this agent. the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons said this particular chemical used on the schiphols back in march was a very high purity and also persistent. meaning it doesn t just evaporate like a sarin gas in a matter of hours or days. other chemical weapons experts we ve spoken to say it can remain viable for months potentially. and only a couple of drops can be deadly. now, as to how these two may have been contaminated, lots of theories floating around. nothing officially from police. but one thought is that they were exposed somewhere in the town of salisbury when they were there the day or maybe in the hours before they fell ill, then went home, and that s where the symptoms kicked in. there are a couple of locations in salisbury where police are searching today. and i m sure a lot of nervous people if, indeed, that s what s happening, is there s some
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a recent interview with the w. news. british foreign secretary boris johnson said there was no doubt in his mind that russia is to blame you argue that their source of north edge and choke is russia how did you manage to find that out so quickly that was driven by says samples of the case when i look at the evidence we the people from from porton down the. they have the samples you do and they they they were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy why so i said are you sure and he said as they don t. there you have it the foreign office is no contradiction between those statements we just heard and the latest results from british chemical weapons experts well the lab task whether down to fighting the nerve agent used in the attack and stopped short of saying it could identify where the poison came from this is porton down the lab in britain at the center of the investigation into the
abu yousef. abu yousef, i am your brother. abu y abu yousef, you left me all alone. a american, british, and french intelligence including chemical weapons experts we spoke with, all agree that this was almost certainly carried out by president assad s forces. samples taken from the scene show that the nerve gas used was
have had a role into it. they re looking into investigating what sort of role russia might have had. russia has a lot of chemical weapons experts. where they took off from, that s where russian personnel were at, and also, it was russia s responsibility, according to the u.n. mandate, to make sure and verify that all the chemical weapons under that 2013 deal were removed from the country. here are the details they re giving us. they have some pretty good pictures showing a big crater in the center of a street. they think this crater was caused by a chemical weapons-laden bomb and that they landed on 6:25 on tuesday morning. that s april 4th. they look at the rim of that crater and they see the telltale signs of staining, the kind of staining that would be caused by a chemical like sarin gas. here s what s interesting. after that, katy, they had some they saw a drone or some sort of unmanned vehicle taking