reporter: and support for the far-right vlaams belang has gone down from more than 30% to just 7%.ulist flemish political party, which has its office at the town's picturesque market place, still criticizes the mayor's efforts. frank: yes, he's made a lovely town. but we have many lovely towns in flanders. bart somers has pampered the muslims here, who are growing in numbers. at the end they'll take over this lovely town. reporter: but as long as bart somers is at the helm, integration is the watchword here. bart: everyone who believes in the western model of society has to fight racism and discrimination. because they destroy the core of our society. what makes us strong as a society? the fact that no one, no matter where they come from, by working hard can make a better future for themselves and their children. reporter: mechelen seems to be well on the way to that better future. michelle: in this modern age, it often feels like traditional, manual jobs are disappearing. and in countries like the netherlands, it would be akin to the loss of national identity if their windmills we

autonomy from spain central government kind of a man's is a member of right wing belgian political party vlaams belang which wants independence for the flanders region from belgium he believes the calls for somebody come because people feel that very identity is under attack but are coming from the fact that always greater and larger entities try to abolish to make a reality and language is called for from people that are more normally should be dependent or should have their sovereignty that they are hold both ways more and more abolished by greater entities like european union etc and it should be more modern in our view too to acknowledge that smaller entities are a better way to deal with things when people are not hurt by the authorities or part of their government they try to get signals through elections and this. could not be ignored and more if they are ignored for instance by the european union or any other entity well people in democratic elections will voice their the way they are treated by these institutions and this is the deal more with the realities and should not go on the way

ability of countries to shape their own migration policies chairman of the youth wing of the flemish vlaams belang party bardic clase believes the protests have sent an important signal to the belgian government. and specially slums is a nation that has a lot of protests for what we saw on this weekend thousands of people flocking to the streets of brussels to group just just migration but a lot of those people are young people to be. sure going to grow just for the first time in their lives that's rude is something that's really new and now we can already see and we have seen the end of a party to long just as we draw the government is very very. stressed out by this and how voters are going to react in the next election so yet but things are finally starting to move eighteen million as well because he didn't look into the future of the one thousand sorties are starting to real eyes to teach immigrant issue. on the entity called jukes is very very big issue that will have to be. rule. in the u.k. a judge has blocked an illegal immigrants a deportation due to his conversion to christianity

they are not live from brussels parliamentary leader of belgians vlaams belang party quite often and it's interesting to hear we have to say thank you very much indeed for your time here on r.t. never mind. the us has accused iran of supplying weapons to syria the united nations security council in new york however russia's ambassador to the un has warned against turning up the heat on iran moscow has called on the international community to be more objective when it comes to assessing developments around the iranian nuclear program to run is under intense pressure from the u.s. and e.u. have applied heavy sanctions on iran's economy offensive international nor the geneva school of diplomacy desires believe the u.n. is in danger of becoming a war making machine. i have a great concern about the organization being transformed into a war making organization misusing the security council for purposes of incitement if you follow all the media. in europe in the united states you see that we're gearing up for an attack and we're trying to make. an attack on iran somehow plausible somehow j

charlie peters, gb news brussels and charlie does raise a very important point there, which is the vlaamsties, which are flemish nationalist parties, separatist parties that want to leave belgium. >> the cordon sanitaire means basically they get no press coverage whatsoever in belgium , coverage whatsoever in belgium, and they often struggle to hold events. what was really interesting this morning was viktor orban said at the start, i grew up in the soviet union. in 1988, we founded fidesz in hungary, still part of a soviet empire. and time and again he said, we would book meeting rooms to have events, only to have them cancelled . and he have them cancelled. and he reminded us that modern day brussels now genuinely has shades of that old soviet union. and that's a very serious point. are you listening in frontbench of the labour party? because you seem to approve of us being cancelled yesterday. now, overnight, the legal eagles were very, very busy and i'm pleased to say that i'm joined by lorcan price, irish barrister and legal for counsel the alliance defending freedom international, w

according to the expert , it's according to the expert, it's the right wing party vlaams belang, which cool name. sounds like an 80s pop star. scored better in areas where more people without university degrees live, while environmentalist left wing party gruen did better in places with more highly educated people. but that doesn't show that smarter people vote left wing. it shows that universities are now communist indoctrination camps, and they're very successful at it. although phil marks to that paper for actually somehow saying stupid flanders. now, but see this is the argument, isn't it? >> if you don't agree with someone immediately , you're someone immediately, you're stupid. yeah. >> smilk smear tactics. >> smilk smear tactics. >> we saw this after brexit as well. >> oh, yeah? >> oh, yeah? >> yeah, exactly, exactly. you're racist. and remember everyone was saying, oh, not everyone was saying, oh, not everyone that votes brexit is racist, but all racists vote brexit. it's like, well, all smug people vote remain. i said that yeah that's right. >> you know those people who voted

vlaams belang in belgium and all of these, and austria, where they came first, second in holland, huget, then one key factor is that the conservative gives plus those who were regarded as far right. i would, rather than those people backing parties , those people backing parties, actually now control 470 of the votes that that is the majority . votes that that is the majority. if they all stuck together, are they far right , these parties? they far right, these parties? >> no. >> no. >> look, this definition of far right is, i've often argued, is ridiculous . right is, i've often argued, is ridiculous. i mean, the idea is that just because you oppose open door immigration makes you far right? because you oppose the green energy makes you far right just because you don't support the socialists or epp or the sanitaire cordiale, which the sanitaire cordiale, which the europeans like to have, you're far right. there's nothing far right about these views at all. you're not seeing all these people across europe as you saw in this, the videos that you're going to talk about putting their fing

my party, for example, which is the vlaams belang party, the conservative and patriotic party here inast year we did a meeting here in brussels and exactly the same happened. you have a left wing antifa, anti—fascist mobs threatening, with violence. then you have the socialist mayors, which are then declared as an emergency and they need to safeguard the public order and then they cancel your meeting. you need to go to the highest administrative court here in belgium to, to get a permit to do anything don't like . do anything they don't like. >> interesting. tom, the dispersal notice served by the mayor is extraordinary . it says mayor is extraordinary. it says today they would undeniably have been the risk of disruption and violence. but outside on the streets, it paints a very different picture. one of calmness. but tom in particular, there were special words reserved for attendees, and that obviously includes yourself, people inside reputed to be traditionally . it's as if that's traditionally. it's as if that's an insult. homophobes disrespectful of human rights and minorities. di