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plus the e.u. reaches for the red card as countries move to boycott footballs you wrote twenty twelve in ukraine over the handling of his jailed former prime minister yulia timoshenko claim she's being physically harmed. of using. three decades ago the british navy. cruiser general belgrano in the first major retaliation in the falklands war former spy tells us why britain's belligerence today could see the country make more mistakes in the south atlantic. 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 did 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. two people who got rubbed out and why they choose to ignore it. well do you want the short answer the answer the long answer is that the british government is not very good at anything much except ignoring what abuse inconvenient for it to do regardless and so the short answer is the foreign office suppressed much of the intelligence coming out of the station when 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 falklands. 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 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 told to stuff it and that's what they did with

a factual government and they revived all the 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's about it's. if 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 for 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 we are on the. 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 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 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 will

certainly there were plenty of warnings that one of the things they say there was an intelligence failure know there was an invader failure of the intellect but that's permanent in british government 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 me my books call raises age for 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 argent times the 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 tax enables them to live far better than they deserve. so therefore they were attacking they really wanted thatcher to go because they saw her as someone who might cut government spending and the almost obvious thing to cutting government spending is this regressive tax paid to the b.b.c. 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 raises agencies say why was it so closely for 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 couldn't have done it we do have no more aircraft carriers

would have had no more on t.b.s. capability. as indeed is happening now the same old story. as 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 there can't recover if the islands are 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 present 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 there 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 going to do them moment i don't think so how damaging would that be for for the current government here presuming it would be what this government and modern britain deserves it isn't what the islanders does a. 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 because of the war so what 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 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 ground basis from which to operate. on that note 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 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 putting to 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.

to a substantial degree and one form or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of the earth. and the shadow is an approaching a part of an. early early twenty first century military bases and network of military bases are around the forms the little empire that the united states is trying to build it's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million or more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around. we don't have foreign bases in america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in in for us our bases are fine

the door noise is our noise and doesn't bother us at all because they're our bases but for other people it's almost like a cancer here for these people a day since the end of world war two the spaces i've been. working here are to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions being a thing else to get everything you needed. the

headlines. killed. in retaliation of barack obama's surprise visit saw him commit americans in afghanistan for at least another decade and a pact with the afghan leader obama promised to help. even after the end of the nato combat mission in two thousand and fourteen. clashes in cairo see nine people killed and around one hundred injured by an unknown attackers during a protest against egypt's military rulers the pre-election tensions been putting a neighboring israel on alert as it's working now to strengthen its borders. plus the e.u. reaches for the red card as countries move to

a boycott footballs and. in ukraine all of this over the handling of us jailed former prime minister yulia timoshenko claims that she's being physically harmed while serving her sentence for abusing power. those are the headlines on r.t. but next it's the sporting headlines with paul. thank you very much lori welcome to the world of sport here's what's coming up boy of the reivers england's new football manager roy hodgson says he isn't surprised to have been offered the job after agreeing a four year deal to make the national side. goalie distance russian middleweight champion dimitri put all the japanese challenge and nobody cared if she'd on points to defend his w.b.i. belt in moscow. meanwhile ready to rumble while qatari looks to become the first

man ever to be floyd mayweather jr as they prepare to go head to head in las vegas this week. but first a new manager of the english football team says he's not surprised to have been given the chance to lead the national side sixty four year old roy hodgson was appointed on tuesday on a four year contract although he won't take over until the end of the domestic season in england seeing all the remaining two fixtures with his current club west brom his first game in charge of the national team is a euro two thousand and twelve warm up game against norway at the end of this month and with the euro starting in just thirty seven days time the new man hasn't got much time to prepare that. he's going to be difficult of course but. hopefully a good little chill and we'll head to to think about it through to to make the decisions and this is. loosely all the work in the country over the last couple of years a lot of the players will look to me even though we don't many of them meanwhile

domestically there are two games in the top flight of english football on wednesday the ricer champions league group will take center stage with the three teams all vying for fourth spot in the action told by the current fourth placed side in a winner bolton put in holland's that hopes of qualification for europe from the i competition next season however their only head of newcastle and go. difference with chelsea just a point further back and those things mean to stamford bridge. meanwhile in the russian premier league there's almost a full set of fixtures on wednesday and the relegation group spot on all the probably during one one game is just about half an hour old later there's a big game in the race for champions league football when second place to mama travel to sparta who are just a point behind champions and they travel to rubin places like a multi. champions league hopes alive with a win at combine. while over in spain real madrid can secure the league title later today there's a marine years man away to europa league finals athletic bilbao

a win that would secure their first championship in four years second place barcelona meanwhile play host to top four side malaga coriolanus side lose the title will go to raul automatically before the game the outgoing manager reiterating still unsure what he'll do post boss up. after the season i will go whole i have no idea about my future i don't know it's if i knew i would tell you if my goal was to coach my local village team i would say so but right now that is not my objective and i don't know i just don't know. now to the n.b.a. whether you like his of move two zero up in the playoff series against denver kobe bryants and andre barnum combining for sixty five points in california the two thousand and nine until two thousand and ten champions saying that nineteen point lead to the window in the third quarter to regain that composure to close out a full point when she called i mean wallace saying that was playoff days come true

after losing writing m.v.p. think their recruits for the season with a knee injury a huge third quarter run helping underdogs philadelphia tie the series at one a pace while boston for bought from eleven down in the second hall to even the series with atlanta pulled the start of the show. we knew paul had 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 had to go in. i thought after that 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. boxing now a running w b r middleweight champion russia's dmitri peril has once again successfully defended his title this time against japan as nobody had a rashida the fight when the distance as michael carr chunka reports. even with the pre-match drama when nobody here ishida nearly failed the way in a confident dimitri pirogue spent a lot of time talking of his chances of a twentieth successive a victory ishita on the other hand was for the large part very quiet not least

because he denied to speak russian or english instead he let his fists do the talking as round one began p.-roc had stated that he had expected the bout to go to the wire and his early cautious approach meant he was sticking to his game plan ishida who is hoping to revive his career somewhat with this fight was also focused and determined and although he was caught by many of piranhas jabs he continued to stubbornly defy the odds. but with the rounds passing without serious incident the home crowd began baying for blood was and by around eight it was obvious ishida was not going to win by the judges score piro kept plugging away at him and finally forced a japanese books to the full was despite the setback he she the still looked like he believed he could get an unlikely knockout but pirogue whether to shoot is increasingly desperate lunges and almost looked as if he would get the killer

knockout was 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 was gallant in defeat praising his victor but also saw no shame . in its manner this is a champion i've never really been here but my previous opponents the demetrius truly a worthy champion because he did manage to hurt me during this fight but i'm also proud to have been in the same ring as him i was never really any down the beach with success defending the. title like it's the. japanese never getting. it wrong next time will be gets by the way champ can tell you he'll. talk tough in

the mornings but. he's looking to achieve something that no other boxer has managed the puerto rican will become the first fight to defeat floyd mayweather jr i think successfully defends his w b a light middleweight title in las vegas on saturday the thirty one year old has several things working in his favor and into the battles against the man beaten in forty two professional fights for the first time in five years my weather is moving up in weight for the clash in addition he'll be starting a ninety day jail sentence to violent shortly after the bout cotto who still remains it outside that money the tournaments i train for this is why i train i'm a little in harmony and peace there in orlando and i come here you know so to bring in i go five hundred a victory i don't want to face no i. don't push floyd mayweather to the test i want

to be pushed into 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. to be to be at his best i want to be strong i want. to press the attack early. now to the continuing cold case of baseball legend or roger clemens the forty nine year old former pitcher is accused of lying to congress in two thousand and eight when he denied using performance enhancing drugs on date of proceedings former new york yankees pitcher andy petite arrived at court to testify against his former friends but he recalled a conversation in which clemens told him he had used human growth growth hormone time and says the thirty nine year old miss remembers the chop between the path evidence is crucial to the prosecution's prosecution's case if clemens is found guilty he could face a prison sentence. now the formula one hungary and ground for a isn't settled until late july but local mclaren fans have already been given

a sneak peek at that team jenson button putting his car through its paces as part of a promotional event in budapest now this young fan finding out what the view was like for drivers in my sports talk less around thirty two year old brought in very very . soon as an australian grown for the moment still no clear favorite this early in the season life with all different drivers winning as many races this year competitors will be arriving i was engines next sunday and the spanish from free. plenty of memories of the darien. street. looks. like. now finally a man regarded as one of the greatest new players of all time has decided to take only retirement some time world champion stephen hendry walking away from the sports the age of forty three the scot was simply

a phenomenon rising to the world number one ranking aged just twenty one he proceeded to hold top spot for eight consecutive years during the ninety's his decision came following a heavy defeat at the world championships on tuesday he had a preventive along with ronnie o'sullivan holds the record for the most one four seven breaks in the sport with eleven. well that is all the sport for now i'll be back in a little under two hours time to join me that. joining me on a journey to the heart of the place is hidden from the terrorists you're going to meet some real criminal insiders although they may not be the usual news makers you see on t.v. . you

know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for langley you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.