the prime minister backtracked on the plan to hold a ballot referendum that angered european leaders and he faces a crucial confidence vote later on friday. as the greek financial turmoil dominates the g twenty summit in france protesters are gathering here by resort to new methods of drawing world leaders attention to people's problems by knocking their meeting. and a back from mars the longest simulation in space history coming to a close as six volunteers are about to leave their mock space ship and see daylight for the first time in more than five hundred a day. and a punishing pirates even from abroad a british student could be handed over to the u.s. for allegedly breaking u.s.

copyright laws. eight am in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story it's going to be another day of a roller coaster news from greece where the government is facing a crucial confidence vote prime minister george papandreou has already backtracked on his plans to hold a referendum on the e.u. ballot proposal that was under heavy pressure not just from world leaders but also from his own government which is turning up the volume on calls for him to step down for more on this we're going live by our he's in athens hello sarah so what are the chances now the government will actually survive all of this. well it's all still to play for to day really. is later on today and his own party and the opposition be getting behind and

supporting him in this confidence they really it's going to be a major hurdle he's got a very small majority in his own government at the moment one hundred fifty seat of a three hundred seat government and we've seen an incredibly turbulent week here in greece the week starting with the prime minister announcing that he plans to hold a referendum. that shockwave three not only the usa leaders and eurozone countries but within his government as well it was a very very controversial announce that we saw yesterday his parliamentary just essentially killing off that referendum he was talking about the fact that they face a lever and they were able to reach a consensus with the opposition party about the bailout plans and the referendum would be off the table say certainly appears to be the case maybe gonna have a bit more support amongst splinter groups in his party who are very very unhappy

about this plans one of them being the finance minister here in the country he's been happened she's challenger back in two thousand and seven when they ran against each other so it's very interesting times a lot as you said to play for it we're going to have that clarity latency when that constance head novice here is going to make it much more clear for everyone he just was going to happen what the plan will be needing food in the country not so much going on in the country things of growing so fast as we cover the greeks themselves reacting to all this very fast changing news. well let's you know surprise amongst the people here in the country they've really gotten used to be theories of announcements and plans tracking and we see more of that this week announce and scheme eight is going to be a referendum on the referendum happened is possibly going to be resigning that he wasn't going to resign definitely and there is cynicism now about these

announcements that are made when it comes to talking to itself in the path of politics i mean made a mistake they are incredibly unpopular in the country now it's the socialist party . sense of disappointment at the way that they've handled the situation the quite of the decisions that they've made everyone that i was speaking to on the street yesterday after hearing happened announced in parliament really it's time for him to go a lot of people think he will a lot of people think he'll survive that confidence but that's the big question you know all the people behind the government and they really got milton with a lot of people here in the country is saying is that to be quite honest even maintaining a facade. is proving pretty difficult because you've got the prime minister making announcements about holding a referendum and how important it is to keep the democratic system alive and get people a voice and then of course the very next day a couple days later backtracking on. thing at the moment is widening gap between

the rest right this time in the government here in the usa need is the reality on the ground in the country right r.t. sorry for the top story for us. well we also spoke to gerald so windy director of the trends research center about all this he said that new leaders are just using greece as a scapegoat for their own bigger mistakes. opinion it is in great danger listen to the words of silvio berlusconi that he said on saturday there were hardly repeated he said it was a strange currency that has not convinced anyone that's what he said and then of course he backtracked right away it's bigger than greece and that's what you see they using greece as the excuse for the whole thing it's the one of the smallest countries in the end you do it's peanuts compared to italy which is in much greater danger with the let's reverse g.d.p.

to debt ratio and then you have ireland you have spain. what are they going to do give you give greece another couple of billion dollars with their half a trillion in debt so no it's much more than that they're going to come up with a not a con game they come up with let's go back to you know just a week ago last thursday remember all the euphoria that they came up with a plan to solve this merkel and sock cozy congratulating each other the markets wound up six percent on average by monday the game was all it is is that they come up with a new line of bull loney on how they're going to save the day and the great minds are being brought together to solve these problems that they caused. and i agree turmoil has taken over the g twenty summit in cannes observers have only been able to guess just what is it that. nicolas sarkozy said to the greek prime minister

about call it his backtrack on the referendum plans but he's a nice in our way has more. the final day of the g. twenty here in cannes will have three working sessions and will and with the press conference given by host nicolas sarkozy the greek tragedy has taken over this entire summit other issues pushed aside i believe is news of course of the greek prime minister backtracking and saying the referendum won't be held it won't be decided by the people making european leaders here is specially the backbone of the euro zone of france and germany very satisfied with the way things are going. to be the leader of the opposition made a statement indicating that he supported the twenty seventh of october a plan that is a very important and courageous step by step up and drew statements also indicate that the referendum is not an end in itself that it was a tool that was going to be considered but since the opposition supported the plan

then it became less useful. critics analyzing this in different ways some of them perhaps saying the france and germany have basically said you either play by our rules or you get out and greece has decided that this is the way to go that they don't want to the euro zone a lot of different base going on euro skeptics saying that you're just moving the problem down the road that eventually greece will have to default europe france saying this is the only way to save the euro nicolas sarkozy calling it the beating heart of europe and that we will never let it die and that is going to be what a lot of these leaders are speaking about in these final sessions as the summit comes to an end on this second day with that said emerging economies worried about their voice that they agreed the brics that they would try to help the eurozone they would give money to how much agreed on a final some but they have a condition and president means we have made it very clear that it's not a hidden agenda they want their voices to be heard they want more say in the i.m.f.

and other financial institutions of course the g twenty was created to widen the spectrum to have not just these decisions on the global economy be made by the seven most richest country just countries but by the twenty biggest economies and the big question is has not been done yet. who are farther up the french coast in nice and monaco and g. twenty protesters were holding their own gatherings angry at the rich for dictating the fate of others they want for a change of tactics to get their message across artie's daniel bushell reports. just as must just be on the coast from the g. twenty summit venue here in come to monaco monaco of course attack three haven demonstrates a thing the who gets a big bonus off to a public bailout for example can simply move to monaco and not even pay a single cent in tights now would be this promise to get rid of tax havens that previous g twenty summit demonstrates that was the very best still hasn't happened

they still haven't taken action on that. no it's the drifted more stimulus thought because the angela merkel and barack obama have organized an alternative summit media conference and here's what they had to say we think about the. whole it let me. pull the plug the leak. i want those back with me because look i don't think we could find and the only one who was here. the fake limo collided we support the greek referendum on the euro bailout but only if they vote yes so considering the role of the hugo fishel statements that coming out of the cannes summit some here say that this is the perhaps the more interesting of the two summits it full is the huge empty boeing corelli's earlier in the week which had thousands of french police on the bridge from violence which in fact never came to have changed that they changed the strategy of going from the grisham that we saw previous g twenty

summits to approach of mocking leaders who seem so out of touch with the problems of ordinary people today. with those here on r.t. still to come we report from the front lines of one of the biggest occupy wall street protests. they were shooting. their issued a mad people tear gas rubber bullets several injured dozens arrested our correspondent witnessed how it all went down in the city of oakland plus. nato denies reports of a planned missile attack on iran and we report on where such threats of military intervention could lead. but first in a few hours time the crew of the international mission to mars will finally return to earth in moscow bringing one of the world's most grueling scientific experiments to work clothes six volunteers will see daylight for the first time in five hundred twenty days and it's the time they spent isolated in a mock spaceship simulating a trip to the red planet and back for more details on all this out of our g.'s

peter all are hello peter so it's a big day for the six men and for science as well to. more well that's right five hundred and twenty days since they first entered the the module as you will be the simulated module doesn't seem like five minutes i'm sure that time hasn't gone too quickly for them they've been trapped inside essentially a simulated space module around the size of half a football field for the last five hundred and twenty days now what they've been doing in there is simulating what you can basically see on the screen behind me here simulating a mission to mars and back now scientists have been monitoring not only how they concocted that mission but how that mission affected them as people while they were in the isolation of this of people probably the most important bit of scientific research that comes out of the mars five hundred project just what the effect would be on a human being trapped inside those kind of conditions now tom parton my colleague

has been following those they were inside the module since the project. five hundred twenty days. called depths of space on a mission to the red planet back well not quite. these men have been sealed in a mock spacecraft for seventeen months but they never left moscow and could have quit the mars five hundred isolation experiment at any time i watched as this piece of string was set into this wax on june the third two thousand and ten despite many predictions to the contrary that seal has remained unbroken throughout the experiment and only now after all this time of the man inside reunited with the outside world. i was afraid of conflicts that could lead to an early termination of the experiment we tried to consider all potential risks and old tensions in the

bird. and scientists behind it wanted to see if the six man crew would be able to go all that time without severe psychological effects from the busy control room i was able to ask one of them for myself how of your relationships with the other crew members changed. by. the experiment was kept as real as possible and the twenty minute time delayed communications. was on its way meant the team was alone they could talk freely with loved ones but researchers decided to withhold news from the outside world but that was tricky. we had to keep in mind that some information could come

in with private correspondence and some relatives could break the news in this case any prolonged silence on our part could lead to tensions and misunderstanding they could think that we withheld the information deliberately. the highlight of the cruise trip was a simulated landing on mars with lawn isolation and boredom before it scientists observed with amazement just how real it became for them when they made landfall. that was pocket and pulls their pulse rate was one hundred sixty beats per minute compare with a pulse of the first cousin or not yuri gagarin on orbit it was one hundred fifty two beats per minute the outside world to be in tree five hundred mostly through betting on how and when makes permanent fail. you can put eight to one odds and want to. see because of it.

so even though it's a dry run it's still a significant achievement. promotion pioneers. for five hundred twenty days they've spent inside module certainly going to be some fantastic scenes later on today when they finally release of course reunited with their families absolutely now certainly a huge amount of psychological pressure on these participants which was of course one of the main points of this program to try and see the effect it has on them what they expect is next for them when they land back here on earth well of course there's going to be an extensive briefing when they eventually are released from this capsule. they'll have to talk to through what they felt what they what they

experienced while they were inside the module five hundred twenty eight eight states and then of course after that they're going to be reunited with their loved ones surely going to be as i said some great scenes there and haven't seen these people for almost two years a year and a half around there so convention adjusting to real life and getting back to the day to day. of getting home with what everybody does in their daily lives but knowing that they've been part of something that's been judged to be a real step forward when it comes to mung kind wanting to reach out and explore the far reaches of space. 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 knowledge we first need to have an understanding of the limits of the human body is psychological and physiological capacities research in human

capacities should go before the design of a spacecraft and all scientists are quite active in designing new vehicles. well it's worth mentioning on a personal note for these guys who have been trapped inside there they were in there in central moscow during oldest of two thousand and ten which was unbearably hot here in the russian capital and they had to do that inside a small wooden box so well rather than the make. very good artist peter over on top of the story for us here in moscow will be checking back in with you as this unfolds throughout the day thanks so much there you can experiment continues throughout the day here on r t so stay with us. five hundred days on a voyage to the go on. a breakthrough in space travel. returns from the red planet. corps five hundred touchdown on r.t.

. you know some of those stories we're covering here on our t.v. a city of oakland california is reeling after one of the biggest protests the occupy wall street movement has yet seen about eighty demonstrators arrested several injured after what started as a peaceful rally was met with a heavy handed response from police and a big day now hours before that thousands of anti-corporate protesters forced the shutdown of america's largest seaport as a general strike america's first in more than fifty years also paralyze several businesses in the city's downtown our correspondent lucy capital with the very heart of unfolding events throughout and describes how things went down. we're standing across from oscar grant plaza which is the site of the occupy oakland movements work protesters have been camping out for weeks in order to raise their voices against the government inequality social injustice the same issues that are motivating thousands of occupy wall street movements all across the country but of

course the images are the things that we remember images of what's now a story and this morning in downtown oakland these are the images they going to be seeing across all of the screens of the mainstream media the destruction the isolated acts of vandalism and violence that we were on the ground that opens we're going to take you through some of the moments as they unfolded again we're still reporting from the it's about when trent act you can hear behind me loud explosions possibly tear gas from the police officers there are at least hundreds if not two hundred three hundred police officers in full riot gear several me as you can see i began thinking behind us right now on the occupy oakland movement now we don't know how many officers are back there we saw a massive group of them sort of a walk down that street before that was the street of the standoff where several protesters had barricaded the street from the police several several pieces of furniture and whatnot were lit on fire pretty good and not enough. action to provoke this kind of a militant response by the police force here they were shooting rash bond there is

freedom at people paramecium how november second. sounds how the oakland will be remembered will it be the charred remains of a few isolated instances of violence that's what sets out the police in sports reporting from downtown oakland fartsy i'm lisa caputo. there's a detailed account of the dramatic events in oakland an exclusive video from our on the scene crew there for you at our tease you tube channel and our twitter feed reporter lucy cabot also keeping an eye on other cities where i'd have wall street protests about protests were happening their latest tweets she says there's a lot of talk about possible eviction of the protesters camp in new york zuccotti park that could happen as early as friday keep updated on the protest movement in the u.s. with lucy copouts twitter feed and it's also recreated really tweeted at all the key underscore. what nato has denied it intends to preemptive attacks on iranian military facilities this follows mounting concerns that the u.s. and britain and israel could be moving toward

a policy of intervention toward iran this ahead of a crucial report by the u.n. nuclear watchdog due next week the assess the military side of tehran's nuclear program political analyst chris bambery says any attempt to attack the country could lead to a fierce retaliate and a drawn out bloody war. anyone reading the press reports on these contingency plans enjoyed by the ministry of defense here in london for an attack on iran must be worrying that if iran is not developing a nuclear missile it will be developing and you could miss so faced with the idea that the americans the british and he's really he's a looking to watch an unprovoked attack on iran and the world a much more dangerous place i cannot imagine a worse alliance with these three powers people in the west seem to underestimate the strength of a reunion nationalism that is a strong national sense of. what happened under foreign intervention into the country and how the shah was with that installed and maintained by britain and from

america's memories of the shah the way it's presented you know u.s. officials with the regime there will be a bloody war if there is an attack on iran if iran is not iraq as of two thousand and one there will be retaliation from our mass and the world is that the more dangerous place because of these reports it seems bizarre that you would have thought that anyone even thinking might consider the plans around would look at that and your position in this country britain for instance the war in libya that was a majority get against that but of course we're talking about economically declining post in america and britain and the military assets remain there i mean the one thing they can get from oil we know that britain and america would pull in america are prepared to use their recognize military power to try and put their economic position in the world in relation to china in relation to cornice i think what we're seeing here we know this from history economic instability often leads to military adventures often weeks of wars and i think we must be worried at the moment but one thing i would say is if i was an american president would be worried

about thinking about any attack on iran given the level of opposition to the economic policies we're seeing on the streets of oakland the streets of washington and new york and elsewhere with this occupy movement. who knows plenty more on our website r.t. dot com including this british media say an attack on iran could soon as next november citing sources in the u.k.'s defense ministry and whitehall log on to r g dot com for more. british student may be extradited to the us over alleged internet piracy experts say even if he's found guilty by a court at home he would have most likely faced a thawing but events could take a much worse turn for him in the u.s. thanks to a controversial treaty signed during the blair era. artie's ivor bennett reports. on the surface they're a picture of calm but these are very anxious times for richard o'dwyer and his family the university students facing possible extradition to america for alleged copyright infringement he ran

a website providing links to pirated videos it wasn't a problem for british author sees it rich is nevertheless a wanted man you know it's really just all. right me because you know if richard had done anything wrong we were quite happy things to be responsible in this very well known. case is now being heard at this magistrate's court in london the latest chapter in julie's struggle to keep her son at home they told us that the some investigation in the u.k. had been dropped so it was like a bit of a sigh of relief in the next sentence they said we've got an extradition warrant to mary. and then you must go to the court immediately i thought he was going to be extradited like that day richard's website t.v. shack was a free sign post pirated content including the latest hollywood blockbusters none of it was actually provided by him but that doesn't matter to america it says the

site breached their copyright laws and claims he's theirs to punish because their websites lucrative advertising was aimed at us concealments these courses where richard was fate will be decided royds on whether or not his actions are considered to be a crime in the u.k. this trial was his last chance to put forward his defense and now it's up to the judge to decide but according to digital lore experts the decisions not a tough one to make it's quite possible that he's only him guilty of a civil offense and that offense is you know something he could potentially get fined for and you know it's clearly a u.k. case as well. because he was doing this in the u.k. it's not really any case for him to be extradited to the united states is not clearly was infringing copyright in the united states told britain signed the extradition treaty with america in two thousand and three nearly

a decade on controversy still surrounds it the u.s. can extradite whoever it wants without proof or hearing privileges the u.k. doesn't get the treaty was a must change for the government while in opposition but a recent review it commissioned just in the treaty still fair several leading m.p.'s refused to agree though the commons home affairs committee calling for changes was a mistake in the first place this is a trick i think it was a mistake it's not a level playing field even with a partner like america we need to make sure that we are being equal and we are being fair to all citizens and that is not the case of the opposition against the extradition treaty is growing in westminster dissenting m.p.'s have just pours through a debate on it later this month and a parliamentary review on it is jew in the new year all this may be too late for richard he has just two weeks until he learns where they are america will get what

it wants i have been it r.t. abundant. we're back with our lives in a couple of minutes stay with us here are. the

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