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israel as the country launches a massive your propaganda campaign along with emergency drills. was the sponsor getting attention for all the wrong reasons at the london paralympics anger among disability activists as a firm which they say humiliates them as a key backer of the games. up next r.t. takes you on a trip onboard one of the fastest sailing ships ever built. playing football in the scorching july sun of the iberian peninsula is senseless torture for some of these men others see it as a simple warm up before more difficult contest on dry land they see their rivals face to face but at sea competitors are nothing more than a blip on a radar screen. wind and waves are the only

tangible evidence of that determination to win. and. the crew of the russian three must sailing ship mir has little time to prepare ahead of the second phase of the two thousand and twelve toll ships race nevertheless a fine five minutes for a brief meeting ceremony. i would like to congratulate you today as we begin our voyage out to sea i hope will have a good start this time too i urge you all to do your best like it was. a true success is a matter of honor for the captain and instructor of mir he will soon be celebrating his seventy fifth birthday and has devoted a third of his life to the world's fastest sailing boat victory would be the perfect gift that the crew will need to give it their own way the first phase of

the two thousand and twelve tall ships race ended with a discouraging result from ear. of the killer actually we were the first to come in after the first lap but after time update we turned out to be third in our class of ships. and frederic chopin polish sailboats where head of us our sister ship from poland will be our main rival both ships have similar designs and sails according to the time correction will last about thirty minutes during the first phase i. think again a thirty to ninety minutes will be enough for us to win here to give a long blast. but. long one by. by noon more than thirty sail boats have left the port of lisbon the second part of the race is short little more than two hundred nautical miles may will need to make up for the time she lost in the first place before she reaches the spanish port of

kids is the crew unfurls mia sails all three thousand square metres all. over all of the boats in this prestigious class of ships mia has the greatest claim to victory her rivals pale in comparison to the number of wins she has racked up over the years she also boasts a skilful crew. strictly speaking these races are a side project from the russian ship is primarily for training purposes cadets of them a car of academy a would be captains of the russian merchant fleet if they learn how to set sail climb the rigging and timing knots in the age of nuclear vessels such skills seem most useful for speaking latin. and where you. would get your any seaman must have practice as well as theory besides they need to

have certain character traits epaulets as well as sailors to other sail boats because these people need to make the right decision in the nick of time the sail boat offers the best schooling and character training. day fowle of canada knows what the person of his mainsail wants him to do their commands are not translated into english after spending several months on may he's used to the routine and was. expected of him indeed sometimes he copes with his assignments better than his russian cum writes this is not my first time on this type of vessel is still aboard a vessel called the picked out for on the around the world voyage and doing this made me realize i want to sail on the college of a for a living and so i went to school to be a navigator and this was an offer one of the opportunities for work term was to come on the show that. there were about twenty trainees like dave on the ship like

the sailors they keep watch and they also share courses with the crew there's only one thing that sets them apart they have to pay for the privilege is a fledging democracy even the old superstition about women on board being a bad omen is ignored right you know twenty young female cadets some trainees are taking part in the race. my name's lee and i from hamburg germany and yeah this is my second time on the air i would think i. really tried to do our best like pulling the ropes and so on it's not difficult but it hard like we are right now in fighting the position in the atlantic ocean on route events and that's i plodded every half an hour i feel great about it we all work together as a team. we help each other through it also makes it ok.

for chickie's pilot steering mir leaves the bay a two pm there is less than an hour to go before the race starts tomorrow to form a starting line none of the participants in the race is allowed to cross it until a certain moment the most difficult task is to make a careful assessment of the ship's speed and direction so that she enters the start corrido exactly on time it takes some complicated arithmetic to add up speeds and subtract minutes. yet what are they doing with you know. still lingering on the top gallant sails. we need twelve knots ok that's what we've got right now sail setting aborted three minutes to go what's the distance. finally they need to shut off the engines to help the ship navigate out of port. always fail in these competitions

otherwise they would be pointless. that's why all of the engines to shut down five minutes before the start that's the rule. that was the central control the mechanic it's the way the brain writes ok. which of the lights is about to go on that the engine is shut down there. is now on this a we'll talk about. it . because it was great steering we sped away from the start. to a good start and a fair wind helps the ship pick up a speed of ten knots and take the lead the polish sailboat. behind.

the four sails of the largest of all the lower one is as large as two hundred eight square metres the foremast and some others bear a great number of sales themselves the same is true of the mainsail mast all the sails of them are interchangeable let total of two hundred fourteen square metres the only exception is the main sail mast to the. nikolai abramoff is not just the ship's bo's'n but also a form a submarine a abramoff a spend the last thirty. it's making sales. week with this utility room here is our workshop we have one hundred sales and store all of different shapes and sizes twenty six of them are meant for masts and races while the others are kept as replacements. for. nikolai is the only person on board the can repair the damaged sail. sails are

torn fairly often specially by strong winds you might even say they're wounded in the battle against the elements i have especially vivid memories of one rather dramatic sail replacement that was last year when we were competing against the polish boat. we were on our way across the baltic sea from finland to poland that's when the top most sail collapsed it took the cadets some four hours to get a new one back up all that happened to mid strong winds and torrential rain. don't touch that. again is the bosun's favorite student like all the other cadets he joined me as crew three months ago that remembers only too well the terror he felt when confronted with the prospect of climbing a fifty metre tall mainsail must. my heart sank and i

shivered all over although we didn't go very far on the last occasion. and we had that time the buy it was more town sites in pieces but we looked up at the top of the mast and wondered whether it was possible to reach it so but now it's quite a routine thing for me. i remember the ship being caught up in a vicious storm near here during a race. sail and jim britt. the guys had to be sent to the far end of the. but sometimes they have to.

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with. well belligerent sort of lets the ball get the report we've got assigns places in accordance with an updated coefficient of the go and the caps and the like as expected the polish boat. is in the lead we are in the second place both of us have an equal chance at the moment and only. the gap between the polish and russian sailboats is minuscule it all comes down to

the second phase of the race then everything will depend on the wind the poles decide to seek strong winds by taking the risk of going further south into the open sea they disappear from is view but the crew sees another vessel in its place approaching on the horizon. but. i would think for our own. welfare in court it was all going to show must go on. but. we didn't nor were they. always there were. very quick it was fifteen very very to work. politically if you wish to stop the tourists want to take our picture just because. they don't see that

many sailboats. the cruise line assails off followed by the sun sliding behind the horizon the first night of the race is second face sets in the nervous tension from the start fades away life on board returns to normal cadet self shifts do what they can to vent all that pent up energy ms current speed is. people in the captain's cabin a comfortable. heading towards another victory. is a good laboratory kirby was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't sound anything tim's

mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans and world this is why you should care only. if. the. first. the. am. on the second day of the race the crew in the morning shift hasn't got a single moment to spare the wind is stronger than expected the first attempt to take down some of the sails is unsuccessful one of them is caught in the hurricane

force wind the sail will be torn apart unless it's fixed without a leg. just like the ones in the back to roll up the top sail we tried to tie it to the power so that the wind couldn't read it apart but we couldn't the wind is too strong it's simply too strong and the crew gets control of the sails amid picks up speed to fifty knots the ship is tilting heavily support a difficult turn for the ship still lies ahead. of the past the turning point one and a half hours ago now we're heading for the finish line there are about one hundred forty miles to go the polish boat was slightly closer to that point and therefore made a turn a bit earlier than we did but now that we are on the right side of the wind we'll try to overtake it. the polish boat is only a short distance ahead all ms crewmates to do is keep

a speed for the first few hours after the turning point everything's going smoothly . with little and shows where we all are when the ship began three hours or so ago the bearing angle of the polish ship was something like one hundred thirty degrees now it's one hundred seventy in other words we have one back distance from the polls. but nature deals me a cruel blow the wind has died down and ship speed instantly drops to five knots with a sails beginning to droop the bulky frigate almost comes to a halt lighter pursuers trying to catch up with her another exchange with race officials confirms that mir is now trailing behind the polish ship. we've got a chance to remedy the situation but only if there's a fair wind to help us in that case we might overtake ships with a small coefficient we'll follow head of them in the morning but the wind has

driven them closer to us. the situation can't be remedy for the time being a strong wind is their only hope the crews whose job is taking care of the musts i will most no work to do they decide to hold more competition to try to reduce the stress brought on by the calm condition. was. that if you. have a laugh like loosen up. be ready. really. was was. that he was.

introduced to people with the help of this instrument where evel to see the constellation of the stars in the sky a lot of normally you see this from below but right now i am looking at it from above. because that's who i'm not lucky enough to be involved in. the tug of war go to a room where they listen to lectures on astronomy they're not very popular but attendance is monday. with you inside the age of g.p.s. satellites and internet communications these seamen to talk how to do six times term in a ship's coordinates by observing stars. give up is measuring how high the sun is over the horizon is easy enough. you learn to do it after two or three lessons but also about if you want to determine the ship's location

you need to take three different measurements at a time. the problem is that the ship will cover a large distance in the five to ten minutes it takes for the contents to do the measurement. was was was was the foresail must team is victorious meanwhile reports of the overall race positions of the ship start coming in as for mere there is no wind in sight yet. listen for the information about the voyage first july twenty second monday to lord nelson is nigh thing class and twelfth overall. and the mir is second class and second overall the pelican of london is eighth sing class and eleventh overall.

the ship's galley has its own race against time when it comes to feeding almost two hundred people four times a day speed is of the essence the cooks have to work almost around the clock so in such race it's. your choice to make the first tasty during a race we normally cook food separately. when you have a tilt he can't make goulash with the burns of the other half will end up on the floor so taking in fortune's is much more convenient. on the second evening of the race that steam hardly has any work to do the wind is still quite weak changing the configuration of the sails is pointless cadet project going takes time out to explain why people still like sailboats pushing to get this

is the only place where you can feel the thrill of the wind swaying you from side to side while you're up there hanging on to the mosque also a sailboat promotes the spirit of comradeship it builds character and your ability to stand up to the elements of truth it's a tough job setting sail was especially hard work will end up worn out and dead tired enough for one moment to die regretting it. down in the bowels of the ship away from the deck and the elements signs of normal life can be found there are two campaigns showers and lounges here in addition to courses for the cadets and cabins for the regular crew about one hundred fifty people spend several months together in these premises during the night when the fate of the years main race hangs in the balance the atmosphere here is just as calm as it all was. the crew on the bridge

follows the coordinates of mir in the polish ship its chief rival the russian sailboat is closer to shore its crew expects to cross the finish line ahead of the polish ship the result should be clear by next morning. the morning brings the long awaited wind that comes too late in the day the race is almost over. there's one. miles to go to the finish line the polish ship. came an hour ago. we should come second. there were closer to the line because they had been going a bit further south and benefited from southerly winds but they had a lead of several miles. cool on the deck is quest for the news of the defeat. shall we say three cheers for the winners. i. mean you see yourselves. but you should take both defeat and victory in your

stride. of course i really don't know about the others but we had a chance to win and we didn't the way that i see it today we just didn't go the right way i don't think it was the right way. we simply should have taken another route. it was a fair race after all it is as the captain says. well well bound to win the next time. and it is trying to find this place i think. such as mayor and dharma joshi or cold wind jammers and it's no wonder our lives are in the wind if there is no wind we go nowhere the poles were fortunate i don't know if it was

a small stroke of luck or an educated guess they showed a slightly better performance than we did the wind is what matters. ms crew takes in the sails before entering the spanish port town of kid is. in accordance with tradition it parades in front of thousands of spectators on the russian and polish ships more side by side like two peas in a pod. the sail boats turn into a floating exhibition open to the public for a few days anyone is free to inspect them inside out.

meanwhile off duty say less get into town. and. the crews of all race competitors get together. with snacks drinks. their rivals or see shake hands secretly hoping they will emerge victorious next time and receive such congratulations on the victory. today this is the last stop for me she will later join thirty other sailboats returning to portugal and then the russian ship will follow a route of her own once again the wind and waves will be both her friends and foes away.