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    Britain Gives Russia 'Until Midnight' To Explain Use Of Nerve Gas

    Britain is preparing to take "commensurate but robust" action after it concluded that Russia is behind the use of a deadly nerve agent on U.K. soil, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson says.
    by Bill Chappell Mar 13, 2018 2 minutes
    Police officers stand guard near a forensics tent in a Sainsbury's parking lot on Tuesday, as investigations continue more than a week after the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, England.

    British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Tuesday that Russia has "until midnight tonight" to explain how a lethal Novichok nerve agent that was developed in Russia came to be used on U.K. soil. Johnson said Britain is preparing to take "commensurate but robust" action.

    Reiterating British Prime Minister Theresa May's statement that it was "highly likely" Russia was

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