mr. litvinenko. this was long before mr. litvinenko was out of favor.then in 1998 there was a press conference in moscow with litvinenko who had just left the federal security service, announces there was a plot against boris berezovsky, a plot arranged by the k. s. g.. there was one little problem. the director of the k. s.b. was a man called putin. according to all available evidence including berezovsky's testimony that he gave in many different forms it was berezovsky who helped putin to become russian prime minister. he thought putin was plotting to kill him. berezovsky had to be plotting putin so apparently the whole press conference was a farce and there were many other things. obviously polonium would kill someone in london. if your assumption is that the russians expected that it would be a kind of discovery than you may say it was the dramatic plot of the century but if that is the case of not quite clear what was so important about mr. litvinenko to take chances. if the russians thought that they would not be caught why would they use poloniu

mr. litvinenko. that was long before mr. litvinenko was out of favor and then in 1998 there was a press conference in moscow. mr. litvinenko who had just left the federal security service announces that there was a plot against boris purrs off ski, a plot to -- there was one little problem with that. a man called vladimir putin and only later according to all available evidence the berezovsky testimony, it was berezovsky who helped putin to become russian prime minister. he thought that putin was plotting to kill him. the whole press conference was a farce. there were many other things. at obviously polonium killed somebody in london and appear some shin is the russians expected that it would be a kind of discovered then you may say it was a plot but if that is the case it's not clear what was so important about mr. litvinenko to take chances. the russian soldiers use polonium. there were many cheaper and easier ways to get rid of this little kgb hoodlum. so there was a major informational scandal and huge uncertainty that th

mr. litvinenko were highly critical of what was happening in russia and what mr. putin was doing and mr. putin didn't like that. the other thing that mr. litvinenko was doing was investigating the murder of a journalist. she died, again shot into one of our apartment to begin it severely been resolve. i think one of the problems here is that there were a number of rather high profile murders in russia, most of them in russia in the 1990s and since it, particularly the 1990s a journalist, of businesspeople and none of these things were ever results. sometimes they would pick up somewhat, at one point was yeltsin's minister of nationality and i think that adds to this tendency in the west to assume the worst about everything. just because they have insulted many of these high profile cas cases. >> i thought for a long time actually that the russians, the russian government could not be involved in the killing of litvinenkno because i could not see sufficiently good reason. now i'm totally agnostic on this and the reason is the testimony of the man who you may rememb