on. the face of the greek government is on a knife edge of fury over the pm george papandreou bailout referendum stunt threatens to destroy his government and a parliamentary vote of confidence. turn morning to the trauma for global leaders of the g twenty summit in cannes who agreed to boost the power of the i.m.f. to try to stop the debt contagion spreading. them locked up mission touches down a simulated flight to mars is completed by six man crew spending of a five hundred days in isolation as part of an ambitious space experiment. and the road to extradition campaigners cry foul as

a computer whiz kid is told he'd committed no major crime in the u.k. could still face trial in the u.s. our top stories this hour. international news and comment live from moscow we're 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 confidence vote the embattled great leader alain alienated many of his supporters over plans for a bailout referendum which he later canceled the outcome of the vote could have a major bearing on the debt stricken eurozone altie sarah ferguson all the latest from athens. this certainly feels like change could be coming to greece it's a nice now the n.p.c. gathering in parliament has confidence that it's expected about midnight local time

there's going to be critical discussions being held at the head of that prime minister jews patty davis is going to be asking will make his get behind him and support head on the bailout plan but you know it's very very uncertain will the outcome of that will be we've been speaking to loads of people here today certainly the feeling is that just pop in today's 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 the same governments as well we seem to spend six weeks in the ruling class the party growing a for the weights that kimi latest and there she is discontent from some members of his own 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 under siege pressure from the iraqis any design from his then government if the vote doesn't cases very. uncertain what

would actually happen and whether a unity government would be full not certainly one of the options ovis uncertainty that we've seen is wait and it really has been a week if you're not take the stations has come at a really critical time please answer that you are insane 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 confidence in the prime minister and in the ruling class the party and a lot of the people with speaking to each of those things are actually quite ironic describing this as a confidence they because the public simply don't have any in the leadership and he will take a listen some of what we listen to on the streets today these forty people system that was created. the end of the dictatorship in seventy four it's actually like a zombie it's in our lives at the same time the problem is that there is no alternative solution at the moment. the old system is. the new.

people now very much the eyes against the old and what the outcome of that they will be at meeting full of the decisions will be made because that could really have a very serious knock on impact throughout the rest of the year i think was despite its kids' night in the pivotal a pivotal event in the future of the usa the police's teacher as well as he said to me the feeling in the ets not here in athens is that the clock is ticking ahead of that crucial conference they happened today could well be on his way out of his position as prime minister surface reporting how will the political and financial turbulence increase the shape discussion at the g twenty summit which is no top in cannes you need his voice strong determination to defend the euro and agree to bolster the international monetary fund's resources policies and he joins me now from cannes with more. about the g.

twenty no major breakthrough this time around especially on the euro which of course took over as the greek debt saga began to unravel in all different directions this week leaders did agree to bolster the role of the i.m.f. in order to prevent contagion but still expectations that the euro crisis for some time will remain in the spotlight. the ever changing greek drama took center stage in camphor the g twenty week hero host nicolas sarkozy protecting what he calls the beating heart of europe till the end of conditions a resolution which is very strong. agree on this and we will fight to defend europe and the euro. france and germany took action with this message to greece play by the rules or get out the greek prime minister made a cameo appearance in cam returned to athens and cancelled an improv referendum that would have more last i'll give you decide if this day or if they go when it

comes to the euro program perish the thought that they should or should be allowed to decide whether they want these things leaders say it is up to greet to rule he should look like this it is an independent country and i just want to see they are perfectly free but it was a good any idea that we are trying to. accomplish be found has given some eggs that cleavage that idea there is no longer an independent country has been for a while and 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 and the so-called backbone of the eurozone could be trying to save its backside with a statement from sarkozy that those who break deficit rules should be punished some with sanctions even if he is breaking the same rules back home in france they're running a budget deficit and beyond. what the rules of mass rich provide for the real irony

with that is that the french banks are are so desperate for some sort of a bailout and if they didn't get one for greece for example they could potentially go under and could be playing a major role in the fight to save the euro which. one of the hopes for the euro is help from the emerging economies or the brics but on a condition we heard from president medvedev think they are part of the i.m.f. they donate money and they want to have more of their voices heard in the financial institutions also in the format of the g twenty and already there seems to be some headway on that in this summit in twenty thirteen for the first time ever will be held in a brick country in russia's capital. and he said thanks very much indeed for that live update there in cannes in the south of france. this is r.t. still ahead falling away there's a will after america's first general strike in fifty years ends in a police crackdown would discuss methods to get the banks to listen to the plight

of everyday people more peacefully. western governments plan to ramp up the pressure on iran over its nuclear program ahead of a report by u.n. watchdog all the details just ahead. the 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 and was an experiment to monitor the psychological effects of long term isolation only six international crew here are the impressions of a virtual space man who seeing daylight now for the first time in over five hundred days after five hundred. twenty days of promotion its treatment. and we are proud to be a true to prove that humans can go to mass we're told that we can help or in designing and building the next or the future missions to mars

and we're ready to get into the next piece to bring 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 overhaul operation was 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 will 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 barton 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 shut

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 a 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 an jurors really to be in sky 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 renee he's head of the european space agency's office in washington. we never quite knew what to expect when we started this extreme experiments and what you think of after this very long stretch of time. i think there are a lot of things that we have. first. seen today even with. all the

data from the experiments because of course. see there are no general showstoppers in terms of medical problems britain problems presented proof of six or five hundred twenty places to my mission from. on top of there to hear from of course also learned so much about a selection process because this was one of the crucial ingredients transfer working very very together and then of course there are a lot of other medical effects and things which we have learned solution can apply even further. immediately even for the. course as you say the the selection process and it was primarily a psychological expert witness so what kind of problems were the up against the fears and how they'd been overcome. but of course the biggest fear was that they will be problems within. five hundred twenty innocent days and isolation this very

tough for the transfer of course. must say that we can say that the group. has been working very hard very serious all over the place in a trench of days each and every day of it and they really prove made it just as excess. of thank you very much renee i mean i remember saying that some bookmakers and put eight to one odds on that one of the crew going insane as a result of this experiment but hasn't materialized and i think they can now look forward to a deep brief period free of all those tensions well as part compensation for taking part in the mission each participant receives one hundred thousand dollars but they've also had plenty of times try and work out what they're going to spend. and there were serious points of them being in there was the science that comes from us. and the people behind the last five hundred project have said this

yes it has been a success. however in terms of the journey into the far 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 settlement on mars. peter on over and following the martian adventures for our team. now again because of course you can always visit our web site it's r t dot com online all the time for the latest news comments and videos here's some of what's there right now should you log on you can find out tell nato forces face an investigation from the international criminal court into possible war crimes during its bombardment of libya. live in the putin breaks the governments of the u.s. and china he now ranks second between barack obama and fusion power in forbes list

of the world's most powerful people those stories in r.t. dot com. the. kind of floating city of oakland is reeling off to one of the biggest protests the occupy wall street movement has seen at least eighty demonstrators were arrested and several injured after that randi culminated in a heavy handed police crackdown before things got violent 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 and a half a century paralyzed several businesses in downtown oakland and all the more potion editor from san francisco has told me that he's found a way for a protest message to get heard without the risk of audience. i continued to get like most people in america these credit card mailers from the nation's big banks

these are the same banks that ruined our economy by speculating and gambling on the housing market and the more i got these it finally just clicked that the same things we were protesting out in the street the same companies were the same ones were clogging up our mailbox so that's what got me thinking about inside these mailers is a business reply mail envelope the way these were banks sign contracts with the post office and make agreements with the post office and the banks only pay postage on the envelopes they get sent back so i thought rather than send back a credit card application which is the last thing i want i could communicate with the banks in this way so i can fold up all the other junk mail i've got bad day by school catalogues all the envelopes newspapers put that in i can also put in a pro union message for the people in the mail room letting them know that the ninety nine percent includes them as well and then because the banks pay more in postage for the heavier envelopes we can also include this and so would shim it's

the simplest piece of wood there very very cheap at a hardware store and when we put these inside the envelope it makes the envelope so rigid that it can't be processed by the normal mail folding machines they have to be sorted by hand which increases the postage and increases the labor costs for the banks. and you can watch all the video from the night of violence in oakland analyses you tube channel and noughties own correspondent in oakland is keeping an eye on the occupy movement and you see coming up to defeat we tweeted it on t. underscore com she says the movement is coloring support from as far as afghanistan and follow to see an aussie on twitter to step to date with the movement's developments and a website we're asking if it's possible the police will start protecting the interests of the so-called ninety nine percent those the occupy wall street protests to say of being repressed by the rich that some a look at the results on the screen so far. it would go forty one percent of those who voted say it will only happen if the policeman lose their jobs twenty two

percent think the police would never follow orders to far live rounds on peaceful activists just thirteen percent say ok part protest is that right is getting the treatment they deserve. and we can see there in green forty four percent it's just the police will side with just as when they can't get what they want from the government any longer. going to want to you know calm and there is no a thing. from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand three hundred one is not enough in-patient beds not enough heard emergency department beds and not enough nurses commandos there to take care of all the people who are here the only real health care system that we have in the city of los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my venture as a firefighter i didn't want to do so i started out going to just do fire fighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the fire department's medical i've got a rescue couple weeks ago waited for hours for i've waited sometimes three hours

but i was it's a same francis and we went for four hours and fifty minutes staring at the wall and we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no i don't weigh who seeks care in the emergency room. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least least. the close up scene has been to the region where exactly logical breakthroughs save human lives. now mark she goes to the seat of. her unusual ways to protect nature on. her plate where farming pioneers place local cuisine to the highest pitch perfect but where future developments

depends on the way the russia's black sea coast russia close up on our sea. world to. bring you the latest in science technology from around russia. we've got the future covered. night here in moscow news continues now with us in new care fishel zz they've been denying and very quickly in doing so in seeking military confrontation with iran statements were released by a spokesman from both sides following media reports of a potential armed operation aimed at terrans 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 and rights of the u.s. and britain are expected to seize upon the upcoming i.a.e.a.

report on iran's nuclear program it will reportedly reveal new intelligence about the alleged atomic activities agency she says these threats and nothing new for iran. this has been going on for almost for more than four years now we see permanent threats against iran on the part of the israel who are calling for a preemptive strike. on yahoo said or needs to be as ago and it all coincides with the battle is route is really attack on southern lebanon in two thousand and six so i think we have to be very cautious and basically on the stone that we're iran is is the cornerstone of probably what is an ongoing very tough negotiation to move forward towards the world government will russia and china are not going to buy 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's really american british or you come. forces. a harmless trickster in his country and a wanted criminal in another this is the controversial case of richard o'dwyer a british student who's facing extradition to the u.s. over alleged internet piracy in the u.k. if he was found guilty he would most likely get off with a fine but in the states he would face a much worse fate of his other planet has more. on the surface they're a picture of karma 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 authorities but 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 but in this country where it was the full time the case is now being heard at this magistrate's court in london the latest chapter in julie's struggle to keep her son it's home they told us that the family best geisha 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 so mary kay. and then you must go to court immediately i thought he was going to be extradited like that day richard's website t.v. shack was a free signpost 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 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 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 him guilty of a civil offense offenses you know something he could potentially get fined for and you know if he's clearly educate cases 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 clearly 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 of commissions just deemed the treaty still fair several leading him he's refused to agree though with the commons home affairs committee calling for changes so it was a mistake in the first christmas tradition 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 all citizens and that is not the case that the opposition against the extradition treaty is growing in westminster dissenting and piece of just falls through a debate on it later this month and a parliamentary review on it is she in the new year all this though maybe too late for richard is just two weeks until he learns with air america will get what it wants by bennett r.t. london when are some more stories making headlines around the globe at this stage of the day. activists say the israeli defense force has ceased to gaza pound

boats attempting to break israel's naval blockade of the region some of it confirms its military chief has ordered the vessels to be deceptive canadian an irish boats carrying medical supplies and twenty seven activists from various countries set sail from turkey on wednesday israel's navy has halted similar protests ships in the past with nine turkish activists killed in the deadliest incident last year. syria has announced eleven this city for opposition fighters as long as they give themselves up to police within a week it follows claims of more violent crackdowns and protest my 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 hit the country over the last seven months. and explosions kill for enough dozens of coal miners trapped underground in henan province central china to set up losses caused by our small earthquake fifty

kilometers away rescuers are now trying to reach those caught in the mine and of ready pulled some severely injured workers out from there and china's coal mine industry safety record has improved in recent years but still remains the last in. those r.t. coming to life from the russian capital if you just joined us a very warm welcome i'll be back with a recap of our main stories for you in just a few minutes from now and stay with us live here on r.t. .

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