what are you going to life in moscow armory to joshua welcome to the program now voices from across russia's political spectrum are being heard on the streets of the country on may day over one hundred thousand people are marching with trade unions and the united russia party to mark labor day a date for workers' demonstrations around the world for over a century or it is or in a go go is in the center of moscow for us. there around the hundred twenty thousand people are out on the streets and those are the that is the number of people that are participating in the demonstration put together by their trade unions and i did russia today they're actually walking down one of our fares to moscow and they're joined by none other than president lee for me they differ and president like that's been put in or also mingling in the crowd looks like they're actually having a good time talking to people when it comes to labor unions they're basically saying that they did not want to raise their pension age they do the retirement age

they want equal opportunity rights and basically i'm just also celebrating the fact that spring is finally here kind of joining that along with some of the basic demands usually put forth by the labor unions labor day traditionally causes been a work raised of workers not even a celebration a workplace holiday was a day to commemorate workers' movement it actually began in the united states so it's only logical of that the occupy wall street movement is also going to hold and was also going to the emirates this particular case and they are going to hold a strike and then of course world over you have people on demonstrations in the philippines there will be demonstrations in germany and berlin for example one of the largest ones and also demonstrations are planned in london basically in europe in particular considering the situation in which the european union countries find themselves at the moment and that is a very dire situation and i'm equating am politically because we can expect millions of people to show all show up on the streets on may day of demonstrations

as well they are. reporting there now the opposition forces are also out of the streets was a communist party being the loudest voice on this now see what's going on at the rally with ours is jacob graves. so jacob what are the common is demanding. those of us they told the civil suit book is they folded co-produce policy of a day being quite symbolic of that though what the. morning has a very modern day aspects they are very cool when it comes to opposition on the back of the parliamentary elections held in december and these allegations of electoral fraud also during the presidential election is now their candidate their leader gennady zyuganov or he stood crucially as the main opposition against vladimir putin the president elect and he still refused the results of those presidential elections they want a rerun of the harlem mainstreet elections be

a believe them to be wrought with allegations of elect fraud but unless this is proving key here today among those in attendance there still managing even though they have an aging support base to drum up support for this message they'll bring over an estimated ten thousand people in attendance. i would take them although we know that over one hundred thousand people are out in the streets today but not every pro discourses out tell us more. or no it's not so we have the communist party we have united russia are the main the ruling party in the state do and also the third and fourth largest factions in the state duma staging protests and demonstrations as well being a just russia party and the liberal democrats respectively but while no civil absentee from today's proceedings in central moscow that's the boy driven the protest movement for free and fair elections they garnered much of the media attention on the back of december's parliamentary elections initially they had

penciled in demonstrations take place today but they can stitch quite recently instead trying to pull together their forces for may the sixth that's the day before to be a persian president elect is officially inaugurated into office so they want to have all their support on display for that day as for the moment the only ones out in support of those who have representation in the state duma. to. thanks very much indeed for bringing us the latest jacob riis reporting there from central moscow. and as we heard earlier the occupy wall street movement just planning a general strike across us to protest against what it says is a corrupt global can all make system and corporate injustice organizers are billing the event as a spring comeback since the groups and kampman is in the u.s. and beyond were dismantled by police last winter but activists in london say the movement is only gaining force. we have to do something about this unsustainable

system and this is the movement for us to do that we are questioning what we see is about political system that seems to be working with profits before people its constituent of the corporations we also question the idea of regulated bodies being managed by the people that meant to be regulated eventually the rest of this world will realize that they've been groped and that they are being put into subjugation it's very clear from the movement from the beginning that the economic system is on its last legs what's happening in europe what's happening in greece is it's just a symptom of this disease it's an economic war and that's that that weapon is debt that really rang a bell with a lot of people i mean human beings to be in a situation where they can benefit hugely. from the suffering of the millions and millions in the world we should be embarrassed by being part of that side of human rights and we should be embarrassed if we sit by and do nothing about.

how do you see the full interview with an activist from the london occupy movement in just over twenty minutes time here on r.t. . with egypt gearing up for the presidential election in three weeks' time it's not just voters being rude but visitors as well the government insists the tourism industry vile for egypt's economy will bounce back as a political situation stabilizes but that could be just wishful thinking as are sarah first now splines. egypt's terrorism industry with once riding high but recent political turmoil has hit the industry hard and in the new political landscape this talks of bringing in new roles and regulations relating to it and there are serious concerns that that could leave the industry with even less business. everyone in egypt is hoping that the economy will pick up pace and with post economic growth so closely tied to tourism off the stop was to meet a woman he could give us a crash course into exactly what's happening to egypt's economy right now come two

thousand that was. theoretically we would have continued to grow along the same slow that's what should have happened. and then there are russian in most countries worldwide when the russian happens this is what happens you have a dip in g.d.p. and then it goes even faster than it was going to go before the concern of having this ended up having something more along the lines of that. with or maybe grow at that maybe growth that it's have to decide is whether we manage this versus that and where does it need to be ideally we need to stabilize and stabilize fast and at least recover the seven percent growth we had originally with the aim of reaching that ten percent growth within the medium term which is three to five years. and how big is tourism in the economic model tourism will be instrumental you have to keep the proceeds and you have to change your approach to it and i mean

it needs to have been very traditional so that we were approached tourism but entice think back to earth may be impacted by a growing islamic influence in the political sphere the tourism industry are very concerned with regard to bans to alcohol the courts bans of public beaches this kind of thing proved to be another risk to potential investors to find out how will risk these concerns are we met the speaker of the al-noor power. he is considered a more fundamentalist islamic group and since the revolution has gained the second most seats in parliament it's going to. have a big difference between. you bribed. to come to. you. what you drink and what you do exist but it's not the private sphere that tourists or investors are concerned with and

when it comes to the public life the line is a little different but. people saw. the. culture religion aside every beaching the tourism sector isn't going to be easy they're the after the revolution there was this hype about you know revolution tourism you know come to tunisia and come to egypt and you know it was very obvious that that wasn't going to be a very sustainable model at all and it turned out to be true and now what we need to do is work on. just like what we were doing previously we need to work on maintaining our monuments and restoring our monuments and we need to work on making people feel safe in the future tourism industry remains extremely clear its success is certainly going to depend on whoever comes into government next but that in itself of course is extremely unfair and still like the turn as an industry the entire country right now is in a state of flux no one's quite sure what's going to happen next.

staying in the region in syria more violence continues to further rock the country shaky cease fire despite the presence of u.n. troops monitors monday a series of blasts rocked the city killing at least nine people and wounding almost one hundred the u.n. warns the ongoing attacks threaten the peace plan it helped broker the syrian government blames terrorists for the vinyl. claiming the rebels recently stepped up their offense just days ago lebanon intercepted a large shipment of smuggled weapons intended for finders opposed to the ousted regime they were based political analyst kamel was in a sense foreign interference is the stabilizing the entire region. the smuggling weapon hasn't stopped from the day one and it's all we know that's how these have been funded by by syrian live in studio arabia and we know the money is coming from saudi arabia and from qatar and from other and the deals and they're coming through

lebanon one of that is through lebanon and this is this one ship. actually but there are a lot of weapon that been used to smuggle into syria and that tell you the real story when the foreign minister was judea arabia say we have to arm the opposition that he's saying let's keep killing continue and terrorism taking place hold on syria even though america and the western eyes the western world know that there is a lot of terrorism taking place in syria al qaeda been moved into syria from out of country funded by some government in the arab countries this is going to be devastating not only for syria this is going to bring a regional war that nobody want now or in the future political wrangling in ukraine puts the your football championship on the line some call to boycott the event because of the criminal case against ukraine's former prime

minister report from kiev it's just to have. also. these these people have got the what is going to be in a very personal. moment. look you know after the interests of millionaires among the million is the british public feel increasingly detached from politics because they feel they are representatives are not representing them. he has already revealed some of the world's deepest secrets and he's ready to share even more episode three have joined us on his show premieres later today on our previous interviews with the head of has a blind two opponents on the extremes of middle east politics have caused a real media buzz this time he's talking with the new president of tunisia a doctor and human rights advocate who came to power in the arab spring wave of revolt so what challenges does he face and what are his views on human rights in tunisia watch the program at eleven thirty g.m.t. but here's

a little taster. i just spent four months sort of three confinement so but barely which is the prime minister in tunisia spent more than ten years in sort of confinement and i always admired him and efforts and even the how he could you know survive through this kind of experience but because after just four months i were just talking to myself you know i really got crazy i want crazy because you know when you have just to talk to yourself to be. to be alone with your so all this time you it's terrible experience this is why i think it's a kind of. a side psychological torture and so many people say look you have never been tortured in prison and said no i was under torture but it was another kind of torture and probably one of the worst i think that more than thirty thousand people have been tortured into news you know and was good for them you know they're always angry or for this. people. all the

torture and then go back to whole play with their children and listen to music you know have a normal life and then i found i never understood how. how can you know. except to those things like this and be sure that you are. that you are still a human being so. how how can you survive through this kind of experience i think when you know this when you know that you are fighting for your human rights for real good values then you can have enough resistance you know to talk to the situation.

the euro two thousand and twelve football championships in ukraine are under a shadow before a ball has even been picked over the case of the country's jailed ex prime minister yulia timoshenko some evaders are already calling for a boycott saying her seven year prison term for abuse of power is politically motivated i was here she has the latest. what seems to be a purely domestic case has received very serious international reactions with presidents of germany the czech republic the head of the euro commission as well as german chancellor angela merkel all saying they will boy called their planned trips to ukraine in particular for the twenty twelve football period as if to protest against the treatment. or ukraine's former prime minister. even called on the german national football team to boy call it their participation in this tournament the idea which was even supported by the president of the champions league final this club byron munich now also reactions came from moscow with president medvedev

raising his eyebrows over the treatment of saying that this these actions throw serious shade on ukraine's reputation and are unacceptable for a democratic country that all these reactions come after you get emotional reported to have been abused by prison guards and full of photos of her bruises were made public on the internet as well as when to stand that team of medical experts was dispatched by ukraine's own woman to the prison and they confirmed the fact of the physical attack from the prison guards on. this raise the tension dramatically and key of also already reacted with indignation to all the statements coming from europe saying that such rhetoric puts the countries back into the times of the cold war while the war of words continue certainly but everyone all experts now understand that keith is under severe pressure especially with less than forty days before the start of the you were twenty twelve football championship last friday's terrorist attacks individuals with serious concerns about the security during the

tournament now definitely the developments in the duma shango situation creating serious political implications. thanks here shift your porn in there we'll get more stories and analysis from our get our web site a quick look at what's on line for you at the moment the missiles next door of the rooftops of london homes could soon play host to a deadly to turn as the city of repairs for the olympic games read more on these breast take measures at r.t. dot com. and also online a society where robots co-exist alongside people may not be just a science fiction and a secret as russian researchers seek to create machines with a conscience that a lots more at or to dot com plus check out all our best videos at our you tube channel. is you. tube you

tube. to. download the official anti up location to your i phone on called talk from the top story. one. video on demand. old girls. an omission street should know in the palm of your. question on the dot com. us as promised the philippines helped to boost its maritime security just a week after joint military exercises the move has angered china which has a long running dispute with monella over a group of violence in the south china sea as i were activists say beijing's

worries are justified. the motives of the u.s. in the philippines as well as in asia pacific generally is imperial dominance is the same as the motives in the middle east and central america the obama administration has instigated a strategic pivot to asia pacific mainly to contain china's rising economic and military influence washington considers military power and economic progress prerogatives of their own only we have military bases and troops in japan and singapore and. in south korea in the philippines in australia and the aim here is to make our military power known and visible in order to contain china it's meant to frighten china the united states has been supporting the filipino government for years even as it's committed serious crimes we've increased on

shipments of the united states in my mind should not be going all around the world when there is not a threat to our direct interests or our people and showing off our military and expanding the military empire we don't need to have bases in all of asia pacific just to contain a non threatening china. let's take a look at some other stories from around the world montes ruling to ask land troll the capital after clashes with troops loyal to the president who was ousted in march and a message aired on state t.v. the military said its forces how the broadcasting building and the airport which have come under attack and the military base the army has said it's willing to hand back power to civilian rule but still has considerable influence the march military coup brought chaos to mali and has allowed separatists in the north to split the country into. you know a crowded river ferry asked capsize in northeastern india leaving at least one

hundred three tails and almost as man. missing the vessel broke into two during a storm ferry accidents are common in the country due to poor safety standards but this is one of the worst and years. leading bahraini human rights activist is to get a retrial along with twenty other opposition members. has been serving a life sentence for taking part in and to government uprising last year which around fifty have died since dad has been out of hunger strike for over two months in protest at his imprisonment but will remain in jail relatives have criticized the move saying it's merely a review by the same judges don't want those three. u.k. prime minister david cameron has been accused of favoring the rich and forgetting about the poor the wealthy backgrounds of more and more british m.p.'s is also being blamed for their detachment from ordinary votes voters and their problems laura smith reports on the trend turning british politics into any lead club with

an exclusive membership. prime minister david cameron eton and oxford. chancellor george osborne exclusive london schools then oxford. deputy prime minister nick clegg westminster school and cambridge none of these men come from ordinary backgrounds there's a lot of people being political advisors of one kind or another. and that's growing is each parliament goes by. you've got a lot more lawyers we've got the biggest knob of all time now in cameron running the rules the snobs are there to be seen on the tory ventures in particular i call it millionaire's row dennis skinner's an m.p. who would once have been seen as pure traditional british labor party stock the son of a miner and an ex miner himself he came up through the ranks became

a trade union leader a counsellor and then a labor party m.p. in one thousand nine hundred seventy it's a route into politics that's become almost obsolete replaced by a career path through top universities into special advisor posts and from there into ministerial jobs that's how ed miliband the leader of the party in which that core support base was once the working classes got his job you have the labor party quite detached at times from ordinary working class voters and the impact of both political parties. being slightly out of touch with ordinary working class voters is a lot of working class people decided not even to vote in the elections it's easy to see why sixty percent of today's cabinet went to feed paying schools compared with just seven percent of the total population thirty years ago forty percent of labor m.p.'s came for a manual or clerical jobs compared with just nine percent today there's been. no

real reduction in the number of m.p.'s who have first hand experience of the trials and tribulations of working class families the legitimacy it depends on it being representative and acting on the concerns of most in society so the worry is the less that people feel that being representatives. of politics and the disaffected feel from politicians that could mean greater numbers turning to disruptive ways of making their voices heard through demonstrations and even. under the current government the u.k. has seen a surge in strikes and protests some ending in serious trouble on the streets after demonstrations by people who don't feel their representatives representing them these people have a. multi-million look you know of the interests of millions.

these people know nothing about what a married person in this country. i don't think. we're all in this together is the rallying cry of the current government in these times of financial austerity coming from the leadership of the privileged and independent wealthy it rings especially hollow for many as the belts tightens so you to rises the anger and alienation of those who feel they have no voice in the corridors of power lower smith. and in just a few minutes we'll talk to an occupy a london activists who says the movement is still gaining momentum that's after the headlines.

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about here whether it's a reminder of the top stories the last of the ride and almost every political grouping in between march and russia this may day for the country's fair election movement is dividing in style until the weekend. with egypt set to vote for its new leader the country's vital to words in history his whole thing democratic rule will have a bounce back however there are concerns that islam is growing power will stifle it further on a mouse want to ban alcohol and beach tours of. the world's top was a lower jillian the sun reveals more secrets in another blockbuster executive this time you poses tough questions to the new president of tunisia who was swept to power by a popular uprising.