell us a little bit about your experience in dealing with the russian government. yes so i was a major investor in russia i expose corruption in retaliation i was expelled from the country my lawyer sergei magnitsky was arrested tortured for three hundred fifty eight days and murdered in russian police custody in november of two thousand and nine and since then i've been on a mission to get justice for survey which has led to another person being murd

the ten accused by the us of espionage, among them anna chapman, were flown from america, and in theld war traditions, the two parties of spies crossed on the tarmac in austria. asked about who might have betrayed this american spy ring, president putin vented his fury publicly. translation: traitors will kick the bucket, trust me. these people betrayed their friends, their brothers—in—arms. whatever they got in exchange for it, those 30 pieces of silver they were given, they will choke on them. as for skripal, he flew from vienna to britain, where he began a life in exile. police were today securing the house in salisbury where the former russian intelligence officer has lived in recent years. mark urban reporting. in 2006 and agent died after being poisoned. his widow says mi6 has a responsibility to protect men like her husband. i think you need to be sure people receiving political asylum here are com pletely receiving political asylum here are completely safe, and if they are provided this asylum, they need to be more serious, and especially now after what happened to this man a

with a number of russian spies that have been caught in the united kingdom and the united states anna chapman. being the most high profile of those so there was this grand big swap in i think two thousand and ten where these these different agents were handed backwards and forwards he then settles in the united kingdom and. for all we know basically ceased operation but of course there are some suspicions that maybe he was still working with m i six with the british intelligence and of course this is being viewed in light of what happened with alexander litvinenko another former spy who was poisoned in the u.k. alexander litvinenko died at the moment script hala still alive and ok many thanks to his there from moscow with those details of course evidence laurent he joins us live from london so long as do we expect the prime minister to his m a to point the finger at the kremlin later today. she might not today no i mean there are indications from people in the foreign affairs committee that they think it's likely that she will do in the fullness of time it is quite difficult for a must admit

as part of the two thousand and ten spy swap with a russian alleged legals which includes anna chapman who went back to russia so of course russia would have known exactly what he knew they would have put him through the mill in terms of getting any intelligence or. him and they would not have released him if they thought he was still a threat you know then of course when he arrived in the u.k. he would have been debriefed for weeks but m i six before allowed to go free and live a life and you know he lived his life quite openly so this is the key question and i've been saying this ever since the story broke what on earth was he involved in in the last eight years since he's been living in the u.k. who was he working with who were its contacts and that might give the investigators a clue to who might indeed have perpetrated this attack i don't think it's going to be a russian state retaliatory thing i just cannot see the motivation and i don't either you know charles i mean what i mean there is there's some speculation there's so many people that have their own theories i think that th

as part of the two thousand and ten spy swap with a russian alleged legals which included anna chapman who went back to russia so of course russia would have known exactly what he knew they would have put him through the mill in terms of getting any intelligence ask him and they would not have released him if they thought he was still a threat you know then of course when he arrived in the u.k. he would have been debriefed for weeks by m i six before allowed to go free and live a life and you know he lived his life quite openly so this is the key question and i've been saying this ever since the story broke what on earth was he involved in in the last eight years since he's been living in the u.k. who was he working with who were its contacts and that might give the investigators a clue to who might indeed have perpetrated this attack i don't think it's going to be a russian state retaliatory thing i just can't see the motivation and i don't either . you know charles i mean what i mean it's there's some speculation there's so many people that have their own theories i think that there'

as part of the two thousand and ten spy swap with a russian alleged legals which included anna chapman who went back to russia so of course russia would have known exactly what he knew they would have put him through the mill in terms of getting any intelligence ask him and they would not have released him if they thought he was still a threat you know then of course when he arrived in the u.k. he would have been debriefed for weeks by m i six before allowed to go free and live a life and you know he lived his life quite openly so this is the key question and i've been saying this ever since the story broke what on earth was he involved in in the last eight years since he's been living in the u.k. who was he working with who were its contacts and that might give the investigators a clue to who might indeed have perpetrated this attack i don't think it's going to be a russian state retaliatory thing i just can't see the motivation and i don't either . you know charles i mean what i mean there's some speculation there's so many people that have their own theories i think that there's a p

skripal was released from prison as part of a spy swap that included anna chapman, the glamorous russian agent arrested in the u.s. in 2010. british counterterrorism authorities are now leading the skripal investigation, but right now, for all the suspicions of russian involvement, no one really knows what's going on here. david? >> keep us posted. terry moran from london tonight. >>> and next, what could be a major development on the nuclear threat from north korea. it came after a very rare meeting between kim jong-un and south korean officials. afterwards, south korea reporting that the north offered to stop testing weapons if the u.s. agrees to talks. tonight, president trump now reacting, and abc's matt gutman, who was just at the dmz, the highly secured border between the north and south. >> reporter: tonight, for the first time ever, kim jong-un face to face with south korean officials who traveled to pyongyang. afterwards, south korea said the north korean leader appeared willing to suspend all nuclear and missile tests in exchange for talks with the u.s. after first saying the o

. >> there is a story about an officer spying for britain, the anna chapman prison swap we caught theo was here living life as an american got sent back to russia. one that came back from the west is living in england and he's found on a bench in the last few days with a woman. the two of them dosed on something apparently. >> and now critically ill in a hospital. >> critically ill in a hospital. >> i mean, we've seen this story before and we've also seen it here in washington d.c. the russians don't let -- you know, vladimir putin respects enemies but hates traitors and he said an enemy is a respectable thing. there is a set of rules to govern that but traitors need to die essentially. i have a feeling linking this back to the russian escort, i think she's scared out of her mind and afraid for her life with good reason and she's dangling this to the americans saying please save me, i'm going to die. >> thanks for joining us. we'll see what happens next. before i go, exciting news, the paper back version of my latest book "a colony in a nation" comes out tomorrow and there is a brand-

people who were swapped in 2010 being russian agents caught in america by the fbi, including one, anna chapmane caught by the fbi, accused of espionage and the deal was they were swapped out for for spies who was serving time in russian prison. one of those was sergei skripal. there has been conversation on social media in the past hour as this story was breaking, gordon, from people who were involved, former us intelligence officer saying, the brits have been cautious about their attitude to russia so far because britain is basically ground zero when it comes to these kind of spy battles between the west and russia. is that an accurate portrayal? bigot is extraordinary... could this be an example of that? we had alexander litvinenko who was killed and i think probably on the orders of by the mere putin himself, and there were other unexplained deaths in the uk of russians which many people have believed to have been suspicious. there is one inquest due next month into someone where there is this question about whether he was poisoned or not, a russian businessman who had a lot of information

including the infamous anna chapman.ury in this modest house where he seems to have led a quiet life until now. this incident inevitably brings to mind the 2006 murder of another russian intelligence office alexander litvinenko. he was poisoned in london by radioactive polonium in what intelligence believes was a russian state-ordered execution. the local police have just said that a small number of those who responded to the emergency call and got the skripals to the hospital themselves had to seek medical care later on. the bbc says they suffered from itchy eyes and wheezy breathing. >> interesting that russia has offered to help the investigation. elizabeth palmer in salisbury, england. thank you. >>> the florida state senate has approved new gun legislation in response to last month's school shooting that killed 17 people. the marjorie stoneman douglas high school public safety act passed by a 20-18 vote last night. the measure would limit rifle sales to people 21 or over. it allows some teachers to be armed and crea

among them, anna chapman.ily similar to the murder of former russian spy poisoned at a london hotel with initially unexplained substance. it turned out his tea was laced with hard to detect radioactive substance. he was among many influential russians to die suddenly overseas. in november 2015, a former adviser to president putin was found in a hotel room in washington with blunt force injuries. investigators said the death was accidental. in february last year, russia's ambassador to the u.n. collapsed in new york of an apparent heart attack. he's one of a number of russian diplomats who died in strange circumstances. >> the russians have developed the art of assassination in a manner that is usually undetectible. >> this morning kremlin denying involvement in the present case. president putin's spokesman calling skripal's condition tragic saying we don't have information about the cause. while one russian dissident chess master garry kasparov not confirming he's murdered but why wouldn't putin do it again. >

including the infamous anna chapman.in this modest house leading a quiet life until now. this incident inevitably brings to mind the 2006 murder of another russian intelligence officer, alexander, poisoned in london by ploed yum in what they believed was a russian state ordered execution. the local police have just said that a small number of those who responded to the emergency call and got them to the hospital, themselves, had to seek medical care later on. the bbc says they suffered from itch eyes and wheezy breathing. >> interesting russia offered to help with the investigation. thank you. >>> florida state senate approved new gun legislation in response to last month's school shooting that killed 17 people. the stoneman douglas high school safety act passed by a 20-18 vote last night limits rifle sales to 21 and older and some teachers can be armed and create new mental health programs. four parents of the victims in the shooting say the bill could be stronger. >> everybody loves everything in it, i don't, but if it

have very prominent careerfor example, them went on to have very prominent career for example, anna chapmanoil company. it looks like they are well looked after. the britishjudge said... he was made a member of parliament. it doesn't look like they are generally looked after. parliament. it doesn't look like they are generally looked afterlj think it is not known yet, when the staff from the british consulate in saint petersburg will be leaving russia, but do you expect any other official announcements from the kremlin about what is going on? no, not at the moment. as for the british council, it is only actually the head of the council who is a british national. the best our local staff. there has been some state m e nts staff. there has been some statements from the foreign ministry here saying that the head of the british council would not have to leave the country. we're not sure about that. the still time to fathom out what is going on. as for the british diplomats, still we don't know when exactly that is going to happen or whether some have already left. they have a deadline of saturd

remember anna chapman here in london before she went to new york, the famous female spy, she was workingople are potentially going to die from this. would you agree with that assessment, said tony brenton? i agree with bill it is the terrorist incident. i dealt with the litvinenko affair in 2006 and there are lots of parallels. there were public safety issues because the russians used polonium that time, a radioactive poison. we took the decision that the likelihood of an early repetition was low so the threat to public safety was low. and we took the view too that in order to act effectively, to minimise the possibility of a recurrence, we needed clear evidence as possible to get that it was the russians and then we set out the policies in response. i am then we set out the policies in response. i am sure then we set out the policies in response. i am sure the authorities will take exactly the same approach this time. you look at the evidence, assemble what you hope is a clear case that it is the russians, and if it is, it is not yet proven, but highly probable, and then you have a firm

anna chapman is the most famous spy who was busted in that case.ting step change in terms of the way the british authorities have responded. if you look back at the litvinenko case in 2006, police took a firm line and the government accused the kremlin of orchestrating that hits. it was a very obvious assassination, there was a radioactive trail left all across london by the assassins who poisoned alexander litvinenko with polonium. there have been more deaths connected to the russian state in britain since then, the british police has treated them all was not suspicious after what intelligence service tellers is a desire on the part of the british government not to antagonise the kremlin. litvinenko case cause ten yea rs of kremlin. litvinenko case cause ten years of diplomatic pain in terms of worsening relations with russia. there is a desire to preserve russian investment and to avoid antagonising the kremlin. there has been a concern about russian interference in the west, not least in democratic processes. we know russia interfered in the us

he was released and flown to the uk as part of a swap for 10 russian spies, including the model anna chapmansergei skripal and his relationship with british security services? from what i have heard and read he was turned in the mid nineties. he handed these names over and was caught and was prosecuted and sentenced to a long jail term in russia. then he was lucky enough to be released as part of the spy swap for the russian illegal in america. since then he has been living quietly in the uk. probably pensioned off by mi6. the interesting question is, if he has been here for the last eight years what the work was he involved in because that might have bearing on what has happened to him. at that the list of very good questions for which we still need answers. one of oui’ correspondence was which we still need answers. one of our correspondence was in moscow, saying the russian response was why would we want to target somebody like surrogate scriptural who has served time in a russianjail and has been by vladimir putin. might it be to do with that eight—year period where he was living in the

the ten accused by the us of espionage, among them anna chapman, were flown from america, and in theld war traditions, the two parties of spies crossed on the tarmac in austria. asked about who might have betrayed this american spy ring, president putin vented his fury publicly. translation: traitors will kick the bucket, trust me. these people betrayed their friends, their brothers—in—arms. whatever they got in exchange for it, those 30 pieces of silver they were given, they will choke on them. as for skripal, he flew from vienna to britain, where he began a life in exile. police were today securing the house in salisbury where the former

as part of the two thousand and ten spy swap with a russian alleged legals which includes anna chapman who went back to russia so of course russia would have known exactly what he knew they would have put him through the mill in terms of getting any intelligence ask him and they would not have released him if they thought he was still a threat you know then of course when he arrived in the u.k. he would have been debriefed for weeks by m i six before allowed to go free and live a life and you know he lived his life quite openly so this is the key question and i've been saying this ever since the story broke what on earth was he involved in in the last eight years since he's been living in the u.k. who was he working with who were its contacts and that might give the investigators a clue to who might indeed have perpetrated this attack i don't think it's going to be a russian state retaliatory thing i just can't see the motivation and i don't either . you know charles i mean what i mean there's there's some speculation there's so many people that have their own theories i think that the