litvinenko heads the oldest technical university in russia. it's a very prestigious job, and it is alleged he got it in 1994 thanks to vladimir putin, who was at the time deputy mayor of st. petersburg. it's also alleged litvinenko helped putin with his doctoral dissertation. he is now a manager of the president's bid to be re-elected on march the 18th. president putin: it is nice to know that we have engineering universities of such high quality in russia. reporter: transparency claimed that litvinenko misappropriated funds. he is now suing for defamation the anti-corruption ngo and some journalists who reported on the allegations. he's demanding damages totaling close to a million euros. we wanted to film the whole hearing, but the judge would not allow that. maxim: mr. litvinenko is a public figure. the public needs to know what he is involved in. is there any evidence of corruption? that is what needs to be addressed in the trial. irina: mr. litvinenko is a very important person in st. petersburg, very influential. i might be mistaken, perhaps the media will report on this, but how will they be able to if the hearings are held behind close

the rector of the university vladimir litvinenko signed a contract with his wife's company. so usually that's the only thing you know and behold his company ended up owning apartments worth the two hundred thirty million euros. they were built on the plant belonging to the mining university its rector should be doing everything in his power to benefit the university. but the litvinenko evidently confuses his personal interests with those of the university and those of the state. thank you. that's the way he operates says his daughter litvinenko. we went to see her in the latvian capital riga. she says her father uses public officials for his own purposes. many people who work for various government bodies were given apartments i saw myself how it works with the prices of very low and fight purchase contracts are drawn up they pretend to purchases were involved from the start in the construction projects and they pay a nominal price and suddenly their condo ainus. who had a falling out with her father in twenty eleven she was then a member of the st petersburg city parliament

allegedly in the litvinenko case? vladimir putin is a creature of his secret police. secret police.liest of holies. he speaks of them in supernatural terms. in supernatural terms. people who betrays them will be killed. killed. against either us or those who trust us. against either us or those who trust us. us. countries in the west have two incidents like this? incidents like this? ripped off the russian people in the russian state. russian state. as a gangster with a gangster regime. regime. so far he knows the west will protect all of his dirty deals. will protect all of his dirty deals. difficult our investigations like this? this? just how difficult it is to get to the bottom of cases like this. yes. those cases were never adequately solved. solved. assassinated in the course of investigating vladimir putin. investigating vladimir putin. my friend didn't maryland, his case was never solve either. was never solve either. they are extremely difficult to prove. extremely difficult to prove. you very much, michael waller, from washington. illness at the age of 80. suitcase for air

vladimir putin, after alexander litvinenko, some spies we re alexander litvinenko, some spies were expelled the ambassador was not and the links were not severed and it is hellfire we have pushed this, which was not enough. we can i'iow this, which was not enough. we can now see potentially that if this is indeed russia, what he can get away with. nothing has been proved but if it was proved that the kremlin was involved, public pressure, given a british police ban has been caught up in this, could get very powerful. it did take a very long time for that link between alexander litvinenko, even though it is similar, you think, who else could it be? why would the north koreans be going after a russian spy? but it took years for the enquiry to come back and actually point a finger at somebody with close links.|j interviewed chris bryant on the commons foreign affairs committee and he said that the city because it took so long to start the enquiry in the first place. staying with the daily telegraph... the battle to raise cash holding back female entrepreneurs. in relation to international wome

litvinenko? the inquiry in britain into his death found that you had poisoned him, probably on the orders of vladimirenko's death. there was an attempt to accuse russia and a russian citizen, me, of poisoning him in britain with polonium. as for the kremlin, well, it's been saying very little today about sergei skripal. president putin's spokesman told me earlier, "we have no information about what happened. we cannot comment." although he did add, it was a "tragic situation." but catching spies has become one of vladimir putin's priorities. yesterday, the former kgb officer praised russia's security service for uncovering 397 spies last year. the kremlin leader has never hidden his contempt for those who betray the motherland for money. translatiopn: 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. yet sergei skripal wasn't an obvious target for the kremlin. translation: there are certain rules that the secret services keep to. when there's an

litvinenko. the enquiry in britain into his death found that you had poisoned him, probably on the orders of vladimir no official investigation into litvinenko's death. there was an attempt to accuse russia and a russian citizen, me, of poisoning him in britain with polonium. as for the kremlin, well, it's been saying very little today about sergei skripal. president putin's spokesman told me earlier that, "we have no information about what happened. we cannot comment." although he did add it was a tragic situation. but catching spies has become one of vladimir putin's priorities. yesterday, he congratulated russia's security service, the fsb. it uncovered 397 spies last year. spy—mania, and now a former double agent collapsing in britain. moscow denies any connection, but it can only add to the chill in relations between the uk and russia. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. sergei skripal has been living in the uk for several years now. he came to britain as part of a high—profile spy swap involving russia and the united states in 2010. so if he has been poisoned, why would he be targeted now? our s

litvinenko? the enquiry in britain into his death found that you had poisoned him, probably on the orders of vladimirtigation into litvinenko's death. there was an attempt to accuse russia and a russian citizen, me, of poisoning him in britain with polonium. as for the kremlin, well, it's been saying very little today about sergei skripal. president putin's spokesman told me earlier, "we have no information about what happened. "we cannot comment. " although he did add it was a tragic situation. but catching spies has become one of vladimir putin's priorities. yesterday, he congratulated russia's security service, the fsb. it uncovered 397 spies last year. spy—mania, and now a former double agent collapsing in britain. moscow denies any connection, but it can only add to the chill in relations between the uk and russia. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: a success story from india — how the country has managed to dramatically reduce the number of children forced into marriage. and this bottle from 1886 was found ona and this bottle f

litvinenko? the enquiry in britain into his death found that you had poisoned him, probably on the orders of vladimirslation: there was no official investigation into litvinenko's death. there was an attempt to accuse russia and a russian citizen, me, of poisoning him in britain with polonium. as for the kremlin, well, it's been saying very little today about sergei skripal. president putin's spokesman told me earlier, "we have no information "about what happened. "we cannot comment. " although he did add it was a tragic situation. but catching spies has become one of vladimir putin's priorities. yesterday, he congratulated russia's security service, the fsb. it uncovered 397 spies last year. spy—mania, and now a former double agent collapsing in britain. moscow denies any connection, but it can only add to the chill in relations between the uk and russia. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. the foreign secretary chose to threaten russia with retribution. looks like another anti—russian campaign has already been written. strong words from the russians. why would the pardon someone and then height in t

litvinenko? the enquiry in britain into his death found that you had poisoned him, probably on the orders of vladimirn: there was no official investigation into litvinenko's death. there was an attempt to accuse russia and a russian citizen, me, of poisoning him in britain with polonium. as for the kremlin, well, it's been saying very little today about sergei skripal. president putin's spokesman told me earlier, "we have no information about what happened. we cannot comment." although he did add it was a tragic situation. but catching spies has become one of vladimir putin's priorities. yesterday, he congratulated russia's security service, the fsb. it uncovered 397 spies last year. spy—mania, and now a former double agent collapsing in britain. moscow denies any connection, but it can only add to the chill in relations between the uk and russia. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. let's go to salisbury and speak to 0lga ivshina from the bbc‘s russian service. you were speaking to relatives of sergei skripal earlier today. what do they believe has happened to him? they are very cautious because they

litvinenko? the inquiry in britain into his death found that you had poisoned him, probably on the orders of vladimirslation: there was no official investigation into litvinenko‘s death. there was an attempt to accuse russia and a russian citizen, me, of poisoning him in britain with polonium. as for the kremlin, well, it's been saying very little today about sergei skripal. president putin's spokesman told me earlier, "we have no information about what happened. we cannot comment." although he did add, it was a "tragic situation." but catching spies has become one of vladimir putin's priorities. yesterday, the former kgb officer praised russia's security service for uncovering 397 spies last year. the kremlin leader has never hidden his contempt for those who betray the motherland for money. "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." yet sergei skripal wasn't an obvious target for the kremlin. translation: there are certain rules tha

litvinenko already. other deaths have been issued to the russian state. —— have been attributed. vladimirders. so it is not surprising that he is trying to put a smokescreen. in the case of litvinenko, it has been proven in a court of law the armed reasonable doubt in five months of hearings, and there was a ruling by the britishjudge that the and there was a ruling by the british judge that the russian state has murdered litvinenko with this radioactive poison. russian agents came to london from moscow and brought the agent with them. so anybody can go on the internet and see that. the same judge ruled that vladimir putin is likely be person to have given the orders. with regards to sergei skripal, the main — the main piece of evidence is this nerve agent that is only available toa nerve agent that is only available to a few states, and russia is a suspect. what is known to the british government, i don't know, but i have no reason not to trust the british government when they say it is vladimir putin, and i have every reason not to trust vladimir putin when he says it is not him. of cou

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vladimir putin. several were poisoned and short. alexander litvinenko, a traitor to the president, poisoned. ne simple fact. you mentioned alexander litvinenko, but you didn't mention another who died there. you didn't mention another man who died hugein didn't mention another man who died huge in london recently. and of course, i mentioned another who died. what is the common factor around that? there are critics of vladimir putin. and all the investigations were classified. within that access —— we did not have access to any investigation, any papers. so, my question, in this country, the people who were linked to the secret services and to know that alexander litvinenko work for the secret service is, and others, who we don't know if they were agents. we still have to understand that. all of them died and all of them, the investigation information and all the papers, they were classified and they are still classified. the investigation was done and the people were punished. if you did the decisions of the court, all the people were punished. and this is the big difference. in our case, the

litvinenko in 10u6 2006. a inquiry determining that vladimir putin probably approved the murder. .r opponent of putin fairly survived a poisoning in 2000. striple was released from princess as part of a spy swap that included anna cham arrested in the u.s. in 2010. british counterterrorism authorities are leading the skripal investigation. but right now for all of the suspicions of russian involvement, no one really knows what's going on here. abc news, london. >>> federal prosecutors say so-called pharma bro martin should get 15 years behind bears for kmeeting investors in hedge funds. ten times what his defense lawyers says he deserves. attorneys for the pharmaceutical company ceo tried to portrayed him as a misunderstood eccentric. the defendant asked the judge for leniency. he has been known ordered to forfeit $7.3 million including his famous album. >>> the mayor of nashville admitted to an affair with her bodyguard and today pled guilty to stealing $10,000 in city funds. abc news reporter has more. >> reporter: she may be spoiling but this is nashville's now former mayor in a

decided, that alexander litvinenko was killed on the express command of president putin, when we just shrugged our shoulders and tried to maintain good diplomatic relations, what vladimirat he's going to keep doing his keepy uppies and everyone will smile. if it is established very soon that russia is behind this, prince william would be able to go to the world cup, will he, should the football team go there, what should we do in response. i have argued for a long time that the award of the world cup to russia was completely corrupt and it should never have gone to russia. i'm sure that the british government will want to work with other countries to try and see what pressure we can exert through a variety of different means. dictators and people who run brutal regimes for many, many years have a lwa ys regimes for many, many years have always resorted to sport as one of the means of gaining everybody‘s attention and showing off their country to good effect. i think will wa nt to country to good effect. i think will want to puncture that. but far more seriously than that, at this juncture, we need to look out, if there is a nerve agent in this country, has all of it be

litvinenko, pois poisoned in 2006. a british inquiry determining that russian president vladimir putin probably approved the murder. another opponent of putin, ukraininan politician viktor yuschenko, barely survived a massive dioxin poisoning in 2004. 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 russia involvement, no one really knolls what's going on here. david? >> terry moran from london tonight. >>> 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, that for the first time ever, kim jong-un face to face with south korean

linking up the events this week in wiltshire and alexander litvinenko, we had a judge led enquiries that said that vladimired. and he has one core belief, that the west cannot be trusted. as a consequence, he feels himself liberated to do whatever he feels is necessary. so if the notion is out there, and it's out there in this country, and the russians are scathing about the way the british media and politicians talk about the possibility they could be behind this so soon, but do you think he quite likes that that isa you think he quite likes that that is a subject talks about around the world ? is a subject talks about around the world? it's is a subject talks about around the world ? it's hard is a subject talks about around the world? it's hard to imagine, because in normal circumstances, to be charged with murdering somebody in this fashion on foreign shores, foremost leaders, you think that could only be bad. domestically, it could only be bad. domestically, it could not be bad for him. i agree with your thesis. in a sense it goes to projecting his image as a hard man. that said, and he gave a speech

alexander litvinenko setup an enquiry which said that on the balance of probability, litvinenko was killed on the orders of vladimirredit with the russian society. so i think we need a broader scope for information and not to treat everything in this highly secretive way. it just everything in this highly secretive way. itjust doesn't everything in this highly secretive way. it just doesn't work with russians. let me bring in anna if i may, deputy editor in chief of russia today, the russian state broadcaster. what do you think will happen now? well, in terms of the position of our channel and our position of our channel and our position in the uk, we are still remaining hopeful there will not be impacted. we have been operating as a good—faith broadcaster, abiding by the terms of the regulator within the terms of the regulator within the country, and covering vital stories, important stories. some people may not like our editorial line, but we have been a very important voice in the uk editorial landscape and we have even had politicians coming onto our channel 4 years as a way to reach their own constituencies. s

investigate the murder of litvinenko, and i imagine if this turns out to be a similar case and it would be naive to expect any help from moscow at all. he was officially pardoned by vladimir—— few years. the connection to litvinenko, there was a lot of speculation at his death that it was caused by his relationship with russia. but it was probably because of the spanish services and mafia services and bridges services and activities in this country. —— british services. it is more likely they will look at what he has been doing in the past few years, maybe things he revealed about his work in russia that might be uncomfortable to currently exist in russia's state programme, rather than in russia's state programme, rather tha n staff in russia's state programme, rather than staff in the past which russia is happy to forget about. -- stuff. thank you so much for that. it is the front page on many papers. we will continue to talk about it on brea kfast. will continue to talk about it on breakfast. something else we are talking about is trampolines. the last few years have seen a boom in the popularity of trampoline parks across the uk, from just three in 2014 to more than 20

vladimir putin or his country's security services those allegations often included state involvement in political assassinations killings of civilians in bombings and running multi million dollar corruption rackets alexander litvinenko a former russian intelligence officer who later worked with m i six in the u.k. died in november two thousand and six just weeks after drinking tea that was poisoned with radioactive polonium a pretty public inquiry found that he was killed by two russian agents probably with the approval of president putin russian businessman alexander pena polygyny died in twenty twelve after collapsing while jogging near his home in sorry his death was at first attributed to natural causes but an autopsy later found traces of poison in his stomach he'd been investigating a huge money laundering scheme connected to russian officials and brought a special. skee a former russian billionaire and vocal critic of president putin was found dead in his home near london in twenty thirteen police could not determine if he'd committed suicide or was murdered or the poisoning of the russian father and daughter comes at a time when russian relations with the u.k. or the west are at their worst level since the e

litvinenko. as i said before, it almost certainly was the russian state that did that. the trail was so obvious. and vladimirrtainly perceives that it is being demonised. there is a problem that we have very poor relations ever since the alexander litvinenko case with russia. and we actually need better relations with russia. we are not dependent on russian energy. we get about 15% of our energy from russia. but when we ran out of gas in russia the only country that could provide us with an emergency supply of liquid natural gas was russia. as we are heading towards brexit we found out in the past that the americans don't really care about us very much thanks to the tariffs donald trump imposed. and then the issue of the open skies thing. we don't want to be going around making enemies. the government, if it does turn out there is russian involvement, the government is faced with a real problem here because it has to be tough on the one hand but it can't be seen to be alienating people it might have to trade with later on too openly. this is all within the context of presidential elections in russia in the n

litvinenko the former f.s.b. officer back in two thousand and ten who claim that he been poisoned by a radioactive substance polonium two ten under the orders of the kremlin and president vladimir putin the police here are asking the media and the public not to draw their own conclusions from what has happened here they say there is no public risk of contamination there have been sites of specialist offices in biohazard suits in the center of the city around the park bench where the two individuals were found i am here in the hospital but the situation now is very calm there appears to be no risk to the public although one restaurant in the center of songs of three did close its doors and they said that they were shutting as a precaution more information those expected as the day progresses. the u.s. secretary of state is set to begin his first official five day trip to africa rex tillerson is due in chad djibouti ethiopia kenya and nigeria and is expected to meet russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov who's on a similar mission rory chances more from moscow. and more they'll be plenty of this in the coming days russia's foreign minister shaking hands in africa the message he

litvinenko the former f.s.b. officer back in two thousand and ten who claim that he'd been poisoned by a radioactive substance polonium two ten under the orders of the kremlin and president vladimir putin the police here are asking the media of the public not to draw their own conclusions from what has happened here they say there is no public risk of contamination there have been sites of specialist offices in biohazard suits in the center of the city around the park bench where the two individuals were found i am here in the hospital but the situation now is very calm there appears to be no risk to the public although one restaurant in the center of songs of three did close its doors and they said that they were shutting as a precaution more information those expected as the day progresses. a surge in support for populist and far right parties in sunday's elections has left italy once again in political deadlock the euro skeptic league party has been the best performer among a group of right wing parties collectively they won thirty seven percent of the strongest single party was another populist movement five star with thirty two percent the embalmer reports from rome. just fi

there had been a british inquiry after the litvinenko murder that argentina proved that there was a link that the murder had been approved by the president by vladimir putin and then what happened after that well not a lot and i think both sides didn't want to take it further and maybe we're paying the price of that because the russians feel they're free to do what they want in this country and i think that's a mistake for us as it was it's always about balance of. having any kind of action like this in your case all isn't acceptable at the same time russia is obviously a very powerful country so what do you think the u.k. could do if this case is indeed proven to be linked there are lots of things we could do but the financial axe we could do more ninety corruption we could bring in more of the magnitsky acts that the canadians and the americans have got we could help the ukrainians more we could support more the baltic we could work more closely with european partners we could just get the information out about russian on conventional war so there's potentially lots to do what we shouldn't do is grandstand and do just your politics for the sake of

back in moscow, vladimir putin is almost guaranteed to win yet another term in office in the presidential election later this month. the british inquiry into the death of alexander litvinenkobably ordered the assassination, something which the kremlin denies. the question now is whether there has been another killing in this country ordered by the russian state. let's cross over tojeremy cook in devizes in wiltshire, where police held a news conference earlier. police say they are keeping an open mind on this. are there any toxicology reports? wiltshire police have effectively handed this investigation over to the counterintelligence unit at the metropolitan police which suggests they are thinking this may lead in that direction, but at the same time they are stressing they have not established any crime committed, certainly not an act of terrorism. but toxicology is crucial to this. how did these two individuals become so sick so quickly? that is the main focus of attention. at the moment, we can confirm government laboratories, not so far away, are analysing samples. if they come back positive for a toxic substance, i think that will lead the investigation in the directi

back in moscow, vladimir putin is almost guaranteed to win yet another term in office in the presidential election later this month. the british inquiry into the death of alexander litvinenkoo the police investigation. as you are aware, we declared a major incident yesterday after a man and woman were taken seriously ill in 62 on sunday. they both remain in a critical condition and our thoughts and best wishes remain with theirfamilies during thoughts and best wishes remain with their families during this difficult time. a full multi agency response was activated and currently involves public health england, the nhs, local authorities in both swindon and wiltshire and a wide range of partners. this has been a fast—paced investigation and our focus has partners. this has been a fast—paced investigation and ourfocus has been on trying to establish what has caused these people to become critically ill. and whether or not criminal activity has taken place. since sunday, we had access to a wide range of specialist resources and services that have been working alongside us. you will be aware this afternoon the metropolitan police have confirmed that due to the unusual circumstan

back in moscow, vladimir putin is almost guaranteed to win yet another term in office in the presidential election later this month. the british enquiry into the death of alexander litvinenkobably ordered the assassination, something the kremlin denies. the question now is whether there has been another killing in this country ordered by the russian state. richard galpin, bbc news. in a moment, we'll speak to our moscow correspondent sarah rainsford. but first to our home affairs correspondent tom symonds, who is in salisbury. tom, bring us up to date with the police investigation. well, i think we are at a critical point in that investigation for several reasons. firstly, i understand senior officers are meeting about now to discuss the future of the investigation, will wiltshire police, a relatively small force, continued to lead it? as we have seen, there are possible political ramifications for international politics. it may be the nation's counterterror operation takes over the lead in this investigation. secondly, what was the substance that left a father and his daughter in sucha that left a father and his daughter in such a terrible state on a park bench over there