ramsey is britain's first ukip- led council. reeve is a relative newcomer to politics. >> i've always grown up thinking politics is something posh people do or something rich people do. whereas ukip said they wanted an ordinary person who is prepared to work hard and do things in your community. it is you that our most valuable. >> ramsey had been a conservative stronghold before ukip took control of the town council. its focus is on local projects like this market run by volunteers. >> sometimes they man them, but our volunteers look after them so people can have full-time jobs and still try their big business idea. >> with just over a week to go before local elections, it is the burgeoning grassroots activism like this that has got the conservatives worried. the main source of their uneasiness is the leader of ukip. he describes himself as a libertarian euro skeptics and has position himself as the true heir to margaret thatcher. am i can honestly say that everywhere we go, weather it is labor heartland, southwest, tory, rural

outside of the euro skeptic independence party making impressive gains and early results show that ukip has so far grabbed around twenty six percent of the vote and won by election in the north of england they pushed the conservatives into third place. following events and the repercussions for british politics. south shields used to be the seat of former labor foreign minister david miliband and it was seen as a real litmus test for how people are feeling at the moment and labor managed to keep hold of that seat but with ukip nipping at their heels so they've come in second and it's significant because what it shows is a pattern is emerging over the past six months you can't have come second in four by elections most notably in eastley very recently and it's showing that you can't this was a party that was until very recently seen as marginal one senior conservative minister described it described them as clowns only very very recently but it looks like they're having the last last this is a party that's noticeably euro skeptic they want to see britain out of the european union they're

test for how people are feeling at the moment and they've managed to keep hold of that seat but with ukip nipping at their heels so they've come in second and it's significant because what it shows is a product and is emerging over the past six months you can't have come second in four by elections most notably in eastley very recently and it's showing that this was a party that was until very recently seen as marginal one senior conservative minister described it described them as clones only very very recently but it looks like they're having the last last this is a party that's noticeably euro skeptic they want to see britain out of the european union they're not happy with the way that brussels dictates policies for the u.k. how much money the u.k. treasury forks out for the european commission every month and the fact that they've got such gains shows how fed up the british people are with the political status quo in this country the pattern emerging is very clear the ruling coalition parties the conservatives and the liberal democrats have sustained losses in council seats quite sig

ukip is a party that is fiercely proud. it's a party that speaks about commonsense politics and this is obviously resonated with voters both in shelf fields in the byelection but also in the county council elections where they're sweeping into power in councils all over the united kingdom and i know you've just only recently joined u.k.i.p. yourself what led you what led you to such a decision so probably you're disillusioned with mainstream politics yourself as here i mean i've been a social commentator. being a radiophone and a columnist on the biggest selling newspaper in the world the sun and i've never told people how to vote i've never told people which way i vote but it comes a time in your life when you realize your country is going to the dogs if you understand that expression and i felt that i had to do something so i joined a party for the first time ever a political party and i'm telling other people to join you. it's going to fastest growing membership i think but ten thousand new members on in the last couple

by election pushing the conservatives into third place prime minister david cameron reached out to ukip which he once called a bunch of fruitcakes now saying it's no good insulting them and trying to tempt voters back to you keeps recent popularity he demoted to referendums on europe with the first next spring a men's upcoming speech outlining the government's legislative will focus on the main issues of ukip program e.u. membership and immigration well earlier i asked the deputy leader of the u.k. independence party paul nuttall whether they are getting worried. david cameron is committed to the european union we know that because he said if there is that our friends and he will campaign to stay in and if you're members of the european union you can't control your own borders so we have a problem in this country where we have twenty two percent youth unemployment a million kids in britain who are going to work every day and what about to open our borders or to twenty nine million remaining in a bulgarians when restrictions for on january first income earners are permitted that is not a

prime minister david cameron is now planning to focus on the main issues of ukip program e.u. membership and immigration in his speech outlining the government's legislative plans or he asked the deputy leader of the u.k. independence party paul nuttall if you felt the conservative party was about to wrestle the initiative away. david cameron is committed to the european union we know that because he said if there is that our friends and he will campaign to stay in and if you're members of the european union you can't control your own borders so we have a problem in this country where we have twenty two percent unemployment a million kids in britain who are going to weigh every day and what about to open our borders all to twenty nine million. bulgarians when restrictions fall on january first and governors are permitted that is not a good can do about that so quite frankly we're not worried that he's going to park his time con artist because he simply can't we will take a seat in the house of commons if not two seats before the general election in two thousand and fifteen if

of who runs the country to decide and there is a strong feeling here that a lot of the support for ukip is because they're the new protest vote. when it comes to actually becomes the general election it's likely that that support could do indoor there's no doubt that ukip are gaining support on the doorstep because of strong feelings about immigration in this country fears it's a new wave of arrivals from the european union could put pressure on public services and i don't know i think i'm a general sense of xenophobia which while mainstream politicians don't like to talk about if you could do make it into westminster that would be a real sign that politics in britain is heading firmly towards the right. now the unemployment levels in the european union hit record highs this week with the rate going up across most of the member states now the ever rising figures are alarming and rising year by year with greece and spain the most effective in greece right now we're looking at about a twenty seven percent of the workforce is out of a job while in spain one in every four is unemployed as w

up a quarter of the votes propelling it from the margins into a real force let's take a closer look ukip gained one hundred thirty nine new councillors local elections that's up from just eight previously the labor party finished two hundred ninety one seats up and the coalition parties both of them they were badly hit with the liberal democrats down one hundred twenty four and the conservatives then well they're down three hundred thirty five seats left to contemplate how to get their frustrated voters back from ukip prime minister david cameron is now planning to focus on the main issues of the ukip programme membership and immigration in his speech outlining the government's legislative plants are asked the deputy leader of the u.k. independence party paul not all if he felt the conservative party was about to wrestle the initiative away from them. david cameron is committed to the european union we know that because he said if that is it that friends and he will campaign to stay in and if you are members of the european union you can't control your own borders so we have a problem in

independence party stole the show at another british byelection ukip came in second in south shields which is perceived as having a having a staggering result considering the party did not even stand in the constituency in the last general election more on this knowledge swansea's serve. people went see the polls for the local elections in england and wales yesterday here in the north of the country. was under way with the former labor david miliband. growing public support. being right at the center of that they were coming. through. the charismatic leader here backing his candidate. but as we've seen recently with clothing support the public are really responding to these mainstream party

democrats and the conservatives hurts to stay in major losses in terms of council seats it's really ukip that have come out on top now this is a party that's been by many as the protest vote party the people a very keen for them if they feel too frustrated with labor conservatives liberal democrats the traditional status quo political parties but i think that a lot of people are going to have to be taking them a lot more seriously now and that a lot of people didn't take them very seriously just a few days ago the a senior conservative member called them clowns so they might have to have a rethink about that we're going to have you keep counsellors across england and wales the conservative party chairman has said that clearly the tories are failed to get their message across and they're going to have to have a rethink about how they can change that now i'm joined by the city spokesman for the u.k. independence party stephen wolf stephen chances are all well and good but they're not m.p.'s have as ukip actually made significant gains today yes we have what we have done is created a seismi

misuse of ukip program e.u. membership and immigration well earlier i asked the deputy leader of the u.k. independence party paul nuttall whether they are getting worried. david cameron is committed to the european union we know that because he said if that is it our friends and he will campaign to stay in and if you're members of the european union you can't control your own borders so we have a problem in this country where we have twenty two percent youth unemployment a million kids in britain who are going to work every day and what about to open our borders or to twenty nine million remaining in a bulgarians when restrictions for on january first will come in as admitted that it can do about that so quite frankly we're not worried that he's going to pass his time con artist because he simply can't see how you going to gain momentum now because surely most governments at the time of these midterm elections always lose popularity you've got to keep the momentum up now but really to aim for part of parliament

of who runs the country to decide and there is a strong feeling here that a lot of the support for ukip is because they're the new protest vote. when it comes to actually becomes the general election it's likely that that support could do indoor there's no doubt that ukip are gaining support on the doorstep because of strong feelings about immigration in this country fears that it's a new wave of arrivals from the european union could put pressure on public services and i don't know i think i'm a general sense of xenophobia which while mainstream politicians don't like to talk about if you could do make it into westminster that would be a real sign that politics in britain is heading firmly towards the right. and with supporters of the three traditional parties away by u.k. but britain's political landscape could be changing we'll be watching there was also warning in france today to keep you updated. meanwhile the ongoing economic woes in europe for some people in the hardest hit countries towards a line of right little details that elating the program. after holding on for two years w

send more any peace but it's a brussels than any other party and then in two thousand and fifteen ukip will be standing in every single constituency and we will be putting up a good fight if we enter the election on double digits ahead of the liberal democrats we have leadership debates in this country and will be on those leadership debates of people wipe the floor with clegg cameron and for a large mania will start just finally back to the immigration policy people do perceive you as racist how are you going to overcome that challenge just briefly. well quickly we have a blanket ban on anybody who's been a member of a far right political party ever joining ukip that has nothing racist about the school shooting immigration i want to british jobs for british workers and the us now take a look at some other news stories from around the world this hour police and hard line islamists have clashed in bangladesh after protests blocked roads and cut all becomes all darker thousands of security forces fired rubber bullets and tear gas on demonstrators as they called for strict anti blasphemy

he once called a bunch of fruitcakes now saying it's no good insulting them trying to benefit from ukip recent popularity and win back of voters who demanded to referendums on europe which is the first one next spring cameron's upcoming speech outlining the government's a legislative plans will focus on the main issues of you keeps program e.u. membership and immigration earlier my colleague bill dodd asked the deputy leader of the u.k. independence party not all whether they are getting worse. david cameron is committed to the european union we know that because he said if that is it that friends and he will campaign to stay in and if you are members of the european union you can't control your own borders so we have a problem in this country where we have twenty two percent youth unemployment a million kids in britain who are going to weigh every day and what about open. to twenty nine million remaining in a bulgarians when restrictions fall on january the first in communism it says that is nothing can do about that so quite frankly we're not worried that he's going to park his time c

no this of course this ukip success could have low blasting repercussions all british politics. to the small. it's been a momentous day for the u.k. independence party bill we've seen them come seconds in the south shields by election just behind labor and that's significant because we see a pattern emerging the posix months have seen you can't come second in four by elections some of the more we've had stunning council election results we've seen the ruling coalition parties the liberal democrats on the conservatives very sustained major losses in terms of council seats labor have gained a few seats as you said nothing to write home about it's really you can't that have come out on top now this is a party that's been seen by many as the protest vote party the people very keen for them if they feel too frustrated with labor conservatives liberal democrats the traditional status quo political parties but i think that a lot of people are going to have to be taking them a lot more seriously now and then a lot of people didn't take them very seriously just a few days ago to be a sen

will see more any peace but so brussels than any other party and then in two thousand and fifteen ukip will be standing in every single constituency and we will be putting up a good fight if we enter the election on double digits ahead of the liberal democrats we have leadership debates in this country and will be on those leadership debates and he would wipe the floor with clegg cameron and miliband mania will start just finally back to immigration policy people do perceive you as racist how are you going to overcome that challenge just briefly. well quickly we have a blanket ban on anybody who's been a member of a far right political party ever joining you that is nothing racist about discussing immigration and wanting british jobs for british workers well we've got more news online for you including public fury against the muslim brotherhood in egypt which is a boiling point with the islamist leader's son lynched for a shocking murder he is accused of committing at the argee dot com for the full story. of. what china is breaking pace of industrialization it may not comply with peopl

four seats though the opposition labor party up by two hundred ninety one and the big game changer ukip gained a hundred and thirty nine new local councillors doesn't achievement the head of the party nigel farage praises the grand arrival of four party politics the deputy leader of the u.k. independence party paul not all he spoke to us here at r.t. about the party's long term plans and issues with its rivals. david cameron is committed to the european union we know that because he said if there is it that friends and he will campaign to stay in and if you're members of the european union you can't control your own borders so we have a problem in this country where we have twenty two percent youth unemployment a million kids in britain who are going to weigh every day and what about to open our borders all to twenty nine million remaining in a bulgarians when restrictions fall on january first and governors are permitted that is not a good can do about that so quite frankly we're not worried that he's going to park his tank on are because he simply can't we will take a seat in the hous

will send more any peace but to brochures than any other party and then in two thousand and fifteen ukip will be standing in every single constituency and we will be putting up a good fight and if we enter the election on double digits ahead of the liberal democrats we have leadership debates in this country and will be on those leadership debates of people wipe the floor with clegg cameron. live from moscow this is the results released on saturday show the iraqi prime minister nouri al maliki did win prevention elections two weeks ago despite the fact his government is mired in corruption and crisis over how to share power among the nation's very different groups on the ground iraq's seeing some of its worst bloodshed since the pullout of u.s. troops in two thousand and eleven the u.n. said just this week more than seven hundred people were killed in april of sixty one hundred injured across the land in sectarian violence many fear the unrest could send the nation into a state of full scale conflict does come ten years after george w. bush declared america's victory over saddam hussein

this morning saying he's delighted with the results so far that he's he says but it really shows that ukip is a long lost in political party that success hasn't been short and the chairman of the conservative party this morning had to concede that clearly that policy is failing to get their message across and they're going to have a think about what they can do to change that. alright he's probably boyko live from london poorly money thanks indeed. iraq could be undergoing once was a crisis since there was draw of u.s. soldiers at the end of twenty eleven the united nations says more than seven hundred people were killed in the country last month and more than sixteen hundred injured most of the deaths came in late april after the deadly clashes between security forces and sunni protesters in cuckoo things didn't spark a wave of violence that quickly spread on other areas certain iraqi government as a group by corruption and political unrest with calls for prime minister no monica to resign and many fear sectarian tensions could escalate and see a return to full blown war she's this accoun

just eight they even came in second in one byelection prime minister david cameron reached out to ukip which he once called a bunch of fruitcakes now saying it's no good insulting them trying to benefit from the u.k.'s recent popularity and win back voters who demanded to referendums on europe with the first one let's bring cameron's upcoming speech outlining the government's legislative plans will focus on the main issues of new tips program you membership and immigration earlier my colleague bill died i asked the deputy leader of the u.k. independence party. whether they're getting worried. david cameron is committed to the european union we know that because he said if there is a that friends and he will campaign to stay in and if you're members of the european union you can't control your own borders so we have a problem in this country where we have twenty two percent youth unemployment a million kids in britain who are going to weigh every day and what about open borders or to twenty nine million remaining in a bulgarians when restrictions fall on january the first income earners

will send more any peace back to brussels than any other party and then in two thousand and fifteen ukip will be standing in every single constituency and we will be putting up a good fight and if we enter the election on double digits ahead of the liberal democrats we have leadership debates in this country and will be on those leadership debates and he will wipe the floor with clegg cameron bans mania will start. now let's take a look at some other news making headlines around the world this hour. at least nine people have been killed and dozens injured in a series of attacks in and around baghdad the first attack occurred when a bomb went off near a mosque in the western suburbs of the iraqi capital leaving one person dead six people were killed after another blast near an internet cafe in a sunni neighborhood and south of baghdad the mayor of ma and his son were killed in their house by and an unknown gunman the attacks come amid heightened sectarian tensions that left forty people dead last week. in paris tens of thousands of protesters marched against economic austerity to marking

dependents party stephen wolf stephen chances are all well and good but they're not m p's have has ukip actually made significant gains today yes we have what we have done is created a seismic shift in politics in the united kingdom we have put a message down to the three political parties that there is a fool for all to hear on the block we are not keen on the door of parliament to use they have criticized us and said that we're a small party i'm not with voting for but you could be seen as the protest for it is bad enough to make gains in a general election when it's a protest vote for the political elites if you want to put it in those terms they ignored us in the past and said they'd never want. to listen to this because we were a one party one issue party and then they said we were just a one person party if we got significant second places across the country from eastlink to south shields is a protest that is the sort of process that i want and i want to see as expand also as every political party has to put down a mountain of saying here's our policies come on come on have a go a

independence party stole the show and yet another british byelection ukip came in second in south shields which is perceived as a staggering result considering the party didn't even stand in the constituency in the last general election the latest now from our correspondent so far. now we've seen a growing public support the no one mainstream parties and certainly you kids being right at the center of that they were coming. on labor's heels throughout the campaign trail we saw the charismatic leader for us here backing his candidate richard alvin but as we've seen recently with growing support the public are really responding to these mainstream passed the politicians now would never answer give us straight answers to a question you always be about the bush or a. little porky pies you know when you can't get a straight answer. it's time to. ask a question you get a straight answer is a straight talking mom not a spade a spade so it shows how far they've come to get that second place in such a short amount of time and certainly the mainstream political parties are going to be looking very

recent local elections do you think the conservative party is now starting to adopt some of their ukip sadia is that. well i think the reality is that have we listened to mrs thatcher twenty years ago had margaret thatcher's advice been taken we wouldn't be in this mess today she told us then that political union was wrong she told us that we shouldn't go further into this would become a federal europe she knew that was wrong and she warned us against it we should have listened to her sound advice at the time but we didn't so we've had twenty years now of two more continuing today you to effect a different government in every prime minister until we unravel this and make it clear that political union is not fast we happy to trade we happy to cooperate we're happy to have good relations with our neighbors but political union must be taken off the table and then we can get back to a sensible relationship with our friends across the english channel and what about the potential political damage if britain deserted the e.u. at a time of crisis what did this cause huge damage to its relation

ukip party nigel farage says the u.k. should hold a referendum soon. well what would have been really damaging to the u.k. economy is if we'd been stupid enough to join the euro zone but thank goodness we said no otherwise we'd be in a very similar state to many of the mediterranean countries today so that was the first big good decision that we made now i do understand the argument about it. even though i very much take the view of the trade would go on between britain and the rest of europe completely out of affected by us leaving political union after all european countries sell far more goods to us that we do to them but i do understand that anything where you're told it could be had for a half perhaps even five years debate on the subject could lead. to uncertainty all of which really reinforces my view what cameron has done here is to attempt to kick this issue off into the long grass and that really we've got to have a referendum to sort this issue out before the next general election or the eurozone struggling to dig itself out of recession and

the conservative party to think that twenty five percent of the british electorate only voted for ukip protest i think the cat is out of the bag about the true cost of being partly you to the people of this country people are voicing their opinion and they want something done about it now either the conservatives will act now or they risk being out. all right christopher clarke from north. to business school thank you very much. thank you. and also had a bahraini activist says a u.k. mates highway is being used against human rights campaign is in the gulf states and you can hear from her after the break. manufacturing consent for determining a foreign policy concerns. those who in washington in the halls of power in western capitals drive foreign policy decisions particularly when it comes to iran israel and syria is american foreign policy in the country's own interest you know sometimes you see a story. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew. welcome to the big picture. on. the

will send more any peace back to brussels than any other party and then in two thousand and fifteen ukip will be standing in every single constituency and we will be putting up a good fight and if we enter the election on double digits ahead of the liberal democrats we have leadership debates in this country and nigel farage will be on those leadership debates and he would wipe the floor with clegg cameron. the unemployment level in the european union hit a record highs this week with the raid going up across most of the member states so they ever rising figures are alarming and rising get by with the greece and spain effect is the most in greece twenty seven percent of the workforce is out of a job while in spain one in every four is unemployed the increasing joblessness of many and poor working conditions for some triggered massive demonstrations around the world on may day the most turbulent protests took place in turkey where police had to despise demonstrators with tear gas and water cannons after the demo turned violent at least twenty eight people were injured in clashes and dozen

european union came in second in south shields it is perceived as a staggering result considering ukip didn't even stand in the constituency in the last general election more on this to want to use correspondent sarah. now we've seen a growing public support the non mainstream parties and kids being right at the center of that they were coming. only. the charismatic leader here backing his candidate. but as we've seen recently with clothing the poor the public are really responding to the mainstream. politicians that. give a straight answer to a question about the bush or. you can't give a straight answer. ask a question you get a straight answer is a straight talker not a spade a spade so it shows how far they've come to get that second place in such a short amount of time and certainly the main political parties are going to be looking very closely at this now because. this is a. support the kids had recently. a quite significant change. and local elections are also taking place across britain with many expecting the results to deliver a hard slap in the face for the government of th

will send more any peace but so brochures than any other party and then in two thousand and fifteen ukip will be standing in every single constituency and we will be putting up a good fight if we enter the election on double digits ahead of the liberal democrats we have leadership debates in this country and nigel farage will be on those leadership debates and he would wipe the floor with clegg cameron. mania will start just finally back to immigration policy people do perceive you as racist how are you going to overcome that challenge just briefly. well quickly we have a blanket ban on anybody who's been a member of a political party ever joining u.k. that has nothing racist about discussing immigration and wanting british jobs for british workers. and up next who had to mexico i reporter welcome to the one at is coming up after this short break. most people in the western world would agree that having laws that officially create second class citizens is totally unacceptable we can look at the way jews were treated in nazi germany or blackstar in apartheid in south africa and the slaver

independence party stole the show at another british byelection ukip came in second in south shields which is perceived as having a having a staggering result considering the party did not even stand in the constituency in the last general election more on this knowledge swansea's serve. people went see the polls for the local elections in england and wales yesterday here in the north of the country. was under way with the former labor david miliband. growing public support. being right at the center of that they were coming. through. the charismatic leader here backing his candidate. but as we've seen recently with clothing support the public are really responding to these mainstream party politicians now. to a question about the bush or a. large ask the question. is how far they've come to get place in such a short amount of time and certainly the main political parties are going to be looking very closely at this now because. this is a. support the kids had recently it does represent a quite significant change. and it will bring you the latest updates on the story throughout the d

send more any peace but it's a brussels than any other party and then in two thousand and fifteen ukipwill be standing in every single constituency and we will be putting up a good fight and if we enter the election on double digits ahead of the liberal democrats we have leadership debates in this country and will be on those leadership debates and he would wipe the floor with clegg cameron and for a large mania will start just finally back to the immigration policy people do perceive you as racist how are you going to overcome that challenge just briefly well quickly we have a blanket ban on anybody who's been a member of a political party ever joining you that has nothing racist about discussing immigration and wanting british jobs for british workers. well we've got more news for you online including public fury against the muslim brotherhood in egypt it reaches a boiling point with the islamist leader's son lynched for a shocking murder he's accused of committing at the r t dot com for the full story . also china's breakneck pace of industrialization may not comply with the people'

s have as ukip actually made significant gains today yes we have what we have done is created a seismic shift in politics in the united kingdom we have put a message down to the three political parties that there is a fool for all to hear on the block we're knocking on the door of parliament for years they have criticised us and said that we're a small party i'm not with folks in form but you could be seen as the protest vote is that enough to make gains in a general election well it's a protest vote for the political elites if you want to put it in those terms they ignored us in the past and said no we want. to listen to us because we were a one party one issue party and then they said we were just one person party if we got significant second places across the country from east to show shields is a protest that is the sort of approach that i want and i want to see is expand also every political party has to put down a mountain of saying here's our policies come on come on have a go and tell us whether you like them or not that is quite right and we're ready to do that we're going to h