is across the latest. may day doesn't just mark the international workers day it now marks the resurgence of the occupy wall street movement thousands of activists flooded the streets of manhattan picking up where the grass roots coalition left off in the form of demonstrations taking place throughout the entire city including bryant park union square and wall street repeating the message that they have been saying over and over again voicing their outrage against wealth inequality in the united states against him for influence on us power to an affordable higher education and health care in the us and the ongoing jobs crisis that ninety nine percent of americans are dealing with ninety nine make it lines were set up throughout manhattan to work out of is we're protesting outside

of banks and the offices of u.s. corporations and multinational corporations once the sun went down the thousands gathered at veterans memorial plaza in lower manhattan literally occupying the property many were organizing and demonstrating with respect to their issues but once ten pm came the n.y.p.d. stormed through the plaza evacuating it literally forcing the activists to leave arresting some pushing many others out onto the street once the group was out on to the street. were all walking through lower manhattan and police officers were odd motorcycles and trying to keep the activists penned in on the sidewalk once and activists stepped into the street they got arrested there were instances where activists were being taken into. lisa with blood dripping from their

face there were some incidents where it got bloody between police officers and the unarmed occupy optimist but despite the violence that was seen in stern instances the group continued to chant their message walking through lower manhattan the exact location where this movement ignited in the fall of two thousand and eleven before police throughout the united states and eventually around the globe these activists back on the streets saying they are committed to to their message and they will be holding washington accountable for all the the favoritism that is being seen to the one percent in the united states. reporting there in oakland the town to give

a new wife to the occupy movement was met with tear gas and stun grenades as police went on the offensive to disperse crowds of demonstrators artie's medina caution of a has the latest from california. received reports of violence primarily that took place in california and that have 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 this to the whole of the plaza to march and to protest and their main themes the war social inequality and police aggression but oakland police did use 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 were 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 of protests in major cities of this state went quite peacefully of though with seeing massive amount of police representatives in the streets and police 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 of the day with the occupy protests a sadist really ravaged by high unemployment and the budget cuts still 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 reporting there now 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 hamburg clash with police with injuries reported on both sides an 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 were to reign was the center of rioting in france where it's election time presidential candidates sought to use mayday as a chance to rally support 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 crowds mass outside parliament in athens with some protesters calling for a revolt strategic plan are going to leave the economic troubles in europe spell a larger political crisis. the problem with the eurozone idea and the european

community it's a suburb in a democratic ideal whenever the european constitution has been up for a vote it's his 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 france it seems to me that the establishment politicians of both the left in the right the sarkozy and hollande 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 what we've seen in greece what we've seen in the u.k. austerity measures do not seem to be working to fix the economy and a swathe of 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. watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow still to come in the program skepticism in france over the choice an offer between the two candidates vying to be president in this 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 claimed responsibility and the attacks were in retaliation for the u.s. president's visit a total of five blast have been reported in the afghan capital as many as eight

people are dead and nearly twenty have been injured the u.s. president's visit to kabul to mark one year since the killing of osama bin ladin by the american special forces in a speech about graham airbase a bomb admitted washington is holding direct talks with the taliban and said many in the terrorist group are interested in peace a bamma and karzai also signed an agreement lining ties in the decade after the planned u.s. troop pullout in twenty fourteen artist has more. the fact that president obama traveled to afghanistan exactly year after bin laden's killing to sign the strategic pact with ghana's that is seen as an attempt to put the new years of the success story on the decade long war you have got us that success in afghanistan is very or you will to say the least the afghans want american troops out we constantly see people there expressing outrage over the killing of civilians over night raids 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 agreement that the leaders have signed in visions the u.s. they get is that 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 your. as a basis and this is something that many afghans are worried about and that is that the uighurs 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 qaeda in the 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 that produced in my opinion the best from joe. as hyped as bin laden's killing is some ask whether it's being used to mask the feeler of the u.s. policies abroad during the last ten years the bin laden 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 you had this kind of salafist.

you know then 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 you know 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 was a success on the war on terror front no doubt about that but there is an attempt to

sell it as the success story of the whole war on terror and many fear that the lawtons 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 our team now there's always more on our website r.t. dot com so going to read about a burning religious matter a florida republican another koran burning ceremony outside the 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 team dot com. french presidential rivals nicolas sarkozy and front alond get their last chance to sway votes in the only t.v. debate before sunday's runoff the incumbent president will have to throw everything into the duel with socialist challenger alond is currently leading the polls now

they're fighting for the votes of right wing leader of marine le pen who herself has refused to endorse sarkozy and suggested her supporters make their own choice and that won't be an easy one as tests are still 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 voice they really proud 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 come to the t.v.

you will see. this from oprah to the next five. i will see the wall in this. and i will i would like to see for all this wall in this. especially when francis economic quagmire is already a tough one to muddle through unemployment is at a twelve year high of almost ten percent debt is doing ninety percent of g.d.p. growth has all but ground to a halt and a series of measures are likely to continue 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. whoever 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 succor faces for workers for the obvious

interests of the large banking globalists. then they work on some very small things that are there if you recall that ok we're going to vote for immigrants in local elections or you know what we're going to lead and what sexual couples adopt children those are important measures but they're not the biggest measure of a tough choice to make for those who don't see want to begin with. tess or sylvia r.t. paris. has exactly thirty years since the origin time cruiser general grotto was sunk in the first major british attack of the focus of war three hundred and twenty three crew died in what was argentine a single heaviest loss of life in the conflict over the sovereignty of the islands author and historian hugh has britain has learned the lessons from the war. it took everybody completely by surprise you know at the political level 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 prominent in the british government it seems unable to process information and come up with sensible policies british 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 caution the dirty water down prime minister callaghan when the foreign office came out to try and sell the idea of selling out the island those he said was not handing over two thousand britons 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 where we are on the. we're

just coming off that we must stick to uncle sam's bleep. out you can see the full interview with historian and author hugh bates now in an hour here on our team. israel is taking new steps to shield itself from its arab neighbors meaning a further isolation having already walled off the palestinians the jewish state is now seeking to do the same with a lebanese artist policy or 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 taken to rule they always do meet under the auspices of unifil and this war is being constructed in conjunction with unifil the israeli army as well as the lebanese army but in addition israel is also in the midst of building a wall along its southern border with egypt a war that it says it hopes are finished by the end of the year according to the israelis the one in the south 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 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 long standing agreement to supply gas to as well in addition to that we have the situation with iran and we fear. we are not seeing cracks between the political and military leadership of whether or not to go ahead with people ration for whether or not they should continue talking about of war there's a lot of confusion of too so the tensions in the region are increasing. policy 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 old two day strategic and economic talks between the countries but the meeting is at risk of

being overshadowed by the case of blind chinese lawyer chan he 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 policy. 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 the 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. l'amour opposition leader aung sun suu kyi has been sworn in as a member of parliament it comes after a two decade struggle against military rule by the 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 the general election in two thousand and ten saying the poll was rigged in favor of the military but down and hurt 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 over eager officers are these british reader 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 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's the one who supported the whole family i totally depended on her list i want to work on it meaning it got me is sure it was part of a fake encounter where police kill usually an armed suspect and claim 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 say that they've been trained encouraged to carry them out for money it's a reality as it 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. this is. the border and some of the problems. are.

what can go to the. 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. 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. still trying to make sense of her family's tragedy preassure either our team mumbai india. and straight to the world of business to marina so marina what's going on now in the world of business so asia is probably the only one because of the time zones trading at the moment so how the session going there. yes asia is the only one

trading not much has changed from previous hours in terms of in terms of numbers but it's still impose it's of territory if we can have a look at the latest figures there we go we can see that there. are over one percent and basically one of them so hong kong the games are mainly due to here my data will show the chinese manufacturing data has improved and i helped to counter another data which show that china's a war biggest banks has shown a sharp slowdown in credit growth for the month of april but in general the optimism is a mainly due to gains on wall street that let's take a look of what happened there if you take a look at the percent of us it doesn't seem bad impressive but in reality the dow closed at its highest close for years and analysts say that's an incursion saw and ahead of friday's monthly jobs report so if you look at that now moving on to russia it's now in the hour ahead of the opening bell the russian markets have been

closed for public holidays so what you see on your screen is the close of picture from saturday which was a trading day year pretty much a lackluster performance because investors really have much to react to in the absence of these from europe and the u.s. of course and analysts we've been talking to say that russia's economy is actually go from strength to strength right now. there's a tremendous amount of growth not only because of the resource. it is 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 will come more from the actions of companies than from the government only and i see some real new energy in russia's companies and also a lot of interest still from foreign investors from american and european companies and investing. for currencies and the euro is still full out against the dollar and absolutely nothing has changed from the previous hour when it comes to the ruble it

lost against both major currencies and of course we'll have the obviated figures on that next hour moving on to oil prices there are still ahead there in the south that's after having its highest close in about five weeks now this is a mainly due to an increase in stockpiles in the u.s. which counts are signs of revival for the u.s. economy and that's how the business looks this hour finally next hour the russian markets will open bring us all have something to tell you all right we're looking forward to that surely with bated breath but thanks very much indeed for bringing us the costs were there at the business desk and of course a dome is joining us on just ballbuster program that's coming your way after they have lines here on our team.

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welcome back your weather team reminder of the top stories now the occupy protesters are back with a bang but marches across the u.s. are marked with a new police crackdown in oakland tear gas and stun grenades made for testers calling for an answer to corporate greed and big business and points in politics. fresh violence hits of ghana stand shortly after barack obama visits kabul with a wave of gotham bomb attacks in which at least six die his trip marked eight years since the killing of osama bin laden while deals were signed with afghan president karzai to cover the decade after the plan's troop pullout in two thousand and fourteen. and frantic campaigning in france's presidential election with just days left for the two candidates to woo voters before the decisive round on sunday the fight is getting tougher as rivaling leader marine le pen refuses to endorse either candidate.