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plus the e.u. reaches for the. country's moved. crane. was jailed for. being physically. abusing. the. general belgrano in the first major retaliation in the falklands war. 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 britton

oh 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 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 regard an instance of 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 but the older

more experienced ministers have told to stuff it and that's what they did with a fractured 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 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 bank the territory to argentina because of the conceit of the british public sector and don't forget we're living that was a mirror 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 yours. 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 every charge is 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 to right now where we are on the. we're just coming off that we must stick to uncle sam's bleep with both teeth in story 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 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 thatcher 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 though 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 you know one of the things they say there was an intelligence failure no there was an invader 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 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 factual 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 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 raises agencies say why was it so closely four was it because britain underestimated argentina no it just didn't have the capability. of waited another six months we could've done it would have had 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 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 in britain's image 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 and 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 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. british british very very very poor at

learning the lessons of anything broadly speaking because they never face up to the truth about anything the politicians think can draw the long wrong conclusions from everything i'm glad got us involved in war after war after war beyond british capabilities were put into hold back as well 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 bitch and i thank you.

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

a boy football team twenty twelve in ukraine over the handling of us jailed former prime minister. claims she's being physically harmed a while serving her sentence for abusing power. let's get the action from the world of sport pool. hello welcome to the sports headlines here's what's coming up roy of the royals includes new football manager roy hodgson says he isn't surprised to have been offered the job after growing a four year deal to leave the national side. going the distance russian middle champion dimitri put all the japanese challenge ahead of you here at the shade on points w.b.i. belts in moscow. meanwhile the ready to rumble the gold coast looks to recover the first man ever to beat floyd mayweather jr as they prepared to go head to head in

last vegas this weekend. but first football on the race for a place in the champions league next season takes center stage on wednesday in both russia and england are already champions in russia so it's the race to finish second in the premier league which is the focus of attention the latest school and some pages about his one nil to rubin after fifteen minutes phenomena moscow carney occupy second spot and leads only on goal difference then i'll play some spartak moscow at least making it become a game just a point for the baskets already one nil to the visitors that later call themselves a look from old save meanwhile in the relegation group brushed off of drawing to two with relegated now. coggins krasnodar well in the final minutes you start hartley who want to cross it off in that match meanwhile later in england all three teams vying for four spots are an option on wednesday top nomar the current fourth placed side to know a winner of bolton with the hopes of qualification to europe's for me

a competition next season however the only head of newcastle on goal difference with chelsea just a point for the bok and they meet at stamford bridge while i've been spending real madrid can secure the league title of wednesday bringing those men away to europa league finals athletic bilbao a win. would secure their first championship in four years second place barcelona meanwhile playhouse the top or side malaga. side lose the title lose then the title will go to rail automatically before the game the outgoing manager reiterated he's still unsure about his future. after the season i will go whole i have no idea about my future i don't know it if i knew i would tell you because 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. while staying with football in the new england manager 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 who 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 friendly against norway at the end of this month and with the euro just starting in thirty seven days the new man hasn't got too much time to prepare. well yes it's going to be difficult of course but. hopefully the goods are a little toy to think about it to make the decisions. work in the country of the last five years older the players are pretty we'll know to leave with many of them while staying with euro two thousand and twelve an english referee howard webb says the tournament could be the last major football competition before the introduction of goal line technology where it will be one of the officials in charge of matches this summer in poland and ukraine he was attending a referee's workshop in warsaw ahead of the tournament fee for are to decide in june where the goal line technology will be introduced and webb says it could be

a benefit to referees if the idea was implemented. of course of them we don't know if technology will come into the game in iraq the decision is not being married so we will see which way it goes and whatever tools are given to me and my colleagues as well three of them will use them. to the full two and on top of form and since. we don't know which way that's going to go on the moment in the annuity present or final we have to be additional systems which the pretty positive. boxing now where running w.b.i. middleweight champion russia's dmitri pedagogue has once again successfully defended his title this time against japan's not be ahead of the fight when the distance as michael craft janko reports. even with the pre-match drama when over here ishida nearly failed the way in a confident dimitri pirogue spent a lot of time talking of 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 iraq 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 his fight was also focused and determined and although he was caught by many of piranhas jabs he continued to stubbornly defy the odds the the 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 four was despite the setback ishi 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 myself would get the

killer knock out 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 i'm not going to 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 hurt by my previous opponents but dimitri is truly a worthy champion because he did manage to hurt me injuring this fight but i am also proud to have been in the same ring as him it was not. really and down the beach with success defending the. title like it's the. japanese never getting. it wrong next time he gets by the way champ can tell you he'll. talk tough in the

mornings. well elsewhere i was looking to change something that no other box has managed the puerto rican will become the first fighter to defeat floyd mayweather jr if he 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 going into the bout he has the man on peyton forty two professional fights for the first time in five years my weather is moving up in weight for the clash in addition to restart day jail sentence for domestic violence shortly after the fight but is cotto if he still remains an outside bet. i trained for this by a train i'm a little. harmony in peace there in orlando and i come here you know so to bring five hundred to victory i don't want to face no i 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 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 it's a basketball in the n.b.a. where the lakers have moved two zero up in their playoff series against denver kobe bryant and andrew by name combining for sixty five points in california the two thousand and nine and two thousand and ten champions saying that nineteen point lead windell in the third quarter but they regained my composure to close out a four point when she called on me while it seemed badly huge the water run helping underdogs philadelphia tied the series at one of pace while boston fall back from eleven down in the second half to even their series with atlanta paul pierce the star of the sharks. 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 honestly it's a make misleading the ball had 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. now to the continuing court case of baseball legend 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 former new york yankees pitcher on the teet arrived at court on day eight to testify against his former friend petite recalled a conversation in which clemens told him he had used human growth hormone clemens says the thirty nine year old mis remembers the chat between the pair if clemens is found guilty he could face a prison sentence. and finally a man regarded as one of the greatest new players of all time has decided to take early retirement seven time world champion stephen hendry walking away from the sport at the age of forty three the scot was simply a phenomenon rising to world ranking number one just aged twenty one percent it's

a whole top spot for eight consecutive years during the ninety's his decision came following a heavy defeat at the world championships on tuesday he added with native along with ronnie o'sullivan holds the record for the most one four seven breaks in the sport with eleven. that is all the sport for now i'll be back in a little under two hours time to join that. join me on a journey to the heart of the kremlin to a place is hidden from the tourists you're going to meet some real kremlin insiders although they may not be the usual news makers you see on t.v. .

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