This is Salisbury famous
for its Medieval Cathedral
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with the tallest spire in
England reaching 123 meters
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into the sky.
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Salisbury also has the
oldest working clock from the
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14th century and an original
copy of the Magna Carta.
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Salisbury is a picturesque
cathedral city nestled
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at the junction of five
rivers in Wiltshire, England.
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Usually, the city is a
hive of tourist activity and is
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best known for its
many historic landmarks.
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But on a cold midwinter's day
in March 2018 Salisbury became
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the scene of the most
intriguing and terrifying crimes
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of the past decade.
On the 4th of March, 2018
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Sergei Skripal and his daughter
Yulia drove into the town center
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and parked in the upper
level car park in The Maltings.
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They then made their
way to the Bishop's Mill Pub
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for a drink before dining
at Zizzi's Pizza Restaurant.
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After their meal, they
left the restaurant walking the
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short distance around the
corner and through an arcade
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to an open area
by the river Avon.
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They were a curious duo
and their behavior soon began
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to draw attention. Sergei was
irate and restless despite the
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biting weather and the patches
of snow that lay on the ground.
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He began to sweat profusely,
they managed to make it to a
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bench at the waterfront where
Yulia began to exhibit the same
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symptoms as her father.
Before long their vision was
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impaired and they had
lost control of their bodily
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functions. Unable to sit
up Yulia keeled over and laid
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her head in her father's lap,
their breathing became labored
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and they began to weave
in and out of consciousness.
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At first, passersby speared
them with a cursory glance
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before hurrying on their
way. They assumed that they were
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junkies, drug addicts who were
reeling from their latest hit.
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But then their behavior
began to draw concerned stares.
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Maybe they had overdosed,
they looked like they were both
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terribly ill. An onlooker made
a call to Emergency Services
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and requested an ambulance.
Then an army nurse who
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who happened to be passing by
stepped over to check on them.
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She was joined by
another woman, a local doctor
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and they began a
quick assessment of the duo.
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By now a little group had
gathered around them murmuring
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and gawking. Sergei and Yulia
were worsening by the minute
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the doctor and nurse struggled
to find a pulse and their faces
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were draining of color.
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They feared that hypoxia, brain
damage due to the lack of oxygen
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would set in at any time,
minutes later paramedics and
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police officers arrived on
the scene carving a path through
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the concerned onlookers
to get to Sergei and Yulia.
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The paramedics joined the nurse
and doctor already on the scene
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and began to work on
the two would-be junkies.
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The medical professionals
certain that this was a case of
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Opioid overdose began
administering appropriate
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treatment in an attempt to
stabilize them so that they
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could be moved to hospital.
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But even as the ambulances
loaded up their patients
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and sped toward the hospitals
sirens blaring, police were
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discovering that this was
not a routine case of Opioid
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overdose. Police identified
the two individuals on the bench
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as Sergei and Yulia Skripal.
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A few phone calls later they
found out that Sergei Skripal
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was a retired Russian-double
agent who had been recruited
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to work for MI-6 the
Secret Intelligence Service
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of the United Kingdom.
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For years Skripal had leaked
Russian intelligence to the
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British. Meanwhile, medical
staff at the hospital began
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to realize that they were
not dealing with a routine case
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of drug overdose, they suspected
poisoning but they couldn't
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determine the source.
By 10:00 a.m. the next day
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the chief executive of
the hospital declared a major
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incident which allowed
for the deployment of greater
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resources to deal
with the situation at hand.
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And just like that, what
seemed to be like two junkies
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tripping out on a bench on
a cold March day turned into a
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terrifying labyrinth of
chemical warfare, geopolitics,
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global intelligence gathering,
and a race against time
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to save two lives.
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Join us as we take a look
at the remarkable stories of
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two former Russian spies
and the diametrically opposing
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outcomes of their narratives.
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Sergei Skripal' s journey as
a Russian defective began on a
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sweltering day in
Madrid in the summer of 1996.
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Skripal was taking a walk with
a friend a Gibralten businessman
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he had met during his stay in
the city, Skripal had been sent
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to Madrid as an undercover agent
by the GIU, the Russian Military
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Intelligence Agency.
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Skripal' s cover in Madrid
was as the first secretary
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scientific and technical
for the Russian Embassy, on this
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particular summers day Sergei's
friend made him a proposition.
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The man who is actually a deep
cover agent for MI-6 the British
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Secret Intelligence Service
asked Sergei if he would be
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would be willing to provide
Russian Intelligence to the
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British. Without
hesitation Sergei agreed to the
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proposition. Since the collapse
of the Soviet Union Sergei, like
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many others had been
disillusioned and frustrated
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with the changes taking place
around him. The upheaval planted
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seeds of defection in his mind
which matured over the years.
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When the MI-6 agent approached
him in Madrid Sergei was ready
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to sell state secrets to
the British. Speaking to a BBC
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journalist years later, he
confided that he didn't accept
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Russian democracy and was
unwilling to serve the new
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government. From that
point forward Skripal' s journey
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with MI-6 was fairly uneventful
and traveled a predictable
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trajectory. He found ingenious
ways of slipping the British
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Spooks, classified information,
primarily using invisible ink
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and casual drop-offs
through his wife overseas.
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Then in 2006 everything
fell apart when he was arrested
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and taken to Lefortovo a prison
in Moscow used for prisoners
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who were accused of political
crimes like dissidence,
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espionage, and treason.
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At Lefortovo Sergei was charged
with espionage and treason
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and relentlessly questioned
for hours on end. He was tried
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and sentenced to 13 years of
hard labor in a high security
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detention center. But Skripal'
s journey was not to end
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in the obscurity of a Russian
Gulag. In 2010 he was released
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to the British as a part of a
prisoner swap and was resettled
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in the UK by MI-6 which is
how he came to be living in
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Salisbury at the
time of the poisoning.
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In March 2018 Russian Assassins
made their way to Skripal' s
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modest home in Salisbury
where they laced his doorknob
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with a nerve agent, both
Skripal and his daughter Yulia
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who was visiting him from Russia
were exposed to the poison
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which began to produce
symptoms a few hours later.
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As Skripal and Yulia lay
in a critical condition at the
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Salisbury hospital, government
and law enforcement officials
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in the UK scrambled to
piece together what had happened
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to them. Their minds kept
going another strikingly similar
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incident, the poisoning
of Alexander Litvinenko
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more than a decade before.
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Alexander Litvinenko was
a former Russian FSB agent
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working for the Russian Secret
Service tackling Organized
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Crime. During his time as an
agent Litvinenko openly accused
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the FSB of the assignation
of the Russian tycoon Boris
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Berezovsky, he was arrested
several times and charged with
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exceeding the authority of his
role before being dismissed by
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the FSB in the year 2000.
Fearing for his safety he fled
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to the UK with his family where
he became a journalist, writer,
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and consultant for MI-6,
the British Secret Service.
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In November 2006 Litvinenko
entered the Millennium Hotel
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in London's Mayfair where
he was scheduled to meet an old
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colleague, another
former Russian Secret Agent
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named Andre Lugavoi, he
had another man Dimitri Kovtun
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in tow. The men settled
down in the Hotel's Pine Bar
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where they exchanged
pleasantries and chatted
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knowing that Litvinenko
was not a big drinker, Lugavoi
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ordered a pot of Green Tea.
Towards the end of the meeting
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Lugavoi gestured
towards the untouched pot of tea
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and encouraged
Litvinenko to have some,
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Litvinenko obliged but he only
took a few sips of the drink.
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After wrapping up the
meeting the men parted ways and
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Litvinenko headed home.
That night around 11:00 p.m.
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Litvinenko began to feel very
sick, staggering to the bathroom
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he vomited violently and
from then on began to throw up
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convulsively every 20
minutes. He was soon frothing
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at the mouth and in terrible
pain, he, however, did not
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contact emergency services
or make his way down to the
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hospital. Almost 48 hours later
when his condition began to
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deteriorate rapidly, his wife
called an ambulance and he was
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taken to the local hospital.
His condition only worsened
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until almost a week
after his meeting with Lugavoi.
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His wife admitted to the
hospital staff that he may
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have been poisoned.
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When detectives interviewed
Litvinenko, he confirmed
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his wife's suspicions
that he had been poisoned.
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He also eluded to his
connection with the British
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Secret Service, quietly
mentioning that he had a
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contact in MI-6. Two
weeks after his admission to the
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hospital, Litvinenko was
transferred to a hospital
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in Central London. By
then he was exhibiting
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symptoms that was similar
to patients who had undergone
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intensive radiotherapy.
His doctor made a note to
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radiology to check for radio-
active sources of poisoning.
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A Giger Counter was used
to check for radioactivity but
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picked up nothing,
then on the 21st of November
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three weeks after he had
first met Lugavoi, a pharmacist
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at the hospital suggested
that a radioactive isotope
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may have been used to poison
him. Blood and urine samples
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were then sent to the
British Atomic Weapons institute
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at Aldermaston. Tests
revealed the presence of a rare
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radioactive isotope, Polonium-
210. A second test was conducted
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to confirm the findings before
the results were released.
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The confirmed results
showed that Litvinenko had been
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poisoned using Polonium-210.
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Six hours after the
results were released Litvinenko
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died in hospital after
suffering from cardiac arrest.
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A post-mortem autopsy showed
that Litvinenko had ingested
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Polonium-210 twice.
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The first dose was 100 times
smaller than the second dose
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which ultimately killed
him. Police tracked Litvinenko's
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movements back at the Pine
Bar at the Millennium Hotel
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where they found heavy
Polonium- 210 contamination.
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As investigators began to dig
into the case, they discovered
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that Lugovoi had put Polonium
into the Green Tea that he had
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given to Litvinenko on
that faithful November day.
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Unfortunately for Litvinenko
his assassins Lugevoi and
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Kovtun used the perfect poison.
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Polonium is difficult
to identify and extremely
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destructive, decimating cells
inside the body and shutting
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down vital organs. It's a
ruthless killer which lacks an
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antidote and makes
short work of its victim.
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After almost 12 years
after Litvinenko's murder Sergei
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Skripal lay in a hospital
bed fighting for his life.
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As investigators and
medical staff work feverishly to
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unravel the mystery surrounding
Skripal's illness they began to
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piece together a grim picture.
Several days after the incident
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British Prime Minister Theresa
May announced that the agent
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used to poison the
Skripals was Novichok
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The three standard drugs
used in this type of poisoning
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scenario are Atropine, Poly-
Dioxide Chloride, and Diazepam.
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Of these three, Atropine
is the most important when
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dealing with patients
dealing with nerve agents.
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In order for Atropine
to work most effectively,
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it needs to be
administered quickly.
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When paramedics reached
the Skripal on the 4th of March
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they initially
suspected an Opioid overdose,
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they noticed that both
Sergei and Yulia had very weak
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heartbeats and immediately
administered Atropine
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which is routinely
used is such cases.
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The dose given at the
scene was small but significant
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and could very well have
made the difference between life
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and death. Once they had a
positive diagnosis of Novichok,
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doctors then began to flood
their systems with Atropine.
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Yulia Skripal was discharged
from the hospital on the 9th of
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April and her father Sergei
was released on the 18th of May.
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A few days after Sergei was
discharged from the hospital
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Yulia Skripal released a video
in which she stated that she
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was lucky to be alive and
thanked staff at the Salisbury
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Hospital for their care.
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The case of Alexander Litvinenko
and Sergei Skripal bear many
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similarities, they were both
Russian Intelligence Agents,
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Litvinenko worked for the FSB
while Skripal worked for the GIU
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the military arm of
the Russian Intelligence.
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They were both defectives,
Litvinenko fled to the UK in the
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year 2000 after several arrests.
When he arrived a Heathrow
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Airport he walked up to the
first police officer he saw and
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said he was a Russian FSB
Agent seeking Political Asylum
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in the UK. Skripal was recruited
by MI-6 as a double agent in
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1996 when he was assigned
with a code name Forthwith.
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Litvinenko and Skripal were
also poisoned on British soil
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in apparent assassination
attempts authorized by the
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highest levels of
Russian Government
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but the similarities
between their cases ends here.
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While Litvinenko was poisoned
by a radioactive isotope
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which had no antidote, Skripal
was poisoned by a nerve agent
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that had an easily accessible
antidote, Litvininko died
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because his assassins
used a perfect weapon, a poison
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that had no cure. Skripal
lived because his assassins
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for whatever reasons chose
not to use such a deadly weapon.
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The Bible talks about an
insidious poison weaponized
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to ensure the maximum level
of devastation on all who come
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in contact with it. It's
called sin, a debilitating agent
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that sinks into the deepest
recesses of the human mind.
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making us incapable
of thinking clearly.
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The Bible
describes sin in various ways
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but perhaps the most striking
illustration of sin is found in
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Isaiah 14:12 and 13,
where the Bible describes Satan
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or Lucifer the author
and originator of sin.
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Before he was Satan, Lucifer
was a magnificent angel in
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heaven revered by all the
heavenly hosts and honored by
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God, but Isaiah 14 verses 12-14
describes the reason behind his
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fall.
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The key element that makes
sin such a debilitating and
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destructive
poison is selfishness.
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A relentless
knawing self-interest
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that drives all those who are
affected by it to think their
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own exaltation at the
expense of everyone else.
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The destructive effect
of sin on the human psyche
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can be seen in the results
of various different studies
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conducted in the areas of
Social Psychology and Behavioral
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Economics in recent years.
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For example in a fascinating
paper on psychological
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moral licensing
Stanford University researchers
00:20:11.54\00:20:15.21
Daniel Ephron and Dale
Miller made some interesting
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assertions. Their research
focuses on the theory that
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people often give themselves
permission to exhibit morally
questionable behavior
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such as lying or expressing
racist attitudes if they feel
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that they can do so
without discrediting themselves.
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In other words, people are
prone to do the wrong thing
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if they can justify it or
get away with it without being
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caught. This theory is also
explored by behavioral economist
00:20:44.51\00:20:49.81
Dan O'Reilly, O'Riely's
research shows that human beings
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generally make choices that
are influenced by self-interest
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rather than what is
morally right or wrong.
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Much of this research
exposes the inconsistencies and
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eccentricities
within the human mind.
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The Bible calls this
self- Interest, sin, and makes
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a startling statement
about it In Jeremiah 17:9.
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This verse highlights
three key points that summarize
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the biggest problems
associated with sin. Firstly,
00:21:30.55\00:21:34.72
it tells us that Secondly,
it tells us that... And Thirdly,
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the Bible tells us that...
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Much-like the radio-active
Polonium 210 Isotope that
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was given to Alexander
Litvininko, but unlike Polonium
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sin has an antidote that can
completely transform our hearts
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and minds and set us on
the road to complete recovery.
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Now, while the Bible tells
us in Romans 3:23 that all have
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that all have sinned and
in Romans 6:23 that the wages
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of sin is death,
it also gives us hope.
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In John 3:16 the
Bible tells us...
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Jesus is the antidote to
the insidious poison of sin
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at His death and power can save
us from its devastating effects.
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He can bring physical,
mental and emotional healing
00:22:53.13\00:22:57.14
where sin has ravaged a trail
of disease. He can bring hope
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where sin has
brought despair and death.
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The Bible tells us that the
poison of sin has many facets
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two of the most important
facets are the penalty of sin
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and the power of sin.
Jesus is able to deliver us from
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both of these facets and
give us complete freedom.
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Hebrews 2:14 tells us this...
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Jesus became a man so that
He might deliver us from the
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penalty of sin which is eternal
death. Through Jesus we have
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assurance that the power of
death can have no hold on us
00:23:55.03\00:23:59.30
and we can look forward with
hope to an eternity with Him.
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Notice what the Bible says
later in Hebrews Chapter 2:18...
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You see, Jesus knows what
we have to deal with when we
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battle against sin
and not only does He know?
00:24:20.69\00:24:24.33
He is also able to help us with
our struggles and give us the
00:24:24.36\00:24:28.63
grace to overcome.
00:24:28.66\00:24:30.77
While Sergei Skripal
and Alexander Litvinenko
00:24:30.80\00:24:34.67
both battled against deadly
poisons that ravaged their
00:24:34.70\00:24:38.31
bodies, only one of them
survived, only one of them
00:24:38.34\00:24:42.84
was able to overcome. Skripal
was saved because he was given
00:24:42.91\00:24:49.05
and antidote. That was
the only delineating feature
00:24:49.08\00:24:52.99
in their stories, one of them
had an antidote and the other
00:24:53.02\00:24:56.86
didn't both Novichok and
Polonium were deadly poisons
00:24:56.89\00:25:01.86
damaging cells and
shutting down vital organs.
00:25:01.90\00:25:05.97
But while Novichok was
countered by the effects of
00:25:06.00\00:25:09.30
Atropine, there wasn't a
sufficiently strong agent
00:25:09.34\00:25:13.27
to counteract the
devastating effects of Polonium.
00:25:13.31\00:25:16.38
Alexander Litvininko died
without an antidote and the
00:25:16.41\00:25:22.78
Bible tells us that each of us
has been infected by the poison
00:25:22.82\00:25:27.36
of sin. It's a debilitating
agent that can bring us to
00:25:27.39\00:25:31.73
our knees and blot out
any hope that we may have
00:25:31.76\00:25:35.66
of eternal life. But the good
news is that God has provided
00:25:35.70\00:25:41.44
us with an antidote through the
life, death, and resurrection
00:25:41.47\00:25:46.04
of His Son Jesus. God
offers us the antidote that we
00:25:46.07\00:25:50.41
so desperately need and with it
the amazing hope of eternal life
00:25:50.45\00:25:55.45
all we need to do is
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