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Very good morning to it's 5 past one arm Nick Garnet with the between now and 5 o'clock the poisoning of a former spy in Salzburg is taken on an international perspective with the British government public a naming Russia as being highly likely to have been involved in stories I'm 8 points the finger at Russia we'll hear the reaction from Russia we'll speak live to a chemical weapons specialist from America and later on we'll try to find out just why the prime minister went public yesterday after a week of not doing so well saw as well as all that will be covering the tennis throughout the night and Serena versus Venus in California at Indian Wells We'll also be live in pm Chang as the Paralympic Games continue and the man who may well turn out to be the last Nazi convicted of war crimes has died before even started his prison sentence we'll hear how the battle is now on to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive was removed to a generation where no more perpetrators all survivors are left alive and believe it or not we've got to fit all of that in before 2 o'clock. Which means we'll get. Straight on to it Russia has called tourism a statement to the Commons yesterday a fairy tale after the prime minister gave Moscow until midnight tonight to explain the Soulsby poisoning it is now clear that Mr script and his daughter were poisoned with a military grade nerve agent of the type developed by Russia this is part of a group of nerve agents known as no factual. Based on the positive identification of this chemical agent by world leading experts at the Defense Science and Technology to poetry at Porton Down a knowledge that Russia has previously produced this agent and would still be capable of doing so Russia's record of conducting state sponsored assassinations and our assessment that Russia of the views some defectors as legitimate targets for assassinations the government has concluded that it is highly likely that Russia was responsible for the act against and use the script now the Russian foreign ministry has also called it a circus show in the British parliament and part of an information and political campaign based on provocation NATO is called the poisoning renders and completely unacceptable saying the u.k. Is a highly valued ally and this incident is of great concern in the last few hours the Us secretary of state Rex Tillerson says it agrees with Britain that Russia was probably behind the attack the White House press secretary is Sarah Saunders We've been monitoring the incident closely take it very seriously the use of a highly lethal nerve agent against u.k. Citizens on u.k. Soil is an outrage the attack was reckless indiscriminate and irresponsible we offer the fullest condemnation and we extend our sympathy to the victims and their families and our support to the u.k. Government we stand by our closest ally in the special relationship that we have now Earlier I spoke to a Paul I'd Chloe Arnold in Moscow she told me a bit about more about General President report in response to the Solsbury poisoning well. He has brushed aside any accusations from the British government that Russia has any involvement in in the poisoning of missed this creep Ellen his daughter he told a b.b.c. Correspondent today while on his campaign trail that I am dealing with agriculture here can't you see why don't you sort out these things yourselves in Britain and then we can talk about it further so very much scoffing at these accusations that Russia was involved in it and said you know you do with you know your internal affairs and get back to us a clay today. And the reaction to Theresa May statement late yesterday yes well the foreign ministry spokesman Maria said he's very forthright in her statements has called it a circus show in the British government in the British parliament she's described it as more provocation that the British government is simply writing new fairy tales and she too has just absolutely brushed aside any sort of involvement from Russia I mean it's interesting isn't it whenever a story like this happens that. It's always slightly difficult because you don't know how it's playing in Russia how big news is this in Russia. It it's not enormous news I think it's it's people find it interesting people find it curious there is is certainly discussion about it but I don't think it's having a major impact on what's going on here particularly in this you know week before the presidential election when there are bigger things for people to be thinking about about the next 6 years in that country I think it's something. Interesting that that certainly sparked people's imaginations but really it's nothing nothing more more serious than that unlikely to change the outcome of the election I think it's very unlikely Scout change the outcome of the election a tool I can't say that anyone is in any doubt really he's going to win this election law to me Putin of course running for a 4th term as president 18 years he'll have been in power and all the signs are that he will simply sail through these elections as he has done in the past the polls are putting his. Ratings at around 70 percent at the moment he's hoping that he will will. Have to have for a record number of people voting for him that would put. It is a head to elections in the past and the other candidates there are other candidates running in the election are way way behind him that the nearest to him is are on around 7 percent in the polls but the communists counted it a chap who. In in here has got some support people I've been speaking to have said that they like him but that really anyone else in the need the 5 percent mark so really no one's. In any doubt has to as to who will win this election you say Putin's been in power for 18 years now that that's that's the whole lifetime of of a voter really you've been speaking to the young voters ahead of the election what they said to you what are they what are they made you know having been brought up in a generation that's only known one leader. Yes it's very interesting if you were born after New Year's Eve 1909 and before the 18th of March 2000 that means that you've lived all your life with Putin I thought your president or prime minister because if you remember there was a bit a period where he swapped places with his Prime Minister and stood down for a little bit and came back and. Said that means that all your life you've had Putin on the throne as it were and you can vote in the election. And I specifically have tracked down people who fall into that category little eyes and pitch in and they can go tonight and I asked them. Who they would vote for and really there was a full range though as a boy in speeches. And he says you know I I don't I don't think about it too much obviously I see Mr Putin every New Year's Eve he congratulates me on the the year that's gone and yet it comes up like the Queen's speech we have in Britain Mr Putin doesn't but he says you know are I. I remember when I was little Mr Putin the portrait of him which is that down at me my breakfast table my mom would say you know if you don't then Mr Putin will come and get you and and I thought about that's a lot but I want change and that's been something that young people have told me all across Russia we want change and this this points to be spec says he might spoil his ballot paper because he wants to show that he's voting he's not going to go the chance to vote but he says I just I don't want to vote for Mr Putin again I want things to change and I am I can't see another candidate so maybe I should spoil my ballot paper now not at all that we interviewed in her own age south of Moscow she supports Alec said in a found me not he was the strongest opposition candidate who who would have been standing against Mr Putin except he's been barred from running in the election and he's very popular with young voters need very much appeals to young for that is he's a bloke. He's he's a journalist he's a politician and he's asked people to come out into the streets he said since I can't run in this election you should you should boycott the election and said this young girl that we spoke to in in foreign issues that you know I actually I am a little bit too young to vote but it would matter anyway because I would be boycotting the election so you've got the full range you've also got some Putin supporters of course I mean. If he's going to get 70 percent of the vote then there is important support is there and some young people I've spoken to have said you know he represents stability that's why we want we want to see him in power for longer because the country is stable with him and we like the way that he runs the country we like the way he stands up to the west so you've got the full range of opinions but really I think the the outcome of the election is clear in everyone's mind Mr Putin will carry on for another 6 years here just before you go I just want to go back to. You about the poisoning one. Safina line being British in Russia this week has that been any. As a bee mentioned to you just I don't mean until going to work contacts but when you've been just going about your life as normal does has the being a change in the attitude towards British people. I can tell you that more generally there has been a bit of a shift in the feelings people have towards the b.b.c. Whereas in the past I wouldn't have hesitated to say you know I am a journalist now as the b.b.c. I'm a little bit more cautious about saying that people now for example you know getting into a taxi to go somewhere or you know bumping into somebody the hostel pole or going to the swimming pool or something you know something I thought I am more I'm more wary of that I'm more aware that being British isn't. Necessarily something that I want to broadcast to people that to let people know said so there is that feeling when the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko happened. All those years ago I actually was in Russia then as well and there was a similar feeling of of being a little bit more wary about saying that you know that you're British and really there's a feeling here among the British people and among the people that I work with all of you know will will it play out like that in younger will will this great help they similar to that well we have to wait and see certainly I am a bit more careful about saying that I'm British here and I might have used to be in the past and from the mood music do you think that there's any intention of told to do what the reason may is asked to come clean about any possible involvement from Russia at all by later on this afternoon. I think it's highly unlikely that there's going to be any said the response that she's hoped hoping for from Russia. You know there's been talk about perhaps boycotting that well Cup this coming up later this year in Russia again the Russians have just lost it that and said Well you know use those in the 1st he decided to any sort of in that respect Well you know that's your last way hosting it's and you know he wants everybody's come I think I think the way that Russia is playing it at the moment is you know you sort this out yourselves this is really nothing to do with us don't get us involved so we can only wait and see how it's going to play out and how far Russia will be pushed into into making some sort of response Chloe Arnold to the u.s. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson says the poisoning govern expiry in the u.k. Clearly came from Russia and vowed it will trigger a response Professor Mark Bishop is a chemical weapons specialist at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey very good morning to you can you tell us about Nova chalk agents. Sure. First of all I think it's no we show. Which means a newcomer so it was something that they 'd Soviets were developing in the seventies 'd and then on a trip to Haiti. It's a category of substances of nerve agents so there's kind of a wide range of possible ways they can be formulated and dispersed so they can be dispersed as gases or aerosol like liquid droplets in the air or solids which a lot of people are reporting. They're very deadly the mode of action is essentially the 'd same as the common agents like Sarah Lynn. And others has there start to be more deadly than the acts which turn out is that considered the most deadly 'd. But common sense. I would find it mildly amusing by the way because by the time you get to the toxicity of the. Thing a little more deadly doesn't make a whole lot of difference. And probably the fact that people who are exposed are still alive says that there was rather low level of exposure or a relative am sure. You know a shark. Now. Reading somewhere that says the they either they were designed to be able to defeat the chemical protective gear worn by NATO. But also for them to be safe to handle which seems slightly perverse but. Presumably this is something that can be delivered without the person who delivers it's dying as a result of the the nerve agent. Yes The reason it can be safer is because some of the forms of you know a ship's. Can be binary agents they call them and essentially what a binary agent is is you take $32.00 components that will make that nerve agent and you combine them and you can combine them in a slightly in a militia and something like that so the people who fired in addition are dealing with the 2 components that makes a nerve agent not the agent itself like a tiny little blue you have to makes for it to be yet similar to that intellect at that and so before you mix that the components are relatively safe and then after your next that you get something that's highly toxic So I think that's the reason. I use a fairly and he said Are you surprised at these being or looks like these little things that were being used. In an initially I thought of this right away when I heard about the ants. And I was attracted to it mostly because it kind of makes the best story. But I thought it was unlikely because it points so direct way towards Russia. To my knowledge nobody else has produced these things. Other than the Russians and so when the no shelves are detected it points pretty closely to the Russians. But it could be they're just not concerned about that in a way that they 'd feel like they can get away with being strongly suspected and. And make their point which. For again from here it was printed from a little reading that I've been able to do it looks like they are they were ma