expressible what mr merkel thank you very much for being with us today marks five hundred is your idea of your purchase and it's close to its completion the experimenting members are about to walk out of this chamber or whatever you call it how does it feel it's been seventeen months are you nervous. at all and of course i'm anxious we were more anxious though when they just walked in now we're looking forward to the end of the experiment of course such extensive isolation will require the crew to spend some time in rehabilitation will be hard work for us to analyze the results but the very fact that the team managed to stay the course is a source of delight. with what the program must be from the very start there has

been much controversy over marse five hundred especially among professionals when i mean it's evil say that you can become a formula one driver by spending a year and i have any driver see ordinary people who don't know much about the experiment are likely to ask was the purpose of spending fifty million dollars to isolate six able bodied men from the rest of the world for seventeen months or so. of course for the purpose is as follows the experiment has been designed to define the limits of human capacities the mission to mars is an idea that's been on people's minds for at least fifty years feasible projects of flights to the red planet were developed as early as in the one nine hundred sixty s. then space exploration took a different course but the beginning of the twenty first century was again marked by growing interest in flights beyond the orbit flights to other planets it will put space science on a new level in terms of technologies knowledge and extended limits. human

capacities that work on the international space station is viewed as a preparation for interplanetary voyages and from. here the experiment is supposed to stretch the limits of human capacities so does it give you any specific answers like when can he means first three mars who will be the shiny or to step onto its surface. as a friend of mine once said it's not even the first step we've only lifted off to take that first step before we decide on the equipment that we used in a flight to mars we first need to have an understanding of the limits of the human body his psychological and physiological capacities secondly we need to decide on the amount of resources to be taken along on the way our life support system will operate during such long missions and communications between the crew and the earth will be a different ballgame in over two flights much of the work rests on the shoulders of the specialists on the ground and interplanetary mission is also characterized by

autonomy independence you can't turn back it's a totally different situation and without testing and identifying the primary elements the life support system the volume of the resources needed the human capacities it's difficult to make plans even on and initial design of a future spacecraft research in human capacities should go before the design of a spacecraft though our scientists are quite active in designing new vehicles this is an experimental facility it can serve as a model or give us the data on the real science that we needed for real flight anyway a mission to mars will most likely consist of four crew not six more the mission will need to cut the amount of resources that we've taken aboard. the. thing is that the crew members know that in any case of emergency scientists can interfere at any point unlike in space and solve the problem you know where that would be different to space conditions so does this fact evaluate the scope of the

experiment was more than. a dozen although this is a major factor on a real trip you realize that you're away and you cannot make a u. turn even if you wanted to that you will take the road back only after you've reached that goal in contrast the crew locked up here is fully aware that they're not far away from the center of moscow it's very hard to imitate this factor but what we can imitate is the isolation from the outside world although at the same time we seek to keep some form of interaction between the crew and the world because it's a kind of psychological support one of the limitations we've introduced was the ban on direct real time voice contacts and the digital exchange of information was allowed that limitation lost it for four hundred twenty days and when the voice calls were allowed again their faces grew much brighter it raised their mood a lot before that they led a very isolated life of course like on any space mission they sought ways to vent their dissatisfaction they made friends with the ground control dispatches they had

friends and maybe even enemies but in principle this project was marked by a high level of isolation from the. let's go to. what were the crew motivated and encourage a person to stay away from their relatives and friends for seventeen months is not really a flight to mars to experiment one make them world famous and try out to be the first to land a nurse we're going with. the group there's a profession called a test engineer and i think i can only count myself as part of this group it's the people who are always one step ahead of what's actually going on in space or in the case of an emergency so they're just enthusiasm. helping mankind to move forward not just infuse he asked incident he months is a pretty long period of life it's really loam for me too i'm among those who create affected. love for their surely he had enough money for that you know this is no

big money in my view is it a secret you know it's not. we promise to pay three million roubles we've agreed that the amount of compensation for the europeans and russians will be roughly the same when the chinese agency employs different criteria anyway the point i would like to underline is that it's an international crew they've been many concerns that they would split into groups according to the language the chinese member is a representative of a totally different culture and ancient culture because there was a report saying that three months before they experienced statue and ending the crew members stopped writing letters is it true and if yes what are the reasons even a very avid right says even though they have an opportunity to make voice calls at least with ground control they still write letters and write a lot. to they never separating couldn't it was never there was a moment though which was during the show george emergency blackout when any means

of communication was cut off they didn't have access to any information it only lasted a week but you know the interesting thing about it was that they didn't complain they said they even liked it it's so quiet they worked in an autonomous mode they had instructions on how to behave and plan of action and what do they usually read it he just said these are long messages what's in them what for information channels to transmit medical data in-house information scientific information accumulated for research and experiments and the space crews private correspondence i learned that one person on the team is writing a book i'm not sure what is to become of it but nevertheless and is a book about the experiment. yes the book is about the experiment excerpts of the crew's notebooks get published this is what distinguishes europeans from the representatives of russian culture they used to describing their experience in blogs and on live journal pages and rather naturally these publications generate

massive response the writers get a lot of informational response. to this reports so the europeans get some feedback from the public very. republican place where exactly the public sends their messages to us first and we read direct them to the crew more of there are two sides to this is a positive and a negative one if the message contained some distressing reports it may trigger a negative reaction. here or the buses would look at a means to the crew members were seen here they even know about the war in libya they know that it's nami almost right there japan or do you screen the information that's coming to them. and. there would be no global catastrophes or a major concern to them for example the news of the explosion adama dead of international airport in moscow was not delivered to them immediately at some point so i had to break the news myself in a video address and they were mad at us because we had not informed malia despite

the sadness of such reports they should be delivered on time withholding information can trigger a negative reaction. because people don't get any sunlight in the given up on their favorite occupations that some time now what kind of psychological impact is it have zero risk that. kind of psychological later. with thinking. i'm not sure about the consequences but i do know that a person needs social rehabilitation after such experiments because he practically drops out of his every day life according to a long time i remember one case when a man was afraid of crossing the street after taking part in long term experiment such things happen they were too. back to normal later of course and even cross the street running in inappropriate places all i want to say is that such experience always leaves traces of a person gets used to living in a capsule his life stereotype undergoes changes everything is planned for him by

other people were there the crew over the opportunity to take their own decisions or introduce changes from time to time but all the same we really know what we will be doing in a week's time in real life and then everything proceeds according to plan we used but was putting my thumb straight. any of the crew surprises you personally in what we. do you. yes the chinese participants surprised me when i was surprised by this rudeness with which he joined the team he established good stable relations with every crew member there were always certain tensions between people you can't help it but he made really huge progress in the course of the experiment it was always visible and he became a professional for the russian participants surprised me too in a way i should say we made the right choices when forming the crew when there was absolutely no dictator among participants no self-proclaimed commander they base

their relations on consensus when you can talk and reach an agreement even if something has gone wrong and someone is dissatisfied it's important to be able to put the common cause and interests of this small group of people prior to your own feelings and ambitions. does anyone from them have a chance of taking a part in his remarks or to what it's a question of time or we don't know when it happens i know it's a silly question to ask of sessional but still going exposed to so many movies about mars missions that it has become almost an obsession to colonize when do you think it will finally make it to inhabit mars is not the same thing is to perform one's face trip to mars to start with the first ship you can't colonize mars without first landing on it it is technically viable there are a number of projects in our design is all working on them but whether we fly to mars or not depends on two things this spaceflight should be authorized and international cooperation should be established because it won't be the congressman

to one single nation or group of people but rather of the entire global community. was it an intentional decision to leave the hole in. it no it was not intentional moreover we had applications from women candidates and in one of their preliminary tests like we even had a female commander there are two things that can account for the absence of women on the team we did not make a point of the candidate sex or make distinctions between men and women of what we looked at the level of proficiency character traits the ability to work on a team and many other qualities of the woman as we. know there are different women but personally i would be sorry to put a woman in such conditions because a man can break his daily routine much more easily than a woman it applies to his private life family and even the professional career woman cannot afford to lose so much time she should never stop collecting coins

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of the leaders of the world's richest nations discussing what to do about the greek debt and the teetering eurozone. oaklands of streets littered with tear gas canisters and spent a rubber bullets after riot police crackdown on a massive occupy protest america's fifth largest port paralyzed. russia questions the fairness businessman victor trial and wants to bring him home after a new york jury finds him guilty of trafficking. but not with the sporting news joins us next. i. welcome to sports day great to have you with us but to get through the bad times. that's one game of being taken on top of the europa league needing

a wind pope's a progressing alive. seeing red say a scar. gets his marching orders. held sort of goalless draw against clubs on sport in the champions league. cruising in croatia say a skier remain unbeaten in basketball as euro league an easy win in zagreb. first and then the europa league group being entertained on public changes tottenham in the two time russian premier league winners needing a result to keep alive bear hopes of reaching the next round of all the third place him a group of point behind. behind the leaders spurs and with only two games left comms afford to let accounts get any bigger coach could've done better idea of is unlikely to make any changes to the side the truth of the weekend we have here can these kind of nice alexander designs serve vaal days needing a three pronged attack. the spurs boss harry redknapp won't be at the game he's

recovering in the u.k. after undergoing minor heart surgery roman pavlyuchenko is expected to start in the tank the russian striker schooled the only goal when the sides met last time outs could be partnered up front with jermain defoe who was wrecked out of the side with the queens park rangers last weekend. meanwhile lokomotiv moscow could go a long way to securing their place in the knockout stages when tonight and i catherine's in greece with all but do violence providing group l. leaders under leaked also get a victory over storm grant's boss jose. problems of zero six players out injured but i also have men i had seven of sidelined including striker i had a good johnson who's suffering from a broken leg. meanwhile on wednesday ten months. or goldstraw transformed sport in the champions league in form and strike a pseudo mia was sent off in the seventy fourth minute for a second book about

a friend's result leaves the second of a group just ahead of the war on goal difference and points behind the leaders into the lions would be illegal and look all but have secured at their place in the knockout stages to scar head coach he said afterwards he told his side created chances to take all three points even went down to ten men but they'll be without the suspended in the next march against the deal three weeks time. elsewhere real madrid reached the last sixteen of the competition after to know when the christiania rinaldo scoring both to reach his hundred goal miles to the club since moving in two thousand and nine i.x. of five points behind and second of all no crashing and bananas are going to go to the old coach still thinks with plenty of work to do despite a big gap at the top of the table. meanwhile manchester united moved to the top of group c. up to that you know when the remaining minnows galati antonio and hear him

a person of a second was an own goal from christiane's side of the sonics ferguson's men leave the group on goal difference from benfica drew one one with basel. done by munich state's top of group a for three to win it and to map early germany striker mario gomez for the first time trick city vary in second place when ability out. for europe's biggest boscobel clubs were also competing against each other on wednesday and remain unbeaten and the early guff from easy eighty nine points to forty seven away victory of us are going to. of the ten minutes for most of us were twenty two to thirty thanks to the efforts of i'm particularly provenge chipped in with fourteen points after an hour. half an hour lead has stretched six to seven to thirty five minute christie charles in good form the top scoring early in points and getting on the end of the breakaway so. right until the end in croatia record

their third victory in as many games that puts them in charge of group b. and close to sealing an early top sixteen spot solder both have yet to get a victory. in the other games lead group a three wins from three matches of a very tricky and at n.p.r. course also with hundred percent record someone departure c.n.r. in group d. you've got to start i or union olympia got their first win in group d. with victory over seventy to sixty two of the score danny green vote he was unstoppable twenty three points about one. third of them whereas one of the all there is in a race against time to be fair for russia's fed cup final against the czech republic this weekend while number seven is currently struggling with a shoulder injury at the end of a long season constantine but top of his but details. the cup final is the last tournament in the women's season it was a busy month for russia's top weird as well known who participated in three events

for di during a season accumulate and lead to injuries but the twenty seven year old grand slam winner hopes to be fit to play. i've got some problems with my shoulder since a player the family i'm going through some rehabilitation i think everyone's got some interest after such a tight season we still have a few days before the start of the final and i will try my best to be in top form and it seems like money you could really think i was surprised there's a real one else when she was selected for the cup final however the twenty four year old showed an impressive improvement in. game after a relatively disappointing start to the season. i decided and this is it and i even got an opportunity for some rest so i am fully recovered and back to training i was surprised when i was called up for the finals but the captain said the team needs me and i can't debate russia in the czech republic have played each

other four times and there is nothing between the teams the czechs were crowned five times with their last final in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight where czechoslovakia defeated the soviet union the previous encounter was in two thousand and one when russia won two one and russia's captain showed me that issue of state the chances for the crown a level from which allies before the start of the campaign we were considered to be the favorites but now i suppose our chances are fifty fifty we won't be under pressure because of that and it would be easier for us to play. the czech republic is lead main form be at a computer where i was just one of the w t a championship having two left handed players world number two crito up and looters suffered too on the roaster can become a serious advantage for the visitors as well as double stockier that bish care and the czechs don't consider themselves as the underdogs for the type. it's. that i'm number one in the team so it's a little oppression remembering it still but still we have

a great team it's difficult definitely. yeah i feel. a little advantage on our side oh. the fed cup final between russia and the czech republic will keep off on saturday italian peacekeeper arena in moscow which has already hosted the two thousand and three decider but russia won playing there this time the crowd will expect nothing but to make sure for their favorites on home soil because they about are both already. switch to. the better of say iska in the cage should tide finally separating the two sides who each had a play object at the fighting just came into the game of the bottom of the western conference behind spirits after winning their last four however the tone was sent for this one say is don't see that or rational jeremy scheme of first period. and then again in the second. coming in.

the battle was on the ground for both players were given much penalties to miss later i would say ya shouldn't put the argument ahead only make it on ski to level the match which was eventually decided by a shootout to go to build also for getting beat is there one in a row. that all play in the brawl wasn't a hint of a moment clash but one that had been planned. before the start of the march. ok jill season is less than two months old but both got income finalists from last year their respective head coaches off the list but impressive starts to the new campaign rosabel split company with the leagues the swedish coach been gustavsson a scandinavian specialist was the first ever trainer to win both the olympics and the world championships in the same year back in two thousand and six but the fifty three year old failed to make an impact in russia to just nine wins in seventeen

games so far this season while the reigning champions still about you live for it it coach said a game of his third tenure at the club last of just five months. while three top pakistani cricket says have been jailed after being found guilty of match fixing mohammed don't see if same here was sentenced to twelve months behind bars of being found guilty of course in london however his campaign at the time someone bugs got a much stiffer term with the twenty seven year old has. two and a half years for his part in the spot fixing scandal nineteen year old mohammed amir admitted being part of a betting scam before the trial began was given six months in return for the money all three plotted to deliberately bowl no balls as certain times during a test match against england at lord's last summer or agent muslim majeed behavior sentence of all i will spend two years and eight months in jail. finally it's

a goal from fast rising american keegan bradley has a two shot lead after the first round of the double u.g.c. h.s.b.c. championship tournament in shanghai where he won the u.s. p.g.a. championship earlier this year which is in fact his rookie season they carted off all seven on the par sixty five in china and that puts him a couple of shots ahead of compound interest both van pelt's and sweden's fredrik. alex norton in the pre-tournament favorite rory mcilroy he's five shots back it felt ok i mean especially after the slow start phil is a father after a lot of shots so there could have been a lot lower but you know seven years in a disastrous start and you know something we're going to actually build on but it's where i was coming up in just about two hours time but what is coming up next and rory will be here or the news headlines. world. bringing you the latest in science and technology from around the world.

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