if you're just joining us a very warm welcome aarti live here in moscow half past the hour now in the russian capital top stories the greek prime minister moves away from plans to hold a referendum on whether to accept an e.u. bailout after coming under pressure at home and abroad. europe's financial chaos hijacks the g twenty meeting in france as the leaders of the world's richest nations discuss what to do about the greek debt and the euro zone. and down the road from karen and gigi twenty marches and in terms of governance are being held surrounded by a massive police operation. and open streets are littered with tear gas canisters and spent rubber bullets off a rock police crackdown on

a massive occupy protest that america's fifth largest port parent. company at risk the last remnants of stability in the water middle east britain puts the final touches on a plan to assist the u.s. in a preemptive strike against iran's alleged nuclear facilities. while the ambitious russian experiment simulating a manned mission to mars will come to an end on friday and r.t. spoke to the head of the project to find out what's been learned that interview is coming up next we'll be back with some of them a new stores in fifteen minutes from. president used to merkel of thank you very much for being with us today so marse

five hundred is your idea who are courageous and it's close to completion experimental members to walk out of whatever you are it how does it feel it's changed seventeen months are you nervous i've gotten home 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 the very fact that he managed to stay the course is a source of delight along. with. some very start there has been much controversy over marse five hundred especially among professionals when i mean it's tough people say that you can become a formula one driver by spending a year and a half any driver say 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 are seventy not. the purpose is as follows the experiment has been designed to define the limits of human capacities a 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 would develop does a really 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 old it flights to other planets it will put space science on a new level in terms of technology's knowledge and extended limits of human capacities that work on the international space station is viewed as a proper ration for interplanetary voyages and. the experiment is supposed to stretch the limits of human capacities how does it give you any specific answers

like one can humans first three summers who will be the train near to step onto its surface. with red for cover 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 we used in a flight to mars we first need to have an understanding of the limits of the human body and psychological and physiological capacities secondly we need to decide on the amount of resources to be taken alone 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 orbital flights much of the work rests on the shoulders of the specialists on the ground and interplanetary mission is also characterized by autonomy and 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 capacity should go before the design of a space for. rofft 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 full crew not six a mission will need to cut the amount of resources that we take in aboard. well for a problem that the crew members near with that in any case an emergency such as an engine here at any point in space and solve the problem in a way that would be different to space conditions so it is nice back to value the scope of the experiment. no it doesn't although this is a major factor on a real trip you realize the era way and you cannot make a u. turn even if you wanted to that you will take the road back only after you have

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 only solution 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 the kind of psychological support one of the limitations we've been through jesus 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 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 saw 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 high level of isolation would remember in. a club or of the crew motivated

what can encourage a person to stay away from their relatives and friends for seventeen months is not really as likes to nurse the experiment want to make them want famous and proud to be the first to learn a nurse or work. as a profession cold 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. being mankind to move forward not just enthusiastic since the month is a really long period of late it's really loam for me too i'm among those who create affected. you know that there are surely he had enough money for you know this is no big money in my view is it a secret. no 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 the chinese agency employs different criteria anyway the point i would like to underline is that it's an international crew there's 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 scheduled ending the crew members stopped writing letters is it true and if yes what are the reasons even from the very avid wright says even now they have an opportunity to make voice calls at least with ground control they still write letters and write a lot. to they never stop writing. never there was a moment though which was during the sheer jeweled 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 so quiet they worked in an autonomous mode they had

instructions on how to behave and plan of action and what they usually read it just said these are long messages what's in the reputable 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 it is a book about the experiment. yes the book is about the experiment excerpts of the crew's new books get published this is what distinguishes europeans from the representatives of russian culture they used to describe in their experience in blogs and on live journal pages and rather naturally these publication generate massive response writers get a lot of information the response. that this report to the europeans get some feedback from the public very. public about it for exactly the public sends their

messages to us first and we read it i bring them to the crew or there are two sides to this is a positive and a negative one that if the message contains some distressing reports it may trigger a negative reaction we're going to. look at a means to the crew members and see if they knew about the war in libya they know that it's now me almost right there in japan or do you mean the information that's coming to them was no. prob there were they no global catastrophes or major concerns for example the news of the explosion adama head 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 magical because we had not informed the malia despite the sadness of such reports they should be delivered on time without any information and trigger and negative reaction from the. evil done to any so late in

the given up on their favorite earth but some time now well kind of psychological in. their race. and it's a logical follow on later. with no 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 everyday life quite a long time i remember one case when a man was afraid of crossing the street after taking toward long term experiment such things happen they were too. back to normal later of course and even cross the street running in inappropriate places i want to say is that such experience always leaves traces of a person gets used to living in a capsule is like a stereotype and he goes changes everything is planned for him by other people though 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

in my films. lessons or any of the crew supers to personal in what we were and the. yes the chinese participants surprised me when i was surprised by this ruthless 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 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 the ten seconds no self proclaimed commander they base their relations on consensus and 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 a common cause and interests of this small group of people prize your own feelings

and ambitions as anyone from then added scenes on your part. it's a question of time or we don't know when it happens. question to ask a question but still have been exposed to so many movies about mars missions that it has become almost an obsession to. when do you think we 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 and it is technically viable are a number of projects in our design is all working on them but whether we fly to mars or not depends on soon 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 that's our was it an intentional decision to leave. me or. no it was

not intentional moreover we had applications from women candidates and in one of the preliminary tests 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 we looked at the level of proficiency character traits the ability to work on a team and many other qualities. women are. you 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 at a place in his private life family and even a professional career woman cannot afford to lose so much time she should never stop collecting coins. this is america thank you very much and thank you. five hundred days on a voyage to the go. a breakthrough in space travel.

richard from the red planet. gore's five hundred touchdown on our. top stories this hour on r t the greek prime minister moves away from plans to hold a referendum on whether to accept an e.u. bailout after coming under pressure at home and abroad. europe's financial chaos hijacks the g twenty meeting in france as the leaders of the world's richest nations discuss what to do about the greek debt and the teacher eurozone. down the road from cannes and t g twenty march is an alternative gatherings are being held surrounded by a massive police operation. open streets are littered with tear gas canisters and spent rubber bullets after police crackdown on a massive occupy protest that left america's fifth largest port paralyzed. but also reporting on r.t. putting at risk the last remnants of stability in the war torn middle east britain

puts the final touches on a plan to assist the u.s. in a preemptive strike against iran's alleged nuclear facilities. stories in fifteen minutes from now in the meantime sport is next with richard. welcome to sports with a great to have you with us at this point to get through so let's start with the headlines. a must win game being taken on top of hotspur in the europa league and he'll wind keep their hopes of progressing alive. untaught sackings kidshow champions and runners are part ways with their respective coaches after failing to impress early in the season. and ready to rumble local homogeneous leave it is it's heartbreaking you know lives are going into his cruiserweight fights and to be american and james toney. will start with

a ball in the rain cuz in action against tottenham hotspur in what is a must win game for the russian outfits the match is in the dying minutes leading why the slenderest of margins israeli midfielder not sure herbing in the second half effort support of the being in charge of kobe and going to be as man city third in group a a point behind someone eighty three points behind the current leaders but spurs of twenty two games left for being conned of ford that those gaps are getting any bigger especially for a greek side how they currently channel rovers freeville with all three points. in while a little later on look not even moscow could go a long way to securing their place in the knockout stages when to my kids i camp in greece but all but do via providing group redesign the legs also get a picture of the storm grant's local balls to say they are isolation problems though with six players i was injured so i have been out to seven or sidelined

including the icelandic strike i did with johnson who has a broken leg. and i thought he became a gel season is less than two months old but both guarin can't find us from a previous season science various greats and coaches of that. less than impressive starts to the new season runs out i'm blunt split company with the league's first ever swedish coach gustafsson scandinavian specialist was the first ever trainer when both the lympics and the world championships in the same year back in two thousand and six but the fifty three year old failed to make much of an impact in russia staring at land just nine wins in seventeen games so far this season while the reigning champion still about your live fire coach. because of his tenure at the club lasted just five months. russian cruiser rate generously to dave has weighed in half a kilo lighter than his opponent james toney had a fair internet probably be

a title fight and last go on friday thirty two year old chris considered one of the best cruiserweights in the business what stands for favorites as american opponents who's forty three years old maybe in the twilight of his career however a lot of career attorneys had one world titles of pretty different great categories while he's only lost six in the pool career pirates for more on the build up ahead of friday's fight as of about ronnie on. rushes to cross but in the cruiserweight division in this level. he's one of the rules moved to great books or games like. this place and with those has been steadily growing since september when the player first came face to face like many others in the profession the players didn't bother to use one another the poor in the me too spent there were tensions have been on edge since then can only skim including the story every week lately and

not geared also know the giving a time of day to the news isn't over their mans age. three year old to me isn't eleven years older. the thing is when you get older you get wiser and james is just you know he's a junkyard dog man i joke with him i say you know if james came back to boxing at sixty years though he still beat everybody over forty you don't have to really coaching with your business you know he's been doing a little gun you know i mean sure he knows what he has to do it was we have the wrong one we did just was we need to make sure there's five he's been working really hard i got to see if. we had the skill of those. we gave you to get off the plane he wanted to go train them. grazers will play fourteen well too many previous curtis in the months leading up to be quite a world away from his utterances now the confidence levels nudged up the maximum on

the smack talk in overdrive will come off court part is going. to get you. get the first we're fine for the final word go or. i'm not feeling. good but i got. voted for you but it's true that i want to tell tony something that there is something slightly wrong with his records he's never been defeated by way of saying i respect him but i will do my best to correct this stack. of fellas this is for tony's response here or your viewers. out there he was then turned up further days before the gate into any title for it on your

own it was the one on a technique that was going on all of this might. be similar to me promptly storming out of the press conference following the scenes real staged these in and left a sour taste in local ice mostly. we are in russia and it's not a good idea to behave in such a disrespectful way here james will have to answer for what he said in the chance there is just always to kill no before the fire is sort out their differences the old fashioned way i mean we won't have to wait long to see live can live up if he's favorite ted or whether julie is able to back up he's warning words. we're going to work eat. fruit of pakistan cricket as have been jailed after being found guilty of match fixing one hundred seats seen here was sentenced to twelve months behind bars after being found guilty of course in london however his captain of the time

someone bought got a much stiffer term the twenty seven year old receiving two and a half years is part of the spot fixing scandal by nineteen year old mohammed i mean you're admitting being part of the betting scam before the trial began was given nine months in return for the money all three plotted to deliberately bowled no balls at certain times during a test match against england at lord's last summer their region jeev top heavy sentence was spent two years and eight months in jail. certainly not indicative of rampant corruption in the game of cricket. majority of players. credibly played with great sportsmanship with their ethical approach to the game the true spirit of cricket but equally fortune would have to say it's probably not absolute . we can never be complacent we can never draw we must be vigilant and we will be every bit. as something great in ford says he feels both

nervous and excited about his imminent comeback after five years away from the pull of the twenty nine year old australian is due to take part in a short course tournaments in singapore his first compared to the writings in squishing back in two thousand and six he will test for water with a one hundred metre mentally on friday before switching to the one hundred meter butterfly a day later however free so is ford's favorite events giving him his five olympic medals also my goal is to once again swim freestyle at next summer's london olympics and australia's most decorated and freeze sets trials in adelaide in four months time. it's my first time back in the pool it's not going to be easy. but it becomes an important step for what i'm looking to do next year and you know with that in mind you know this is kind of the starting point and it will be good that you know i finally have an opportunity to. go from fast rising american keegan

bradley has shot as a two shot lead our first round of the w g c h.s.b.c. champions tournament in shanghai and he won the u.s. p.g.a. championship earlier this year which in fact is his rookie season and carded of all the seven under par sixty five in china puts him a couple shots ahead of compadres pelts sweden's fredrik alex norton crito on favorite rory mcilroy is five shots back. it felt ok i mean especially after the slow start feel as a father a lot of shots out there could have been a lot lower but you know seven years in a disastrous start and you know something we're going to really build on. probably kelly slater has created even more serve in history as the legendary american sealed an unprecedented eleven four title in san francisco. retaining its crown with one more event left on the boards for calendar thirty nine is the sport's oldest champion earlier in his career he also became a gunga still a season winner after claiming the first it's incredible eleven titles at the

tender age of twenty shattered the previous record of five world titles by strangers want richards back in one nine hundred ninety eight and it's unlikely his feat whatever to get. my disability results from the football the roper league versus a rematch or just tell you just one that much one once all the sports world is coming up next and bill will be here with all the latest news.

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