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where the movie the waves not just the top prize to take home to spain. just after midnight 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 ok here is on board have suggested the greek government gave in to pressure from the u.s. and israel artie's policy or has more from tel aviv. there has been no explanation given by athens as to why this preventing these ships from sailing former sports distance of gaza one of the steps called the duty on a six cell it was in the walls was for some fifteen to twenty minutes before the

greek coast guard stopped it and i voted to go to a military dockyard now athens is not clients of opposite has come on record as saying that no such statement from gaza would even sports an ati correspondent on board one of the steps that has been seized explained that greece is acting in violation of international law right now not to will not give up there are twelve members of european and other national or laments among the free gaza activists and they're trying to pull strings to force their governments to try and influence greece's decision to block their ships in their harbors or lawyers for the freedom flotilla are seeing the greek government actions are unlawful because the ships cannot be prohibited from going to gaza and they should not be restrained from freely meeting 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 that's that's has been dubbed the freedom flotilla soon as it's been

in the planning for at least two years since that first little of its hand last year that came at the end of may and it ended in disaster with nine to citizens being killed on board one of the ships not activists or pains to prevent this from happening again they've made a point of saying that their whole attempt to bring humanitarian supplies tomorrow is a non violent mission at the same time the israeli authorities have been at pains also trying to get this from happening activists around the world have been accusing the united states and israel of course to pressure on athens particularly when it's seeking economic balance we spoke to one such as it was at the shapiro is zero zero zero zero zero zero zero you know already. we know we. are. yesterday where he thanked. him in a surprise. for basically doing israel's work for it well we know behind the scenes that israel has been calling as well united have been putting

a ton of pressure on the greek government the greek government is having a very weak position because of its economic problems the. government and it. can certainly operate through such pressure and we believe although we don't. we do believe that both united were trying economic pressure on priest 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 arrested and are being detained we are hearing that they do plan a number of places in athens to go on the government to explain to give a just an explanation as to why does the brain to these troops on sailing we've also been hearing reports of sabotage the move of course at an irish missile but at this moment isn't it's a season was sabotaged by israeli divers who worked on the ground to prevent their engines from working nobby's raney foreign ministry today saturday deny those charges it call 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 and that includes regular a lot of things from our own correspondent of ward one of the boats taking part you can find that and much more on our website r.t.e. dark carpet. coming up or you artie's resident takes to the streets of new york to ask whether people think social networking is a gift or a curse. people just getting going on here 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'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.

germany is shielding a tortoise nazi war criminal convicted and jailed for murdering dozens of people class cartel father it was 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 and artie's daniel bushell came face to face with a nazi executioner who still evaded justice. those from the close carol for volunteered for the nazis in world war two he should victims before killing them twist the concentration camp in the level and with frank was held to heaven she says dramatically because people in the night be have to dig their own graves and she was part of the firing squad which. court jailed for but after the war for twenty two murders he suspected of many more but in noisy fifty two states and germany which lets him go and gave him full german citizenship he was

basically sure they were protected from extradition in the netherlands has applied time of the time to have returned to serve his sentence but germany doesn't extradite its citizens no matter how horrific the crime this is the man who ruled for bill can stay free yet he hates the german law which he has to enforce them across a cute. and prosecutors like criminals. see no difference. if somebody kills. another person many of neverland's best criminals. cost confirm really was murdered in the second world war by the dutch sis he confronted four dollars to me if he had any remorse for the responded with sneers and more kareen that was four years ago

they were safe now housebound and close to death it's a race against time for justice now you say well he's eighty nine. and it will say sometimes i mean you are now but one you know his fifth. and the second is you had never felt sorry for this is the if you go to. talk just ignorant you know this but we'll talk it over if we don't put in the g.o.p. for you guys it will always hang as a dark cloud the board cured me why didn't you put your failure last real cruel not since he loves germany convicted ukrainian american. you. of nazi war crimes or much weaker evidence germany has one rule for its people says cause guns and the number of foreigners about the younger but it's probably russia you

know they don't mind keeping him around there as well this isn't germans or even far. there for. this is where the man dubbed the nazi executioner lives german media is banned from revealing his address but we know he's in the last few years a message for the families of his victims. do you have a message for. the thoughts of making a final push to put him behind bars they applied to have him sentenced in germany activists say it's the law to jail the butcher of the port the new bush or see him go. and all the way for years some already don'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 ad and we managed to wrestle the

secrets of some of this course super women. no 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 saturday morning before exchanging far but the suspects refused to surrender officials say that up to a dozen are the letters 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 violence activity with a number of terror attacks going out by a third in the last few months special operations by government forces have seen over two hundred militants killed this year. let's check some other world news in brief this hour but thousands are taking to the streets of tripoli to voice their support for the libyan leader's defiance of nato bombings in

a recorded audio message colonel gadhafi for attacks of europe the coalition airstrikes of the african union is calling on member states to disregard the arrest warrant issued by the international criminal court against gadhafi who says charges complicate efforts to find solutions to the libyan crisis. the syrian president has sacked a key official after friday's anti regime demonstrations which were believed to have been the biggest yet president bashar al assad the signed a decree removing the governor of the something the city of hama from office tens of thousands took to the streets nationwide rejecting assad's promises of reform and demanding an end to his awful tired rule activists say the government crackdown which began in mid 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 a local council member was killed by two gunmen opened fire from a motorbike. police in a bar rain have fired tear gas at hundreds of anti-government protesters who are denouncing peace talks between the sunni led government and the shiite opposition that's according to reports the dialogue follows months of violent protests that claimed over thirty lives the shia community in bahrain claims it's discriminated against by the sunni majority of thousands were dissipated in nationwide demonstrations demanding their political representation. now leon panetta has been sworn in as the new u.s. defense secretary replacing what gates would held the post for over four years over

his time as pentagon chief gates struggle to bring about victory in iraq and afghanistan but artie's military contributors says that the retarded defense secretary actually help 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 this hour with galling separate to real defense who personalizes the cold war and its peak robert gates was anything but controversial and he has garnered full respect all across the board during his valedictory exit tour from again a staff 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 overreach all across the globe and

somehow i have a hunch and he's upcoming memoirs robert gates will explain his run 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 both extremism in pakistan and in afghanistan only to be called back to duty almost thirty years later to eradicate big deal which is so carefully rare and then improved in his previous capacity as the cia chief. a social media gives everyone a chance to play their part in any story it's good a communication revolution and courage in a mass uprising in some countries and causing controversy in others with a perceived lack of censorship or arties all resident in new york at the sidewalks 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 still king a guy on facebook once and by mistake instead of writing his name into the such i put it as my status was all i could i knew how to meet these things very quickly adding everybody to really see did you learn your lesson yeah yeah people just put anything on the young girls young kids you know home addresses and everything like that 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's actually 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'll 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 it's just a big sigh and oh 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 being and i think even adults get into the bullying which is kind of sad that do you think that as we grow as a society people will get smarter about what's a post or will it just kept west and west i think people will always be people you're going to have people that are smart you can have people who don't knots and i think it was the fruitcakes that put things on the there is just i'm hopeful and

home. 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 it. russia's caucasus region is known for its outstanding male wrestlers but now the local women are hotter their heels pumping iron in the gym and testing their limits to the max and the art of arm wrestling some of these ladies have become a force to be reckoned with as artists but in a question of a finds out of they are determined to become international stars. there is little clue as to why there's quite a corner of russia in the north caucasus clyde such a powerful secret because his hair there 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've been a goose oliver began wrestling in nine hundred ninety four but now she's clearly

a super woman with town world and fourteen year old gold medals worn 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 fall in her winning footsteps i've been as big as concerned though is that the sport 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 and one thing that might change that would be a support was made part of their limpid games bringing one tangent and financing competitive organized imagines began in california in nineteen thirty two and some games real popularity arm wrestling as one of the most peaceful converts of 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 so bothered. that i might have a chance of winning right now i'm going to check it for myself i. was certain to easy task standing out worse of the jam i've been as a trainee louise ass as she doesn't know if she'll ever have enough money to go to the championships but she never loses hope. we beat is an incorrect comparison but sport is like a swan for me once you get into there is simply no turning back i try to start but i can't live without it and they will continue hoping that one the will will be recognised by the public. it seems like ooh cajun women are following hard on the successful heels of their man can take many of the world snuggles in almost all types of thrusting and with girls handsomely determined to break the stereotypes we

could soon see more and more high hills making their way into the wrestling and arenas. now you know we should all artsy the republic of north and south yeah. well we have more for you on our god site r t v dot com you can go online for updates on all our stories new videos added much more we're also covering the fifteenth exotic car show in moscow where weird wacky meets fast and furious at the annual motoring event which has opened its doors to the public. and also on life are you a bengal tiger a cobbler has become but the main attraction at a zoo in russia's urals all he even has his own twitter page. the star studded international film festival in moscow has reached

a suitably dramatic climax where the winner of the best film was announced our correspondent peter all over was 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 myers 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. 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 x. surprise 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 is three golden globes for emmys

amongst others including an academy award for best actress dame helen mirren the british actress has picked up the stanislaus he award for acting excellence i'm immensely on it you know the name shyness ascii of speech to our house our sack this is of every enormous importance you know case it is possible really to say how important standish actually is now not just for here to actually want to see that was where his influence started but then went on to film acting a real delight to talk to dame helen mirren early on she was telling us the. outright respect what she has for russian film and russian acting and how much of an owner 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 all ears 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 in 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 dance in which dame helen mirren actually stars. the director john martin though you may know him from his movie shakespeare in love as well as captain corelli's mandolin he was here. due to soak up the atmosphere for the first time you're saying at the moscow film festival also absolute 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 event so 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

lovely lovely lady well it's not just on him it felt 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 sell now despite a great fight in the wimbledon final russian tennis star but in your shop obama may not have won the cup this year but she still an inspiration for an entire generation of young players well tennis is the twenty four year old player's greatest passion and she attracts worldwide attention to her striking looks as much as her sporting prowess arkansas has been looking into the secret of sharapova success. was. the russians call it big tennis to distinguish it from a ping pong match to the amusement of foreigners but now russia's racket wielding darling has made it to the biggest tennis tournament of them all since her win at

wimbledon in two thousand and four maria mania has turned her up over into a star off the court as well on peaches and catwalks she's joined the hall of fame with george rapping russian tennis woman but she only wants to talk about the tense but i told myself to just take it one point in time and really focus. because this 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 star players so what do these young russians think of their compatriots example. i think she's very positive and not everyone could have such patients patience is very important in tennis. 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. i think i find very strong inspiration from her i really like the way she plays she has

very good technique joyce fights until the end and never gives up one thing nobody can ignore about her up over. that groomed or scream or whatever it is we decided to sample some of russia's featured printing talent can make and pete. can be one of the stars this club has turned out this catarina carpooled or she was rent eight here in world under eighteen rankings. but she forced her career in russia should out of has been in america since she was seven doesn't that lessen her inspirational appeal oh yes that's right she is a freshman what else do you need to be. talking of working harder i might have to

put in a few more i was 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 run of. that was tom barton screeching away there and my colleague natasha will bring even more sports news in about twenty minutes time but i'll be back with a for the recap of the top stories in a few moments. with .

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