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All Out Politics

Introducing...Polonium & the Piano Player

All Out Politics

Sky News

News Commentary, Politics, News, Government

4.2156 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Two Russians agents release a miniature nuclear weapon in a 5-star London hotel. But former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko is not the only victim?
For the full series, search 'Polonium & the Piano Player.'
From Sky News StoryCast.

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On November 1, 2006, two Russian agents released a deadly nuclear poison in the bar of the

0:49.5

five-star Millennium Hotel in London's Mayfair. The agents were on a mission to kill former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko,

0:59.0

their weapon of choice,

1:01.0

Polonium 210, a highly radioactive substance,

1:05.0

dropped into Litvinenko's tea.

1:08.0

The assassination made headlines around the world.

1:12.6

Alexander Litvinenko made a lot of enemies in Russia,

1:14.6

and changed the relationship between the UK and Russia forever.

1:19.6

It's the stuff of a Cold War thriller.

1:22.6

Clandestine rendezvouses in the busy streets of central London.

1:26.6

But there was another man in the hotel bar that day

1:29.1

whose life would become intertwined with Litvinenko's

1:32.1

and just like his would change forever.

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