old former prime minister yulia timoshenko claims she's being physically harmed while serving her sentence for abusing power. three decades ago the british navy saying at the time cruiser general belgrano when the first major retaliation in the falklands war and former spy tells us why britain's belligerence today could see the country make more mistakes in the south atlantic this is out. it's now thirty years since the war between britain and argentina over the falkland islands like the islands themselves the accounts of that war and the reasons for it still hotly disputed to talk more about this i'm joined by hugh 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. 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 be 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 off to the war the foreign office lost the power to distribute secret intelligence to that it went straight to the joint intelligence committee how much did the issue of the for the islands and that ownership feature in this policy were going to balance that

certainly the british government was more concerned about human rights than it was about the fulcrums but that's the political level. prime minister callahan in the foreign office came up to try and sell him the idea of selling out the island those 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 have told to 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 one and knew it was a bad one so they're essentially telling 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 to. lease back 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 is 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 if history isn't hindsight well the hell is it but yeah they were going 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 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 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 would be to yap to the un then 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 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 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 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 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 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 almost all b.s. 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 four was it because person 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'd have had no more aircraft carriers 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 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 with or genuinely do not have the capability the 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 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 going to do them moment i don't think so how damaging would that be full for the current government here in britain is a 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 months 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 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. the 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 if they can rule drove along wrong conclusions

from everything i'm glad got us involved in war after war after war beyond british capabilities we were put into whole bad sure we did not have the combat power to do that we were put into helm and we did not have the combat power to do that one rangers inveighing against this. not because of any censorship because of any oppression i will walk out of here and get. opinions because very simply my opinions and my statements will be ignored because they're too inconvenient. thank you.

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that's the action from the world of sport. hello welcome to the sports headlines here's what's coming up roy of the royal 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 song. going the distance russian middleweight champion dimitri put all the japanese challenge on the behavior we should need on points. beyond bell to moscow. meanwhile the ready to rumble the gold looks become the first man ever to be floyd mayweather jr as they prepared to go head to head in las 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 sinitta 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 in some pages black is one nil to rubinoff the fifteen minutes phenomenon moscow carney second spot and leads only on goal difference then our place in moscow these make a good game the game just a point for the baskets already one nil to the visit is that call themselves a look from old save meanwhile in the relegation group brushed off and drawn to two with relegated now i'm cognates ill in the final minutes hartley who want to cross it off in that match meanwhile later in england on three teams vying for four spots or an auction on wednesday the current fourth place so i don't know a win of bolton with the hopes of qualification the 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 for you i

believe the finest 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 see still the right now that is not my objective 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 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 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. yes it's going to be difficult of course but. hopefully a good a little toy to think about is to make the decisions. we work in the country deal for the last five years older the players of the will 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 webb 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 all 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 the more don't know if technology will come into it because i'm in iraq

the decision has not been buried so we'll 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 fold . and on top of form and since. the moment we don't know which way that's going to go on the moment in the annuity present or final we have a beautician system which the positives are likely to be really boxing now where reigning w.b.i. middleweight champion russia's dmitri pedagogue has once again successfully defended his title this time against japan's nobody had a fight when the distance as michael craft janko reports. even with the pre-match drama when nobody here is she didn't merely fail the way in a confident dimitri pirogue spend 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 could neither 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 to it with the rounds passing without serious incidents the home crowd began baying for blood. and by round 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 ishita 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. 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 not 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 a shooter 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 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 who begins by the way champ can tell you he'll. talk tough in the mornings but. 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 gotten 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 while he day jail sentence for domestic violence shortly after the fight but is cotto if he still remains an outside back. how to train for this very very train and well it will be in harmony in peace there in orlando and in coming years to green goo five hundred a victory i don't want to face no guy. that don't push floyd mayweather to the test i want to be pushed to the chest saturday night i want to bring his best because that's the only day anything that's going to do is escalate my fight game to the next level so that's very very important i want the geocoding to be to be at his best i want to be strong operate i want. to press the tech 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 them 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 i mean while it seemed barely 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 pace the start of the shot. 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 i'm so used to make misleading the ball and to go in. and out of 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 cold 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 take arrived at court on day eight to testify against his former friend but he recalled a conversation in which clemens told him he had used human growth hormone clemens says the thirty nine year old misremembers the chat between the pats 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 retirement some 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 the heavy defeat to the world championships on tuesday native along with warner sullivan holds the record for the most one for seven brits in the sport with

eleven. of his all the sport for now i'll be back in a little under two hours time to join them. join me on a journey to the heart of the 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. . the

taliban bombing that killed seven in couple in retaliation to barack obama's surprise visit which saw him commit americans in afghanistan for at least another ten years. during a protest against egypt's military rulers while neighboring israel put itself on. its own is on the defensive as troops on its northern and southern border all the details in just a few moments. plus the e.u. reaches of the red card as countries move to a boycott football. in ukraine all of this over the handling it was jailed former prime minister. after a long weekend russian traders came back to the market selloff leading the audios m i six to a plunge of want to know more on this in twenty minutes i'm busy.