it is good to have you with us today this is live with me rule research shy. streets brimming with people this may day most celebrating demonstrating trade unions marched under the labor day flag to better working conditions and even a ruling spearheading a crowd of their supporters right in the thick of it was a tease. we help more than a hundred thousand people out. there is a. rather . this is a word. for it with a brain and for better conditions for workers overall. conditions

. same. day the labor unions. the law seventy or eighty years. various political parties on the street name. came from the united states. also taking part in this to sort of. place over the last six months of this labor day in their. states. to save the philippines. to mistakes in europe which is going through other difficulties.

politically so we know there was a six month. process at this. present or more of a day to celebrate spraying and then to protest anything. obvious a ridiculous reporting the 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 so it's ultimately unhappy about vladimir putin's return to the kremlin jake agree if the reports from a sea of red fox. israeli has 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 steve years of 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 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 sort of 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 calling for free and fair elections it garnered a lot of media attention on the back of december's parliamentary elections initially called for a protest be held today but since counts of it instead they want to plug together

and pulls together for may this thing a day before president elects volunteer proteins and nor go ration 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 nationalist 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. latest pictures from france where it is election week and supporters of incumbent leader nicolas sarkozy and the country's far right symbol. hit the streets of paris five days before the crucial presidential vote. and in spain where the euro crisis has seen 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 rallies in new york to blockade a major bridge and shut down some of wall street's finance houses. now the occupy organizers may day plans are 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 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 with profits before people it's

intertwined with the corporations we also question the idea of regulated bodies being managed by the people i 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 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 televisa

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 taken to rule they always do meet under the auspices of unifil 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 to finish by the end of the year according to the israelis the wanted 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 waistband 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 beriah israel is becoming more isolated as tensions increase in the region and here we only need to look at recent developments between cairo in television 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 ninety eight are dated and buried and in addition to that just a few days ago stopped it's

a long standing agreement to supply gas to as well in addition to that we have the situation with iran and here. we are now 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. reporting on our 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 are 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. i just spend spend four months it is sort of confinement so 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 for all this time you it's terrible experience this is why i think it's a kind of far. side to say psychological torture and so many people say look you have never been tortured in prison and i said 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. like i mentioned that program coming up in about twenty or so still to come here on the program. out of touch. these people have. the interests of million is a. explore why increasing numbers of british people think politicians have no idea what life is really like the average struggling for. egypt's desperate for

its tourism to take off again. for the two thousand. 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 for 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 the 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. through lebanon and this is this one ship. actually but there's a lot of work then. that 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 though america and 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 a 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 now or in the future. starting with afghanistan it's time for the r.t. world update now when hundreds of people to demonstrate southern. 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 kano 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 a christian worship was that a university campus church killing at least twenty one. there are reports of gunfire in the mollies capital after

a second day of clashes between the ruling military junta and soldiers loyal to the former government the junta says it's still in control of the capital despite soldiers taking over the state broadcaster and attacking the airport 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 believes 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. sarah firth as been discovering. egypt turns an 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 closely tied to tourism well 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 came true. 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 recession 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 a maybe grow about 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 time for some growth within the medium term which is three to 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 enticed 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 going to tourist in the way we have. a big difference between. public sphere and the brave it's free you bribed i can't begin to come to. the book and ask 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 in public sphere this is right for all people we saw we have culture here in egypt 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 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 work on maintaining our monuments and restoring our monuments and. tourism industry remains extremely. 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 it's a day now the u.s. is promising to help the philippines boost its maritime security just

a week off the joint military exercises the problem is though this move is 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 towards and putting more troops in this region to secure its economic and security interests and that includes placing more u.s. troops here in the philippines and transforming. it into some sort of military outpost for the united states troops and i believe that the projection of power of the projection of military power is aimed toward such rivals of the us like china and it becomes a 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 and the us is not really going to go all out in china it's playing a very shrewd game off and certainly meant containment but it will not it will not be. over a few islands that if you look at. 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. it's always where you want to go to get the latest story. to go. away. right now while preparing for the worst. still weeks away. with the way. the.

very best friend. 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. 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 years we've got the biggest knob of all time now in cameron running the rules the snobs are there to be seen on the tory benches in particular i call it millionaire's row denis skinner's an m.p. who would once have been seen as pure traditional british labor party stock the son of a miner and an ex minor himself he came up through the ranks became a trade union leader a counsellor and then a labor party m.p. in one thousand nine hundred seventy 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 holding how the labor party quite detached at times from ordinary working class voters and the impact of

both political parties. being slightly out of touch with ordinary working class voters is that a lot of working class people have decided not even the vote in the elections it's easy to see why sixty percent of today's cabinet went to fee 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 they are being represented the more. traditional politics and the more 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 clue what it's like to be an ordinary person. of interest of million. people know nothing about what is posted in this country. they don't speak first i don't think. very privileged. 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 tightens so you two biases the anger and alienation of those who feel they have no voice in the corridors of power laura smith. stay with us or just for a few minutes. with the third edition 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 an approaching upon liberty. in 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 get its astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million or more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around us. 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 of. the

noises our north of those 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 into world war two the spaces i've been. working here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions they have thing else just get everything you needed. you know. and the.

hundred thousand people. it's been five. months ago. with a new president. who rose to power. in the country.