a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at artsy moscow on river sushi voices from across russia's political spectrum living hoed on the streets of the country on may day over one hundred thousand people are marching with trade unions on the united russia party to labor day date for workers demonstrations around the world for over a century in the center of moscow results he's arena go to. help more than a hundred pounds. this is one of the main thoroughfares in russia. rather. since the word. for the retirement age is not to be raised and for better conditions for workers

over all. the labor unions in the went on strike so the order. comes across a new. day to mark the labor unions. the last seventy or eighty years. various political movement has done this three. days those the b. . the rest of the. citizen came from the united states. also taking part in this they can see how to sort of. place over the last six months to. name their. eggs in the united states. it is really going to share reporting right there one of the opposition forces are

also out on the streets with the communist party being the loudest voice that the rally was artie's trick of graves is from the held annually for the communist party on may day carries a certain amount of symbolism for them as they stand to represent workers in russia was a steep isn't history comes the days of the soviet union and mass parades which are held then when you take a look at the crowd you really get a sense for that this down among some of the just friends for the soviet union images of the controversial georgia standard for its being held up fine but also has a very modern day aspect passed because the congress party approved very vocal and pivotal when it comes to the demonstrations we have seen mean held on the back of the parliamentary elections that took place in december also their leader gennady zyuganov now he has proven quite crucial very critical of president elect vladimir putin he was main opposition in the presidential elections they still refuse the

results that sort of claim to have occurred amidst allegations of electoral fraud they themselves the congress party was a rerun of the parliamentary elections again and his allegations of elect. now they are the only ones standing out in force they have numbered in about over ten thousand people even though it's an aging support base think still drum up a lot of followers for this cause but also the third and fourth largest factions in the state duma respectively they've also be represented today that is a just russia party and liberal democrats now one notion of all absentee from proceedings in central moscow today has been the white ribbon movement those cooling for free and fair elections it garnered a lot of media attention on the back of december's parliamentary elections initially called for a protest be held today but since counts that it is there they want to. close together pulls together for maybe this thing

a day before president elects volunteer putin's inauguration on may the seventh they want is to make a stronger show of it there now as for those in attendance today fundamentally many of them coming from state duma parties or others also being represented such as nationalists choosing this day to march and as we've heard our russia is of course are not the only country marking may day of the traditional workers' holiday of seeing demonstrations all across european cities it's election month in france where in paris the far right national front rallied supporters with leader marine le pen addressing crowds i should earlier laid a wreath at the statue of joan of arc tens of thousands also expected to march across europe which is going through a tough economic crisis coupled with crippling austerity crowds are heading to the parliament building for now in athens which become a traditional protest site in the e.u. country worst hit by the ongoing economic crisis. and as we

heard earlier here on r.t. the occupy wall street movement is planning a general strike across the u.s. in order to protest against what it says is the corrupt global economic system and corporate injustice organizers are billing the event as a spring comeback since the group's incompetence 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 a political system that seems to be working just with profits before people. intertwined with 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 and 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 their their weapon is debt that really rang a bell with a lot of the for any human being 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 of being part of that same human rights and we should be embarrassed if we sit by and do nothing about it. and you can watch the full interview with an activist from the london occupy movement in just about a twenty minutes time here on our team. with egypt are gearing up for the presidential election in three weeks' time it's not just voters being wooed but visitors as well and the government insists the tourism industry vital for egypt's economy will bounce back as the political situation stabilizes

a but that could all be just wishful thinking as artie's sarah further explained. egypt's tourism industry with once riding high but recent political problem oil has hit the industry hard and then 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 tough economic growth so closely tied to tourism after the stop was to meet a woman he could give us a question cause into exactly what's happening to egypt's economy right now come two thousand and eleven. theoretically we would have continued to grow and along the same slow that's what should have happened. and then there are 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 a maybe go at that and maybe grow that set of you decide as whether we manage this versus that and where does it need to be ideally we'd need to stabilize and stabilize fast and at least recover the some 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 the first is tourism in the economic model tourism will be instrumental you have to keep the proceeds and you have to change your approach tourism i mean it needs to have been very tradition the so that we were approached tourism but entice thing back tourists may be impacted by a growing islamic influence in the political sphere the tourism industry are very concerned with the go to bands to alcoholism courts bands 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 pile. 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 bellowing is a little different but. people saw. this culture religion aside and repeating the tourism sector isn't going to be easy there 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 about

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 success is certainly going to depend on whoever comes into government next but that in itself of course is extremely uncertain still like the turn as an industry the entire country right now is in a state of flux and no one's quite sure what's going to happen next. and you're watching live from moscow when the political wrangling in ukraine puts the euro twenty twelve football championship on the line for me is according to a boy called because of the criminal case against ukraine's former prime minister a report from kiev is just ahead for you also. these people haven't.

what it's like to be an ordinary person these are millionaires more you million look you know after the interests of millionaires a multi-millionaire is the british public feeling critically detached from politics because they feel that their representatives are simply not representing them. he's already revealed some of the world's deepest secrets and he's ready to show even more episodes three of julian sanchez show premieres later today right here on r.t. his previous interviews with the head of hezbollah and two opponents of the streams of middle east politics at all cost quite a sensation and a media buzz this time though he's talking with the new president of tunisia. human rights advocate who came to power at the start of the arab spring so what challenges does he face and what are his views on human rights in tunisia you can watch the program in just over an hour's time here on r t but for now a quick preview. i just spent four months sort of three confinement so but

i did early which is the prime minister in tunisia spent more than ten years in sort of confinement and i always admired him i never saw i live in the sudan how he could you know survive through this kind of experience but because after just four months i was just talking to myself you know i really got crazy i went crazy because you know when you have just to talk to yourself to be. to be alone with yourself all this time you it's a terrible experience this is why i think it's a kind of. side psychological torture and so many people say look you have never been tortured in prison and i used to say 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 in tunisia and i was angry for them you know i was angry at that for this. people. all the

torture and then go back to home and play with their children and listen to music you know how a normal life and then i never understood how. ok how can you you know. except to do things like this and be sure that you are. that you are still a human being so. well. 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 the enough resistance you know to back to the situation.

that you can watch on the latest episode from julian assange join next hour here on r.t. for now though the group of human rights watch is demanding the ukrainian authorities hold an investigation into allegations that x. prime minister yulia timoshenko was beaten in prison and she's currently serving a seven year term for abuse of power with some e.u. later excuse me e.u. leaders are saying that her jailing is politically driven other cases even casting a shadow over the euro twenty twelve championships in the country as artie's alexy reports. what seems to be a purely domestic case has received very serious international reactions with residents 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 euro twenty twelve football period as if to protest against the treatment. of prime minister now 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 to 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 is 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. the reporting right to bear in mind you can always get much more of our stories and analysis from our website or let's have a quick look and see what's on line for you right now at r.t. dot com for example of the next door of the rooftops of london the homeless could soon play host to a deadly to terror and the city prepares for the olympic games read more on these drastic measures on our website. also online dot com a society where robots co-exist alongside people that may not just be a case of science fiction fantasy it's russian research seek to create machines

with a conscience that and lots more on our website. the u.s. has promised the philippines help to boost its maritime security just a week after joint military exercises are the move that has angered china which has a long running dispute with manila over a group of islands in the south china sea let's go live now to the philippines to discuss this with our bernardo rares the secretary general of the new picture of the alliance thanks very much for coming on r.t. today washington have called their alliance quote. for peace stability and prosperity in asia pacific do you agree with that assessment. well that that assessment could be true only for one party to the agreement so it's really a one sided. which is beneficial primarily for the u.s. which has huge geopolitical interests in this region of the world and unfortunately for the philippines our government we're just getting crumbs in exchange for

promises of u.s. support promises for the modernization of our armed forces and in helping us against any threats from china and from what we've experienced over the past six decades that alliance friendship is really not so much beneficial for the philippines than it is for the united states because i say it's not so beneficial for the philippines as it is for the u.s. government but you were talking a moment ago about how it's advantageous geo politically speaking for america what why why is it advantageous geo politically speaking well. started the year we we saw the u.s. announcements of their new defense strategy which is rebalancing towards and putting more troops in this region to secure its economic and security interests and that includes placing more u.s. troops here in the philippines and transforming the entire country it has some into some sort of military outpost for the united states troops and i believe that the

projection of the projection of military power is aimed toward such rivals that the u.s. would like china and it becomes very convenient now that the u.s. stands to exploit the territorial disputes between the philippines and china so that it can justify further putting more troops in our territory in violation of our national sovereignty as you say in violation of your national sovereignty america putting more troops in the region it might seem to some certainly as you want to the see the u.s. in one way or another provoking china why would the u.s. want to provoke china. well i don't think the us has to declare war or engage in a shooting war with china at the moment especially since the us economy is so intertwined with the chinese economy but what we're seeing is that the u.s. is flexing its muscles projecting its force projecting its military power in order to put a team china to send a message to china that has to be subservient it has to told the us line here in

the asia pacific so this power play if the united states takes advantage of the weaknesses of such countries it it's very very. i do apologize for interrupting you . but it's very curious if indeed the u.s. in some way or another is doing a bit of a indirect shakedown on china isn't it although because china is the largest holder of american debts why would the u.s. why would the u.s. want to want to provoke all play with antagonize what could be ultimately america's biggest bank in the world exactly are exactly our point the u.s. is very careful it's trying to portray itself that the philippines that it is helping the philippines but on the other hand the u.s. it's not really going to help us in any claims in the u.s. it's not really going to go. with i think china is explaining a very shrewd game will insert them into containment but it will not it will not go to war with china over

a few islands that if you look at the screaming so that that's the double talk the u.s. . to deceive the philippine government and tell us that we should we should have the u.s. intervene as an ally in this that there authorial dispute with china are fascinating indeed ever not a rose of the new patriotic alliance are talking to us live from the philippines thanks very much for coming on today. thank you very much although. i don't let's get into the world of day for you here on r.t. or some other global news in brief and mollie's ruling junta claimed control of the capital after clashes with troops loyal to the president he was ousted in march the military said on state t.v. it had held the broadcasting building and the airport which had come under attack and a key army 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.

gunfire and bomb blasts have struck nigeria's northern city of carlo following clashes between the army and the militants in which one person has died government forces battled islamist insurgents after raiding a hideout now the violence comes just two days after gunmen attacked a christian worship services at a university campus and the church killing twenty one. and overcrowded river ferry has capsized in northeastern india leaving at least one hundred three killed and almost as many missing the vessel broke in two during a storm ferry accidents are common in the country due to poor safety standards but this is one of the worst in years. now where 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 are also being blamed for their detachment from ordinary voters and their problems laura smith reports on the trend turning british politics into an elite club certainly

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 that bring in political advisors of one kind or another. and that's growing is each parliament goes by. you've got a lot more years 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 benches in particular i call it millionaire's row denis 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 minor 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 the vote in the elections it's easy to see why sixty percent of today's cabinet went to see 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. a 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 of all of it depends on it being representative and acting on the concerns of most in society so the worry is the less that people feel they are being represented the more. traditional politics and the more just a fact that they'll 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 haven't got a clue what it's like to be an ordinary person losing a million or more you million look you know after the interests of million is

a multimillion these people know nothing about what it's like to be moved every person in this country. secure they don't speak for stuff i don't think. it's. very privileged. we're all in this together is the rallying cry of the current government in these times of financial austerity coming from a leadership of the privileged and independently wealthy it rings especially hollow for many as the belt tightens so you two biases the anger and alienation of those who feel they've no voice in the corridors of power lower smith london. or just a few minutes or an artery we do talk to an occupier activist who actually says the movement is still gaining momentum after recover from its just

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from moscow this is r t just in time for your headlines now the left the right and almost every political grouping in between old marching in russia this may day for the country's a fair election movement is biding its time until the week. with egypt set to vote for its new leader the country's vital tourist industry is hoping democratic rule will help it bounce back however there are concerns that islamists growing power could stifle it further as fundamentalists want to go home and beach tourism. at the world's top julia sondra feels more secrets in another blockbuster interview this time he poses tough questions to the new president of tunisia who is.