i think sadly three decades after the engine time cruiser general belgrano was sunk and the first major british attack of the falcons war and next we said down with historian and author of cuba channel 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 still hopefully 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 anjan tina at that time everything mass murder disappearances.

corruption. gosh i mean the dirty war you just named them in the. two people who got rubbed out and why they choose to ignore it. well do you want the sort. of the. truth that the british government is not very good at anything much except ignoring water abuse inconvenient for the record an instance of the short answer is the foreign office suppressed much of the intelligence coming out of the station in the service 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 did 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 fulcrums. 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 but the older and more experienced ministers told to stuff it and that's what they did with the fact your government and they revived old 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 parliament officials politicians were desperate to be

conscious of human rights why did they want to set out the island is why do they want. the east bank the territory to understand it 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 you know better. maggie 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 if history isn't hindsight well the hell is it but yeah they were wrigley islands were a god it is 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. and now off 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. it's tedious as hell but it continues you know right now where we are all. we're just coming off that we must stick to uncle sam's bleep with both teeth in 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. looking the fact that people's memories go a long long long way back and 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. 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 that 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 that campaign itself the way it is 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 me my books call raises they had 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 arjun times have done if they'd done them better. and the british would have lost how fair was the media coverage of the war in britain at the time i have a deep contempt for the british b.b.c. . and it started at the time in the falklands because they're one of the only concern is to hang on to the tax enables them to live far better than they deserve . so therefore they were attacking they really wanted facts had 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 the races agencies say why was it so closely four was it because britain underestimated argentina know they just didn't have the capability i mean if they are doing tons of waited another six months we could've done it would have had no more acro carious would have had no 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 attacked again would britain be able to pull together a task force and defend the islands they can't recover if the islands a lost now we can't get them back we do genuinely do not have the capability

this conservative government has once again emasculated the armed forces. which they've done regularly since the one nine hundred fifty s. . so it all depends on whether. the big base mt 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 full for the current government here and britain's image would be what this government and modern britain deserves it isn't what the islanders does in the fall plans war 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 or not because of the war so they want to be 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 island 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 is a whole bunch cheaper to have aircraft carriers than to have to hope that you can get a ground basis from which to operate. unless the british british very very very poor at learning the lessons of anything broadly speaking because they're going to face up to the truth about anything the politicians if they can will draw the long wrong conclusions from everything i'm glad got us involved in war after war after war beyond british capabilities we were put into whole bags 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 inveighing 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 he thank you.

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good mind for tasks are back with a bang but marches across the u.s. are marked with a new police crackdowns and old ones tear gas and stun grenades mean protesters calling for an answer to corporate greed and big business influencing politics. fresh violence hits again a stand 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 plan through for twenty fourteen. and frantic campaigning in france's 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. he uses to endorse either candidate. we are now turning to the world of sports and you didn't hear good morning to you well i the tragedy once again hits the professional sporting world yemen a seems i'm talking with things like this much too often

a twenty six year old norway swimming champion a world champion who so the big silver medalist has died aged as i said just twenty six more in that story coming up we're going on the rest of the sport as well. plenty ahead over the next ten minutes including. in charge roy hodgson is named the new english football manager on the four year deal will remain in charge of the final two games of the premier league season. middleweight world champion to be key for all defenses. or foolhardy the austrian alps. one of the most challenging extreme really races in

the world with. testing the best. named as the country's new manager for the upcoming four years the sixty four year old will remain in charge of the bodies 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. 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. over the country. looking forward to the. everybody. who's. country will get behind the team could use the.

it's been another disappointing eye thing for liverpool in the english premier league but a historic one for fullam the london side winning it on field for the first ever time on choose they own goal from martin securing the visitors one nil win the best of preparations for the reds the cure all for sunday's f.a. cup final with chelsea cross-town rivals everton are not three points in front of ten men and seven after they drew one one away to stoke in the night's other so 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 our is zone where he was training to head of the summer's olympics it was either 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. let's talk basketball on to the n.b.a. where the lakers are currently i mean 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 score in 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 huge therapy or to run helping on the dogs philadelphia tie their series of one one boston for from eleven to and 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 options of the suspended rage on the rumble. to get going early we did i mean that 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 bit misleading the ball at the go in. 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 finish runner job for the first time in their history the twenty seven year old russian international so were in the playoffs most valuable player award last year reached the western conference semi 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 to work for at least two more seasons. 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 each just twenty one he would also hold the top spot for eight consecutive years during the nineties forty three year old hendry announcing his decision to quit following a heavy defeat at the world championships on choose they the edinburgh native along with ronnie o'sullivan holds the record for most maximum of one hundred forty seven breaks in this fourth eleven. to boxing where reigning w b o middleweight champion has once again successfully defended his title against japan's nobody here as she did it took the undefeated pro the full twelve rounds to achieve it though as michael chang reports. even with the pre-match drama series she didn't feel the way confident dimitri paroch spent a lot of time talking of chances of a twentieth success surely if she didn't the only for the large part very quiet least because he could not speak english instead he let his fists do the talking as round one began he wrote had stated that he had expected the bout to go to the wire

and his early wishes approach meant he was sticking to his game plan and if she did was hoping to revive his. his somewhat with this fight was also focused and determined and although he was caught by many of piranhas japs he continued to stubbornly defy the 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 a japanese books to the full i despite the setback is she the still looked like he believed he could get an unlikely knockout but pirogue whether to she does 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 ishita was gallant in defeat praising his victory 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 it was never really any doubt that that's what success depends the way title i can see that the japanese never really get it by. the rocks next i have what will be good spy vs a chap i can tell you he'll test the top five in the morning so today i think. 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 his doubly be a light. middleweight title successfully 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 buckle 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 mayweather stating he wants absolutely nothing short of his opponent's best with insisting ease and the bashing in recent family. which is why i train a little. piece there in orlando and i come here you know so. good that we all don't want to face no go. don't push it 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 that's very very important i want to go kowtow to be at his best i want to be strong i want. to press early and 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 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.

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