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here. but our team news crews detained in the u.s. says they film of bradley their military training academy in ga. two british soldiers get no jail for using a palestinian boy is a huge shield they forced a nine year old to check bags for bombs during the gaza war two years ago. it may be a century since the death of one of the world's greatest 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 hundredth anniversary of player tolstoy's death and to mark that out of our story i'm talking to one of his biographers a n. wilson he wanted awards in one thousand nine hundred eighty 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 a giant he was the great giant of the novelistic form greater even than dostoyevsky who was to the great dr so that's what attracted me to him and the fact that ever since really become a serious researcher 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 those kinds of rankings 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 aids you know 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 i was as much i fell off the fact as of right out 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 because archy the cossacks there's a moment in that when the lane in who's been hunting. for the day 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 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. reason. with which he's connected 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 just as for the. warriors and justice of the old muslims 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 tract 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 essentially underwent this transformation didn't he from high society author 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 bolkonski a 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 the he never really. played a big part in the political life unlike his cousins court 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 and i train you know which was a fantastic success as was war and peace and i made it very very rich which he hadn't been before he'd been land it and it had peasants and it had a 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 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 volved 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 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 working on the raid one day and he came across a gang of rock creek 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 that 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 but 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 the of the in in . their worldly young man. soldiers or land owners of 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 he can sort of. he can identify with the ministry 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 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 the extreme unit cases him didn't make any difference to him because he hadn't been going 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 unorthodox 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 one 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 dry he did with a passion for the truth and here loon 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 enabled the dissidents when they courageously began to imagine stalin this 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 celebrate and he said that he was in essence and if tolstoy have a life 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 must let into the banks and he would be saying just what he was saying in one thousand and between yourself live more simply try to love people try to live for others and wilson thank you very much thank you.

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. halting english being called so when it's the second title of the yes with a one strike victory in the hong kong like the. slippery slope that leaders met alike magnitogorsk lose their fifth game of the last six years four of the top five sides see action in the k h l. let's kick off with english premier league football where morten gamst pedersen scored twice as black men want to know at home to aston villa in front of the club's new owners so a successful start a new era for rivals off their forty three million pounds takeover by the wrong found on the friday medicine netted on the striker time with a free kick from it's my title i did a second after sixty six minutes thirty seven year old robert perez then came off the bench to make it's been a day beat the team's new science five notch and beat run came to an end as rovers close to eleventh meanwhile much to city are on course to go forth as they need or want to tell them argentina legend diego maradona is among the crowd in school two

of these troops still three of the goals call us divers opened up to six minutes problem i did a second off thirteen minutes in going off to race with the object of the whole time as not to two seconds off to fifty six minutes city completely in control by the sultan house put on boxing following the seventieth minutes about ten minutes ago that. it was saturday chelsea's lead at the top of the table was just goal difference off the play was don't want to look back on me and me out with the seventeenth minute went to the mall monster united went second remain unbeaten. to know that trip times nine. eighty fifth minute went up as one came from two goals done. for the first time. also one false with a fine one. more misery on west town with the three no one is on fails

to penalties when. it's also been another big weekend in russian football where eight games were played. the day. of the season because they actually saw tesco must go secure a second place finish in the premier league after coming from a goal down to complete a trailing three one victory. nothing spilled schauble first part tucker early on as they seize the initiative in the opening half brazilian midfielder ibsen 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. off after getting a second yellow card in the fifty third minute for arguing with the ref but says conflicts are 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 as c.b. doing be a slice through spar takes defense for close range goal in the sixty sixth minute the ivory coast native scored his fifth premier league goal this season in style wegner 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 what turned into a comfortable three one win so start jock seemingly easing off the gas against ten men face sky and paying dearly for it gorski archie. so on a salable in the second automatic champions league spot which was in no small thanks to their third place rivals rubin who fought back from two goals down but could only manage a draw at home to newly crowned champions in it the visitors were first off the market to face soon in the strike taking a deflection from london marathon. after nineteen minutes anderson at doubleday eight nine minutes after the restart danny shot was blocked and the ball landed

alexander speed he loved it it's about to stay provided the left footed finish that's on the out the host quarterback a well executed cross and says on the bus was on the heading back seven minutes later an interception in midfield led to lex a medevac equaliser teetered finished despite the draw one point was enough to find a champions league qualifying spot ahead of spots at moscow center for the local. weather last night find a spot for you a for league one to look on the t.v. one to one last thought while spa talk now chicks were left without any european football next season after losing three one bottom from cock fighting for survival bro bottom survey have already gone down to join them will be decided on the last day of the season a second bottom line your first of their hopes of staying up to one when it's time to get it. golf and ian 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 compacted simon dyson for his second win of the year they have not laid up himself in a great position for the eventual birdie here on the sixth. that dyson was right on pole to sales all day along with seventeen year old masser a dyson eagle from the apron on the third which relates to light. that's also maintained his composure against the challengers the thirty four year old did go get the eighteenth speak out of the final round of sixty seven times trying to turn the park. after the second trophy of twenty ten we also returned to the top ten after what was his tenth overworking to victory. tennis now in the world's top eight players in the men's game or in london for the a.t.p. world tour finals and i'm favorite andy murray has produced a superior display to outlast robin settling the round robin stage to take an early lead in group b. a packed into arena it seeded britain has went up against the fourth ranked swede

recently won the paris masters but it was murray who was one step ahead taking away from the set six two and startling felt really great in the second allowing murray to take early command of the base sixty six ball when that match is between murray's future group of parents roger federer and. the fed express is making his night's finals a parent having won four titles between two thousand and three to two thousand and seven. moving across to the ice a matter like my mr gorst continued to wobble at the top of the kontinental hockey league after they were beaten at home in a penalty shootout by ninth place deny minsk to reach a moleskine to start the trick and getting a penalty shots to give confederations like all three victory and if that fifty in six games and league leaders elsewhere third place latif rested and three to win against it table with your graph album god beat atlanta to nail fifth place come to

into it spot at my spot for one avoided at third straight last with a shot at net a female to male so that you live better sky from top to also trying victorious. finally to martial arts where the battle of champions tournament has been held here in the russian capital and around constantine but went to see. france of different more sure it's always argue which winning to make you stuff however the battle of champions just brigley the best way to find the truth the competition is unique it gives an opportunity for upwards of eighteen point two styles. in one room. in this time one thousand world and european champions to battle it out in the lemon boats to discover who's fighting background beats the rest this version yet again it's not a show all of these fights a very tough and they are all for real every school of five now has its own math or they're all sure that their way is the right one so every time they face each other it's a matter of order to win but anyway it's at the school that wins but

a particular fight for it in particular about. one of the most impressive fights of the night was between that and that xander is that the rivals have already met each other twice and the score was equal and this time five books eleven scored the points ween over the twenty seven year olds in itself and big ticket would do but the after is forming the feast of fighting what to top the evening's menu with two world titles but allowed in two disciplines alexander russia phase michael six all from the u.s. to become world champion and been credited on the russian wrestle a dominated from the opening round giving his opponent no chance to get back into contention twenty two year old so much inskeep kept throwing his weight will to the fore though the russian was delighted with the victory showed long before the end of the encounter there was a team 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 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 whatever i'm going to stay involved training young fighters. and in the final battle of the night go for trouble corelli for the world title in keep boxing the thirty eight year old italian never really student chance in a blizzard of punches and kicks from the russian thirty year old classic of simply thresh 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 world and after a hail of blows a good day's work to go for the formidable russian for his no grab all the belts and and the crown of absolute world champion. my opponent is a very known 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 that the punches i

threw it in would finally find the target and that's what happened. more shorts are very popular in russia a full house at luzhniki arena was evident with big daters getting the rare chance to see the top fighters from various martial arts in action doing battle in one ring can say about half of our team. just before we go this time to it's full time at craven cottage for want to match the city who go into the top four followed by i stay in the bottom fall and that's all the sports news from abidjan with another update in less than two hours the weather news headlines are next season. hungry for the full story we've got it first the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on.