one of the main mottos of earth first is no compromise in the defense of mother earth. we want them to stop clear cutting we want them to stop using herbicides want them to not log on steep in unstable hillsides where they cause a lot of erosion and landslides and we want them to not cut anymore old growth ever . we're here to protect the ecosystems that we rely on to preserve viable and really that everyone on this earth relies on because these trees soak up huge amounts of carbon or the atmosphere and if this forest was allowed to grow to its full potential it would greatly reduce the impacts of climate change because these trees get so huge and lived for so long in iraq resistant that they stored just massive in massive amounts of carbon dioxide. we got all the supplies you asked for i brought some hot sauce. farmer's been planted. and he's pretty. you go up like an inch more. than ninety feet up. who is great to be out here. apple's. new. in one campaign in the one nine hundred ninety s. there was a tree sitter who. was unable to get food or water for three days bec

saraf earth has more from athens. really it's going to be a major hurdle he's got a very small majority and he's a government at the moment one hundred fifty. of the three hundred seat government and we've seen an incredibly turbulent week here in the week starting with the prime minister announcing that he planned to hold a referendum. that shockwave three not only is a need isn't using countries but within his government as well it was a very very controversial announcement and we saw yesterday his parliamentary just essentially killing off the referendum he was talking about the fact that they faced a tie lever and they were able to reach a consensus with the opposition party about the bailout plans and the referendum would be off the table say the appears to be the case maybe who got to have a bit more support amongst splinter groups in his party who are very very unhappy about this is definitely cynicism now about these announcements that it made when it comes to soften to itself in the past the policy of the mak

. >> it sounds like the plot of a movie but last night an asteroid came really close to hitting earth. >>> and it's only wednesday but this week has been a busy one. the latest on the accusations against herman cain and a preview of the debates. >>> first tonight hundreds of people in the locu is, t point area are still without natural gas but repair crews working on the break and hope to get the gas back on as soon as possible. we are in locust point with the latest. its been a long time. >> reporter: there is a lot of work going on in this area. take a look behind me. there is a lot of bge crews cutting holes in the street for the past half hour. right now bge crews have started going door to door in most of the neighborhoods to cut the gas back onto hundreds of homes and for many its been a very, very long few weeks. no gas, day three. crews have been at it nonstop as they try to make repairs. with the gas cut off and no hot water or heat some are frustrated enough to boil their own water. they are angry a lot of older people have had no heat for so long. >> it's not right for them

five hundred and twenty days away from earth. in the cold depths of space on a mission to the red planet. well not quite. these men have been sealed in spacecraft for seventeen months but they never left and could have quit the mars five hundred isolation experiment at any time i watched as this piece of string was set into this racks on june the third two thousand and ten despite many predictions to the contrary that seal has remained unbroken throughout the experiment and only now after all this time of the man inside i reunited with the outside world. i was afraid of conflicts that could lead to an early termination of the experiment and we tried to consider all potential risks and nichole tensions. and scientists behind it wanted to see the six man crew be able to go all the time without severe psychological effects from the busy control room and i was able to ask one of them for myself how are your relationships with the other crew members changed. back to. being in the well. pete's parent was kept as real as possible with a

but whizzing by just outside the strike zone. >> absolutely will not hit the earth. so there's no danger of that. it's going to miss us by about 200,000 miles. >> reporter: that's close in space terms. asteroid 2005yu55 is passing between the earth and the moon giving us a rare chance to study it even though it's a bit like standing on a highway to figure out a passing car. >> one of the neat things about asteroids is it lets us look back years to the beginning of the solar system and try to learn a little bit about what things were like what the chemistry was like and the solar system. >> what people will see through a telescope is a spot of light but i think the excitement is not seeing it live. >> reporter: this astronomer says high-powered telescopes at the chabot center will be tracking the asteroid across the sky. >> we should actually be able to see it moving slowly against the background stars. so if there is a star in the background, we'll notice the relative motion. >> reporter: and astronomy fans like jesus dela paz of oakland will be lining up on a frigid

to the moon to mars and then back to earth so there's a lot of fuel on board there one nasa expert is referred to the focus as the most toxic falling satellite ever so this is a problem that off course most of the russian space agency are facing that they may have to come up with some kind of contingency plan to deal with a potentially toxic. problem caused by the fuel that's on board this probe however they do have and they are saying they have around ten days to come up with some form of contingency plan should the worst come to the worst on the probe not be salvageable they have about ten days in order to come up with a system to make sure that it poses no threat to us here on earth putin so ten days and the clock is ticking on his correspondent i thank you. he with now iran's supreme leader the ayatollah khamenei has warned the u.s. and israel against any attack or threat of attack on the islamic republic he said tirant will respond in full force in a way that will demolish aggressive from within the ayatollahs harsh words came after the un atomic watchdogs latest report triggered

earth's close encounter is expected to occur about 6:30 p.m.tern on tuesday. >> it will be moving straight at us from one direction and go whizzing by straightaway from us in the other direction. so its motion across the sky will be close to 180 degrees over the course of less than two days. >> scientists have been tracking the slowly spinning rock since its discovery six years ago. the astroid completes one trip around the sun every 15 months. if the rock were to plow into earth it would blast out a crater 4 miles across and 1700 feet deep, but according to computer models showing the path for the knicks 100 years there is no chance it will -- next 100 years, there is no chance it will hit earth during that time. >> it cannot hit earth at least over the interval we can compute the motion reliably which extends for several hundred years. >> that's pretty good. this is a great opportunity for scientists to study it, but you know the obvious question, right? >> we all want to know will we be able to see this big guy when he goes by earth? >> shou

and it's seven billion and counting this as the earth's population has record high so what the world busting at the seams of resources struck them both to look at an alternative energy option for our world. but some scientists say the answer could lie in the periodic table of elements the safer greener more abundant solution to nuclear energy so will the hammer of thor even come down as the stronger option for them to go green. it is monday october thirty first eight pm in washington d.c. i'm christine freeze out there watching our team. well let's take a look at the new developments in the occupy wall street movement that have now moved well beyond wall street to main streets around the entire country in light of recent events much of the focus has shifted to the role of police and the way many officers have opted to balance their desire to keep the peace with the protesters desire to occupy parks and spaces in various cities over the weekend it was denver colorado where things heated up quite a bit. this video is from saturday and things got especially heated after protesters tried

a better knowledge of how the universe evolved but there are fears the vehicle could crash back to earth having never reached the gulf explores the potential dangers. at the moment the theories around which probably a problem has caused the probe to be stuck in all that around the earth after its takeoff split into two camps whether it's a problem with the software of the probe or a problem with the hardware of the probe now it's a problem with the software that's something that potentially can be fixed now one theory that's been put forward is that it's a problem with the navigation system of the probe these type of probes when they're launched initially use the sun as their main focus point for navigation and then that navigation system switches over towards the stars now they some people believe that this probe has failed in switching from the sun to the stars and if they can send a software patch and upload that to the the probe it should be able to go about its mission just a few days late now the big problems come and arise if it turns out to be a problem with the hardware the focu

it's careering towards earth at unimaginable speed.s got astronomers across the world very excited. >> this is the closest approach by an astroid that large. >> reporter: this is the path traveling inside the moon's orbit coming within just 200,000 miles from earth. >> it will be moving straight at us from one direction and go straight away from us in the other direction. >> reporter: the dense carbon rock has been tearing around space for thousands of years it will be a rare chance to view such a beast from the ground. radar telescopes are preparing for the fly by on tuesday night. if it hit earth, it would have the power to hit london or create a 70 foot tsunami. >>> the dow opens at 11,983 after falling 61 points on friday. the s&p dipped seven points and the nasdaq lost 11. >>> taking a look at overseas trading, the nikkei was down 31 points, the hang seng scum bld 164. wall street will open to good news this morning, an end seems near in the political crisis that left greece facing catastrophic default and the end of its european

to the moon or mars and then back to earth one nasa expert is referred to the focus group probe as the most toxic balling satellite ever so this is a problem that lost cause most of the russian space agency are they saying that they may have to come up with some kind of contingency plan to deal with a potentially toxic problem caused by the fuel that's on board this probe to make sure that it poses no threat to us here on earth. as have take a look at some other stories from around the world a u.s. army soldier convicted of slaughtering three civilians for sport has been sentenced to life the jury as they were decided that staff sergeant calvin gibbs will be eligible for parole after serving ten years in prison the twenty six year old who was the highest ranking of five soldiers charged over the deaths of the an armed man during patrols and kandahar province early last year. security cameras in the turkish city of van of capture the dramatic moments when a five point seven magnitude earthquake struck on wednesday as a tremor hit you can see the lights go dark and people running from bu

to the moon to mars and then back to earth one nasa expert is referred to the focus probe as the most toxic falling satellite ever so this is a problem that was caused most of the russian space agency are facing that they may have to come up with some kind of contingency plan to deal with a potentially toxic problem caused by the fuel that's on board this probe to make sure that it poses no threat to us here on earth. well don't forget you can always log on to our web site for more stories and here's what's a line break now. saved by skerries horror writer stephen king is raising money for the poor to pay their heating bills in winter also. gone down for grabs in pov diva's gras by russian designer it goes under the hammer in a lame find out what you have to pay to dress up god to style it or to dump. the rule of the orange coalition was a time of political fireworks any of grain protests and clashes on the streets were matched by brawls inside parliament so when last year a moderate centrist victory in a college was elected to power people were hoping for calm but as our g.'s likes h

was to get a better knowledge of how the universe evolved but there are fears of the crash back to earth having never reached its goal or. the baikonur launch station and castle stana joins me now. tom so what are you hearing about the station's fate. well marina hopes were high when the phobos rocket was launched from the cosmodrome here in baikonur in kazakstan last week it was the first interplanetary mission russia had launched in fifteen years and there was great hopes that it would help to reveal secrets about the red planet and about how life evolved those hopes have since turned to fears of potential catastrophe the boost stage of the rocket went ok it went off into the overt of earth but then the problem started the second stage was supposed to commence with the crew's rocket firing that would carry the phobos spacecraft on its ten month voyage to the red planet they didn't fire and since then mission control has been frantically trying to work out what went wrong whether it was a software failure or a hardware failure the effect is the same we've treated attempts have been made

in university they don't teach you that the earth has eyes but the farmers know the earth has eyes you know and through its eyes the earth sees and cries if you take care of it it's happy and if you destroy it your earth cries we set out to convert the poor of us with them and we ended up being converted the farmers have worshiped the mountains for centuries the mountains provide water and water is life. but newcomers have arrived from a different world for them mountains are gone and gold this money. we. really believe you know discovered circulation some number of years ago. it's true it's a good deposit we've always been a low cost producer and want to give the maximum upside to our investors in a rising gold market every ten dollar movement in the in the price of gold. increases to. increases our cash flow by about fifty million dollars increases our earnings by about thirty million. the miners have already destroyed several mountains their next project is mt keeley's but the farmers to stop them. think that if. that's what. the farmers flock the only road to the mine to keep the c

an encounter with spaceship earth flying by this asteroid.ou're getting all these detailed images while it's close to us. >> reporter: and enthralling amateurs who love to gaze through telescopes, as well as scientists tracking it on radar. george lewis, nbc news at the nasa goldstone station in california. >>> and that, thankfully, is our broadcast for this tuesday night. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams. and we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> good evening. thanks for joining us. >> it is duck hunting season in the south bay city of mountain view. and that is ruffling some feathers. >> sounds of gunfire pierced through the golf course and surrounding office buildings. we go to the trial along the bay in mountain view. and this is not common. duck

between earth and the sky. on our. wealthy british scientists and. sometimes. markets why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report. on. the. week. more news today violent games please these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. for racial to rule the day. and broadcasting live direct from russia's capital moscow this is r t i'm sean thomas and these are headlines palestine it gets a seat at the u.n. cultural agency for the first time in a move widely seen as a strong show of support for the nation's bid for recognition you know scope voted overwhelmingly in favor of the move but it will pay a hefty price as washington cut its funding but the organization and protesters feel syria's president claims that the deadly anti regime uprising in the country is funded from abroad and wants western powers to keep out this comes as it may go out military intervention while the opposition in the country remains divided over the

it's inevitable, this spacecraft will plunge back to earth.his is the year for spacecraft falling out of the sky. first the nasa satellite, then the german satellite and now phobos grunt. when will it re-enter? experts say it's hard to predict when and where this space junk will crash back to earth. abc news, houston. >>> radioactive material on board. it's going to just fall back to earth. >> best part about this one, when space junk starts coming down, they don't know when, they don't know where. >> where? >> just in time for the holiday season. all keep an eye on that in the skies. >>> this monday morning, pennsylvania's governor says she wouldn't be surprised if more sex abuse victims come forward in the wake of the penn state sex abuse scandal. a hotline has been set up just in case that happens. speaking at a news conference in hawaii, president obama called the case heartbreaking. he said that the lesson is that when people see something wrong, they have to step up. >>> occupy protestors in portland, oregon, figuring out their next move