day of discontent workers around the globe demand fair wages and rights but some protests turned violent. plans for a nuclear free middle east are in jeopardy egypt pulls out of atomic talks to israel's. alternative increases its fleet of submarines with nuclear capabilities. and where the classics meet contemporary russia is renowned. to raise the curtain on its second we go back stage to visit the most expensive cultural.

life last year's here in moscow this is. when it's a global day of action against poor wages and eroded rights as workers worldwide march to make their voices heard in turkey a rally turned violent with riot police calling to break up demonstrations and clashes have also taken place in the german capital well i've not to be to all of the who's there for us now to tell us something may day has already turned sour hasn't it for many places in the world what's happening where where you are and beyond. here in berlin we've seen violent clashes between police and fall right wing political demonstrate is here that was earlier on on on wednesday now there is a concerted effort going on around make sure that the fall rights current mix with the the leftist demonstrators who will be holding their demonstration a little later on on wednesday. saying those pictures you see in those pictures

right now of course is the. political party here in germany they clashed with police in the capital now a house where there are also demonstrations taking place in all of the major cities here in germany around europe also a lot of demonstrations taking place now the the may day celebrates the made a holiday usually a day of global day of action now this is. become a day where people are called to voice their opposition to the way that the financial system is being handled in course you're crippled by the economic crisis that still ongoing throughout the two out the continent in greece it's been a twenty four hour general strike taking place on the greek streets so. although there were many many people coming out taking part relatively peaceful we're not hearing of any major incidents taking place there also big demonstrations taking place in spain over eighty spanish cities have seen mass demonstrations staying the

course announcing a record high amounts of unemployment figures just last week over six million people out of work in spain at the moment that's drawing people out on the streets of those that this content demonstrators also on the streets of italy and in turkey we saw violent scenes earlier on wednesday with tear gas being deployed water cannon we're also hearing that sewage may have been sprayed on demonstrators to try and get them to disperse and stumble in the to each. the city there. also. feel this has been truly a global day of action in the far east in the likes of the philippines and in news here there's also the demonstrators at demonstrations as people come out to say that they want better pay better conditions and specially in the philippines there's been a large demonstration promoting trying to raise awareness of the conversations that guest workers in that country have to live in to try to get them better right so

a global day of action we're expecting further demonstrations here in the german capital and i'll bring you up to date on all of that as we get it. it's one of the thanks very much for the update while workers clearly have plenty to protest about right now people of bell will be here at a fifteen thirty g.m.t. cross-talk asks if the economic mess has put global capitalism in crisis. israel is about to add to its fleet of submarines which are thought capable of launching new clear on missiles the country still denies possessing atomic weapons well this is special is enough to remain a deep source of regional tension was sufficient to make egypt walk out of nuclear

talks on monday as pulis lir explains. carlos is it is withdrawing from a second week of the nonproliferation treaty talks in geneva in protest against what it is calling the failure to implement a one thousand nine hundred five resolution for a middle east free of nuclear weapons now the cairo argument is an implicit reference to israel that has never either confirmed or denied having nuclear arms and it is also not a signatory to the nonproliferation treaty arab states and iran say that israel's presumed nuclear arsenal poses a threat to peace in the middle east as well as security in a statement by the egyptian foreign ministry its it was pulling out of the talks to quote send a strong message of non acceptance of the continued lack of seriousness in dealing with the establishment of a nuclear free zone in the middle east caro went on to say that it cannot continue waiting forever for the implementation of this with illusion now the egyptians are

calling on member states and international bodies to be able sponsibility again quoting implementing legitimate international resolutions the argument however from the israeli side as well as the american side is that a nuclear arms free zone in the middle east cannot be a reality until there is a broader arab israeli peace plan in place and iran could see its nuclear program the meeting currently underway in geneva is aimed at reviewing progress in implementing the nine hundred seventy nonproliferation treaty which is designed to prevent the spread of nuclear arms across the world. for so discuss the ramifications of all this what it could be with bruce gardner on the form the global network against weapons nuclear power and space he joins us live from the u.s. thanks for joining us here on r.t. today or caro walked out as we've said of the nonproliferation talks saying that a nuclear free middle east can't happen really when one country presumably israel

has not even signed the treaty do you think the message will be heard. well sadly it appears that israel and the united states. using to really be honest about number one is most all the weapons of mass destruction to the united states support and courage. for those weapons of mass destruction so i think it's difficult to really make any major progress on armament nuclear disarmament as long as israel and the us are essentially playing a hypocritical game here and you mention the u.s. and its route they say iran must its nuclear ambitions but iran doesn't possess nuclear weapons does it so why is it getting all the blame well it's easier to shift shift attention away from israel by blaming iran and that seems to be the

strategy of both israel and the u.s. a very coordinated strategy it's interesting the united states complain about iran or north korea but it helps india it helps israel it helps certain countries develop nuclear weapons so it's really a very hypocritical. process and five we all should remember that the united states is indeed the only car untrue that has ever used nuclear weapons in this world but we're the biggest complainer about certain countries. maybe possibly having them when in fact israel he'd have them and nothing is going to pass in israel that does claiming to defend itself but does that justify building up a new class especially when it has such as anyway such as the u.s. . you know i don't think israel's going to be stopped in the first place as long as they don't attack other countries but clearly i believe that israel has

expansionist ideas expansionist dreams in the region and i think israel is very much behind the civil war in syria today so israel really wants to have its cake and eat it too but if you mention expansionist ideas that i mean israel increasing its feats of submarines as we've said capable of carrying and launching missiles with nuclear warheads do you believe they'll for defense purposes any no not at all they're for project power and the heart of a larger global strategy the u.s. and expand nato early seeing these days it's an expansionist power. program and israel and the u.s. are tied together. many arabs and they say israelis don't hold me to the step very briefly what should the international community be

doing to help the situation. i think the international community must continue to shine a light on israel's possession of nuclear weapons something that they don't want to talk about something the u.s. doesn't want to talk about and the pressure must be on israel and the us. clearly because nothing will change as long as israel has nuclear weapons and is trying to keep others in the middle east from having them as well. as have not from the global network against weapons and nuclear power in space flight from the u.s. thank you thank you. on the streets obese london shari'a patrols are still in force police of this courage their actions in local religious leaders have disowned them but it's not stopping the group from trying to coerce britons into a strict isn't just code when they're muslims not so first looks at why. when videos have missed them vigilantes trying to pay serial or an unsuspecting members

of the public first hit the headlines there was an outcry in person well since then some arrests have been made for this artist found out his self-titled muslim patrols still in operation in the muslim community we continue to patrol the streets and clear the streets of the first isn't easy to achieve this group call themselves the shari'a project. they make a point of differentiating themselves from the more hardline muslim patrol his video is cool such anger everything with scenes like this we almost. got it out we're proud of. our work. a moment longer a little bit calmer and really focused on our control on this patrol they say that while share many of the same views as the other patrol they'd never employed the same aggressive tactics. in the background.

i mean looking at those patrols i can say that is commendable that muslims have come out and actually decided to take some kind of action against you know these things taking place. about their actual actions and the shouting of people stealing money by getting obviously there was a better way to do things my approach as a muslim is to advise my muslim brothers i see you do an action that perhaps more appropriate always advise me to say what is better this image in the mainstream islam community these patrols are across the concern but if it is ensuring widespread media coverage many muslim leaders have condemned their actions as wrong and i'm representing. these individuals are a fringe minority you know they don't represent the muslim community there's two point seven million muslims in the county and they. you know they would never. condone this type of behavior osa groups were very clear to us that they

have peaceful intentions some of the members are alleged to be involved with the more extreme patrols while members serve three and a half years in prison on charges of terrorist fund raising and inciting terrorism . and it didn't take him long to make his more hardline vs knowing all that america going to hell i believe so because i believe those who disbelieve in the god did find this vision to be the end point and those laws that they established with that would go but for our own. settle into why i have no respect to be shown whatsoever i asked the leader of the shari'a project whether he was concerned by statements like that i think it would take a fantastic approach to the fix to complain these are great but we shall see protesting thank you forty for the strong forty three in which i think you some things are we still gauging today this in many base amongst the muslim and the

white british community there are worries not just about these actions but about the potential repercussions the relatively small minority kids have on a much larger scale so. for us president george w. bush says he's comfortable about having on leash the iraq war while washington believes the end justified belief look at exactly what state invasions left iraq today plus. coming up the u.s. reports prepared to send lethal weapons to the syrian opposition president obama vows to move with chemicals being used by the serious business class not the rebels into the program.

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welcome back now more than two hundred people have been killed in iraq in less than a week as fears grow that the latest surge and bodies to seeing the country slide into civil war and it's which account looks at the iraq war legacy and why the u.s. prefers glory to regrets. major combat operations in iraq have ended in the battle of iraq the united states and around lies have prevailed president george w. bush delivered the message on may the first two thousand and three a declaration of success followed by years of bloody war when bush made that speech i was in the military and public affairs that was the stated mission you know liberation and freedom for iraqis and it didn't seem to me like that what's happening because there was all this violence that was her head she waited by her presence for years after this speech as many americans and the whole world saw iraq as a heart monitor washington decided to send in twenty thousand more troops that surge

cost the u.s. the lives of more than a thousand soldiers and many billions of dollars of taxpayers' money on his deathbed of the iraq war veteran thomas young wrote a letter to george w. bush and dick cheney. the was. both like you'd born and a terrible lying in the church of american politics sometimes even doubting success can be perceived as blasphemous that's been true for the iraq surge even today will you correct or incorrect when you said that the search would be the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since viet nam we are correct or incorrect by right or no my reference to the surge and jeanne what is. the question is were you right or wrong my answer is i'll defer that judgment to history i think history has already made a judgment about the searcher and you're on the wrong side of it chuck hagel is reference to vietnam was not uncalled for years into the vietnam war even as most

americans saw the involvement there is a mistake thousands of u.s. troops continue to die because washington didn't want to admit it someone has to die and so that president nixon won't be and these are his words the first president to lose a war supporters of president bush say history will treat him more kindly regarding iraq but the history that is being lived by iraqis today is one that has neither peace nor security in a country ripped apart by terror six tarion violence and fears of a looming civil war in washington i'm going to shut down. the final terrifying moments of a cargo jumbo jet were captured by camera in the back of military afghanistan in the images you're about to see graphic show the plane as it seems to stall at low altitude before getting to the ground killing all seven american crew on board to report on what caused the tragedy. would now the u.s.

government is avoiding using chinese i.t. because they suspect spies the pentagon is spending a small fortune to borrow a beijing suffolk county dot com find out what's driving american music through robyn's on clay. syria's rebels may soon get leaflet american weaponry senior u.s. official say barack obama is gearing up to make a more aggressive leadership role among. the president told reporters there's evidence that chemical arms have been used in syria and threatened action only referred to present our side point not takes up the story. the only option that he gave was a scenario in which he said if the u.s.

finds out that the syrian government has used chemical weapons against the rebels then obama strongly indicated that the u.s. would consider military intervention but he did not address what would happen if it was in fact the rebels or members of the opposition that have used chemical weapons throughout this ongoing conflict but at this point iraq obama says that u.s. intelligence officials don't know who has used chemical weapons inside of syria how they were used or whether they were used in the meantime damascus and the opposition have repeatedly accused one another of using chemical weapons one of the many sensitive issues obama address was the issue of closing the prison at guantanamo bay he said the idea that the u.s. would still detain a group of individuals indefinitely without trial is contrary to the interests reputations and morals of america while the u.s. president has shown his strong will to close the prison he lacks the necessary

support from congress and that support is what would give obama the authority and the funding to close the prison and now obama's comments come of course as the hunger strike at guantanamo bay prison enters its fourth day this is a story that our team first reported back in march and has continued to cover we were among the first to cover it for to you extra navy medical stuff i've been sent in to assist with over one hundred inmates using food at guantanamo bay. company can stone things washington is under pressure to prove it's already tarnished image there. u.s. authorities are in damage control mode now because they know that with every prisoner who dies in guantanamo bay the negative attention of the world is going to be focused on. and the shame that has brought upon the united states of america the crimes that have been can only wonder what they are still being committed in guantanamo bay by the united states will not go away and the. attention of the

world to negative attention is focused on these crimes welty has spoken to prison officials detainees lawyers activists and u.n. representatives to get a full account of what's going on at guantanamo and you can follow the developments at r.t. dot com well the world renowned theater incent petersburg has a rich musical legacy stretching back well centuries and now it's branching out by launching a brand new second venue when ski to opens on thursday and promises to visitors both on and off stage the bang let's say has taken a tour of what is one of the most expensive cultural jet setter. if you can tell me as you reach treme and i'd although it's not come cheap at some seven hundred thirty million dollars but what audiences will get is a seventy nine thousand square building and to accommodate today's most demanding

productions on my car grand to aging sister every one of the two thousand people in mariinsky still had to choose auditoriums will be able to see every inch of the stage no blind spots even on the roof and i'll stress school m.p.p. at the end terrace over nekesa in petersburg c.-h. of us is a clear that it's the next generation of audiences in this sights. were there ever such as. we have. here. this. is the. first. few years this is my very first series. to. go to every corner of the marine ski fitted to captures your i and i wanted to find out a little bit more about how the all key textures the were able to combine both the

old muddy and ski together with this contemporary inviting and very vibrant space. gordon says the classic hallmarks of the eighteenth and nineteenth century opera house is a horseshoe shaped three balconies a tried and trusted designed to carry both grand scale and wide intimacy that there's a twenty first century twist smart walls so that even the father spectator catches even the quietest nights backstage the marines give you to do is like a factory scene jobs of flying towers and axes areas designed to operate so that sets can be moved quickly and easy so productions can be stitched back to back the opening night garland the second of may kicks off three days of launch performances at district and general director valerie giver will conduct an area of stars including will see the domingo overborrowed and renee coming in the words of you to

stick directing the program the novel festival which are easy to demonstrate the extraordinary range of the company and the new theatres brings with all sizes of contemporary oprah ballet and kestrel music heard whom. to bomb would say our team. and. former institutes got the opening premiere starting on thursday join us cross special coverage. we've been on two teenagers have been killed in a powerful blast that's hit the capital of dagestan in russia's north caucuses explosive device went off near a bustling marketplace or so into into bystanders the bomb was apparently planted inside a metal tube and went off the two boys open the passage was inside russia's anti terror committee has ruled out terrorism in the attack was organized by gangs to intimidate the owner of a nearby shop and extort money from him and understand is currently the most

volatile place in russia's north caucuses where there are often acts of terrorism attacks against the authorities and sometimes words just aren't enough so i look at the this way this parliament is in debate not quite what you'd expect several position lawmakers were injured in the rule of being assaulted by government supporters fists flew when leaders of the socialist party are tested against a proposal barring them from speaking in national assembly unless the acceptance of those presidency when opposition candidate dismisses the election result on what is a recount and want to raise it to fifty one percent in. well the news this hour canada has four top three point one billion dollars which is missing from its anti terror budget they want to general says he can't trace of course of the cash spent on a thirteen billion dollars program in the last decade that called for going to control the financial records and government spending. up next it's across

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owen welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle is the capital a system in crisis after five years of financial and economic chaos multiple bailouts from wall street to cyprus the global capitalist system is on trial high unemployment and mountains of debt plague the western world all the while politicians go from one blunder to another so what has capitalism done pretty lately. to cross the.