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headlines on r t a captain in custody a flotilla stuck at port all that's how the mission of gaza about vessels ended in greece before it departed for the blockade on the plane. 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 questioned as it continues to shield a convicted world war two criminal. darkie takes on the glamour and excitement and mixes with the stars at moscow's international film festival where the movie the waves snapshots 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 well campaigners on board have suggested the greek government gave in to pressure from the u.s. and israel policy or has more from tel aviv. there has been no explanation given by athens as to why this preventing these ships from sailing form of sports distant to gaza one of the steps called the giuliana set sail it was in the waters for some fifteen to twenty minutes before the greek closed guard stopped and diverted that 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 the courts and not a correspondent on board one of the ships that has been seized explained that greece is acting in violation of international law. that cannot or 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 are lawyers for the freedom flotilla are saying the greek government's actions are unlawful because the ships cannot be prohibited from going to gaza and they should not be restrained from three we being 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 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 fertility and last year that came at the end of may and it ended in disaster with nine turkish 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 to gaza

is a non violent 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 a lot and we know we saw we heard prime minister netanyahu is quite. yesterday he made where he thanked greek 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 is in a very weak position because of its economic problems a very popular government and it. can turn the opry 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 altered see some of them have already been arrested and all being detained we are hearing that they do plan a number of the large demonstrations in athens to call on 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 them were 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 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 and that includes regular blog updates from our own correspondent aboard one of the boats taking part you can find babson much more on our website r t v dot com. and a coming up

for you r.t.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 near 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 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. germany is shielding a torturous nazi war criminal convicted and jailed for murdering dozens of people class kartel father was serving a life sentence in the netherlands but later escaped and fled to germany well for decades berlin's been refusing to extradite the german national and artie's daniel bushell came face to face with the nazi executioner who still evading justice.

those from the class carol for 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 a bar 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 of that are protected for 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 book can stay free yet he hates the german law which he has to enforce. and prosecute like criminals. no difference. if he kills. another person in germany the netherlands this criminals. 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 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 you know his victims never lived

that long and a second of this you know i had never felt sorry for these. it's deeds so if you go to munich to talk to me you just don'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. 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 long as it's in germans or even far because i'm a german national therefore. this is where the man dubbed 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 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 all the way for years some a lady don't want to mess with. good as it turns out arm wrestling is not just for the guys here in russia's north caucuses more and more women are getting a game to be out and we managed to wrestle the secrets of some of the sport's super women. now 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 when the

suspects refused to surrender officials say that 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 violence 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. let's check some other world news in brief this hour thousands are taken 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 threatened attacks on europe the coalition air strikes the african union is calling on member states to disregard the arrest warrant issued by the international criminal court against gadhafi use as 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 are believed to have been the biggest yet president bashar al assad to signed a decree removing the governor of the central 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 rule activists say the government crackdown which began in mid march has claimed almost fifty. hundred lives. at least thirteen members of a family died when a roadside bomb struck at 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 who opened fire from

a motorbike. police in a box 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 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 would held the post for over four years well during his time as pentagon chief gates struggled to bring about victory in iraq and afghanistan but artie's military contributors says that the retarded 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 the cold 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 havana 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 overreach 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 of any story it's been a communication revolution and courage in a mass uprising in some countries and causing controversy in others with a perceived lack of censorship well archy's a resident in new york at the sidewalks to ask what people there think of the social networks seem. 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 stalking

a guy on facebook once and by mistake instead of rising his name into the search i put as my status was all could 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 opposite 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's that's 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 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 being 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 nuns and i think that always be fruitcakes that put things on the that is just unhelpful 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 does. 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 and as artists within a quarter of a finds out of they are 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've been the glue 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 as biggest concern though is that the support 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 support was made part of their limpy games bringing one tension 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 so. tight. that i had the chance of winning right now i'm going to check it for myself. well it's thirty. eight. standing hours at the gym i've been as trainee louise

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 swan for me once you get into there's simply no turning back i try to stop but i can't live without it and they will continue hoping that one day he will be recognised by the public. it seems like kook asian women are following hard on the successful heels of their man who take many of the world snuggles in almost all types of wrestling 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 arenas. the republic of north the south. well we have more for you on our website r.t. 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 and wacky

meets fast and furious at the annual motoring event which has opened its doors to the public. and also online for you a bengal tiger a cob has become the main attraction at a zoo in russia's urals all the 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 the glamour. this year's winner of the coveted golden george award is the movie the waves directed by alberto my as 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 and against the backdrop of the spanish civil war it's not the only prize that 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 the top prize for best film and also the best actor prize now there's also been plenty of other awards up for grabs in 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 shanna saskia obviously to our

costs are sacked as she is of every enormous import the united states it is possible really to say how important standard task is now not just for theater 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 director of the movie. which is closing out the ceremony. the desk in which dame helen mirren actually stars. the director john monson 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 mosco film festival and 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 events usually read the. festival go into 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 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 macdonald of course it had problems picking out what she was going to i can i suppose a nose 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 of may not have won the cup this year but she's still an inspiration for an entire generation of young players well tennis is a twenty four year old player's greatest passion and she attracts worldwide attention for a striking looks as much as her sporting prowess artie's tabart and has been looking into the secret of sharapova 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 more 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 beaches 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 nearly focus and then i felt 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 stuff 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 the girl are telling me i'm playing like her i'm like you know 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 scream or whatever it is we decided to sample some of russia's future grunting talent can make complete.

because one of the stars this club has turned out is catarina pop over she was ranked eightieth in world under eighteen ranking. but she forged her career in russia showed up of us been in america since she was seven doesn't that lessen her inspirational appeal but i'll see if it's russian she is russian what else do you need to keep. 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 practising driven on by heroes like maria sharapova oh maybe because i haven't mastered the all important ground. up. well 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 recap of the top stories in a few moments.

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