Salisbury nerve agent attack: Russian demand for joint investigation rejected

Russia failed at the United Nations security council to prise apart the British diplomatic alliance that accuses Moscow of being responsible for the poison attack last month on Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury.A Russian call at the UN to require Britain to cooperate with Moscow by staging a joint investigation into the poisoning was rejected by the UK’s key allies on the 15 strong UN security council, including France, US, Poland the Netherlands and Sweden.The Russian president, Vladi