our top story it's going to be another day of roller coaster news from greece where the government faces a crucial confidence vote prime minister george papandreou has already made a u. turn and plans to hold a referendum on the e.u. bailout proposal he was under heavy pressure not only from world leaders but also his own government which is turning up the volume of calls for him to step down r.t. saraf earth has more from athens. really it's going to be a major hurdle he's got a very small majority and he's a government at the moment one hundred fifty. of the three hundred seat government and we've seen an incredibly turbulent week here in the week starting with the prime minister announcing that he planned to hold a referendum. that shockwave three not only is a need isn't using countries but within his government as well it was a very very controversial announcement and we saw yesterday his parliamentary just essentially killing off the referendum he was talking about the fact that they faced a tie 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 the appears to be the case maybe who got to have a bit more support amongst splinter groups in his party who are very very unhappy about this is definitely cynicism now about these announcements that it made when it comes to soften to itself in the past the policy of the make a mistake they are incredibly popular 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 the danger with that kind of situation is the one. putting the possibility of a referendum then it was drawn. there's a danger of a reaction against the political class as a whole it's better. to have a discussion and some sort of see if being offered. to be the referendum thing at the moment is why didn't get between the restaurant this coming from the

government here and the need is the reality on the ground in the country we also spoke with jerrold solenn day director of the trends research center who said that you leaders are just using greece as a scapegoat for their own bigger mistakes the whole european union is in great danger listen to the words. silvio berlusconi that he said on saturday that was 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 new it's peanuts compared to italy which is in much greater danger with the watch worse g.d.p. to debt ratio and then you have ireland and you have spain this is it is

what are they going to do to give greece another couple of billion dollars when they're half a trillion in debt so no it's much worse than that that greek turmoils taken over at the g twenty summit in cannes observers have only been able to guess just what it was until merkel and nicolas sarkozy said to pop and you that causes backtrack on a referendum plans artie's an isa now it has more from the conference. the final day of the g twenty here in cannes will have three working sessions and will end with a press conference given by host nicolas sarkozy the greek tragedy has taken over this entire summit other issues pushed aside 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 especially the backbone of the euro zone of france and germany very satisfied with the way things are going at the school due to 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 is to pump untrue 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 still positions support of the plan then it became less useful to critics analyzing this in different ways some of the. 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 of the euro zone a lot of different base going on here are skeptics saying that you're just moving the problem down the road that eventually greece will have to default bureaucrats 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 to 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 has that been done yet. further up the coast in monaco anti g twenty protesters were holding their own gatherings angry at the rich for dictating the fate of others they say they want to change of tactics to get their message across or he's daniel bushell has more. just as much just down the coast from the g twenty summit venue hearing come to monaco of course attack three haven demonstrates a thing that's a banker who gets a big bonus off to

a public bailout for example can simply move to monaco and not even pay a single cent hikes now will be this promise to get rid of tax havens that previous g twenty summit demonstrates is obviously very good that still hasn't happened they still haven't taken action but no protest has drifted more of nicholas because the limo cool and barack obama. of organized an alternative summit media conference and here's what they had to say but we've got something. totally made. for the finals of the week and i want those back to you because you know i'm the only good friend and probably want to make myself to my letter. added 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 that 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

lips which in fact never came demonstrators have changed the time they've changed the strategy of going from the grisham that we thought were previous g twenty summits to approach of mocking leaders who seem so out of touch with the problems of ordinary people today. coming up later here on our t.v. report from the front lines of one of the biggest occupy wall street protests they were shooting last beyond their shooting them at people. tear gas and rubber bullets several injured dozens arrested our correspondent witnessed how it all unfolded in the city of oakland lots. of nato denies reports of a planned missile attack on iran we report where such threats of possible military intervention could lead. but first a few hours the curvy 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 how long they spent isolated penton a mocked up space ship simulating a trip to the red planet and back for more on this i'm joined by our tease peter all over with all the details so it's not just a big day for these six men but also for science as well well it is indeed the end is in sight for the five hundred project five hundred. in twenty days the six men from all around the world three from russia one from china one from europe one from central america they've spent inside a simulated spacecraft simulating what's on the screen behind me right there a mission to the martian surface and back home to earth now they're going through their final preparations ahead of their landing back on earth all this of course without even leaving central moscow this mock up of the mars martian spacecraft has been built in a facility right in the center of the russian capital. so all of this traveling done well without really going that far but they have been trapped though inside

this this small this mocked up module for the amount of time it would take to make the actual journey going through the same trials and tribulations as if they had been rocketing through the cosmos including the fact that any kind of contact they had with the earth was on a similar delay that it would be if they were sending those signals out into space and receiving them back so they have had to put up with quite a bit of hardship for well a good chunk of time five hundred twenty days locked with the the same people every single day it's got to be tough and tom bart now reports he's been following the progress of these guys since they first went in he brings us this report about how what they're doing right now. five hundred and twenty days away from earth. in the cold depths of space on a mission to the red planet and 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 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. i was afraid of conflicts that could lead to an early termination of the experiment and we tried to consider all potential risks and to nip all tensions in a bad night and the scientists behind it wanted to see if the six man crew to 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 here

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 the must not know thing in the world. but. we have been a very. effective 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 meant the team was alone they could talk freely with us 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 real. 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 months the highlight of the cruise trip was

a simulated landing on mars with long isolation and boredom before it scientists observed with amazement just how real it became for them when they need motion. but that their pulse rate was one hundred sixty beats per minute now compared with the pulse of the first constant or not yuri gagarin orbit it was one hundred fifty two beats per minute the outside world has been in tree. hundred eighty three. when the experiment would fail one bookmaker put eight to one on one of the crew members going in c. because of it. when he thinks that. when. he went out. so even though it's only a dry run it's still a significant achievement first martian pioneers.

all that time locked inside an area that is essentially a feat the size of a football pitch i'm sure they all have a very long list of things they want to get up to you and want to carry out when they get finally back home and back and monks their friends and family but there might be certain psychological pressure of course i was part of the experiment but pressure for this guys once they return to earth adjusting to normal life and getting back to reality as it were tell us more about that after what comes their way after their touchdown so to speak well scientists who've been studying the guys who've been locked inside the most five hundred experiments have been. saying that the experiment for them is essentially a success already juta the fact that nobody dropped out and nobody seems to have suffered any ill effects from being in there for this extended period of time now

when the these six beds are released from the locked up spacecraft their ordeal still really isn't over they're going to go through a extensive series of medical tests psychological evaluations to see what effect if any being away being away from society had upon them now the guys who were behind the mars five hundred project the project organizers saying that well bear quite happy with the results that they found and it could be a small part in the huge mechanics the small component in the huge process of mankind reaching out and reaching out towards new galaxies but it's not even the first step we've only lifted off food to take that first step before we decide on the equipment that we used in the flights miles we first need to have an understanding of the limits of the human body the psychological and

physiological capacities in the world research in human capacities should go before the design of a spacecraft though our scientists are quite active in designing new vehicles. well there's no no until they step out of the spacecraft out of the five hundred moment you'll be able to see some lights for the first time. they'll also be able to see those stars that apparently they've been pretending they've been travelling past for all of these days and will be there for all of it thanks very much r.t.s. . remember we'll be following this unique specs parent as it unfolds there of the day here on our t.v. bringing you live updates so stay with us. five hundred days on a voyage to the. a breakthrough in space travel. returned from the red planet. mars five hundred touched down.

the city of oakland california reeling after one of the biggest protests of the occupy wall street movement has seen about eighty demonstrators were arrested several injured after what started out as a peaceful rally was met with heavy handed response from police toward the end of the day hours before that thousands of anti-corporate protesters forced to shut down of america's largest port this as a general strike americans first and more than fifty years paralyzed several businesses in downtown oakland artie's correspondent lucy catherine i was at the heart of unfolding events throughout the day and describes how they developed. we're standing across from oscar grant plaza which is the site of the occupy oakland movements where protesters have been camping out for weeks in order to raise their voices against not like inequality social injustice the same issues that are motivating thousands of occupy wall street movement all across the country but of course images of the things that we remember images are what tell a story and this morning in downtown oakland these are the images they going to be seeing across all of the screens on main street and you get the destruction they

isolated vandalism and violence on the ground and opened we're going to take you through some of the moments as they unfold and again we're still report. from the it's about oakland as you can hear behind me loud explosions possibly tear gas from the police officers there are at least hundreds of the 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 flashed on their pseudonym at people all remains to be seen how november second in downtown oakland will be remembered will it be the charred remains of a few lies laid of instances of violence by the successful shutdown of the nation's

ports reporting from downtown oakland fartsy on this account. there's a detailed account of the dramatic events in oakland and exclusive video from our on the scene crew all there for you at our g r r t's you tube channel and our twitter feed to seek out and i've also keeping an eye on other cities where anti wall street protests are happening really just two weeks she says there's a lot of talk about a possible vision of protesters at the camp in new york city how do you hark back to happen as early as this friday stay updated on the latest protest with lucie county i was twitter feed all being read tweet it really tweeted at r.t. underscore. nato has denied that it intends to mount any preemptive strikes on iranian military facilities this fall is mounting concern that the u.s. britain and israel could be moving toward a policy of intervention in iran is ahead of a crucial report by the u.n. nuclear watchdog agency due next week assessing the military side of tehran controversial nuclear program political analyst chris bambery in the u.k.

says any possible attempt to attack the country could lead to a furious retaliation and a drawn out bloodied conflict. anyone reading the press reports on these contingency plans being dropped by the minister of defense here in london for an attack on iran must be worrying that if iran is not developing a nuclear missile. missile faced with the idea that the americans the british and these really are looking towards an unprovoked attack on iran and the world a much more dangerous place i cannot imagine a worse alliance with these three people in the west seem to underestimate the strength of a reunion nationalism that is a strong national sense of. what happened. to the country and how this has been installed and maintained by britain and for america it's a people long memories of the way it's presented the west if the shah was with

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 from our mass and the world is a dangerous place because of these reports. british media says an attack on iran could come as soon as next november due to the country's resilience despite international sanctions being stabbed various media say the u.k.'s ministry of defense and whitehall as sources check things out and paul at r.t. dot com. our british student could be extradited to the us over alleged internet piracy experts say even if he was found guilty by a court at home he would have most likely faced a five events could have taken could take a much worse turn for him in the u.s. thanks to a controversial extradition treaty signed into law during the blair artie's i bet it has more for one. on the surface there 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 piracy videos it wasn't a problem for british or. it reaches nevertheless a wanted man you know it's really just all. frightening because you know if richard had done anything wrong we were quite happy pains to be responsible about him this very well a long time they case is now being heard at this magistrate's court in london the latest chapter in julie's struggle to keep the senate they told us that the criminal investigation in the u.k. had been dropped so it was like a bit of a sigh of a really big the next sentence things that would go next to mary. and then you must go to the pool immediately i thought he was going to be extradited like not date richards website t.v. show was a free stand post 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 there is to punish. because the web site's lucrative advertising was aimed at us consumers this course is where richard o'dwyer as 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 guilty of a civil offense offenses 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 clear that he was infringing copyright in united states 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. does not get the treaty was a muscle 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 the commons home affairs committee calling for changes so it was a mistake in the first place to sign a treaty 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 at the moment opposition against the extradition treaty is growing in westminster dissenting in peace of just force through a debate on it later this month and the parliamentary review on it is jus in the new year all this though maybe too late for richard he is just two weeks until he

learns whether america will get what it wants i've given it r.t. london. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe a suicide car bomb hit the compound of a nato contractor in western afghanistan thursday after the bombing three gunmen stormed the property holding several employees hostage sparking a long running gunfight with nato troops two security guards and all five attackers were killed though thirty one people were rescued the attack comes just days after the taliban launched an assault on a un office in southern afghanistan. seven workers have been rescued but dozens more remain trapped underground after a small earthquake triggered an explosion in a chinese coal mine officials are calling it a rock and a phenomenon that occurs when the layers of the earth put extreme pressure on the walls of the mine for miners died in the incident. those looks like a scene from an action movie but it's real life footage showing

a brazilian federal police car chasing down a plane to keep it from taking off with stolen electronics the vehicle crashed into the left wing of the small plane bringing it to a stop officers then a rest of the pilot and four men aboard police say the same plane was being used to smuggle cocaine from bolivia and colombia for distribution in brazil. back with a recap of our top stories after a short break stay with us here on r.t. .

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