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a captain in custody in a flotilla stuck out for well that's how the mission of gaza bound vessels ended in greece or to part of the blockade on playing. activists on board 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 questionable as it continues to shield a convicted war and world war two criminal. and already take some of the glamour and excitement among the stars to bring you the name of the lucky winner will carry home the main award of the moscow international film festival. just after ten pm here in the russian capital you're watching r.t.

thanks for joining us now 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 mission to palestine last may well campaigners on board have suggested the greek government gave in to pressure from the u.s. . there has been no explanation given by athens as to why this preventing these ships from sailing form its ports distant to gaza justice today friday one of the ships called the duty on a set sail it was in the waters for some fifteen 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 able to ports and ought to correspondent on board one of the ships that has been seized explained that greece is acting in violation of international law will. not tell the will not give up

there are twelve members of european and other national carloman 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 relieving 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 participated in the free gaza flotilla are harmless most are elderly many over sixty and even seventy well let's go to that has been dubbed the freedom to tell it to and 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 ships not activists or payors 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 vine and mission at the same time the israeli authorities have been

a 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 is you know is really you know already expecting the police alert and we we know. prime minister netanyahu comments yesterday he made where he thanked. 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 is having a very weak position because of its economic problems a very popular government and it. can certainly fall preview 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 we have to

this 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 is intent to seize was sabotaged by israeli divers who worked on the ground to prevent their engines from working obvious way the 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 have that includes regular walk updates from our own correspondent on board one of the boats taking part or you can apply about ten more on our website r t v dot com. and coming up

our teams resident takes is streets of new york to ask whether people think social networking is a gift or a curse. people. young girls young kids you know home addresses and everything like 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's not 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. germany is shielding and a tourist nazi war criminal convicted and jailed for murdering dozens of people. or was serving a life sentence in the netherlands but later escaped and fled to germany well for decades berlin has been refusing to extradite the german national party's daniel bushell came face to face with a nazi executioner who's still evading justice. does from the close carol four

volunteered for the nazis in world war two he tortured victims before killing them at westerbork concentration camp in the netherlands where doris and frank was held to have been systematically beat up people in the night they had to dig their own graves and she was part of the firing squad which shot down. a dutch court jailed for of the war for twenty two murders he's suspected of many more but in one nine hundred fifty two he escaped to germany which lets him go and gave him full german citizenship he was basically sure did are protected for extradition in the netherlands has applied time of the time to have returned to serve his sentence germany doesn't extradite its citizens no matter how 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 and across a queue. and prosecutors like criminals. know the difference. and one of the killers. another person in germany never land this criminal this. really was murdered in the second world war by the dutch sis he confronted farber and asked him if he had any remorse for bill responded with smears and more cory 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 lifted a second of his you know had never felt sorry for his. he's deeds so if you go to

munich 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. you know why didn't you put your fairy last real cruel not since where he belongs to germany convicted ukrainian american john demjanjuk of nazi war crimes or much weaker evidence germany has one rule for its people says cause guns and another for foreigners about the younger but he's from russia you know they don't mind kicking him around as well this isn't germans or even far because i'm a german national therefore. this is where the man dubbed the nazi executioner live streaming 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 dutch making a final push to put him behind bars they applied to have him serve sentence in germany activists say it's the last chance to jail the butcher of westerbork the new bush will see him go start. and so along the way for you some 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 more and more women are getting into the act and we managed to wrestle the secrets of some of the sport's super women. and 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 the group on sunday morning before exchanging fire with the suspects refused to surrender officials say up to a dozen armed militants escaped and are thought to have fled into nearby dense

forest areas been sealed off with additional security troops closing in on the assailants russia's caucasus is seeing a spike in violent activity with the 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 voicing their support for the libyan leader's defiance of nato bombings in a recorded audio message colonel gadhafi threatened attacks on europe in revenge for coalition air strikes meanwhile the african union is calling on member states to disregard the arrest warrant issued by the international criminal court against gadhafi who says the charges complicate efforts to find solutions to the libyan crisis. the syrian president has sacked a key official after friday's anti regime demonstrations sure believed to have been

the biggest yet president bashar al assad just signed a decree removing the governor of the central city of hama from office tens of thousands to the streets nationwide rejecting assad's promises of reform and demanding an end to this authoritarianism activists say the government crackdown which began in mid march has claimed almost. fifteen hundred lights. at least thirteen members of a family died when a roadside bomb struck their mini bus in a southern afghanistan the group including two children were thought to be afghan refugees returning from pakistan and through the volatile border area roadside bombs planted by taliban militants are commonly used in the country and elsewhere in afghanistan a local council member was killed by two gunmen who opened fire from a motorbike. police in bahrain have fired tear gas at hundreds of anti-government protesters denouncing the peace talks between the sunni led government and the

opposition that's according to reports the dialogue follows months of violent protests that claimed over thirty lives the shiite community in the bahrain claims it's discriminated against by the sunni majority thousands participated in nationwide demonstrations demanding their political representation. now leon panetta has been sworn in as the new u.s. defense secretary replacing robert gates who had held the position for over four years well during his time as pentagon chief gates struggle to bring about victory in iraq and afghanistan but our military contributors says the retard defense secretary actually helped nurture the taliban in the first place. for our generation of the cold warriors on the both sides in the united states and in russian federation it is robert gates the outgoing secretary of defense who personalizes because war at its peak robert gates was

anything but controversial and he has garnered full respect all across the board during his valedictory exit tour from of ghana stand 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 and somehow i have a hunch that 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 at the pound or a box of extremism in pakistan and in afghanistan only to be called back to duty almost thirty years later to eradicate the evidence which is so

carefully rared and groomed in his previous capacity as the cia chief a social media gives everyone a chance to play their part in any story it's been a communication revolution and mass uprisings in some countries and cost of controversy and others with a perceived lack of censorship a large resident in new york at the sidewalks ask what people there think of the social networking 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 looking 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

their young girls young kids you know home addresses and everything like i got a nice. open approaches a house no address 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's that such 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's that's the new cool yet there's a shift in our culture going on but that will change as people start to understand that they end 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 reason and it's almost even in a more middle school that sort of mean girl kind of thing and i think even adults get into the bullying which is kind of sad but 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 knots and i think that always be fruitcakes that put things on the that is just unhelpful and harm. 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. and russia's caucasus region is known for its outstanding male wrestlers but now the local women are hot on their heels pumping iron in the gym and testing their limits to the max and the art of arm wrestling well some of these ladies have become a force to be reckoned with as artist medina caution of a finds out they're determined to become international stars. there is little clue

as to why this quite corner of russia and the north caucasus hide such a powerful secret because his 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. i'll be in the blue cell of a began wrestling in 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 if the sport was made part of their limpy 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 discord that actually doesn't require any special equipment and people of all ages have a real chance of winning if i did something quite so. that has a chance of winning right now i'm going to check it for myself. so it's certain to be. standing hours at the gym i've been as trainee louisa as 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 is simply no turning back. i tried to stop but i can't live without it and they will continue hoping one day will be recognized by the public. it seems like kook asian women are following hard on the successful heels of their men who take many of the world's models in almost all types of rustling and with girls hands seemingly determined to break the stereotypes we could soon see more and more high hills making their way into the wrestling and arenas. the republic of north the sas yeah. well we have more for you on our website r.t. dot com we'll go online for updates on all our stories new videos and much more also covering the exotic car show in moscow where classic meets extravagant luxury the fifteenth annual event which has opened its doors to visitors. also on lot of bengal tiger cub has become the main attraction of

a zoo in russia's urals he even has his own twitter page. that the star studded international film festival in moscow is coming to a suitably dramatic climax where the winner of the best film being announced our correspondent peter all over is there at the ceremony soaking up the glitz the glamour. this year's winner of the coveted golden george award is the movie the waves directed by alberto maya's it's a spotless 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 case 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 is isn't a stranger to collecting gongs she's already got four buff does three golden globes four 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 immensely on it you know the name shanna saskia obviously to our costs are sacked as she is of an enormous import the united states 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 that 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 director of the movie. which is closing out the ceremony the dispute the desk in which dame helen mirren actually stars. the director john mountain 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're saying at the moscow film festival and also an absolute 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. festival going for green she was saying it's caused some problems when it comes to picking up perfect outfits 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 like 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 how despite a great fight in the wimbledon final russia tennis star muddier shop of may not have won the cup this year but she is still an inspiration for an entire generation of young players tennis is a twenty four year old players greatest passion and she attracts worldwide

attention for her striking looks as much as her sporting prowess barton has been a looking into the secret of how top of a success. the russians call it big tennis to distinguish it from ping pong much to the amusement of foreigners but now russia's racket wielding darling has made it to the biggest tennis tournament of the move since her win at wimbledon in two thousand and four maria mania has turned sharapova into a star off the court as well in peaches and catwalks she's joined the hall of fame with jaw dropping russian tennis woman 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 just kind of 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 stuff 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 the girl are telling me i'm playing like her but 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 sample some of russia's future granting talent can make compete. because one of the stars this club has turned out is catarina pappu over she was

ranked eightieth in world under eighteen ranking. but she forged her career in russian children out of has been in america too she was seven doesn't that lessen her inspirational appeal oh she's so russian she is a russian what else do you need to be. 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 home by heroes like maria sharapova oh maybe because i haven't mastered the all important grown. up. song or to the squeaking authority at moscow or have more sports news for you coming in about twenty minutes time so do stay with us and i'll be back with headlights.

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