and in moscow i matras a good to have you with us here on r t 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 on plans to hold a referendum on the e.u. bailout proposal that was under heavy pressure not just from leader world leaders but from his own government which is turning up the calls for him to step down r.t. sour furth has more from athens. j.s in that stream really tricky situation and there's absolutely no guarantees at this point just what that outcome will be later on this evening he's going to be asking will make is to back him to back the plans and share the support in that confident state with one hundred fifty two seats in the name in. parliament of a three hundred seat parliament you've got a technical majority but a very very small one and there's been a number of m.p.'s that it made it clear that they're not going to be facing in support and number than saying that unless possibly there's some kind of unity government formed that's a potential plan that's on the table if they don't pass

a confidence vote it's unclear really what will happen is that perhaps that's the most likely the song for some form of temporary unity government will be formed this being a very dramatic week of decisions that have been made the week starting with the prime minister announcing plans for a referendum on this bailout plan that was met with resistance not just from outside the country 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 for the speaking to a lot of people here in athens and the feeling really is the two of puffin j's heart is day that it's fine for the prime minister to step aside and let someone else take the helm states 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 decisions you're looking at a country with a population that is suffering from economic exhaustion and we've seen people

coming out time and again to show that public anger to protest in the streets still people saying that really they feel that they're being rude in this place in their voices of the current situation is the one. offering the possibility of a referendum. there's a. and against the political class as a whole it's better to let that be it a discussion and if it's some sort of safe develop as being offered. to be there if it ended that close going ahead later on this evening life will once again be family own grief but the real question here is it such and also how to call in the private us tonight doesn't it really even if just talk of a time survive that confidence that really a lot of people asking whether his shit. gerald cilento director of the trends research center is saying e.u. leaders simply using greece as

a scapegoat for their own bigger problems 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 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're 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 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 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 greed turmoils taken over the g twenty summit in cannes observers have only been able to guess just what it

was that nicolas sarkozy said to george pop and draw you that call it has backtracked on a referendum plans or he's a nice in our way 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 fly and that is a very important and courageous step mr pope 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 still positions supported the plan

then it became less useful to 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 want to leave the euro zone 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 bureaucrats 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 by 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 the 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 the. 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 monaco anti g twenty protesters have been holding their own meetings gathering angry at the rich for dictating the fate of others they want a change of tactics to get their message across parties daniel bushell reports. just as much just down the coast from the g. twenty summit venue here in count to monaco monaco of course a tax free haven for german so it's a saying that 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 in tax now world leaders promised to get rid of tax havens that

previous g twenty summit demonstrators obviously angry but that still hasn't happened they still haven't taken action on that no protest has drifted more of nicolas sarkozy and barack obama of organized an alternative summit media conference and here's what they had to say but we tell you something we call it a movement. for the finals of the week and i want those because you know i don't have the only good brain and we want to look closer to my fake added we support the greek referendum on the euro bailout but only if they vote yes so considering the road a 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 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 it they've changed the strategy of going from the aggression that we saw the previous g twenty summit to

approach of mocking world leaders who seem so out of touch with the problems of ordinary people today. they were. here on r t still to come on the program we were apart from the front lines of one of the biggest occupy wall street protests. they were. sponsored there is shooting at people tear gas rubber bullets several injured dozens arrested our correspondent saw it all unfold in the city of oakland plus. as nato denies reports of a planned missile strike on iran europe or more such threats of military intervention could lead. but first in a few hours' time 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 spend pent up inside a mock spaceship simulating a trip to the red planet and back for more on this part by our team is peter all of

our hello peter so it's a big day for these six brave men but also for space exploration in general even though was a simulated flight still significant achievements tell us more let's try this experiment is being closely watched not just here in russia but around the world and that is of course a joint operation between the russian space agency and the european space agency now they. it's also an international crew that is representatives from china from europe from central america as well as as three russians making up the the six crew there that journey is about to come to an end five hundred twenty days trapped inside a mocked up spacecraft that's roughly around the size of half of a football field not a lot of room to breathe in there and they've obviously been very up close and personal with each other and finally they will be released from this experiments in well not long at all now they'll be able to to well see the sunshine see the

outside breathe in fresh air for the first time in a very very long time and exactly where that is going to. happening we can now cross to tom barton my colleague who is outside of the hatch. so what's happening there right now as they gear up to the opening of the house the six crew members stepping back into the real world. well peter this is the door that they went into this six man on june the third two thousand and ten after five hundred twenty days they're about to come out of it very soon and a lot of people have gathered here at the institute of biomedical problems in moscow to try and watch that moment there's obviously the media here the big media scrum gathered to try and watch the moment when they when they come out all the research shows and scientists that have set up this experiment and have been monitoring them every day through all of that seventeen months and delegations

representing the crew inside from russia from china and from europe as well the experiment itself has been primarily psychological in nature obviously they haven't been able to to bring zero gravity to this building in moscow nor have they been able to bring solar radiation for example but as far as they can they've made it as realistic as possible and they wanted to see how humans could cope so long in an isolated very routine and vironment and there have been worries of something called social narrowing that's the name given to some of the effects of spending a long time in isolation research as that bases have seen some of the people there with draw from social environments they've stopped eating together they've worn a blank expression and it can go even further there have been reports of of cosmonauts and astronauts in space suffering what some of dubbed space martinus where they've contemplated being in a metal box in space and that's really caused

a lot of stress to them is been designed to test how long humans can go without suffering severe psychological impacts luckily it seems the. that none of those have been suffered and also it doesn't seem that there's been major tensions between the crew in two thousand there was an a shorter version of this experiment held that went badly wrong two crew members started fighting another tried to kiss a female crew member but none of those things also have happened it seems to have gone relatively smoothly at the moment as we can see now. five hundred and twenty days away from earth alone 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 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. good luck on i was afraid of conflicts that could lead to an early termination of the experiment we tried to consider all potential risks and to nicole tensions in the bad ones like 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 here maybe waiting for something like that to happen you know like fight or something close parker 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 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. 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 a long isolation and boredom before it scientists observed with amazement just how real it became for them when they made martian landfall. but 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 one hundred fifty two beats per minute the outside world to has been intrigued by five hundred mostly through betting on how and when the experiment would fail one bookmaker put eight to warm odds on one of the crew members going insane because of it. when he went out. so even though it's only a dry run it's still a significant achievement for earth's first martian pioneers. so they managed to get through those challenges there is now a small worry that they might have problems readjusting to the crazy outside world

is obviously very interested in them however they do all get one hundred thousand dollars that they've been paid for a century for giving up a year and a half of their lives i don't know peter do you think you'd be able to do it for that kind of money i'm worried i feel cheap i'd definitely do a fifty. page well yes their ordeal doesn't end as soon as they come out of the capsule later on today they will be given a series of rigorous physical tests as well as psychological evaluations so you find out any of the long term effects that being part of this project might have. now the those that are behind the the experiments and the scientists behind it already claiming that it is a success due to the data that they've received studying the the psychological patterns and the wealthy social patterns that the crew have been able to get up to now however they are saying that although this has been a success it's still a very small part of the bigger picture when it comes to mankind reaching out and

explore in a galaxy. it's not even the first step we've only lifted off to take that first step before we decide on the equipment that we used in a flight to miles we first need to have an understanding of the limits of the human body the psychological and physiological capacities research in human capacities should go before the design of a spacecraft and do all scientists are quite active in designing new vehicles. well we'll be keeping you up to date on the progress that the mars five hundred crew are making as they prepare for reentry to earth just a few hours to go we wait with anticipation over and joined by tom barton as well thank you. member will be following this unique experiment as it unfolds here on our team bring you updates throughout the day 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 on r.t. . city of oakland california reeling after one of the biggest protests the occupy wall street movement has seen about eighty demonstrators arrested several injured after what started as a peaceful rally was met with a heavy handed response from police at the end of the day now hours before that thousands of anti-corporate protesters forced a shutdown of america's largest pork this as the general strike americans first in more than fifty years also paralyze several businesses in downtown oakland parties using kavanaugh was at the heart of the unfolding events throughout the day describes how they developed. 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 the nomic 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 they are going to be seeing across all of the screens on the mainstream media the destruction the isolated acts of vandalism and violence that we were on the ground in oakland we're going to take you through some of the moments as they unfold and again we are still reporting from the it's about twenty minutes as you can hear behind me loud explosions possibly tear gas from the police officers there are at least one hundred in 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 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 flash bond there shooting them at people there are means to be seen how november second in downtown oakland will be remembered will it be the charred remains of a few isolated instances of. but the successful shutdown of the nation's ports reporting from downtown oakland fartsy and this is kept. as a detailed account of the dramatic events in oakland an exclusive video from the scene at our crew filmed on our you tube channel on our twitter feed lucy cavanagh of also keeping on top of events going on in other cities where anti-war protests are going on her latest tweets she says there's a lot of talk about possible addiction of protesters at a camp in new york's zuccotti park that could happen as early as friday stay tune and stay updated on the u.s. protest movement with lucy's twitter feed and that retreated underscore. to other stories here on r t nato has denied that it intends to mount preemptive

strikes on iranian military facilities this follows a mounting concerns that the u.s. britain and israel might be moving toward a policy of enter vention in iran this ahead of a crucial report by the i.a.e.a. due next week that will assess the military side of tehran's controversial nuclear program political analyst chris bambery says 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. 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 these really are looking towards should an unprovoked attack on. the world sort of a much more dangerous place and i kind of. alliance with these three people in the west seem to underestimate the strength of a reunion nationalism that is

a strong. member and so bought. for it if it. was been installed and trained by britain for american people memories of the shah that we know in the west if the shah it was there would 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 a dangerous place because of these reports. british media say an attack on iran could come as soon as next november that's because of the countries are zillions despite international sanctions being stepped up there is media site the u.k.'s ministry of defense and whitehall the sources you can check it all out at r.t. dot com. a british student may 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 at most but events could take a worse turn for him in the u.s.

thanks to a controversial extradition treaty signed during the blair era artie's ivor bennett has more from london. 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 orthe or sees it 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 about him this very well it was a time 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 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 he 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 stein 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 websites lucrative advertising was aimed at u.s. consumers this course is where richard o'dwyer spates will be decided it 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 offense is 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 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. 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 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 the opposition against

the extradition treaty is growing in westminster dissenting in peace have just forced 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 are given it r.t. london. headlines in a couple of minutes stay with us here on r.t. . coo. coo coo. coo.

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twelve thirty pm in moscow these are your r.t. headlines fever in greece as the country's prime minister backtracked on the planet for a bailout referendum that angered european leaders he faces a crucial confidence vote at home greek turmoil also dominates g twenty summit in france where the e.u. heads held pop and dreams latest decision. back from mars the longest simulation in space history coming to an end six volunteers are about to return from their mock mission to the red planet and since sunlight for the first time in more than five hundred days. a british student could be handed over to u.s. authorities for alleged copyright infringement committed on home soil despite the terminations of a criminal case in the u.k. the young man faces justice in the u.s. thanks to a controversial extradition treaty signed between the two countries. up next artie's moscow out raises the curtain on what's been secret for years and gives you .