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heart the inability that's trying to degrees to set sail for gaza on monday with a different not only these radio located but also a button on the bed that folds leaving greek ports with an american captain already endowed. 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 is accused of shielding. criminals a criminal class couple o'connell's followed by refusing for decades to extradite the not to s.s. man who escaped from a life sentence in the netherlands for mass murder. i'm also a sense it's not international film festival reaches its grand finale has been made of war but beyond the waves of joy and its meeting being top stars in town but extravaganza.

hello and welcome to all the t twenty four hour news live from moscow my name is you of all the time a story now appropriate student with humanitarian aid plans to continue its journey to gaza from greece and. one day despite a bond by the government in athens on both leaving greek ports for the palestinian territory the american captain of a vessel has been arrested for trying to defy the order which campaigners say came after pressure from the u.s. and israel policy here has more from tell of it. there has been no explanation given by athens as to why this preventing these ships from sailing form of sports destined to gaza justice today friday one of the steps called the duty on a set sail it was in the waters for some fifteen to twenty minutes before the greek coast 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 steps distant from gaza will be the 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. need not what it said you cannot tell the 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 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 are bridge 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 flotilla 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 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 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 is you know is really you know already expecting the book to learn and we know we've heard. prime minister netanyahu comments yesterday he made where he thanked. prime minister public radio 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 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 a very unpopular government and it. can certainly fall prey to such pressure and we believe although we don't have concrete evidence of that 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 do plan a number of the large demonstrations 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 reports of an irish missile that at this moment isn't trying 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. if

you want to know more freedom there's more exclusive coverage for you on line on our web site that's not at all carbs and you'll find regular blog updates from our own correspondent aboard one of the boats taking part as well as other reports on the five year blockade the team is trying to break all the have and lots more now website r.t. dot com. and later in the program aussies resident takes to the streets of new york tarski whether people think social networking is a gift. people just believe going on here young girls young kids you know home addresses and everything why do people see what you show them not what you actually are in my experience and if you put some meat 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 the whole weekend they might just make things up just to make themselves more interesting.

for almost sixty years germany has been refusing to extradite a dutch war criminal sentenced in holland to life imprisonment class carol thought but convicted of mass murder of concentration camp prisoners escaped prison in the one nine hundred fifty s. and fled to germany where help taint citizenship despite being a wartime nazi collaborator is daniel bushell went in search of a man who is a living reminder of the fascist. those from the close 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 bought off of the war for twenty two murders he's suspected of many more but in ninety fifty

two he escaped to germany which lets him go and gave him full german citizenship he was basically sure of that are 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 book can stay free yet he hates the german law which he has to enforce. and prosecutors like criminals. no difference. if he kills. another person many of neverland this criminals on of course confirm and he was murdered in the second world war by the dutch sis he confronted for her 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 one you know his victims never lived that long and a second of his you know had never felt sorry for his. it'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 a ball you know why didn't you put your fairy last real cruel not since where he belongs germany convicted ukrainian american john demjanjuk of nazi war crimes or 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 as well this isn't germans or even far but they call it 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 l.-t. sentence in germany activists say it's the last chance to jail the butcher of westerbork the new bush will see him go start. this is our sea and on the way it is you wouldn't want to mess with. oh

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 viagra now we managed to wrestle the secrets of some of the sports super women. a police officer has been killed and two others wounded in a gunfight with militants in russia's republic of chechnya the exchange of fire happened when big group broke away after being trunked by security forces official say at least twelve armed militants escaped and doss thought to have fled into nearby mountainous for it's the area's been sealed off with additional troops is seeking to close in on the assailants the number of terror attacks and russia's corpuses region has gone up by a third in the last few months meanwhile special operations by government forces have killed over two hundred militants this year. and let's not check some other world news in breve this hour this president one senior official in apparent attempts to appease anti regime demonstrators twenty four people are thought to

have been killed by security forces one terms of thousands took part in demonstrations on friday believed to be the largest such protest so far president assad has fired the governor of the central city of hama a scene of the most to be a violent crackdown civil rights groups say almost fifteen hundred people have been killed by the army in protests since made in march. there have been protests in kabul against of recent string of rocket attacks that have killed at least thirty six civilians on the border with pakistan demonstrators accuse the pakistani army and the intelligence services of responsibility pakistan has done i think you say shows but admitted that some rockets and i have accidentally fall in an afghan territory where security forces targeted militants carrying out attacks. police in bahrain have died tear gas and hundreds of anti government protesters opposed to peace talks between the sunni. the government and the opposition the

protesters gathered near a landmark square in the capital managua the epicenter of the uprising seeking more rights for shiites in which over thirty have died this robbery the share community in bahrain claims it's discriminated against by the sunni minority and beat. you were zone finance ministers have decided to release twelve billion euros to greece as part of a bailout package agreed last year and debating the threat of an imminent sovereign default by athens they also pledged to complete work on the second rescue package for the nation in the coming weeks after those hard brutal second round of austerity measures are tamed at curbing its mounting debt despite widespread public opposition of eight minutes of the plans without the money greece would have defaulted within days and the international monetary fund is now expected to rubber stamp its a three point three billion euro part of the bailout later this week the only panetta has been sworn in as the new u.s. defense secretary replacing robert gates during his time as pentagon chief gates

developed a good reputation among his colleagues but struggled to bring about victory in iraq and afghanistan however he is a military contributor he actually helped natur at the time about 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 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 keith initiated in his previous bassy 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 he so carefully rared and groomed in his previous capacity as the cia chief. and you can read you get it who shows blogs our website home where you can also find plenty of other stories in creating. the world on the frontline he tells the story of two palestinian women commanding groups of all who demand pointing to break the gaza blockade. and also online as north americans become addicted to

medicines we are seeing the drug store is replacing the liquor store in the u.s. . on wrestling is a sport generally associated with beefy men but in russia's caucuses their women are flexing their muscles to auntie's medina question or has been getting to grips with some of them 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. 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 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 one tension and financing competitive organize 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. that has a chance of winning right now i'm going to check it out myself. so it's thirty. standing hours at the gym i'll be in 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 tried to stop but i can't live without it and they will continue hoping that one day we 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'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. the republic of north the site. and later in the program another super woman russian telly. easily defined and defined by in a comparable screen it still remains a symbol of success the generation of young players despite what a lot of final defeat. they said if that international film festival in moscow has counted to a dramatic climax with the winner of the best film being announced and our correspondent beat all over was that the ferryman her. 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 edom on also brothers this year though

it's going to the waves a movie set in the 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 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 isn't a stranger to collecting gongs she's already got four buff has 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 immensely on it you know the name is janice saskia obviously to our costs are sacked is enormous and for 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 but then went on to film acting 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 thrill at the desk 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'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 cole foods 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 wear i agonized but i was 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. russian telly style maria sharapova and they know how one wimbledon this year but she still remains an inspiration for many plan as well why'd she wanted a tournament when she was just seventeen since when has tracking really excited as well as her take prowess how one have they both on and off the court he is tom bought and has been trying to find that secret of success. was.

part of 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 a good discount it 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 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 scream or whatever it is we decided to sound 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 russian children out of has been in america since she was seven doesn't that lessen

her inspirational appeal oh yes it's russian she is a russian what else do you need to do. to keep 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 well maybe it's because i haven't mastered the all important role. that is done by squeaking forty in moscow social media has brought about a communications revolution and has also helped spark revolutions as well being used as a tool to avoid government censorship and organize protests in the arab world this year but is everyone to find out his own president a reporter in new york if the sidewalk stars call people that rank.

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 got me these things very quickly adding everybody to already see did you learn your lesson yeah yeah people just pretty thing on here 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 she said she 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 for about adult 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 something that as the world just become a giant high school yes 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 the 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's a 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 nots and i think they always be fruitcakes that put things on they that is just unhelpful and home.

and hurtful regardless of how you feel about the pitfalls of social media at the bottom line is it's probably going to get a lot worse before it gets better if it ever does. coming out will bring you up close the lake of the father of the soviet hydrogen bomb who was to become one of the kneading dissidents in the us a son that's right i'm sure a couple of top stories in just a few more. movies

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