choices in this cartoon. given their way to transport troops. and in the gas mileage and. good. news. following a very warm welcome indeed to focus on europe with me peter craven and european elections are coming up at the end of may with big gains predicted for far right parties indeed one recent poll suggested that populist euro skeptic parties could emerge as the strongest forces in countries like france poland and italy now steve

bannon is seen as one of the key figures pulling the strings behind the surge in support for the neoconservatives bannan is of course donald trump's former adviser and he's the man widely credited with masterminding trump's twenty sixteen election victory in the u.s. or more recently he's been exercising his influence in a number of countries across europe not least in italy so let's go to a former account fusion monastery that's located in the tiny village of two exultingly which lies a two and a half hour's drive south east of rome there we meet a man called benjamin hanwell who steve bannon has installed as his chief strategist in what he said to be a training camp for the next wave of populist think has and activists. here in a tranquil and secluded rural setting benjamin harn wells mission is to establish a training center and

a former monastery here in trees ulti an academy with extremely conservative outlooks. with his so-called institute for human dignity hardwell has set himself an ambitious goal to save western civilization mobilizing christians and jews in the fight against islam which he refers to religious role models for his mission. the picture of him behind me it is his martyrdom. that was skinned a life for his faith in jesus christ. i'm going to remember that today in the world christianity is the world's most pesach you did religion from the get that in the west the academy aims to train budding young politicians to become staunch catholics and right wing populists. resulting in the next generation is going to become the global headquarters of the fight to defend the judeo christian basis of

western civilization so that's just not just here in europe but right across the world so there's. the catholics seem to look on steve bannan as the ideal partner for the project donald trump's former chief strategist regularly meets with hartwell in rome. they first met when bannon ran the ultra conservative breitbart news website. bannon is the asdic about harn wells project i'm just honored he's asked me to help out and you know what i'm trying to do is add maybe a little organizational ability and and in to bring in donors faculty people i would know throughout the world that can teach. ben and wants to bring together populist and identity tarion forces in italy and other european countries a patronage by conservative catholics suits his cause very well he also has a zion next month's european parliament elections. that's really serious because

the populist nationalist sovereignty movement has great politicians great message and now it's strange in that's why it's only because maybe it's the momentum piece through space in other nations a stunning victory. for bannon the academy should become an ideal breeding ground for his crusaders among its backers are all true conservative circles within the vatican who reject pope francis's liberal calls for inclusion and support of immigrants. the american cardinal raymond leo burke is head of the board of advisors of the institute interest ulti. he has openly endorsed donald trump's conservative agenda in the united states. critics see the emergence as an unholy alliance that will seek to used results to undermine

democratic societies led by arch conservative catholics who rely on the help of political agitators like steve bennett. was against and what they have in common is this obsessive cult of identity. they say we represent christendom western civilization europe founded on judeo christian values and we are being invaded so we must defend ourselves. we have this annoyance tied to get you know a good many local residents interest old t. have launched protests they don't want steve benen and far right populists here. what was the monastery is a religious site both a place of pilgrimage and a tourist attraction they want the government to rescind the lease on the property . why is a local monastery being used for ideological project your tree sooty will become

the launch pad for a movement. just look at its ideas its sources of finance and its goals. that cause. benjamin hardwell remains confident the lease is valid he says the plans to start operations are in place so what can stop him and then and now culture is upstream of politics and that's where we're working out so i think anything we're going to do would hope my to slovenia and then leave the. populist nationalist movements in in europe or on the. hard wells plan seem clear result he should become a launching pad for far right populists to take over europe one that can count on the blessing of arch conservative catholic clerics in high places.

the academy aims to start its first courses this summer but before that it remains to be seen how well the nationalists and populists perform in the european elections in may well meet a man now who says that tweeting has given him the feeling that he really exists and you know what he's not exaggerating christiane powers used to work in a shack restaurant in paris before his life fell apart and he ended up as one of the many thousands of homeless people or close shahr as they call them living on the streets of the french capital his life though changed again when he started tweeting about the day to day challenges that he and his fellow closed face all of a sudden he was something of a social media sensation. knows what it means to lead an insecure unstructured life he spent more than three years hanging out with this group of homeless people at the plaza cent mart in paris he used to

have a well paying job as a semi yeah but after his wife left him he started drinking and when he could no longer pay the rent he ended up on the streets. this is one of the places i slept in. but a few weeks later they installed these typically anti homeless barriers. they're placed deliberately so no one can sleep rough here with. the residents are a bit ashamed of the barriers but they're glad there are no homeless people sleeping here. it's not that they didn't bother anyone but it was dirty. i'm not sure what to think. it doesn't look nice but at least perhaps now they're living in better conditions than this entrance where there was lots of garbage. and homeless various have popped up all over paris after christian tweeted angrily

about barriers that have been set up here where people sometimes live because there is warm air from the subway he was able to make a change. in. the city of paris had put in iron rods to prevent access you can still see the traces. they would have stopped people from being able to sleep there in winter when it's cold. dry posted it on twitter and the next day the city authorities removed the iron rods. from is a good. christian posted his first tweet three years ago after his possessions were soaked by street cleaners it was winter and he wrote this is how the homeless are treated in paris within a few months he had more than thirty thousand followers.

tweet in the morning to say hello to the planet and at night to talk about what was going on on the street. say a bad thing i take a picture of my sleeping bag and say good night guys then go to bed and. people would have good night see you tomorrow. i thought it was cool. with his tweets christian was able to draw attention to the main problems homeless people face in paris something his friends appreciate his friendly i know doesn't have a phone she get one he'd have to overcome too many hurdles that appear insurmountable to him. i don't even have a bank account i do but it's blocked. you think my papers are at the lost and found office and i have to pay a levon euro's to get them back and on top of that they'll ask me for my papers but

i don't have them the. people who live on the streets often feel like pariahs but christian post has given them a voice and his activism has spread beyond paris people sent him pictures of barricades from elsewhere in france. this one is from nerve earn in the south. so. it's true that the social media have a certain power that can be negative for big brands will they go on mark. and we'll see in the next few days that events will share will certainly get rid of those barriers. christiane has led to his tweets can change things for the better his own situation has now changed for the better to he's found accommodation at least for the time being with a christian aid organization. now the wolf population in western europe and the rockies which is welcomed by

environmentalists but criticized by farmers they see the animals as nothing but deadly predators preying on their livestock in sweden a fiercely for debate is raging over whether or not walls should be cold and to find out more about why passions are running quite so high let's go to the small town of tear up in eastern sweden where daniel marvet is responsible for monitoring the world's population but although actual sightings are rare when they do occur it's generally not good news for the wolves. during the day things are normally quiet in a town near sweden most people are at work or in school one of the few at home on january the twenty ninth was to be. his wife had given birth not long before. even now he can hardly believe that they would see a wolf in their own garden. my

wife called up to me from the living room below there's a wolf in the yard. first i thought she must be wrong all the way that's all then i came downstairs and saw the wolf mauling a deer i grabbed my cell phone and filmed everything it was pretty ugly and unreal . to b.s. inform the police and the local wildlife manager the wolf roamed around the residential area for hours until the police shot and killed at. the incident only fed the contriver see regarding wolves in sweden to be esther's received hate mail accusing him of declaring open season on wolves with his video. few countries monitor the world population as closely as sweden during the world count in winter wildlife manager danielle margaret's is out in the woods almost every day. about how do you look for wolves.

the best thing is if a local person has seen tracks somewhere but you don't always get that lucky. dog or then you have to go out on the snow scooter or in the car and look for traces yourself. but. it doesn't take long for him to make a discovery he spent several different tracks in the middle of the road. that have all this here is a fox track. and right beside it you see wolf tracks. this is what i think happened the wolf came along here and then turned off into the woods he must have been surprised by a car on the way so then he went in here. all the. tracks are easy to follow and the fresh snow daniel enters every trace into a databank via his smartphone. and then we have this on hand

to sample containers the one with the purple lid is for feces the other is for your in our blood everything is registered precisely along with the other traces. counting the wolfs is time consuming and expensive but it's necessary if they're to be hunted at all because according to e.u. guidelines the wolf is a protected species. sweden needs a minimum of three hundred wolves to ensure their survival the last count registered around three hundred five culling them will only be allowed if their numbers increase significantly wolf also paid a visit to ethnic barters farm on a day when the farmer was elsewhere the wolf killed five of his sheep. that. it didn't just bite them once but many times underneath and on top bin from behind the stomach was torn open the injuries were terrible. three kilometer long

electric fences designed to protect his farm from such visits but the wolf came through the hole and make now checks the fence regularly you're holding up a bit of a body i don't have a problem with war search but there are too many of them. too many in a small area. wolves light game and there's a lot of it here in central sweden a pack of wolves can attack up to fifty l.-k. year. these bones are probably from a deer which was killed not long ago. the wolf probably went in there to rest this morning. and perhaps we disturbed him and it ran off. with another call me or daniel has a good idea of how many wolves there are there counted through the winter in june

a decision is made on whether to allow or hunt next winter. there was a hunt in the neighboring district last year. six wolves were shot. each district is different there has to be enough stock if there's going to be a hunt this year there was enough wharves in sweden. so we weren't able to approve a single hunt is. one reason why there are fewer says apparently that they are killed illegally results of this year's will count will be announced in a few weeks time ok let's go to ukraine now where incumbent president petro poroshenko and political newcomer and t.v. star from london is alinsky are going head to head in the second round of a tense presidential elections had to take place on april twenty first now ukraine is of course still mired in a five year war in the eastern donbass region of the country that has turned over

one and a half million people into iden p. internally displaced people the disruption in their lives that has resulted has meant that many have lost the right to vote but here's the story of nearly a woman who is determined that her voice will be heard. more than one and a half million people have fled their homes since war broke out in eastern ukraine five years ago but on the streets of the capital kiev you barely notice and spite of the fighting and a deep economic downturn ukrainian society has been able to shoulder the burden the refugee camps of twenty fourteen have for the most part been consigned to history most displaced people have found jobs and somewhere to live but as the country elects a new president ukraine's displaced people are having to fight to cast their votes one of those people is nelly so you tina five years ago she left her hometown donetsk in a hurry with just a couple of suitcases in hand. i was driving to work with my husband suddenly there

were armed men blocking the road they were pointing their weapons at anyone who dared to talk back i told my husband to buy train tickets we need to get out of here it all happened very fast i came home from work and we left the same evening when i locked the door i already knew that i would never be coming back. to get his books and it will do for. now he and her family left everything behind their home their car and their jobs soon after donetsk fell under the control of pro russian separatists the family found shelter with friends in kiev but on their first morning in the capital their hosts had something important to do vote a poll that nellie and her husband worked scooted from because they were still registered in donetsk. know when everybody at the game was still on you see your friends voting but you can't take part yourself. if you're able to vote you don't

feel the need so strongly. that we were in kiev the same people as before but without the right to vote. not to then you get the brawl that was really tough for me that those with the shit. since then nelly has made a point of not letting any elections passer by but it's not easy each time there's a vote she has to go in to register from scratch like nellie most of ukraine's internally displaced people are still registered in their homes and what's now separatist held territory. ukrainian law ties voting rights to citizens place of registration but registering somewhere new is no easy task most landlords do not allow their tenants to register and even if they can it means losing their refugee status and the benefits that go with that in the first round of the presidential election comedian and political newcomer below to me is a lenski triggered a political earthquake picking up almost twice as many votes as the incumbent petro poroshenko it's a nail biting contest that nelly does not want to miss out on for the second round

nelly has to go and register all over again and theory that's only possible after the results of the first round have been officially announced but that would leave just a matter of days to register ahead of the deadline now he has heard that some election offices are willing to make things easier for internal refugees accepting applications to vote ahead of schedule in the queue she meets old friends from donetsk they too are desperate to vote. this is just a list of what. having a say about the future of my own country is really important to me so we keep coming here and there are just so many people waiting. we keep coming back but the queue doesn't get any shorter it's just that building is my right but i'm having to fight for it just says you know there's not enough. we're not too much you know. i think they're doing this on purpose to stop us from voting this isn't

a question of negligence they could make it all much easier put more people on the job not that. here in this election office the officials are not willing to make any exceptions even for refugees now we will have to come back again after the results of the first round are officially announced one thing is sure the queues will only get longer. experts say the current election law is out of date millions of ukrainians lived far from home some of them as refugees others in search of work linking the right to vote a registration a legal formality that's very hard to obtain is simply unfair they argue meanwhile the draft law to make voting easier is gathering dust in parliament. the war in don't bus has turned nelly's life upside down in donetsk she managed to chain of sports shops in kiev she now works to help other people like yourself every day her

organization receives hundreds of calls from people wanting to know how they can vote in the example the poor. we have many calls from students many of them were registered in their universities but as soon as they graduate they have a problem but then you know they can't register back home in separatist held territory and here on the government held side no one wants to let them register there's a big group of people who are shut out of these elections these are young active people the very ones these elections are held for but they can't take part. it's a problem nelly knows about first hand her son was just thirteen when they left on it later this year he'll reach voting age whether or not he'll be able to cast the ballot his mother can't be sure. now as i'm sure you're aware it's never easy finding parking places in big cities on poland's third largest city that is ward's population nearly seven hundred thousand there's no exception but that's with a little help from above my number of calls can come to pass and there's

a local priest ryszard schmidt's told us it could be very spiritually uplifting. as in most large cities you generally pay to park in which although it's fairly inexpensive here. and you charge a seventy five cents an hour. but if this is a private parking lot so you have to pay. but drivers can use this parking lot for free it belongs to the church of our lady of perpetual help and car owners even have god's blessing to park here. that's all you need every time i park here i pray the rosary praying is part of our daily life. no. use to you so i can easily say ten hail marys here. but that's because the priest asks for prayers not money from those who park here

but be warned his prices can really add up but i ask for ten hail marys for the first fifteen minutes. and ten more hail marys for every following quarter of an hour. people can pray where ever they like in their cars or later in church but although many poles are devout catholics we couldn't find anyone willing to pray on camera. type should end up out of the day is it contradictory it's a sacred ritual for everyone who wants to park you lash pushkin because this parking lot belongs to us the church the priest had it built so everyone who parks here should come into the church and pray. that it's. ok if someone refused. i say don't you want to pray for your own parents but no one monitors or controls that. some people make jokes and say where should i kneel down i tell them they don't have to fill in for. priest and parking attendant in some cities drivers praying

for an empty parking space in which they pray after they found one. i'm not so focused on europe this time around thanks so much for joining us and do come back next time around until then bye bye. food.

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