their leader, heate wilders, was in belgium on saturday for the vlaams-beland rally in austria.nner is the far-right freedom party. in spain, the right-wing centrists from the people's party won, beating the ruling socialist party. in in greece, right-wing forces withheld support from government and opposition forces. in italy, giorgia meloni strengthened her position, winning a general victory. and now the fate of the presidency of the european commission, as well as the course that the european union will take in foreign policy with the european union , will depend on its position, in particular regarding the alliance with the european people's party. parliament of the new convocation. negotiations on factional appointments to the european commission will begin this tuesday. regina sevastyanova, anton dadykin and olga belotserkovskaya. european vgtrk bureau, brussels, belgium. the strengthening of right-wing parties in the european parliament could significantly undermine support for ukraine. experts from the political publication have already stated that kiev should expect a

when the first monks appeared here, but over the centuries, with their prayers and labor, they made vlaam a place of attraction for pilgrims. vladimir putin visits the cathedrals of the whale monastery almost every year. on one of these trips he went on a documentary film about valaam gave an interview to andrey kandrashov. valaam is a mirror of russia. we have many such mirrors. valaam is one of them. they have a very interesting and partly even dramatic history: valam is essentially associated with the formation of the russian national state. once upon a time , the emperors of russia, members of the imperial family, came to avalam ; the richest industrialists and merchants donated money to the new construction. after the collapse of the empire, valaam went to finland; during the soviet-finnish war, the monastery became practically front-line. here are the air defense fighters in the finnish army is on duty on the territory of the transfiguration cathedral. after the victory. red army, the monks decided to evacuate when soviet troops were ready to enter the islands of the archipelago, fo

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

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

when the first monks appeared here, but over the centuries, with their prayers and labor, they made vlaam a place of attraction for pilgrims. vladimir putin visits the monastery's cathedrals and monasteries almost every year. on one of these trips, he gave an interview for a documentary about valaam. here are air defense soldiers in the finnish army on duty on the territory of the transfiguration cathedral. after the victory of the red army, the monks decided to evacuate. when soviet troops are ready were already entering the islands of the archipelago, for some reason they remained on the shore and invited clergy from the monastery. one of them went, suddenly a soviet officer said to him: how many are you... primarily thanks to the russian orthodox church, this is the kind of devastation the monks found when in the late eighties of the last century it was decided to restore the monastery, then the brothers numbered six people, now there are more than 200, the monastery has its own farm, cows are raised here and trout manage to grow aanasy grapes, even peacocks live on the territory; in m

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