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Speaker 1: Vincon Mecavini are UK europe correspondent with uscent this inquiry

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Speaker 1: into the death of Dawn sturges. This is the Novachok

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Speaker 1: incident in Salisbury. Will we hear a result?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. You might remember back in twenty eighteen

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Speaker 2: the Scripples a father and daughter. He was a Russian

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Speaker 2: dissident living here in the UK. They were poisoned, but

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Speaker 2: they survived. Then a few weeks later, Dawn Sturgis was

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Speaker 2: the recipient of a perfume bottle and it was actually

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Speaker 2: the Novechok spray used by the Russians. She used it

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Speaker 2: on herself and tragically died from that chemical. Well, there

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Speaker 2: has now been a lengthy investigation into exactly what happened,

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Speaker 2: and the British now believe that Vladimir Putin himself was

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Speaker 2: morally responsible for the death, that the order to kill

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Speaker 2: the tritus killed the Scripples came from the very top

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Speaker 2: of the Russian state, and that there was sadly nothing

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Speaker 2: that could have been done given the high dosage that

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Speaker 2: she took to survive what happened. So her family have

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Speaker 2: long campaigned for full answers on this and this is

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Speaker 2: a pretty detailed report very much pointing the finger at

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Speaker 2: the highest levels of the Russian government for this death.

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Speaker 1: Are they, because I knowe they say that he's potent

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Speaker 1: as morally responsible. Are they saying that he gave the order?

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Speaker 1: Is it go that far?

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Speaker 2: Well, essentially he seems to have given the order to

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Speaker 2: take out the scripples here in the UK. The scripples,

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Speaker 2: of course survives. We know they're living somewhere quietly in

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Speaker 2: under new identities now somewhere else in the world. But

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Speaker 2: the knock on effect of that was that he allowed

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Speaker 2: a chemical which his two agents, these two gru agents,

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Speaker 2: simply disposed of in the city. They didn't get rid

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Speaker 2: of it themselves, and it had enough of the poison

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Speaker 2: inside it to kill as many as potentially a thousand people.

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Speaker 2: And so it was their negligence whilst carrying out his

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Speaker 2: orders that meant that Dawnstair just died. So that is

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Speaker 2: why it's come in as being saying he is morally

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Speaker 2: responsible for this.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the uplate, Vincent appreciated. Vincent Mecavini are UK

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Speaker 1: europe correspondent.

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