the occupy protesters are back with a bang but marches across the u.s. are marked with new police crackdowns. deadly bomb and gunfire attacks heat of ghana stand shortly after barack obama visits kabul one year since the killing of osama bin laden. frantic campaigning and francis' presidential election was just days left for the two candidates to rule voters before the size of around them but not everyone's enthusiastic about the choice an offer also. you could it takes to see somebody to keep it in torturing his country this guy is going to give you some lessons about how to promote human rights in tunisia. julian assange quizzes human rights advocate on the new leader of tunisia on his encounter with american

double standards he's put his time in solitary confinement and his hopes for his country's future without a much more only honest on the show on air in less than thirty minutes time here on r t. one pm in the russian capital you're watching r t on marina joshie the anti-corporate occupy movement has made a comeback in the u.s. after a long hiatus activists returned to the birthplace of the protests in new york city having been evicted from their encampment last autumn the police came back to to make arrests are just worried a fortnight as 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 paying for influence on us how it's 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 lines were set up throughout manhattan to work out to visit were protesting outside of banks and the offices of us 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 to literally forcing the activists to leave arresting some pushing many others out onto the street once the group was out on to the street activists who were all walking through lower manhattan and police officers were odd motorcycles and trying to keep the activists penned in on the sidewalk once an optimist stepped into the street they got arrested and there were instances where activists were taken into. with blood dripping from their face so there were incidents where it got bloody between police officers and the unarmed occupy optimus but despite the violence

that was seen in certain 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 these activists back on the streets saying they will be holding washington accountable for all the the favoritism that is being seen to the one percent in the united states for now reporting there from new york and in oakland the attempt to give new life to the occupy movement was met was tear gas and stun grenades demonstrators gathered at city hall to protest over social inequality a few hundred people refused to leave defying police orders some throw bottles and other objects at officers police then went on the offensive to disperse crowds of demonstrators and made a number of arrests. violence has also marred may day marches in some

cities in europe in germany a left wing protesters clashed with police in berlin and hamburg with injuries reported on both sides estimated four hundred thousand walked across the country to demand a boost to eurozone economies instead of cuts. to rallies also turned violent in italy as the testers clashed with police were children was the center of rioting the leaders of the country's three main unions denounced reforms carried out by a technocrat prime minister by you montana. and in spain a trade union activists marched against a record eurozone unemployment rate of twenty five percent with nearly half of young people out of work that's half the country suffers a double dip recession strategic plan are going. leaves economic troubles in europe spell larger political crisis. the problem with the euro zone idea and the european community it's a never been a democratic ideal whenever the european constitution has been up for a vote it's

a has lost 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 who 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. you're watching r t 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 skate poverty. bombs and gunfire have struck the afghan capital kabul shortly after a visit by barack obama the taliban claimed responsibility and said the attacks were in retaliation for the u.s. president's visit afghan police say suicide bombers attacked a compound where foreign workers live at least seven people have been killed and almost twenty injured the u.s.

president's visit to kabul came one year since the killing of osama bin laden by american special forces in a speech about graham airbase obama admitted washington is holding direct talks with the taliban and said many in the terrorist group are interested in peace obama and karzai also signed an agreement outlining ties a decade after the plant u.s. troops pull out twenty four team are just going to has more. 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 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 grievance that the leaders have signed

in vision is 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 uighurs warrants 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 because my report on how bin laden's killing could serve as a convenient cover for some dubious policies we have been able to make the ranks of al qaida and a year ago we were able to finally bring osama bin laden to justice. 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 honorable. than the one that 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 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 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 the 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 through. 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 the law against killing could serve as a convenient cover for bad policies of the past as well as the future i'm going to

shift our reporting from washington our to. a kind of leader maybe dad but he's still inspiring his followers as we report online german codebreakers discover hundreds of al qaida internal documents on plan terror attacks disguised as porn files. oh no more trips to dutch coffee shops for visitors the netherlands rolls in a ban on tourists rolling out more i want to but not for locals that story and more energy dot com plus you can catch our best mayo's on our you tube channel. each. do you. believe.

download the official ante up location of your own phone called touch from the jumps to. life on the go. video on demand our g.'s mine gold coast. and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. machine on the dot com. french presidential rivals nicolas sarkozy and francois lawn get their last chance to sway vote in the only t.v. debate before sunday's runoff incumbent president will have to throw everything into the duel with socialist challenger alond who's currently leading the polls they're fighting for the votes of dry we need a marine le pen ho herself has refused to endorse sarkozy and suggested her supporters make their own choice and that won't be an easy one as has her so you

now 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 round two is voting for the one you dislike the least unless of course you voted for one of them to begin with but this is where it gets tricky for some especially for those who question what kind of a choice they really if there really is one. yeah yeah yeah. maybe in jest but what's seen as a lack of a clear solution for france's economic woes have left citizens skeptical from the onset. majority of the french people to see one of the two come to the t.v. when he say. this is 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 dearie ninety percent of g.d.p. growth has all but ground to a halt in a series of measures are likely to continue to get 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. wherever 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 group. then they work very small things that are periphery call 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 measure but a tough choice to make for those who don't see one to begin with and that is desiree sylvia r.t.u. parents. now it's exactly thirty years since the argentine cruiser general belgrano was sunk in the first major british attack of the falcons 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 bichon now says britain hasn't learned the lessons from the war. it took everybody completely by surprise you know the political level certainly there were plenty of warnings there were you know one of the things they say there was an intelligence failure no there was an in failure 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 they're 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 ghoshal in the dirty water down prime minister callaghan in the foreign office came out to try and sell the idea of selling out the islanders he said. handing over two thousand to a bunch of bleeping fascists. and that was the foreign office told but that didn't stop you see 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 that time the big thing was oh well we must share our imperial past and then everyone is going to like us again. you can see the full interview with historian and author of hue of h.

now in an hour here on r.t. . israel is taking new steps to shield itself 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 are just fall asleep 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

to take the war they always do meet 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 a 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'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 barrier so certainly tensions in the region are increasing. poe's lee reporting there now let's take a look at what's happening elsewhere in the world five people have been killed by gunmen near the egyptian the fans ministry building and cairo up to one hundred

people were also injured in clashes in which rocks clubs fire bombs and shotguns were used for tacitus have been demonstrating for a fourth day against the barring of an islamic candidate from the presidential elections a total of ten hopefuls were banned from standing in the polls later this month. chinese lawyer and activist chen guangcheng has left the u.s. embassy in beijing for medical treatment and to be reunited with his family he fled house arrest last week and was under u.s. protection for which china is demanding an apology for freeing chan was being punished for exposing alleged abuses in official chinese family planning policies such as forced abortions and the move comes as u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton visits beijing for high level strategic and economic talks i want to. jamar opposition leader aung san suu kyi has been sworn in and as a member of parliament it comes after a two decade struggle against military rule by the nobel peace prize where it was

subject to house arrest and travel bans the army has formally transferred power to civilians but still has considerable influence in the country her party boycott of the general election in two thousand and ten saying the poll was rigged in favor of the military but then and heard the political process in 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 artist 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's 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 but who support is

a part of the business and this is. the border and some of the problems. i think of the. living god determines what can go through the new does 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. well 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 now to

cause a row with all the latest and we're hearing that there are a lot of manufacturing imports coming out now for the month of april so how are they looking good or bad. in that well when it comes in the us or the been quite good which actually helped raise confidence in investors but when it comes to europe they haven't been that great in fact manufacturing activity slowed other far surpass than expected let's take a look at the markets and see how they've been reacting to this as you can see a mixed picture there with the footsie down what the facts are still adding on what we know there are drug makers and oil for our lead in the gains there i've been on since we started talking about europe the unemployment rate shows that the latest figures in this really reached a twelve year high in march when it comes to germany the jobless rate rose zero point one percent for the same period and that was slightly higher than expected and of course spain has the highest unemployment rates in the european union the

number of job seekers rose for the eighth month in a row in march to hit five point six million or a record twenty four point four percent. all right let's take a look at how the russian markets are doing still the figures here are and with a mind set aside in just under one percent this hour the country is still in celebration mode so investors are hasn't said before making any big moves we do have public holidays that will drag on throughout next week as well for half of that so we're not expected see the major movements let's take a look at the individuals. moves on the mice sex when it comes to roles that we're seeing that is getting over one and a half percent the sour and we know that its shareholders may be getting record high dividends amounts into over one billion dollars in the us happen that's twenty five percent more than last year financials as you can see are also there particularly well with adding over one and a half percent as well and when it comes to paula that has minimized the earlier

gains and what we know about the companies that i'm a self wife percent of it shares to china investment corporation and a further two and a half percent to russia's. bank and it does go through the company will get more than six hundred a million dollars from this deal talking about china chinese investors are looking to develop russia's far east and siberia and russian and chinese business when signed over twenty seven agreements in moscow worth around fifteen billion dollars and what's more they're actually considering setting up an investment fund worth an additional four billion dollars to make sure that there will be more investments in the future. the funds will be launched in june and we will be making first investments in the next three months but that's very important because russia and china need a good platform for investment because many companies will benefit from trade them for business between russia and china they could mean there because asians to go to

those are trying to get investments not very efficient so we create the platforms it's focused on investing in businesses the benefits from russia china trade we believe that we will focus on projects which returns inside sectors as agriculture machine the really just takes lots of sectors of benefit from the growth of the countries. but a finalist took a look at the exchange rates the euro is still flat against the dollar every hour it's let's see that from the negative the positive we see the arrow there but it's been flat from the beginning of the day when it comes to the ruble and susan against the dollar gaining against i think they are and that's how business looks at this hour. right overall a very interesting picture there with its highs and lows thanks very much indeed for bringing us this update and there's a lot more coming your way so don't miss julia songes vault buster program after they have lines.

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