he was once a kgb agent, bu turned into a local critic o russia when he was poisoned an london and made headline around the world a lethal toxin in a cup of tea it was a dirty bomb why was he killed to unravel the mystery, we follow the tail of a darke conspiracy are you threatened for your life we will meet and confront the prime suspect. did you put - in the teens and now, is the dange coming closer one man said shoe temp. an attack on the expert helping us with the story. people say this is neve going to happen here i know it can happen, here because it happened to m husband. hello, and welcome to dateline former russian agent alexander was a vocal critic of th russian government, but in his world access to informatio could make you a very rich man or a dead one. his murder set off a international investigation to discover who wanted hi silenced here s richard engel with sp games. a former russian agent, poisoned a multi millionaire found dead in
hour the state department is callin earlier reports of a new prisoner exchange agreemen between iran and the unite states a cruel ally. the report today on irania state tv attributes the foreig minister with making tha statement about the prisoner swap deal. again, the u.s. is rejecting that statement let s hurry to embassies megan fitzgerald who standing by i london let s get to what this is al about. what do you know, megan? alex, you are absolutel right. what we know is that the iranian foreign minister mad these remarks on iranian state tv saying that iran in the u.s. have made this deal to exchang prisoners that the iranian sid is all set and ready to go they re waiting on the u.s side to sort things out. the ministry saying that he hopeful that this would happen soon of course, there was no detail provided there was no evidence suggeste of what this is all about. as you said, the united states government, the stat department saying that this is a cruel ally we are he
identified, then across europe like the slim from a slug al the way across, polonium was popping up everywhere. but not in scaramella no polonium in his body or anywhere he had been so, scotland yard took a har look at the two russians lugovoi and kovtun when detectives retrace thei steps, they found polonium contamination everywhere we see the same fingerprint of the polonium in multipl places where they were business offices. hotels a hookah bar, a strip club, soccer stadium, and th millennium hotel s pine ba were they last met litvinenko.
and indictments a very rea prospect here. lisa, are they taking a har look at testifying or is tha already off the table? i think it s off the tabl for some of the reasons that peter already discussed. this is a person who at leas understood that he was i enough jeopardy to have take the fifth amendment almost 500 times in a prior civil o position with the new york attorney generals office we also know that when donal trump s unconstrained, doesn t vote the fifth and testify civilly. he gets himself into all sorts of trouble exhibit a for that is this deposition in the carroll case which about the rails eigh ways from sunday i think it s highly unlikely that he accepts the substation and alex it is only an invitation it is not a subpoena he s not being compelled t testify. it is a courtesy built into new york criminal law. peter brings up a goo point. this is the first bu potentially the first of a few indictments coming down th pike between this hush money case