we can speak now to sir tony brenton, who was the british ambassador to russia from 2004 to 2008. he's also a director of the russo specialised laboratory. as an keir starmer has just said, the parallels with the skripal attack a very strong. i am not convinced that putin himself authorised this. there should be pressure on russia to launch an internal investigation. that said, we should not be too confident that an internal investigation is going to produce very much. the precedent here, where in saudi arabia they did launch an investigation and itjust produced some minor figures. launch an investigation and itjust produced some minorfigures. that is where we start from. just in terms of what the kremlin is saying, they have said that there was no reason to blame the russian state and no reason to accuse russia, cautioning the west against jumping reason to accuse russia, cautioning the west againstjumping to conclusions and imposing sanctions. should there be more transparent information about what germany says it has found ? information about what germany says it has found? i think... the russians are legitimat