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Hello, I'm Sean Curran, and this is today in Parliament from BBC Radio 4.

For Thursday, the 4th of December, when the security minister said an inquiry had concluded that Vladimir Putin was morally responsible for the death of a woman

who was poisoned with a Russian nerve agent. And this government continues to reject the lies

spread by Russia through its propaganda and through its paid mouthpieces. MPs are up in arms

after four mayoral elections are put on hold.

Does the Minister have any idea how much money has been spent on this in the last 12 months?

And what will it take to stop the proposed new Chinese embassy?

Will the prayers of long-dead medieval months save us from this hideous mega embassy.

But first, a public inquiry has found that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin,

bears moral responsibility for the fatal poisoning of a woman in Wiltshire in 2018.

Dawn Sturgis died from exposure to Novichok,

four months after Russian intelligence operatives attempted to kill a former spy in Salisbury.

The security minister Dan Jarvis told the commons,

Dawn Sturgis had been the victim of a chemical weapons attack on British soil,

and he announced that the UK was imposing new sanctions on Russia's military

intelligence agency, the GRU. These sanctions recognise the continued, reckless and destabilising

activity of the GRU, which seeks to undermine Ukraine, European security and the safety of the

United Kingdom.

They will include sanctions against eight GRU officers under the cyber sanctions regime and

three GRU officers under the Russia sanctions regime, who have been implicated in hostile

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