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you're watching our t.v. international broadcast from moscow thanks for being with us this sunday evening it's our roundup of the week's top stories first moscow will take part in missile defense plans for europe but only if it's an equal partner that was one of the outcomes of the nato russia summit in lisbon which has been hailed as a fresh start in their relation. russian businessman victor boot denies charges of weapons smuggling and terrorism are the calls from the u.s.

after he was hastily extradited from thailand on tuesday. i. think on our two news crews detained in the us as they filmed a rally near a military training academy in ga. and two israeli soldiers get you know jailed for using a palestinian boy as a human shield they forced a nine year old to check bags of bombs through the gaza war two years ago. more from us twenty four seven of our teeth. it may be a century since the death of one of the world's greatest writers put a biographer of leo tolstoy explains why his legacy still lives on and how he might be viewed if he were alive today it's coming right up for you. it's three hundred anniversary of player tolstoy's death and some of that out of us

three 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. 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 the list 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 on the as you know five campaign culminating

in a 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 f. a loss of for as right out 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 we're now living 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. 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 of the muslims they're supposed to fighting there's an extraordinary significance in every single life and he has this 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 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 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 its 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 but it's 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 he'd finished and i trained you know which was a fantastic success as was 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 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 for 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 for 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 it's ours the particularly evil and besides 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 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 i mean 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. 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 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 piece if you think of given in. their worldly young man. soldiers or landowners and people very much like himself

arest attracts 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 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 literature of the orthodox church in it the extreme indicated 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 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 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 is that what's to celebrate well 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 and stand 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 guided by the influence of tolstoy and that's really what we have to celebrate. and you said that he was in essence and if told so i have a life today what do you think he would be doing when. he would have been 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. have made a complete mess of things and that what we call civilization was less in terms of the bangs and he would be saying just what he was saying in one thousand and the people self live will simply try to love people try to live for others and wilson thank you very much thank you.

my grandmother did not like what i hear because. she was afraid. and she was very cold. she felt. i was frankenstein's monster. we don't have the problem. every time and effort is made. on the palestinian or on the european side to negotiate in. to the violent attacks against israel which i have no fear of war calling its song goes you have no. calling the leader of the state of israel one of the main terrorists in the world.

we are supposed to be seriously examining history but you mention a few words about jewish culture happening and people get some upset this is i'm sorry to say it's a form of emotional blackmail. the official. from the. video. and. the palm of your.

store's narrow view of the week moscow will take part in missile defense plans for europe but only if. it was one of the outcomes of the nato russia summit in lisbon which is great as a fresh start to. russian business men big boots denies charges of weapons smuggling and terrorism of course in the us he was hastily extradited from thailand don't choose to. believe i would. never be. a nazi news crews detained in the us as they filmed a rally near a military training academy in ga. and two israeli soldiers get no jail

for using a palestinian boy is a human shield the force the nine year old to check the bombs during the gaza war two years ago. twenty two forty five moscow time sports time no cake c.l.o. there are significant. yes get in they. have now lost five from the last six so it's not going to affect the top of the table. the night when this goes from just about or are they well over to them right now. hello welcome to the sports news thank you for joining me and that is the headline is. keeping up the cost has scored twice as much the city went back into the top four with the downswing for one when it's full of blood can be tossed in the villa in english premier league. ball king kong england in porto went back into goals top

ten off the time in one stroke victory in hong kong open. on the slippery slope leaders met or led by mr gore's stumble to earth pits defeat in six games in the kontinental hockey league. let's start with english premier league football on cost have a scolding a child has managed to city regain fourth place after entertaining for one victory at full and you stay falls balsam argentina legendary guy maradona was among the crowd in school two hundred ninety six minutes and fellow countryman that's added a second for ya two and maybe three mill by half time as nice as his second early in the second call into his all time hero pulled one back late on for a full and it finished for want city moved within three points of league leaders chelsea will fall and they stay in the bottom four morten gamst pedersen also scored in each hole is black and one soon to aston villa in front of the club's new

owners that threaten parents came off the bench in the second coffin that he's been a debut his science five not on the run came to an end his brave those close to eleven. may was a day chelsea is made at the top of the table was cups just goal difference on the day was done i want to look down and be very yes with the seventeen minute window meanwhile mts united went second and remain unbeaten after to know that trick of knowing on the weekend the goal patrice evra and as you describe well ahead of the eighty first minute when there was talk of them came from two goals down two in three two at all. well for the first time in seventeen years the gunners they slipped to third also went false with the five wanted home drubbing of newcastle little more misery on a rock bottom west town with a three when it's on field two penalties help stoke win it sliding west brom in blackpool the second bottle was two one. and it's also been another big weekend in russian football where eight games were played summertime is the across the country

on saturday in the penultimate fixtures of the season the pick of the actual moscow secure a second place finish in the premier league after coming from a goal down to complete a thrilling three one victory. event. nothing spelled trouble first part tucker early on as 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 view to 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 a 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 fans for a close range goal in the sixty six minute the ivory coast native scored his fifth premier league goal the 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 turn into a cut for both three one when so spark jock seemingly easing of the gas against ten men say sky and paying dearly for gorski archie. says i scar unassailable in the second automatic champions league spot which was also no small science to third place rivals rubio who fought back from two goals down but only wanted to draw a time to crown champions in it the business was fast off the lot by suiting strike taking a deflection off number narrow and to pass off to ninety minutes and senate double that lead nine minutes after the restart bonnie's shot was brought in the ball landed in alex on the fate of this incident is to provide the benefit to finish but it's all now the hosts for back a while executed cross and says novice was on hand so heading for one back and

seven minutes later an interception with sailed not to let some of that as speaker lines up tonight saying despite the draw one point was enough for the. in the champions league qualifying spot ahead of spartak moscow i settle for the right. hand elsewhere the last spot for the right believe went to dr latif who won two one blastoff at sparta now left without any european football next season after losing three one a third bottom omkara fighting for survival rock bottom survey i have already gone down and joined them will be decided on the last day of the season the second bottom line at least in their hopes of staying up to one when the time to tell that . 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 matal manassero and compadres simon dyson to his second win of the year the overnight leader put himself in

a great position for an eventual birdie around the sixth. while dyson was right on a call to sleep all day along with seventeen year old nasser and dyson's eagle from the apron on the third one of the day's highlights. but poulter maintained his composure against the challengers the thirty four year old did bogey the eighteenth carded a final round of sixty seven under par to finish twenty three on the second trophy of twenty ten he also returns to the top ten after what was his tenth over into victory. ten is now in the world's top eight players in the men's game are in london for the a.t.p. world tour finals and hang fire andy murray has produced a super display to add class robin sidling of the round robin stage to take an early lead in group a five zero two arena cheered on the britain as he went up against the in-form swede who recently won the paris most us but murray broke so in the third and seventh game to take the opening set six two and he survived with

only a break come to the second set was six for one hour and twenty minutes taking the lead for the. want to motorsport now where team chevrolet have completed a turnaround in. their fortunes to secure the world's touring cars constructors' title new world champion ivan milat and rob hough completed a want to finish in macau after their team want to points deduction appear last week over their use of sequential gearboxes last month it was hosty was starting from pole with milan having already clinched his second crown since his two thousand and eight triumph however the safety car was out shortly after the start and recruiter and the prio up close and personal proceedings resumed on lap five and the briton rolled to a comfortable win in the first race ahead of moola the second races or newcomer no but surely each beat out how gabriel tuckey me second from the late train was ricky challenge title. moving across the ice and metal are going to continue to wobble

at the top of the kontinental hockey league after they were beaten at home in a penalty shoot out by not placed in our minsk reaching the lash was the star sporting trip netting a penalty shot it but that arsenal side saw through victory in fifty fifty feet in six games and the league leaders elsewhere at their place looked at the t.v. registered three two win against me take a look and she brought fourth place i've got to be a glance to nail this place boss comfortably defeated spartak moscow for one of us down avoided a third straight lost by shots at net a human to know some about you live by that style on top that also claimed victories. and finally to basketball were to have suffered their first domestic defeat of the season the army men played out a disappointing seventy one sixty nine loss to unix adding to the misery in the euro league for the mystery that reports. it's proving to be a very difficult season for to discard the army men are struggling to adjust to the

new coaches system and they're now on the verge of missing the you're really top sixteen for the first time in more than decades yet in moscow side were and beat in the domestic league ahead of beast match where they face their form of guinea pressuring in his new side in weeks and the visitor showed they were verbeek challenge from the first quarter working hard in defense when he swore occasionally stayed on the ball and scored on far as breaks and the side from doesn't finish the first half hour by two points says scott scholes discover your shortage of decided to experiment and limited the brain time a few sides keep lair john gordon but gordon steele was influential in these game becoming cisco's highest score was seventeen points however it was only excess light emitted a mean guy who became the game's smallest valuable clare get it ten rebounds to his fourteen points and court to see of it i mean because it has and side had a one point lead and possession was less than five seconds remaining terra lidy was

followed by and made more shots in the arm and needed to sink a free point as a send the match into overtime and then the david and sage drew a fall while shooting free and it was his chance to save the day for this guy but he made only one short ensuring the victory went to win when u.s. consul can well i feel very bad no it's a hard one to swallow we me personally should have made free throws in the end we just gave the win away but a negative experience is still an experience so we just have to learn the lessons. a great win for a week's walk towards said that something more than locke was on their sights i don't believe i believe in god's will and you know everything happens the way it's supposed to happen and so you know for god i think is a basketball you know everybody everybody makes mistakes everybody makes great play you know and i mean it's that's that's the joy of basketball that's that's why you

play the game nothing serious for them but this huge win for us. i believe we won this game because they played two days before this one very important game in the symbol in itself is built on that's exactly where they lost a lot of energy meanwhile cisco now focusing on the you were the was the next game coming on wednesday in milan and defeat there would be even more damaging but you missed our team. that's all sports news for this one as a. few. 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.