in the world this is r t with twenty four hours a day moscow's streets have been brimming with people this may day with no celebrating and some demonstrating trade unions marched under the labor day flag to demand better working conditions and even russia's ruling turned them to spearheading a crowd of their supporters in a disco was their. in the hundred thousand people out. on in the world there is a. rather good. word. for the retirement age to be raised and for better conditions for workers overall. to demand. conditions from the united.

states and mark the labor unions for the last seventy or eighty years. various political movements on the streets. the rest of the. came from the united states. also taking part in this. place over the last six months. said there's a reason or more of a day to celebrate spring in and then to protest anything. opposition members were 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 and is unhappy about that in the putin's return to the kremlin jacob griese reports from

amid a sea of red flags. is roughly as 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 steep as in history comes the days of the soviet union and 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 instance 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 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 a 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 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 nationalists choosing this day to march. where the first is also being marked with mass labor day marches worldwide in europe several large nationwide demos are

underway in italy demonstrations turned violent. police beat protesters in france where it's election week supporters of incumbent leader nicolas sarkozy the country's far right simpleton asli hit the streets of paris five days before the crucial presidential vote in spain where the euro crisis is seeing the country plunge into a double dip recession people there voiced their anger at the own going stringent cuts and unemployment greece crowds marched outside the parliament building in athens and through the city to start to protect its own and there from the crisis. told me earlier that the economic problems of turn the public against their governments. the problem with the euro zone idea and the european community it's a never been a democratic ideal whenever the european constitution has been up for a vote it's has lost in every referendum popular referendum that's been out there and now you are having the problem of this economic crisis which is becoming worse

and worse what you have is the european union and the european central bank demanding that the national governments cut spending and go into these austerity programs rather than value the euro and try to inflate their way out of this problem so it's basically helping the bondholders at the expense of the people now the people of course eventually if you keep on squeezing them an economic problem becomes a political problem and you start seeing massive discontent which you're seeing in italy i think that you're going to start seeing more and more of it in france it seems to me that the establishment politicians of both the left on the right the sarkozy and hollande are not responding to the general popular discontent they seem to be responding to the quote unquote technocrats who insist on austerity and what we've seen in spain what we've seen in greece what we see in the u.k. austerity measures do not seem to be working to fix the economy and a swathe of this popular discontent and so i would expect to see more protests in

italy during the coming weeks as spring becomes summer and not only in italy but in the rest of europe. and america. protests reemerging in new york and other cities in a bid to surge back into the headlines. across developments for us in the big apple . the crowd is getting bigger as each hour progress is there are thousands gathering in bryant park here in new york city and hundreds more picketing outside banks in the offices of corporate and multinational headquarters here in new york city of madison avenue was shut down in manhattan when hundreds stormed the street . traffic occupied wall street movement is say many are saying this is sort of a resurgence of it this marks a day where the activists that began their grassroots effort in the fall of two thousand and eleven a movement that throughout the u.s.

and around the globe is now coming to light again what the activists movement is asking is for all of the ninety nine percent of the u.s. to refrain from going to work or purchasing anything throughout the day they say that only through. their labor and their purchasing power will the one percent understand that their wealth depends on the ninety nine percent of americans many of whom are struggling right now still in a very dismal workforce here in the u.s. all the activists are going to be taking to the streets marching from bryant park down to union square where many more legal union students scholars will be joining the crowd the n.y.p.d. has said that it has increased its manpower for today lisa officials say that they are expecting many organized illegal activities to take place and they say they are prepared to arrest who violate the law our viewers may remember the images that

were seen in the fall of two thousand and eleven just last year when police used tear gas pepper spray but tons and heavy handed tactics against activists in. oakland california and boston and new york's new york and many other cities throughout the u.s. and the destructions that are being planned for today are carried out we may in fact see clashes once again between police and unarmed protesters here in the u.s. . to the middle east now where israel is taking new steps to shield itself from its arab neighbors having already walled off the palestinians telhami was now seeking to do the same with the lebanese army as paula slit has the latest from israel. 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 fence 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 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 wall in the south 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 israel is becoming more isolated as tensions increase in the region and here we only need to look at recent developments between cairo and tell of if 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 when there's a lot of confusion around that so certainly tensions in the region are increasing.

journalists are it has already exposed some of the world's most shocking secrets and his search for the truth is not over yet the third edition of his series today here in r.t. he's already tackled the head of hezbollah and two opponents from very different political extremes both shows got viewers out in the media far well in today's program in which the new president of tunisia human rights activist who was swept to power at the start of the arab spring wave of revolt you can know more about his challenges views and future objectives in the next hour here on in the meantime here's what's ahead i just spent four months confinement but i did early which the prime minister in tunisia spent more than ten years in sort of confinement and i always admired him and ever since i live and that's 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 want 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. side 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 tackle the situation.

still to come in here an r.t. britain's out of touch millionaire minister. these these people haven't got a clue what it's like to be an ordinary person the. more you. look you know after the interests of millionaires a multimillionaire as. we explore why increasing numbers of british people think the posh politicians in power have no idea what might really like for the average struggling family. egypt's desperate for tourism to take off again after seeing it nosedive after the two thousand and eleven uprising but instability is keeping the bookings back as we explain shortly. so that's still to come for you but first to syria where dozens 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 and hundreds more over the coming weeks the mission's designed to oversee a cease fire which u.n.

says is not being implemented damascus blames a foreign funded insurgency for the bloodshed just days ago in neighboring lebanon and seized a huge cache of smuggled weapons meant for the syrian rebels political analyst wasn't he told me earlier that 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 been funded by by syria and live in saudi arabia and we know the money is coming from saudi arabia and from qatar and from other and d's and they're coming through lebanon one of the route through lebanon and this is this one ship. actually but there are a lot of weapon that has been used. go 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 of terrorism taking a place in syria al-qaeda been moved into syria from arab country funded by some government 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. coming up to seventeen minutes past the hour in the russian capital to more of the world's news now for the world update hundreds of people have demonstrated in the southern afghan using nato troops 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 relations between kabul and the u.s. . government and a series of explosions of struck nigeria's main northern city of car know at least one person was killed as government forces raided a suspected hideout for the militant boko haram group the violence comes just days

after government attack christian worshipers at the university campus and church leaving twenty one people dead. there are lots of gunfire mali's capital after a second day of clashes between the ruling military soldiers loyal to the former government 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 electricity to some neighborhoods was cut off it seized power in march and anger at the government's handling of rebellion the. migration agency in sudan says it won't be able to meet a deadline to repatriate up to fifteen thousand sudanese by may international organization for migration says thousands lack the means to leave the sudanese town of course millions fled from the self to the north during the twenty two year war that led to the self getting independence last july for themselves stranded in the aftermath. 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 that business will bounce back although the ongoing political uncertainty could make that a tall order as sort of firth as being funny and. egypt's terrorism industry with once riding high but recent political turmoil has hit the industry hard and in the new political landscape there's 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 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 eleven. 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 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 and so that having this ended up having something more along the lines of that. with or maybe go at that maybe go up that have to 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 the first is tourism in the economic model tourism will be instrument so you have to keep the proceeds and you have to change your approach tourism i mean it needs to have been very tradition the so that we were approached tourism but enticed think back to earth may be impacted by a growing islamic influence in the political sphere the tourism industry are very

concerned with the go to bombs to alcoholism parts of 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 power. it's considered a more fundamentalist islamic group and since a revolution has gained the second most seats in parliament it's going to. anyway we have. a big difference between. you bribed i can't begin to come to. 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 so investors are concerned with and when it comes to the public life bellowing is a little different but in public sphere this is all people saw. 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 tourism industry remains extremely clear its excesses going to depend on whoever comes into government next but that in itself of course is extremely unfair and still like the turn as an industry the entire country right now is in a state of flux and no one's quite sure what's going to happen next. the u.s. is promising to help the philippines boost his maritime security just

a week off the joint military exercises but it's angering china which is a territorial dispute with over a group of islands in the south china sea but also what is from the new law and says america is using the philippines as a pawn for its own geopolitical going. the 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 with the some into some sort of military outpost for the united states troops and i believe that the projection of power in 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 the us is not really going to go all out in the bag when i think china it's playing a very shrewd game off and certainly meant in containment but it will not it will not go to war with china over a few islands that the feel that it's claiming so that that's the double talk that the us often uses to deceive the philippine government and tell us that we should we should have the us intervene as an ally in this the territorial dispute with china. is where to go more on all our stories an addition to what you see here on the screen and you'll find our reports and shows ready to go on our you tube channel here's what we've also got online for the moment for the worst nato chicago so much is still weeks away but security is already working on how to evacuate the entire city in an attack. and it goes very best friend is to go under the hammer at some of these this centuries old garment that once belonged to queen

marie the chief is expected to fetch over four million dollars. all that on our website now there's a growing barrage of. britain's wealthy government ministers for being out of touch with what life is really like most cabinet members and david cameron's ruling party come from the richest levels of society and don't face the same struggles as most british families do well for more now on this year's artes nor smith in 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 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 dennis skinner's an m.p. who would once have been seen as pure traditional british labor party stock the son of a minor 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 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 is a lot of working class people have decided not even the vote 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. the 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 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 presenting them these people have a. multi-million look you know after the interests of million. these people know nothing. in this country. they don't speak first i don't think. very privileged. in this together is the rallying cry if 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 belt tightens so you to die is this the anger and alienation of those who feel they've no voice in the corridors of power laura smith. it is no. in the russian capital in a few minutes of his third interview headlines stay with us this is also you live in moscow.

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top stories this team workers of the world unite it's labor day and the turnout is high here in moscow more than one hundred thousand people filled the streets to celebrate the opposition also using rallies to raise their concerns. a may day rallies are being held across europe but they've been mobbed by police. brought offices hit town to protesters injuring marchers as they voiced their anger at the relentless program of cuts. in america the movement banks on using may day to stage a big comeback and prove its staying power been fighting a crackdown by authorities ever since bursting on to the scene eight months ago. plus the world's most famous expose of top secrets goes ahead to head with the new president of tunisia he rose to power after a popular uprising in the country.