in atlanta it. is to. the renaissance that. starts at the twenty second. w. . l. in. atlanta hello and 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 thinkers pulling the strings behind the surge in support for the neoconservatives bannon is of course donald trump's former advisor 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 car fusion monastery that's located in the tiny village of to resolve t.v. 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 thinkers and activists. here in a tranquil and secluded rural setting benjamin harn wells mission is to establish a training center in

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. it was skin to life for his faith in jesus christ. i'm going to remember up today in the work christianity is the world's most pesach you did religion or forget that in the west the academy aims to train budding young politicians to become staunch catholics and right wing populists it's 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 in europe but like across the world there's twenty of the catholics seem to look on steve benen 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. fanon is and the asdic about hard 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. bring in donors faculty people i would know throughout the world they can teach. bannan 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 popular is national sovereignty movement has great politicians great message and now it is trash and that's why it's only because maybe it's the moment of peace 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 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 interests altie. 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. what they have in common is this obsessive cult of identity. they say we represent cristen 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 you know many local residents interest old t. have launched protests they don't want steve benen and far right populists here. 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 treason will become

a launching pad for a movement. to look at its ideas its sources of finance and its goals. because. benjamin hardwell remains confident the lease is valid he says the plans to start operations are in place so what can stop him and ben 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 the of the property fastest populist nationalist movements in in europe or on the work hard well as plan seemed 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 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 placenta mart in paris. he used to

have a well paying job as a sim a year 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. their place deliberately so no one can sleep rough here. the residents are a bit ashamed of the barriers but they're glad there are no homeless people sleeping here. civic persona 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 barriers 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. 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.

i tweet in the morning to say hello to the planet and at night to talk about what was going on on the street. so 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 lever nero's to get them back. and on top of that they'll ask me for my papers

but i don't have them. people who live on the streets often feel like pariahs but christian pose 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 own in the south. thank. you 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 shape will certainly get rid of those barriers. because a. christian is 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 fought debate is raging over whether or not wolf should be cold and to find out more about why passions are running quite so high let's go to the small town of teared up in eastern sweden where daniel none of it 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 work or in school one of the few at home on january the twenty ninth was to be. his wife had given birth not normally form. 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. 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 it. the incident only fed the controversy regarding wolves in sweden to b.s. has received hate mail accusing him of declaring open season on wolves with his video. few countries monitor the world's population as closely as sweden during the wolf count in winter wildlife manager danielle motivates is out in the woods almost every day. thought of 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 i'm. sure 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. 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. paid a visit to ethnic barters farm on a day when the farmer was elsewhere the wolf killed five of his sheep. there were live for me and it didn't just bite them once but many times underneath and on top in front behind the stomach was torn open the injuries were terrible.

the three kilometer long electric fences designed to protect his farm from such visits but the wolf came through the hole i think now checks the fence regularly. i don't have a problem with warps as such but there are too many of them. too many in a small area. than the. wolves line 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. only other of our within the wolf probably when they are to rest this morning. and perhaps we disturbed him when it ran off the. other called me or her 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. by. each district is different about it and there has to be enough stuck if there's going to be a hunt this year there was enough wolves in sweden. so we weren't able to approve a single heart 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 followed him is a lengthier going head to head in the second round of a tense presidential elections had to take place on april the 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 i've been internally displaced people the disruption in their lives that has resulted is 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 huge 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 alexa 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. nelly 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 were scooted from because they were still registered in donetsk. know when everybody. i think when you live still i mean 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. but we were in here of the same people as before but without the right to vote. that let's and then you get the brawl that was really tough for me that those things should still. 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 and 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 in 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. for the us of what. having a say about the future of my own country is really important to me as we keep coming here and there are just so many people waiting as. we keep coming back but the queue doesn't get any shorter it's just a building is my right but i'm having to fight for it says and you see those nations are not. we're not doing what 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 to 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 and she now works to help other people like herself. every day her

organization receives hundreds of calls from people wanting to know how they can vote the isn't the cool product that we had many calls from students many of them were registered at 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 nellie 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 a 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 is 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 schmitz told us it can be very spiritually uplifting. as in most large cities you generally pay to park in which although it's fairly inexpensive here. charges seventy five cents an hour. but if this is a private parking lot so you have to pay. huge. 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. here's a question that's all you need every time i park here i pray the rosary praying is part of our daily life you. know. yesteryear so i can easily say ten hail marys here. and 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 it but i would 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. good to have someone refuse. and 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 the. priest and parking attendant in some

cities drivers praying for an empty parking space. after they found one. and that's all from focus on europe this time around thanks so much for joining us and do come back next time around until then bye bye.

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