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of the outcomes of the nato russia summers in lisbon which has been hailed as a fresh start in their religion. to israeli soldiers the state jailed for using a palestinian boys a human shield they forced a nine year old to check bags for bombs during the gaza war would seem he is again . well maybe a century since the death of one of the world's great writers but a biographer of leo tolstoy explains why his legacy lives on and how he might be viewed if he were alive today. is the hundred anniversary of layer tolstoy's death and to mark that out of our story i'm talking to one of his biographers a n. 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 he was a giant he was the great giant of the novelistic form greater even than dostoyevsky i suppose the great dr so that was what attracted me to him and the fact that ever since really become a serious researcher in my teens it was his novels i regard 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 those kinds of ranking you can't really compare war and peace with any other novel. himself so it wasn't a novel and it isn't really a novel. it's a book about everything it focuses yes on the eighteen zero five campaign culminating in the battle of our salutes and then the invasion of eight hundred twelve but the further it is on you realize that it's a novel about the whole of russia and also it's a novel about personal regeneration tolstoy with as much effort lost the fact as

right chad what do you thinking come to say it's his philosophy in life and i answer it in two ways if you think of that really quite early work of his care zaki the cossacks there's a moment in that when a lean in who's been hunting. for the deer 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 spirit very sweaty and he suddenly gets down in the hole. where the itself has been lying and he has this strange feeling of life. and. 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 justice

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 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 centrally and underwent this transformation didn't he from high society to spiritual on a case. 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 but more in pieces because his maternal grandfather was also very grand military and political figure tolstoy himself lived almost entirely in the country at his estate and yes my apology on he never really. played a big part in the political life unlike his cousins caught in petersburg or in moscow but you're right to say there was this huge crisis in the middle of his life

when you'd finished anna karenina which was a fantastic success as was war and peace and i made it very very rich she 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 a room in the room with a piece of rope feel he would want to hang himself 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 man he was and he thought what is due to christianity and the church it's teaching ethics how to live. the miraculous stuff for leicester and it was out of that was he was bold his call for last year's life which as you say is that he felt that. all governments not just the governments of the sars the particularly evil in his eyes but all governments are based on violence and the only way that we as individuals and we're 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 he has an anecdote that i remember hearing about about tolstoy that he was working

on the raid 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 think you have no idea of the privations and hardships of my life is there and was a great deal of on 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 and 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. does main 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 peace if you think of given in. their worldly young man. soldiers or land owners and people very much like himself as to crafts with women trouble and all that and then they reach a crisis in their lives and they turn to what saul about to member prince andrew thinking his dying. and then what it's all about is this great stride you can sort

of. you can 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 lot of the holy liturgy of the orthodox church in it the extreme unit cases him didn't make any difference to him to say hadn't been going to communion anyway but he was extremely fit if 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 buried this green stick when they were playing 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 wells to celebrate is the greatest novelist who has ever lived but also this man who was guided with a passion for the truth and he alone 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 and ten the civil wars the first of all the civil war the revolutions and so forth. the tradition of tolstoy lived and it's enabled the dissidents when they're courageous liberty and who imagines down in this times to look at his example and see that it's only it is one voice telling the truth look at a lot of our look at social needs and they would dieted 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 told so 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 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 tools of the banks and he would be saying just what he was saying in one thousand and two female self more simply try to love people try to live for others and wilson thank you very much thank you.

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gulf the. next the nation's schools with that tanya. hello welcome this is the sports news 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 premier league up the between the two rivals spartak a rematch that seoul fulfills and two red cards. in a while battle to challenge 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 tanny as they across the

country on south of st the big all the action saw. secure a second place finish in the premier league thanks to a thrilling comeback victory over spartak in the penultimate game of the season gorski reports. nothing still trouble first part tucker leon is they seize the initiative in the opening half brazilian midfielder absent 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 off after getting a second yellow card in the fifty third minute for the rest but says conflict or seemingly man dubbed despite being 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 spar takes the fence for close range goal in the sixty sixth minute the ivory coast native scored his fifth premier league goal this season in style

when your love was on the receiving end of some rough treatment which sparked. a red card in the final minute the brazilian then regrouped and struck an injury time goal to complete will turn into a cut for both three one when so spark jock seems easing of the gas against ten men cisco and paying dearly for gorski. in a salable and second on the no small things to third place or being who could only manage a joy at home to new champions meet the current champions got on board the festive it defies it and strike taking deflection from sanaa the mayor eyeing the air over open at ninety minutes same as any double delayed to there is stopped and is shot as blood strayed into exile the faint at heel opposite to his state has plenty of time to kill the finish however it eight minutes later back five the hosts a well executive cross and caesar not once has a man to walk back and that an interception in midfield turns into i like seeing it

as they call eyes on one point probing enough for me into playing the last time because he's ahead of spartak moscow will have to settle in europe any. and the law school to find the europa league to look on the t.v. who had the better over a stall on the road. dimitri last call sold his battle to say first off but their constituents break the deadlock in the second drug in blood that they call lies for a stole their joy was short lived as a tool to become to confront just to manipulate to sow to water that's how it finished. else was part acknowledge she quit last with no consonantal football next season up losing three one as a car while fighting for survival they are a boxer legation but only just a lot of breathing down their neck following a two one victory over terrorists. 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 today is going to kill them at the emirates stadium you know schools scoring the winning header the spurs could lose sleep to leave where scored the only first goal that allowed manchester united to catch up with them want to know when to wigan and livable moved up to the ninth off to between west ham 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 he's the go to guy in their absence he was able to lead them pawns the celtics and he's ahead of the pack here to be seen. in the third what's up the bucs themselves pretty good at this point guard position second

year man brandon jennings got in the lead to a point into their first so late in the game they're terrible shooting for both teams and this one it should be jennings missed the story that. side of the mountains there just like that it is boston were able to ice the game from the free throw line. elsewhere as steve jackson had the first triple double in charlotte's young french eyes history as the bop has held off with songs you know doing wade miami mt 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 next now only three games winning streak up to topping the clippers. semis hockey 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 applause c b. if you call it save at

least some of the numbers blushes by meeting a last gasp bill for them but that was mere consolation for the novel state one point adrift of leaders with the liquidity of course and the other end of the table with a little clues 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 b.m.w. oracle will both you and draining america's cup champions and oracle skipper james speed rail did oldroyd things in the pretty start the russians tried to hoop him but the forest flagged battle team meaning synergy started three boot lengths behind oracle and they lost forty eight seconds the americans maintained overall

lead while sujit retained 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 martial arts always argue which fighting to make this stuff work however the battle of champions is probably the best way to find the truth that can petition museum it gives an opportunity for athletes of eight hundred twenty styles to face each other in one ring this time one thousand world and european champions going to battle it out in the women's vote to discover who's waiting background beats the rest. of the girls now to show all these fights are very tough they're going to be on hold for real every school fight me as its own method and they're all sure that their way is the right one is choice every time there's basically other issue it's a matter of order to win them and there's that anyway it's the school that wins but

a particular fight for it 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 on that's that's when the rivals have already met each other twice and the score was equal and this time i books and let him score the points mean over the twenty seven year old he walks or in itself and speak to kill a jew but they often respond the fist to fighting what to drop the evening's menu with two world titles medal loads in two disciplines alexander so much unskillful russia plays michael six zero from the us to become a world champion and been granted 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 will to the for. the russia was delighted with victory assured long before the end of the encounter there was a teen age of sadness as it is his last have a fight bowing out of the ring at the top due to a long term injury other than animal on the one hand i'm very happy and would like

to thank everyone and why poland 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 in training young. writers. in the final battle of the right model question go for it fabio corelli for the world title in keep boxing thirty eight year old italian never released today a chance in a blizzard of bunches and kicks from the russian thirty year old who are sick of simply the wished his opponent lending punches to the stomach and had many an early reject their chief of a talent the referee had to stop the fight in the third world and after a hail of blows a good day's work though for the formidable russian soyuz there's no grab hold of belts and and the crown of absolute world champion. my opponent is a very non-typical kicker and i experienced problems with his kicks in the first round here and there but my tough training helped me that india and i'm sure the

punches i threw at him would finally find the target and that's what happened. in martial arts other people in russia a full house at the luzhniki arena was evidence this big data was 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. at that spot for the moment coming up as the weather stay with us. hungry for the full story we've got it first the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. seventy six hours of intense fighting. six thousand dead at a beach front battlefields several kilometers long. and now there is only one person who cares. to see we are surrounded by garbage everywhere but also there are

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