Russia Expels British Diplomats Over Poisoning Row

Russia has ordered 23 British embassy officials in Moscow to leave the country within a week.

It's the same number of diplomats that Theresa May ordered to leave Britain following the nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury.

The British consulate in St Petersburg will also be shut down, along with the British Council in Russia, which promotes business, education and cultural relations.

Speaking at a Conservative Party conference in London, the Prime Minister said the Russian measures were not a surprise.

"It is Russia that is in flagrant breach of international law and the chemical weapons convention."

Russian exiles in Britain are also being given advice on their personal safety, by police investigating the murder of a Russian businessman in London.

Scotland Yard says they're not connecting Nikolai Glushkov's death to the poisoning in Salisbury.