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Our science desk with us hi derek what is know what kind of nerve agent is this well what's interesting about it actually is that is how little we really know about it it was designed by the soviets back in the one nine hundred seventy s. and the one nine hundred eighty s. in sort of secret bases and we only found out about it actually originally in the one nine hundred ninety s. know we talk as if it's. it's a liquid it can also be a powder it's an entire series of different substances and it's an extremely powerful nerve agent it's estimated that it's five to eight times more powerful than o...

They've been wiping down all the surfaces that this father and daughter might have touched there they're telling the employees at the pub and at the restaurant to wash their clothes because that could apparently help take care of it also there's moisture in the atmosphere so contact with moisture apparently does degrade the substance but there's still obviously a very clear danger in this area which is why the government has not is going to continue the cleanup activities ok so that this was identified presumably when you have a someone someone turns up and you look at those. two tests. variou...

Through a lot on this program today that's been a breakfast of mix Thank you Sean thank you 2 ways morning everyone 8 days Monday morning on the time is exactly 6 o'clock pm. This is c.b.c. . It's great to have your company will tell you everything you need to know for the week ahead with the prime ministers meeting. Security Council today to talk about the. Break Also we're going to talk about Jamie Carragher he's apologized. To him apparently spitting a teenage girl. To Manchester United on Saturday Also this morning. It was looking for. A pretty well for most parts of England and while som...

Pointing them to russia is a very big deal. as long as he's able to act with impunity, he may continue calling for impunitimpunity. if somehow these nerve agents got out and he lost control of them, that, too, we need to get to the bottom of. there is a very good reason to get out of it and one of them is the stuff should never be used, but there is also the danger that it could wind up in the wrong hands. either way, this is bad for russia and it's good that teresa may is putting the heat on moscow. >> if putin was responsible for this, why would he risk the enormous consequences of getting c...

And intelligence picture as well as the state of the investigation. 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 our knowledge that russia has previously produced this agent and would still be capable of doing. russia's record of conducting state sponsored assassinations and our assessment that russia of th...