this type of pulonium is largely manufactured in russia.any people are questioning why there was no tawsmtion don't when he traveled to france. there was no toms don autopsy dd they didn't request it. if there was who items you bo think that was something pos important to. he was taken to france and that is where he died. >> you would expect glypy enthe of air 2359 and given the misser mysterious circumstances would is around his doat. if i can add the biggest that wl length is the time lean. it's-for-r tofer to porn to nots sophistocated to trap this. >> i think we had to raise questions from the russian experts recently saying there was no indication that will was pulonium involved. the russian and the french are looking at a nine year later autopsy of arafat. and there was an inanial report that the russians said we didn't find any pew he pulonium. it's a eight page report and it's going to be translate by a translation service. what i find suburb just even if it was gone monks th done done e leadership there are unlikely any punitive me

he was killed by pulonium poisoning.ou can figure out did he administer it himself, not likely and there for you can junjudge who was a reasonable candidate. why wasn't it ordered by the authorities before. surely if someone dice with diea poisoning like that you surely would have known. >> this was 2004 of very few people had heard of pulonium then. until the alleged russian spy case that was killed in london if people didn't know about it of. >> if he was sick and something was going on. >> it was a mystery and we didn't know it. and isn't it staggering that an autopsy wasn't undertake ebb at that--under taken at the time ad a ongoing palestinian investigation did nothing over the years. >> we have plenty m mo more to talk about. we'll talk about that more in the coming days. >> you wil can see the full investigation, killing ai arafat will be broadcast on november 10th. you can read the full scientific report too on our website, al.coal jazeera got come. the coalition took control of the capital earlier this year. sin

a agent died in 2007 of pulonium poisoning. and his case showed us how tiny quantities of the stuff can do dangerous stuff to the bod. body. it's only when you ingest it it begins to do damage. the alpha radiation attacks your organs and chut o shutting themn and then your white blood cells fall off. why didn't they check him when he died. it was not part of the standard collect list. >> check-list. >> even if you were to expect radiation poisoning a typical geiger counter would not pick up the radiation. who could have done this? >> really almost any industrialized nation has a certain amount of access to pulonium. but in tiny quantities. >> but for someone to gather enough to do harm to somebody would require deep connection ex-s anex-sex-saround center mo. >> in washington state the voters have rejected a ballot initiative regarding agai labelf genetically modified foods. >> the nay eas's say this one is over, but the yeah's say not quite yet. what they are counting on is king county. own three counties are approving this in

he was poisoned with pulonium. his assumption was and the assumption of of many people that he was poisoned by the agents of the ar russian state. it comes from a weapons program or from a nuclear power producing program. and so the assumption was that because pulonium 210 had been used, very effective poison with no previous cases of it non knoo have been used as a fo boy sew t it was a state actor. if arafat's death is linked to pe pulonium 210 there is some state actor some where. there is a long list of suspects. >> there is a long list of suspects? there are many countries that could be producing this. >> there are many countries that are producing it and there are many people that wanted arafat dead for one reason or another. air fa arafat said he survived 40 assassination attempts. >> there were conversationings in the prime minister's olfson oolfson -- office on how they would like to get rid of him. he had business dealings with shady characters and there are those in the palestinian security services and

arafat from a pulonium poisoning. we have very, very limited experience of how pulonium affects anyone. >> the russian journalist, in that case, he lost his hair? >> that's absolutely correct. alexander lupenanko was certainly poisoned by pulonium. that, we know for sure. if you look at picture of him before and after, he most certainly lost all of his facial share. studies of animals show they lose their hair. the fact mr. arafat did not is suspicious but we know so little, perhaps he responded differently from mr. lipinenko. >> davidrenner from columbia university, appreciate your time. >> you are welcome. >> unprecedented hearing, the u.k. spy chief spoke in a televised public event for the first time today. it responded to charges they invaded the privacy of bred issue citizenship on the heels of documents leaked by edward snowden. they insisted they are protecting britain's freedom and democracy. >> the leaks from snowed deny have been damaging. they are adversaries are rubbing their hands with glee. al-qaeda is

the french scientists found pulonium 210, 18 times higher thanormal. >> first they found high amountsf plutonium 210 i in his cloths and now they found it inside of his bens. the--bones r the science. >> thif i was a judge and jury this is absolutely stone cold certain. this is beyond any down in my opinion it was pulonium that cased the death of yasser arafat. >> for widow and daughter it's 100% proof. when they came with the results. he told me he just died of i will not stop. me and my daughter will go to all courts in all over the world to punish who did this crime. >> now that i have proof he was poisoned, i have a little relief. >> the final closure will be knowing who killed him and the momotive and ambition behind it. >> mosh than 40 years of research gave scientists the average apartment of plutonium in the body. what was found in his hips and ribs is the highest ever pub liberalled. >> thpublished. the level in yasser arafat is thathatis 18 to 32 timings 3 t. the soil had decanadia decayed f confidence 1 to 6 the science tises say the data support poisoning at level five. th

even if we had done the occupies, the pulonium was not discovered as a poison. it was only discovered when died in london. >> why did you not allowed yasser arafat's physician for many years, why did you not let him who knew this man better medically than anybody else near him when he was dying that's not true, that's not true at all. actually we had to leave--we had to leave for paris. that's not true. we had 50 french doctors around him, and we had other doctors, and it was at the hospital-- >> can i just tell you something that he says? these are his words. i would be usually summoned to attend to him immediately even when he had a cold, but when his situation was deteriorating i was not called. why is that? >> i don't want to say anything because he has died. >> so you maintain it was personal rather than professional. >> it's not professional. the french had their own rules in the hospital. they want to examine, and they don't want anybody to watch them in this case. when you go into hospital, and you give confidence to the french doctors, only the french d

his widow believes he was poisoned by radioactive pulonium. the leader felt ill before his death in 2004 but no autopsy was performed. last november a team of swiss scientists exhumed his body and now say findings support poisoning. his widow did not say any country or person, but she said he had many enemies and was the victim of a shocking crime. >>> now to an nfl great. tony dorsett has dementia. the hall of famer says the news hit him like a ton of bricks. according to espn, three other former players have also been diagnosed, including leonard marshall. >>> president obama is once again finding himself playing defense on the affordable care act. this morning he's back in washington after a trip to texas. it's the largest state refusing to participate in the health care law. and while there, he got an earful from both sides. nbc tracie potts joins us live from washington with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we learned the white house is rolling out more money for people who don't have health insurance so they can see a docto

they found pulonium, the allegations triggered the effort to have his body exhumed last year. >> first they found unnormally high amounts of polonium 10 in his clothes then found a high level of the substance in his bones. the scientists say their data clearly favors the poisoning of palestinian's historic leader with up to 83% confidence. the arafat family received the result it's from their lawyer along with an analysis along with professor of forensic analyst david barclay. >> this is beyond any doubt if my opinion that it was polonium that killed yasser arafat. >> for wife and daughter it was proof. >> it was if they just told me he died. i will not stop. me and my daughter will go to all courts all over the world to punish who did this crime. >> now that i have proof that he was poisoned i feel a bit relief, actually. a final closure for me will be knowing who killed him and the motive and the ambition behind it. >> reporter: more than 40 years of research has given scientists knowledge of polunium in skeletons but what was found in arafat was highest ever published. >> everyone h