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Explores the 2018 incident when Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia collapsed on a park bench in Salisbury after being poisoned with a chemical weapon, triggering an international diplomatic crisis.
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00:00Salisbury is a small city.
00:02What happened doesn't sound like it's something that happens in your town.
00:09Two people were having a medical episode.
00:13Immediately, this didn't look right.
00:15They had very unusual symptoms.
00:17Somebody said, you're not going to believe what I've just found out.
00:20Something has poisoned these people.
00:23It turns out that he was a Russian spy.
00:28We were told that an evasion had been used.
00:31How did it get into the country and where was it now?
00:33Salisbury has taken a serious turn for the worst.
00:36Now it's murder.
00:37There was enough poison in that bottle to kill 10,000 people.
00:41There is no playbook for this.
00:44Russia had been responsible for this.
00:47There were people who thought we should treat this attack as an act of war.
00:54The poisoning was just the beginning.
00:56This is bigger than we thought.
00:58There comes a point where you have to tell the world what you found.
01:03The ugliness of the world was suddenly on our doorstep.
01:08The Salisbury Poisonings, a spy next door, premieres July 12th on CNN and next day on the CNN app.
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