the occupy protesters are back with the vang but marches across the u.s. are marked with new police crackdowns. fresh violence hits again a stand shortly after barack obama visits kabul to mark a year since the killing of osama bin ladin. and frantic campaigning and francis presidential election was just days left for the two candidates to voters before the size of around not everyone's enthusiastic about the choice and offered. it as a.t.m. of the russian capital you're watching r t joshua welcome to the program and the

anti-corporate occupy movement has made a comeback in the u.s. after a long hiatus activist returned to the birthplace of the protests in new york city have been affected from their encampment last autumn the police came back to to make arrests at his marina organize across the latest. right now we are in veterans' memorial was aware of at least a thousand or more occupy activists who have basically camped out for more than two hours if you see behind me there's just a wall of police gathered around the entire plaza we are walking with the opposite is appropriate now police dressed in riot gear are moving in on the protesters and now it's coming to a point where the activists and the police officers are clashing somewhat there's this is a crowd gathering and that the activists are being more and more surrounded by. the

police officers. they are supposed to actually be activists leave the park because this is a federal location and they have it would have to be kate's ten pm listen to what the police are saying right now you hear an alarm here. the police are. right the police are now warning the protesters that if they do not leave this plaza they will be aggressive for trespassing so far nobody is leaving because the octave is i've been taking part in occupied demonstrations are old say laws and they are continuing to do so chanting who's park our park so at this point the police are still holding some restraint but they have warned the end of the protesters the optimists so on are participating it will demonstrations this far but they are they are warning these crowds that if they don't believe they will be arrested

. and at this point the crowds are not dispersing just watch of cameras in the air taking pictures and filming the events as they are and all the. green would now reporting there and in oakland the town to give new life to the occupy movement was met with tear gas and stun grenades as police went on the offensive to disperse crowds of demonstrators are just medina caution of a has the latest from california. received reports of violence primarily that took place in california and that have a cording to the reports at least four people got arrested when police officers ordered protesters out of the streets of the city and that happened around men day when about four hundred people gathered at the city whole of plaza to march and to protest and their main themes the war social inequality and police aggression but clint police did

a used to tear gas against those protesters have but that didn't really stop them but they continued marching through the streets and chanting anti capitalism slogans we also received reports from my son 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 protest meanwhile we talk about did the state of california overall old the protest and there's been dozens over a protest in major cities of this state went quite peacefully of though with seen massive amount of police representatives in the streets and pretty sally called truce where in this throughout the hours of the protests the first of may here in los angeles has really been all about immigration but only this year however immigration sure the day where the occupy protests see a status really ravaged by high unemployment in the budget cuts to many people were

also raising their voices for this issue we've seen a lot of protests and there have been a lot of people in the streets of los angeles today and in the streets of other cities in the state of california. caution in reporting there from california violence has also marred may day marches in some european cities as hundreds of thousands rallied in support of workers' rights left wing protesters in berlin and clashed with police with injuries reported on both sides and estimated four hundred thousand marched across the e.u. to demand a boost to eurozone economies rallies also turned violent in italy as protesters clashed with riot police work to remain was the center of rioting in france where it's election time presidential candidates sought to use may day as a chance to rally support but rivaling leader marine le pen refused to give cultural backing to either president sarkozy or his socialist rival who face each other and iran off this weekend for the top job in spain trade union activists

marched against a record e.u. unemployment rate of twenty five percent as a country suffers a double dip recession while worst hit greece saw mass outside parliament in athens with some protesters calling for revolt strategic planning and selling your believes economic troubles in europe spell a larger political crisis. the problem with the euro zone idea and the european community it's a suburb in a democratic ideal whenever the european constitution has been up for a vote its ways last in every referendum popular referendum that's been out there and now you are having the problem of this economic crisis which is becoming worse and worse what you have is the european union and the european central bank demanding that the national governments cut spending and go into these austerity programs rather than devalue the euro and try to inflate their way out of this

problem so it's basically helping the bondholders at the expense of the people now the people of course eventually if you keep on squeezing them an economic problem becomes a political problem and you start seeing massive discontent which you're seeing in italy i think that you're going to start seeing more and more of it in front. it seems to me. a star bushman politicians of both the left on the right the sarkozy and a lot are not responding to the general popular discontent they seem to be responding to the quote unquote technocrats who insist on austerity and what we've seen in spain will be seen in greece and what we've seen in the u.k. austerity measures do not seem to be working to fix the economy and just watch this popular discontent and so i would expect to see more protests in italy during the coming weeks as spring becomes summer and not only in italy but in the rest of europe. coming to live from moscow still to come in the program skepticism in france over the choice and offer between the two candidates vying to be president

of the sunday's election runoff with some voters feeling neither are likely to address the most pressing issues. and police officers in india resort to desperate and dangerous measures to escape poverty. bombs and gunfire have struck the afghan capital kabul shortly after a visit by barack obama the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attacks that killed at least six people the visit by the u.s. leader to afghanistan comes exactly one year since the killing of osama bin laden obama and afghan president hamid karzai signed a deal outlining ties of the decade after the planned u.s. troop pullout in two thousand and fourteen or she's got reports. the fact that president obama traveled to afghanistan exactly year after bin laden's killing to signed the strategic pact with ghana's then is seen as an attempt to put the years 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 reason that the leaders have signed in visions the u.s. staying in afghanistan 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. warrants a permanent basis in afghanistan so amid all these questions you have the anniversary of bin laden's death which is hailed as a great victory here's my report on how bin laden's killing could serve as a convenient cover for some dubious policies we have been able to decimate the ranks of al qaida and a year ago we were able to finally bring osama bin ladin just.

by now nobody doubts that bin laden's killing is going to be the highlight of obama's presidential campaign it's already featured in his ads. the harder. than the more on. the one. produced in my opinion the best route so. as hyped as bin laden's killing is some ask whether it's being used to mask the feeler of u.s. policies abroad during the last ten years the best thing i think makes things easier it sells well but again i don't think you can put that good a face on ten years of combat in afghanistan and the afghan and the iraq invasion i think is to me question still yet to be asked about what the justification of that was no matter how much killing bin laden means you can't take away ten years of failure it was going into afghanistan and especially into iraq ok that created more

enemies you know and recruits for. you know jadis this kind of salafist. you know than that then weakening them the pentagon's new strategy is to move away from ground wars bin laden's killing has become the face of the new war on terror obama style through targeted assassinations in different countries with the use of drones and special ops experts say that policy can also backfire the attacks end up killing many civilians and they steer a new wave of revenge extremism doesn't mean how many people are we going to have to kill before we can finally say ok that's it objective achieved war over we can call this thing off and i look at the israeli experience with targeted assassination and that suggests to me that when you engage in that kind of a policy really what you're going to do is end up having an endless list of targets

and i fear that's the past we have gone down bin laden's death. it was a success on the war on terror front no doubt about that but there was an attempt to sell it as the success story of the whole war on terror and many fear that bin laden's killing could serve as a convenient cover for bad policies of the past as well as the future i'm going to reporting from washington r.t. . well there's always more on our website archita com so go online to read about a burning religious matter more in-depth hamster holds and another a koran burning ceremony outside his church after the previous one caused outrage in the muslim world. and no more famous dutch coffee shops for the visitors the netherlands seeks to ban marijuana smoking for tourists leaving it for locals only all the details on our website are. french presidential rivals nicolas sarkozy and front lawn get their last chance to

sway votes in the only t.v. debate before sunday's runoff think kumon president will have to throw everything into the duel with socialist challenger alond who is currently leading the polls they're fighting for the votes of leader of the rivalry in the pan has refused to back either man and suggested her supporters make their own choice and that won't be an easy one as are so you know reports. so it's down to two men socialist francois long and incumbent nicolas sarkozy the french say around one of the presidential race is about choosing the candidate you like the most around to is voting for the one you dislike the least unless of course you voted for one of them to begin with and this is where it gets tricky for some especially for those who question what kind of a choice they really power or if there really is one. yeah yeah yeah. maybe in jest but what's seen as a lack of a clear solution for france is economic woes have left citizens skeptical from the

onset. of the french people to see one of the two come to the t.v. you will see. this the most project the next five years. i will see the wall in this. and i will i would like to see for all in this wall in this in this. especially when france's economic quagmire is already a tough one to muddle through unemployment is at a twelve year high of almost ten percent debt is during ninety percent of g.d.p. growth has all but ground to a halt and a steady measures are likely to continue to the public good both candidates are in favor of euro bonds more intervention from the european central bank and to varying degrees both have put on a confrontational tone towards brussels and germany but there's doubt that there will be much room for maneuver at all. ever the elected president is sarkozy

or he will subject himself very quickly and very visibly to the power of the european union it will always require more sacrifices for workers for the obvious interests of the large banking globalists. then they work on very small things that are there if you recall that ok we're going to vote for immigrants in local elections. you know what we're going to lead. and what sexual couples adopt children those are important measures but they're not the biggest measures tough choice to make for those who don't see one to begin with that is your tests or so you are to you paris. well it's exactly thirty years since the origin time grows there are general belgrano was sunk at the first major british attack of the focus war three hundred twenty three crew died and what was argentina's single heaviest loss of life in the conflict over the

sovereignty of the islands author and historian hubert channel says britain hasn't learned the lessons from the war. it took everybody completely by surprise you know the political will certainly there were plenty of warnings that you know one of the things they say there was an intelligence failure no there was an invader failure of the intellect but that's permanent in the british government it seems unable to process information and come up with sensible policies really very very very poor at learning the lessons of anything broadly speaking because they're going to face up to the truth about going to mass murder disappearances corruption cautioning the dirty war prime minister callaghan when the foreign office came up to try and sell the idea of selling out the island those he said. handing over two thousand to a bunch of bleeping fascists. and that was the foreign office told but that didn't

stop the city because the bureaucracy has its own way of doing things you know how trendy this country is and every charge is off in one direction at one time and it's tedious as hell but it continues you know right now we are on the. we're just coming off but we must stick to uncle sam's bleep. well you see the full interview with historian and author hubert channel about ten minutes time here on r.t. . israel is taking new steps to shield self from its arab neighbors meaning further isolation having already walled off the palestinians the jewish state is now seeking to do the same with the lebanese army as well as the reports 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 meet under the auspices of unifil and this wall is being constructed in conjunction with the uniform of the israeli army as well as the lebanese army but in addition israel is also in the midst of building a wall along its southern border with egypt a war that it says it hopes to finish by the end of the year according to the israelis the wall of the south is to stop militant activity there and also to prevent smuggling and then there's another war very very controversial war that is one 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 what 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 of whether or not to go ahead with preparations for war whether or not they should continue talking about a war when there's a lot of confusion of too so certain tensions in the region are increasing but as

they are reporting there now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has arrived in china for any will today strategic and economic talks between the countries but the meeting is at risk of being overshadowed by the case of blind chinese lawyer chiang who fled house arrest last week and is now said to be under u.s. protection although it's not being confirmed officially before fleeing chan was being punished for exposing alleged abuses in official chinese family planning policies. seven people including three members of parliament have been killed in a suicide attack in central somalia a hotel cafe where politicians were meeting was the bomb target parliamentarians and military officials were part of a delegation that recently arrived in the region to help form a local government the militant group al-shabaab has said it was behind the violence. myanmar opposition leader aung san suu kyi has made her debut

in parliament it comes after two decades struggle against military rule by a nobel laureate who was subject to house arrest and travel bans the army has formally transfer power to civilians but still has considerable influence in the country her party boycotted to a general election in two thousand and ten saying the poll was rigged in favor of the military but then and the political process. and india some police are being accused of using corrupt means to earn a living a bounty for killing suspected terrorists is leading to allegations that some innocent people are dying at the hands of overeager officers are these british leader investigates. schumi ma is a widow with six children desperately trying to make ends meet doing embroidery work for local shops her family has been at the center of the media storm after her daughter ish roth was shot and killed by police at the age of nineteen as an iraqi

woman in my world fell apart and my house felt empty without her she was the only one bringing light into my life and she is the one who supported the whole family i totally depended on her if there were no economy to gun me is sure it was part of a fake encounter where police kill usually armed suspects and claimed the killing was in self-defense she was accused of working with pakistani militants and planning to assassinate a key regional politician a later investigation concluded she was murdered by police hoping for financial gain for killing suspected terrorists is just story is unfortunately not uncommon here according to indian civil rights groups police everyman and that is that they have been trained encouraged to carry them out for money it's a reality that sheds light on india's lawless society where rampant corruption and bribery has led to a broken law enforcement and judicial system those who have served on the front

line say it's a tough job with little pay police here have to cover three times as many people per officer compared to many parts of the world to support is the burden of those who think this is. the border and some of the problems. i think of the. living god nations what can go for sure they need to see change new committees have been set up to monitor police complaints while an extra two hundred thousand officers will be hired in the next two years but for those like shamima who have to live every day without her beloved daughter the government's reforms are simply too little too late when. the both of them i have totally lost my faith in the police we were just living our life quietly even though we did not have enough money we didn't do anything wrong so why did they kill my daughter it just makes me so angry. and still trying to make sense of her family's tragedy

preassure either mumbai india. all right crossing straight to the world of business to marina cars or is god the latest good morning to arena well it's been a relatively quiet week because of public holidays etc so tell us how's the market activity picking up now. you know wall it is picking up slowly asia is trading and we have something to talk about find them because for the past couple of days it's really been quiet in the russian markets will open later so well as near up now let's start with asia right now we're seeing the gains there and that's mainly due when it comes to home mainly because official p.m.i. data showed movement for manufacturing for the month of april and that helps offset other data would show that china's a four biggest banks had a sharp slowdown in credit growth also for the month of april and in general the sentiment there is three hundred by a strong performance on wall street and let's take a look at what happened there as i said it's not open there right now wall street

is closed for trade of so what you're seeing is a picture on any of the percentage wise it doesn't seem that oppressive looks can be deceiving and they're down five had the highest close in more than of four years that was mainly due to also strong better than expected performance in the manufacturing industry and i don't know said that this will be an encouraging sign to head up friday's jobs report so we'll be looking out for that now moving on. to hours ahead of the opening bell of course as i mentioned earlier the markets here have been closed for public holidays for the last couple of days so what you see in here is their performance on saturday which was pretty much all across are because necessarily have much to react so you can no news coming from europe or the u.s. and in fact what we have is that will be more holidays coming up next week so markets will be closed for the first time so we're not expecting see a lot of civets in the next couple of days but i know this are saying that russia's

economy is going from strength to strength. there's a tremendous amount of growth not only because of the resources in the economy but also because the growth of the middle class and the increasing wealth even of the poorest people in society so i think that is an untapped potential think a lot of growth in the future. more from the actions of companies than from the government. and i see some real energy in russia and also a lot of interest still from foreign investors from american and european companies investing in. our let's take a look at currencies now when it comes to the euro it's a four against the dollar well you're looking at oil ok let's start with oil prices they are heading south and that's after having the highest close in almost five weeks and that was mainly due to an industry report showing that stockpiles have increased in the u.s. and this counts are signs of an economic revival there and can see.

euro is flat against the dollar and when it comes to the ruble it closed again lower again. would have enough that if it were the markets opening here in russia which is about two hours. ok i will be looking for a date and of. our thanks very much indeed for bringing us the latest from the world of business and of course there's plenty more to come your way here in our athena just a few minutes we'll be discussing the war between britain argentina thirty years ago but that will come after a recap of our top story so stay with us. join

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