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on our team captain in custody a flotilla stopped at port well that's all the mission of gaza bound vessels ended in greece before it even departed for the blockade it all played. activists some bold accuse the united states and israel of putting pressure on the greek government i'll bring you more in a few moments. germany's position on nazi war crimes is question as it continues to shield a convicted world want to criminal. and r.t. takes of the glamour and excitement among the stars to bring you the name of the lucky winner will carry home of the main award for the moscow international film festival. just after nine pm in the russian capital you're watching r t thanks for joining us

now to our top story greece has banned a flotilla from leaving its ports and arrested one of the captains the ships carrying humanitarian aid to gaza planned to complete a similar failed turkish turkish mission to palestine last may well campaigners on board have suggested the greek government they gave in to pressure from the u.s. and israel paulus lior has more from. there has been no explanation given by athens as to why this preventing these ships from sailing form its ports destined to gaza justice today friday one of the steps called they do leon a set sail it was in the waters for some thirteen to twenty minutes before the greek closed guard stopped it and diverted it to a military dockyard now athens is not quiet about this and has come on record as saying that no ships distant from gaza will be that sports and ought to correspondent on board one of the ships that has been seized explained that greece is acting in violation of international law. said you're not will not give up there

are twelve members of european and other national parliaments among the free gaza activists and they're trying to pull strings to force their governments to try to influence greece's decision to block their ships in their harbors or lawyers for the freedom flotilla are saying the greek government actions are unlawful because the ships cannot be prohibited from going to gaza and they should not be restrained from three leave the harbors i have seen every part of the ship i'm on and there are no weapons or anything that could be used as weapons the people who participate in the free gaza flotilla are harmless most are elderly many over sixty and even seventy well let's put that has been dubbed the freedom to tell it soon as it's been in the planning for at least two years since that first fatality and last year that came at the end of may and that individual with nine turkish citizens being killed on board one of the surface not activists or payers to prevent this from happening again they've made a point of saying that their whole attempt to bring humanitarian supplies to gaza

is a vinyl mission at the same time the israeli authorities have been at pains to also try and prevent this from happening activists around the world have been accusing the united states and israel of putting pressure on athens particularly when it's seeking economic balance we spoke to one such activist adam shapiro israel is really you know already back in the political learn and we know we've heard. prime minister netanyahu comments yesterday he made where he thanked. prime minister papandreou for basically doing israel's work for it and what we know behind the scenes that israel has been putting as well as the united states has been putting a ton of pressure on the greek government the greek government these days is having a very weak position because of its economic problems a very unpopular government and it. can certainly fall prey to such pressure and we believe although we don't have concrete evidence of it we do believe that both the

united states and israel are putting economic pressure on greece as well the activists themselves are in a number of different positions some of them are out at sea some of them have already been away state and all being detained we are hearing that they did that in a number of places in athens to form the government to explain to give him a just an explanation as to why does the brain to these tips on saving we've also been hearing reports of sabotage the moon reports of an irish missile that at this moment isn't time to seize was sabotaged by israeli divers who worked on the ground to prevent the engines from working obviously foreign ministry today saturday denied those charges it called them ridiculous and paranoid but certainly the activists are facing an uphill battle in trying to get this fertility going. well there is more exclusive coverage of the flotilla for you of that includes regular blog updates from our own correspondent aboard one of the boats taking part you can find that and more on our website that's our team dot com. we're also covering the

exotic car show in moscow where classic vintage meets extravagant luxury at the fifteenth annual event which has opened its doors to visitors. germany is shielding a notorious nazi war criminal convicted and jailed for murdering dozens of people klaas carvel father was sent serving a life sentence in the netherlands but later escaped and fled to germany for decades berlin's been refusing to extradite the german national party's daniel bushell came face to face with a nazi executioner but still evaded justice. in the close carol four volunteered for the nazis in world war two he should victims before killing the

twistable concentration camp in the netherlands where doris and frank was held to have been. systematically beefed up people in the night they had to dig their own graves and she was part of the firing squad. a dutch called jailed for the game for twenty two murders he's suspected of many but in the one nine hundred fifty two he escaped to germany which lets him go and gave him german citizenship he was basically sure that are protected from extradition in the netherlands has applied time off the toy to have returned to serve his sentence germany doesn't extradited citizens. horrific the crime this is the man who ruled for book can stay free yet he hates the german law which he has to enforce i'm across acute. and prosecutors like criminals. see no

difference. and one of the killers. another person in germany netherlands this criminal is on of course good family was murdered in the second world war by the dutch sis he confronted four dollars to be had eighty rubles for responded with sneers and mockery that was four years ago neighbors say farber's know how spell and i'm close to death it's a race against time for justice now you say well he's eighty nine and people say sometimes say well why put him in jail now but one you know his victims never lived that long and a second of this you know had never felt sorry for his deeds so if you go to munich you have to talk to me you just can't you know just don't want to talk at all if we

don't put him in jail before he dies you know it will always hang as a dark cloud the book you know why didn't you put your photo you last real cruel not since where he belongs to germany convicted ukrainian american. you of nazi war crimes much weaker evidence germany has one rule for its people says cost pins and another for foreigners about the younger but he's from russia you know they don't mind kicking him around here as long as it's in germans or even far because i'm a german national their faith if this is where the mount of the nazi executioner lives german media is banned from revealing his address but we know he's in a mosque if he has a message for the families of his victims. do you have a message for. the final push to put.

germany. to the picture of. the new bush. and coming up artie's resident takes of the streets of new york to ask whether people think a social networking is a gift or a curse. people just put anything on young girls young kids you know home addresses and everything like the people see what you show them not what you actually are in my experience and if you put something on the internet people will watch and think that that's actually your life you know when people could be sitting at home doing nothing for a whole weekend they might just make things up just to make themselves more interesting. one police officer has been killed and two others wounded in a gunfight with militants in russia's republic of chechnya security forces came

into contact with a group on saturday morning before exchanging fire with the suspects refused to surrender officials say up to a dozen are militants escaped and are thought to have fled into nearby dense forest all the areas been sealed off with additional security troops closing in on the assailants russia's caucuses in seeing a spike in violent activity with a number of terror attacks going up by a third in the last few months special operations by government forces have seen over two hundred militants killed this year. well let's check some other world news in brief this hour thousands have taken to the streets of tripoli voiced their support for the libyan leader's defiance of nato bombings in the recorded audio message colonel gadhafi threatened attacks on europe and revenge for coalition airstrikes meanwhile the african union is calling on member. states to disregard the arrest warrant issued by the international criminal court against gadhafi in

houston as the charges complicate efforts to quiet solutions to the libyan crisis. the syrian president has sacked a key official after friday's abdu regime demonstrations believed to have been the biggest yet bashar al assad a signed a decree removing the governor of the subdural city of hama off from office tens of thousands took to the streets nationwide rejecting assad's promises of reform and demanding an end to his authoritarian rule activists say the government crackdown which began to read march has claimed almost fifteen hundred lives. at least thirteen members of a family died when a roadside bomb struck their minibus in southern afghanistan the group including two children were thought to be afghan refugees returning from pakistan through the volatile border area roadside bombs planted by taliban led militants are commonly used in the country and elsewhere in afghanistan the local council member was killed by two gunmen who opened fire from

a motorbike. reports say police a far tear gas at hundreds of anti-government protesters denouncing the peace talks between the sunni led government and the she. the dialogue follows months of violent protests that claimed over thirty lives the shiite community in bahrain claims its discriminated against by the sunni majority thousands participated in nationwide demonstrations demanding their political representation. and on the way for use of ladies you wouldn't want to mess with. as it turns out arm wrestling is not just for the guys here in russia's north caucuses and more and more women are getting into the attic and we managed to wrestle the secrets of some of the sports superwoman. leon panetta has been sworn in as the new u.s. defense secretary replacing robert gates who held the post for over four years well

during his time as pentagon chief gates struggle to bring about victory in iraq and afghanistan but artie's military contributor says the retired defense secretary actually helped nurture the taliban in the first place. for our generation of the cold war warriors on the both sides in the united states and russian federation it is robert gates the outgoing secretary of defense who personalizes the cold war had its peak robert gates was anything but controversial and he has garnered phil respect all across the board during his rally the exit tour from of ghana staying all across europe and back to the united states robert gates displayed unbelievable specter of sincerity and candor providing he's honest and unvarnished assessment of the united states strategic of all the reach all across the globe somehow i have

a hunch in his upcoming memoirs robert gates will explain his one unfinished dream that is to finish the job he initiated in his previous capacity as the cia chief when he opened up a pound or a box of extremism in pakistan and in afghanistan only to be called back to duty almost thirty years later to iran again which is so carefully rared and groomed in his previous capacity as the cia chief. social media gives everyone a chance to play their part of any story well it's been a communication revolution encouraging mass uprising in some countries and causing controversy in others for they perceive the lack of censorship well arty's a resident in new york at the sidewalks to ask what people there think of the social network scene.

in today's social media driven world you can post whatever hate speech doctored photos or other nonsense you want with virtually no consequences how do you feel about that defining our times this week let's talk about that i was as still king a guy on facebook once and by mistake instead of rising his name into the search i put as my status was all good i knew how to meet these things very quickly adding everybody to already see did you learn your lesson yet people just pretty thing on young girls young kids you know home addresses and everything like i got a nice. open approach is that. people see what you show them not what you actually are in my experience and if you put something on the internet people will watch and think that that set your life you know when when people could be sitting at home doing nothing for a whole weekend they might just make things up just to make themselves more interesting a lot of people tend toward being snotty or rude and they've been taught through

television and other media that that that's the new cool yet there's a shift in our culture going on but that'll change as people start to understand that day and result of that is isolate you isolate yourself when you do that kind of stuff we need to be center of attention. as the world just become a giant high school yeah i would say yes we are all of just a big giant but we owe a high school we all hated it so why do we want to live it every day that's a good question that's a good question and it's almost even in the more middle school that sort of mean girl kind of being and i think even adults get in. just kind of do you think that as we grow as a society people will get smarter about what to post or will it just get worse and worse i think people always be people you're going to have people that are smart you can have people that are not and i think that always be fruitcakes that put things on me that is just unhelpful and harmful and hurtful regardless of how you

feel about the pitfalls of social media the bottom line is it's probably going to get a lot worse before it gets better if it ever does. russia's caucasus region is known for its outstanding male wrestlers but now the local women are hot of their heels pumping iron and the german testing of their limits to the max and the art of arm wrestling some of these ladies have become a force to be reckoned with and as art is worthy of a quarter of a finds out there determined to become international stars. there is little clue as to why this is quite cool no flushing in the north caucasus high since you powerful secret because there's hand that we find perhaps some of the strongest women in the country but they're hoping their arm wrestling talents will one day be shared with the world in the olympic arena. and being the good soul of a begin wrestling in one thousand nine hundred ninety four but now she's clearly

a super woman with town world and fourteen year old gold medals born in a small village in the mountains she says that she has achieved everything she wished for and now it's time for a younger generation to follow in her winning footsteps i've been his biggest concern though is that this poor doesn't get the recognition she feels it deserves sometimes we simply don't have money to go to the championships after training so hard young girls are losing the stimulus to continue when they hear that there is no chance for them to go unless they collect the money themselves one thing that might change that would be the support was made point of them the. the games bringing more attention and financing competitive organized matches began in california in nineteen fifty two and soon gained real popularity arm wrestling as one of the most peaceful calm the diff sport that actually doesn't require any special equipment and people of all ages have

a real chance of winning if i did something quite simple there are. times. that anyone has a chance of winning right now i'm going to check it for myself. oh it's certainly an easy time. standing out worse at the gym i've been as trainee louisa says she doesn't know if she'll ever have enough money to go to the championships but she never loses hope. maybe it is an incorrect comparison but sport is like a swamp for me once you get into it there's simply no turning back i tried to stop but i can't live without it and they will continue hoping that one day he will be recognized by the public. it seems like ok jand women are following hard on the successful hills of their man who take many of the world's models in almost all types of wrestling and with girls' hair seemingly determined to break the stereotypes we could soon see more and more high hills making their way into the

wrestling arenas. no r.t. the republic of north side. of the star studded international film festival in moscow is coming to a suitably dramatic climax with the winner of the best film of being at outs our correspondent peter all over is there at the ceremony soaking up the glitz and glamour. this year's winner of the coveted golden george award is the movie the waves directed by alberto maya's it's a spanish movie the second year in a row that a spanish language movie has won the top prize here at the moscow international film festival last year it was the turn of a man also brothers this year though it's gone to the waves a movie set in the against the backdrop of the spanish civil war it's not the only prize not movies picks up carlos out of it is also taken the best actor price at this year's festival so two awards going to the spanish movie the waves the top

prize for best film and also the best actor prize now there's also been plenty of other awards up for grabs and one person who's picked up one of those awards this isn't a stranger to collecting gongs she's already got four buff does three golden globes for emmys amongst others including an academy award for best actress dame helen mirren the british actress has picked up the stanislav ski award for acting excellence i mean mentally on it you know the name stanley saskia obviously to our . last act is of it and an enormous importance you know each if possible really to say how important standard task is now not just for here to acting obviously that was where his influence started but but then went on to film acting a real delight to talk to dame helen mirren earlier on she was telling us the outright respect what she hires for russian film and russian acting and how much of an honor it was to pick up that stanislav ski award of course as she said silas

loves so associated with with acting excellence and she's been altered with that going today a whole host of celebrities plenty of russian celebrities from stage screen and the world of sports as well as business and politics be represented here but also a whole host of international stars now i met up with the the director of the movie . which is closing out the ceremony the espionage thriller the desk in which dame helen mirren actually stars. the director john martin no you may know him from his movie shakespeare in love as well as captain corelli's mandolin he was. due to soak up the atmosphere for the first time you were saying at the moscow film festival and also absolutely a whole host of other people and the mcdowell had a few interesting comments to make about the the green carpet of course the color you color for the carpet these type of events usually read the moscow to moscow festival going to green she was saying it's caused some problems when it comes to

picking up a perfect outfit i had a wonderful stylist that lives here in russia helped me pick out the dress and she brought me many dresses to choose from and i particularly liked this one because it was like a piece of sculpture and it fit me perfect so i was happy to have it and she was a lovely lovely lady well it's not just on the mcdonald of course it had problems picking out what she was going to wear i agonized for hours and hours this morning about what i was going to put on to make sure i looked right for this i'm sure you can tell. now despite a great fight in the wimbledon final russian tennis star body shop of our may not have won the cup this year but she's still an inspiration for an entire generation of young players tennis is the twenty four year old player's greatest passion and she attracts a worldwide attention for her striking looks as much as her sporting prowess tom barton has been looking into the secret of shop of a success. in

the russian school it's big tennis to distinguish it from ping pong much to the amusement of foreigners but now russia's racket wielding dani has made it to the biggest tennis tournament the move since her winning wimbledon in two thousand and four the real me here has to shut up with into a stone off the court which will. be chisholm county. she's joined the hall of fame with jaw dropping russian tennis we know but she only wants to talk about the tense i told myself to just take it one point at a time and really focus and then i thought like a disco got in my zone so we went down to one of moscow's toughest young tennis tournaments the club here claims to be the home of tomorrow's star players so what do these young russians think of their compatriots example that. i think she's very positive and not everyone could have such patients patience is very important in

tennis because if i've always liked her even when i was very young i started playing because i wanted to be like her and now people are telling me i'm playing like her that i have no idea what i find very strong inspiration from her i really like the way she plays she has very good technique she always fights until the end and never gives up one thing nobody can ignore about shut up over. that grant or screen or whatever it is we decided to send some of russia's captured printing talent can make compete. because one of the stars this club has turned out is catarina pulled up she was ranked eightieth in world under eighteen rankings but she forged her career in russia sure up of has been in america since she was seven doesn't that lessen her

inspirational appeal but if it's russian she is russian or filthy anything but. talking of working harder i might have to put in a few more hours myself. ok so i probably couldn't even beat these kids at a game of tennis but that's because they're out here. every day practicing driven on by heroes like maria sharapova. maybe because i haven't mastered the all important. about what song darkness railing away for us well be back with the headlines and don't go away.

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