and again this is all see and this week's headlines. also tells nacer it will get involved in the alliances missile defense plans for europe but only as an equal partner at a historic summit in lisbon which declared an end to confrontation with the. m.m.r. . i made my letter here and now they're mad at me and also a news crew has been arrested in the us while filming protest against a military training school for latin american special services dubbed the assassins counter by opponents. russian businessman big to boot denies charges of arms trafficking and terrorism at a court in the u.s. to his swift extradition from thailand on tuesday. and an israeli military court

has left two soldiers convicted of using a palestinian boys a human shield walk free on charges usually carrying a three year jail time they soldiers were suspended for three months off to making a nine year old boy opened bonds they thought contained explosives during the israeli onslaught in gaza almost two years ago. while it's maybe a century since the death of one of the world's greatest writers but a bio ware folio told star explains why his legacy lives on and how he might be viewed if he were alive today. if the hundredth anniversary of player tolstoy's death and to mark that anniversary 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

a giant he was the great giant of the novelistic form greater even than dostoyevsky who i suppose of the two great dr so that was 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 and so 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 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 about an hour salutes and then the invasion of eight hundred twelve but the further it goes on you realise 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 think in compass is his philosophy in life and i answer it in two ways if you think of that really quite early work of his. 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 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 the 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 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 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 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 are more in pieces but it's 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 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 an accordion you know which was a fantastic success as was war and peace and it 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 that. by the way set up schools not only on his interstates 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 he involved 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'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 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 breakers you know people who break rocks with other rocks and he thought to himself. how much he envied them because as poor working people they were so much closer to god than he was and you can imagine this what break it hearing this story and thing here you have no idea of the privations and hardships of my life exactly and the world's 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 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 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's all about a 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 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 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 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 cedars 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 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 one thousand and ten 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 if anybody is one voice telling the truth look at a matter of i 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 if told so he'd be alive today what do 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 that 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. what we call civilization most lexington's of the banks and he would be saying just what he was saying in one thousand and. live will simply try to love people try to live and well thank you very much.

those so many years of. see saw my prisoners. still along. as well as. those so many years of. summer hoping to find to see. others take your executioners longing for justice. those so many years it's just a memory is still a moment. as well. as. great. seventy six hours of intense fighting. six thousand dead to. feel several kilometers long. and now there is only one person who cares. we are surrounded by grabbers everywhere but also there are. on this beach which of

course is the very most appropriate signification. symbol of everything that's wrong with our goddamn government allowing the. torture we were were so many guys died. a new battle is going on. will the history be protected. when i turn to tara what julian cooper story on our t.v. . line . would be soon which writer if you knew about some you from phone stuporous use. these for a start on t.v. dot com. in this week's headlines

moscow tells nato it will get in bold in their lines as missile defense plans for europe but only as an equal partner at a historic summit in lisbon and wish to collide and then it's too confrontational of a. member of the market i deny deny but my liberty here and now they're having me and also the news crew has been arrested in the us while filming a protest against a military training school for latin american special services dubbed the fastens compote. russian businessman victim who denies charges of trafficking and terrorism at a court in the glass after his swift extradition from thailand on tuesday. that israeli military court has let two soldiers convicted of using a palestinian boy as a human shield will walk free on charges usually carrying a three year jail term these soldiers were suspended for three months for making

a nine year old boy open bugs they thought contained explosives during the israeli onslaught of gaza over studio as ago. as the headlines now the sports news is up next with kate. hello welcome to the sports news thank you for joining me and that is the headline . keeping up call us scored twice as manchester city went back into the top four the downswing for one when it's full of blood can be tossed in a villa in english premier league. football 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 need his mettle led by mr gore's stumble to earth pits defeat in six games in the kontinental hockey league. that 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 for also argentina legendary guy maradona was among the crowd in school two hundred ninety six minutes and from that country and that's added a second for ya two and maybe three mil 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 and is blackburn one soon to aston villa in front of the club's new owners that's when robbie appearance came off the bench in the second call to make his killer debut his side's five not came to an end and his brave those close to eleven . may was a day chelsea's made at the top of the table as cup just gold if it was done in one delegates only in the very act with a seventeen minute we're not meanwhile mts united went second and remain unbeaten

after to know that three hundred nine on the weekend the goal hoffman patrice evra and and as you just go ahead of the eighty first minute when there was talk of them came from two goals down two in three two at. well for the first time in seventeen years they slipped. also went also with the five wanted home driving of newcastle liverpool more misery on a bottom west town with a three though when it's on a field two penalties help stoke when it sliding west brom and blackpool beat second watson was two one. one it's also been another big weekend in russian football where eight games were played small time is the across the country on saturday in the penultimate fixtures of the season the pick of the actual sorties gone must go secure a second place finish in the premier league after coming from a goal down to complete a thrilling three one victory. event. nothing still 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 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 fisk of players 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 c.b. doing be a slice through spark takes the fans for close range goal in the sixty six 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 cut for both three one win so sparked jock seemingly easing of the gas against ten men say sky and paying dearly for evander gorski. says i scar

unassailable in the second automatic champions league spot which was also no small science to third place rivals rubin who fought back from two goals down but only wanted to draw a time to nearly crowned champions in it the business was fast off the lot and strike taking a deflection off number naira and to pass off to ninety minutes and senate double that only nine minutes after the restart bunny's shot was brought and the ball landed in alex on the fate of this is what's missing from the photo finish that's all now the hosts for back a while execute a cross and says i never asked him said heading for one back and seven minutes later an interception with sailed not to let some of that as equaliser saying despite the draw one point was enough for the. in the champions league qualifying spot headed spartak moscow center for the right.

where the last spot for the right police went to dr latif who won two on a. spotter now left without any european football next season after losing three want to third bottom on the continent fighting for survival rock bottom severe have already gone down to join them will be decided on the last day of the season the second bottom line they have used to their hopes of staying up to winter time to target. goals and in poulter is back in the world's top ten after winning the hong kong open by one shot the englishman held off italian material when asked. simon dyson for his second win of the year the overnight leader put himself in a great position for an eventual birdie here on the six. bucks dyson was not an apprentice all day along with seventeen year old manassero dyson's eagle from the apron on the third one of the day's highlights. so maintained his

composure against the challenges the thirty four year old did bogey the eighteenth proud of a final round of sixty seven and twenty two under par in the second trophy of twenty ten he also returns to the top ten after what was his tenth overall european tour victory. ten is now on the world's top eight players in the men's game are in london for the a.t.p. world tour finals and home for andy murray has produced a super display to outclass robben sidling at the round robin stage to take an early lead in group a pad sos who arena cheered on the britain as he went up against the in-form sweet who recently won the paris most as that's murray broke serve in the third and seven games to take the outing set six two and he survives he's only break point two three in the second set. was intact six four. one in twenty minutes. i want to merge a sport 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 one to finish in macau after their team won a points deduction appear last week over their use of sequential gear boxes last month it was hof it was starting from pole with milan having already clinched his second crown since the two thousand and eight triumph however the safety car was out shortly after the start country who to the prio up close and personal proceedings resumed on lap five and the briton rolled to a comfortable when the first race ahead of move the second races or newcomer no but surely each beat out how gabriel talking any second finale victory was with 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 ash is the star sporting trip netting a penalty shot it got better she signed for the three victory 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 at your graph fourth place of a god to be a glance to nail this place up boss come to be defeated spartak moscow for one of us dollar avoided a third straight lost by shots at net a he needs to know some about you live. on track to force the plane victories. and finally to basketball were to have suffered their first a mystic defeat of the season the army men played out a disappointing seventy one sixty nine loss to unix adding to their misery in the euro league for the mystery that reports. it's proving to be a very difficult season for the army man a struggling to adjust to the new coaches system and are now on the verge of missing the your top sixteen for the first time in more than decades yet the moscow side were and beat in the domestic league ahead of beast match where they face their form of guinea bush and 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 faas braids and aside from doesn't finish the first half hour by two points says scott scholes discover your sure age decided to experiment and limited the blame time a few sides keep ledger on board on but gordon steele was influential in these game become in cisco's highest score was seventeen points however it was only exists like the matter of a mean guy who became the game's smallest where they will blare get it ten rebounds to his fourteen points and court to see of it i mean because it designed side had a one point lead and possession was less than five seconds remaining tera lidy was followed by it's a scar and made both shots in the arm and they did to sink a free point as a send the match into overtime and then that a vote on stage to a fall while shooting free and it was his chance to save the day for days but he

made only one short ensuring the victory win to win x. consul can well i feel very bad it's a hard one to swallow we uns 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 wheen for only ex-wife after wards said that something more than luck was on their site i don't believe i believe in god. and you know everything happens the way it's supposed to happen and so you know for that i think it's basketball you know everybody. well everybody makes mistakes everybody makes great plays some in all head i mean it's the best 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 and i believe we won this game because they played two days before this one very important game in the symbol against a physical sun and that's exactly where they lost a lot of emotions meanwhile cisco now focusing on the you were the was there next

game coming on wednesday milan in defeat there would be even more damaging but you missed our team. that's all sports news this poll has a. question was that so much going to make a lot of people here in africa drowning in debt levels in rich industrialized countries are truly staggering for a long time to come there is plenty of financial.

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