live from the heart of the russian capital this is artsy with me rule received. moscow's streets are brimming with people this may day with most celebrating some demonstrating as well trade unions marched under the labor day flying to demand better working conditions and even russia's ruling tandem took to spearheading a crowd of their supporters are right in the heart of it was. we help him a hundred thousand people out of. this one of the world there isn't rushing down to tell. me. this is a word. for the retirement age to be raised and for better conditions for workers over all.

went on strike so what are. conditions in the united. states and mark the labor unions for the last seventy or eighty years. various political movements and parties on the street name. now. 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 of this labor day in their. exhibit states build up the space in the philippines. to mistakes and it is europe which

is going through the other to go cut financially politically so we know there will be there was a sit in the. process at the same. reason or more of a day to celebrate spraying and then to protest anything. obvious or ridiculous your reporting the opposition members are also out to get that message across to them the country's second largest party which still refuses to accept last year's parliamentary election results that so on. happy about vladimir putin's return to the kremlin joke of grief now reports from amid a sea of red flags is round the held annually for the communist party all media carries a certain amount of symbolism for them as they stand to represent workers in russia was a steep isn't history when it comes the days of the soviet union masquerades which are held then we take a look at the crowd you really get a sense for that this down among some of them just once for the soviet union images of the controversial georgia standard for its being held up time for their leader

gennady zyuganov now he has proven quite crucial a 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 are the only ones standing out in force they've 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 isn't just russia party and the 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 then if she called for a protest be held today but since counts of it instead they want to plug together

pulls together may this thing a day before president elects volunteer putins and nor gratian on may the seventh they wanted to make a stronger show of 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. now may the first is also being marked with massive labor day marches worldwide in europe several large nationwide demonstrations are underway today for example at these right here are the latest pictures from spain it's where the euro crisis has seen the country's plunge into a double dip recession amid ongoing stringent cuts here to athens greece crowds gathering outside the parliament building all in the austerity protests and also it is election week in france where supporters of incumbent leader. in the country's

far right simle tennis lee hit the streets of paris five days before the crucial election and in asia indonesian workers held the continent's biggest labor day rally with around one hundred thousand demanding better pay and job security meanwhile here in america in the u.s. there in new york occupy protesters planning rallies in the big apple a blockade a major bridge on shut down some of wall street finance houses. of the occupy organizers may day plans are being seen as a test for the movement which has struggled against the earth already used to stay on the map for the past eight months it's now of course a worldwide campaign and later this hour here on r.t. a prominent activist in london explains the motivation. to do something about this unsustainable system and this is the movement for us to do that. questioning what we see is a political system that seems to be working 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 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 what's happening in europe what's happening in greece is it's just a symptom of this disease it's an economic. really. any human being to be in a situation where they can benefit. from the suffering of the millions and millions in the world we should be embarrassed. and we should be embarrassed if we do nothing about. this is our t. turning our attention now to that of the middle east where israel is taking new steps to shield it from its arab neighbors having already walled off the

palestinians now seeking to do the same with the lebanese. reasons for this me. well the israeli army says it is building this seven metre high cement wall between israel and lebanon to prevent firing from lebanon into northern israel now over the past year and a half there have been and number of incidents just last week a man crossed over the border with his two children from lebanon but a much more deadly example was last year when a number of people were killed during the nakba commemorations when they came too close to the border from the labor side until now there has been any make to fly a fence along the one kilometer israeli lebanon border and this is monitored by unifil the united nations interim force in lebanon and in fact israel and lebanon while being taken to rule they always do meet under the auspices of unifil and this

war is being constructed in conjunction with unifil the israeli army as well as the lebanese army but in addition israel is also in the midst of building a wall along its southern border with egypt a war that it says it hopes to finish by the end of the year according to the israelis the one in the south is to stop militant activity there and also to prevent smuggling and then there's another wall the very controversial war that israel has built since two thousand and two in the palestinian west bank and it's controversial because very often it's built on private palestinian land and cuts through villages and it has caused outrage in the international community but they have to israel has cited security concerns as the reason for that particular barrier obviously as you say you know this comes as tensions are rising across the region but it might seem to some that israel is just becoming more and more are slated. for something as well does seem to become to be becoming more and more

isolated we just need to look at the relationship between cairo and tell a very which has hit an all time low on the muso who is the egyptian presidential front runner sid recently that the camp david accords which was signed between israel and egypt back in one thousand nine hundred. eight are dead and buried and in addition to that just a few days ago cairo stopped its longest standing agreement to supply guests two as well in addition to that we have the situation with iran and here soon we are not seeing cracks between the israeli political and military leadership over whether or not to go ahead with preparation for wall whether or not they should continue talking about a war there's a lot of confusion around that too so certainly tensions in the region are increasing our authorities are policy about joining us live from tel aviv thanks. ten minutes past the hour here in moscow where julian assange has already exposed some of the world's most shocking secrets and his search for the truth not yet over

episode three of julian series today here on our team he has already attacked all the head of hezbollah and two opponents from very different political extremes of both shows got viewers and the media certainly fired up in today's program julianne meets the new president of tunisia human rights activist who was swept to power at the start of the arab spring a wave of revolt you can learn more about his challenges views and future objectives in the next hour here on r.t. for now a quick taste of what is ahead i just spent spent four months it is 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 want crazy because you know when you have just to talk to yourself to be.

to be alone with your so for all this time you it's terrible experience this is why i think it's a kind of far. sighted psychological portrait and so many people said 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 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 you can watch the julians latest episode throughout the day here on r.t.

still to come for you though in this hour britain's out of touch millionaire ministers. these these people haven't got a clue what it's like to be an ordinary person. you know after the interests of million is a multi-millionaires and we explore why increasing numbers of british people think the politicians in power have no idea what life is really like for the average struggling. attention out of out of syria where dozens of purportedly being killed in ongoing clashes between government and rebel forces opposition activists claim the expanding u.n. observer mission is having little to no effect on the world body is expected to have around fifty monitors in syria by friday and hundreds more to come over the next few weeks. designed to oversee a ceasefire which the u.n. says is not being implemented damascus blames a foreign funded insurgency for the bloodshed and just days ago neighboring lebanon

seized to shoot a cache of smuggled weapons meant for the syrian rebels political analyst says foreign meddling is plunging the region into chaos the smuggling weapon hasn't stopped from the day one and it's all we know that's how these have been funded by syrian live in saudi arabia and we know the money is coming from saudi arabia and from qatar and from other entities and they're coming through lebanon one of their route through lebanon and this is this one ship. actually but there are a lot of that have been used and smuggle into syria and that tell you the real story when the foreign minister was to the area say we have to arm the opposition that he's saying let's keep killing continue and the. terrorism taking place hold on syria even the american the western eyes the western world know that there's 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 won at the now or in the future. straight to afghanistan now the kicks off the r.t. world up to eight hundred people have demonstrated in a southern afghan town accusing nato troops of killing four children during a gunfight with insurgents protesters blocked a major highway carrying the bodies of the children aged eight to twelve for more than a decade the war in afghanistan has taken the lives of thousands of civilians putting a strain on relations between kabul and the u.s. . and a series of explosions have struck nigeria's main northern city of kano at least one person was killed as government forces are rated a suspected hideout for the militant. group by the violence comes just days after

gunmen attacked christian worship and study university campus and church at least twenty one day. molly's a ruling military says it's still in control of the capital after clashes with soldiers loyal to the former government took over the state broadcaster attacking the airport and the hunter's main base locals were forced to flee the chaos and electricity to some neighborhoods was cut off. power in march in anger at the government's handling of the rebellion in the. migration agency in sudan and says it won't be able to meet a deadline to repatriate of fifteen thousand south sudanese by may the international organization for migration says thousands lack the means to leave the sudanese town of coastie. from the south to the north during the twenty two year war that led to the south getting independence last july but then found themselves stranded. egypt's tourism industry has always been vital to

the country's economy earning it billions of dollars a year but that was before the revolution the government's sure business will bounce back although the ongoing political uncertainty could make that a tall order as artie's surf earth has been finding out. 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 balls 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 closely tied to tourism our first 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. and came true. theoretically if 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 so that having this ended up having something more along the lines of that. with or maybe grow about maybe grow that if you 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. 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 tourism but enticed think back to wrists may be impacted by

a growing islamic influence in the political sphere the tourism industry are very concerned with regard to bans to alcohol with 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 is considered a more fundamentalist islamic group and since the revolution has gained the second most seats in parliament it's going to rest in a way we have. a big difference between. because fear and bright with your words fit i can't it's forbidden to come to. the book and ask you why you do what you drink and why you drink this i can't but it's not the private sphere that tourists are investors are concerned with and when it comes to the public life the line is a little different but in public sphere this is this is right for all people he saw

the culture here and the people has to speak this 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 terrorism industry remains extremely clear and success especially going to depend on whoever comes into government next but that in itself of course is a. story on. the front like the terrorism industry the entire country right now is in the states a lot quite. going to happen next. and

it is good to have you with us here on our three it's a day that the u.s. is promising to help the philippines boost its maritime security just a week after a joint military exercises however it is angering china which has a territorial dispute with manila over a group of islands in the south china sea are not. new patriotic alliance says america is using the philippines as a porn for its own political gain at the start of the year we we saw in the u.s. announcements of their new defense strategy which is rebalancing towards asia 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 of the us 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 and the u.s. is not really going to go all out in the bag when i think china it's playing a very shrewd game often certainly meant and containment but it will not it will not go to war with china over a few islands that the philippines is flaming so that that's the double talk that the u.s. often uses to deceive the philippine government and tell us that we should we should have the u.s. intervene as an ally in this that they're authorial to speak of china. now i do bear in mind here in r.t. that is where to go to get more all of our stories and you'll also find our reports shows are ready to go on our you tube channel here's what else we've got lined up for you on line at the moment are preparing for the worst chicago still weeks away but security is already working on ways to evacuated the entire city in any case

all. girls a very best friend to go under the. centuries old diamond that once belonged to a queen. is expected to fetch over four million dollars. there's a growing. aimed at britain's wealthy government ministers for being out of touch with what life is really like cabinet members in david cameron's ruling party come from the richest levels of society and don't face the same struggles as most british families do with more from london is laura smith. 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 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 miner himself he came up through the ranks became a trade union leader a councillor 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. 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. working class people. 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 a real reduction in the number of m.p.'s who have first hand experience of the trials and tribulations of working class families just some a see 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. from traditional 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 after the interest of millions. these people know nothing about what is. sick they don't speak for stuff 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 a leadership of the privileged and independent. wealthy it rings especially hollow for many as the belt tightens so you to buy is this the anger and alienation of those who feel they've no voice in the corridors of power. to stay with us or become here and still to come in just a couple of minutes but about how the occupy movement is set to prove it's still got far in the belly that's after our recap today's top stories in just about.

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