responded marina point who's watching developments in the big apple so it's a situation i activists so they want to do a nationwide strike but is that really happening. while on a strike in new york city is not exactly what happened but for anyone who thinks the occupy wall street movement is a thing of the past is sorely mistaken because thousands of occupy activists flooded the streets of new york city on may day reigniting their grassroots movement that began in the fall thousands congregated in parks and outside of banks in the offices of corporations and multinational corporations to protest against economic interest disparity between the rich and poor protest against corporate influence on u.s. politics others express outrage over other issues such as an affordable health care to wish the student debt crisis in the united states and also the on affordable

cost of higher education so there were thousands upon thousands marching through the streets all converging in union square where there was a concert now out from what has been reported approximately thirty people at least were arrested now many of them were actually those that were taking part in student occupy events at parks throughout new york city there are some pictures of police officers getting quite violent or what some would call aggressive with those that were arrested but things that they have remained pretty civil between the police and the activists so far there is that these three hopping helicopters that were hovering hovering over the crowd as they moved their way through new york city and the activists that i spoke with say that their message has not changed in their grievous grievances are still the same. the creditor banks with the more you do not homes that have gone down here the working accumulation employ and. ownership but

the means of production have been centered in a smaller and smaller group that now is just one percent that essentially owns everything they own all the factories they own that really today all the resources available what are they and everything and they're going to be ninety nine percent of the work and have to pay for everything. after a huge rally that took place in union square the crowd then began a march down to wall street where this movement all began in september of two thousand and eleven in zuccotti park that's where the crowd was heading is heading and from there they will continue to take part in activities that raise awareness about their grievances that continue here in the u.s. . but it's been a somewhat rocky eight months for the movement there's been a lot of sound and fury but is anything concrete actually been achieved. i think the fact that the phrase occupy wall street is known all around the world

speaks to the fact that this movement has achieved something let's remember it began in new york city and then blaise throughout the nation and then around the globe the frustrations that are voiced by this movement are felt by those of different races different religions different ethnicities and ages many feel the crunch many believe that the wealth is held by the minority of the country and while the majority is working hard and not reaping any of the rewards when this movement first began mainstream media many outlets tried to marginalize activists taking part in occupy then saying that they were lazy or or unemployed they had nothing better to do but soon you saw a very well known names dollars celebrities joining their support to this movement and one name includes that of dr cornell west of princeton professor and all. turning up to this to four years ago was campaigning for brought obama and now

he's standing side by side with the occupy movement. the spirit inside of the activists in the occupy movement didn't dampen just because the snow fail that the fire is still there it just takes a different form and it's going to bounce back really in the next few weeks and months in the. way that democratic awakening around poor people working people critiques capitalism imperialism sex is a racism homophobia and. most of the bigotry it's going to is going to live. and i've spent hours upon hours walking with the activists throughout the city covering this story and i can tell you that they seem very much recharged and very committed to pushing their message and holding a letter that officials accountable for what the citizens want and with an election year coming up these activists say that they will be taking their message to the

streets as more of that are planned to take place surrounding the nato summit later on this month so for those betting on the fact that the occupy movement has got a way they could expect that more events will be taking place all right thanks very much marina for that update. live for us in new york. as may day rallies got underway in more than one hundred u.s. cities some have already turned violent you can see pictures from oakland california where police fired tear gas and flash grenades to disperse the made a demonstration as it attempted to block downtown traffic in seattle washington a black cloud an artist reportedly smashed windows on store entrances before disappearing into the crowds arrests were made there and there are and there are reports of pepper spray to use against other protesters sarah van gelder says it's a defining moment for the movement. if if you're looking for the old style

leadership we're plan big guy has to be in charge and tell everybody what to do that's right you're not going to see leadership because this is leadership from the bottom up this is ordinary people in over one hundred communities around the country that are all participating in their own way taking taking leadership themselves and deciding what's important to them what's important to them as part of the ninety nine percent and you'll see a lot of to same themes over and over again to see people talking about the foreclosure crisis about wanting to get back into their homes and not not appreciating the way bank of america and chase bank are are foreclosing on people's homes to see a lot of things about the two mission crisis where students are deeply in debt over trillion dollars of student debt right now so you see a lot of the same themes around the country that this is coming from the bottom up and there's no way that you can take one particular leader and say this person does or doesn't represent us and if this person is kolob it or leaves or is assassinated you know that that would destroy the movement because it's really ordinary people for our latest developments you can follow us online through our twitter feed

that's at r t underscore com on twitter. may first was marked with mass labor day marches and worldwide in europe several large nationwide demonstrations took place in italy at rallies turn violent as riot police will be protesters demanding change from their leaders to 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 simultaneously hit the streets of paris five days before their crucial presidential vote in spain where the euro crisis saw the country plunge into a double dip recession people voiced anger on the ongoing stringent cuts and unemployment in greece crowds marched outside parliament in athens and threw the city in and sturdy protests david to steal from the belgian workers' party says the economy of the future should be centered around every day success in italy as well . the violence come from the. establishment with the political theory

t. when you have a cut in your wage a quarter of your wage when you cut social security when you cut of employment then you see that. the people are confronted with very violent process in their life the lose their middle to survive and that's why i think we see that sort of reaction in the population 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 competition between countries and people and so on so we have to renewed economy in total basis that's one one thing but directly for the moment we

are to take measures that the rich people are paying for the crisis with taxes against them and not against the common people. moscow's streets were brimming with people those may day most celebrating some demonstrating trade unions marched under the labor day flag to demand better working conditions even russia's ruling tedham took to addressing a crowd of their supporters are here in english but was there. more than a hundred twenty thousand people out to stop it this is one of those areas in rushing down to tell me they mean the ability to. make the money. rather time. and this is a word. for the retirement age raised and for better conditions for workers overall . workers

they can isolate and then they went on strike so the order to demand more conditions from the united states is minimal the problem. comes across a multi-million cents illegitimate nickname to mark the labor unions. the last seventy or eighty years we all know congress various political movements and parties on the street name this man the students now this days those are the bean marks and the rest of the. olympics listen to sing came from the united states. also taking part in this they can see how to sort of. learn the lesson. it's nice over the last six months of this claim or name there. is in process there's a reason or more of a day to celebrate spraying and then to protest anything. opposition members were also out to get their message across along on the country's second largest party

which still refuses to accept last year's parliamentary election results and is unhappy about a lot of mere putin's return to the crown what jacob riis reports from amid a sea of red flags for israeli has held annually for the colors poncy all money to carry certain amount of symbolism for them as they stand to represent workers in russia was a stages of history comes the days of the soviet union and mass parades which are held then we take a look at the crowd. you really get a sense for that this down among some of them just once for the soviet union images of the controversial jersey standard for its being held up time for their leader gennady zyuganov now he has proven quite crucial a very critical of president elect's vladimir putin 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've 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 just russia party and liberal democrats now one notable absentee from proceedings in central moscow today has been the white ribbon movement those cooling for free and fair elections it garnered a lot of media attention on the back of december's parliamentary elections initially cool for a protest be held today but since counts that it is that they want to plug together pulls together for may this thing a day before president elects vellum a person's inauguration 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. president obama's afghanistan i don't know

and visit coinciding with the first anniversary of the killing of osama bin laden the president signed a strategic agreement with the afghan leader hamid karzai outlining the two countries ties after the end of nato's mission in afghanistan the trip follows an angry demonstration against nato in a southern afghan town hundreds of people rallied accusing foreign troops of killing four children during a gun fight with insurgents for more on this i'm joined by stephen zooniverse a professor of politics at university of san francisco so president obama is strengthening ties with afghanistan what do you think is needed for the u.s. to restore its relations with the country. we don't take a lot of the road that comes our government seems quite willing to cooperate in signing this agreement which will extend extensive u.s. influence in that country for the foreseeable future the afghan people. increasingly alienated. fact it's interesting that the details of the

agreement that not been made. to move these thirty million afghans nor for that matter to the afghan parliament and yes says they will leave afghanistan in two thousand and fourteen what with the recent reports that the taliban suspended possible peace talks with us how do you think that could actually take place how could that actually be put into effect actually you know it seems is not completely . against and indeed there could be as many as twenty thousand residual troops staying behind even though you say you won't be combat troops the combat mission will end in two thousand and fourteen but twenty thousand is a fair number of armed personnel doubt in any country much less of the huge amount of consultants. in the sea people of independent contractors and and guard quite a few other i mean it will definitely be keeping the foot hole when it comes to your diplomatically politically economically and militarily. do you think though

that their presence the continued presence in the country will be sort of a stabilizing factor in helping bring it out of a transition. it depends on the on the one hand. window restaurant abandon afghanistan when the when the soviets left. being a real disaster on the other hand having no foreign forces in a country with a strong sense of nationalism and resentment that seems to spur instability as well although the hope is that this is something that was not abandoning it all together but on the other hand not having such an overbearing presence that it will lead to two to a greater resentment and instability of whether this is actually going to do the trick it remains to be seen and there are still a lot of you may soon because of the endemic corruption within the government human rights abuses by both the government and u.s. forces at the same time the the tactics of the taliban which have often targeted

innocent civilians and civilian infrastructure as alienated motion of populations well. now they have had a nato summit in chicago they'll be discussing the situation in afghanistan how do you see that playing out do you see any significant developments coming out of their own creasing really in the u.s. operation where the nato operation or one of my one other nato countries have withdrawn their forces still is not only are still not going to lock or resume so united states is going more and more a lot of men i'm sure the well ministration is going to be encouraging other nato countries to contribute at least financially maybe instant reining in other kinds of logistics i don't think it's any any hope of them bringing and additional troops at this point but definitely. the united states does not want to be. all right thanks very much for your time stevenson is professor of political science university of san francisco for. well doug com is where to go to find all this and

more on all the stories we're covering you can also check out our youtube channel here's what's online right now. preparing for the worst nato chicago summit still weeks away but security already working on how to evacuate the entire city if you're likely event of an attack plus. a girl's very best friend to go under the hammer at the southern bees this centuries old diamond that once belonged to queen maria demented she expected to fetch more than four million dollars. and to the middle east where israel is taking new steps to shield itself from its arab neighbors having already walled off palestinians tell of eve could not be seeking to do the same with the lebanese artie's polis leader has the latest. well the israeli army says it is building this 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 been on board it and this is monitored by unifil the united nations interim force in lebanon and in fact israel and lebanon while being taken to a war they always do need 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 one of the south is to stop militant activity there and also to prevent smuggling and then there is another war very 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 area 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 israel in addition to that we have the situation with iran them here. we are not seeing cracks between the israeli political and military dissent of whether one ought to go ahead with people nation full whether or not they supplanting you talking about of will when there's a lot of confusion of them back to the system the tensions in the region are

increasing. we're back with a summary of our main news stories in about ten minutes next the occupy wall street protesters whose anti greed message one global support last year hoping to rekindle the movement's momentum up next a london occupy activist tells us how the group is still on the rise as more people are understanding that they're being robbed by their own governments she says stay with us for that.

well here are some polls cathedral in london from where the occupy the london stock exchange me was fairly recently effected the movement appears from where i'm standing to be on its last legs but luckily jamie kelsey froyo from occupy london is here to convince me otherwise jamie thanks for talking to us today no you said yourself a nice to feel it too that this place is almost haunted the tents used to be right that just where you are standing is the occupy movement dead absolutely no it's obviously one of the things of the comp moving is that we're allowed to put a lot more energy into the movement itself is actually becoming very difficult to sustain the kind as it becomes very large if you bear in mind that so far months ago none of us the way the count would last this long was still developing our ideas of how to move forward how to use outreach to. the movement to generate solidarity and otherwise really of reaching into the public consciousness to get across our very simple. social environmental and economic justice so we've only

just begun in that sense for that it's no coincidence that we are headed in one of the financial hearts of london the london stock exchange just not very far away from here it's all bankers all still being paid their bonuses as we hear about in the newspapers every day the one percent appears very much to be still in charge have you had any impact at all absolutely i think that there's been some measures by the government because we had such an influence on the. the public view of the financial system that there has been you know a leading banker who's had to turn down his bonus and. suffrage was made to turn back is no way to set up but i think that these are just palliative measures i think they show that the government realise that there's a lot of public support for the issues that we're raising awareness about and so they've taken some measures to make it look as if they're doing something you're absolutely right in terms of the one percent remain the one percent that's completely untouched also if you bear in mind the fact that last year of one hundred top foot say the average pay royce was forty no one to say this is

everything is business as usual you're absolutely right but what's different is people are now where about this people are now entering this dialog and they're beginning to challenge the assumptions challenge for a very very long period it's all in which is that we continue with such an unsustainable undemocratic unjust economic system a fog supply looks kind of like a sort of you for that party for people who have something to lose more so people in the evening willing to sacrifice you know to see the chief goals it's very interesting question actually people are sacrificing their jobs their relationships not by tension many people lost their homes i've never been in a movement where people of that dedicate the general portrayal of us as being people who you know job on the dole losers is absolutely. the opposite to the reality the reality is that a whole span of people from across the general public have been motivated to dedicate themselves one hundred percent to this movement now this is means that

a very small proportion of so actually experienced activists and by far the highest amounts of us are people who just from ordinary walks of life who've gone that i want to make a stance we have to do something about this unsustainable system and this is the movement for us to do that is five months now since you came to this area let's talk a bit about your goals a lot of people seem to have a very limited understanding of what you're actually trying to achieve his take mr s. ok when we. despite so much of the fifty. i repeat of forty eight hours when about three and a half thousand people took part in generating what was called our initial statements really within forty eight hours made it very clear what we would hear such as are some of the more obvious ones. questioning what we see as an unsustainable economic system an undemocratic economic system. a political system that seems to be working with profits before people. intertwined with the corporations we also question the idea of regulating both days being managed by the people that meant to be regulated we also question the idea that perpetual war for resources is something that's

going to destroy the planet so we made it very clear with our ideas to the world you know within forty i was an economic system based on infinite growth but which relies on foreign oil resources is frankly absolutely embarrassing let's broaden this out and talk a little bit about the global economic situation if you like through the prism of you and me. the european project is constantly in the papers and it looks like it's on its last legs how do you see it playing out so that we see that as when i say we i mean i'm speaking as a member of occupied but 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 just a symptom of this disease it's an economic war that weapon is debt that really rang a bell with a lot of pain that this disease is going to continue to get worse unless we actually as people as a grassroots movement actually take control. of this economic system is being run

by very few people and it's just been completely out of control i think the movement is moving more towards a revolutionary solution rather than a reformist governments in various countries to obviously a paste c.e.u. occupying place. on a course to which the us has reportedly rolled out what he's calling a microwave weapon. crowds are you making plans to dealing with dates kinds of technology this country has last year they bought a large water cannons to disperse this dispense with demonstrators a rock to burst and i think that's kind of a scare story i know it's true that the military in the states may have bought this weapon that can use sound waves to kind of disempower people who might be in the streets i think that's the symptom of something far worse that's coming ok poise the canary in the morning as far as we can see. but eventually the rest of this world will realise that they've been roped and that they are being put into subjugation by completely unjustice undemocratic unsustainable financial systems

and they will as well become furious eventually 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 site given to us and we should be embarrassed if we sit by and do nothing about. wealthy british style. market. can. find out what's really happening to the global economy

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two thirty am in moscow these iraqi headlines the anti-corporate occupy movement uses the may day marches in the u.s. to stage a comeback and prove its staying power. workers across the world unite on labor day but in italy margins turned violent over the country's austerity measures with the northern city of turin seeing the worst of the clashes. president obama touches down for an unannounced visit to afghanistan at a meeting in kabul with the afghan president he signed a strategic accord to cement future relations between the two countries the trip coincides with the first anniversary of the killing of osama bin laden kaiser report up next stay with us. the world with the. technology innovations and all the latest developments from around russia we'll.