initially posted on march twenty second and now this is by world leading experts at the defense science and technology laboratory at porton down made clear that this was a military great novacek nerve agent produced in russia now a couple of days before that boris johnson the u.k. foreign secretary also said that there is no doubt that russia was behind what happened you argue that their source of shock is russia how did you manage to find that out so quickly when i look at the the evidence from the people from from port and they were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy myself i said are you sure and he said there's no doubt well it seems that all of that was going well until when the chief executive of porton down came out and said that not only were the scientists not able to prove that the nerve agent came from russia but generally speaking they didn't know what the source was we have not verified the press a source you have not been able to establish that this was made in russia as i said it's our job to provide aid you know the scientific evidence that identifies for the particular nerve a

initially posted on march twenty second and now this is by world leading experts at the defense science and technology laboratory at portadown made clear that this was a military great nerve agent produce. in russia now a couple of days before that word johnson the u.k. foreign secretary also said that there is no doubt that russia was behind what happened you argue that their source of the chalk is russia how did you manage to find that out so quickly when i look at the the evidence from the people from from port and they were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy myself i said are you sure and he said there's no doubt well it seems that all of that was going well until when the chief executive of porton down came out and said that not only were the scientists not able to prove that the nerve agent came from russia but generally speaking they didn't know what the source was we have not verified the precise source you have not been able to establish that this was made in russia as i said it's our job to provide eight you know the scientific evidence that identifies for the particular nerve agent

out and say hold on there's no evidence and now this is by we're living experts at the defense science and technology laborde three and porton down made clear that this was a military grade not be choked nerve agent produced in russia we have not verified the precise source you have not been able to establish that this was made in russia as i said it's our job to provide you know the scientific evidence that identifies for the particular nerve agent is there to be clear you're not able at porton down to say where it is from we haven't yet been able to do that well that's embarrassing alright keep calm first google back on your word and just to be sure delete any old tweets then riposte experts who say the opposite of what you said. our experts have precisely identified in their region as novacek it is not and has never been our responsibility to confirm the source of the agent now pretend that nothing happened which is hard to do in the into that really the brits ended up having to explain themselves and conveniently scapegoated the poor fellow who transcribed the briefing one of the tweets was trunc

come out and say hold on there's no evidence and i was his by were living experts at the defense science and technology laboratory at portadown made clear that this was a military grade novacek nerve agent produced in russia. that's embarrassing alright keep calm first google back on your word and just to be sure delete any old tweets then riposte experts who say the opposite of what you said our experts have precisely identified in their region as novacek it is not and has never been our responsibility to confirm the source of the agent now pretend that nothing happened which is hard to do in the end to that really the brits ended up having to explain themselves and conveniently scapegoated the poor fellow who transcribed the briefing one of the tweets was truncated and did not accurately report her master's words we removed this tweet you remember what i said about scapegoating he really did but barge johnson himself had said almost the same thing said it's on video you argue that their source of is russia how did you manage to find it out so quickly when i look at the the evidence i mean the people

based on the positive identification of this chemical agent, by world leading experts of defense science and technologyoratory, our knowledge that russia has produced this agent, and would still be capable of doing so, russia's records of conduct ting state-sponsored assassinations and our , assessment that russia views some defectors as legitimate targets for assessing nations the government has concluded , that it is highly likely that russia was responsible for the act against sergei and yulia skripal. >> jeremy corbyn began by condemning the attack. he called for continued dialogue, not cutting off all contact. but his later comments drew heckling and criticism. >> we are all familiar with the huge fortunes often acquired in the most dubious circumstances in russia. sometimes connected with criminal elements, sheltering in london and trying to buy political influence in british party politics. there has been over 800,000 pounds worth of donations to the conservative party, to the conservative party from russian oligarchs and their associates. >> there are certain circumstances where we have politic

leads the world and in company with our allies and partners of the western nations in many areas of technology with regard to certain areas of defense and science and technology we just don't anymore that is a hard thing to say and a hard thing to hear. but the fact of the matter is that the area of hydro sonic to pick one both china and russia are observably ahead of our current state not of where we could be but our current state of practice that we are playing catch-up in the area of microelectronics from the early '90s everybody bought microelectronics because they were the best. they didn't buy them because we made people buy them but because we have the best stuff. now 80% of microelectronics if i understand it correctly, come from taiwan. not that it isn't a reliable partner but they are not coming from america and taiwan is uncomfortably close to a nation which in many ways has declared itself to be an adversary of the united states. meanwhile world war ii adversaries are now allies. this is an unfortunate turn of events but something we must pay attention to. microelectronics is everything we do in a way today it did not even do 25 yea

world and in company with our allies and partners in the western nations, still leads the world in many areas of technology with regard to certain areas in defense, science and technology, really we just don't anymore. that's a hard thing to say and a hard thing to hear. but the fact of the matter is, that in area of hypersonics, to pick one, both china and russia are observebly ahead of where our current state of practice is. it's not ahead of where we could be, but it's ahead of our current state of practice and we're playing catch-up ball. in the area of micro electronics in the time of which i spoke of, early '90s, everybody bought american micro electronics because they were the best. they didn't buy them because we were making people buy them. they bought them because we had the best stuff. now 80% of micro electronics if i understand the figure correctly come from taiwan, not that taiwan is not a reliable partner, but they're not coming from america and taiwan is uncomfortably close to a nation which in many ways has declared itself to be an adversary of the united states. a world war ii ally which is not an adversary. meanwhile our world war ii a

out and say hold on there's no evidence and now this is by we're living experts at the defense science and technologyboratory at porton down made clear that this was a military grade novacek nerve agent produced in russia we have not verified the precise source you have not been able to establish that this was made in russia as i said it's our job to provide you know the scientific evidence that identifies what the particular nerve agent is there to be clear you're not able at porton down to say where it is from we haven't yet been able to do that well that's embarrassing all right keep calm first goo back on your word and just to be sure delete any old tweets then riposte experts who say the opposite of what you said our experts have precisely identified in their region as navi chuck it is not and has never been our responsibility to confirm the source of the agent now pretend that nothing happened which is hard to do in the end to that really the brits ended up having to explain themselves and conveniently scapegoated the poor fellow who transcribed the briefing one of the tweets was truncated and