good to have you with us here on r t our top story it's going to be another day a roller coaster news from greece where the government faces are crucial confidence vote prime minister george papandreou is already backtracked on his earlier plans to hold a referendum on the ballot proposal was under heavy pressure not just from world leaders but also his own government which is now turning up the heat on calls for him to step down more on this we go live to r.t. sarah ferguson joins us in a half hour or so what are the chances now that pop injuries government will actually survive all this. well this. just happened to those in the extremely. absolutely guarantees that this. outcome. he's going to make his back his back to. the support and that confidence. with one hundred. in parliament of a three hundred seat parliament he's going to take nickel majority but a very very small one and there's been a number of m.p.'s that have made it clear that they're going to be facing. a

number then saying that unless possibly this some kind of unity government full potential plan that's on the table if they. say it's unclear really what will happen is that perhaps. some form of temporary government will be full just being a very dramatic decision that it be made. with the prime minister announcing plans for a referendum on the bailout plan that was met with resistance not just outside the country but from within his own government as well and yesterday in his parliament she addressed it really think that that referendum plan was taken off the table maybe that's going to help in the. same policy in the conference they put it cools this is turbulent at a time very unstable very difficult point in the country and in the year i think it's a really the last thing that anyone wants to see. with more uncertainty now the greek

government's been full of surprises this week to say the least how are the greek people themselves reacting to this ever changing you. will be speaking to a lot of people here in athens and the feeling really is the pop in jay's heart is day that it's time for the prime minister to step aside and let someone else take the helm because really there's a real sense of frustration and disappointment at the way he's handled this crisis and taken a lot of the. credibility with a lot of the statements that we hear him make you know it's really dropped dramatically people here just simply have lost the trust that any of these actions against leads to sustainable plans needing food in the future you're looking at a country and a population that is suffering from economic exhaustion and we've seen people coming out time and again to show that public places in the streets still of people are saying that really they feel that they're being rude in this place in their

voices of. the current situation is the one. putting the possibility of a referendum then the question is drawn. there's a danger of a reaction against the political class as a whole it's better. to get a discussion and if there's some sort of being offered. to be the referendum. of course going ahead later on this evening all eyes are once again going to be firmly own greece but the real question here is if such a loss of public confidence in the private us tonight government really even if true is a time to vie for that confidence they really a lot of people asking whether he should. for apply for us and thanks for that report. you also spoke with your own celebrity director of the trends research center who says that new 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 of silvio berlusconi that he said on saturday that was hardly repeated he said it was the 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 really are it's to one of the smallest countries in the end new it's peanuts compared to italy which is in much greater danger with the much worse g d p to debt ratio and then you have on ireland and you have spain. 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 turmoil has taken over the g twenty summit in cannes observers have only been able to guess just what

it was that angulo merkel and nicolas sarkozy said to george pop and dry you that causes a backtrack on the referendum plans artes and he said now it has more. 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 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. to do 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 by step up and true statements also indicate that the referendum is not an end in itself but it was

a tool that was going to be considered but since still positions support of the plan then it became less useful if your critics analyzing this in different ways some of them perhaps say 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 one of the eurozone a lot of different debates going on here of skeptics saying that you're just moving the problem down the road that eventually greece will have to default you're a crowd saying this is the only way to save the euro nucor 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 i'm urging a con and he's 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 didn't the spectrum to have not just these. decisions on the global economy be made by the seven most richest can't richest countries but by the twenty biggest economies and the big question is has that been done yet. 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 say they wanted change of tactics to get their message across argues daniel bushell has more just as much just down the coast from the g twenty summit venue here in count of monaco monaco of course a tax free haven demonstrates a saying that a banker who gets a big. public bailout for example can simply move to monaco and not even pay a single cent in tax now world leaders promised to get rid of tax havens that previous g twenty summits demonstrates is obviously angry but that still hasn't

happened they still haven't taken action on that now because it has drifted more of nicolas sarkozy angler mogul and barack obama have organized an alternative summit media conference and here's what they had to say but we think the model is made. for the finals of the week and i want those of you because you not only have the only good brain and we want to live here. the fake glimmer collided we support the greek referendum on the euro bailout but only if they vote yes so considering the rather very good 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 follows 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 that they've changed the strategy of going from the grisham that we saw previous g twenty summits to

approach of mocking world leaders who seem so out of touch with the problems of ordinary people today stay with us here on r.g.p. coming up later in the program we were apart from the front lines of one of the. biggest occupy wall street protests. they were shooting up on there shooting them at people tear gas rubber bullets several injured dozens arrested our correspondent saw how it all went down in the city of oakland plus. nato denies reports of a planned missile strike on iran a report on where such threats of military intervention could lead. in just a few hours 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 exact time they spent isolated aboard a mock spaceship simulating a trip to the red planet and back peter all over is following their journey. 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 they're head of well they're 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 but they have been trapped though inside 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 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 it brings us this report about how what they're doing right now. five hundred twenty days away from. the cold don't speak on a mission to the red planet. well not quite. these men have been sealed in a spacecraft for seventeen months but they never left 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 men inside being reunited with the outside world. i was afraid of conflicts that could lead to an early terminations of the experiment and we tried to consider all potential risks and to

nicole tensions in a bad economy is 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 and i was able to ask one of them for myself how have 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 quarter for such a long time it works you know the must not know thing in the world. but never happen we have been a very. quiet sixty 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 the 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 that's a thing for months the highlight of 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 landfall. this but i think their pulse rate was one hundred sixty beats per minute now compared with the pulse of the first year garant orbit it was one hundred fifty two beats per minute the outside world to has been intrigued by five hundred mostly through betting on how and when an experiment. fail. they can put eight on one of the crew members going and see

because it. went very well. so even though it's a dry run it's still a significant achievement first martian pioneers. well after all that time locked inside an area that is essentially a few 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 the guys who were behind the mars five hundred project the project organizes a saying that well they're 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 money kind reaching out and reaching out towards new galaxies. it's not even the first step and we've only lifted off foot to take that first step before we decide on the equipment that we used in a flight to mons we first need to have an understanding of the limits of the human body the psychological and physiological capacities research in human capacity should go before the design of a spacecraft and do all scientists are quite active in designing new vehicles. well that's not long now until they step out of the mocked up spacecraft out of the mars five hundred module they'll be able to see sunlight for the first time ever see daylight they'll also be able to see those stars that apparently they've been pretending they've been traveling past for all of these days as artie's peter all of our reporting there will be following this unique experiment as it unfolds right here on our team with live updates throughout the day.

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. . turning to some of the other day's other top stories the city of oakland california reeling after one of the biggest protests the occupy wall street movement has seen about eighty demonstrators were arrested several injured after what started as a peaceful rally was met with a heavy handed response from police toward the end of the day before that thousands of anti-corporate protesters forced a shutdown of america's fifth largest port this as the general strike america's first in more than fifty years also paralyze several businesses in downtown oakland r.t. correspondent was at the heart of the events unfolding throughout the day and describes how they develop we're standing across from oscar grant's 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 acknowledgment quality social injustice the same issues that are motivating thousands of occupy wall street movements 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 that are going to be seeing across all of the screens on the mainstream media the destruction the isolated acts of vandalism and violence the 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 ask 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 and 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. their pseudonym at people who are amazed to be seen how november second in downtown oakland will be remembered will be the charred remains of us. lies late in the sense of violence but the successful shutdown of the nation sports reporting from downtown oakland fartsy. there is a detailed account of the dramatic events in oakland an exclusive video from our on the scene crew all there for you what are you tube channel and our twitter feed to see calf and i've also keeping an eye on other cities where anti wall street protests are going on their latest tweet he says there's a lot of talk about possible addiction of the protesters camp in new york city park that could happen as early as this friday stay updated on the u.s. protest movement with lucy's twitter feed and we'll read tweeting all her stuff at parties underscore. nato has denied that it intends to mount

a preemptive attack on iranian military facilities this follows mounting concerns that the u.s. and britain in israel could be moving toward a policy of intervention in iran that's ahead of a crucial report by the nuclear watchdog group due next week that will assess the military side of tehran's controversial nuclear program political analyst chris bambery thinks any attempt to attack the country could lead to a fierce retaliation and a drawn out bloody conflict. and he was reading the press reports on these contingency plans being joined by the minister of defense here in london for the time. mostly 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 these really are looking to will ensure an unprovoked attack. on the world a much more dangerous place and i cannot munchen a worse alliance with these three people in the west seem to underestimate the

straight into the arena and nationalism that is a strong national member and so what happened. to that. was installed and trained by britain and america the people of memories of the shah that we say to the west of the shah it will be 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 hamas and the world is at the dangerous place because of these reports. and british media say an attack on iran could come as soon as next november that's due to the country's resilience despite international sanctions being stepped up various media the u.k.'s ministry of defense and whitehall outsources you can check things out in full at our website that's a click away at our team dot com. a british student might be extradited to the us over alleged internet piracy experts say even if he was found guilty by a court at home he'd have most likely faced a fine but events could take

a turn for the worse in the u.s. thanks to a controversial extradition treaty signed into law during the blair government artie's ivor bennett reports from london. 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 web site providing links to pirated videos it wasn't a problem for british orthe or sees 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 for him to be responsible about him this very very long time case is now being heard at this magistrate's court in london the latest chapter in julie's struggle to keep the son it 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 time so they said it would go next. to me. and then you must go to the call immediately i thought he was going to be extradited like that day richard's website t.v. show was a freestyle and 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 the. is to punish because the website's lucrative advertising was aimed at us can seaman's these courses 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 is 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 that the commons home affairs committee calling for changes was a mistake in the first place to study history 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 where they are america will get what it wants after bennett r.t. london. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe a suicide car bomb hit the car out of a nato contractor in western afghanistan thursday after the bombing three gunmen stormed the property holding several employees hostage sparking a long running gun battle with nato troops two security guards and all five attackers were killed and thirty one people were rescued the attackers in the attack comes only days after the taliban launched an assault on the united nations office in southern afghanistan. seven workers had to be rescued while dozens more

remain trapped underground after a small earthquake triggers an explosion in the chinese call my officials are calling it a rock burst 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. and this looks like a scene from an action movie but it shows real life footage of a brazilian federal police car chasing down a plane to keep it from taking off with stolen electronics the cop car crashed into the left wing of the plane bringing it to a halt security officers arrested the pilot and four men aboard police say the same plane was used to smuggle cocaine from paraguay bolivia and colombia bound for brazil. be back with a recap of our top stories after a short break stay with us here on r.t. .

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thirty am in moscow these are your r.t. headlines fever increases the country's prime minister backtracks on the plan for a ballot referendum that angered european leaders and he faces a crucial time for them to vote at home greek turmoil also dominating the g twenty summit in france where the e.u. heads hailed poppins re-used latest decision. back from the longest simulation in space history coming to a close six volunteer is about to return from their mock mission to the red planet and see daylight for the first time in more than five hundred days. and a british student could be handed over to the u.s. for alleged copyright infringement committed on home soil despite the terminations 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. those were our headlines of the hour up next peter lavelle and his guess discuss the end of the soviet communist party and how it triggered the collapse of the u.s.s.r. .