right here on. worldwide news twenty four hours a day here on artsy rule research and live in moscow voices from across russia's political spectrum are all being heard on the streets of the country on may day over one hundred thousand people have been marching with trade unions and the united russia party to mark labor day it's a day for workers demonstrations all around the world for over a century now in the center of moscow though is ati's arena go to chicago. we help more than one hundred twenty thousand people out of tennessee this is one of the main thoroughfares in rushing down to tell me the name in the. game to. be. rather good. citizens

a word they're calling for the retirement age to be raised and for better conditions for workers over all. workers labor unions and went on strike new order to demand. conditions from the united states and. europe comes across a name in a sense illegitimate big day to mark the labor unions for the last seventy or eighty years we all the congress various political movements and parties on the street name it's well it is now to this day is the most the be. the rest of the. citizen came from the united states. also taking part in this they can sleep on a sort of situation over the last six months of this labor day in their. exit

the united states is. ridiculous for reporting what are the position forces are also out on the streets with the communist party being one of the loudest ones all to strike a grievous was about to do. from the is held annually for the congress party all media carries a certain amount of symbolism for them as they stand to represent workers in russia was a stevenson 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 fronts for the soviet union images of the controversial georgia standard for its being held up time but also has a very modern day aspect asked because the congress party approve a very vocal and pivotal when it comes to the demonstrations we have seen been held on the back of the parliamentary elections that took place in december also their leader gennady zyuganov now he has proven quite crucial a very critical of president elect bush and he was main opposition in the

presidential elections they still refuse the results that sort of claim to have occurred amazed allegations of electoral fraud they themselves the congress party was a rerun of the parliamentary elections again i mean allegations of elect fraud 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 i 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 just russia party and liberal democrats now one notable 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 cool for a protest be held today but since counts of it instead they want to plug together

and pulls together for may this thick a day before president elects volunteer putin's inauguration on may the seventh they wanted to make. show over it then 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. make a group supporting right there well russia is of course not the only country marking may day the traditional workers' holiday seeing demonstrations all across european cities let's show you the latest pictures we've just got now is tens of thousands march in madrid and the country has been swept up in the euro crisis coupled with very tough austerity measures on sunday the country's main statistics office announced that the country had plunged back into recession when it comes to the issues of unemployment in fact unemployment in spain is twenty five percent

that is higher than the unemployment levels in my area one of the young people in spain desperately looking for a job those are the latest pictures right there from madrid here on out. in france it is election time and the far right national front are rally supporters would lead a marine le pen addressing crowds should earlier laid a wreath at the statue of joan of arc demonstrators are heading to the parliament building in athens as well which has now become a traditional protest site in the e.u. country a worst hit by the economic crisis. now as we heard earlier here on r.t. the occupy wall street movement is planning a general strike across america to protest against what it calls the corrupt global economic system and corporate injustice organizers are billing the event as a spring comeback since the group's encampments in the u.s. and beyond but dismantled by police last week last winter activists in london say

that for the meantime though the movement it's only getting stronger. 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 regulating eventually the rest of this world will realize that they've been roped 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 weapon is debt that really rang a bell with a lot of people that this disease is going to continue to get worse unless we actually as as a people as a grassroots movement actually take control ourselves of this economic system that's been run by very few people and it's just been completely out of control i

think the movement is moving more towards a revolutionary solution rather than a reformist for any human being in a situation where they can benefit. 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 see the full interview with with the activist from the london occupy movement of that will be in about one hour's time here on out. now with egypt to gearing up for. 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 however that could all be just wishful thinking as artie's sarah further explained . egypt's tourism 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 past economic growth so closely tied to tourism our first stop was to meet a woman he could give us a crush 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 instead of having this ended up having something more along the lines of that. with or maybe grow at

that maybe growth that you have to decide is whether we manage this versus that and where it is it needs to be i believe 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 a factor is tourism in. tourism of the instrument so you have to keep the proceeds and you have to change your approach to it i mean it needs to have been very traditional so that we were approached but enticed sing back tourists may be impacted by a growing islamic influence in the political sphere the tourism industry are very concerned with regard to bans to alcohol bans of public beaches this kind of thing proved to be another risk to potential investors to find out how real risk these concerns are we met the speaker of the party it's 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. public and private sphere you braved i can't begin to come to. you. what what you drink and what you do exist i can't 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. this is right for all people who saw culture here and the people have to speak this culture religion aside and repeating 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 terrorism industry remains extremely clear success especially going to depend on whoever comes into government next but that in itself of course is a. it's really unfair. that like the turns the man the save the entire country right now is in the states a lot and i was quite sure what's going to happen next. are the highway. you're watching r.t. live from moscow and political wrangling in ukraine puts the euro twenty twelve football championship on the line from the e.u. leaders are calling to a boy called the event because of the criminal case against ukraine's former prime minister a report from kiev is just ahead for you also. these these people haven't got a clue what he's wanted to be an ordinary person. the more you. look you know after

the interests of million is a multi million is the british public feel increasingly detached from politics because they feel that their representatives are not representing them. he has already revealed some of the world's deepest secrets and now he's ready to share some more episode three of julian assange show this hour here on see his previous interviews with the head of hezbollah two opponents on the extremes of middle east politics certainly have caused quite a stir in this business but this time though he's talking with the new president of tunisia doctor and human rights advocate who came to power at the start of the arab spring so what challenges does he face what are his views on human rights in tunisia you can watch this special program in less than twenty minutes time here on our c for now though a quick preview. i just spent spent four months sort of three confinements 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 of the just four months i were just talking to myself you know i really got crazy i went crazy because you know when you have just talked. to yourself to be. to be alone with yourself for all this time you it's a terrible experience this is why i think it's a kind of far. sighted psychological portrait and so many people said look you have it you have never been tortured in prison and that is 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 it in tunisia and was good for them you know i was angry at that for this. people.

all the torture and then go back to whole month to play with their children and listen to music you know how a normal life and then i found it and i never understood how. how how 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. 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 good values then you can have enough resistance you know to tackle the situation.

and so just after quarter past the hour here in moscow the u.s. has promised the philippines help to boost its maritime security this just a week after joint military exercises the move though has angered china which has a long running dispute with manila over a group of islands in the south china sea are not a race from the new patriotic alliance says the u.s. is just using the philippines for its own geo political gain. the u.s. is very careful it's trying to portray itself to the philippines that it is helping the philippines but on the other hand the u.s. is not really going to help us in any claims in the u.s. it's not really going to go. with i think china it's explaining a very shrewd game and certainly meant a containment but it will not it will not go to war with china over a few islands that the feel that it's screaming so that that's the double talk. to deceive the philippine government so it's really a one sided power 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 a promise of u.s. support promises for the modernization of our armed forces and what we're seeing is that the u.s. is flexing its muscle and projecting its force projecting its military power in order to put a team china to send a message to china that it has to be subservient it has to told the us line here in the asia pacific and it becomes very convenient now that the u.s. stands to exploiting 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. all right away you can always get more stories and analysis are from r.t. on our website at let's have a quick look right now and see what is on standby for you at r.t. dot com for example up next door the rooftops of london the home. to a deadly to terror and the city prepares for the olympic games you can get

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video. dot com. and in just a few moments we will get to the aussie world update for you but for now the group human rights watch is demanding that the ukrainian authorities hold an investigation into allegations that ex prime minister yulia tymoshenko was beaten in prison she is currently serving a seven year term for abuse of power with some e.u. leaders saying that her jailing is politically motivated the case is even casting a shadow over the euro twenty twelve championships in that country and with this report. 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 twentieth well football period as if to protest against the treatment. former 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 are in 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 now all these reactions you had to my cycle 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 on the c.v. it russia 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. oh it are starting with a model get into the arts you want update for you now and molly's are. claimed control of the capital after clashes with troops loyal to the president who was ousted in march the military said on state t.v. is it held the broadcasting building and order which had come under attack and a key army base that 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 karnow following clashes between the army and militants in which at least one person has died government forces battled islamist insurgents after raiding a hideout in the violence comes just two days after gunmen attacked worship services at a university campus and a church killing twenty one. and overcrowded a river ferry has capsized in northeast india leaving at least one hundred three killed and almost as many missing the vessel broke in two during a storm ferry accidents are fairly common in that country due to poor safety standards however this is one of the worst in years. you can prime minister david cameron has been accused of favoring the rich and forgetting about the poor or 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 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 are 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 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 had 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. working class people. in 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 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 it depends on it being representatives and acting on the concerns of most in society so the worry is the less that people feel that being representatives. of. affected 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. look you know after the interest of millions. these people. in this country. they don't speak for us. 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 independent. wealthy it rings especially hollow for many as the belt tightens so to rises the anger and alienation of those who feel they've no voice in the corridors of power nor smith.

i do hope you can stay with us here and i'll see you in just a couple of minutes here it'll be julian a song on the third episode of his hard hitting show first though a recap of our main stories with me.

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americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million more than two hundred fifty thousand us troops stationed on these bases all around them. we don't have power bases in america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in our bases are fine the noises are what noise and doesn't bother us at all because they're all bases but for other people it's almost like a cancer here for these people. since the end of world war two the spaces i've been . working here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions you know think else you get everything you needed.

this is all to you before we get to the latest julian assange program now the headlines the left the right and almost every political grouping in between old marching in russia this may day but the country's affair and election movement biding its time until that week. with egypt set to vote for its new leader the country's vital tourist industry is home. the democratic rule will help to bounce it back however there are concerns that islamists growing power could stifle it further as fundamentalists want to ban alcohol and beach. on the world's top whistleblower julian assange reveals yet more secrets in another blockbuster interview this time he poses tough questions to the new president of tunisia who was swept.