live from the heart of the russian capital this is. a welcome to the program moscow's streets brimming with people this may day with most celebrating some demonstrating trade unions marched under the labor day flag to demand better working conditions and even russia's ruling tandem took to spearheading a crowd of their supporters in the mix of it all. helping the hundred thousand people out. there is a. rather . this is a word. for the retirement age to be raised and for better conditions for workers overall.

conditions. same. day to mark the labor unions for the last seventy or eighty years. various political movements and parties on the street name let's. listen to sing came from the united states. also taking part in this they can't sleep that is sort of. placed over the last six months to. name their. names. to say sitting. next to mistakes and figure out what is going to really rather difficult.

politically so we know there will be no say sit on. rocks at this. present or more of a day to celebrate spraying and then to protest anything. doctors are really going to scream reporting the opposition members are also out to get their message across among them the country's second largest party which still refuses to accept last year's parliamentary election results ultimately are unhappy about vladimir putin's return to the kremlin jacob graves now reports from amid a sea of red flags. is run the is held annually for the congress party all media carries certain amount of symbolism for them as they stand to represent workers in russia was a steve years of history comes the days of the soviet union masquerades 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 for 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's a claim to have occurred amazed allegations of electoral fraud 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 being 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 thing a day before president elects volunteer persons 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. and may the first is also be marked with mass labor day marches worldwide in europe several large nationwide demos are underway let's get at the latest pictures from with france here where it is election week and in supporters of incumbent leader nicolas sarkozy and the country's far right they hit the streets of paris five days before the crucial presidential vote and over to spain as well where the euro crisis has seen the country plunge into a double dip recession people their voice their anger at the ongoing stringent cuts

and unemployment but also to greece crowds marched outside the parliament building in athens and through the city in of course the austerity protests and in asia indonesia is helping its biggest labor day rally with around one hundred thousand demanding better pay and jobs and in the u.s. occupy protesters planning rallies in new york to blockade a major bridge and shut down some of wall street's finance houses. while the occupy organizers made a plans are being seen as a test for the movement which has struggled against the authorities to stay on the map for the past eight months it's now of course a worldwide campaign and later this hour on r.t. a prominent activist in london explains the motivation. we have to do something about this unsustainable system and this is the movement for us to do that. questioning what we see as a political system that seems to be working with profits before people it's

intertwined with the corporations we also question the idea of regulating bodies being managed by the people i meant to be regulating eventually the rest of this world will realize that they've been dropped 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 weapon is debt that really rang a bell with a lot of people 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 watching r.t. live from moscow to the middle east now where israel is taking new steps to shield

itself from its arab neighbors having already walled off the palestinians tell of eve is now seeking to do the same with the lebanese. reports. well the israeli army says it is building this a seven metre high a 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 commemorations when they came too close to the border from the lebanese side and to now there has been an electrified 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 take the war they always do meet under the auspices of uniform and this wall 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 are finished by the end of the year according to the israelis the one of the self 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 the israel has cited security concerns as the reason for that particular area is one is becoming more isolated as tensions increase in the region and here we only need to look at recent developments between cairo in tel aviv who is the egyptian presidential front runner said recently that the camp david accords which was signed between israel and egypt back in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight i did and buried and in addition to that just a few days ago stopped it's

a longstanding agreement to supply gas to israel in addition to that we have the situation with iran in a fair. we are now seeing cracks between the israeli political and military leadership over whether or not to go ahead with preparation for war whether or not they said continue talking about a war there's a lot of confusion around that so certainly tensions in the region are increasing. julian assange has already exposed some of the world's most shocking secrets and his search for the truth it's not over yet episode three of judeans series airs today here on our sea he has already tackled the head of hezbollah are two opponents from very different political extremes of both shows got viewers and the media fired up in today's program on r t julian new president of tunisia a human rights activist who was swept to power at the start of the arab spring to learn more about his challenges views and future objectives in the next hour you

can do so on r t a for now a preview of what's ahead. i just spent spend four months confinement 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 it's never in 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 crazy i want crazy because you know when you have just to talk to yourself to be. to be alone with yourself for all this time you it's terrible experience this is why i think it's a kind of. a side of 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 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 take the situation. the interview is next hour here on. this program. these people have an. increasing number of british. politicians and have no idea what life is really like in the. tourism to take off again

after seeing it in. two thousand. but instabilities keeping the book. as we explained. turning our attention to syria now where dozens have reportedly been killed in ongoing clashes between government and rebel forces opposition activists claim the expanding u.n. observer mission is having little to no effect the world body is expected to have around. syria by friday hundreds more in the next few weeks that the mission is designed to. which the u.n. says is not being implemented damascus blames a foreign funded insurgency for the bloodshed and just days ago neighboring lebanon huge cache of smuggled weapons meant for the syrian. political analyst says foreign meddling is just plunging the region into chaos. smuggling. from the day one and it's all we know that's how these have been funded by syria

and live in saudi arabia and we know that money is coming from saudi arabia and from qatar and from other and. these and they're coming through lebanon one of the route is through love anon and this is this one ship. actually but there are a lot of bend that been used and 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 the american 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. or

afghanistan starts the world update now into hundreds of people have demonstrated in southern afghanistan 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 now the war in afghanistan has taken the lives of thousands of civilians putting a strain on relations between kabul and the u.s. . gunfire and a series of explosions have struck nigeria's main northern city of kano at least one person was killed as government forces raided a suspected hideout for the militant. group but the violence comes just days after gunmen attacked christian worship at the university campus. twenty one dead. there are reports of gunfire in mali's capital after a second day of clashes between the ruling military junta and soldiers loyal to the

former government and the junta says it's still in control of the capital despite soldiers taking over the state broadcaster and attacking port locals were forced to flee the chaos and electricity to some neighborhoods was cut off by the junta seize power in march in the government's handling over a billion in the. migration agency in sudan says it won't be able to meet a deadline to repatriate up to fifteen thousand south sudanese by may the international organization for migration says that thousands lack the means to leave the sudanese town of kosti millions of fled from the south to the north during the twenty two year war that led to the south getting independence last summer but then found themselves stranded in the often are. well 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 is sure the business will

bounce back although the ongoing political uncertainty could make that a tall order as ati's sarah firth reports. egypt's tourism industry with once riding high but recent political turmoil has hit the industry hard and in the new political landscape this talk so 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 me to him and he could give us a crash course into exactly what's happening to egypt's economy right now. to thousands that must. theoretically 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 recession happens this is what happens you have a dip in g.d.p. and then it grows even faster than it was going to go before but instead of having this ended up having something more along the lines of that. with or maybe grow at that maybe grow that sets of you decide 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 time 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 tourism i mean you need to have been very traditional so that we were approached tourism but in thai sing back tourists may be impacted by a growing islamic influence in the political sphere the tourism industry are very concerned with the go to bans to alcohol with the courts the bounds of public

beaches this kind of thing proved to be another risk to potential investors to find out how real a risk these concerns are we met the speaker of the. it's considered a more fundamentalist islamic group and since a revolution has gained the second most seats in parliament it's going to. have a big difference between. i can't begin to come to. you. what. 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. so. has to culture religion aside and reducing the tourism sector isn't going to be

easy 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 that. tourism industry remains extremely. successful sassy going to depend on whoever comes into government next that in itself of course is extremely uncertain still like the tourism industry the entire country right now is in a state of flux and there was quite sure what's going to happen next. twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow the u.s. is promising to help the philippines boost its maritime security this just a week after joint military exercises however the move is angering china which has

a territorial dispute with manila over a group of islands in the south china sea. from the new patriotic alliance says america is using the philippines as a pawn for its own geo political gain. start of the year we we saw 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 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 us 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 the us is not really going to go all out in an agonizing china it's playing a very shrewd game often circle and containment but it will not it will not go to war with china over a few islands that the philippines is claiming so that that's the double talk that 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 the territorial dispute with china. do bear in mind that. all of our stories and you'll find our report. is what else we have lined up for you on line right now preparing for the. still weeks away but security already working. very best.

expect. there is a growing. britain's wealthy government ministers for being out of touch with what life's really like most 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. 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 have been 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 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. working class people. in the elections it's easy to see why sixty percent of today's captain it 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 all 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 they are being represented the more. traditional politics and the more disaffected 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 have a clue what it's like to be an ordinary person. look you know after the interest of millions. these people know nothing about what a person in this country. sic can 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 the leadership of the privileged and

independent. wealthy it rings especially hollow for many as the belts tightened so you to buy it is the anger and alienation of those who feel they've no voice in the corridors of power lower smith london. are back of the headlines in just a moment.

they've escaped this is psyche to greed the room. make to feel. civilization notice their absence. but is there life outside so losing a possible. wealthy british style. spot on the spotlight. market why not come to. find out what. happening to the global economy

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from the russian capital. because of the well it is a labor day and it's. right here in moscow hundreds of people filled the streets to celebrate with the opposition also using rallies to raise their concern. in america the occupy movement to use it made a big comeback prove it staying power isn't fighting a crackdown while. posting on the scene eight months ago. on the world's most famous expose a top secret goes head to head with the new president. the power after a popular uprising in the country. a good interview show as here on our team throughout the day.