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Published: Fri, 1 May 2009

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" Hundreds of thousands of workers attending. May Day rallies around the world today and they were not all peaceful protests our top story on the fox trip around the world in eighty seconds."

" Turkey Istanbul -- mayday parade turning into a running battle between police firing tear gas. And activist throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails. Things getting out of hand after several thousand union workers turned out for a rally -- the square where dozens of people died in the stampede 32 years ago. Turkey declared mayday a public holiday only last week. Grants a restaurant in Paris fighting the recession by offering a lunchtime menu would meals under five euros. That's about six and a -- bucks American. The special anti crisis price is offered on Tuesdays would -- customers are normally rare. The owners say they just break even on the special price and lets customers order wine or dessert. Somalia the US navy turning over the bodies of three Somali pirates to local security forces. They're the pirates killed by navy seal snipers at the end of last month five day hostage standoff. The American captain Richard Phillips was freed unharmed. -- is in the United States waiting to be tried. India college engineering students coming up with a motor -- powered by compressed -- professors told him to develop something completely new and pollution free. The current model -- the top speed eleven miles an hour but -- say they can improve that. And that's Iraq on this -- streets around the world. --"

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Fact the inspiration for Labor Day and -- from the United States the United States labor movement who was dubbed the international workers' day the with the Soviet Union took it over back and -- Communist days and we -- our Labor Day mostly to September the rest of the world mostly hung on -- May Day at. Their own Labor Day across your. Today actually as you noted violence echoing that the troubles the problems throughout the economies throughout Europe and throughout the

Moscow too many of the major cities in Europe than in the United States workers taking to the streets to mark may first May Day . Some of those demonstrations peaceful others is. CN not at all events this season after the rally turning until rumble. In other cities will be waking up water cannons and tear gas and flash grenades and rioters hurling Molotov cocktails and fireworks. And stones. Right -- joins us live in London Greg what's the origin of May Day .

'Two-Fold Challenge'

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And it shouldn't be disproportionately borne by the United States and this is really where present Obama hasn't challenged. A number one the navy tends not to want to take on this kind of a mission to save the ship -- sailor here there is some ways it's not seen as strategic enough. But I think it is a strategic challenge the other is. It's similar to Afghanistan trying to get the Europeans and other Asian powers to step up and carry some of this burden. It's expensive to establish governance in that area -- be expensive to field sufficient security forces to govern the seats. As well as the land missions so really it's it's a twofold challenge for President Obama . Governing within to impose consensus on his own team. And then also trying to rally the world where they have been reluctant

all of the goods that come from Asia to Europe in the United States . The expense could be astronomical. That's right.

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