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more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are on the day. you know this is r t the headlines now that shape the week moscow signals the bad times are over in russian military relations as a person with a bit of a lease to help build on saudi soil defense and until legs into ghana start. russian businessmen victor boot denies charges of weapons smuggling terrorism or to walk calls for fair trial and claims washington pressuring the legal process.

across the continent roma communities a bit too by european governments are being left without shelter or health care forcing them into crime to make ends meet. but it may be a century since the world lost one of its great thinkers but an award winning the o. tolstoy biographer tells us why the philosopher's legacy lives on and how he might be viewed if you were alive today. it's the hundredth anniversary of player tolstoy's death and so much that out of us three i'm talking to one of his biographers a and wilson he wanted award in one thousand nine hundred eight for a biography of tolstoy and wilson thank you very much for talking to r.t. now first as a biographer what attracted you to tolstoy. here's the giant he was the great giant of the novelistic form greater even than dostoyevsky who i suppose of the two great

dr so that's what attracted me to him and the fact that ever since so it's really become a serious reader in my teens it was his novels that i regarded as the greatest tell stories books i'm thinking specifically of war and peace consistently tops these lists of the best book ever do you agree with these kinds of rankings you can't really compare war and peace with any other novel he himself said it wasn't a novel and it isn't really a novel it's a book about everything it focuses yes all the years you know five campaign culminating in the battle of our salutes and then the invasion of eight hundred twelve but the further it goes on you realize that it's a novel about the whole of russia and also it's a novel about personal regeneration tolstoy was as much a philosopher as a writer what do you thinking come to say is his philosophy in life and i answer it in two ways if you think of that really quite early work of his peers arche

the cossacks there's a moment in that when the lane in who's been hunting. for the dia and there's all covered in that is beautifully described fantastic scene and he's all alone he doesn't quite know where he is in the caucasus covered in that it's very hot very sweaty and he suddenly gets down in the hole. where the itself has been lying and he has this strange feeling of life of reason. with which he's trying next to. he's not sure whether the future life whether there's life after death but the significance of life itself for each one of those mosquitoes are biting him just as for him justice for the. warriors and justice for the muslims they're supposed to fighting there's an extraordinary significance in every single life and he has all his thoughts about being an heiress to trapped

being a member of society in wall street they mean nothing to him what matters is this feeling of the sacredness almost the holiness of life and the importance of trying to live for other people now that's a very very early story and then when you get to the end of tolstoy's life and career the thousands of people who were following his coffin when he died and will no doubt get on to this. they weren't following him because he was a great novelist they were following him because he had taught not only russia but the world how it ought to live how we should be less selfish how we shouldn't be wrecking the planet we shouldn't be fighting wars so this early story in which anyone has a sense of of the goodness of life the significance of life and how we should live more simply and more response to nature and to our conscience that really runs through the whole of his life and he century and underwent this transformation didn't he from high society or that to spiritual on

a case told well what i was trying to say by mentioning because archy is that it's always there from the beginning actually this feeling that we are called to a deeper truer life away from the absurdity of society and so forth the tolstoy family were very grand i mean some of them were advisers to the emperor the family . on whom old prince bolkonski a more piece of space his maternal grandfather was also a very grand military and political figure tolstoy himself lived almost entirely in the country at his estate and yes. my apology on the he never really. played a big part in the political life unlike his cousin's court in petersburg. but you're right to say there was this huge crisis in the middle of his life when he'd finished and i trained you know. which was a fantastic success as well as war and peace and i made him very very rich which he hadn't been before he'd been land it and it had peasants and it had the states but

he wasn't very rich he then became a multimillionaire as we would say. and he had a crisis what's the point of it all there's a moment in his autobiography where he said he couldn't even be in the room in the room with a piece of rope to feel that he would want to hang so he then thought the way to live for is to try to be like a peasant and for a few years he pretended. he'd by the way set up schools not only on his interstates but the vast acres and miles around us and i probably on the starting education. he was the great pioneer of russian education and even now they sometimes in some russian schools use his a b. c. to teach people to read. so it wasn't just sort of pious try dreaming but having pretended to be a peasant he then went back to being the reasonable enlightenment man he was and he thought what is due to christianity and the church it's teaching ethics how to

live. the miraculous stuff from leicester and it was out of that was his will his call for last year's life which as you say is that he felt that. all governments not just the governments. particularly evil in his eyes but all governments are based on violence and the only way that we as individuals and we are societies can get away from a system of the military of war solving problems of torture is in ourselves to forswear violence but also to forswear the idea of authority so he was an extremely subversive figure and an extremely conflicted person if i'm not mistaken here there's an anecdote that i remember hearing about about tolstoy that he was walking on the radio one day and he came across a gang of rock breakers you know people who break rocks with other rocks and he thought to himself. how much he enjoyed them because as poor working people they

were so much closer to god than he was and you can imagine this rock breaking hearing this story and thing here you have no idea of the privations and hardships of my life exactly and there was a great deal of un realism about him which was why his wife for example fantom so maddening in the second half of his life and you know for example in part of the great creed he built up apart from being a vegetarian a pacifist and so forth was the sex itself was evil. well he was an extremely highly sexed man and even when these tracts calling upon the world to forswear sex were coming out his wife was having her tenth or eleventh child and so forth making her look absolutely ridiculous of course as well as making him look ridiculous. and did his contemporaries frequently see him as ridiculous well he. ridiculous isn't really a word one uses of these great giants and whatever one. dismaying feature of him is that he didn't have

a sense of humor certainly not about himself but i think over the six question he did make himself ridiculous yet also i was a deeply religious man but he did get into quite serious conflict with the orthodox chat well he was religious in this way that you get in the novels i think if you think of pierre or prince andrew in war and peace if you think of given in. their worldly young man. soldiers or land innocent people very much like himself as to crafts with women in trouble and all that and then they reach a crisis in their lives and they turn to what's all about a member prince andrew thinking he's dying. and then what it's all about is this great stride. and identify with the mystery of nature tolstoy was full of that to the end of his days where he parted company with the church was over the claim that for example the miracles were literally true or that the church had the right

to dictate to men and women what they believed in what they thought and how they should behave and so he fell out with the church in a very very big way and they eventually after he wrote the novel called resurrection which has a lamp of the holy liturgy of the orthodox church in it the extreme unity to him didn't make any difference to him because he hadn't been doing to communion anyway but he was extremely new to it meant he couldn't have a church funeral. which was quite a big deal in eight days it was a big deal for his wife who was who was an orthodox it wasn't for him he'd never wanted to be buried in church ground anyway he was buried in the place the states where his brother thought he'd buried this green stick when they were playing at. a game in childhood on the green stick was written the secret of how we should live the secrets of human happiness so it's very appropriate he should be buried there. we are celebrating the hundredth anniversary of tolstoy is that what celebrate

welles to celebrate is the greatest novelist who has ever lived but also this man who was dry he did with a passion for the truth and here lou stood up against this extremely powerful regime. and told the truth in a world of lies and this was a fantastic example for russia because in all the terrible years which followed his death he died in one thousand. the civil wars the first of all the civil war the revolutions and so forth. the tradition of tolstoy lived on and it enabled the dissidents when they courageously began to emerge in the sternness times to look at his example and see that it only did one voice telling the truth look at a lot of our look at social needs and they would guided by the influence of tolstoy and that's really what we have to celebrate and you said that he was in essence an advocate if tolstoy he'd be alive today what you think he would be doing. he

wouldn't be very surprised that for example the americans just as the russians did before were trying to defeat the afghans nobody's ever defeated the afghans so he behalf amused by it that he wouldn't be very surprised that the bag because of the world. had made a complete mess of things and that what we call civilization was collapsing to us that the banks and he would be saying just what he was saying in one thousand between yourself more simply try to love people try to live for others and wilson thank you very much thank you. those so many years of past some former prisoners are still a lot. as well this is for sure. though so many years

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hello vulcan this is the sport use an r t thanks for joining us this hour and here is what's coming up next best thing says playing the second spot in the russian prime illegal the beating the rivals spartak in a match that sold girls and two red cards. in a while the battle of sounds will be to all joy as will be new claims to place with one match left in the season. and also the oklahoma city thunder and dried out a second straight road win while mr cameron durand. so another big weekend in russian football games were played similar to many as today across the country on south of the peak of the action so. second place finish in the premier

league thanks to a thrilling comeback victory over spartak in the penultimate game of the season reports. nothing still chulbul first part tucker leon is they seize the initiative in the opening half brazilian midfielder is making the best out of one of those early chances to open the scoring seventeen minutes in things went from bad to worse for the army men in the second that beat a share member a send off after getting a second yellow card in the fifty third minute for arguing with the ref but says conflict or seemingly man dubbed despite being the man down keisuke honda rejuvenating the team with a great rebound effort in the fifty seventh minute the home side didn't have to wait long to take the lead a cd doing be a slice through spark takes the fence for a close range goal in the sixty sixth minute the ivory coast native scored his fifth pretty goal this season in style when your love was on the receiving end of some rough treatment which on spark takes nicholas barrett

a red card in the final minute the brazilian then regrouped and struck an injury time goal to complete will turn into a comfortable three one win so sparked shock seemed the easing of the gas against ten men cisco and paying dearly for events a gorski archie. in a salable and second that in no small things to third place or being who could only manage a joy at home to new champions as in meet the current champions got on board the festive it defies it and strike taking deflection from sanaa the mayor eyeing the air for the opening in two minutes same as any double delayed alpha there is stopped and his shot is blocked straight into alexander the kids are called faint and he loves it to his state has plenty of time to cool the finish however it eight minutes late have bet five a hello saying well executive cross and caesar not us has an answer we won back and than an interception in midfield turns into alex even

a bit of sake all eyes on one point probing enough for me into playing the last time because they spot a hell of spartak moscow will have to settle for europe only for people. and the law school defines balls for europa league went to look on the t.v. who had the better over a stall on the road. a dimitri of us called soul has been saved in the first off but there's a child break the deadlock in the second drug and blood now pickle ised for a stole their joy was short lived as an adult who put them to the back and front just a minute later so to watch was how it finished. else was part acknowledge she quit last with no consonantal football next season up to losing three one as a car while fighting for survival they are a buffer legation but only just a lot of breathing down their necks following a two one big terrorist. meanwhile the english season is just approaching its midpoint and it's only getting tighter in the opera section of the table as both chelsea and also added want to the losing call on saturday to go on is going down

to them at the emirates stadium unesco bulls scoring the winning header the spurs could lose sleep to leave boy scored the only first goal that allowed manchester united to catch up with them on top of the two wall to know when wigan and livable moved up to the ninth off to between west ham to three nil. in the n.b.a. the oklahoma city thunder are showing everybody what exactly the word team means to beating the celtics in boston the day before last season's breakout schooled stage their second straight road victory in may locate without two of the best players in the lineup the thunder once again with the league's top scorer cameron durant and jeff green russell westbrook use the go to guy in their absence he was able to lead them pawns the celtics and he's ahead of the fact here to. third what's up the bucks themselves pretty good at the point guard position second year man brandon

jennings got in the lead to a while into their first so late in the game they're terrible shooting from both teams and this one it surely jennings missed. it's very that time of the game and just down there just like that it is boston were able to rise the game from the free throw line. else was steve jackson had the first triple double in charlotte's young french eyes history as the bop has held off with songs no dwayne wade miami men face where rudy gay heat again winning buzzer beater to leave the grizzlies over the heat elsewhere you again victorious against strong opposition all of the rules as the blazers go down for the second straight game and also the knicks now only three games winning streak up to topping the clippers. some scores now and have missed the chance to go top of the cage shelf following a two one defeat at the hands of fellow high flies see bead consent to go as you call it save at least some of the numbers blushes by making

a last gasp goal for them but that was new york consolation for the novel the state one point adrift of. course and the other round of the table with a little clue is now it's moved up the bottom off the beaten beat is three won also old who was. now in sailing the russian ewald synergies still in contention for a semi final spot in the louis trophy taking place in dubai despite struggling throughout the opening day of the second round job in the synergy you will face an uphill challenge of the full will be m.w. oracle will both you and draining america's cup champions and oracle skipper james speed rail did all the right things in the priest stopped the russians tried to hoop him but the forest flagged a panel team meaning synergies started three boot lengths behind oracle and they lost forty eight seconds the americas maintained overall lead while susan g. retains slim chances of making the semifinals there tied for fourth place with two

round robin races still to go. and. the battle of champions. was held here in the russian capital because that has more. fans of different point it's always argue which fighting techniques stuff however the battle of champions is probably the best way to find the truth that can petition is unique it gives an opportunity for athletes of eighteen pointing styles to face each other in one ring this time one thousand world and european champions came to bet only to out in the women's vote to discover who's fighting background beats the rest. of the girls not a show all these fights are very tough and they are all for every school fight me as it's own matha they're all sure that their way is the right one and so every time there's basically other issue it's a matter of order to win them and there's that anyway it's at the school that wins but a particular fight through you know particular valuation this is one of the most impressive

fights of the night was between that don't live in and the next and that's that's a link with the rivals have already met each other twice and the score was equal and this time. scored a point swing over the twenty seven year old in a tough and big ticket would do but the off to respond the fist of fighting what to top the evening's menu with two world titles but allowed in two disciplines alexander my team skill for russia praised michael six all from the u.s. to become world champion and been credited on the russian wrestler dominated from the opening round giving his opponent no chance to get back into contention twenty two year old should much inskeep keep throwing his way well to the fore though the russian was delighted with victory assured long before the end of the encounter there was a teenager of sadness as it's his last have a fight bowing out of the ring at the top due to a long term injury. that an animal on the one hand i'm very happy and would like to thank everyone and my opponent as well but on the other hand it's

a little bit sad to have to finish my professional career because of injuries so it was my last fight in the ring or whatever i'm going to stay involved. training young fighters. and then the final battle of the night but the question go for it fabio corelli for the world title in keep boxing this thirty eight year old italian never really student chance in a blizzard of bunches and kicks from the russian thirty year old classic of simply threshed his opponent lending punches to the stomach and had many a newly arrived at their chief of a talent the referee had to stop the fight in the third round after a hail of blows a good day's work though for the formidable russian soyuz who's now grabbed hold of belts and and the crown of absolute world champion. my opponent is a very non-typical kick boxer and i experienced problems with his kicks in the first round but my tough training helped me that i was sure the punches i threw at him would finally find the target and that's what happened. martial arts are very

popular in russia a full house at the luzhniki arena was evident with big daters getting the red chance to see the top fighters from various martial arts in action doing battle in one ring can say about our team. about sport for the moment coming up as the weather stay with us. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.

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