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 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 r.t. sarah ferguson all the latest from athens. it certainly feels like change could be coming to greece it's nice now the n.p.c. gathering in parliament ahead of that conference that it's expected about midnight local time and there's going to be critical discussions being held at the head of that prime minister jewish package of course is going to be asking will make is to get behind him and support head on the bella plan but you know it's very very personal the outcome of that will be we've been speaking to loads of people here today certainly the feeling is the jewish pop and days days are numbered as prime

minister there's a very strong sense that it's time to change shall certainly that's what the public here are calling for and amongst the same governments as well we've seen the splinter groups in the ruling class of policy growing a for the week that kimi elated and the discontent from some members of his same party as well as from foreign from foreign people about that referendum announcing that he made at the beginning of the way can then we saw that backtracking on not later this week on the heels of pressure from both the u.s. any design from his saying government if the vote doesn't taste very it's really uncertain what would actually happen and whether a unity government would be full not certainly one of the options over this uncertainty that we've seen this weekend it really has been a way to take decisions has come at a really critical time for the great and for the euro is in 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 at a lot of the people with speaking to today was saying is actually quite ironic describing this as a confidence that because the public simply don't have any in the leadership anymore take a listen some of what we list until in the streets today these political system that was created after. the end of the dictatorship in seventy four it's actually like a zombie gets in their lives at the same time the problem is that there's no alternative solution of the moment. the old system is there. when you get to be born now very much the eyes again beyond what the outcome of that they will be at moving forward with this issue until be made because that could really have a very serious knock on impact throughout the rest of the usa was decided it's night could be in the pivotal a pivotal event in the future of the usa the police's feature as well as he said to

me the feeling in the arts night here in athens is that the clock is ticking ahead of that crucial confidence a jewish path and jay could well be on his way out of his position as prime minister surface reporting that will be political and financial turbulence in greece the shape discussion of the g. twenty summit which is no topping can you need is voice strong determination to defend the euro and agreed to bolster the international monetary fund's resources policies and he joins me now from with more. well the g. twenty no major breakthrough this time around especially on the euro which of course took over as the greek debt tsonga 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 surely hero host nicolas sarkozy protecting what he calls the beating heart of europe until the end because some petitions 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 canceled an impromptu referendum that would have more of a last public decide if they stay or if they go when it comes to the euro program perish the thought that they should be allowed to decide whether they want these things leaders say it is to agree to do they should look at it like this it is an independent country and. they are perfectly free to make sure they don't want to give any idea that we are trying to get in the greek which

a mystical. france has given some eggs that cleavage that idea is no longer an independent country and 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 of beyond what 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. 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 saying 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 then 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 finding away there's a will after america's first general strike in fifty years ends in a police crackdown were discussed 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 here on r.t. . the first epic seventeen month journey to mars has just completed its mission even though the spacecraft never left earth they simulated flight took

place in moscow and was an experiment to monitor the psychological effects of long term isolation on the six man international crew here at 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 this trip are. we are proud to be a true to prove that human. good to us we hope that we can help in designing and planning the next the future missions to mars and we're ready to get into the next piece of green there. 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 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 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 a little bit bleary eyed into work and to 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 juror really to be in stice relation 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 experiments and what do you think. after this very long stretch of time. i think there are a lot of things you have. the first. say today even with. all the data from the experiments because of course. see there are no general showstoppers in terms of medical problems problems in the crew in five or six or five hundred twenty days. on top of their to be of course also learned so much more to selection process because this was one of the crucial ingredients. working very very to give

them and then of course there are a lot of other medical effects and things which we have learned solution can apply the first. images reveal even for the loss. of course as you say the selection process and it was primarily a psychological experiment so what kind of problems were the up against what were the fears and how they've been overcome. but of course the biggest fear was that there will be problems with. five hundred twenty very innocent face and eyes away from this very tough task of course but i must say that we can say that the crew. has been working very hard very serious or all over the place in a trench of days each and every day of it and they really proved made it just a success. of thank you very much i mean i remember saying that some bookmakers

have put eight to one on 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 brief period 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. and there was a 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 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 of. following the

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the kind of foreign 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 in several injured after their rally culminated in a heavy handed police crackdown before things got violent the protesters managed to shut down the city port 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 nazim off a poet an editor from san francisco has told me that he's found a way for a protest message to get heard without the risk of violence. i continue 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 work the banks sign contracts with the

post. office and or 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 that day by school catalogs old 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 something like this is a 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 and you tube channel and noughties own correspondent in oakland is keeping an eye on

the occupy movement in lucy cutting off twitter feed we tweeted it on t underscore called she says the movement is gone during support from as far as afghanistan can follow on twitter to stay up to date with the movement's developments and on our website we're also seeing if it's possible the police will stop protecting the interests of the so-called ninety nine percent that was the occupy wall street protests to say of being repressed by the rich let's have 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 live rounds on peaceful activists just thirteen percent say occupy protesters the right is getting the treatment they deserve and we can see there in green twenty four percent it's just the police will side with protest as when they can't get what they want from the government and the longer. and the snowy thing.

from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand three hundred one is not enough inpatient beds not enough urgency department beds and not enough nurses commandos there to take care of all the people who are here and 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 is a firefighter i didn't want to tear your ass so i started out going to just do fire fighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the fire department is medical i've had a rescue couple weeks i waited four hours for i've waited sometimes three hours and i was it's a same francis in what for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall with a patient and we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one to way who seeks care in an emergency room.

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future covered. the 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 spokesman from both sides following media reports of a potential armed operation aimed at toronto 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 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. she says these threats and nothing new for iran. this has been going on for almost for more than four years now these permanent threats against iran on the part of israel who are calling for a preemptive strike. or these two days ago and it all coincides with the

battle of israel is really attack 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 the world government we're 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 israeli american british or accomplish three fourths of. 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 is 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 or he's other bennett has more. 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 or thirties but rich is nevertheless a wanted man you know it's really just all. crying because you know if richard had done anything wrong we were quite happy for him to be responsible about in this country where we want to tell 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 it 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 star and posed 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 us can siemens these courses 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 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 that he was infringing copyright in united states britain signed the extradition treaty with america in two thousand and three nearly a decade on controversy still surrounds it the u.s. can extradite whoever it wants without proof or hearing privileges the u.k. does not get the treaty was a muscle change for the government while in opposition but a recent review it commissioned just deemed the treaty still fair several leading m.p.'s refused to agree though 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 of the opposition against the extradition treaty is growing in westminster dissenting in peace of just force through a debate on it later this month and the parliamentary review on it is jus in the new year to all this though maybe too late for richard he is just two weeks until he learns whether america will get what it wants after bennett r.t. london. on are some more stories making headlines around the globe at this stage of the day pro palestinian activists say the israeli defense force has seized two guards of boats attempting to break israel's naval blockade of the region tel aviv conversions its military chief has ordered the vessels to be intercepted canadian and 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 an amnesty for opposition fighters as long as they give themselves up to police within the week it follows 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 is hit the country over the last seven months. an explosion is kill for enough dozens of coal miners trapped underground in henan province central 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 of ready pulled some severely injured workers from there and china's coal mine industry safety record has improved in recent years but still remains the worst in. this is r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital if you're just joining us a very warm welcome i'll be back with a recap of our main stories for you in just

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