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>> hello. thanks for being with us. that is labor day across much of europe. but there is a lack of labor prompting major rallies in many countries, not least of which is france. critical day in the build-up to the presidential election, and many eyes will be focused on le pen. there's marine with her father. they pay tribute to that statue there, joan of arc. with something like six million people having voted, they were limited in the first round, but

that is an awful lot of votes for the socialist candidate. also the center-right, current president nicolas sarkozy to want to get hold of as well as hole i don't understand. we're going to be speaking to our correspondent there in just a few moments in this half-hour, and we will probably here from marine le pen who will be giving her demonstration as well. there have been rallies to mark the frustrations of the economic crisis that is hitting so many countries. not least of which greece, where more demonstrations have been going on for many, many months now and are expected again. mark marc lowen is our

correspondent in the creek capital. he joins us now. >> i suppose the reality is, no one seems to know how greece or any country will get them out of the hole. >> they will have to agree on 11 billion euros worth of cuts in june. that is on top of the massive savings that have been pushed through here over the last two years. there was so much anger here in greece over austerity measures. there are big protests, strikes, also the traditional mayday, social unrest here. however, they are smaller and less violent than in previous years. that is because minds are very much focuses on the election. that is when people will show their anger at the ballot box rather than on the streets. there is another effect here is well.

it is pushing many, many greeks away from the mainstream parties toward the political extremes. you heard there le pen doing well in france. the far right is also on the rise here in greece. on the road for votes from the most vulnerable, the far right gold yep dawn party delivering food and clothes to the needy. it is the soft side of a group that critics call violent extremists. they are gaining support fast from those suffering from the financial crisis. the group made several stops along the way. the next one is catalina. this woman told me she is struggling from cancer p why not help golden dawn, she told us? in athens, they spread fast. they are labeled neo-nazis.

halfway through, they round up opponents. first a member who they chased through a local market. then they spot a socialist m.p. who they target, pelting him with food and water. behavior giving fuel to those who call the group pure thugs. >> that is the face of the party. brutal violence and no respect to the democratic institutions. >> golden dawn has called for all immigrants to leave greece's borders. they go further still. >> we are going to have electric fences and guards to protect our country. >> you are saying immigrants should be killed through mines? >> well, they shouldn't be here. the whole country is dying from immigrants and bankers. >> that anti-immigrant rhetoric is striking a cord here with

increasing attacks. this pakistanis said he was assaulted, but he does not know by whom. golden dawn denies they are behind anti-immigrant violence. "i'm scared of going out." he says. "it never used to be this way." over 80% of migrants of e.u. pass through greece, making them a target of public anger during the financial crisis and playing directly into the hands of the far right. >> the other side shouts loudly, too. aimed at stopping this group, golden dawn, at all -- in anyway possible. so golden dawn is one of the smaller parties likely to do well in sunday's campaign, in sunday's election. also several left wing smaller parties riding on a wave of social discontent, anger against

austerity measures. they are anti-austerity, too. they are likely to do well, too. what we are likely to see sunday is a fragmentation of the vote. that could be a group to fight greece's deficit. more cuts means more social unrest as well. >> the main parties are locked in, aren't they? for the time being, at least two austerity measures, austerity promises? >> they are. they are likely to be punished. the center-right conservative new democracy party, they have pushed through more austerity here. it is deeply unpopular austerity. that is why so many people are turning against those parties. it is an interesting phenomenon. they have dominated greek politics for much of the decade,

but now voters are turning away from those parties, threatening their dominance of the political scene and going toward smaller anti-austerity parties. we'll have to see whether that anger, whether votes for the anti-austerity party are enough to remove democracy from government. it is likely to be the case. we still think those parties will be able to form a coalition after sunday, all be it perhaps a shaky one after that. >> marc, thank you for that. let's get back to paris. as we said, nationanale is staging their -- national is staging their rally. we have already seen ms. le pen and her father. that is the platform from which marine le pen is expected to be

speaking from soon. this is critical for marine le pen, isn't it? >> yes, it will show where the party goes in the coming months. >> and we lost you, christian. we lost the picture, we lost christian. just try christian again. i don't know if you can hear us now, christian. i don't know if you can hear me. christian, last try. can you hear me now? i hope the rally goes more smoothly than our correspondence in the last moment or two. but it is a key moment for her, isn't it? >> yes, of course. she took 6.5 million votes in the first round of this

election. you can see the flags of the national front waving here. some of her critics saying they are waiting for the lady to sing or words to that effect. what she says will affect the president. if she endorses him, this may help him. he's trailing in the polls. i think it is more likely here hell she will tell the people here to abstain. she wants to throw off the right wing of politics in france. there is no reason for her to support nicolas sarkozy. some of her supporters in the last week said their intention is so destroy nicolas sarkozy ability to win the election.

>> we now go to the "news of the world" phone hacking scandal. the house of commons is deciding whether particle was misled about the phone-hacking practice at the newspaper. they are going to consider the role of james murdoch. he has denied knowing of any wrongdoing at the newspaper. joining me now is our political correspondent, naomi. has hard to get any information about what the report findings will be. >> it looks like they will have criticism of the managers. they thought three managers there actually misled parliament. that is a very serious accusation, and it will be a big stain on their character if that's the case. the committee will stop short of

accusing james murdoch of misleading parliament. there is a suggestion he should have can asked more questions with this phone-hacking scandal. >> what is the bigger consideration of considering the ethics of this media and the world? >> the corporation holds a 39 -- the news corporation holds a 39% stake. but because of the allegations swirling around dealing with hacking, they are looking into whether the company is fit and proper to hold a broadcasting license in this country. so were the committee to come out with severe criticism, suggesting that there had been some kind of corporate cover-up at news corporation, that can

have serious ramifications of the future in the news corporation stable. >> not long to wait before that committee report is out. >> aaron is here now with the business end. it is interesting to find a company that has interest rates that are high enough to cut. >> i'm talking about australia. the economy that did not go into a recession during the meltdown if you will, the economic meltdown from 2008 onward, but boy a big surprise cut today in terms of the half of one percent. we're expecting a quarter percent cut. the reason being, the slowdown in the end of last year and the global economy is finally catching up on australia. the biggest nightmare or headache for policymakers in australia was that the economy was developing going in a

two-speed direction. the mining, the resource sector booming, continuing to boon, but pretty much everything else was slowing, housing, retail, et cetera. so inflation has been deep and they were able to make this big chop. >> and on to china then. how do you pronounce that? >> china. i'm not chinese so i have to be careful there. china is manufacturing going forward there. the fifth straight month where we have had a positive pir, purchasing index. look, a fifth straight month. it certainly is fast enough to macmeet the beijing growth target this year of 7.5%. so things on track at the moment. also the fiscal and monetary policies. in beijing they have allowed banks to lend more. i'll have more on this in "the

world business report" in about 20 minutes time. >> thank you for watching "bbc world news." we have a lot more to bring you. >> more praise for aung san suu kyi from the up unsecretary general in new york. -- from the u.n. secretary general in new york. >> one building claims the title of world's largest -- new york's largest towers. >> you can't miss the towering skyscraper. al-qaeda destroyed the twin towers that stood here killing nearly 3,000 people in the 9/11 attacks, seeing the new structure, the source of pride for new yorkers. >> it is a miracle that's been long overdue. >> it is bitter-sweet.

it is a beautiful thing it is up there, but it is a horrible reason they had to put it up. >> it basically shows we can resurrect. we are moving forward as a whole. >> with that steel column, one world trade center overtakes the empire state building as the tallest skyscraper in new york. 10 years after the 9/11 attacks, once again, lower manhattan is home to the tallest building in the city. [applause] since the milestone was reached, praise for those that toiled to make this rise from the rubble. >> as you can see when you see the people working here, this is more than a job for this team, to build this incredible tower. it has been an act of passion and an act of patriotic duty. >> this man's firefighter brother was killed on 9/11 and there is symbolism in the timing

of this. >> it is coming closely to the anniversary of osama bin laden's death. >> a tie scraper symbolizing l ground zero. >> this is "bbc world news". the headlines at this hour. labor day protests around the world. more planned in europe mostly against rising unemployment. >> marine le pen that came third in the french presidential election is to advise her national front reporters how they should -- supporters how they should vote in the final round. >> coming up, sports. the english premiere league. captain vince and company scored the only goal with title rivals

manchester united. after holding -- talks with the f.a. >> flicost has been released from hospital. he suffered a stroke two weeks ago. >> more than 100 people have died after a ferry capsized in northeastern india. the accident occurred late monday. the ferry broke in half and then sank in the river. this is in the west district around 350 kilometers west of the state capital of guaharte. the goal was to have 350 passengers on board. reports say there were still something like 100 people missing. heavy rains as well making rescue operations extremely difficult. local police officials did explain how some passengers on the top level of the ferry got away.

>> some were helped by the local people here. the boat capsized. >> well a simple blood test could be used to predict a woman's risk of developing breast cancer later in life. scientists in britain say they have identified a chemical process which is driven by cancer-causing factors like alcohol use and smoking. that practice is called s.e. genetics. >> epigenetics is a patent on top of the d.n.a. that defines

how much of the protein gets named. epigenetics decides how much of a gene gets made. >> and you are quite sure you can do that? >> yes, we have methods which can detect epigenetic markers. we can look in individuals and see who is different or whose variables leave particular marks. >> let's apply this to this case -- we're talking about breast cancer here. how sure can you be that this is a genuine breakthrough? >> we've looked at a case control study. we took women, half of which had breast cancer in the future from when they had the blood sample. the distribution of the marker, we look at the top 20% of individuals, that's 1-5 women and they have about a two-fold

risk of breast cancer compared to the others. what we're aiminging to do is to find more markers to build a profile that we can detect someone's individual risk. >> are we then at the beginning, from perhaps your perspective, towards being able to know if anybody is likely to get cancer? >> it is always going to be a percentage. for some people, the general population runs about a 10% risk. if you are at a higher risk, you might be as high as 80% risk. that does not mean you will get breast cancer. what we're trying to do is sfiment an individual's risk based on all the information we've got. the more information we add to that, the better. >> from your point of view, obviously, do you think this is one of those revolutionary breakthroughs or is it another little change?

>> i think it is revolutionary. it is the first time an epigenetic marker is shown to be a risk factor for breast cancer. we know a lot about the influence of risk, but it is the first time an epi gstgenetic marker has been shown to increase risk. >> interesting stuff. >> a steamroller in burma. aung san suu kyi -- they met at her villa where she spent nearly 20 years under house arrest. he accepted an invitation to visit new york.

>> i'm looking forward to. >> moon with his first ever meeting there with aung san suu kyi. >> the occupy movement had demonstrations against what it sees as the movement of capitalism. here's our report from new york. >> new york. the center of the art world. since last september it has been at the center of something else -- the occupy movement. whether the protests leads a lasting impact on america's politics, what's for certain, they are already impacting on its art and culture.

>> so it is 99% bats in a white circle. instead of a super hero millionaire bruce wane, it is ourselves. it is 99% coming to save ourselves. we are our own super hero. that's the part of it that i really think is rich. >> meet the illuminators. mission to project slogans on to buildings from a van. with these tools in a matter of months, they have created a brand more successful than much actual brands. is it performance art or activism? for the people around occupy, that's a stupid question. >> it is designed to be made available as widely as possible. people are putting out the work. >> in the occupy movement, the poster is where the white-walled gallery meets the flat rock.

where fine art meets street art. >> i think occupy took us outside of ourselves, outside of the gallery, outside of this arid self-ref rention way of working and made -- self-reverential way of working. i'm not just creating a cool, pretty image, i'm producing a functional and per swacive piece of work that's going to be repasted on buildings and held up by demonstrators. >> please turn around. >> since they were expelled from the original camp, occupiers have been playing cat and mouse with the police. >> that's paul mason with a look as protest as an art form. something to look at on the web site. and following the may protests around europe.

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