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support. here in the villa and it pizza hires christian straka of the far right freedom party talks to a woman posing as a wealthy russian over the course of several hours they discuss boosting the party's election results with the help of russian financing. well the video has left austria's coalition government between the conservatives and the far right populist in shambles with the freedom party have made no secret of their desire for closer ties with russia in the past but the footage reveals just how far they were willing to go for power so how close are europe's right wing parties to russia our reporter went to vienna to find out. the honor has long been a bridge between europe's east and west. decades after the cold war it's still a playground for foreign agents who employ methods like the one that helped topple

austria's freedom party. political scientist and hunch accost off is also based in vienna he's an expert on the influence moscow exerts on europe's far right far right organizations and parts is. some of the few. political forces in europe that are still ready to cooperate with the kremlin the kremlin needs. in the west. in 2017 russian president vladimir putin attended the wedding of austria's foreign minister a member of the freedom party. and its you tube channel the freedom party celebrates its close ties to putin's united russia party. in. the after party leadership for bridge builders and peacemakers in moscow. in 2016 then head of the freedom party heinz christian structure signed a cooperation pact with the united russia party despite the rift between russia and

the e.u. i think about 2000 foot seeing all the developments in 2014 especially the train they mobilized or they you know they made relations between the european far right and moscow more active those close ties have now brought the freedom party to its knees a secretly filmed video has emerged of heinz christians in a villa in a beezer spain it shows a woman claiming to be the niece of a russian oligarch promising illegal donations from under cleared sources apparently not a problem for staffer. there are a couple of very rich people who are contributing between 500000. and 2000000 euros . the contact was apparently arranged by johann goodness the parliamentary group leader of the freedom party goodness has long been known as to his right hand

man and has close ties to russia. for madly who the supposed niece of the russian oligarchy is well that was a clever setup given the relationship between austria's freedom party putin and the united russia party in the middle sloan's how much damage this scandal will do to austria's far right remains to be seen many observers say it's unlikely that the freedom party will break with moscow thank you sir for being with you they'll continue to maintain these ties with you we've often heard rumors that money is changing hands even though the freedom party has always denied that as you move up the student so what do people in austria think they're very critical of it they find it peculiar particularly because the freedom party has always pursued its own russia strategy and the party wants the e.u. to lift sanctions on russia and they take a very different stance to russia's annexation of crimea. austria's freedom party

has been useful to moscow's ambitions and stuff is certain that russia will continue to bolster europe's far right for the kremlin the chance to influence european politics is just too good to pass up. it's been called a tenser of british society by prime minister theresa may the knife crime epidemic in england and wales well so far this year over $100.00 people have been fatally stabbed it's hackers are mostly young males who have all but given up on life it's a cycle of violence that paul mackenzie is fighting against in london and he's calling on the government to join his cause. a new day a new crime scene last night here in east london a 15 year old was stabbed to death with a knife. social worker paul mckenzie has visited many such crime scenes

but this time it really gets to him the victim was a friend a business. system too much isn't he sees these are everywhere you see a bunch of flowers years ago and it meant something you really saw when i would have read the request and it's just life is too many to read more than the only because somebody wanted to prove something to somebody else that's that's the sad thing is that life has become a point system. and now somebody somewhere say. they never did that and that person gets respect. austerlitz a case of rivalry between members of youth gangs but innocent bystanders can also fall victim to knife crime in some counties knifing someone is proof a youngster is worth enough belonging to a guy. looking at all like 13 years of university for not very bright people are watching what happens. mckenzie talks to

gang members and makes videos to show how quickly things are deteriorating in some parts of london. why do you carry a 15 inch not pretty big and you get scared but if you say. because i don't want someone to put up with me let. killed me. ok i'm. paul mckenzie feels that the government doesn't take knife crime seriously enough he supports an initiative which demands that the government treat the violence as a national emergency you know you make. from the. last my younger brother from march through to knife crime this was my son i say he was my murdered in 2015. before i lost my son on the 30th of september because of the 17 months that let me thank god for nighttime the 5th of february the city.

is not. in some neighborhoods young people don't leave home without a knife as they think they must be prepared to defend themselves. mackenzie says it's a scandal that combat knives are solved freely. that rambo knife in particular is is the favorite knife at the moment and he says collect for rambo knives and you get a discount you can see all sorts of different types and knives in the window and for me it's not something you want to advertise in a window specially with what's going on moment jason isaacs was stabbed to death one and a half years ago he was shown candles eldest son. now her younger children always have to come home straight from school because she fears for their lives jason was killed early in the evening when he was out with

a few friends. jessie was with friends so. and you know that's a run for their lives and they all went in different directions and jessen got car and stopped 8 times jason was targeted by a gun which he himself had nothing to do with everyone that knew just me always hold to your question which was nice because every every time he went our physical eyes i was i love you mom and that's what we got that night and we did everything together really we he was a very family person. jason's killer was caught he was just 17 time rock videos of him and his gun can be seen from the internet no one is drill the style of hip hop is very popular with british youths. we are not going.

to talk about stabbing people in the back which is what they do and jason obviously was stabbed in it in the park. and then the boy ended up dead what influence does drill music have what can you do when carrying a knife is considered normal. these are the kinds of questions paul mckenzie asks in the talks with teens so everyone here is familiar with the drill they all know kids who carry knives. now finding answers is tough. but these youths and their parents agreed jail time isn't enough i know someone that's in prison and he's still able to get a phone and post on snap chat he's in jail in prison it's just listening to music rap and doing all that up so prison isn't really like i think thing to them the issue here is a systemic one violence is normalised now unless we start looking. the

young people were never going to get to the bottom of this any values any new belief systems they need to believe there is a future you talk to some of these young people they can't see past 20 and any society that has a generation of young people at constant past 20 you've got it you've got to address that from about. running on the cans you know this to aren't any quick fixes to the situation the british government has now committed itself to investing in youth work and strengthening the police presence. everyone knows the problem has simply become too lunch to ignore to greece now where a centuries old tradition is on the verge of extinction the country's one fishing boats known as are synonymous with the greek islands building the boats is a craft that's been passed down for generations and it's a heritage the greeks are very proud of but the government and the e.u.

are paying owners to turn what many see as works of art into scrap wood boat builders like demetrius moore acas fear that soon will vanish from greece's coastline for good. there are a familiar sight for holiday makers in greece the colorful fishing boats. but the traditional wooden boats are an increasingly rare sight the european union pays fisherman cash if they scrap their. dimitris maracas is the last boat builder on the island. now he has to destroy the boats that he built over the past decades otherwise the fishermen won't get their subsidy. is appalled. i've talked with days after i think about all the energy i put in for the. men to be over the years now live by them i know i'm supposed to destroy all this. i'm sad. breaks my heart.

but the real problem is is that a puts the fishermen in this terrible situation. i don't discuss tony s. owns a fish restaurant he also gave up his boat last year taxes for it kept rising and his catch doing. it was a difficult decision but at least he got $100000.00 euros for the boat. now he has to buy his fish for his restaurant elsewhere and he still misses his boat. it was tough. i didn't want to destroy my boats. i'd even have paid money to keep it for myself or use it to ferry tourists. but the agriculture ministry wouldn't agree to it's no chance. the un calls the mediterranean the world's most overfished see those are hardly to blame the greek government would like the boats to be used to ferry tourist but that's not

financially viable for the fisherman. image that we want to save the traditional wooden boats but to do that the e.u. has to change the guidelines. and there's a lot less money to use the paternity. but the financial incentives should be the same as for scrap and i think. that really what that. is what he she. a museum dedicated to that is being built on the island of summers the greek ministry of culture has rescued 20 old boats all lovingly made by hand custis them you need these as an architect and an expert on greek ship building traditions he's fighting to preserve the old boat more and more people including government officials now say they should be protected as an endangered cultural heritage. you have to keep things from the past and to to save memories to save for our road. the traditional boat building which is

a very integral part of this. culture i don't have to find ways to keep them. to give a future to a grandma life for the future for the young people. demetrius maracas also gives both building classes for young people and adults he'd like to be able to take on an apprentice. rocky's can't accept the greece's maritime heritage is on the verge of extinction. as a stopgap measure he's figured out a loophole. instead of completely scrapping the boats he takes them apart to render them unusable. i will be my last may and i disassembled the boats in 3 parts which are still in time. a good boat builder could put them back together by my mother discovers that maybe some young people will come along and want the nose would be.

as long as creaky or continue to be scrapped the craft will die out that's why greek boat builders and fishermen are calling on their government to reopen negotiations with the e.u. even if they can no longer ply the seas they could at least be preserved as a tourist attraction. to this day the turn noble disaster in what is now northern ukraine remains the worst nuclear accident in history experts say it will take 20000 years before the area is habitable again but many may not realize is that the vast majority of radioactive particles released landed not in the ukraine but here in the south of bella ruth while the region is a no man's land of frozen in time and less heard with abandoned buildings but a few refuse to leave their homes despite the dangers among them was adam over

she says her decision to stay put is the reason she's still alive. once thriving communities now only ghost towns remain. nature is reclaiming the countryside. life came to a sudden end here with a nuclear accident in nearby chernow. at the time a few people refused to leave the exclusion zone. is 90 years old she couldn't bring herself to leave her animals behind to starve and she couldn't imagine a new life in a city apartment there is no stage area when you would almost everyone from our village who was resettled is dead now. only one man and a few women from my village are left. it women are a bit stronger anyway almost all the men are dead he. believes his husband

died in 2016 now her son leonid lives with her. he couldn't leave his mother to fend for herself and she didn't want to move to belarus capital minsk with it's better health care now they both live from her meager pension. with the body yeah yeah there why should i be afraid i survived a terrible war. and i've seen charred corpses really that was horrible. but the radioactivity it isn't even visible need. once galina made it clear she would not be moved out of her house the authorities gave it a special cleaning. at 1st they hunted geiger counter on my chest to measure the radioactivity yet they measured inside the oven and in the beds there was quite a lot of radioactivity yadi. but life before the great disaster as she calls it was so pleasant she never wanted to give it up she shows her son the old photos over

and over again. well you know you are. there as. of course i'm sad i remember everything the way it was here i can see our villages beautiful houses in front of me and all the lights. but if you look young people used to get together and have a good time now everything is silent like in heaven. biologist max include gene disagrees once humans left the exclusion zone nature began to move back in he can see the evidence all around 2 such as. but radioactivity is still very much present. richardson is good isn't it in some places we measure 15025000 micro sieverts a fairly strong radioactivity it's always dangerous people can't really live here.

but host animals like these elk can. maximize spotting more and more animals that weren't found here before the reactor disaster such as these bison there have even been reports of brown bears and the biologists aren't finding any deformed animals or cadavers like they did in the 1st years. radioactivity is always dangerous to both people and animals. but animals don't live long enough for the radioactive substances to accumulate in their bodies and be passed on to the next generation. some animals even live in the abandoned houses and villages. maxim has been observing this process for 20 years even if the new residents are easy to see.

the evacuated villages have become wildlife community was. once german was taught in the schoolroom now animals have free range. they've reclaimed the villages. are monitoring is shown the noun the elves are using the attics and badgers are settling in the foundations. in the autumn a lot of hoofed animals come here because of all the apple and plum trees still growing here. maxim could genes compiling his observations in a study that's attracted worldwide attention it shows how radioactivity affects humans and animals in the long term. scientists are still debating exactly how dangerous radioactive contamination really is now after 33 years some of the radioactive substances have soaked deeper into the ground but as maxim points out it still poses a danger especially in the woodlands where mushrooms and moss collect the toxic c c

o. . the exclusion zone has turned into a vast open air laboratory where humans play only marginal roles. growing vegetables in the zone is still prohibited. so every 2 days a mobile grocery store lives to supply the few remaining residents with fresh fruit and vegetables linnet also shops here. he and his mother have read in the papers that a new reactor will be going online in december some 500 kilometers from here built with cutting edge russian technology. skeptical. then sure yeah. people used to just plow the land and grow their own food now we've invented these nuclear things. are we supposed to eat atoms. but how galina and the

other inhabitants of the exclusion zone have lived so long in spite of the contamination is a mystery yeah i don't know but i don't regret having stayed here if i had moved i would have died long ago it's just the way i am. not that guy. 2 she's fortunate that her son leonard was not afraid to come here and support. everyone else she used to have for company is long gone. well many retired seniors join clubs as a way to stay active d.j. vico from poland prefers to spend her time in a very different kind of club but the 80 year old is a fixture of warsaw's clubbing scene where she plays for party goers of all ages her curiosity and her ability to keep up with all the fast changing technical

equipment helps her to stay on track. these dancers may not be as light on their feet as they once were but they've still got the moves virginia make sure they used . to be going to our party to have a great time you know about it about. d.j. is 80 years old and one of poland's hottest acts. and actually emphasizes she doesn't only do senior discos. clue what will this he did i play club music when i spin discs in youth clubs i mix club music with the top hits by madonna jennifer lopez. lady gaga. d.j. v. cookouts warsaw moving to his sizzling hot beats the retired special education teacher has been spending the vinyl for 25 years now. conscious while the digital i met with young deejays and learned how to use the computer i bought

a mixing console because the young people said you can't use just a cd player but that's about boyd top of the of the but i saw how they mix and scratch is going to choice. for children left home long ago her husband passed on for ginia didn't want to just sit around and mark time. when i was told not to get the treatment to do something new i have to learn new things and that keeps me young most critically my brain regenerates itself i become curious and it's great. and the awesome v.k. has another thing to say beauty is not reserved for youth. people should take an example for me life has many beautiful colors. on this evening a more site least nobody's even thinking about taking it easy that stuff like this go is the best medicine for poor health let's get out of it. and d.j. bekah is living proof of that.

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