and gemini with the devil at any time but he claims he is a nice video and he had the benefit of pop songs to sing along to you. from super. close interactive exercises. everything is online file and interactive benjamin's a frame with t w. rome march fourth twenty eighteen revolution is in the air a new era is beginning in italy for the established political parties are reeling the n.t.'s down bushman five star movement and the right wing populists of the reagan north have gained the upper hand the prospect of power had welded these two

men on equal forces together they intend to rebuild italy and europe to. flavio. that's totally justified he has won a parliament seat in rome for the right and now represents the interests of all those who see italy as a victim of an invasion. of. europe is did he says dead because of its inability to control immigration or the horrible and nowhere is that more evident than here and his hometown of ventimiglia. they call out of the quest that shit that given our coast migrants don't want to stay in ventimiglia but move on to france england or germany. it's all. rages that it's

a leash should be left alone with a problem and europe takes none of the responsibility for authentic. ventimiglia on the list good reason coast is the last stop before the french border . it's only a few minutes by train but you can't miss it. some refugees try to walk over the mountains or hide in a car. europe has not been borderless on this border for some time france has set strict controls and does not let migrants him if they're caught they send them back to italy all of that leaves many stranded invent emilia. in the evening no one wants to show their face while they wait for food on the outskirts of town. volunteers say there were many more refugees here a year ago especially africans now most of them are men from pakistan and bangladesh trying to make their way to great britain. to

morrow says the situation has eased since his government stopped refugee ships from mooring in the talian ports. you know until recently i camped out there on mattresses intense and some tellings but not the authorities have stopped that with. the local police are now also taking a tougher stance and watching very closely especially when the member of parliament is making his rounds. demure a one thirty percent of the votes in the parliamentary elections invent the. he estimates it will rise to forty percent. his party has succeeded in transforming the fear of strangers into votes say political scientists such as marco van brits who is researching the phenomenon of populism.

integration is italy he's ten percent. on the overall population the perception of the italians these twenty five percent which is the highest the highest level throughout western europe and also central and eastern the point is that in the gap between perception and the reality thrives populist and establishment pockets. and that's also where a member of parliament to move through hives he quickly bonds with his voters at the weekly market for example with hat dealer giordano danieli and his wife. if we could. all the french mint sarkozy the britain cameron and obama got us into this mess because they wanted to get rid of gadhafi. but. he was the one who kept the refugees off our backs. but it was given now france and england should take

them in and not repeatedly send them back to us. get it in the book is good. but such a crisis does not have any simple solutions. and no one knows this better than italy's next prime minister matteo renzi celeb his center left party to a resulting defeat in march. migration or was one of the most important. issues also during my government my dear is very simple i don accept to refuse my money. so first of all we tried to save the people in this. that is not good the ford reports. and you don't make any friends with it either and certainly not invent a media where many people are angry and bitter. predicator got all the italians are

no longer happy people so they complain a lot about the high taxes they have to pay there are no jobs and all in all the future looks pretty bleak. but instead of getting up and doing something about it right you just ask others for help they have suddenly turn that anger on those who are weaker against the refugees set up in this ng but a call me today but it could launch into any. normal knows what it's like to feel like an alien she spent the early years of her life in australia where her parents had immigrated perhaps that's why she decided to convert her bar near the train station into an aid base for migrants even if it had serious consequences. will be with you they spat at me. smash my windows and called me names asking why

i was helping the migrants and not the italians so all. these people have the upper hand today because the government is applauding their slogans. santa phobia and racism being legitimized from above this is no never happened before in italy with . the locals have long since been avoiding daily use bar. i don't know about we have yeah we have shoes for children and diapers and toiletries here. and here in the cupboard there's a stock of children's and women's clothes in various sizes. and i in fact. this is where the pension is used to play cards but they don't come here anymore. now the children learn and play here.

for this is the been a dream but we don't use it as that anymore now we give a telling courses here. on the old billiard table. a fund raising campaign means she can keep going even without guests for another few months anyway. the battle is raging for middle east saul and the populists are exploiting the confusion to sell the citizens on their simple solutions that's what makes them so attractive to in secure voters. the magic war the in these cases protection they are providing they are they are offering protection protection against economic insecurity protection from the immigration the fear of immigration the fear of someone was different from ours and this is a form of protection and they're also offering a kind of political protection protection against their opinion they don't want to

be governed they don't want to be to receive instruction from they were a pianist from the o.p.'s and from bank for a little peon commission and they want to get big they want to take back the control. but whereas someone protection from the e.u. others need its protection for example the people who make parma famous hams. parma ham only gets its seal of origin if it is maturity here in the mountains forty kilometers south of the city that gives it its name. in autumn and winter the west wind. walks the solti air from the degree unseen through the open windows of the curing rooms for the ham is hanging and slowly dries it out a process that can take two or three years to house or occasionally check to see

whether everything is going to plan. many people can't quite believe that a tell you aren't interested in the painstaking production of their most famous family but even at one of the top producers fifty percent of the workforce comes from africa. ferrari sells two hundred thousand high quality palm hams every year it's confident that brussels will continue to defend its protected designation of origin against counterfeiters and copiers but even here there's now an air of uncertainty because nobody really knows what consequences the government's anti e.u. stance put in. their grocery thought says for good until now we felt the e.u.

was doing a good job protecting us but we don't know if it will stay that way with the new government we are constantly fighting against people who want to copy our products but when we producers are medium sized companies and can hardly defend ourselves against them without the only use help appeal on. italy first is leg a solution but it first glance there's not a lot of room for compromise or consensus. that's what nellie thinks he's also active in the parma ham industry but a little further down the processing chain cola nelly is a pig farmer. he sells twenty thousand young pigs every year which. then fat and up to at least one hundred forty kilos the weight laid down in the rules governing the making of parma ham. he thinks the e.u. too often follows the motto it only last. by the gallon by.

politicians have always humbly gone cap in hand to europe. and very often they want even at the table when things that concern them were being decided by the mark. but without a new government it's going to be different from the fucking. model. the expensive euro has destroyed italy's agriculture he says it has to import too much meat and grain the amount of arable land is shrinking and the farmers aren't earning enough gold in l.a. wants to change all that not here at his pig farm of course but in the italian parliament in rome. golan l.a. is an impi for the leg and loyal to party leader matteo salvini. it's pretty

clear as his cap shows that he wants to see me as prime minister he and his party colleagues already have concrete plans for the european elections in many. people imagine us together with our allies in france germany and austria will change europe into a europe of solidarity and democracy. it will actually be about the wellbeing of the population and about jobs not just about regulations and austerity programs imposed from above as has been the case so far about the speech. and he really has it it's not just the populists the opposition also sees a great need for reform in the e.u. or a very important think is that the uk can keno with the traditional idea of europe . change your rope exactly for saving you up this is the

challenge five star movement. lega want to destroy europe. but many think the rise of populists in italy is unstoppable. the failure of the established parties was one reason for their success for example in tuscany in pisa. of course everyone knows the leaning tower there. but not many people know this tower which may be right but stands in an area where a lot of things are going wrong. this is a working class district of mainly social housing but the sidewalks are crumbling

and with them confidence in the system. i bet they voted for the social democrats and communists here for seventy three years with us but people just weren't happy any more green the normal way that's now we have taken over the district and want to work with the residents to do everything better. is just. starting with clearing up the leaves leg activists such as simone a beer in delhi and his wife were often seen around this social flashpoint and gave people the feeling that they were finally being listened to even in deep red tuscany the populists managed to push between the established parties and the people. a study of the political cost the legacy recipe for success was to really take care of people and stay in touch with them that the representatives of the old government never thought it was a. susteren why should they have always only bothered about the city center and historical town killer persona the. boy and the lego does take care of the

people for example of the lady who approaches us on the bridge she has repeatedly complained about the condition of the sidewalks as the beer in delhi is no life i might have enough but yet it's all crap cold and rotten what exactly do you mean the condition if the root of the lanterns oh yes my goodness the street the lights it's all crap nothing works. nobody ever took care of it. it's only now that things are changing hell i know my family waited for something to happen for fifty years and they did nothing i've had enough of this. that it got nothing. you really don't have to go far to find outbursts of voter anger in this working class district of pisa. in the evening disappointed old leftists bent their splaying with a robot but i'm going to go and all who do is

a socialist get lost they betrayed the working class and what was the result now we have poverty and unemployment regard here are abused they just passed laws without consulting the citizens you see but who were able. to. see this guy to see is the worst they should send him and the other functionary straight to siberia without trial would be. the target of their anger sees no reason for self-criticism but launches a counter attack instead. we pull out is not people love and support to my ass for her to create a referee is in italy so these people was aghast the lab will mark a cross for a mission people. from the left the left is the best friend of the right there are the best from the salvini because they support the victory. of somebody.

and while the left each tearing itself apart others march to the right. for example in question up another municipality in your piece of. the city which has forty five thousand inhabitants has elected a mayor from the lake. susanna to carty was twenty nine years old when she dropped out of law school to fight the left and the migrants. laid up out of law the law would all. the defend that if you today even left wing as vote for the lega because we look off to work housing and social welfare while the left put around the handout public money to migrants that get us a nice set up the city said that today i limited out. the fact that she takes the

slogan italians first literally can be seen from this residential building decorated in the country's national colors its new tenants are grateful to her and expected to express their gratitude before the t.v. cameras you know that the law thanks to the city council i can live here now without them i'd be sitting on the street. and that's really something. we're still at the look at that. the house used to be a refugee shelter but the refugees have now been moved elsewhere the mayor says. that's what i mean to him i defy the army of course i'm talking about italians first if you get into trouble we have to help you get back on your feet and find a job. to get them and so she drums up a few convinced legace of quarters one is andre baroni who grew up near frankfurt he was a stage technician at the local theater but that closed for lack of my. any. of those nice italian food here in utah social welfare here in italy doesn't help you

at all. give you one hundred euros every three four five six months six more and every now and then they give you one hundred euros and you have to make do with that. and how much did the liquor give you. the leg didn't give me any cash. but they arranged a bed and breakfast for me. they didn't just leave me on the street. and now there's this house and from here i can start again. this is how when you come if you don't follow. your cardi and lake abbas an interior minister mateo salvini appearance social media and some sort of glamour couple on the right . he calls her the lioness because she knows how to defend herself

with words and with pepper spray. her national breakthrough came when she tore a priest apart on television after he had carelessly posted a swimming trip with asylum seekers on facebook. without me asking i created amazon or finish up with others i am currently with no idea how they're all working out on the net and do you have any idea how much these sorts of tricks cost us we pay four and a half billion euros for these people money we could use much better for our unemployment the money should be invested in infrastructure and real jobs not in welfare do you understand that they are ruining our country you know now. what father must be on colony neither understands how a visit to a swimming pool can destroy italy nor does he want to. he houses one hundred thirty africans in his church and post story forty kilometers north of pisa. the

cleric wanted to ask for understanding on the talk show but it turned into a fiasco. laughing that reporter and author stewart i wrote the man just asked ridiculous questions that showed that she had no idea about migration. and i was forced to conclude that you just can't convince these people with. a ship or are brought it to change this woman's mind you'd have to change her d.n.a. if you want to or need to record for. me you know what. the other nazis have stormed his church services to intimidate him and the police and fire brigade are always turning up to check on something. or other mossimo says it shows how poisonous the climate in the country has become. the lake is message

of hatred has now permeated italy from the alps to sicily i think anyone who helps migrants is harming italy and should be persecuted. the. migrants have been blamed for everything that's gone wrong in italy in recent weeks with. with this is created an enormous tailwind for the right wing populists office and allow them to turn a small regional movement into a nationwide power or i mean. and they are not about to give up this power quickly in march the leggo won eighteen percent of the vote pollsters now say it's at well over thirty five percent nationwide. that's also down to its stars including mayor says onitsha carty yet many already see her as the next regional president of tuscany or as a minister in rome the change in can i have been yeah they made up hundreds of

thousands of migrants especially young men coming to our country and bringing a different culture and different values. of ebit with a view to those who say it isn't an invasion and have no idea do gooders like this cleric bringing misfortune on our country on the other. in st mary's church in there's a small crypt where done massimo's proteges retreat when they want to make music. no more racism they sing all people are equal no matter what their skin color. there were times when the vast majority of italians would have identified with that sentiment. isn't the only one who believes those days are now gone. the worst thing is that we're dealing with politicians who understand absolutely

nothing about migration and its causes. they're just not capable of it unfortunately not only in italy nobody in. europe has an answer either of us right over here. and there seems to be little hope that anything will change soon i think we are on the eve of a huge political great us formation we are facing a process of transformation the old the twenty one thousand centuri party politics is losing reaps on politics is losing groups of society through how to europe about the need to lead this process he's absolutely you just he's absolutely high for the first time since nineteen forty five they might jory to fatah younes voted for and to establishment and non-mainstream political pop our problem is the divisions between our consults at that is the body that we need for sacks of

unification of italy exactly as the process of germany we haven't fortunately a wall. between not the south but these wall not. we the brics but the difference and the gab is all very i also today this is our problem. the country is also politically split the leg is strong holders in the north where is the five star movement has more support in the south in places like closer to thirty five kilometers north of naples. conspirators star shown particularly bright in the eighteenth century the little homes built one of the world's largest castles here and italian rival to versailles . but because they're just glory days are long gone.

on the contrary the city is in a deplorable state of decay and sump. things stink to high heaven the toxic waste for example. the mafia illegally buried hundreds of tons of food on the outskirts of the city contaminating the soil and the wells and making people ill but nobody was really bothered at least not the politicians until the five stars came on the scene. this huge site in the center of the city was a barracks before it fell into rack and ruin and was closed off to the public the five star movement wants to turn it into a park. for them in our working basis is direct democracy citizens should actively participate in the design of their environment that everything is open and accessible to everyone coming to my god we are like the

other party as they do deals behind closed doors. but we don't mean that. anyone can come when the local five-star association meets once a week for consultations. but you won't find the national budget to euro or problems with brussels on the agenda here the other question is are more pressing. why don't our buses ever run on time why aren't the trash cans integrated or laid out in the five star movement policies are first and foremost a local. level. that. but they also have policy goals that go way beyond fixing potholes and cleaning up the air higher pensions a basic income rapprochement with russia. even pulling out of the euro if need be. we're not interested in being reelected at any price. but we will as is the case with our pocket continue the struggle inside and outside the institutions but over

the next five years even if we're not reelected the people's will is the only thing that matters to us not the election camp. it was soon the top of all obviously. it's nine forty five sunday morning and the chartered bus is packed today is an important one in the five star calendar once a year activists from all over the country gather in rome. it's a motley crew including students a construction worker a cardiologist and the owner of a laundry. they are only united in the belief that something finally has to change and that nothing will if they do not take action themselves. that good proclaim the problem with our political class has always been in opposition they promised everyone potatoes but it's still and when they got into

power everyone only got grass again on the on the on the we're going to change that now. if you do that but mainly men decided i mean really fell in love with the five stars because i think you can really trust them unlike the established parties for the ways just made promises but not delivered on them agenda get permitted in the building know that the minute that you're young. so far our governments and elites have always wanted a country of unsuspecting sheep but only well informed citizens can be responsible citizens to. do that is why i voted for the five star movement because now i can find out directly from my m.p.'s and senators what they are doing for me and for my little daughter because it's over the plate of me because the next generation is the future of italy it's that i flew to be the obvious based. on the coach from because santa has arrived at circus maximus in rome and everyone now has ample opportunity to talk to the deputy. the

movement has gathered its supporters from all over the country in the arena where the ancient. romans used to watch chariot races. at. the organizers say one hundred thousand people are here although that figure seems a little exaggerated but many are still inspired by their success in the march elections when they became part of the strongest political force in italy. the atmosphere is somewhere between an open air concert and a religious convention. the five star movement's most important minister predicts a rosy future. queen didn't mean additional twenty one thousand will be the year of great change nothing will get through the european parliament without us. mail cut through but the future doesn't actually look that rosy at all surveys put five star

support at just twenty five percent of the electorate way behind and much more aggressively they guess thirty five percent but they still have two hundred thirty m.p.'s all wearing yellow t. shirts today so that everyone can easily identify them if they've got ideals you ought to fall. off the wall i thought it was. the m.p. from caserio also mixes with his supporters. he's a politically active primary school teacher and says he would never have gotten this far without the five star movement. open in league at the beginning posts in the south of italy have always been bought by the mafia of industrialists banks and insurance companies. it was never possible to get involved in politics as a normal citizen or even make it to parliament without getting your hands dirty it will stop the everybody thena a. cub one of his constituents comes to him with her problems the tax office

once money from her and her husband is violent can rasi help her tough. i. know but just then a few rather determined gentleman appear out of nowhere and stop any further interviews in recordings perhaps the movement is not quite as open and citizen oriented as it says it is such was the subtle take the firm no cameras perhaps that's because the biggest and brightest of the five stars doesn't like to be filmed. suddenly a nearby public street turns into a high security area that the free press. here comes bethink really doesn't like the press and now has the power of the state on his side. others so minister himself announces the keynote speaker as the father of us all.

but real actually behaves less like a father than an embarrassing uncle although that is exactly what his supporters expect from him the seventy year old bellows and barks and begs and insults everyone and everything the person afraid of productivity just look at europe is that what you're supposed to fear those little old men like you are jerky staggering about him limping and talking about europe. crap about magic that he's people belong in an old people's home where they can rest we have nothing to do with. the guy missy gregory did it freddie our federal treasury very. relieved and when europe puts italy under pressure because of its national debt then this blustering former comedian turned political clown has plenty of poisoned arrows and his quiver. against germany for example. not appear to be

a problem where i don't have to be afraid anymore to be fair of debt think of germany their door and the jobless. language the word short has two meanings the word city car not only monitoring debt but also barreled guilt in things i guarantee you are going to work to prevent i but i'm not to blame for any of our debts you know if anyone is responsible for the debt then it's germany which was supposed to repay its war debts by the one nine hundred fifty three but it didn't matter and they become not only because they didn't repay them if they had been as poor as calabria is now thirty five your character doesn't it. it's not immediately apparent why so many people worship this rabble rouser. reading order my yearly mario is a symbolic figure and the most important man in our movement because he's made us embrace his ideas the form of that has given us the strength to imagine another

italy a couple of one quite different from what we've known before so that when you feel you have to walk. but i'm imagining a different italy actually takes a lot of energy becomes from. in the south of sicily who is known mainly for the mafia and the galloping decay. it has about thirty thousand inhabitants but anyone who can move away from their. giuseppe and electronic shop owner stayed the five stars took seventy percent of the vote here and hold the mayor's post a picture at the entrance to the town hall recalls the collapse of a house where two children died a few years ago it was a tragedy that could happen again at any time.

you think. of others town center is crumbling whereas once only the men of the family moved away to find work elsewhere today. whole families are leaving. but just said he didn't leave the reason he stayed has to do with an old fountain in history that was becoming more and more of a ruin until he and a few of his neighbors took matters into their own hands. uppity to say that we finally renovated it ourselves and handed it over to the city i would like to repeat this model everywhere. so listen if each one of us takes heart and does something good for the community. then we can make the impossible possible to reassure. the town's mayor who was also

young and inexperienced when she took on the job also relies on such a sense of citizenship she has a lot of idealism and ideas but has little tend to pull success so far and they want to get the first thing i had to do was explain to the people that we are broke and forty one million euros in debt and yet i still want to trying to build a city with living it especially for the children where you can live in peace and this is the hope that is driving us to really make a lasting difference here that people that come get out of it all it's up to us. now there is children's playground equipment in front of the town hall and other bigger investments are planned although nobody knows where the money is supposed to come from they're hoping the e.u. will help out but it doesn't really matter where they get the funding nor will they just need more and they need it fast the voters tolerance for unfulfilled promises is extremely low. there are differing opinions as to how to deal with the populists

in italy and here. we are living a distant duration of the old politics. and we are facing a process of really struck to ration the rebuilding of the new party system but this is not an easy task it will require years in some cases or so they could use some i am really confident about. populism we show very soon the incapacity and inability we did new government that everything. seems to stop. but it really is a counter breach of fun and that one all seems to girl was we have something or change. well in favaro things could hardly get any worse. the. notary and art collector andrea

bartoli also left but then came back with his family and an ambitious plan to turn this sand heap of rubble into a living breathing city again. we made a promise to charter we will do our best to change our life to allow our daughters. to grow you had better see me and to do our best to change this city. and so in the dilapidated old town is shining in colorful a way says of modern art has now blossomed. they bought or least houses slated for demolition and turned them into a bastion of culture in the heart of the violence with the name farm culture park.

you can easily imagine their neighbors amazement back then but no one surprised any longer because the cultural park is really the best thing that's happened to the ailing town in decades because when we started eighty years ago all people even our or relative said you come to this it's impossible you can bring. in for any kind of change this city we are they were wrong. the culture parks reputation has long since spread abroad international artists exhibit their works here. attracting one hundred twenty thousand visitors a year this far as hotels are busy and it needs more restaurants at long last things are happening again a photo exhibition about detroit is currently on display it's quite apt detroit is another city facing disaster one that needs to find the courage to see things not

as they are but as they could be. but. we will have a new. color. for the. it is and will be but so we. will be able to have a more call for the local shows people more cautious citizen we were i believe a lot different. political class. perhaps from far right is a role model or at least a metaphor for the whole of italy and maybe this city can also give the whole country hope that just when it seems things can't get any worse the time i will suddenly turn.

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