but to bring us 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 cruiser 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 about war and the reasons for it are still hotly disputed to talk more about this i'm joined by hugh a historian and author of razors edge 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 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 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 status 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 for kalinda 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 the political level. prime minister callaghan when the foreign office came up to try and sell him the idea of selling out the island as he said 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 the older and more experienced ministers have told to stuff it and that's what they did with the fact your 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 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 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 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. 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 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. well look in 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 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 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 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 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 or at any stage i mean just some quite small things that the arjun times have done if they'd done him 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 this one and the 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 factor 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. 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 a 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 tons of waited another six months we could've done it we'd have had no more aircraft carriers would have had no more on t.b.s. 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 argentina 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 horses. which they've done regularly since the one nine hundred fifty s. . so it all depends on whether. the big bass mount pleasant can be held in time 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 a night's attack on mt pleasant and taking it out at which point the islands fall and i 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 in britain's image 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 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 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 being learnt if anything from the falklands war well they did learn one about the 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. along that 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 i'm glad got us involved in war after

war war after. beyond british capabilities were put into whole bags 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 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. for.

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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 your its finest referees including england's howard webb ahead of euro twenty twelve knowing this could be the final major tournament before the introduction of goal line technology. going the distance russians middleweight champion dimitri pitt all completes japanese challenger nobody here i wish either on points to defend his w b i belted. the first football in the rights 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 mamma have suffered a setback in that quest but champions league football next season might just be

held to a one one draw at sparta that means test cockermouth second with a win a local multi-faith game is just kicking off as is the ground again and jean-claude gangs are in the minutes of a goal this champions and eight through to two are being meanwhile told will be relegated to a folder with that much time 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 are vying for a fourth spot or an auction on wednesday top number of the current fulfil a side of no winner bolton would enhanced their hopes of qualification for europe's premier competition next season however only ahead of newcastle on goal difference with chelsea just a point on 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 hero's man away to be rightfully find his outlet to build a way that would. well their first championship in four seasons second place

barcelona meanwhile white house the top four sides malaga coriolanus side lose the title will go to well automatically before the game manager reiterated he's still uncertain about his future. after the season i will go hold i have no idea about my future i don't know it's if i knew i would tell you 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 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 to think about it it's easy to make the decisions. obviously or we work in the country over the last forty years older the players will be willing to leave we don't many of them. 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 much is this summer in poland and ukraine he was attending a referee's workshop in warsaw ahead of the tournament free for all 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 in iraq the decision has not been buried so we'll see which way that goes and whatever tools are given to me and my colleagues as well three of them will use them. to the fault. and on top of form.

for the moment we don't know which way that's going to go on the moment and you know it's finally happy additional system which the. boxing now writing w b i middleweight champion russia's dmitri pedro has once again successfully defended his title this time against japan's nobody had a ishida the fight went the distance that i as michael craft anchor reports. even with the pre-match drama when nobody here is she didn't really fail 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 did not 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 pierrot's jabs he

continued to stubbornly defy the odds i know with the rounds passing without serious incidents the home crowd began big blood. and by around eight it was obvious ishida was not going to win by the judge's pool hero kept plugging away at him and finally forced a japanese books to the full i despite the setbacks issue 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 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 first next opponent but not a lot of work was put into preparing for this fight and are very pleased to have successfully defended my title i was prepared. 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 hurt by 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 any down the beach with success depends the way i click it see the japanese never getting by. iraq's next movie gets by the way chad can tell you he'll test the tough new warnings today. elsewhere make well kowtow is 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 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 to manage peyton in forty two professional fights

for the first time in five years mayweather is moving up in weight for the clash in addition we start a new ninety day jail sentence of them after violent shortly after the fight this culture is there still remains an outsized that. i trained for this by a train i'm a little in harmony and peace there in orlando and i'm coming here just to bring our group 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 to the test 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 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 windell in the third quarter to regain my composure to close out a full point when she called i mean while this thing then they call it a huge the course to 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 shard. review board to get going early we did i mean that 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 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 cool 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 at 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 clemens says the thirty nine year old makes remembers the chat between the pats 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 the 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 to follow in a heavy defeat at the world championships on jews day he had to bring 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.

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