three. videos for your media project free media. the world unite it is labor day. right here. because of the protests the presidential votes. the six all the details coming up. in america and occupy movement to use may day to stage a big comeback and prove it still has staying power. and the world's most famous top secret goes head to head with the new president.

it is good to have you with us today this is live with me rule resewn shine. streets are brimming with people this may day most celebrating demonstrating trade unions marched under the labor day flying to better working conditions and even russia ruling spearheading a crowd of their supporters right in the thick of it was artie's. we helped more than two hundred thousand people out of this one of the world series in russia. rather. than this it's

a word. for the retirement age range and for better conditions for workers over all . went on strike so what are. conditions from the united states. comes across a. day to mark the labor unions for the last seventy or eighty years. various political movements and parties on the street. 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 time with this labor name their. large sites

that they built up the devastation to the philippines. to mistakes in new york which is going through the other difficult time finance later politically so we know there will be devastation to fund it. right now i said this. reason or more of a day to celebrate spraying and then to protest anything. ridiculous no reporting opposition members are also getting the message across as well among them the country's second largest party which still refuses to accept last year's parliamentary election results ultimately unhappy about vladimir putin's return to the kremlin jake agree if no reports from a sea of red flags. is round the has held annually for the congress party all media carries an amount of symbolism for them as they stand to represent workers in russia was a steep as in history comes the days of the soviet union aspirates 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 joseph stalin and francis being held up time for their leader gennady zyuganov now he has proven quite crucial very critical of president elect bush and he was main opposition in the presidential elections they still refuse the results that 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 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 coup for a protest be held today but since counts of it instead they want to plug together pulls together for may this thick 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. now may the first is also being marked with mass labor day marches worldwide in europe several large nationwide demos are under way for example as these are the latest pictures from france where it is election week and supporters of incumbent leader nicolas sarkozy and the country's far right symbol to hit the streets of paris five days before the crucial

presidential vote. and in spain where the euro crisis has seen of the country plunge into a double dip recession people there are voicing their anger at the ongoing stringent cuts and unemployment and to greece crowds marched outside the parliament building in athens and through the city an anti austerity protest and then far out eastward into asia indonesian workers held the continent's biggest labor day rally with around one hundred thousand demanding better pay and job security and while in the united states occupy protesters are planning a rallies in new york to blockade a major bridge and shut down some of wall street's finance houses. now the occupy organizers made a plans of being seen as a test for the movement which has struggled against the earth or at least stay on the map for the past eight months it's now of course a worldwide campaign and in just over an hour's time a one in london activist explains the motivation. 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 they're meant to be regulating 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 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.

this is our duty to the middle east now where israel is taking new steps to shield itself from its arab neighbors having already walled off the palestinians is now seeking to do the same with the lebanese. has the latest. 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 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 key of war they always do meet under the auspices of unifil and this war is being constructed in conjunction with the uniform of 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 of the self is to stop militant activity there and also to prevent smuggling and then there's another war very 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 barrier is what is becoming more isolated as tensions increase in the region and here we only need to look at recent developments between cairo and television 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 as well in addition to that we have the situation with iran and here. we are now asking 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 thirty tensions in the region are increasing . his policy reporting an hour julian assange has already exposed some of the world's most shocking secrets and his search for the truth it's not over yet the third edition of julian's series or airs today right here on our sea he has already tackled the head of hezbollah and two opponents from very different political extremes of both shows got viewers one certainly the media fired up in today's

program on r t julian meets the new president of tunisia a human rights activist who was swept to power at the start of the arab spring learn more about his challenges views and future objectives later here on our c in about twenty four five minutes it will be coming on for now though a quick preview and president i just spend spend four months confinement but i did barely which is the prime minister in tunisia spent more than ten years in sort of confinement and i always admired him and it's 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 crazy i went crazy because you know when you have just to talk to yourself to be. to be alone with your so all this time you it's terrible experience this is why i think it's

a kind of. psychological torture and so many people say look you have never been tortured in prison and i know 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. like i mentioned that program coming up in about twenty or so still to come here on the program britain's out of touch. these people have

to be in. the interests of million is a multi million is explore why increasing numbers of british people think politicians have no idea what life is really like to the average struggling for. egypt's desperate for its tourism to take off again. after the two thousand rising but instability keeping the book as we explain. are turning our attention now to syria 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 fifty monitors in syria by friday hundreds on the way in the next few weeks and the mission is over so your cease fire which the u.n. says is not being implemented damascus blames a foreign funded insurgency for the bloodshed just days ago neighboring lebanon

sees a huge cache of smuggled in from the syrian political analyst and he says foreign meddling is simply plunging the region into chaos. the smuggling of weapons 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 the d's and they're coming through lebanon one of the. lebanon and this is this one ship. actually but there's a lot of work then. that had 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 terrorism taking place hold on syria even the american the western eyes the western world know that there

is a lot out there isn't taking place in syria al qaeda been moved into syria from out of the 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 there now or in the future and starting with afghanistan it's time for the r.t. world update now and hundreds of people to demonstrate southern 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 and 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 united states. gunfire and a series of explosions have struck nigeria's main northern city of at least one person was killed as government forces raided a suspected hideout for the militant. group the violence comes just days after

gunmen attacked christian worship was at a university campus church killing at least twenty one. there are reports of gunfire in a capital after a second day of clashes between the ruling military junta and soldiers loyal to the former government the hunter says it's still in control of the capital despite soldiers taking over the state broadcaster and attacking the horde locals were forced to flee the chaos and electricity to some neighborhoods was cut off another hunter seized power in march the government's handling of a rebellion in the north. a migration agency in sudan says it will not be able to meet a deadline to repatriate up to fifteen thousand south sudanese by may the international organization for migration says thousands lack the means to leave the sudanese town of kosti millions fled from the south to the north during the twenty two year old

war that led to the south getting independence last july but then they found themselves stranded in the aftermath. well egypt's tourism industry has always been vital to the country's economy earning it billions of dollars every 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 r.t. sara furthur has been discovering. egypt turns an industry with one's writing high but recent political problem oil 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 puffy economic growth so closely tied to tourism first stop was to meet a woman he could give us a crush cools into exactly what's happening to egypt's economy right now come two

thousand. and came true. theoretically we would have continued to grow and along the same slow that's what should have happened and then the recession in most countries worldwide when the recession 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 plan so that 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 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 five years. and how big a factor is tourism in the economic model tourism of the instrument so you have to

keep the proceeds and you have to change your approach to it and i mean you need to have been very traditional 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 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 a 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 we don't i'm going to rest in the way we have. a big difference between. public sphere and the bright sphere you bribed i can't begin to come to. the book and ask you why you do what 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 right for all people saw we have culture here in europe and the people have to speak this culture religion aside every beating 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 concerts and engine 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 the. tourism industry remains extremely clear its success is going to depend on whoever comes into government next but that in itself of course is extremely unfair and 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. it's

good to have you with us here in oxford today how the u.s. is promising to help the philippines boost its maritime security just a week off a joint military exercises the problem is there this move china which has a territorial dispute with manila over a group of islands in the south china sea for an auto raise from the new patriotic alliance says america is using the philippines as a pawn for its own geopolitical game. the start of the year we we saw the u.s. announcements of their new defense strategy which is rebalancing. 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 power 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 china it's playing a very shrewd game often circle and containment but it will not it will not. over a few islands get the feeling. 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 territory of this meet with china. it's always where you want to go to get the latest stories also reports and shows ready to go. away that's. right right now while preparing for the worst chicago is

still weeks away security already working on how to live the way. the. very best friend to go. centuries old. over. britain's wealthy government ministers for being out of touch with what life is really like most 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. 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. 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 skinners 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 eight 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 hold you have all of the 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 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 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're being represented the more they'll be turned off from 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 are 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 millionaires a multi-millionaires these people know nothing about what it's like to be very person in this country. they don't speak first story 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 actually coming from the leadership of the privileged and independent. wealthy it rings especially hollow for many as the belt tightens so you to buy it is the anger and alienation of those who feel they've no voice in the corridors of power. do stay with us or just for a few minutes now because i just back with the third edition of his latest program exclusively here.

to a substantial degree and one form or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of europe. and the shadow is i'm approaching up on all the for. the early twenty first century military bases a network of military bases all around the forms of the empire that the united states is trying to do that's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s.

troops stationed on these bases all around the world. we don't have a foreign 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 door noises our noise and those of all the us at all because they're our 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 thing else you get everything you needed. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know.