welcome back here with our team here is a look at the top stories the occupy protesters are back with the band but marches across the u.s. are marked with new police crackdowns and old ones tear gas and stun grenades at me for testers calling for an answer corporate greed and big business and once in politics. fresh violence hits and got a stand shortly after barack obama visits kabul with a wave of going to bomb attacks in which at least six died his trip marked a year since the killing of osama bin laden while deals were signed with afghan president karzai to cover the decade after the planned troop pullout in two thousand and fourteen. and frantic campaigning in france's presidential election

with just days left for the two candidates to woo voters before the size of round on sunday but the fight is getting tougher as right wing leader of marine le pen refuses to endorse either candidate. it's exactly three decades after the urgent time cruiser general belgrano was sunk in the first major british attack of the focus war and next we sit down with historian and author hugo chana to discuss whether the conflict was worth it. it's now thirty years since the war between britain and argentina over the falkland islands but like the islands themselves the accounts of that war and the reasons for it are still hotly disputed to talk more about this i'm joined by hugh ritson oh a historian and author of races age the unofficial history of that war he thanks for speaking to r.t. during the period known as the dirty war the buildup to the invasion of the falklands you were actually working in argentina as

a british intelligence officer how much to the british government know about what was going on in argentina at that time everything mass murder disappearances. corruption. gosh i mean the dirty war you just named them in the only two people who got rubbed out and why they choose to ignore it. well do you want the short answer the answer the. answer is that the british government is not very good at anything much except ignoring water abuse inconvenient for it to record an instance of the short answer is the foreign office suppressed much of the intelligence coming out of the station in the us which is why after the war the foreign office lost the power to distribute secret intelligence after that it went straight to the joint intelligence committee how much to the issue of the falkland

islands and their ownership feature in this policy we're going to balance that certainly the british government was more concerned about human rights than it was about the photo shoots. but that's at the political level. prime minister callaghan when the foreign office came up to try and sell him the idea of selling out the island he said i'm not handing over two thousand britons to a bunch of bleeping fascists. and that was the foreign office told but that didn't stop them you see because the bureaucracy has its own way of doing things and so when a new government came in which is what they always do when officials the permanent officials whenever there's a new government they rush in to sell the new ministers the policies the older and more experienced ministers to stuff it and that's what they did with a factor of government and they revived all their plans to sell out the islands with a bunch of inexperienced ministers who didn't realise that the previous essence of

smell that one and knew it was a bad one so they're essentially turning a blind eye to what was happening in argentina because they wanted to. that was the foreign office yes that's the permanent officials politicians were desperately conscious of human rights why did they want to set out the island is why did they want. these bank the territory to argentina because of the conceit of the british public sector and don't forget we're living that was an era when people thought the national health service was the envy of the world and they commonly thought of the british civil service as being a rolls royce service and the foreign office was by far the most conceited of them all and they said well more to politicians we know better. mag hastened to say that i was part of that mindset at the time i'm looking back on it this is what history is about it's. history isn't hindsight well the hell is it but yeah they were wrigley islands were regarded as an inconvenience why was that

when they see costly you know how trendy this country is and ever and charges off in one direction at one time. to being all full of the empire and all the rest and it was all we all we must get rid of all traces of the empire to prove what a modern with its country. tedious as hell but it continues you know right now when we're on the. we're just coming off that we must stick to uncle sam's bleep with both teeth started both lips but. it just it just goes in trends at that time the big thing was oh well we must shed our imperial past and then everyone is going to like us again overlooking the fact that people's memories go a long long long way back and they just because you aren't any longer in. doesn't mean people don't remember what you did when you were the anjan times invaded

because they were more or less told by british officials that all that. britain would do would be to yap to the un. to be dumbfounded. when patcher decided to to send a task force the totally unprepared for that totally convinced that the brits and indeed if it had been up to the foreign office that's exactly what would have happened the argentine invasion of the islands worked out pretty well they didn't it for the british government given that it was in such trouble domestically how much was this planned by britain to lure argentina into a trap to save us and skin. you're attributing too much intelligence to the british government it took everybody completely by surprise you know the political level certainly there were plenty of warnings that one of the things they say there was an intelligence failure know there was an in failure failure of the intellect but

that's permanent in british government it seems unable to process information and come up with sensible policies they campaign itself the way it was conducted was it done well was it a good idea in itself opinion i think they had to do it we had a legal and moral obligation to those islanders and if we did not keep our word to them we were worthless. how close to my books call raises age for a reason and you'll find julian thomson in full agreement that whole operation could have gone either way at any stage i mean just some quite small things that the argument times that done if they'd done better. and the british would have lost how fair was the media coverage of the war in britain at the time i have deep contempt for the british b.b.c. . and it started at the time of the falklands because that one and only concern is to hang on to the attacks that enables them to live far better than they deserve.

so therefore they were attacking they really wanted factual to go because they saw her as someone who might cut government spending almost all b.s. thing to cutting government spending is this regressive tax paid to the baby saying so therefore they did everything and they and officialdom generally did everything possible to undermine thatcher and actually treasonously to undermine the operation to recover the falklands why was it on a raises agencies say why was it so closely four was it because britain underestimated argentina no they just didn't have the capability i mean if they are doing times and waited another six months we could've done it would have had no more accurate carriers would have had a more on t.b.s. capability. as indeed it is happening now the same old story they are after us we can give cover all over the world account what about now what

would happen if argentina attacked again would britain be able to pull together a task force and defend the islands they can't recover if the islands are lost now we can't get them back we do not or genuinely do not have the capability this conservative government has once again emasculated the armed forces. which they've done regularly since the nineteen fifties. so it all depends on whether. the big base pleasant can be held military are way more professional now than they were then and they have some pretty competent special forces and i can't see anything actually stopping them coming in doing an act attack on mount pleasant and taking it out at which point the islands fall. but i still use

a q ship come in send in your special forces dressed as tourists on a cruise ship and take stanley that two and a half of the thousand of the three thousand people in the falklands you hold that just exactly what is britain going to do that moment i don't think so how damaging would that be for for the current government here presidential would be what this government and modern britain deserves it isn't what the islanders deserve. more was actually a serious operation by a serious country i don't think this country is serious anymore why does the british government then so. desperately want to keep hold of these very far from it the british government desperately wants to get rid of it they just can't get rid of it why not because of the war so what i mean political suicide for any any government after that war was not and this is why the utter stupidity of the

argentine government after that war it was politically impossible for any british government to sell out the islanders however much the foreign office and the ministry of defense want to do it you can't do it people remember people would say what the hell is this how much the recent conflicts like afghanistan and iraq tell us what's been learned if anything from the falklands war well they did learn one foreign office control foreign intelligence that was one. the other one briefly learned was that if you're going to operate overseas it was a whole bunch cheaper to have aircraft carriers than to have to hope that you can get ground bases from which to operate. on that note the british british very very very poor at learning the lessons of anything broadly speaking because they never faced up to the truth about anything the politicians if they can will draw the long

wrong conclusions from everything and blair got us involved in war after war after war beyond british capabilities we were put into whole battles where we did not have the combat power to do that we were put into hell man we did not have the combat power to do that one rages in vain against this. not because of any censorship not because of any oppression or the fact that i will walk out of here and get beaten over the head for my opinions because very simply my opinions and my statements of fact will be ignored because they're too inconvenient. thank you.

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back with a bang but marches across the us are marked with new police crackdowns and oakland tear gas and stun grenades mean protesters calling for an answer to corporate greed big business importance in politics. fresh violence hits again a stamp shortly after barack obama visits kabul with a wave of god in bomb attacks in which at least six die his trip marked a year since the killing of osama bin ladin while deals were signed with afghan president karzai to cover the decade after the planned troop pullout twenty fourteen. frantic campaigning in france as presidential election with just days left for the two candidates to woo voters before the decisive round on sunday but the fight is getting tougher as right wing leader marine le pen refuses to endorse

either candidate. we are now turning to the world of sports and units here good morning to you well and a tragedy once again hits the professional sporting world yes. i'm talking with things like this much too often a twenty six year old norway swimming champion a world champion who so the picks over medals has died as i said just twenty six more in that story coming up we're going on the rest of the sport as. plenty ahead over the next ten minutes including. in charge roy hodgson is named as the new english football manager on the four year deal will remain in charge of the final two games of the premier league season. going the distance russian

middleweight world champion to be key for all defenses in moscow seeing off japanese challenger. or fool hardy the austrian alps. one of the most challenging extreme really races in the world with france in all testing the best. of their mountain west brom boss roy hodgson named as the country's new manager for the upcoming four years the sixty four year old will remain in charge of the baggies for the last couple of premier league matches this season but they've agreed to release him from his contract early so we can begin preparations for euro twenty twelve mediately confirming that the announcement of squad for those european championships will be put back until after the final day of the club season the former liverpool and interim manager has overseen eighteen teams including three national sides in a career spanning thirty six years. to have been over the

country. looking forward to the everyone. but. everybody. has to be the country will get behind the team because used to. it's been another disappointing eye thing for liverpool in the english premier league but a historic one for fullam the london side winning at anfield for the first ever time on choose day and on goal from martin score at all securing the visitors one nil win the best of preparations for the reds as the cure all for saturday's f.a. cup final with chelsea cross-town rivals everton are no three points in front of kenny dalglish's men in seventh after they drew one one away to stoke in the night's other soul fixture. some sad news from the world of swimming world champion alexandra deal and died suddenly at the age of twenty six the norwegian was found dead in his shower in or

a zone where he was training to head of the summer's olympics he was there confirmed he suffered a cardiac arrest deal and was world champion in the one hundred metres breaststroke after winning gold in shanghai in july last year a victory he dedicated to the seventy seven people killed in a shooting by right wing extremists. just three days before thought to be. let's talk basketball on to the n.b.a. where the lakers are currently aiming to go two zero up in their opening round playoff series against denver the two thousand and nine and ten champions trying to stave off a comeback attempt by the nuggets in the fourth the scoring ninety two eighty three l.a. chicago meanwhile are seeing their worst fears come true after losing winning m.v.p. jeric rose for the season i choose to report a run helping on the dogs philadelphia tie their series of one one wild boston for bok from eleven done in the second half to even their series up against one apiece in that one as well of paul pierce twenty thirty six points to make off the absence

of the suspended rage on the rumble. to get going early we did i mean i was you could see our first seven boys that they call it was paul pierce left right center and you know and obviously it's a make misleading the ball and to go in. because you know we don't want to lose but i just thought we had a shot and once we got off to a good start. two ice hockey now where one of the k.h. els leading goaltenders switched clubs constantine bottle and joining us from atlanta on a three year deal bruins are standing this plays in the twenty eleven season helped his former club finished runner job for the first time in their history the twenty seven year old russian international somewhere in the playoffs the most valuable player award last year reached the western conference semi's this season in other news rising russian talent if gainey has turned on the chance to move to the washington capitals deciding instead to stay a truck for at least two more since. the man regarded as the greatest snooker

player of all time has decided to take early retirement stephen hendry walking away from the green felt with seven world titles to his name the scot was simply a phenomenon rising to the world number one ranking the just twenty one he would also hold the top spot for eight consecutive years during the ninety's forty three year old hendry announcing his decision to quit following a heavy defeat at the world championships on choose the the edinburgh native along with ronnie wood sullivan holds the record for most maximum of one hundred forty seven breaks in this fourth eleven. to boxing where winning w b o middleweight champion has once again successfully defended his title against japan's number here as she did it took the undefeated pro the full twelve rounds to achieve it though as michael reports. even with the pre-match drama series she didn't really feel the way a confident dimitry paroch spent a lot of time talking of chances of

a twentieth success. if she didn't the only with a large part very quiet least because he did not speak english instead he let his fists do the talking as round one began he wrote had stated that he had expected the bound to go to the wire and his early wishes approach meant he was sticking to his good plan if she did was hoping to revive it. reus somewhat with this fight was also focused and determined and although he was caught by many of piranhas jabs he continued to stumble just by i heard the rounds passing without serious incident the home crowd began the bloods. and by around eight it was obvious ishita was not going to win by the judges school hero kept plugging away at him and finally forced the japanese books to the full was despite the setback issue the still looked like he believed he could get an unlikely knockout but pirogue whether to shit is increasingly desperate lunges and almost looked as if he myself would get the

killer knock out. in the end pirogue prediction of a tough twelve round bounce came true and by unanimous decision he registered his twenty of the victory remaining undefeated and looking hungry for his next opponent but he did not go with a lot of work was put into preparing for this fight and i'm very pleased to have successfully defended my title i was prepared for it but to his credit he surprised me a lot and i've learned a great deal from fighting him now i'm already looking forward to meeting my next opponent with that is she was gallant in defeat praising his victor but also saw no shame in its manner this is a champion i've never really been hurt by my previous opponents but dimitri is truly a worthy champion because he did manage to hurt me during this fight but i am also proud to have been in the same ring as him but i was never really any down the beach with success to defend the field title i can still see the japanese never

really getting back the rocks next i have what will be good spy vs weight champ can tell you feel the test shot tougher than the morning's today thank you. miguel cotto has a chance to do what no other boxer has done before this coming saturday the puerto rican could become the first fighter to the feat floyd mayweather jr if he defends is doubly be a light. middleweight title successfully in sin city las vegas the thirty one year old house several things going from against a man on beaten in forty two professional fights the weather moving up in weight to bottle cotto for the first time since beating oscar de la hoya in two thousand and seven there is in addition the thirty five rule will be starting a ninety day jail sentence for domestic violence shortly after the fight on june first the weatherstripping he wants absolutely nothing short of his opponent's best with two insisting ease and the bashing mismatch family. which is why i train

a little. piece there in orlando and i'm going to. get the big three auto no face no go. don't push floyd mayweather to the test i want to be pushed to the saturday night i want to bring his best because that's the only thing anything that's going to do is escalate my fight game to the next level so this is very very important i won't be geocoding to be at his best i want to be strong i want. to press the attack early. on finally for those who find it tough sometimes to gather the energy for the evening stroll or even morning jog the following might give you the spur needed this is the peak creek challenge in austria three teams of eight taking part in the race the event encompasses are you ready for this skiing martin biking mountain running climbing road cycling scheme engineering paragliding. before all eighteen members join in for the white water

rafting play the teams are made up of professional athletes from mixed nationalities the most notable this year being cyclists janu rick but his red team came in third. round. well done for all who made it last or otherwise that is all the sport for i'll see you in just under two hours time with your. wealthy british soil it's time to write. the book. market why not.

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