i don't screen around the world this is all tea with you twenty four hours a day streets are being brimming with people this may day with most celebrating demonstrating trade unions marched under the labor day flag to the mall better working conditions and even russia's ruling turned them took to spearheading a crowd of their supporters all these are going to glasgow was the. one hundred twenty thousand people out there this is one of the out there isn't russian. rather. than this it's a word. for the retirement age to be raised and for better conditions for workers over all.

went on strike to demand more and conditions from the united. states and mark the labor unions for the last seventy or eighty years we all know how the more serious political movement is on the street name. is. the be. the rest of the. citizen came from the united states. also taking part in this they can see how to sort of. place over the last six months of this labor day in the. bronx at this. reason or marmont day to celebrate spraying and then to protest anything. 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 and is unhappy about vladimir putin's return to the kremlin jacob greaves reports from amid a sea of red flags. israeli has 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 isn't 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 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 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 gether 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. well may the first as be marked with mass

labor day marches worldwide in europe several large nationwide demos have taken place in italy rallies turn violent as riot police beat protesters demanding change from their leaders the city of turin saw the fiercest clashes in france where it's election week supporters of incumbent leader nicolas sarkozy and the country's far right the streets of paris five days before the crucial presidential vote in spain where the euro crisis has seen the country plunge into a double dip recession people voice their anger at the ongoing stringent cuts and unemployment in greece crowds marched outside the parliament building in athens and through the city in. protest but that's going to more in-depth look at all this from david pustules he's from the belgian workers' party and he's also editor in chief of the solid newspaper well we've just been seeing here at r.t. the scenes in italy why do you think labor day descended into violence there.

but i think that in italy as. the violence come from. establishment with the politics of austerity when you have a cut in your wage. your wage when you cut social security when you of cut of. meant then you see that. the people are confronted with very violent process in their life the lose the. middle to to to to survive and that's why i think we see that sort of reaction in the population and i think in the future with the risk of other violence would come of course the first thing is that people and i think that we have to show that seen in many countries in europe in greece in italy in france in

belgium in spain a lot of people are demonstrating nearly every day now in europe and they don't any they don't see any change of the ice when you saw you out there in the heart of it all in brussels the center decision making as we are discussing europeans have had their say today they've had it in the past as well are the m.e.p. and commissioners in brussels actually listening. no i don't think so they don't listen because they want. their working mostly for the bank we have seen in the financial crisis of two thousand and eight that they have said we are going to reform the system and four years later what we have seen is that the depths are growing for the people but that the bank and the speculators and the millionaires are going better and they're doing their job as usual you know you have to know

that a recent report of swiss bank. said that zero point five per cent of the global population in the world all thirty eight point five percent of the global wealth that means that this average this amount of money was never saw. big for a little court of people when i what we see in europe with the european commission they protect that process they protect that system with a crisis and what we see what we see in europe is that so of the people and so you say are saying that this economic strategy is failing throughout europe your from the marxist belgium's workers' party do you think those ideals are gaining momentum with with growing unemployment and disenchantment with the euro project do you see support no greater support for your movement. absolutely absolutely we see the more

and more people we. are for another alternative they don't believe anymore in sort of reform and the problem is that of all we are going to go in the situation where the people are going to pay for the crisis and they pay a lot or the other people i mean the rich people the speculators the bankers the millionaires are going to be so and we see that in our power in our country but also in all europe. the left the real left is growing ok i've seen it if you want to on the go it just just quickly explain what your position is if austerity measures are working what is the economic way forward what do you suggest should be the answer. i mean i mean i think we have to change the motor of the economy and we have to go with an economy with the with the people first the people and not the

profit and we have an economy with solidarity and corporation and not always fighting and conquer competition between countries and people and so on so we have to do to a renewed economy in total business that's one one thing but directly for the moment we have to take measures that the rich people are paying for the crisis with taxes against them and not against the common people just briefly david will the politicians though pay for this crisis you went to a little earlier they're going to see even more social unrest sweeping throughout europe will we see political casualties governments forming and the shift in the political attitude what's briefly your feeling for the near future i think i think that we have seen that already that that people that government feels you know it seems the two thousand and eight about the health of. the european government after

change but it's not a real change for the moment it's just a change of of the establishment the left so called the so-called left government with the right and so on we've seen that and we're going to see that also in france but i think there will be time whether people are going to see these they are politicians did they change we change for right or left we are two other politician other people and i think that could be only with a process of of measures major change with popular demonstrations and we have seen that in the world i think last spring and now we have seen. in europe in greece in spain also in canada they are a movement of revolt and i think they are growing in the coalmines. finally very

short time briefly you mention the arab spring you talk about revolutions then in europe just briefly no i don't think we will reveal lucian of i.d.'s anyway and revolution in the way that we don't need only small change i think we need global change ok david thank you very much your thoughts david plotz you're from the belgian workers' party joining us live in brussels could hear your thoughts very clear. in america occupy protesters are rebuilding in new york and other cities in a bid to surge back into the headlines reported her as across developments in the big apple. the new york city police department has stepped up its manpower as thousands of occupy activists are back on the streets of new york city picking up where they left off last fall many are converging here in fine arts while hundreds of others are picketing outside of banks in the offices of national and multinational corporations how the occupy blueprint is calling on the nine percent

rate from go into making any purchases today they say only five with the boy the labor and the purchasing power will the one percent be able to understand that they're well it depends on the ninety nine percent of americans many of whom are still struggling and suffering in the small u.s. force this thing is being dubbed somewhat of an occupy two point zero a resurgent of this grassroots movement that began in new york city in the fall a protest against corporate greed corporate influence on you what's the politics wealth inequality there is outreach among many issues here in the u.s. which includes under fordable health care the student loan bubble and at the end of the day the fact that there's a huge divide between the rich and poor in the u.s.

predator banks and the more you do homes that are going down the working accumulation of wealth and the ownership of the means of production have been centered in a smaller and smaller group and now it's just one percent that essentially owns everything they own all the factories they own the road sale the resources they are the water they own everything and the rest of the ninety nine percent does all the work and that's to pay for everything joining this movement a movement that has grown. in unprecedented ways throughout the world many more to life this movement when it first began saying that it's a bunch of us. unemployed people camping out in places but absent. head games. the world just saw that there's a common frustration for people to get their head now these people are that get out in the streets as this occupy wall street movement begins once again in full

force reporting from new york ny artsy. 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 airs today here on r.t. he's already tackled the head of hezbollah and two opponents from very different political extremes both shows got viewers on the media fired up and days program he meets the new president of tunisia human rights activist who was swept to power at the start of the arab spring wave of revolt the more about his challenges use and future objectives a little later this hour here on r.t. in the meantime here's what's ahead. i just spent spent four months it is sort of three confinement so but i did barely which the prime minister in tunisia spent more than ten years in sort of confinement and i always admired him and efforts and and said how he could you know survive through this kind of experience but because after just four months i was just talking to myself you know i really got crazy i

want crazy because you know when you have just to talk to yourself to be. to be alone with yourself for all this time you it's a terrible experience this is why i think it's a kind of far. side to say psychological torture and so many people said look you have never been tortured in prison and i used to say no i was under torture but it was another kind of torture and probably one of the worst when you know this when you know that you are fighting for human rights for good values then you can have enough resistance you know to tackle the situation.

hundreds of people have the. and straight in the southern afghan turn accusing nato troops of killing four children during a gunfight with insurgents it's the latest episode in a major setback in the relations between the u.s. and afghanistan in the past months and it comes as president above arrives on an unannounced trip to cement the country's future relations well for more on all of this now two political analyst. chandan he is in london well let's start with president obama's trip what does he need to do to restore what are clearly quite battered relations now between the nato forces and the afghan people president obama can do nothing to restore any form of positive relationships again between the nato forces and the afghan people particularly or even president karzai who only last year threatened to join the taliban i mean it's international workers they are no one suffers more than working people of the global south particularly the poor people of afghanistan who are suffering the fourth decade now of war

that's a visiting their country tragically they have been victim to all kinds of atrocities by the nato occupation forces from the massacre just a month ago of seventeen villages supposedly by just one u.s. army personnel probably by by more with nato occupation forces posing with dead afghans etc these truly are the veritable wretched of the earth so is it time for those forces to withdraw before twenty fourteen or do they have a role up until then and indeed after that time. you know they should have withdrawn a long time if afghanistan is to really begin the baby steps towards any type of nation building and stability internally and with its neighbors but frankly i think it's quite clear that there's going to be a civilian and definitely military presence of the twenty four team which will be much less than the occupation numbers that we're seeing now which is around eighty thousand but it's clear that nato want to use afghanistan like they've used libya

as a launching pad for further regime change and you know the clinton and obama have already said that the shifting focus to war and containment against china in the pacific and afghanistan will be a fundamental part of the out of that war campaign there have been possible peace talks between the u.s. and the taliban do you think after the troops have left the taliban should take power is that the one of the afghan people and is that really a good thing for afghanistan. i think there's this several factors at play here now nato opened up our office for the taliban in doha and caught the which is basically a form of bribery as well see the taliban movement is split the taliban is not a monolithic organization with the central leadership taleban basic means any party or to forces in afghanistan that want to fight the occupation so really you know when they kill bin laden bin laden was removed for a very specific purpose because bin laden was just frankly too and see imperialist in the al qaeda which has alliances with mullah omar in afghanistan and have to

remember the people of afghanistan like the people of south asia or in general don't like a lot of the arabs hold a lot of kind of illusions about what nato can achieve for example the taliban opposed the nato intervention in libya didn't announce gadhafi at all but to set it's another attack on a muslim country a muslim should be very wary of this so really again like i said nato want to push away the and team putin is kind of currents within the toilet within the afghan resistance and want to maintain and bolster a collaborationist regime post twenty fourteen for the other regime change operation against russia china and also india does explain what that regime would actually be made up or what do you mean by that. well there was a reason why they got rid of the p.d.p. a government back in the one nine hundred eighty s. the p.d.p. a government was was progressive. massive land reform education program a liberation of women so what they what they've instituted basically through through through war and intervention in afghanistan is a regime that is hostile to all its neighbors particularly in china and russia and

also that's playing a dirty game in pakistan the west also very nervous about pakistan and also with the libya connection to gadhafi over support of pakistan's right to a nuclear capability so really the the west want a regime in place in afghanistan that can continue this destabilizing and traumatic history that the afghan people have unfortunate tragically been seeing for last several decades yet we are seeing russia cooperating with the nato campaign at the moment recently opening up more access into the country clearly russia very concerned about the instability there in afghanistan and is there to support what's happening at the moment absolutely and i think russia playing the correct game i mean i'm russia has a eurasian strategy to oppose the u.s. or germany and they have to get their hands dirty to some extent in afghanistan if they're going to play a role the same with china same with the central asian republics but one thing remains clear to quote the predator the sequel the predator and also of the rapper

ice cube but quite the same thing there's no stopping what can't be stopped and there's no killing what can't be killed and what can't be stopped and what can't be killed is the never topple historical progress or removing us or germany from the world scene and the faith of our peoples and our lot is through our ancestors to find liberation and independence in afghanistan let's just talk about the sentiment among seeing people at the moment back to those demonstrations today do you think that there's any way that it relations could improve at all between the occupying forces or do you think in this time scale up until twenty fourteen when the combat troops leave things could get even worse we'll see even more problems in tensions between both parties. absolute bill i'm not saying that you're saying this but it would be an absolute insult to expect the afghan people to have any anything but hostility and resistance to nato seeing the way these people afghan people are treated by nato i mean the afghan afghanistan from the poorest countries in the world and such is the absolute kind of. disgusting way in which the afghan people

are treated that that the dead afghan people as a result of the new thought be patient on even counting these people i don't even count as human beings these these in the eyes of nato are children and people of a lesser god the afghan people and peace loving people around the world one except that thank you very much indeed to confound and political analysts and journalists live in london thanks your thoughts thanks. mel to israel which is taking new steps to shield itself from its arab neighbors having already walled off the palestinians television else seeking to do the same with the lebanese artie's paulus live has the latest for us now from israel. 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 need 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 want 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 a of a muso 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 seeing cracks between the israeli political and military leadership over whether or not to go ahead with preparation for war whether or not they should continue talking about a war when there's a lot of confusion around back to the tensions in the region are increasing. turned off to some more of the world's news for you this aaron our world update gone from a series of explosions rocked nigeria's main northern city of cardio at least one

person was killed as government forces raided a suspected hide out for the militant group the violence comes just days after government attacked christian worshipers at a university campus and church leaving twenty one dead. there are reports of gunfire mali's capital after a second day of clashes between the ruling military and soldiers loyal to the former government agenda 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 it seized power in march an anger at the government's handling of a rebellion in the north. twenty seven sudanese soldiers have been killed by ourselves today it's only during a clash along a contested border between the two countries it's the latest in a stream of confrontations between both sides after saddam's forces invaded the disputed town of heglig ten days ago split from the north in july last year for twenty two year wharton thousands of people remain displaced from the conflict when

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