he's wearing important has the latest from new york. while 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. disparity between the rich and poor protest against corporate influence on u.s. politics others express outrage over other issues such as on affordable health care still the student debt crisis in the united states and also the under or the full cost of higher education so there were thousands upon thousands marching through the support streets all converging in union square where there was

a concert 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 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 have to remain pretty civil between the police and the activists so there is the these three hopping 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 have gone down the 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 inside. the 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 now it's just one percent that essentially owns everything they own all the factories they own the road today all the resources available 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 it 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 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. to the 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 could expect that more events will be taking place. and oakland california police fired tear gas and flash bang grenades to disperse demonstrators are correspondent. his latest from los angeles. according to the reports at least four as people got arrested when police officers order out of the streets of the city and that happened around men day when about four hundred people gathered at the city whole of the plaza to march and to protest and their main themes the war social inequality and police aggression but koechlin police

a did a used to tear gas against those pretty asiri said but that didn't really stop them but they continued marching through the streets and chanting anti capitalism slogans what we also received reports from a san francisco where it is sad that there is been some of violence and some clashes between protesters and police representatives later add to the end of the may day protests all the protests and there has been dozens of protests in a major a city south of the state went quite peacefully of though with seen massive amount of police representatives in the streets and police sally. where in this throughout the hours of the protests. sara van gelder executive editor of us magazine says this year zero is will be seen as a defining moment for occupy as a unites with immigration and union movements. 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 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 the same themes over and over again you see people talking about the foreclosure crisis they don't want to get back into their homes and not appreciating the way back to america and chase bank or foreclosing on people's homes you see a lot of things are going to the to mission crisis where students are deeply in debt over a trillion. or is that student debt right now so you see a lot of the same themes around the country that 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 for a latest developments you can remember to go on law and follow us through twitter

about said twitter r t underscore com. may first was marked with mass labor day marches worldwide in europe several large nationwide demonstrations happened in italy rallies turn violent as riot police beat protesters demanding change from their leaders the city of turun saw the fiercest clashes in friends who are its election week supporters of incumbent leader nicolas sarkozy and the country's far right simultaneously hit the paris streets five days before the crucial presidential vote in spain where the crisis is seen the country plunging into a double dip recession people voice anger at the ongoing stringent cuts and out of point in greece crowds marched outside parliament and then through the city streets in protest david to steal from the belgian workers' party says the economy of the future should be centered around every day citizens. in italy as were the violence come from the. establishment with the political theory t.

when you have a cut in your wage. your wage when you cut social security when you of. employment then you see that. the people are confronted with very violent process in their life the they lose their middle to survive and that's why i think we see that sort of reaction in the population we have to have 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 are to take measures that the rich people are paying for

the crisis with taxes against them and not against the common people. moscow streets were brimming with people those made a most celebrating some demonstrating trade unions marched under the labor day flag to demand better working conditions and even russia's ruling tedham to addressing crowds of their supporters are reports. listen hundred thousand people out to stop it this is one of the main thoroughfares in the russian town its own name in the city when you. think the amount. rather something. you need. to since the word for the retirement age is not to be raised and for better conditions for workers overall to. get. workers they can isolate the unions and then went on strike so the order to demand

more in the conditions from the united states is minimal. and it comes across a name in essentially the big day to mark the labor unions for the last seventy or eighty years we all know something more serious now a political movement and parties on the street name this man the students now this days those are the be. the rest of the. city sing came from the united snakes on the wall st louis also taking part in this they can't sleep that is sort of the . learn the lead. as it's nice over the last six months so this is the slimmer name there is in iraq said there's a reason or more of a day to celebrate spraying in and then to protest anything. arty dot com is where to go to get more on all our stories there you'll find our reports and shows also on our you tube channel here's what's

a click away right now. preparing for the worst nato chicago summit still weeks away but security already working hard on how to evacuate the entire city in the likely event of an attack. plus a girl's very best friend about to go under the hammer so the beads this centuries old diamond once belonging to queen murray demanded she expected to fetch more than four million. dollars. president obama made a surprise visit to afghanistan cementing the country's future relations it also coincided 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's mission in the country or he's got a chicky on has the latest from washington. the fact that president obama traveled to afghanistan exactly year after bin laden's killing to sign the strategic pact with ghana's then is seen as an attempt will do nicely veneers of

a success story on the decade long war in afghanistan but success in afghanistan is very arguable to say the least the afghans want american troops out we constantly see people there expressing outrage over the killing of civilians over night weights and other actions by u.s. troops the american people want their troops out so both governments are anxious to tell their people that this is over but the women that the leaders have signed in visions the u.s. they know again is then through twenty twenty four at least not in those numbers of course and the agreement by the way does not address specific troop levels or the size or location of u.s. bases and this is something that many afghans are worried about and that is that the u.s. wants a permanent basis in afghanistan so it made all these questions you have the anniversary of bin laden's death which is hailed as a great victory. very powerful explosions and gunfire hit the afghan capital just hours after president obama left the city after his meeting with karzai no reports of casualties earlier professor stephen zoo news of the university of san francisco

told r.t. that even with nato said to leave the country in two thousand and fourteen the u.s. will maintain a substantial presence in afghanistan. 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 have been increasingly alienated. over fact it's interesting that things are tales of the sofa agreement that mall that made so many seventy million afghans in order for that matter to the afghan parliament actually it seems is not completely there that's going to stand indeed there could be as many as twenty thousand residual troops staying behind. even if they say you won't be combat troops the combat mission will end in two thousand and fourteen but the twenty thousand is a fair number of armed personnel that now than any country much less than these

huge amount of consultants. and see people independent contractors and and guard quite a few other i mean it will definitely be keeping a foothold on the closer you have diplomatically politically economically and militarily turn 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 is now seeking to do the same with the lebanese artie's policy reports. 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 key of war they always do meet under the auspices of unifil and this war is being constructed in conjunction with unifil 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 self is to stop militant activity there and also to prevent smuggling and then there's another wall the very controversial war that israel has built since two thousand and two in the palestinian waistband and it's controversial because very often it's built on private palestinian land and cuts through villages and it has caused outrage in the international community but the israel has cited security concerns as the reason for that particular area is one 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 cairo 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 not seen cracks between the israeli political and military dissent of whether one ought to go ahead with population full whether or not they said continue talking about of when there's a lot of confusion of them back to the system the tensions in the region are increasing. there's 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 members in david cameron's ruling party come from the highest levels of society and don't face the same struggles as most british families artie's laura 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 benches in particular i call it millionaire's row denis skinner's an m.p. who would once have been seen as pure traditional british labor party stock the son of a miner and an ex 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 told how 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 a lot of working class people decided not even the vote in the 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 representative and acting on the concerns of most in society so the worry is the less that people feel that being representatives. of politics and the vote disaffected feel from politicians that could mean greater numbers turning to disruptive ways of making their voices heard through demonstrations and even. under the current government the u.k. has seen a surge in strikes and protests some ending in serious trouble on the streets after demonstrations by people who don't feel their representatives representing them these people have a clue what it's like to be an ordinary person. of interest's 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 of the current government in these times of financial austerity coming from the leadership of the privileged and independent wealthy it rings especially hollow for many as the belts tightens city to rises the anger and alienation of those who feel they have no voice in the corridors of power . for the summary of our main stories in about ten minutes first though the occupy wall street protesters whose anti greed message one global support last year hoping to rekindle the movement's momentum up next to london occupy activist tells us how he thinks the group is still on the rise and says that

more people understand they're being robbed by their governments stay with us for the. well here are 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 occupy london is here to convince me otherwise jamie thanks for talking to us today no you

said yourself a nice to feel it to this place is almost haunted by the tense used to be right that just where you're 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 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 the story of the count would last this long 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. it's an influence on 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 his noise to that section but i think that these are just palliative measures i think they showed that the government realize 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's forty one percent 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 that i've been challenge for a very very long period it's all in which is that can we continue with such an

unsustainable undemocratic unjust economic system safe occupy looks kind of like a sort of for that party for people who have something to lean more so people in the evening willing to sacrifice in order to achieve that goals it's very interesting question actually people are sacrificing their jobs their relationships not by attention 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 joe blow so on the dole 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 are more than he walks of life is gone that i want to make a stop and we have to do something about this unsustainable system and this is the movement for us to do that in 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 it's ok. when we took this space so much of the fifty. i would appear to forty eight hours when about three and a half thousand people took part in generating what was called our initial statements really within forty hours made it very clear why we are here so you guys are some of the more obvious ones. questioning what we see is an unsustainable economic system an undemocratic economic system. a political system that seems to be working with profits before people it's intertwined with the corporations we also question the idea of regulates the bodies 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 all ideas to the wall 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. what we see that when i say wait 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 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. disperse 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 disempowered people who might be in the streets i think that's a symptom of something far worse that's coming up you poised 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 on just undemocratic unsustainable financial systems and they will. 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 that's human life and we should be embarrassed if we sit by and do nothing about. there hasn't been anything yet on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. the food source material is what helps keep journalism honest. we want to present. something else. wealthy british style it's time to.

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seven thirty am in moscow the zero r.t. headlines arrests in new york during may day rallies while police reportedly used tear gas and anti-corporate occupy activists in california with the movement is using the may first demonstrations to stage a comeback and prove it 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 russians. a series of deadly explosions rocked kabul just after president obama leaves the afghan capital he was there on a previously unannounced visit to sign a strategic accord with the afghan president cementing future relations between the countries but europe also coincided with the first anniversary of the mission to kill osama bin laden. the world's most famous exposer of top secrets goes head to head with a new.