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 what is 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 . disparity between the rich and poor protest against corporate influence on us politics others to express outrage over other issues such as on affordable health care still 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 this but streets all converging in union square where there was a concert now and 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 ready to file into or what some would call aggressive with those that were arrested but things have remained pretty civil between the police and the activists so far there is the these three hopped the helicopters that were hovering hovering over the crowd as they moved their way through new york city and out to this that i spoke with say that their message has not changed in their grievous grievances are still the same predator banks and the more you do see homes that are going down working. after the 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 ensued. park stops where the crowd. 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 now it's just one percent and they simply lose everything they own all the factories they own that really today with the resources available in the water they own everything and they're going to be ninety nine percent of the work and have to pay for everything 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 he began in new york city and then blaze 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 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 elected officials accountable for what the

citizens want and with an election year coming up these optimists say that they will be taking their message to the streets as more of them 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 gone away they can expect that more events will be taking place has made a we're always get underway in more than one hundred u.s. cities some of turn violent here you can see video from oakland california police fire tear gas and flash bang grenades to disperse demonstrators at least four were arrested sorry van gelder executive editor of yes cried as he says this years are always will be seen as a defining moment for occupy as a unites with immigration and unity which. if you're looking for the old style leadership we're 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 going to marry people in those around. communities around the country

that are all over it is that meeting 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 i'm you'll see a lot of the same themes over and over again i see people talking about the foreclosure crisis and i wanted 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 tuition crisis where students are deeply in debt over trillion dollars in 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 co-opted or leaves or is assassinated you know that that would destroy the movement because it's really ordinary people. probably those developments are more to follow us online through our twitter feed that's at r t underscore com. may first was marked with massive labor day marches worldwide in europe several large nationwide demonstrations happened in italy

rallies turned violent as police beat back protesters demanding change from leaders in the city of turin they saw the fiercest clashes in france where the election week the supporters of incumbent leader nicolas sarkozy and the country's far right simultaneously hit the streets of paris five days before the crucial presidential vote in spain where the euro crisis and seen the country plunge into a double dip recession people voiced their anger at the ongoing stringent cuts and unemployment in greece crowds marched outside the parliament in athens and through the city an anti austerity protests david from the belgian workers' party says the economy of the future should be centered around every day citizens. in italy as well the violence come from. establishing and with the political theory t. when you have a cut in your wage. your wage when you cut. social

security when you cut in and then you see that. people are confronted with a 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 remain you economy in total basis 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. moscow's streets were brimming with

people this may day most celebrating some demonstrating trade unions marched under the labor day flag to demand better working conditions even russia's ruling ten and took to addressing a crowd of their supporters or he's really go has more. if you look at the hundred thousand people out of. this one in the world there isn't rushing down to tell me the name in the. other. name. this is a word. for the retirement age to be raised and for better conditions for workers over all. went on strike say what are. conditions from the united.

states or mark the labor unions for the last seventy or eighty years we all know congress various political movements and parties on the street let's see now this is the most the the. the rest of the. citizen came from the united states. also taking part in this they can't sleep that is sort of. placed over the last six months of this labor name they. said there's a reason or more of a day to celebrate spraying and then into protest anything. opposition members also out to get their message across among them the country's second largest party that store refuses to accept last year's parliamentary vote results and isn't happy about a lot of your putin's return to the kremlin jacob riis reports from the mid a sea of red flags. israeli is 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 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 pistons for the soviet union images of the controversial joseph stalin or francis being held up behind 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 are claimed 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 being 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 cooling for free and fair elections have garnered a lot of media attention on the back of december's parliamentary elections initially coup for a protest be held today but since counts of it instead they want to plug together pulls together for may this thick a day before president elects vellum a pittance 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 nationalists choosing this day to march. stay with us here on r.t. still to come this hour britain's out of touch luxury lawmakers. please these people haven't got a clue what it's like to be an ordinary person. a million is mostly million look

you know of the interests of million is a multi million is would be take a look at why increasing numbers of brits think the posh politicians in power have no idea what life is really like for the average struggling family. but first president obama is in afghanistan on an unannounced visit coinciding with the first anniversary of the killing of osama bin laden the president signed a strategic agreement with afghan leader hamid karzai outlining the two countries ties after the end of nato mission in afghanistan his trip follows an angry demonstration against nato in a southern afghan town where hundreds rallied accusing foreign troops of killing four children during a gunfight with insurgents stephen soon is professor of politics at the university of san francisco thinks even though nato will end its military operation in two thousand and fourteen the u.s. will still maintain a substantial presence in the country. you know one of the karzai 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 about kosovo but it's interesting that in the tales of the sofa agreement that most of the media or could look some of the thirty million afghans nor for that matter to the afghan parliament actually you know so this is not completely there that's going to stand indeed there could be as many as twenty thousand residual troops staying behind even a day so you won't be combat troops the combat mission will end in two thousand and fourteen by dutch one thousand this is a fair number of armed personnel that now than any country much less than these huge amount of consultants. in the sea people all independent contractors and and guard quite a few other i mean it will definitely be keeping a football for the country a diplomatically politically economically and then militarily turn to the middle east where israel is taking steps to shield itself from its arab neighbors having

already walled off palestinians tell of eve could now be seeking to do the same with the lebanese party's policy or has the latest. well these many army says it is building this a seven metre high cement wall between israel and lebanon to the right 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 navan on but a much more deadly example was last year when a number of people with killed doing nothing but commemorations when they came too close to the border some that maybe these aside until now there has been any make to fly fence and one kilometer israeli maven 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 the army's do me. 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 to war that it says it hopes to finish by the end of the year according to the israelis the one in the south is to stop militant activity there and also to prevent smuggling and then there is another wall the very controversial war that is one 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 hostile native as tensions increase in the region and here we only need to know at least in developments between cairo in tel aviv 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 eighty eight. and buried and in addition to that just a few days ago the cars stopped it's

a longstanding agreement to supply gas to israel in addition to that we have the situation with iran and we are not 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 there too so certainly tensions in the region are increasing. argy dot com a place to go for all our stories and you'll find our reports and shows ready to go on our you tube channels well here's what's a click away right now. readying for the worst middle chicago summit still weeks away but security already working on how to evacuate the entire city in the of likely event of an attack. also a girl's very best friend set to go on about how so the beams centuries old diamond that once belonged to queen marie admitted she expected to. more than four million dollars. finally in the news block a growing barrage of anger aimed at britain's wealthy government ministers for

being out of touch with what life is really like most cabinet ministers 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 or he's there or a smith has more from london. prime minister david cameron eton and oxford. chancellor george osborne exclusive london schools then oxford. deputy prime minister nick clegg westminster school and cambridge none of these men come from ordinary backgrounds there's a lot of people that have been political advisors of one kind or another. and that's growing is each parliament goes by. you've got a lot more 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 ventures 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 miner and an ex mine to 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 the 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 elections it's easy to see why sixty percent of today's cabinet went to see paying schools compared

with just seven percent of the total population thirty years ago forty percent of labor m.p.'s came for a manual or clerical jobs compared with just nine percent today there's been. a real reduction in the number of m.p.'s who have first hand experience of the trials and tribulations of working class families the legitimacy of all of it depends on it being representatives and acting on the concerns of most in society so the worry is the less that people feel that being represent states the bill for the traditional politics and the most disaffected they'll feel from politicians that could mean greater numbers turning to disruptive ways of making their voices heard through demonstrations and even. under the current government the u.k. has seen a surge in strikes and protests some ending in serious trouble on the streets after

demonstrations by people who don't feel their representatives representing them these people haven't got a clue what it's like to be an ordinary person. to the interests of million is among these people know nothing about what it's like to be moved every post in this country. they don't speak first still i don't think. it's. very privileged. in this together is the rallying cry if the current government in these times of financial austerity is coming from the leadership of the privileged and independent wealthy it rings especially hollow for many as the belt tightens city to rises the anger and alienation of those who feel they've no voice in the corridors of power lower smith. with

a summary of our main news stories in about ten minutes up next the occupy wall street protesters whose anti green message harvard 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 see that they're being robbed by their own governments stay with us. way here is some polls cathedral in london from where the occupy the london stock

exchange me but was fairly recently effected the movement appears from where i'm standing to be on its last legs but luckily jamie can see for you from all the pylons and is here to convince me otherwise jamie thanks for talking to us today now you said yourself a nice to feel it to you that this place is almost home to the tenants used to be right that just where you're standing is the occupy movement deads absolutely no it's obviously one of the things of the company moving is that we're allowed to put a lot more energy into the movement itself was actually becoming very difficult to sustain the kind as it becomes very large if you bear in mind that some five months ago none of us the way the company lost this low we're 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 have such an influence on. the public view of the financial system that there has been a leading banker who's had to turn down his bonus and. suffrage was made to turn back his noise 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 high 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 can we continue with such an unsustainable democratic unjust economic system a fog supply looks kind of like a sort of you put that policy for people who have something to lose. people in the evening willing to sacrifice you know to see achieve that goal it's very interesting question actually people are sacrificing their jobs their relationships not by deception many people lost their homes i've never been in a movement where people have that dedicated the general portrayal of us as being people who you know job on the dollar loses 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 it's 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 dim misunderstanding of what you're actually trying to achieve his take mr it's ok when. we took the spy so let's have 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 well we're here so you guys 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 we are ideas to the world you know within forty eight hours an economic system based on infinite growth but which relies on foreign oil resources is frankly absolutely embarrassing let's broaden it out and talk a little bit about the global economic situation if you like through the prism of. 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. what we see that 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 to 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 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 in which the u.s. has reportedly rolled out what he's calling a microwave weapon. bus crowds are you making plans for dealing with dates kinds of technology this country has last year they bought a large one with a kind of dispersed disk dispense with demonstrators iraq supposed 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 a symptom of something far worse that's coming ok poise the canary in the morning as far as we can say. but eventually the rest of this world will realize that they've been roped and that they are being put into subjugation by completely on

just undemocratic unsustainable financial systems and they will go as well become furious eventually i mean human beings be in a situation where they can benefit hugely boy much. from the suffering of the millions and millions in the world we should be embarrassed of being called that side of human life and we should be embarrassed if we sit by and do nothing about. the issues that so much of the taxpayers' money maintains a sheet feed the bottom people and areas the time finally come when we should value public aid measurements welby over industries such as g.d.p. and other governments to.

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four thirty am in moscow easier r.t. 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 marches 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 countries the trip coincides with the first anniversary of the killing of osama bin laden next period bell and guests discuss of happiness can be measured in the modern world cross talk coming your way after a short break.