cities. while the ambitious russian experiments 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 that interview is coming up next i'll be back with some of our main news stories in fifteen minutes from. well for the price or 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 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 at the very fact of a 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 in a house 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 or seventy not. unless of course for 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 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 of human capacities that work on the international space station is viewed as a preparation for into planetary voyages and from. here the experiment is supposed to stretch the limits of human capacities so does it give you any specific answers like one can he means first teresa mars who will be the shiny or to step onto that service. as a friend of mine once said it's not even the first step we've only lifted off foot 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 and the mission will need to cut the amount of resources that we've taken aboard. that was 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 in a way that would be different to space conditions so does this fact evaluate the scope of the experiment. 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 fact sam 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 lasted 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 warden let's go to. what were the crew motivated what can 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 proud to be the first to land a nurse we're going with us. if 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've been affected. but there are surely paid 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 rubles 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 the experience statue and ending the crew

members stopped writing letters is it true and if yes what are the reasons a. very avid writers even though they have an opportunity to make voice calls at least with ground control they still write letters and write a lot. today never separating couldn't use them never there was a moment though which was during a 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. 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 new books 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 three days what with a so the europeans get some feedback from the public very. much that the republican push for exactly the public sends their messages to us first and we redirect them to the crude work of 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. here. but it would look at a means to the crew members are seen here they even know about the war in libya

they know that it's nami almost right there in japan or do you screen the information that's coming to them or no. prob 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're 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 at some time now what kind of psychological impact is it has zero risk that the duchess just. kind of psychological 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 every day life according to 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 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 it 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 but was putting my thumbs. to. any of the crew surprise you personally in what we. do you mean yes the chinese participants surprised me when i was surprised by the smoothness with which he joined the team he stablish

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 he 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 then have a chance of taking a part in his remarks or to vote it's a question of time or we don't know when it happens and 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 we will finally make it to inhabit mars is not the same thing is to perform one's face trip to mars that's a 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 space flight 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 this was it an intentional decision to leave the woman near it no it was not intentional moreover we had applications from women candidates and in one of the 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 of the 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 this is america thank you very much for this interview thank you. for. five hundred days on a voyage to the on. a breakthrough. returned from the. bars five hundred touchdown. top stories this hour on the greek prime minister moves away from plans to hold

a referendum on whether to accept bailout 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 greek debt and the teetering eurozone. and down the road from. alternative gatherings are being held surrounded by a massive police operation. open streets are littered with tear gas canisters and spent rubber bullets. police crackdown on a massive protest that left america's fifth largest paralyzed. but also reporting 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 great to have you with us at this point to get through so let's start with the headlines. must win game of being take on top of the hotspur in the europa league needing a wind keep their hopes of progressing alive. on top sackings kidshow champions and runners are part ways with their respective coaches failing to impress early in the season. and ready to rumble local who continues to live it is is a key the lights are going into his cruiserweight fights in spain american and james toney. will start with a ball in the room. in action against tottenham hotspur in what is a must win game for the russian outfits the match is in the dying minutes leading light that slim interest of margins is really midfield not sure her being in the second half effort to put little being in charge of. the as man city third in group

a a point behind saloniki three points behind the current leaders by spurs and with only two games left for to be a ford so that those gaps get any bigger especially the spare greek side how they currently lead shamrock rovers for email with all three points about one. in one a little later on look mighty moscow could go a long way to securing their place in the knockout stages and win tonight against greece would all but do via providing group leaders on the legs also going to be tree of the storm it's loco balls to say they are a selection problem for six players i was injured but i have minutes to seven or sidelined including the icelandic strike i did with johnson has a broken leg. and i thought he became season is less than two months old but guarin cup finalists in a previous season have science very respected coaches of the. less than impressive starts to the new season of runners up apollon split company with the first ever

swedish coach ok a cost of some scandinavian specialist was for 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 a lot of just nine wins in seventeen games so far this season while the reigning champions of your live fire coach said of his tenure at the club lawsuit for just five months. russian cruiserweight denis levy dave has weighed in half a killer line telling his opponent james toney ahead of the interim a double to be a title fight in moscow on friday a local thirty two year old who is considered one of the best cruiserweights in the business will start as a favorite as american opponent who's now forty three years old maybe i'm a twilight of his career however what a career attorneys had is one world titles at free different weight categories while he's only lost six of the four career buyouts or more on the build up ahead

of friday's fight is that of a bout of running on. russia's top prospect in the group the way delusions in the celebrity of. he's one of the world's most degraded look games like. does a patient with has been steadily growing since september when the pair first came to these unlike many others in the profession with players didn't bother to use one another the need to spin their herbert decisions have been age she's down to only scam including former star heavyweight lately and huge gears also not giving a time of day to the news is an older man's age with three year old julie eleven years older than lynn. that 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 old he still beat everybody over forty you don't have to really coach him it's a business you know he's been doing it a long time you know i mean showed he knows what he has to do and once we have the wrong one we make the justice we need to make for this fight he's been working really hard i got to save what. we had to slow down and then we got here i got off the plane he wanted to go train i'm like are you crazy we just want to play for you know two nice pre-vis curtis stone in the months leading up to the quite a world away from his utterances now the confidence levels nudged up to maximum on the smack talk in overdrive or come off off or far this guy was going. to know about the city it would be. to give the first we're fine for the super final world of going through a bit of things i'm not too. good but i got

a lot of the. boys 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. i respect him but i will do my best to correct this stack. of offenses that write to me as a response to you or your use of. the heat was then turned up further days before the w b a mean to me title oh no i don't want to go to the court i'm going to how do you all over the well i'm going to do it. was almost the do you go fight because there were too many promptly storming out of the press conference following the scenes staged leeson and left the solar t.c. . in local. mostly from. we are in russian and it's not

a good idea to behave in certain disrespectful way here james will have to answer for what he said and the chance there is just hours to go no before the fire is sort out their differences the old fashion week meaning you want to have to wait long to see it live can live up to two keys favorite dead or whether to really is able to back up these warring words robert virginia on or. off the top pakistan cricketers have been jailed after being found guilty of match fixing one hundred are safe sane here were sentenced to twelve months behind bars after being found guilty of course in london however his captain at 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 while nineteen year old mohammed i mean they're good mates and being part of the betting scam before the trial began was given nine months in return for the money all for him plotted to deliberately bowl no balls at certain times during a test match against england at lord's last summer their region was here much heed

heavy sentence or spent two years and eight months in jail. certainly not indicative of rampant corruption and the cream of cricket the vast vast majority of players are not incredibly skilled play with great sportsmanship but the ethical approach to the game the true spirit of cricket but equally on fortune would have to say it's probably not absolute. shows that we can never be complacent we can never drop we must be ever vigilant and we will be every bit. great in forbes says he feels both nervous and excited about his imminent comeback after five years away from a paul the twenty nine year old australian is due to take part in a short course tournament in singapore his first competitive outings since quitting back in two thousand and six he will test the water with a one hundred metre medley on friday before switching to the one hundred meter

butterfly a day later however freestyle is ford's favorite events giving him his five olympic medals also my goal is to once again swim freestyle next summer's london olympics and australia's most decorated athlete sent to the limbic 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 through 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 find we have an opportunity to race. golf and fast rising american keegan bradley has shot or has a two shot lead to have a first round of w g c h.s.b.c. champions talent in shanghai and won the u.s. p.g.a. championship earlier this year which in fact is rookie season and carted off faultless seven on the past sixty five in china puts him a couple of shots ahead of competitor and bovine pelts sweden's fredrik. alex

norton a pretty torn and favorite rory mcilroy is five shots back. it felt ok i mean especially after the slow start feeling that after a lot of shots there could have been a lot lower but you know seven years in a disastrous start and you know something we're going to build on. funny kelly slater has created even more surfing history as the legendary american sealed an unprecedented eleventh world title in san francisco. retaining his crown with one more event left on the wall tall calendar thirty nine he supports all this champion earlier in his career he also became the youngest ever season winner after claiming the first of its incredible eleven titles at the tender age of twenty three to shattered the previous record of five world titles by strangers among richards back in one nine hundred ninety eight and it's unlikely his fate will ever be bettered. not just the latest results from the football the league tottenham versus a really much more just tell you rubin they're just one but much one they'll also

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