internationalising cohen live from moscow we are with you twenty four hours a day the latest chapter in the greek debt saga is due to unfold as the government of prime minister george papandreou faces a crucial vote the embattled greek leader alienated many of his supporters over plans for a bailout referendum which he later canceled come with a vote could have a major bearing on the debt stricken eurozone with no cross to our correspondent sara for she's in. so sara with this confidence vote just a few hours away now what indicators are coming out of athens what's being said at the moment. well it certainly feels like change could be coming. you've got protesters taking to the streets again ahead of that crucial confidence that you can probably see behind me here you've got the police vans and trucks out blocking the way to syntagma as those crowds grow in numbers now the m.p.c. gathering in parliament ahead of that confidence they did expect is about midnight local time there's going to be critical discussions being held head of that prime

minister jules package of course is going to be asking lawmakers to get behind him and support head on the bailout plan in that they know it very very well the outcome of that will be we've been speaking to lots of people here today certainly the feeling is that george popping days days are numbered as prime minister there's a very strong sense that it's time to change well certainly that's what the public here are calling for and amongst governments as well we've seen the splinter groups in the ruling party growing a for the week that he related in the huge discontent from some members of his aim party as well as from foreign from foreign people about that referendum announcing that he made at the beginning of the week and then we saw that backtracking on that later this week the huge pressure from both years any design from his then government if the vote doesn't go very it's really uncertain what would at. happen

whether a unity government would be full not certainly one of the options so the people are speaking to each day he'd be talking to a lot of the m.p. says that that even if the confidence that does pas tonight is true that a lot of the m.p.c. then be voting yes to support happened they would be doing it on the basis that change would still be happening sometime aver the policy over the coming week so it really does still it's not like you have been jay's days are numbered and not position as prime minister and of course are over the last few days events surrounding greece have been some for overwhelming haven't they just from watching from afar how all the greeks they themselves are responding to all of this. we've got to remember that all this uncertainty that we've seen this week and it really has been a week of dramatic decisions has come at a really critical time for the greek and for the euro same as a whole the last thing that anyone wanted with this kind of instability there is growing public anger again the people taking to the streets we've seen it time and

again they've really reached a point where they want something to give now they've lost all confidence in the prime minister and in the ruling class the party and a lot of the people with speaking to today are saying it's actually quite ironic describing this as a confidence vote because the public simply don't have any in the leadership anymore take a listen some of what we listened to speak to in the streets today. these political system that was created after the end of the dictatorship in seventy four it's up to like a zombie it's in the life at the same time the problem is that there's no alternative solution at the moment. the old system is there but the new piece gets to before. now very much the eyes again to the on what the outcome of the vote will be moving forward what decisions will be made because that could really have a very serious knock one impact throughout the rest of the year was decided here tonight could be. pivotal

a pivotal moment in the future of. greece's feature as well as we said the feeling in the night here in athens is the clock is ticking and headed that we should come and stay. well be on his way out of this position as prime minister. thanks very much indeed for that live from athens. well the political and financial turbulence in greece is shaped discussion at the g twenty summit which is just wrapped up in can you need is for strong determination to defend the euro and agreed on bolstering the international monetary fund resources forty's in the tsunami has the details. the g twenty has ramped up here in cannes where of course the focus was the greek tragedy that develops very quickly throughout the week nicolas sarkozy wrapping up the summit by saying that he and other you are ready to defend the euro till the end we had a lot of pressure from france and germany in terms of summoning the greek prime

minister when you called the referendum of course that has been cancelled but the main thing is that we're hearing here is that greece needs to follow the rules the e.u. doesn't choose governments but the governments that the people choose need to play by their game or they need to get out to discuss that further we can now cross to washington d.c. where i'm joined by financial blogger demetri question is thank you for being with us how much pressure do you think was put on the greek pm by angela merkel and nicolas sarkozy on that those talks the emergency talks they held on the very eve of this summit in which he laughed and then of course that referendum was canceled . right well they were certainly dissatisfied about it i think that the prime minister has received pressure pretty much from all sides he received pressure from merkel from sarkozy from the leaders in europe but also from members of his own party as well as the coalition of course he was reprimanded across the board so i think that the referendum that he proposed was quickly shot down by everyone and

also mentioned several times over the past three days at the g twenty here that greece needs to play by the rules he said it almost every press conference he gave he gave a lot of them also saying that greece is an independent country that he doesn't want to get involved in the internal affairs of the sovereign state but isn't that exactly what we're seeing happening here with all the the the monitoring and all the conditions that are being put out for greece. greece is no longer an independent country and has been for a while and if you listen to the speeches given by all the different leaders of the political parties and part of the. and last night and the preceding days and months you'll see that the conversation is always on what we need to do to satisfy our creditors demands and our creditors are the people who are going to determine whether we survive or don't survive so they're not they don't hide the fact that they're not they're not in control of their own destiny and that they depend on the

eurozone and these bailout packages to continue to fund the government and even more importantly the support of the european system of central banks in the e.c.b. to continue to provide liquidity to the greek banking system which has been bleeding deposits for months and months and so that's the real the biggest concern of all the fact that the banking system is no longer sustainable because it holds so much greek sovereign debt and if a default were to occur the banking system in greece should suffer as well and right now it depends on the e.c.b. and the on the eurozone to survive just briefly how do you think i and what do you think would have happened if that referendum actually went to a vote what would the greek people have said. i think the person who expressed best what the greek people potentially would have said was the opposition leader in parliament when he said that when you pose a referendum to the greek people under such conditions of the arrests. and indignity what you're going to get is an answer not to the question but to the person who's posing the question in other words the people would say no to whatever

the question was because they would be voting in response to what they see seems to be a vacuum of leadership and democracy in the country so i think that if there were to be a vote that vote would have been an exit from the eurozone and that's what scared the politicians in greece so much and why you saw such such a backlash against up on the day when he came out with the proposition not just from the opposition leaders but from members of his own party including his own deputy who came back from cannes the next day and immediately issued a statement saying that referendum on e.u. membership was a no go right financial blogger to cement the joining me from washington d.c. . thanks for your thoughts on the g. twenty is wrapping up here in cannes no breakthrough i think it's fair to say one of the steps that has been taken is that it seems the brics countries the emerging economies are having more of their say they are pledging some money to the eurozone crisis not clear exactly what the sum is but a hint we're getting that really they are making some headway the g twenty summit

for the first time ever in twenty thirteen will be held in a brick nation in brussels moscow twenty thirteen so some progress on that front. and he said that reporting there this is still ahead a brutal crackdown in oakland. they were. on the air if you can imagine people america's first general strike is on a peaceful march of occupy oakland protesters culminate in chaos with almost one hundred arrests and several injuries. and western governments plan to ramp up the pressure on iran over its nuclear program ahead of a report by a u.n. watchdog all the details for you just ahead here. but first an epic seventeen month journey to mars has just completed its mission even though the spacecraft never left earth the simulated flight took place in moscow it was an experiment to monitor the psychological effects of long term isolation on

the six man international crew you know the impressions of a virtual space man who's seeing daylight now for the first time in over five hundred days after five hundred. twenty days of this treatment. we are proud today to to prove that humanity is. good to us we hope that we can help. design even in the next the future missions. and we're ready to get into the next space to green their. this is experiment to see basically the psychological effect a trip to mars would have on the crew and how they would work together inside such a facility now those that took part in this are looking to be part of future martian missions this of the whole operation was a well an international cooperative mission the russian space agency working with

the european space agency to put this experiment into into practice now the crew itself was made up from people from all around the world three of them were russian there was representatives from china as well as from france and central america who find out a little bit what it's like on the scene where the mars five hundred module is we can now cross live to tom who is there tom what's going on where you are. well peter i remember on june the third last year watching this door behind me shot seals and that was the start of the five hundred twenty days which ended when i watched them the door open at last after all that time and the crew emerged little bit white faced little bit bleary eyed into a into a cheering crowd after all that time they all stood together in front of microphones and they said how glad they were to work with their other crew members and to have got through what is really quite a feat of

a juror really to be in stark summation and with a very strict routine day in day out for all that time to discuss a bit more about this i'm joined by wren a partial is head of the european space agency's office in russia. we never quite knew what to expect when we started this expect. what do you think. after this very long stretch of time. i think there are a lot of things. first. missing today even. the data. is of course. either there are no general showstoppers terms of medical problems problems and the proof of six or five hundred twenty very soon . on top of there to the effect was also learned so much more to selection process because this was one of the crucial ingredients. of all together and then of course there are a lot of other medical. things which interference can apply even

first. immediately even for those. of course as you say the selection process and it was primarily a psychological explorers so what kind of problems were the up against what were the fears and how are they being overcome. with of course the biggest fear most of all really problems with an. innocent face and isolation is a very tough for the task of course but i must say that the we can see that the crew. has been working very hard very serious all over the first tranche of days each and every day of it and they really prove made into a success. of thank you very much i mean i remember saying that some bookmakers have put eight to one odds on that one of the crew going insane as

a result of this experiment that hasn't materialized and i think they can now look forward to the deep rift periods free of all those tensions well as. compensation for taking part in the mission each participant receives one hundred thousand dollars first they've also had plenty of time to try and work out what they're going to spend that there were serious point of them being in there was the science that comes from it. and the people behind the mars five hundred project have said this yes it has been a success. however in terms of the journey into the reaches of space they are saying no that it is really not even the first step but the first step towards the first step of mankind flying off and going to hopefully try and set up some form of. peter oliver and tom barton following the martian adventures for r.t.

and remember you can always visit our website dot com for the latest news comments and videos here's some of what's there for you right now you can find out how nato forces face an investigation from the international criminal court into possible war crimes during its. libya. breaks the dominance of the u.s. and china now ranks second between the rocket bomber and fusion and forbes list of the world's most powerful people those stories. the california city of oakland is reeling after one of the biggest protests the occupy wall street movement has seen at least eighty demonstrators were arrested and several injured after their rally culminated in a heavy handed police crackdown it started out peacefully the protesters managed to

shut down the city pool which is the country's fifth largest without incident at the same time a general strike america's first in over half a century paralyzed several businesses in downtown oakland of course you see company was there when things began to get vonage describes how events unfold. we're standing across from oscar grant plaza which at the site of the occupy oakland movement where protesters camping out for weeks in order to raise their voices against the equality social injustice the same issues that are motivating thousands of occupy wall street movements all across the country but of course the images are that the. that we remember images are what's now 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 main stream media the destruction the isolated acts of vandalism and violence but we were on the ground in oakland we're going to take you through some of the moments as they unfold and again we're still reporting from the it's about as 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 him 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 stand up for 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. there shooting them out people there remains to be seen how november second in downtown oakland will be remembered will it be the charred remains of a few isolated instances of violence but the successful shutdown of the nation's ports reporting from downtown oakland fartsy lucic out. and you can watch all the video from the violence in oakland on you tube channel. is keeping an eye on the occupy movement in oakland and elsewhere we can see now that if we tweeted today

she says the movement is going ring supports from as far as afghanistan one else has been to see the on screen and we can now there it is and you can afford. to stay up to date with the developments. on our web site were asking if it's possible the police will stop protecting the interests of the ninety nine percent that is the occupy wall street protesters say up being replaced by the rich. you can see right now. the latest results forty one percent of those who voted say it will. only happen if police will lose their jobs twenty two percent think the police would never follow orders to far live rounds on peaceful activists only twelve percent say occupy protest is a right is getting the treatment they deserve twenty five percent suggests that police will side with protesters when they can't get what they want from the government any longer r.t. dot com let us know what you think. u.s. and u.k.

officials have been quick to deny they're seeking military confrontation with iran statements were released by spokesman from both sides following media reports of a potential operation aimed at tehran's alleged nuclear weapons facilities however they did say the west has no intention of easing pressure on the islamic republic and would use what's described as a wide range of means at their disposal the likes of the u.s. and britain are expected to seize upon the upcoming report on iran's nuclear program it will reportedly reveal new intelligence about the alleged atomic activities north agents will be key says these threats are nothing new for iran. it's been going on for almost for more than four years now we used permanent threats against iran on the part of israel who are calling for a preemptive strike. who said all these two days ago and it all coincides with the battle of israel is really on southern lebanon in two thousand and six so i think

we have to be very cautious and basically understand that what iran is is the cornerstone of probably what is an ongoing very tough negotiation to move forward towards a world government where the russia and china are not going to bow in very easily to the western powers and iran is the cornerstone so i think the world we are seeing is we are probably edging closer to what might become a full fledged war in the region even a world war with iran is the cornerstone if it is attacked by he is really america . in bruges or a combination of all three forces. meanwhile british media say an attack on iran could come as soon as next november that prediction comes because the country remains resilient to international sanctions there is media ministry of defense in whitehall sources to check out this story in the fall again.

a homeless trickster in his country and a wanted criminal in another this is the case of richard o'dwyer british student who is facing extradition to the u.s. allege internet piracy in the u.k. if he was found guilty he would most likely get off with a fine but in the states a much worse fate has. 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 pirated videos it wasn't a problem for british or thorazine but rich is nevertheless a wanted man you know it's really just awful. frightening because you know if richard had done anything wrong we were quite happy for him to be responsible in this very well it was. the 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 it was an exhibition warrant to america. and then he must go to the court immediately i thought he was going to be extradited like the day richard's website t.v. show because a free signpost to pirated content including the latest hollywood blockbusters none of it was actually provided by him but that. matter to america it says the site breached their copyright laws and claims he's theirs to punish because the websites lucrative advertising was aimed at u.s. consumers this course is where richard 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 his only feel guilty of a civil offense offense is something he could potentially get fined for and you know it is clearly a u.k. case as well because he was doing this in the u.k. so really any case for him to be extradited to the united states is not clear he was infringing copyright in united states told britain signed the extradition treaty with america in two thousand and three nearly a decade on controversy still surrounds it the u.s. can extradite whoever it wants without proof or hearing privileges the u.k. doesn't get the treaty was a must change for the government while in opposition but a recent review it commissioned just deemed the treaty still fair several leading m.p.'s refused to agree though but the commons home affairs committee calling for changes was a mistake in the first place despite its strategic i think it was

a mistake it's not a level playing field even with a party like america we need to make sure that we of being equal and we are being fair to our citizens and that is not the case of the opposition against the extradition treaty is growing in westminster dissenting 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 maybe too late for richard he is just two weeks until he learns whether america will get what it wants either bennett r.t. london. now some more stories making headlines around the globe at this stage of the day in our world update palestinian activists say the israeli defense forces seized two goals of attempting to break israel's naval blockade of the region television verne's its military chief has ordered the vessel to be sent to the canadian and irish boats carrying medical supplies and twenty seven activists from various countries set sail from turkey on wednesday israel's movie has halted

similar protests ships in the past nine turkish activists killed in the deadliest incident last year. syria has announced an amnesty for opposition fighters is known as they give themselves up to police within a week it claims of more violent crackdowns on protests by government forces after friday prayers doesn't appear to be part of the arab league plan which was accepted by damascus on wednesday and cast doubt on whether that deal can end the bloodshed which has become tree over the last seven months. an explosion is kill for enough dozens of coal miners trapped underground in henan province and simple china officials say the blast was caused by a small earthquake fifty kilometers away rescuers are now trying to reach those caught in the mine and already pulled out some severely injured workers china's coal mine industry safety record has improved in recent years but still remains the worst in the world. to bring you up to take

a moment coming up later in the program a chance to discover the natural beauty of russia's getting a region just before that be back with a quick look at our main news story stay with us live here in moscow.

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