ben-gurion. have said bump the guy off, let him end up in a ditch it will a warningto other nazi war criminals don't sleep soundly in your bed. but he says capture him, bring him here and we'll put him on trial. he understood the importance of trial. he fund importance of the judicial process and he's demonstrating to the world that israel spoke of the name of the jewish victims of the holocaust. >> rose: so then they captured him. >> they captured him. at first ben-gurion is asked to keep quiet so his operatives can get out of argentina and he says how many people are know he's here and he said the people on the el al plane, the staff, et cetera, about 30 or 40. and ben-gurion says "the whole country will know by tomorrow" and he goes tothe knesset announce. t then they have to figure out how to try him. who should try him, wherehey should try him. they don't have a courtroom large ough. who's going to defend him. they fd a germanawyer to defend him. germany reses to pay. usually germany pays th

parties policy are alive at israel's ben gurion airport thanks for that report. stay with us here on r t still to come we explore a russian medical marvel that still improving lives. sure it's not a big door to your guy it's like expect to be. a doctor's discovery about helping generations of patients walk tall again it's coming your way in russia close up if you may. first though nasa's final shuttle flight is expected later on friday with atlanta studio launch although bad weather may keep it grounded a little longer that want to turn though up to a million spectators who are waiting to watch the shuttle program's last ever launch but as artie's got into qian reports what will be an for an unforgettable moment for some may be painful for others. empty shells of what was once florida's thriving space coast. up to ten thousand people will be out of a job as soon as the last shuttle makes its final voyage back to earth home to many of the kennedy space center workers rock which is on the verge of becoming a ghost town without the space program or pretty much nothi

well dozens of activists are being interrogated as i speak to you here at ben gurion international airport only a few have actually managed to trickle through and it's not quite clear how the israeli police and security have allowed them to go through because there are still hundreds of police and security officers both inside and outside of benghazi and international now have put me back to latif of the palestine solidarity campaign and she is one of the few people who's actually managed to come through you on the phone with the activists who are being interrogated here at the airport what are they telling you. this telling me that they were taken from passport control. and they had already announced what they were doing that they were going to bethlehem to stay in the aida camp and taken to a separate holding they as i spoke on the phone they said the heavies were coming in and they were about to be interrogated you flew in from england what kind of examinations what kind of checks did you have to undergo there some of the number also interrogations by our own security but they were aske

talking here of some six hundred israeli police and security officers both inside and outside ben-gurion international airport and city at this stage it does seem a little excessive when you bear in mind that almost all the activists have been prevented from actually reaching the state court now we are talking with a number of high profile left wing israeli activists by telephone and they're telling us that they've been warned by the israeli police that if they state in the state court they will be arrested i have spoken with the israeli spokesperson micky rosenfeld and he denies this is it that they will come to london but that if they course trouble then they'll be arrested the israeli police have the names of three hundred and forty two passengers and changing to participate in the so-called fry tellus which is really an attempt to draw attention to the people of palestine we know that all of those three hundred and forty two already two hundred have been stopped from boarding planes in european cities but that means that another one hundred forty two are on their way here i'm expecti

from leaving port in greece for more on this we're joined by our teams paul asli are live at ben gurionairport good to have you with us paula so i think airport where the activists are expected is there any tension there ahead of his planned arrival. well the city is tension here and it's also international been going on airport just a short time. a scuffle broke out between a handful of protesters and the israeli public here and the police the protesters were holding up signs saying welcome to gaza free palestine they were chanting free gaza but almost immediately the police shuffled them out of this terminal building into waiting police vans outside and israeli passengers here were also a shouting traitors go to syria to safety tensions here are running high with roughly about six hundred israeli police and security officers deployed both inside and outside the airport now a flight that has arrived from geneva has been diverted we understand that there are some fifty activists some ford today going to be coming through a nother terminal we know that she will marry can passengers who a

dozens of activists are being interrogated as i speak to you here at ben-gurion international airport only a few have actually managed to trickle through and it's not quite clear how the israeli police and security have allowed them to go through because there are still hundreds of police and security officers both inside and outside the bank of an international now have it me back to latif of the palestine solidarity campaign and she is one of the few people who's actually managed to come through you on the phone with the activists who are being interrogated here at the airport what are they telling you. this telling me that they were taken from passport control as i spoke on the first they said the heavies would come again and they were about to be interrogated i actually think i literally slipped through the net just mean as far as i can tell there is only one of us there are forty or fifty people waiting hoping not to be deported or likely to be deported and this may be so it is up to me to be their voice and to put forward the point of view especially of people in the u.k. but th

. >> reporter: today the former security director from israel's ben gurion airport urged the tsa to shift its focus to dangerous people and dangerous weapons. >> reporter: the tsa needs to stop treating babies and the elderly as extreme security threats. >> first of all, you have to identify the risk and when you identify the level of risk, then you can adjust the level of searching. >> reporter: following up on that, just a short time ago, the tsa e-mailed me a statement, saying, quote, we're working on common sense changes that will strengthen security by looking more at the people who fly and better identifying and focusing on the highest risk threats. it would appear, brian, that the tsa has got the message and things may soon change. >> tom costello starting us off out at washington national tonight. tom, thanks. >>> now to an outrage you may not have noticed, but the government now has. the question is how closely to any of us really look at the phone bill, all those charges on there? when unauthorized charges show up in that jumble of numbers, it's known in the trade as cramming, f

were prevented from even reaching israel and european airports artie's policy or who's been at ben-gurion airport throughout the day as more. for the last few weeks there have been some six to eight hundred international activists who've been planning this so-called fly turner united under the banner of welcome to palestine and representing some fifty in geos is mostly french activists who made the point from the beginning that they were intention was to bring attention to the pride of the palestinian people particularly the people of gaza they said that they were intention was peaceful the plan was to spend a week particulate in the west bank visiting palestinian families and really giving them a message of hope and encouragement from the international community but of course the attention also needs to be on gaza where since two thousand and seven since her must came to power israel has imposed a hippy blockade and the latest word we hear from humanitarian organizations operating in gaza is that the situation is almost catastrophic we're hearing figures of as much as eighty percent of t

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bound for gaza were prevented from leaving port in greece artie's paulus leader has more from ben-gurion airport where the activists are expected. well they said he is tension here at israel's international ben going airport just a short time ago a scuffle broke out between a handful of protestors and the israeli public care and the police the protesters were holding up signs saying welcome to gaza free palestine they were chanting free gaza but almost immediately the police were shuffled there also this terminal building into waiting police vans outside and israeli passengers here were also shouting traitors go to syria so said the tensions here all running high with roughly about six hundred israeli police and security officers deployed both inside and outside the airport now a flight that has arrived from geneva has been diverted we understand it is some fifty activists on board they going to be coming through a neither terminal we know that she will marry can passengers who actually arrived in israel are being deported we're hearing of clashes in both france and in belgium and in gen

that missions like these are no longer needed all right art is there live for us at israel's ben gurion airport thanks for that. well you can log on and have your say on what's being done to fly on our website r t dot com and take part in our latest online poll right now we're asking whether pro palestinian activists will be able to convince israel to lift the gaza blockade so far whop of respondents say it would only happen if activists arrived in overwhelming numbers around a quarter of them don't think israel would yield to any pressure nineteen percent say the activists can succeed since they have the truth on their side and a minority believes the blockade will only be lifted if the palestinians stop attacking israel. also online for you google eyes shut down millions of internet sites after it's decided they're malicious and don't need suitable standards find out what they're pretty repercussions are for the rest of the web. and rumors about barack obama's trial could continue to swirl as a u.s. journalist claims the president is parents the thought of giving him up for adoption.

raffi ran is that former director of security at the tel aviv ben- gurion airport. and inspector william parker is the commander of amtrak police department's k-9 unit. we appreciate you being here as well call witnesses will be sworn in before they testify. please rise if you would then raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give this committee will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? thank you, you may be seated. let the record reflect that all witnesses answered in the affirmative. we would appreciate if you limit your verbal testimony to 5 minutes or less. your entire written statement will be entered into the record. with that, we'll start with mr. salmon. >> good morning. i appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the transportation security administration responsibility regarding perimeter security at u.s. commercial airports. i would like to emphasize three points -- first, every airport has an individualized security plan which burst -- perimeter security is an

rafi ron at ben-gurion airport. you are recognized for five minutes. see. >> thank you mr.chairman and members of the committee for inviting me to testify today. i would like to draw the committee's attention to the three factors that i believe are playing a key role in many of the shortcomings and airport security. the first one is the imbalance that was created shortly after 9/11 when tsa had the overwhelming task of recruiting training and installing technology in airports around the country, something that is the backbone of tsa's operation and influence of security at the airports. at the same time the airport facility security has received much less attention, and not only a screening of passengers where most of the attention and the funding went into, but it was also executed by a tsa why the rest of it was left for the local authorities to take care of. something was relatively short and the standards for performance of the security task on the local level are not very clear and in many cases they did not even exist, and the point or the issue of perimeter security