the former prime minister yulia tymoshenko claims she's being physically harmed while serving her sentence for abusing. all three day three decades ago the british navy saying the argentine a cruiser general belgrano when the first major retaliation in the falklands war next a 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 is still hotly disputed to talk more about this i'm joined by hugh 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 the dirty war you just named. two people who got rubbed out and why they choose to ignore it well do you want the short. 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 to that it went straight to the joint intelligence committee how much to the issue of the four clinton islands and that 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. i'm 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 more experienced ministers the older stuff it and that's what they did with a factor of 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 woman 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 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 to. lease back the territory to under eighteen 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 called when we 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 to politicians you 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 what 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. you know 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. 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. look in the fact that people's memories go a long long long way back and they just because you aren't any longer and. 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 it would be to yap to the un and act dumb founded. 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 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 its end 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 you know one of the things they say there was an intelligence failure know there was an and 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 didn't keep our word to them we were worthless. how close me 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 arjun 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 a 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 facts had to go because they saw her as someone who might cut government spending and the almost all b.s. thing to cutting government spending is this regressive tax paid to the b.b.c. and 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 four was it because britain underestimated argentina no they just didn't have the capability i mean if they are doing tons of waited another six months we could've done it we do have no more accurate carious would have had them or on t.v. this capability. as indeed it is happening now the same old story they are after us we can give cover all over the world a cult 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're doing or 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 or 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 in prison mention would be what this government and modern britain deserves it isn't what the islanders does. 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 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 your current 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 about the foreign office control foreign intelligence that was one. the other one they 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 bases from which to operate. on that 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 pushing to hold back as well 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 inveighing against this. not because of any censorship malk because of any oppression all the fact that i will walk out of here and get. my opinions because very simply my opinions and my statements will be ignored because they're too inconvenient he thank you 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 encroaching upon the pretty. early twenty first century military bases a network of military bases all around the former sleepy 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 more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around. we don't have fallen 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 our bases are fine. noises and what noises and doesn't bother us at all because they're all basics but for other people it's almost like a cancer here for these people. since the end of world war two the spaces i've been

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the headlines on r.t. and a taliban bombing kill seven in kabul in retaliation to barack obama's surprise visit which saw him commit americans in afghanistan for at least another decade in a pact with the afghan leader a bomb a promise to help prop up kabul even after the end of the nato combat mission in two thousand and fourteen. clashes in cairo seen nine people killed and around one hundred injured by an unknown attack goes 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 boy called football's euro twenty twelve in ukraine all of this over the handling of asian jailed former prime minister yulia timoshenko claims that she's being physically harmed while serving her sentence for abusing. ok those are the

headlines on r t but next it's the sporting headlines with paul. thank you very much rory welcome to the world of sports here's what's coming out of the right england's new football manager roy hodgson says he isn't surprised to have been offered the job after growing a four year deal to make the national side. killing the russian middleweight champion dimitri put all the japanese challenge and not be there at the sheet on points to defend his 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 meet 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 how 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. oh yes he's going to be difficult of course but. hopefully a little chill in lens too to think about it to see to make the decisions and this is. loosely all the work in the country deal politically he is one of the players will look pretty well known 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 race for 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 win of bolton but in holland that hopes of qualification for europe's premie i

competition next season however there are any head of newcastle and gold. 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 problem during. a 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 nominate travel to spots who are just a point behind champions and they travel to rubin place. more t.v. . than champions league hopes alive with a win. over in spain real madrid can secure the league title later today there's a marine years man away to europa league finest athletic bilbao a win that would secure their first championship in four years second place barcelona meanwhile play host to top four side malaga in a side lose the title will go to raul automatically before the game the outgoing

manager reiterated he still unsure what he'll do post also. 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 i don't know i just don't know. now to the n.b.a. whether you like his move move two zero up in the playoff series against denver kobe bryant's amount of bottom combining for sixty five points in california in two thousand and nine and 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. paint their it rose for the season with a knee injury a huge pool to run helping underdogs philadelphia tie the series at one of pace while boston for back 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 and to go in and. out of the 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 are running w b r middleweight champion russia's dmitri pirogue has once again successfully defended his title this time against hannah rashida the fight when the distance as michael clarke shanker reports. even with the pre-match drama when nobody here is she didn't really fail the way in a confident dimitri pirogue spend a lot of time talking about his chances of a twentieth successive 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. and by around eight it was obvious ishida was not going to win by the judges score hero kept plugging away at him and finally forced a 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 sheet 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 a lot of work was put into preparing for this fight and are 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 here but my previous opponents but dimitri is 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 it was never really me down the beach with success depends the way i click and see the japanese never get it. wrong next time will be kids by the way chad can tell you he'll. talk tough in the mornings but i think. 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 coming into the battle 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 for the rest of violent shortly after the bout cotto who still remains outside back to the tournaments i trained for this friday i trained a little in harmony in peace there in orlando and i come here just to bring a good five hundred to victory i don't want to face no guy. that 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 i want to go kowtow 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 to 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 potato arrived to court to testify against his former friends but he recalled the conversation in which clemens told him he had used human growth hormone time and says the thirty nine year old miss remembers the chop between the path takes 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 graham 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 viewers like for drivers in my sports talk i should run thirty two year old rotten very very.

scenes an australian grown playing still no clear favorites this early in the season though with different drivers winning as many races this year competitors will be arriving i was engines next sunday at the spanish crown for a. plan to reform memories of the darien trip. we. now find me a man regarded as one of the greatest new players of all time has decided to take early 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 and 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 we had

a great native along with ronnie o'sullivan holds the record for the most one for 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 problem to a place is hidden from the tourists you got to meet some real credible insiders although they may not be the usual news makers you see on t.v. . me. looking. to get me.

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seven income and retaliation to barack obama's surprise visit which saw him commit americans in afghanistan for at least ten years. killed. during a protest against egypt's military rulers while neighboring israel. is always on the defensive as of its northern and southern border all the details in just a few moments. plus the e.u. reaches a for the red card as countries move to boycott football. in ukraine but all of this over the handling of us and former prime minister. it is good to have you.