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N -- imprisonment. the family argued that he did not plead at all, he was silent in the court hearing that was witnessed, among others, his wife and that earlier on during his detention in which the family claims he spent five months, much of it since may this year in solitary confinement, he after a long period of interrogation signed a document that they believed might have been a confession but it was in arabic, and he doesn't speak arabic, which undermined that he was an mi-6 agent since that is after all the language here. the university for whom he's writing his ph.d thesis on how the ua...

That's what happens. i think the president of the mexico the trajectory. very bright. nation several -- set of >> on our left-hand side and deferred the double misfortune, the massacre in the jewish synagogue and the bomber attending bombs out the week before the election giving america a sense of disquiet and looking at president trump as being less than invulnerable. rapidly veered to the north. he seemed jesse: two years from, bright lights, very high speed. >> greg: even when they are talking about ufos, the british sound so smart. >> jesse: i believe it's because they see it and they if t...

Services. >> it was of great interest to us to know who these people were. >> reporter: was he credible? >> oh, yes, he was. >> reporter: credible enough that mi-6 began paying him a monthly salary, trading information for money was one way for a former russian agent to make a living in his new home in london. then suddenly in 2006 -- litvinenko, who had always been fit and healthy, got very sick. >> it was just incredibly strong and heavy sickness, just suddenly and not stopping. >> reporter: litvinenko's wife marina watched him waste away in a matter of just days. >> oh, it was awful. his ha...

Expensively, more cost effectively. old-fashioned bullets in bodies work rather effectively and quite cheaply. >> reporter: why not just shoot him? >> i didn't say they would have done. they could possibly. we -- >> could possibly have done -- >> we -- we don't do that sort of thing. >> reporter: also remember, litvinenko was working for mi-6 and it was lugovoi and his partner dmitri kovtun who left a radioactive trail all over london especially at the pine bar. lugovoi is hardly hiding here in russia. he did our interview in one of the restaurants that he owns. he's a member of parliament. an...

I couldn't do it. >> reporter: not only did he continue to maintain his innocence, he offered his own theory about who poisoned the tea. could someone had put something in there without you noticing? >> translator: no. why don't you think the polonium may have been put there into the cup after our meeting the next day or by a guy from mi-6? he brings the polonium and pours it into the cup. that's agatha christie stuff. >> reporter: mi-6 is british intelligence. lugovoi says perhaps the brits killed litvinenko to embarrass russia. retired mi-6 analyst glenmore trenear-harvey says that's nonsens...