reza good to have you 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 faces a crucial confidence vote prime minister george papandreou has already done a one eighty on plans to hold a referendum on the e.u. bailout proposal that was under heavy pressure not just from world leaders but also from his own government which is now turning up the heat on calls for him to step down or he has more from athens. days in that story 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 lawmakers to back him to back the bailout plans and share their support in that confidence vote 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 have made it clear that they're not going to be facing in support of a number of them saying that unless possibly there's some kind of unity government

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 thought that perhaps that's the most likely the some for some form of temporary unity government will be formed it's been a very dramatic we could decisions that have been made the week starting with the prime minister announcing plans for a referendum on the bailout plan that was met with resistance not just from outside the country from within his own government as well and yesterday in his parliamentary address everything 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 puffin jay's heart is day that it's time for the prime minister to step aside and let someone else take the helm say 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 and 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 way to the voices of the current situation is the one. offering the possibility of a referendum. there's a beings who have a real. 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 developers be enough but let's let that be that if i'm to close that going ahead later on this evening once again against the family we put the real question here is it such a loss of hope to come again in the private us tonight doesn't it really even if just talk of a time survive that confidence state really a lot of people asking whether he's shit gerald select a director of the trends research center 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 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 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 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. and that greek turmoil has

taken over in g. twenty summit in cannes observers have only been able to guess just what it was that nicolas sarkozy said to george pop and that caused his backtrack on the referendum plans artes and he said no way has more. the final day of the g twenty here in cannes will have three working sessions and will and with the press conference given by host nicolas sarkozy the greek tragedy has taken over this entire summit other issues pushed aside 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. 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 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 the opposition supported the plan then it became less useful. critics analyzing 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 of the euro zone a lot of different base going on here of 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 of the summit comes to an end on this second day with that said emerging economies worried about their voices 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 has that been done yet. further up the coast in nice and monaco anti g twenty protesters were holding their own meetings angry at the rich for dictating the fate of others they turned to mockery to get their message across. and they think he's losing all the problems of the week. dressed in caricature masks of u.s. german and french leaders protesters organized an alternative news conference the fake on the merkel added that she would support a referendum in greece but only if you answer was yes events follow a protest marches across the french riviera. stay with us here on r t coming up

later in the program we report from the front line of one of the biggest occupy wall street protests. they were pretty much on their student map people tear gas rubber bullets several injured dozens arrested our correspondent witnessed it all unfold in the city of oakland plus. as nato denies reports of a planned missile strike on iran we report on where such threats of military intervention could lead. but first less than an hour to go before the crew of the international mission to mars finally returns to earth in moscow bringing one of the world's most grueling scientific experiments to a close six volunteer virtual cosmonauts will see daylight for the first time in five hundred twenty days that's a long they've spent isolated in their space ship mock up simulating a return trip to the red planet for all the details we go live to our team is peter all over who is sick westaway himself in our t.v. studio b. how are you doing in there. all right well certainly

a big day for the participants of the project but what is the significance for the future of space exploration and all this well five hundred and twenty days open and it's time for the crew of the mas five hundred project to finally come back into the real world now this busy atmosphere the miles five hundred sites out the moment you see live pictures they have a press conference that's going on from the the organizers who are quite the know how they've been happy they say with the the findings that they've gained from they say experiment five hundred twenty days an awful long time they have been looking very closely at the psychological effects this has had on the crew now that crew of six people three come from russia one from china one from europe and one from central america now they've been told forced to live together simulating this mission to mars they say they simulated the jodi to the red planet what you can see just on the screen there what they were simulating was low. on the planet's surface

conducting experiments eventually bringing back soil samples getting into their their spacecraft and flying back home now their journey is coming to an end and we can cross live now to the place where in just a few moments out of that hatch just behind him the six crew members will return we can see tom bartlett on what's happening there now. hi there peter well i remember watching on june the third last year this door shut and it was sealed shut with wax locking in the six crew that have been there since for five hundred twenty days it has stayed shut it's not been opened none of the crew have left the experiment and very shortly it's due to be opened again releasing them back into the outside world it's primarily been a psychological experiment as you can imagine they weren't table here in moscow to imitate the zero gravity and the like of a real space mission but it's been key in trying to understand some of the

psychological pressures of being in isolation in a routine in a mock up space craft for so long the fears were of things like social narrowing that's the name that's been given to some of the effects of spending a long period in isolation observers on antarctic bases have seen people where withdraw from social interaction they've started eating their meals alone and wearing a glazed expression of sort of with withdrawn from all their colleagues there that was one of the fears it could have got worse there was there's been some reports of from cosmonauts and astronauts in space of what's been dubbed space madness which is extreme stress brought on by prolonged contemplation of the fact that you are essentially in a in a metal box floating in space and it's also been reported that this crew really did come to believe very strongly that they were indeed in a spaceship and obviously there's the daily tensions of day to day life having to go through a lot of experiments and tasks. living together for so long in two thousand and ten

sure into the year two thousand beg your pardon a shorter version of this experiment went badly wrong two crew members started fighting and another tried to force a canadian crew member to kiss him that went badly wrong but this takes paramount has not experienced such problems as we can see now. five hundred twenty days away from earth alone in the cold depths of space on a mission to the red planet back. well not quite. these men have been sealed in a mock spacecraft for seventeen months but they never left moscow and could have quit the mars five hundred isolation experiment at any time 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 nipple tensions in the bad times 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 clark or for such a long time it works you know it must not nothing in the world. would 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 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. 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 that. 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 martian landfall. but that their pulse rate was one hundred sixty beats per minute. now compare with the pulse of the first concert or not your current one orbit it was one hundred fifty two beats per minute the outside world has been in tree. hundred three betting on how and when the experiment would fail one bookmaker put eight to one odds on one of the crew members going in see because of it.

so even though it's a dry run it's still a significant achievement first martian pioneers. so having gone through all of those challenges there is still a small worry that the crew made struggle to readjust to the outside world after so long in isolation but of course there is the one hundred thousand dollars to look forward to that each crewmembers been paid essentially for giving up a year and a half of their lives i don't know peter do you think you could do it for that kind of money. five million there for a lot less money than they've had a long time of course as well to work out what we're going to spend that money on come together in that metal box well the scientists and the organizers of the mars five hundred project have been claiming the project has been

a success the psychological tests that have being conducted of shown that nobody had any adverse reactions to the solitude and the monotony of the tasks that they were taking part in also the crew dynamic itself worked very well together we heard from tom no outbreaks of fighting monks the crew everybody getting on with each other and able to get on with their jobs however the organizers of the experiments have been realistic is when it comes to a the next step to see when we can put a ship manned mission to. in. play now they're saying that they are happy with the success of mars five hundred this isn't even the first step it is a first step towards the first step so it could be a little while yet before we see the real thing taking place all it takes is one small step right peter absolutely all right thanks for being on top of the story for us peter over and tom barton reporting in moscow will be following this unique

experiment as it unfolds throughout the day less than an hour to go here so stick with us here on r.t. . 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. . you know some other news we're covering on r t the city of oakland california reeling after one of the biggest protests the occupy wall street movement has yet seen about eighty demonstrators were arrested some injured after what started as a peaceful rally was met with heavy handed police response at the end of the day hours before that thousands of anti-corporate protesters forced a shutdown of america's fifth largest port this is the general strike america is hosting more than fifty years also paralyze several of businesses in downtown oakland or to seek out and i was at the heart of the unfolding events and described

how they develop throughout the day. we're standing across from oscar grant 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 acknowledgment quality 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're 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 percent accurate here 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 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 pseudonym at people are amazed to be seen how november second in downtown oakland will be remembered will it be the charred remains of a few isolated ends. violence but the successful shutdown of the nation sports reporting from downtown oakland fartsy on this account. you tell the account of the dramatic events in oakland and exclusive video from our on the scene crew all there a click away at our tease you tube channel and our twitter stream also lucy cavanagh of keeping an eye on the other cities where anti wall street protests have been going on the latest updates there's talk of a possible addition of protesters from the cap set up in new york's zuccotti park that could happen as early as this friday stay updated on the protest movement with

twitter feed and were read tweeting at all at party underscore com so check it out . nato denies it intends to mount preemptive attacks on iranian military facilities this follows mounting concerns that the u.s. britain and israel could be moving toward a policy of intervention toward the islamic republic that's ahead of a crucial report by the u.n. nuclear watchdog due next week that will assess the military side of tehran as controversial nuclear program political analyst chris bambery from the u.k. says any attempt to attack the country could lead to fierce retaliation and a drawn out bloody war. anyone 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 miss so faced with the idea that the americans the british and the is really a look a tool and should an unprovoked attack on iran on the world sort of a much more dangerous place and i cannot imagine

a worse alliance with these three people in the west seem to underestimate the straight into the rainy and nationalism that there is a strong national a sense under remembrance o'boyle. of foreign intervention into the country and. it was with that installed and trained by britain from america's people memories of the shah the way it's presented you know in the west of the shah it will be there will be a blood. 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 more dangerous place because of these reports. the british media says 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 areas media say u.k.'s ministry of defense and whitehall and sources you can check it out in a forward car. or 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 would 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 it during the blair government artie's eye for bennett has more from what it. on the surface there are 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 in this very well long time they case is now being heard at this magistrate's court in london the latest chapter in julie's struggle to keep her son

that 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 we're going to be sure moritz will marry. and then you must go to the court immediately i thought he was going to be extradited like now day richard's website t.v. show was a free signpost to pirated content including the latest hollywood blockbuster. his 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 court is where richard o'dwyer spates 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. so really any case for him to be extradited to the united states is not clear he was infringing copyright in the united states told britain signed the extradition treaty with america in two thousand and three nearly a decade on controversy still surrounds it the u.s. can extradite whoever it wants without proof or hearing privileges the u.k. doesn't get the treaty was a must change for the government while in opposition but a recent review it commissioned just 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 despite 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 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 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. turning to some other stories making headlines across the globe a suicide bomb hit the compound of a nato contractor in western afghanistan thursday after the bombing three gunmen stormed the property and held several employees hostage sparking a long running gun battle with nato troops two security guards and all five attackers were killed though thirty one people were rescued the attack comes only days after the taliban launched an assault on a un office in southern afghanistan. seven workers have been rescued

dozens remain trapped underground after a small earthquake triggered an explosion in the chinese coal mine officials are calling it a rock burst it's a phenomenon that happens when the layers of the earth put extreme pressure on the walls of the mine for miners have so far died in the incident. so. evacuations have been ordered for nearly two million people near bangkok as flooding continues around the city officials are keeping a close eye on water as it inches closer to the subway stops although all the stations so far remain open heavy rains and flooding have killed more than four hundred people in thailand since july. headlines coming your way in a few minutes stay with us here on r.t. .

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one thirty pm in moscow these are your r.t. headlines fever in greece as the country's prime minister backtracked on a plan for a bailout referendum that angered european leaders and he faces a crucial confidence vote at home turmoil also dominating the g twenty summit in france where new heads tails latest decision. back from law is the longest simulation in space history coming to a close six volunteers about to return from their mock mission to the red planet seeing daylight for the first time in over five hundred days we'll bring it to you live when it happens. and a british student could be handed over to the u.s. authorities for alleged copyright infringement committed on home soil despite the terminations of a critic of criminal case in the young man faces justice in america thanks to a controversial extradition treaty signed between the two countries up next join us on a trip across russia as we take you to discover the fastening land of bash key.