with us here on r.t. our top story it's going to be another day of 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 joined live by he's in athens oh sorry so what are the chances now the puppet government was actually survive all of this. well it's all still to play full it's a day really. later on today and is a party and the opposition getting behind. the putting 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. to three hundred seat government and we've seen an incredibly turbulent week hearing

the week starting with the prime minister announcing that he planned to hold a referendum. that shockwave three. they need isn't using countries but within government as well it was a very very controversial announcement and we saw yesterday his parliamentary just essentially killing off that referendum he was talking about the fact that they face a dilemma if they were able to reach a consensus with the opposition party about the bailout plans and the referendum would be off the table say 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 one of them being the finance minister here in the country he's been happen j.s chief challenger back in two thousand and seven when they ran against each other so it's very interesting time said a lot as he said to play for it we're going to have that clarity later this evening when that confidence ahead obviously is going to make it much more clear for

everyone to see just what's going to happen what the plan will be meeting forward in the country. 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 see no surprise amongst the people here in the country they've really gotten used to these series of announcements and plans backtracking and we see more of that this week announcements be made it's going to be a referendum and there wasn't a referendum happened is possibly going to be resigning and he wasn't going to resign definitely and there's cynicism now about these announcements that the made when it comes to fast and in the past of politics i mean make no mistake they are incredibly popular in the country now it's the socialist party there's a. disappointment at the way that they've handled the situation the crisis of the decisions that they've made everyone that i was speaking to on the streets yesterday after hearing pop and announcement in parliament was really it's time for

him to go a lot of people don't think he will a lot of people think he'll survive that confidence but that's the big question the other people behind that government and they really then know what a lot of people here in the country is saying is that to be quite honest even maintaining a facade to see here in greece at the moment is grieving 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 people a voice and then of course the very next day a couple of backtracking on a. thing at the moment is widening gap between the rest of the government here and the need is the reality on the ground in the country right aren't you sorry for it on top story for us for that report. 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. rippin union is in great danger listen to the words of silvio berlusconi that he said on saturday that will hardly repeated he said it was a strange currency that has not convinced anyone that's what he say 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 alley or 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 a watch worse g.d.p. to debt ratio and then you have ireland and you have spain this is what are they going to do 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 another con game and come up with let's go back to you know just

a week ago last thursday you remember all the euphoria that they came up with a plan to solve this merkel and sock cozy congratulating each other the markets boomed up six percent on average by monday the game was over all it is is a car and they come up with a new line of bull loney on how they are going to save the day and the great minds are being brought together to solve these problems that they cause. and that agree turmoil has taken over the g twenty summit in cannes observers have only been able to guess just what is it to. go and nicolas sarkozy said to the greek prime minister about a call it has backtracked on the referendum plans parties and he said now it 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 by the latest

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. 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 they support andrew 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 i know wising this in different ways some of them perhaps saying that 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 debates going on euro skeptics

saying that you're just moving the problem down the road that eventually greece will have to default bureaucrat 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 own voice that they agreed the brics that they would try to help the eurozone they would give money they haven't agreed on a final sound but they have a condition and president medvedev 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 you why did 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 a big question is how has that been done. who are farther up the french coast in

nice and monaco anti 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 much just on the coast from the g twenty summit venue here in county monaco of course a tax free haven for them and so it's a saying the banker who gets a big bonus off to a public bailout for example can simply move to monaco multi even pay a single cent in tights now would be to promise to get rid of tax havens that previous g twenty summit demonstrates is obviously but that still hasn't happened they still haven't taken action on that. no because this just did months of nicholas because the barack obama have organized an alternative summit media conference and here's what they had to say that we don't think he. made. for the part of the week. because you look i don't have the legal burden and probably

want. most of my letter. did we support the greek referendum on the euro bailout but only if they vote yes so considering the role the very good fish will statements that coming out of the can summit some here say that this is the perhaps the more interesting of the two summits it full is the huge on t. bone corelli's earlier in the week which had thousands of french police ready for violence which in fact never came demonstrators have changed it they've 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 us 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 up on their student a map 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 a close six volunteers will see daylight for the first time in five hundred twenty days that's the time they spent isolated in a mock spaceship simulating a trip to the red planet and back for more details on all of this out of our tease peter all of our hello peter so it's a big day for the six men and for science as well to. moore well that's right five hundred and twenty days since they first entered the the module as you well 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 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 conducted that mission but how that mission affected them as people while they were in that isolation of this is 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 barton my colleague has been following those they were inside the module since the project began. five hundred twenty days away from. pulled down. 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 third two thousand and ten and 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 being reunited with the outside world. quickly because i was afraid of conflicts that could lead to an early termination of the experiment we tried to consider all potential risks and to nip all tensions in the bad ones not the 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 are your relationships with the other crew members changed at the beginning i was. not

hoping i was maybe waiting for something like that to happen you know like fight or something close cracker for such a long time it works you know it must not nothing in the world. you know we have been very. sick from the beginning. the experiment was kept as real as possible with a twenty minute time delay in communications holmes the ship was on its way that meant the team was alone they could talk freely with loved ones but researchers decided to withhold bad news from the outside world but that was tricky when 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 that's what must the highlight. the cruise trip was a simulated landing on mars with

a long isolation and boredom before it scientists observed with amazement just how little it became for them when they made martian landfall with the martians but i think their pulse rate was one hundred sixty beats per minute now compared with the pulse of the first constant not yuri gagarin orbit it was a hundred and fifty two beats per minute the outside world too has been intrigued by minus five hundred mostly through betting on how and when an experiment would fail one bookmaker put eight to one all day on one of the crew members going insane because if it was. going to go. our way out we're happy that somebody. here on earth we had a lot of money to fix that nobody had went crazy and nobody went out. so even though it's only a dry run it's still a significant achievement for earth's first martian pioneers.

for. well five hundred twenty days they've spent inside the module certainly going to be some fantastic scenes later on today when they finally released of course reunited with their families salute lino 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 do they expect is next for them when they land back here on earth well of course there's going to be an extensive d. 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 during this just five hundred twenty day stay 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 invention 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 seemed to be a real step forward when it comes to modern kind wanting to reach out and explore the far reaches of space it's not even the first step we've only lifted off foot 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 is psychological and physiological capacities research in human capacities should go before the design of a spacecraft and 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 all 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. all right very good artes peter all over on top of the story for us here in moscow we'll be checking back in with you as this unfolds throughout the day thanks much. experiment as aid continues throughout the day here on r t so stay with us. five hundred days on a voyage to the on. a breakthrough in space travel. return from the red planet. mars five hundred touched down on r.t. . you know some of those stories we're going to covering here on our t.v. the 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 heavy handed response from police at the end of the

day now hours before that thousands of anti-corporate protesters forced to shut down of america's largest seaport that as a general strike america's first in more than fifty years also paralyzed several businesses in the city's downtown our correspondent lucy cafe was at the very heart of unfolding events throughout and describes how things went down. we're standing across from oscar grant's plaza which is the site of the occupy oakland movement where protesters have been camping out for weeks in order to raise their voices against inequality social injustice the same issues that are motivating thousands of occupy wall street movements all across the country but of course images are the things that we remember images are what tell a story and this morning in downtown oakland these are the images that you're going to be seeing across all of the screens on the mainstream media the destruction the isolated acts of vandalism and violence we were on the ground in oakland we're going to take you through some of the moments as they unfold and again we're still

reporting from the it's about when to 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 men as you can see advancing 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 but again not enough of an action to provoke this kind of a militant response by the police force here they were shooting on their shooting them at people carol means to be seen how november second down. how oakland will be remembered will it be the charred remains i feel isolated instances of violence but the successful shutdown of the nation sports reporting from downtown oakland fartsy at least a half. 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 calvin i've also keeping an eye on other cities where i was street protests protests were happening in our latest tweets she says there's a lot of talk about possible eviction of the protesters camp in new york's zuccotti park that could happen as early as friday keep updated on the protest movement in the u.s. with lucy capital's twitter feed and it's also reach way to reach tweeted at r t underscore. what nato has denied it intends to mount preemptive attacks on iranian military facilities this follows mounting concerns that the us 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 next week that will 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 retaliation and a drawn out bloody war. and he was reading the press reports on these contingency

plans being joined by the minister of defense here in london for the time. must be worrying that if iran is know it's developing a nuclear missile it will be developed and you could be so faced with the idea that the americans the british and these really are looking to will ensure an unprovoked attack. on the world a much more dangerous place and i cannot imagine a worse alliance with these three people in the west seem to underestimate the stray into the arena and nationalism that is a strong national member and so what happened. to the country. was with that installed and trained by britain from america the people of memories of the shah. in the west of the showers it will receive there will be a bloody war if there is an attack on iran iran is not iraq as of two thousand and one there will be retaliation in his will and from hamas and the world is at the more dangerous place because of these reports it seems bizarre that you would have

thought that anyone even thinking about contingency plans around would look at that and your position in this country britain for instance to the war in libya oh that was a majority get against it of course we're talking about economically declining pose in america and britain and the military assets remain they remain the one thing they can deploy we know that britain and america would pull america are prepared to use their record in military power to try to buttress their economic position in the world in relation to china in relations economically so i think what we're seeing here we know this from history economic instability often leads to military adventures often leads to wars and i think we must be worried at the moment the one thing i would say is if i was an american president i 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 in new york and elsewhere with this old occupy movement where there's 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 walk down to

r.t. dot com for more. a 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 fine but could take a much worse turn for him in the u.s. thanks to a controversial treaty signed during the blair era. artie's 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 or thora seas but rich is nevertheless a wanted man you know it's really just awful. frankly because you know if richard had done anything wrong we were quite happy for him to

be responsible but in this country where we want to tell time their case is now being heard at this magistrate's court in london the latest chapter in julie's struggle to keep her son it home they told us that the criminal 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 america. and then you must go to the full immediately i thought he was going to be extradited like that day richard's website t.v. shack was a free signpost to 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 the websites lucrative advertising was aimed at u.s. consumers this course is where richard was fate will be decided here 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 something he could potentially get fined for and you know it is clearly a u.k. case as well. because he was doing this in the u.k. so really any case for him to be extradited to the united states is not clear he was infringing copyright in 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 deemed the treaty still fair several leading m.p.'s refused to agree though but the commons home affairs committee calling for

changes was a mistake in the first place to some history chick 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 of being equal and we are being fair to our citizens and that is not the case of the opposition against the extradition treaty is growing in westminster dissenting m.p.'s have just forced through a debate on it later this month and the parliamentary review on it is jew in the new year all this though may be too late for richard he has just two weeks until he learns whether america will get what it wants after bennett r.t. london. be back with ed lines in a couple of minutes stay with us here r.t. .

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eight thirty am in moscow these iraqi headlines fever in greece as the country's prime minister backtracks on the plan for a bailout referendum that angered european leaders and he faces a crucial confidence vote at home greek turmoil also dominating the g twenty summit in france where heads held up and raised latest decision. back from mars the longest simulation in space history coming to an end six volunteers about to return from their mocking mission to the red planet seen daylight for the first time in more than five hundred days. a british student could be handed over to the u.s. for alleged copyright infringement committed on home soil despite the determination of a criminal case in the u.k. the young man faces punishment in the u.s. thanks to a controversial extradition treaty between the two countries. exploring the russian capital moscow out coming your way.