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his job for the prime minister yulia timoshenko she claims she's being physically harmed while serving her sentence for abusing power. but to bring it up to date for the moment i'll be back with another summary for you in fifteen minutes from now in the meantime three decades ago the british navy sank the argentine cruise up in general belgrano in the first major retaliation in the falklands war where 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 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 it is 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 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 falklands but that's the political level. prime minister callaghan in the foreign office came up to try and sell him the idea of selling out the islanders he said 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 the 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

a factor of government and they revived all their 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 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 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 is 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 is about it's. history isn't hindsight what the hell is it but yeah they were going islands were regarded as 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. you know off 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. it's tedious as hell but it continues you know 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 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 in 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 to send a task force the totally unprepared for that totally convince 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 it seems unable to process information and come up with sensible policies they 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 to 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 argent times have 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 that enables them to live far better than they deserve so therefore they were attacking they really wanted factor 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 every 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 no they just didn't have the capability. to wait another six months we could've done it would have had no more aircraft carriers would have had a more on t.b.s. capability. as indeed is happening now it's 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 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 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 just don't 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 presidential it 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 why 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 don't let the 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 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 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 put into hell memory did not have the combat power to do that and 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.

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more on those stories in full in fifteen minutes from now sport report is up next stay with us for that. thanks very much bill welcome to the world of sports here is what's coming up the race is all new in the russian premier league the battle for second place and champions league football next season heats up as game week forty two gets underway . technological advance new york's finest referees including england's howard webb head of euro twenty twelve knowing this could be the final major tournament before the introduction of goal line technology. going the distance russian's middleweight world champion dmitri pitt all completes japanese challenger nobody here i wish either on points to defend his w.b.i. bell to moscow. the first football in the race for champions league places next

season is the center of attention in the top flight in both england i'm drawn starting here in moscow and second place to momma have suffered a setback in their quest to champions league football next season they've just been held to a one one draw at sparta that means test card can leap second with a win a locomotive the game is just kicking off as is a playground game and jane close games are nearing the minutes of a goalless champions and eight through two to a room being meanwhile told will be relegated to a folder with their much at home to take in the relegation group related school that is up who wants to take what about the minutes to play. meanwhile later in england all three teams vying for full support are in auction on wednesday top number of the current fourth placed side in a winner bolton put in harms their hopes of qualification for europe's premier competition next season however only ahead of newcastle on goal difference with chelsea just a point for the body of those two sides made to stamford bridge. while over in

spain real madrid can secure all the league a title on wednesday joins a marine years man away to europa league finals athletic bilbao away that would secure their first championship in four seasons second place barcelona meanwhile white house a top four side malaga should have coriolanus side lose the title will go through well automatically probably fall. again the outgoing manager when you're trying to be still uncertain about his future. after the season i will go home 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 but right now that is not my objective i don't know i just don't know. now staying with football and the new england manager 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 well though he won't take over until the end of the domestic season in england seeing out 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 starting in just thirty seven days the new man hasn't got too much time to prepare. oh yes it's going to be difficult of course but. hopefully a good a little toy boy has to think about it to see to make the decisions. work in the country of the last five years older the players are pretty well known to leave. many of the. meanwhile english referee howard webb says euro two thousand and twelve could be the last major football tournament 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 faith are to decide in june where the goal line technology will be introduced or not and web says it could be a benefit to referees if the idea is implemented of course the more don't know if technology will come into the game and the right decision is not being made so we

will see which way that goes and whatever tools are given to me and my colleagues as well three of them will use them to. perform and since. we don't know which way that's going to go on the moment in the euro two thousand and twelve final we have the additional systems which the positives of. boxing now are writing w b i middleweight champion russia's dmitri pedro has once again successfully defended his title this time against japan's nobody had. the fight went the distance though as michael craft shanker reports. even with the pre-match drama will be here if he didn't really fail the way in a confident dimitri paroch spent a. a lot of time talking of his chances of a twentieth success 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 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 was 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 with the with the rounds passing without serious incidents the home crowd began being blood was and by around eight it was obvious ishida was not going to win by the judges for pirro 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 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 i am 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 victory but also saw no shame in its manner this is a champion i've never really been hurt by my previous opponents the 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 but i was never really any doubt that these girls would success to defend the field the way the title against them see that japanese books never. next time he gets here champ can tell you he'll. talk tough in the morning. looking to achieve something that no other boxer has managed the puerto rican will

become the first fighter to defeat floyd mayweather jr if he successfully defend his w.p.a. like middleweight title in las vegas on saturday the thirty one year old has several things working in his favor going into the bout and has a man on peyton in forty two professional fights for the first time in five years my weather is moving up in weight for the clash in addition to we start in the ninety day jail sentence of them after violent shortly after the fight this culture is still remains and i was low on money that i train which is why i train i'm a little in harmony and 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 chest 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. to

basketball now in the n.b.a. where the lakers have moved two zero up in their playoff series against denver kobe bryant combining for sixty five points in california two thousand and nine two thousand and ten champion saying that nineteen point lead the window in the third quarter to regain my composure to close out a full point when she called i mean while they're saying then they call it a huge the course a run helping underdogs philadelphia tie the series of one of pace while boston falls back from eleven down in the second half to even the series with atlanta pace 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 i'm so used to make misleading the ball had to go in. i thought out of 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. 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 andy pettitte arrived in court on day eight to testify against his former friend but he recalled a conversation in which clemens told him he had huge human growth hormone clemens says the thirty nine year old makes remembers the chat between the pair if clemens is found guilty he could face a prison sentence. funnyman regarded as one of the greatest new players of all time has decided to take retirement seven time world champion stephen hendry walking away from the sport at the age of forty three the scot was quite 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 championship on tuesday he had a great native along with ronnie o'sullivan holds the record for the most once for seven drugs in the sport with eleven. well that is all the sport for now but

there's plenty later here on twenty four hour day whether it's next. 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 criminal insiders although they may not be the usual newsmakers you see on t.v. .

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