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no jail for using a palestinian boy as a human shield they for was the one year old to check bags of volunteers during the gaza war would soon be years ago. maybe a century since the death of one of the world's great writers but a biographer leo tolstoy explains why his legacy lives on and how he might be of use if you were alive today. is the hundredth anniversary of layo tolstoy's death and to mark that out of our story i'm talking to one of his biographers a 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 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 ranking 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 with as much effort loss of for as right chad 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 history as arky

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. 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 just as for him justice for the. warriors and justice for the muslims that they're supposed to be 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 tell stories 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 over 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 only 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 essentially and underwent this transformation

didn't he from high society author 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 pieces based his maternal grandfather was also a very grand military and political figure tolstoy himself lived almost entirely in the country at his estate in the us. my apology on the he never really. played a big part in the political life unlike his cousin's cotton pieces. but you're right to say there was this huge crisis in the middle of his life when he'd finished and i train 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 and had peasants and he'd 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 to feel that 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. by the way set up schools not only on his interstates but for vast acres and miles around grass and 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 volved 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 all governments are based on violence and the only way that we as individuals and we as society is to 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 along the road 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 is there and there 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 where 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 tolstoy was a deeply religious man but he did get into quite serious conflict with the orthodox church well he was religious in this way that you get in the novels i think if you think of pierre or prince andrew in one piece 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 he's 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 and 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 indicated to him didn't make any difference to him because he hadn't been doing to communion anyway but he was excommunicated it meant he couldn't have a church funeral. which was quite a big deal in its days it was a big deal for his wife who was who was an orthodox it wasn't for him he never wanted to be buried in church ground anyway he was buried in the place that is the states where his brother thought he buried this green stick when they were playing it but 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 his death what's to celebrate well 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 nineteen 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 courageously began to imagine stalinist times to look at his example and see that it's an easy one voice telling the truth look at a lot of i look at social needs and they would dieted by the influence of tolstoy and that's really what we have to set up right and he said that he was in essence

and 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 that he wouldn't be very surprised that the bag because of the world. had made a complete mess of things and what we call civilization was collapsing because of the bangs and he would be saying just what he was saying in one thousand and. more simply try to love people try to live and wilson thank you very much thank you. so so many years of. she's former prisoners. still a lot. as well for. those so many years of.

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kate's. hello welcome to the sports news live from. the headlines. keeping up the pressure . to regain a place in the top four as they travel to follow in the english premier league blackburn. king kong opinions in poland so wins the second title of the year with a one stride victory in the hong kong open. the slippery slope leaders met in the by mr gorst lose their fifth game of the last six to all the top five sides see action in the k h l. as with football though and as the english premier league season approaches its busy winter period there are two matches taking place this sunday match the city have a chance to regain full spot as they visit struggling for them while in the early

match blackburn took care of business against aston villa and they are up for the write this after their forty three million pound takeover by the brown family on friday was off to a successful start of the wood park norwegian international morten gamst pedersen with a brace netting in the forty fifth and the sixty six minutes meanwhile city has not yet fallen as the sides six missing since january the home side are hovering just above the relegation zone and having beaten city at home for five years the game also seems full of manager mark hughes go up against his former club get to lose against a club he's managed and he's unbeaten in all eight previously matches against city and have won an enormous in the last five league games. while on saturday chelsea's lead at the top of the table was cut to just goal difference after they were started one of them at birmingham with the seventeenth when it went up meanwhile manchester united went second and remain unbeaten after it to no victory at home to nine man wigan gold treats ever after and have a hand as you describe both ahead of the eighty fifth minute winner as taught them

came from two goals down two in st so it's also for the first time in seventeen years the gunners though stick to third bolton went forth with a five one home drubbing of newcastle liverpool heaped more misery on a rock bottom west town of the three and i went on field to penalties helped stoke win it sliding west brom and blackpool beat second bottom wolves two one. it has also been another big weekend in russian football where eight games were played some more times that across the country on saturday in the penultimate fixtures of the season the pick of the action moscow secured a second place finish in the premier league after coming from a goal down to complete a thrilling three one victory over spot even snow ski reports. nothing big should be first there jack early on is the fees being issued to the. brazilian. feel are 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 brush off after getting

a second yellow card in the fifty third minute for arguing with the ref but says scott player 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 spar takes the fence for close range goal in the sixty six minute the ivory coast native scored his fifth premier league goal this season in style where no love was on the receiving end of some rough treatment which earned sparked x. nicholas perry after 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 seemingly easing off the gas against ten men say sky and paying dearly for events are gorski archie. such as unassailable in the second automatic champions league spot which was enough small signs to death that place rivals retain who fall back from two goals down with

anyone injured tool at home to. miss the visitors were assessed as the mock the test phase in an strikes taking a deflection and then there are more than two minutes and it isn't double the lead nine minutes after the restart downey's shot was blocked the ball landed in alex and because it costs face he loved it and somebody stayed to the fullest to finish that's on the out of the house for back a well executed cross and since i'm not us heading for one back he said as i said we need to set change and it fails to alexa in the vet if he cries out since he finished despite the draw one point was enough for anything to claim the champions that come from the spot to have a spot to spend second if you go in. and. the last final spot for the rope league went to one tee from one to one of our stuff with google is planning eight second half minutes but those do need to mackoff so his penalty saved in the first half need to secure do that for the visitors after fifty four minutes diagram that

knocked swiftly equalized for rust off. what's their joy the short lived there is one dolphin the cotton back in front just two minutes later two one states in which to. elsewhere was that now chick were left without any european football that season after losing three want to third bottom and cost the fighting for survival from bottom sabir have already gone a dad who joined then will be decided on the last day of the season second bottom line you have boosted the heads of staying up the two one when the time to tell that. golf now in poulter is back in the world's top ten after winning the hong kong open by one shot the englishman held off italian retirement assets and compadres simon dyson for his second win of the year they have not made up for himself in a great position and eventual bird is here on the sixth. day i said i was right on point as heels all day along with seventeen year old when

asteroid dyson's eagle from the apron on the third was one of the days where light was in turn maintained his composure against the challenges the thirty four year old did bogey the eighteenth that started the final round of sixty seven to twenty two round in the second trophy of twenty tell us a returns to the top ten after what was his tenth over him to victory. now plenty of packed ice rinks this sunday as nine games take place in the continental hockey league four of the current top five teams are in action with third place locomotives and forthright having gone already registering victories how about league a does not look like mr gorst upset at home to shoot task by not waste another minute making the starring with a hat trick and sits in the penalty shot because the celebrations. trade. to business against table mr kraft three two haven't got any false place and could go said today on the night that was the top five have rallied for need to get spot

tacked eleven a try and get back to the top ten the plane left for me to look at your life they had better. finally to martial arts where the battle of champions tournament has been held here in the russian capital and their own consenting but up off. fans of different points sure it's always argue which fighting to make is stuff however the battle of champions is probably the best way to find the truth the competition is unique it gives an opportunity for athletes of eighteen pointing styles to face each other in one ring but this time one thousand world and european champions came to battle it out in the women's vote to discover who's fighting background beats the rest. of the goals not a show all these fights are very tough and they are all for real every school fight mares' its own math or they're all sure that their way is the right one and so every time there's basis whether it's

a natural order to women there's that anyway it's at the school that wins but a particular fight through it ridiculous that you always seems to be one of the most impressive fights of the night was between that and the xander is that the rivals have already met each other twice and the score was equal and this time five books a length score the point swing over the twenty seven year old. and big ticket would do but they have to respond if it's still fighting what to drop the evening's menu with two world titles but allowed in two disciplines alexander so much unskillful russia praised michael six zero 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. he kept throwing his weight will to the floor though the russian was delighted with the victory assured long before the end of the encounter there was a teenager of sadness as it's his last ever 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 why opponent as well but on the other hand it's a little bit sad as i 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 fighters. and in the final battle of the night but the question go for it fabio corelli for the world title in keep boxing the 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 revealed 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 then and i was sure the punches i threw at him would finally find the target and that's what happened. martial arts other people in russia a full house at the luzhniki arena was evidence 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 that of our team. and that's all the sports news for now would join me for another update in less than two hours the weather news headlines next i think. for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. and we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from around

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